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1	!Unmarked spoilers are ahead, per Administrivia/SpoilersOff rule.
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3	* The maternal entity who Watanuki forms a mother-son bond with. Spending so much time with her starts to slowly kill him, but Watanuki doesn’t care as he’d formed a close attachment to her. So close do they become that Watanuki disregards his own safety and health to be with her. The entity, though draining his life, has also come to love him and doesn’t want to hurt him but cannot seem to help ''but'' hurt Watanuki. Sadly, because she is a malevolent being and Watanuki’s life is in danger, Doumeki makes the difficult decision to kill the entity to save Watanuki’s life. And even in the end Watanuki tries to shield her, the entity throws herself in front of Watanuki and voluntarily takes Doumeki’s arrow to save Watanuki’s life, leaving him in tears as she fades away.
4	** Adding to the heartbreak is that Doumeki ''knows'' that killing her will cause Watanuki pain, and that Watanuki may hate him and never forgive him for doing it. But he ultimately chooses to do it because he didn’t want Watanuki to die. Thankfully Watanuki ''did'' understand this in the end, but it was still difficult.
5	* More than one person teared up when Himawari, while giving an obviously [[StepfordSmiler forced smile]], told Watanuki about her bad luck and said goodbye to him after causing a nearly fatal accident. Watanuki stopping her and telling her that he cares about her, was happy to have met her, and doesn't want to stop being her friend even with her misfortune causes the floodgates to open after she leaves. The fact that [[GoodScarsEvilScars she willingly took his scars]] is just icing on the cake.
6	--> '''Himawari:''' Watanuki you liar, you said you wouldn't make me cry... that was the first time anyone ever told me they were happy to have met me.
7	* Six words: "I'll die like this too. Alone."
8	* Four more words: "I want to change!" Bonus points for being the only mini-arch with a distinctly happy ending.
9	* SOMEONE had to have teared up a little at chapter 71 of the manga. Seriously
10	* Oh, Jesus, and now there's chapter 181. With time beginning to move properly for Yuuko again, she's now dying, and insists to a despairing Watanuki that it's alright, because she was supposed to be dead long before he was even born. He screams at her that her belief that she's not supposed to exist is wrong, because for all he didn't believe in her in the beginning, she ''was'' really there, and she ''did'' change him for the better. And all she can do is smile and thank him for that. Crying, Watanuki says she can't go away because he hasn't granted her wish yet, as he promised. Yuuko says that her only wish is for him to go on existing. He promises to do this and to wait in the shop until she comes back, no matter how long it takes.
11	** Yuuko and Watanuki's goodbye in chapter 182.]][[OverlyLongGag Thirteen words]]: "My wish... is for you to go on existing. [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy That's all I want]]."
12	** Ohgod, Chapter 184. Warning, massive spoilers.
13	** Chapters 205 and 206. We're introduced to some sort of child spirit nobody but Watanuki can see (not even Kohane). His wish is to be protected until he is called. By the end, it's heavily implied the child was aborted, and while the "call" that comes is from heaven (so he could be born again), his wish was to be called by the mother who didn't want him. His only line in the whole arc was "Not mother?". Watanuki can only give him a sad smile as he promises that next time, his mother will tell him "Thank you for being born."
14	** In the Rou Adayume OVA, Watanuki tries to lightheartedly celebrate the upcoming wedding between Doumeki and Kohane, until Doumeki point blank tells Watanuki, "The one [Kohane] loves the most is ''you''". The look on Watanuki's face when he realizes the implications of this is quite heartbreaking.
15	* "It's longer than that since I inherited the store, though. You really do look like him. Your great grandfather.
16	* In ''[=×××HOLiC=]: Rei'', after spending 3 volumes worth of chapters in a timeframe similar to that from before Watanuki inherited the shop yet somehow eerily ''off'', Watanuki learns the heartbreaking truth that he's basically in a dream. He had inadvertently immersed himself in a illusory world where he could pretend that his life was back to the way it was when he was still working for Yuuko, which he admits solemnly was the time in his life he had been the most happy. Additionally, Doumeki and Himawari had actually ''followed'' Watanuki into his dream to stay by his side, because they were worried about him. Arguably the worst part about all this was Watanuki realizing that the Yuuko of the dream was probably just part of the illusion, and not actually Yuuko having returned like Watanuki has been desperately wishing for. In spite of that, though, Watanuki admits that he can't bring himself to fully believe that Yuuko wasn't “real” in some way, and the extended goodbye he gives her when he finally decides to put an end to the dream and return to reality is heart-wrentching.

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