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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Though you don't find about it until [[Recap/CriminalCaseWorldEditionCase29ADeathWish Case 29]], Blind Sen's [[spoiler:panic and distrust while meeting Ronin Ozawa turns out to be complete justified when he's revealed to be working with SOMBRA.]]
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Though you don't find about it until [[Recap/CriminalCaseWorldEditionCase29ADeathWish Case 29]], Blind Sen's [[spoiler:panic and distrust while meeting Ronin Ozawa turns out to be complete completely justified when he's revealed to be working with SOMBRA.]]
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* CreepyChild: Zhao Mei definitely qualifies, as she speaks in a very monotone way during her interrogations and says the victim was weak and should've acted stronger if he wanted to survive. Of course, this gets turned up to eleven when you also discover she's the murdered, engaging in a ''very'' unnerving MadnessMantra about how the weak die and only the strong survive.
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* CreepyChild: Zhao Mei definitely qualifies, as she speaks in a very monotone way during her interrogations and says the victim was weak and should've acted stronger if he wanted to survive. Of course, this gets turned up to eleven when you also discover she's the murdered, murderer, engaging in a ''very'' unnerving MadnessMantra about how the weak die and only the strong survive.
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* CreepyChild: Zhao Mei definitely qualifies, as she speaks in a very monotone way during her interrogations and says the victim was weak and should've acted stronger if he wanted to survive. Of course, this gets turned UpToEleven when you also discover she's the murdered, engaging in a ''very'' unnerving MadnessMantra about how the weak die and only the strong survive.
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* CreepyChild: Zhao Mei definitely qualifies, as she speaks in a very monotone way during her interrogations and says the victim was weak and should've acted stronger if he wanted to survive. Of course, this gets turned UpToEleven up to eleven when you also discover she's the murdered, engaging in a ''very'' unnerving MadnessMantra about how the weak die and only the strong survive.
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* CheerfulChild: The Douglas Triples are shown to be very hyperactive and curious, to the point they worry their parents a little too much.
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* CheerfulChild: The Douglas Triples Triplets are shown to be very hyperactive and curious, to the point they worry their parents a little too much.
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* AdultFear:
** Having to perform an autopsy on a teenager's body is this for Angela, since she's worried about a possible child killer on the loose while her daughters are accompanying the Bureau. Then this turns out for the worse when her daughter June goes missing in Chapter 3.
** The fact that SOMBRA appears to be involved in Mei's strange behavior and how [[AmbiguouslyEvil Ronin Ozawa]] had been following her is also a sore spot for Angela, who becomes fearful about just what SOMBRA would want to do with children.
** Having to perform an autopsy on a teenager's body is this for Angela, since she's worried about a possible child killer on the loose while her daughters are accompanying the Bureau. Then this turns out for the worse when her daughter June goes missing in Chapter 3.
** The fact that SOMBRA appears to be involved in Mei's strange behavior and how [[AmbiguouslyEvil Ronin Ozawa]] had been following her is also a sore spot for Angela, who becomes fearful about just what SOMBRA would want to do with children.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: You meet Ronin Ozawa in this case, a Japanese tourist visiting China who had been following Han and Mei around for some time and knew Warren Goodfellow. However, he claims he had no idea about Warren being evil and was just following both kids for their safety, leaving unclear if he's with SOMBRA or is a honest man,
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: You meet Ronin Ozawa in this case, a Japanese tourist visiting China who had been following Han and Mei around for some time and knew Warren Goodfellow. However, he claims he had no idea about Warren being evil and was just following both kids for their safety, leaving unclear if he's with SOMBRA or is a honest man,man.
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* MadnessMantra: After Mei is arrested for Han's murder, she can't stop repeating about she killed him for not being enough and how the weak must die.
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* MadnessMantra: After Mei is arrested for Han's murder, she can't stop repeating about how she killed him for not being enough and how the weak must die.
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Mei says this when she explains her "[[TheSocialDarwinist motive]]" for murdering Guo.
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Mei says this when she explains her "[[TheSocialDarwinist motive]]" for murdering Guo.Han.
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* MadnessMantra: After Mei is arrested for Guo's murder, she can't stop repeating about she killed him for not being enough and how the weak must die.
