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Dawn Book II
Koga's Route
- Kyonosuke gives the heroine an ultimatum: either be owned by the government, becoming their sole Onmyoji and having her life as it is now erased, or die.
- At the end of this route, Kyonosuke attacks Koga repeatedly. He continues to fight Koga until the carnage is unleashed, then proceeds to call him a "beast," like he thinks all oni truly are. Kyonosuke keeps attacking after that, because for some reason he really wants to kill Koga.
- Speaking of the carnage, just imagine having to live with it. Poor Koga already accidentally killed someone he cared about, and he's so traumatized and depressed that he doesn't care if he has to die to protect his friends (which doubles as a Tear Jerker). Knowing you could lose control and attack someone you love, perhaps fatally, is horrifying.
Aoi's Route
- The heroine’s neighbors read a newspaper article that Akiyasu helped get published. It claims that she is behind the “red eye” phenomenon by drugging people. Her house gets mobbed with angry people. If that wasn’t bad enough, this is also part of Akiyasu’s scheme to drive the heroine to despair.
- Doubles as a tear jerker: Akiyasu forces the heroine into a dream where she never met Aoi. Things get worse and worse for her in the dream, culminating in her father's execution. At this point, she is in such despair that she's wiling to give Akiyasu her soul. Thank goodness Aoi invaded the dream and got through to her.
- Akiyasu getting possessed by Taira no Masakado. Holy hell. There is something quite unnerving about those not fully red eyes.
- Due to the animation being slowed down by technical restraints (the wraith is moving behind him as he is moving himself), it (likely inadvertedly) makes him in this state all the more creepy.
- The very first time we've seen someone possessed by a wraith, their movements were odd, jerky, violent and strange. This time, we see that there is still a portion of Akiyasu controlling his body, if small. It is enough to interrupt the wraith for a few seconds, speaking a few (desperate) lines before roaring again.
Yura’s Route
- Doman Ashiya, the Onmyoji who cursed Yura, is seriously creepy. He takes joy in the fact that Yura has to kill animals, and he’s sadistically gleeful when the hex returns to Gaku and Gaku is literally dying. Not to mention the fact that Doman’s human body is long dead and his current one is made from clay, making him a Creepy Doll.
- Taira no Masakado's wraith appears as a huge, spiraling pillar of dark energy that sucks other wraiths into it.
- Yura is told by Doman that he can lift the curse if he kills the heroine. He almost does it—then the heroine talks him down by reminding him how bad Gaku would feel if Yura did this to save him. Yura, understandably, feels really bad about the whole thing. Oh, and Doman has fun tormenting Yura like this.
- Much of the cursed plane scene is this.
- When Yura’s guilt appears before the heroine, animal bones suddenly lie at his feet, and the flowers she’s holding also turn into animal bones.
- The black-haired Yura actually stabs the heroine through the chest. It’s only a dream world, so she’s not actually harmed, but still.
Twilight Book I
- Hisui is quite a violent character, who will attack any human in her way (like Tatsuomi), and mind-controls Ayakashi to do her bidding.
- She tries to cast a spell on Gaku only for Kuro to take the bullet. As a result, Kuro briefly loses his mind as he shifts into his true form and attacks Gaku. Luckily Gaku is able to free him from Hisui's control.
- The heroine investigates where Oji goes by himself every night and runs into a terrifying wraith made up of a lot of wraiths tied together.
- Oji's arrest. The government only took him because they needed to blame someone for the red-eye scare. Everyone who knows Oji knows there's no way he's behind it.
- During the first confrontation with Kagemaru, Hisui begins to tell everyone the Senkitai's plans—then Kagemaru tells her to "stop blabbing" and gags her with his spider web. The heroine is shocked that he attacked his own ally.
- The discovery that, in his former life, Toichiro killed the heroine's brother. It's quite shocking prior to the reveal of his reason.
Twilight Book II
Toichiro's Route
- The kitsune village has really harsh laws. Betrayal is punishable by death, and Shuichiro would have been sentenced to death by his own father if Toichiro hadn't begged for his life.
- The kitsune who disguises himself as Toichiro. We never find out who he really is, but it's implied he's Toichiro's Not Quite Dead traitorous uncle Keijiro.
Shizuki's Route
- Kagemaru attempts to murder a government official at the Entertainment District. He also sets fire to the place.
- Shizuki's "puppeteer charm." It turns out to be a Subverted Trope, but Keijiro still tried to cast it on Shizuki, who also had to endure various experiments from Keijiro.
- The "youjin" soldiers, who seem to have no will of their own and only act if Aizen commands. One of them even shoots at the protagonist and Shizuki (before Aizen stops him)! Then in the Night Chapter, we learn that they were made by the army experimenting on humans and ayakashi.
- Just as in Book I, Kagemaru continues to mistreat Hisui, this time suspending her in the air with his webs.
Kuro's Route
- The humans see the raiju and assume it wants to eat them, despite it making no move to attack. The army proceeds to form a special unit specifically to kill it. Much of the route is spent trying to save it without putting the humans in danger.
- Then Hiroyuki shoots the raiju while Kuro and the protagonist are trying to talk it down. Then Kuro deliberately shifts into beast form and gets caught in the trap meant for the raiju, and the rogue soldiers assume he's the same beast and want to burn him alive. Luckily, this quickly becomes heartwarming when Hiroyuki realizes it was Hisui, not Kuro, who attacked his village and protects him (and the raiju too).
Event Stories
Embracing Lost Nightmares
- Related to Koga's Power Incontinence above, Yomi (a baku) also has to live with an uncontrollable power, which makes him really scared...which only makes it more likely he'll lose control.
- It's also implied that Kuro has a similar Power Incontinence. We see his past and how he thinks about not wanting to hurt anyone. As of his route, it seems he does not have one, but is more concerned with people being scared of how his true form looks.
- Kuro was found by the Lorenzi circus troupe all beat up. Poor guy has definitely been through a Break the Cutie.
Non-canon
- The Halloween fanfic Human Skin, Fox Heart
(alternate link) based on Painted Skin 2 and the Korean folktale of The Fox Sister. It details an alternate universe wherein all Ayakashi act more closely to their mythical counterparts note . As such, it has Toichirou and Shizuki killing a passerby by ripping out their heart and then eating it, to uphold their human disguise.- Halfway, the protagonist meets Yura and Gaku, who she knows by the former's medicinal help, and the latter's technical prowess. While their detailed explanation of Ayakashi is chilling in itself, when the protagonist is led away, Gaku returns to Yura to go back to their 'midnight snack', essentially saying that their cover was almost blown. Who knows how long they have been fooling the protagonist by looking human?
They will make sure [you] don't notice anything. Good Ayakashi know how to hide their tracks.
