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Main Story

Chapter 0: Massacre on the Amaterasu Express

• Shinigami describing the forming of her contract with Yuma in rather suggestive, intimate terms, to his complete confusion and belief he has gone insane. She even demands he take responsibility, before impishly revealing she knew all along that he wouldn't remember their pact. She doesn't give up with the sexual comparisons either, remarking that the "euphoria" of completing the contract is what caused him to pass out back at the train station.
• Shinigami, lover of double entendres and lewd ideas, declares she was "born too pure and innocent" to go by a name like Death God.
• Yuma snapping a bit as he sums up just how bizarre the case is.
  Yuma: Catch who?! Everyone besides me is dead!
• Shinigami wastes no time in starting to flirt with/tease Yuma once she unveils her true form.
  Shinigami: But some parts of me are still nice and puffy. It's true: wanna touch?
• Yuma's reaction to waking up in the Mystery Labyrinth? Screaming.
• Within the Mystery Labyrinth, Yuma and Shinigami's character dynamics and banter are kicked into high gear, with Shinigami saying ridiculous or extreme things and Yuma having to be the straight man as he reacts or comments. It starts with Yuma refusing to accept that the Mystery Labyrinth makes sense and demanding more explanations. She approaches and crosses her arms to emphasize her chest.
  Shinigami: If you have any more questions along the way, stare at my boobs for eight seconds. That'll make all your worries disappear.
  Yuma: No it won't! Please explain everything now!
• The Solution Keys are introduced, via Rainbow Puke:
  Yuma: But... why did it come out of your mouth?
  Shinigami: What do you mean? So I don't have to use my hands. I worked really hard developing this method.
  Yuma: You put thought into this...?
• Shinigami's interest in mysteries is a bit more than academic.
  Shinigami: So let's go. I'm so horny for mysteries right now.
  Yuma: You're... what?
• Things turn snarky on Yuma's part and trolling on Shinigami's when the subject of him getting drugged is brought up.
  Yuma: I thought I was dizzy because I got this weird ghost thing haunting me...
  Shinigami: Huh? Making a pact with me won't make you dizzy. It just reduces your lifespan by a lot.
  Yuma: You're kidding, right?
  Shinigami: ...
  Yuma: Right?!
• Another of Shinigami's powers is the ability to let Yuma revisit a crime scene and examine things he didn't consciously notice originally. However, in order to do so she has to literally punch the memory out of his head and the resulting scene recreation will only last for as long as the pain in Yuma's head lasts. Meaning that the whole resulting investigation of the memory has to be done with Yuma moving like he is about to pass out.
• After making a breakthrough in the case (which happened to be similar to what Shinigami initially thought happened), Shinigami tells Yuma he can pat her on the head if he wants. Instead of the expected refusal Yuma shyly states "maybe later..."
• Three times during the Deduction Denouement Shinigami attempts to get a reaction from Yuma by referring to her "jiggling," only for him to ignore her. She finally succeeds when she remarks on how turned on the misdirection in the case made her, as Yuma can't help but wonder if he heard her right.
• Shinigami seeming to genuinely believe that the culprit dying means Yuma is automatically free to go. She also outright hides from him for a bit because she thinks Yuma is cute when he panics.
• The boon-kill sequence, which plays for every chapter hereafter except the final one. It has to be seen to be believed. A spotlight shines down on Shinigami as she starts giving a brief soliloquy with ominous organ music before undergoing a second Transformation Sequence as said organ music transitions to what can only be described as JoJo music, all while Shinigami calls out the Overly Long Name of her attack and reaps the soul of the culprit with one shot. The scene then cuts to the exterior of the Mystery Labyrinth, which proceeds to comically explode as if it were hit by a nuke.