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* MadnessMantra: After Mei is arrested for Guo's Han's murder, she can't stop repeating about she killed him for not being enough and how the weak must die.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: You meet Ronin Ozawa in this case, a Japanese tourist visiting China who had been following Guo and Mei around for some time and knew Warren Goodfellow. However, he claims he had no idea about Warren being evil and was just following both kids for their safety, leaving unclear if he's with SOMBRA or is a honest man,
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: You meet Ronin Ozawa in this case, a Japanese tourist visiting China who had been following Guo Han and Mei around for some time and knew Warren Goodfellow. However, he claims he had no idea about Warren being evil and was just following both kids for their safety, leaving unclear if he's with SOMBRA or is a honest man,
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* ForcedFromTheirHome: Guo was kicked out of his home by his aunt after she discovered he had stolen money from her, although she ended up regretting it.
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* ForcedFromTheirHome: Guo Han was kicked out of his home by his aunt after she discovered he had stolen money from her, although she ended up regretting it.
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* JapaneseTourist: Ronin Ozawa is a Japanese tourist visiting China who supposedly was hired to follow Guo and Mei around for their own safety, [[AmbiguouslyEvil but it remains unclear if he's telling the truth.]]
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* JapaneseTourist: Ronin Ozawa is a Japanese tourist visiting China who supposedly was hired to follow Guo Han and Mei around for their own safety, [[AmbiguouslyEvil but it remains unclear if he's telling the truth.]]
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* {{Nephewism}}: Guo lived with his aunt.
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* {{Nephewism}}: Guo Han lived with his aunt.
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* TheSocialDarwinist: Mei turns out to be this, even becoming her "motive" for murdering Guo despite being best friends with him.
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* TheSocialDarwinist: Mei turns out to be this, even becoming her "motive" for murdering Guo Han despite being best friends with him.
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* StalkerWithoutACrush: Ronin had been following around the victim for some time, with the player even finding a photo of Guo telling Ronin "he was a good candidate". When you confront him, Ronin claims he had been stalking Guo because he wanted to take him as an apprentice, though Carmen has her doubts about it. Later, you also discover he was following Mei, but he tells you she had ran away from home and was hired to find her.
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* StalkerWithoutACrush: Ronin had been following around the victim for some time, with the player even finding a photo of Guo Han telling Ronin "he was a good candidate". When you confront him, Ronin claims he had been stalking Guo Han because he wanted to take him as an apprentice, though Carmen has her doubts about it. Later, you also discover he was following Mei, but he tells you she had ran away from home and was hired to find her.
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* TeensAreMonsters: Mei, a 15-year-old girl, killed her best friend Guo for no reason other than believing he was too weak to deserve being alive.
* TragicDropout: Miss Yang tells you how Guo was a bright student, but was forced to drop out of school to help his aunt in the local rice farm.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Not only Mei and Guo had started to act strange for the past weeks (such as Mei becoming a [[TheSocialDarwinist SocialDarwinist]] and Guo stealing from his aunt), but Miss Yang tells you how every child in the village has started to become a WildChild for no reason other than apparent debauchery.
* TragicDropout: Miss Yang tells you how Guo was a bright student, but was forced to drop out of school to help his aunt in the local rice farm.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Not only Mei and Guo had started to act strange for the past weeks (such as Mei becoming a [[TheSocialDarwinist SocialDarwinist]] and Guo stealing from his aunt), but Miss Yang tells you how every child in the village has started to become a WildChild for no reason other than apparent debauchery.
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* TeensAreMonsters: Mei, a 15-year-old girl, killed her best friend Guo Han for no reason other than believing he was too weak to deserve being alive.
* TragicDropout: Miss Yang tells you howGuo Han was a bright student, but was forced to drop out of school to help his aunt in the local rice farm.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Not only Mei andGuo Han had started to act strange for the past weeks (such as Mei becoming a [[TheSocialDarwinist SocialDarwinist]] and Guo Han stealing from his aunt), but Miss Yang tells you how every child in the village has started to become a WildChild for no reason other than apparent debauchery.
* TragicDropout: Miss Yang tells you how
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Not only Mei and
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Though not explicitly stated, it's obvious that Mei's interactions with SOMBRA led to her becoming the CreepyChild and [[TheSocialDarwinist SocialDarwinist]] side of her you meet in this case.
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* CreepyChild: Mei Zhao Mei definitely qualifies, as she speaks in a very monotone way during her interrogations and says the victim was weak and should've acted stronger if he wanted to survive. Of course, this gets turned UpToEleven when you also discover she's the murdered, engaging in a ''very'' unnerving MadnessMantra about how the weak die and only the strong survive.
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[[caption-width-right:350:'''Carmen:''' I know we're here because of SOMBRA, so finding a dead body doesn't surprise me... but a dead teenager? Is SOMBRA killing rice farmers now?]]
