History TearJerker / MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode

* Surprisingly, [[BigBad Makoto Kagutsuchi]] of all people proves an incredibly tragic figure. The homunculus of [[GreatDetective Number One]], Makoto [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes has a deep, enduring love for Kanai Ward and its homunculi]], hence creating the rain machine and taking over Amaterasu to protect them...[[WellIntentionedExtremist and also isolating the city from the rest of the world and executing dozens of criminals to procure]] ''[[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies human flesh]]'' [[IAteWhat for them to eat]] (since homunculi can't get nutrients in any other way). That in of itself is more [[NightmareFuel nightmarish]] than anything, but what pushes it into Tearjerker territory is that, for all his claims otherwise, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Makoto is]] ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone haunted]]'' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone by what he's done]], but sees no other way to keep the homunculi safe and happy, and his insistence on shouldering all of it alone is eating away at his psyche. By the end of Chapter 5, it's all but stated him following Yuma into the Mystery Labyrinth was less a KillAndReplace attempt and more a SuicideByCop--and, by the end of his boss fight, he outright ''[[AintTooProudToBeg pleads for help]]'', unable to bear the weight of what he's done anymore.

* All the victims in Chapter 0 are shown to have been upstanding detectives, so it's absolutely sad that their lives were cut short by a ruthless hitman who had killed the real Zilch and impersonated him, and that hitman was Yomi's hitman, who sadistically assassinated anyone who posed a threat to him. This hurts a lot especially because you were around them long enough that you probably grew attached to one of them, at least.

** As a second layer, little to Halara's knowledge [[IdiotBall (if they aren't faking pretending to not know the truth of his role as the culprit of the case, that is)]], Yakou's death is inevitable regardless as the Mystery Labyrinth would require his soul to be reaped, therefore making their efforts in performing CPR pointless in the end [[ForegoneConclusion since he was bound to die when Yuma and Vivia returned from the lab anyway]].

* All the victims in Chapter 0 are shown to have been upstanding detectives, so it's absolutely sad that their lives were cut short by a ruthless hitman who had killed the real Zilch and impersonated him. This hurts a lot especially because you were around them long enough that you probably grew attached to one of them, at least.

** First, right after discovering Dr. Huesca's corpse, Yuma and the others hear Yakou scream. Yuma runs out to the hallway, only to see Yakou ''stabbed'' and Fink the Slaughter Artist walking away from the scene. The very fact that Yakou is about to be killed off is already shocking enough, but then Yomi comes in, refuses to provide medical aid, and ''[[KickTheDog kicks Yakou's body several times]]'' all because Yakou is about to die before Yomi himself can deal with him personally. Meanwhile, [[BreakTheCutie Yuma, who is crying]], [[ForcedToWatch but cannot do anything because]] he is detained by a Peacekeeper, [[BrokenTears screams and begs for Yomi to stop]], only for his pleas to fall on deaf ears.

--->'''Vivia:''' I've always been able to see the dead... And what they tell me is always true. The truth has been exhausting me for as long as I can remember. Even when I cover my eyes and ears, their voices continue to whisper it to me. "Please... bet quiet". No matter how much I beg for it, the calm will never come. Where is the perfect peace...? It's found... in death.