Prologue: WDO vs. Amaterasu Corporation

• The way the Nocturnal Detective Agency is introduced is a very strange style of Cringe Comedy. After leaving the train station, Yuma follows Yakou. Where does he go? Down to the sewers... and then it gets even further down into the depths, until they eventually reach a gate that leads to a riverbank. There's nothing there, and then Yakou raises the submarine, and we find out what the agency really is: on such a hilariously low-standard that they have to resort to a scrappy, though well-maintained, submarine in an unhygienic, run-down riverbank. And it's where the detectives we have to work with throughout the game work too!
• As a Funny Background Event, Fubuki actually starts quietly clapping when Yakou jokingly asks for a round of applause after introducing Yuma.
• Shinigami is not impressed by her first impressions of the other surviving Master Detectives.
  Shinigami: I was hoping they'd be amazing detectives, but they all look kind of dumb. I wonder which one of them will die first.
• Fubuki tries to share her knowledge of cacao, only to reveal she thinks chocolate literally grows as chocolate fruit on trees and the shiny wrappers are the fruit's husks. Though she laughs off the error, it is only a portent of misunderstandings to come.
• Fubuki declares she and Yuma are "amnesia buddies," as she cannot recall what she had for breakfast, among other things. She later reiterates this, adding that she doesn't remember what the previous day's weather was either, leading Yakou to note in exasperation:
  Yakou: It was raining! It's always raining!
• Yakou panicking and bowing in apology when he realizes he is talking to Number One. Even Halara has a Not So Stoic expression in reaction.
• A Rewatch Bonus with added irony, but Halara answers "Yuma" when he asks who "Number One" is, saying that he's the top detective of the WDO, and never shows his face and no one knows what he looks like... unwittingly to the actual Number One himself, whom Halara is currently answering and seeing the face of.
• Fubuki declares she is a pacifist after Halara remarks they are going to war with Amatarasu, and acts like he is joking when Yakou points out they don't really have a choice. Yakou is flabbergasted:
  Yakou: Fubuki, were you listening?
  Fubuki: Huh? I was. However, I was also lost in my own thoughts...
  Yakou: You weren't listening then!

Chapter 1: The Nail Man Killings

• Desiring to invoke Eating the Eye Candy, Shinigami tries to get Yuma to shower in front of her. Yuma "kills the mood" for her by opting not to shower and not really grasping her intentions.
• The in-universe explanation for the Shinigami figurines. They're memories of conversations Yuma had with the other detectives that he has somehow forgotten about, despite the first one being found only a day after he arrived in Kanai Ward.
• Shinigami revealing the spiritual chain linking her and Yuma together works in the real world too, as she proceeds to drag him around town only to reveal she doesn't know where she's going.
• Yakou not helping his case when under threat of the Peacekeepers.
  Yakou: Look. We’ve got three hours before I’m taken away. If that happens, the last detective agency in town is done for!
  Halara: Would you rather hand us over to the Peacekeepers?
  Yakou: Who do you think you’re talking to? I’m the chief. I’d rather turn myself in than ever sell anyone out. Though…I wouldn’t want to do that either, if I’m being honest… Never mind! Forget what I just said!
  Shinigami: Man, he does not know when to stop!
• Shinigami initially claims Yuma has to kiss whoever he wants to use Coalescence with, just to see his reaction.
• Halara bluntly telling Yuma they won't hold hands with him (specifically for Coalescence, which is his intention) because they "despise him and all of humanity equally", completely out of the blue.
• Halara’s snarky response to Yuma seeing the secret club victim’s strangulation marks.
  Yuma: Oh, there are marks on him, signs that he was strangled…. The vertical scratch marks were probably made when he resisted.
  Halara: The most basic of basic observations. Well, at least you noticed.
• When Yuma investigates the mansion with Halara, he asks them to search the vent on top of the study room’s door on his behalf.
  Yuma: Halara, can you use that chair to peek into the vent?
  Halara: I will do so for 10,000 shien.
  Yuma: You’re charging me for it?!
  Halara: I jest.
• On the way out from the mansion investigation, Yuma can investigate a locked door in the hallway, to be greeted with the completely unexplained sound of a baby crying. Freaked out, he and Shinigami dismiss it as them both somehow imagining it. While also creepy, the sheer randomness of the scene steers it back toward funny.
• Shinigami materializing the Solution Keys in front of Halara, who is understandably disgusted by the sight.
  Shinigami: I better materialize the Solution Keys I got during the investigation too... Bleeeeergh! Phew... That was a lot. Here you go!
  Halara: Do you...have to vomit them out every time?
  Shinigami: What?! Should I use a different hole instead?!
  Yuma: S-Sorry... Please...don't mind her.
• Mystery Phantom Seth pulls Yuma out of the replica clocktower to fall down infinitely... and due to being chained to Shinigami, she falls with him. But as Shinigami is being pulled down with him, she grabs onto Halara and...
  Halara: Hey...don't drag me down with you!
  Shinigami: We can't leave a guest behind, Hellara. It would be downright unmannerly!
  • As an additional detail, Halara responds to Shinigami's justification with a disappointed glare.
• After Yuma, Shingami and Halara fall into the locked-room mystery replicas one too many times.
  Shinigami: Oh? Did we get trapped inside a locked room again? But... if the mystery isn't solved, then I won't escape this place... (gasp)... Trapped in a cramped room with these two... ...sounds kinda fun, actually.
  Halara: I have no intention of playing along with your fantasies. Yuma, hurry up and take care of this.
• How Shinigami doesn't even attempt to hide her Genki Girl personality when she possesses the dead priest's body, jovially explaining how he is the Nail Man and the other dead man the copycat.
• Lacking any way to refute the confession, Seth tries to claim the priest "mumbled something" but that he didn't hear it.