The Bureau arrives to Yuanyang County in the Yunnan province of China to look for clues regarding The Head Hunter, the SOMBRA contact that ordered Warren Goodfellow to murder Sandeep Sadhra [[Recap/CriminalCaseWorldEditionCase24InsidesOut in the previous case.]] There, Chief Ripley orders Carmen and the player to investigate the rice fields, where they find the body of teenager rice farmer Guo Han with his throat slashed.
!!Tropes:
*AmbiguouslyEvil: You meet Ronin Ozawa in this case, a Japanese tourist visiting China who had been following Guo and Mei around for some time and knew Warren Goodfellow. However, he claims he had no idea about Warren being evil and was just following both kids for their safety, leaving unclear if he's with SOMBRA or is a honest man,
*AdultFear:
**Having to perform an autopsy on a teenager's body is this for Angela, since she's worried about a possible child killer on the loose while her daughters are accompanying the Bureau. Then this turns out for the worse when her daughter June goes missing in Chapter 3.
**The fact that SOMBRA appears to be involved in Mei's strange behavior and how [[AmbiguouslyEvil Ronin Ozawa]] had been following her is also a sore spot for Angela, who becomes fearful about just what SOMBRA would want to do with children.
*BindleStick: You find one belonging to the victim, proving that he was kicked out of home.
*BlindSeer: Blind Sen likes to ''pretend'' he's this, though he's more of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who gets some crazy visions instead.
*BookBurning: The children of the village had been burning books provided by school, with no explanation as to why other than turning into {{Wild Child}}ren out of nowhere.
*BrainwashedAndCrazy: Though not explicitly stated, it's obvious that Mei's interactions with SOMBRA led to her becoming the CreepyChild and [[TheSocialDarwinist SocialDarwinist]] side of her you meet in this case.
*CheerfulChild: The Douglas Triples are shown to be very hyperactive and curious, to the point they worry their parents a little too much.
*CreepyChild: Mei Zhao definitely qualifies, as she speaks in a very monotone way during her interrogations and says the victim was weak and should've acted stronger if he wanted to survive. Of course, this gets turned UpToEleven when you also discover she's the murdered, engaging in a ''very'' unnerving MadnessMantra about how the weak die and only the strong survive.
*TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Though you don't find about it until [[Recap/CriminalCaseWorldEditionCase29ADeathWish Case 29]], Blind Sen's [[spoiler:panic and distrust while meeting Ronin Ozawa turns out to be complete justified when he's revealed to be working with SOMBRA.]]
*DeathOfAChild: The victim is a teenager who worked in the rice farms of the country.
*IDidWhatIHadToDo: Mei says this when she explains her "[[TheSocialDarwinist motive]]" for murdering Guo.
-->'''Mei:''' I did what I had to do, Your Honor. Han was weak, and the weak perish in the competition for resources.
*ForcedFromTheirHome: Guo was kicked out of his home by his aunt after she discovered he had stolen money from her, although she ended up regretting it.
*HarmfulToMinors: {{Defied}} by Lars, who orders his daughter June to go play somewhere else while he's performing an analysis as he doesn't want her to be scarred, but played straight with Angela who doesn't mind showing April how a bone saw works.
-->'''Lars:''' It's great that the girls are now living with us full-time, but I didn't want June to hear the violent details of how this boy died. You can probably guess the rest anyway.
*TheHermit: Blind Sen, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a blind]] {{Cloudcuckoolander}} old man who lives in the forest, appears as a suspect.
*JapaneseTourist: Ronin Ozawa is a Japanese tourist visiting China who supposedly was hired to follow Guo and Mei around for their own safety, [[AmbiguouslyEvil but it remains unclear if he's telling the truth.]]
*MadnessMantra: After Mei is arrested for Guo's murder, she can't stop repeating about she killed him for not being enough and how the weak must die.
*MissingChild: June gets momentarily lost at the start of Chapter 3, though you manage to find her pretty quickly in the forest.
*{{Nephewism}}: Guo lived with his aunt.
*{{Omniglot}}: Carmen remarks how Dupont is fluent in thirty languages during a talk with Elliot.
*ParentalAbandonment: The vicitm's parents had moved to Beijing since he was just a baby, leaving him to live in Yunnan with his aunt.
*PartingWordsRegret: Aunty Hua experiences this after her nephew is murdered, due to lamenting she chased him out of home after she found out he had stolen money from her.
*TheRunaway: During the Additional Investigation, Ronin informs you Mei had ran away from her home in Sichuan and that's why he was following her, giving you a clue about where to go next.