Chapter 2: A Silent Curtain Call

• Fubuki's Epic Fail when following after Halara at the beginning.
  Yakou: Yes, Fubuki, please go team up with Halara!
  Fubuki: (salutes) Roger that! Off I go! (runs the opposite direction of the exit, then turns the right direction) The exit is over here!
• Fitting for the setting of an all-girls high school, the character portraits of the students (aside from Kurumi) and teachers there are inexplicably drawn in a shoujo-esque style rather than the usual Rui Komatsuzaki format.
• Thinking of the Power Perversion Potential of being able to disguise yourself as anyone has Shinigami outright drooling, only for her to throw an outright overdramatic tantrum when Yuma criticizes that line of thinking.
  Shinigami: Waaah! You don't respect the rights of a Death God! I feel attacked!
• Yuma gets his hopes up on learning his past when Shinigami says that she'll tell him "everything" about the nature of him finding the Book of Death and contracting her, only for Shinigami to instead go on a romance-oriented speech about how it's a miracle, they are bound by fate and should nurture their connection for all eternity, etc.
• Shinigami starts insulting Kurumi basically from the moment she finds out Yuma's stalker is a girl, zeroing in on one particular supposed feature.
  Shinigami: Look at her, every part of her is flat as a board!
• Kurumi isn't devoid of her own amusing quirks, as she immediately takes Yuma's hands in hers in excitement.
  Kurumi: Um... can I shake your hand?!
  Yuma: Y-you already are...
• Shinigami's descent into the jealous funk she is in for much of the chapter starts early when she lists her issues with Yuma claiming he doesn't want to ruin Kurumi's image of detectives, culminating with the following exchange:
  Shinigami: You're a closet perv always staring at women's breasts, and you think you represent all detectives?
  Yuma: I-I don't stare that often!
• Kurumi's initial impression of Desuhiko is thinking he's a suspicious person spying on the school and to warn Yuma about him, only for Yuma to have to admit he knows him.
• Just before Desuhiko disguises himself, he drags Yuma into his yellow backpack, and after redressing, the two come out in their disguises. Desuhiko now appears as a female teacher and winks while standing confidently... and meanwhile, Yuma is dressed up as a female student who looks pretty much identical to him except for the longer hair and uniform. The look of embarrassment on him is simply golden, and even Shinigami giggles at his expense despite still being angry at him.
• Kurumi is initially amazed at Desuhiko's Disguise ability, and he tries to take advantage to make her his "fan," only for her to lose all interest and turn her attention to gushing over how cute Yuma is as a girl.
• Kurumi's faith in detectives is such that she wholeheartedly believes Desuhiko must have gone on stage and pretended to try to debut as a singer when he really was just memorizing the faces of the audience for the sake of the case. Yuma doesn't have the heart to correct her.
• While Yuma is disguised as Waruna, at one point Shinigami will silently position herself within a mounted gown in the dressing room to make it look like she is wearing it.
• Desuhiko is understandably confused as to how Yuma managed to put on the Martina disguise while holding his hand the entire time, Yuma apparently having no answer and thus completely ignoring his question.
• After Shinigami froze time and opened the portal to the mystery labyrinth, Desuhiko almost immediately flirts with her at first sight, which is a mistake, as she retaliates by rapidly beating him up, knocking him and Yuma into the portal.
• Yuma goes through the usual long explanation of how the Mystery Labyrinth works, only for Desuhiko to take hardly any of it in as he spent the whole time ogling Shinigami.
• Desuhiko remarks that he thinks he awakened to a new fetish after watching Shinigami vomit out the Solution Keys. He also begs for Shinigami to do the whole "dance with her and pull a sword out of her mouth" thing she does with Yuma to him as well.
• Shinigami spends much of the Mystery Labyrinth basically toying with Desuhiko, saying various things about how she wishes "someone" would do something or other and how much she may like them for it, in hopes that he'll run off and stop bothering her and Yuma.
• By the end Shinigami makes it clear she will never fall for Desuhiko. She has to repeat this before it gets through to him, at which point, in a plainly Blatant Lies fashion, Desuhiko claims he was never serious about wooing her and was only testing the bond between her and Yuma.
• Yakou gets so upset over Yuma's escapades that he starts speaking with a lisp. Fubuki proceeds to call him "lisp man" as she tries to comfort him.
• Fubuki at first thinks the submarine shaking from being hit by a torpedo is a fun ride.
• When Yuma first meets Makoto, he's relaxing in a hot tub in his living room, completely naked except for his mask. After drying off and getting dressed, he asks Yuma if he'd like a turn in the bath, adding that Yuma can hop in fully clothed if he's uncomfortable with being undressed around a stranger, and he himself bathes fully clothed occasionally.

Chapter 3: No Longer a Detective

• Shinigami's Motor Mouth response to Yuma comparing the NDA to the Resistance.
  Yuma: Our goals and aspirations differ, but we're kinda like friends in that regard.
  Shinigami: Master, you're a professional loner, so you don't need any friends.
• Reuniting with Fubuki leads to an immediate series of strange exchanges with her. In particular, she takes Yuma's relief very literally.
  Yuma: Anyway, I'm just glad you're alive, Fubuki.
  Fubuki: I am grateful you were born as well, Yuma. I ought to thank your parents.
• The usual "speed through the explanation" bit gets another fun variation with Yuma looking up and finding Fubuki isn't even there any more (and Shinigami is sleeping).
  Yuma: Wait, she's gone?!
• Fubuki isn't actually making coffee, rather she is ordering it from the nearby hotel and then taking it to the restaurant. She refers to it as "fencing coffee."
• Fubuki at first thinking Yuma agreeing that they make great partners is a marriage proposal, then remarking that thanks to this she almost became a "adventurer-detective-wife," while Shinigami protests that Yuma has already sworn his life to her.
• Fubuki is a goldmine of these throughout the investigation, and this line should sum up what you're in for:
  Fubuki: I am so naive that the servants call me "dummy thicc" behind my back. ^note This is a rather clever take on the similar joke in Japanese, where the servants call her "muchimuchi." Muchi on its own means "ignorant," but when doubled up it means "voluptuous." Fubuki though interpreted the doubling up as them calling her very ignorant.
• A throwaway reveal shows that the Clockford family don't merely deal with clocks; they literally govern the world's concept of time.
• There is a Running Gag throughout the chapter with Fubuki matter-of-factly remarking on how she and Yuma are the only survivors of the NDA, with Yuma having to correct her each time that they don't know that.
• Yuma retaining memory of Fubuki turning back time (due to his Coalescence) leads to Fubuki jumping to the conclusion that he is a member of the Clockford family, perhaps even a long lost brother.
• When needing to clear out the cafe in Ginma so Yuma can disarm the bomb, he tells Fubuki to think of something. Her solution? Puff on a whistle and tell the customers there's somewhere else with better coffee. It works.
• Kurumi's irritated expression upon seeing Yuma and Fubuki holding hands. When Yuma tries to explain it's for the investigation, she pouts adorably while mildly believing so. Fubuki's factual but misleading attempt to explain why they're holding hands doesn't help matters:
  Fubuki: Yes. In order to share time together, we clutch our hands tight to one another. Until Yuma dies... No, even in death, I am sworn to never let go.
• Fubuki matter-of-factly noting time has stopped (upon the summoning of the Mystery Labyrinth), as for her family witnessing such a thing is not unusual.
• Fubuki spends the whole Mystery Labyrinth thinking she's in a Dragon Quest or early Final Fantasy game, with Shinigami as the God of Darkness responsible for all its obstacles. Shinigami quickly stops bothering to argue, as it's at least motivating her.
• Fubuki covering her face with her hands only to keep watching through her spread fingers while Yuma and Shinigami go through their usual intimate pulling-sword-from-her-mouth routine. She then interprets it as Shinigami having hidden a weapon on herself and Yuma disarming her.
• The Running Gag of Fubuki adding more and more titles to Yuma as the Labyrinth continues. By the end, he's become "The Labyrinth Delving Elite Bomb Defuser, He Who Tames the God of Darkness, Holy Great Detective Warrior of Light Yuma".
• After Fubuki runs off ahead in the Labyrinth, she's surrounded by a swarm of Qs and apparently somehow made friends with them.
• After deciding the crime was a homicide, the question becomes specifically why this is the case. Fubuki simply says she agrees with Yuma, despite him not having said anything yet.
• During the labyrinth, Shinigami and Fubuki bicker a few times after the former calls the latter "sheltered". The conversation is not transcribed in the dialogue, but can be heard throughout the audio, and it's funny to hear the two women talk over each other.
• At one point Shinigami remarks that rather than the villain Fubuki thinks she is, if anything she's the secret protagonist of the story.
• When Fubuki remembers too late the detective agency's backup meeting place despite being with Yuma the whole time as Yakou reminds her, everyone at the scene reacts with total bewilderment, including Kurumi.
• The Chapter 3 ending cinematic featuring the rest of the NDA's Stunned Silence when Vivia mentions having discovered something related to the homunculus research, which doubles as O.O.C. Is Serious Business due to no one reacting in such a way prior to that moment.
• At the end, Makoto casually has the NDA Submarine rebuilt. Shinigami is impressed that the mess and grime is exactly the same as before.