*ShoutOut:
**The case's title is most likely a reference to ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye''.
**In Chapter 2, is shown that Miss Yang recommended the victim to read ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies''.
*SlashedThroat: The victim was killed by having his throat slashed with a sickle.
*TheSocialDarwinist: Mei turns out to be this, even becoming her "motive" for murdering Guo despite being best friends with him.
-->'''Mei:''' I liked Han. But he was weak. He spent hours in his room reading, or crying for his absent parents!
-->One must learn to endure pain and sickness. I was trying to teach Han to be stronger!
-->I killed him because the fate of the weak is to die at the hands of the strong, <Player's Name>.
*StalkerWithoutACrush: Ronin had been following around the victim for some time, with the player even finding a photo of Guo telling Ronin "he was a good candidate". When you confront him, Ronin claims he had been stalking Guo because he wanted to take him as an apprentice, though Carmen has her doubts about it. Later, you also discover he was following Mei, but he tells you she had ran away from home and was hired to find her.
*SugaryMalice: Carmen is convinced that Ronin's smooth talking and polite tendencies are just a smoke curtain for a more evil side of him, though the Bureau finds no proof about him having connections with SOMBRA.
*TeensAreMonsters: Mei, a 15-year-old girl, killed her best friend Guo for no reason other than believing he was too weak to deserve being alive.
*TragicDropout: Miss Yang tells you how Guo was a bright student, but was forced to drop out of school to help his aunt in the local rice farm.
*TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Not only Mei and Guo had started to act strange for the past weeks (such as Mei becoming a [[TheSocialDarwinist SocialDarwinist]] and Guo stealing from his aunt), but Miss Yang tells you how every child in the village has started to become a WildChild for no reason other than apparent debauchery.
*WildChild
-->'''Teacher Yang:''' You don't understand, <Player's Name>! ALL of the kids are acting out of character! I don't know what's happening to them, but lately I fear for my own safety in the classroom!
*TwoTeacherSchool: Miss Yang is the only teacher in the small village the case is set in.
*VerbalBackspace: While interrogating Blind Sen, Carmen asks him if he didn't saw anything regarding the victim before immediately correcting it to "noticing".
[[caption-width-right:350:'''Carmen:''' I know we're here because of SOMBRA, so finding a dead body doesn't surprise me... but a dead teenager? Is SOMBRA killing rice farmers now?]]
The Bureau arrives to Yuanyang County in the Yunnan province of China to look for clues regarding The Head Hunter, the SOMBRA contact that ordered Warren Goodfellow to murder Sandeep Sadhra [[Recap/CriminalCaseWorldEditionCase24InsidesOut in the previous case.]] There, Chief Ripley orders Carmen and the player to investigate the rice fields, where they find the body of teenager rice farmer Guo Han with his throat slashed.
!!Tropes:
*AmbiguouslyEvil: You meet Ronin Ozawa in this case, a Japanese tourist visiting China who had been following Guo and Mei around for some time and knew Warren Goodfellow. However, he claims he had no idea about Warren being evil and was just following both kids for their safety, leaving unclear if he's with SOMBRA or is a honest man,
*AdultFear:
**Having to perform an autopsy on a teenager's body is this for Angela, since she's worried about a possible child killer on the loose while her daughters are accompanying the Bureau. Then this turns out for the worse when her daughter June goes missing in Chapter 3.
**The fact that SOMBRA appears to be involved in Mei's strange behavior and how [[AmbiguouslyEvil Ronin Ozawa]] had been following her is also a sore spot for Angela, who becomes fearful about just what SOMBRA would want to do with children.
*BindleStick: You find one belonging to the victim, proving that he was kicked out of home.
*BlindSeer: Blind Sen likes to ''pretend'' he's this, though he's more of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who gets some crazy visions instead.
*BookBurning: The children of the village had been burning books provided by school, with no explanation as to why other than turning into {{Wild Child}}ren out of nowhere.
*BrainwashedAndCrazy: Though not explicitly stated, it's obvious that Mei's interactions with SOMBRA led to her becoming the CreepyChild and [[TheSocialDarwinist SocialDarwinist]] side of her you meet in this case.
*CheerfulChild: The Douglas Triples are shown to be very hyperactive and curious, to the point they worry their parents a little too much.
*CreepyChild: Mei Zhao definitely qualifies, as she speaks in a very monotone way during her interrogations and says the victim was weak and should've acted stronger if he wanted to survive. Of course, this gets turned UpToEleven when you also discover she's the murdered, engaging in a ''very'' unnerving MadnessMantra about how the weak die and only the strong survive.
*TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Though you don't find about it until [[Recap/CriminalCaseWorldEditionCase29ADeathWish Case 29]], Blind Sen's [[spoiler:panic and distrust while meeting Ronin Ozawa turns out to be complete justified when he's revealed to be working with SOMBRA.]]
*DeathOfAChild: The victim is a teenager who worked in the rice farms of the country.
*IDidWhatIHadToDo: Mei says this when she explains her "[[TheSocialDarwinist motive]]" for murdering Guo.
-->'''Mei:''' I did what I had to do, Your Honor. Han was weak, and the weak perish in the competition for resources.
*ForcedFromTheirHome: Guo was kicked out of his home by his aunt after she discovered he had stolen money from her, although she ended up regretting it.
*HarmfulToMinors: {{Defied}} by Lars, who orders his daughter June to go play somewhere else while he's performing an analysis as he doesn't want her to be scarred, but played straight with Angela who doesn't mind showing April how a bone saw works.
-->'''Lars:''' It's great that the girls are now living with us full-time, but I didn't want June to hear the violent details of how this boy died. You can probably guess the rest anyway.
*TheHermit: Blind Sen, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a blind]] {{Cloudcuckoolander}} old man who lives in the forest, appears as a suspect.
*JapaneseTourist: Ronin Ozawa is a Japanese tourist visiting China who supposedly was hired to follow Guo and Mei around for their own safety, [[AmbiguouslyEvil but it remains unclear if he's telling the truth.]]
*MadnessMantra: After Mei is arrested for Guo's murder, she can't stop repeating about she killed him for not being enough and how the weak must die.
*MissingChild: June gets momentarily lost at the start of Chapter 3, though you manage to find her pretty quickly in the forest.
*{{Nephewism}}: Guo lived with his aunt.
*{{Omniglot}}: Carmen remarks how Dupont is fluent in thirty languages during a talk with Elliot.
*ParentalAbandonment: The vicitm's parents had moved to Beijing since he was just a baby, leaving him to live in Yunnan with his aunt.
*PartingWordsRegret: Aunty Hua experiences this after her nephew is murdered, due to lamenting she chased him out of home after she found out he had stolen money from her.
*TheRunaway: During the Additional Investigation, Ronin informs you Mei had ran away from her home in Sichuan and that's why he was following her, giving you a clue about where to go next.
*ShoutOut:
**The case's title is most likely a reference to ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye''.
**In Chapter 2, is shown that Miss Yang recommended the victim to read ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies''.
*SlashedThroat: The victim was killed by having his throat slashed with a sickle.
*TheSocialDarwinist: Mei turns out to be this, even becoming her "motive" for murdering Guo despite being best friends with him.
-->'''Mei:''' I liked Han. But he was weak. He spent hours in his room reading, or crying for his absent parents!
-->One must learn to endure pain and sickness. I was trying to teach Han to be stronger!
-->I killed him because the fate of the weak is to die at the hands of the strong, <Player's Name>.
*StalkerWithoutACrush: Ronin had been following around the victim for some time, with the player even finding a photo of Guo telling Ronin "he was a good candidate". When you confront him, Ronin claims he had been stalking Guo because he wanted to take him as an apprentice, though Carmen has her doubts about it. Later, you also discover he was following Mei, but he tells you she had ran away from home and was hired to find her.
*SugaryMalice: Carmen is convinced that Ronin's smooth talking and polite tendencies are just a smoke curtain for a more evil side of him, though the Bureau finds no proof about him having connections with SOMBRA.
*TeensAreMonsters: Mei, a 15-year-old girl, killed her best friend Guo for no reason other than believing he was too weak to deserve being alive.
*TragicDropout: Miss Yang tells you how Guo was a bright student, but was forced to drop out of school to help his aunt in the local rice farm.
*TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Not only Mei and Guo had started to act strange for the past weeks (such as Mei becoming a [[TheSocialDarwinist SocialDarwinist]] and Guo stealing from his aunt), but Miss Yang tells you how every child in the village has started to become a WildChild for no reason other than apparent debauchery.
*WildChild
-->'''Teacher Yang:''' You don't understand, <Player's Name>! ALL of the kids are acting out of character! I don't know what's happening to them, but lately I fear for my own safety in the classroom!
*TwoTeacherSchool: Miss Yang is the only teacher in the small village the case is set in.
*VerbalBackspace: While interrogating Blind Sen, Carmen asks him if he didn't saw anything regarding the victim before immediately correcting it to "noticing".