Chapter 4: The Imperfect Insider

• When Yuma doubts Shinigami's assertion that she doesn't know of any connection between him and the Ramen Stand Owner, she suddenly asserts that if she's lying then she'll do a handstand naked. Yuma points out that she's already not really wearing anything in this form.
• After Dr. Huesca refuses to speak with him, Makoto button-mashes the intercom and then shoves Yuma in front of it before going to lounge dramatically on a nearby couch.
• When Makoto is taken away under Yomi's order, with Yomi making petty threats as usual, this exchange happens. They're the main villains, so it's more of a case of Black Comedy, but it still applies.
  Yomi: (sarcastically) Hey, tell Mr. CEO that he doesn't belong here. Politely escort him out. Make sure he can still talk though. There are plenty of things I need to ask him.
  Makoto: (nonchalantly) What a coincidence, I was hoping to have a nice chat with you too.
• Fubuki in disguise is easily recognizable even before she speaks thanks to her retaining her characteristic "girly" walk animation. Also, while in disguise she is labeled with the hilariously unfitting moniker of "forceful Peacekeeper." And when Yuma does not immediately recognize her, Fubuki fears his amnesia has gotten worse and he has literally forgotten who she is.
• Fubuki completely misunderstanding Desuhiko's plan to have her flirt with Dr.Huesca to get him to let them in.
  Fubuki: Desuhiko says he will serve you with all his heart, nya!
• Vivia's utter lack of motivation and downer behavior arguably irritating Shinigami more than any of the other partners Yuma brought into the Mystery Labyrinth. She outright says she's going to ignore him, only to fail repeatedly as he simply annoys her too much.
• Vivia is actually quite happy to hear his Forte won't work in the Labyrinth, as it gives him even less reason to do anything other than tag along.
• Halara's unexpectedly stoic reaction to "Number One" being Killed Mid-Sentence.
  Yuma: What?!
  Desuhiko: Wh-What's going on?!
  Fubuki: What was that flash?!
  Halara: (Beat) Number One? I heard an explosion...
• In an otherwise dramatic scene, there is something adorably comedic in the way Shinigami in her normally floating ghost form is depicted just silently slumping onto the ground unconscious after Yuma passes out and she calls out for him.

Chapter 5: And Then I Was Gone

• In a bit of dark humor, Makoto lampshades how "the biggest dimwit" among Yuma's friends (i.e. Fubuki) survived the longest, perhaps due to her overpowered ability. The letter supposedly written by Fubuki that gives more exposition tries to have her stay in character by having her say she does not understand what she discovered and is simply copying the information down word for word.
• During their confrontation at the bath house, Yuma says that he has Makoto cornered. Makoto responds by pulling out a gun.
• A heartwarming, Ship Tease scene of a blushing Shinigami and Yuma entering the labyrinth holding hands ends with her letting go halfway so that Yuma still gets a hard landing in the labyrinth itself. Shinigami reasons it would be bad luck to end the tradition of Yuma falling into the labyrinth.
• Upon entering the Mystery Labyrinth, Shinigami produces the Solution Keys in the usual way... and then afterward Yuma thanks her, to Shinigami's surprise. She then reveals that she could have just simply materialized them the whole time but that she wanted to do it this way again for old time's sake and is happy she did because Yuma thanked her for it this time. Yuma is understandably confused and slightly annoyed that she chose to do it this way at all.
  • On a similar note, near the end it's revealed that the Deduction Denouement at the end of each case is a literal thing that happens instead of just a summary for the player. Shinigami remarks that she does it for Yuma and she'd like him to thank her for it too, Yuma apologizing and saying he always thought it was just part of her "process."
• The presence of Mystery Phantoms that look like Yuma allows for a Running Gag of Shinigami calling them "Master" as well and poking fun at their appearance or intelligence, while Yuma lampshades that she's basically saying the same about him (or in other contexts, reminding her that the phantoms are not him).
• Selecting Makoto's pants when asked to point to something that seems strange about him results in Yuma wondering to himself how much Makoto's suit costs.
• The method Shinigami uses to get Yuma out of his Heroic BSoD is to bash her way into the room he has sealed himself in, wrap herself around him, and literally twist and snap his sealed-stiff body repeatedly until he comes back to his senses.
• The way Shinigami describes herself to Yuma, complete with Big-Breast Pride regarding how "puffy" she is:
  Shinigami: You're not alone! You've got a kind, teasing, needy, adorable, puffy partner by your side!

Epilogue: Rain Code

• As the Master Detectives are preparing to leave, Kurumi greets Halara, Desuhiko and Fubuki, but Vivia doesn't seem to be there. Until he's shown to be inside one of their suitcases, hoping someone would carry him out.
• Kurumi's defensive reaction to Desuhiko's teasing.
  Kurumi: I've always admired detectives and investigating with one was like a dream come true. That's why I want to be with him. Even if he's different now...Yuma will always be Yuma!
  Desuhiko: Come on... If you're gonna confess you love him, just tell him.
  Kurumi: Huh?! N-No! That's not what I meant...

Gumshoe Gab

• Yuma having to deal with Halara geeking out about cats.
  Yuma: Their most charming quality... It's hard to choose... Hmm...
  Halara: Yes, exactly.
  Yuma: Huh?
  Halara: There is no way to determine a cat's single greatest trait. The elements that comprise cats, the information they emit... All are equally valuable.
  Yuma: I-I see...
  Halara: Moreover, I can list every charming quality cats have and discuss them in extreme detail. Let's begin with the obvious topics. For example, their fragrance...
  Yuma: (thinking) Th-This is bad! It's going into super obsessive territory!

• Fubuki expresses her willingness to talk to Yuma about herself by proclaiming she'll tell him anything, including her measurements and bank account number.
• Yuma is outright frightened by the implications when Fubuki tells him she used to be even more out of touch with reality than she is now.
• When Fubuki confesses to having developed romantic feelings for him, Yuma is in disbelief, declaring there is no way someone as beautiful as her could feel that way about someone like him. Fubuki dismisses this objection by noting that she thinks Yuma is quite attractive too (i.e. her beauty shouldn't disqualify him from her interests).

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