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Dawn Book I
- The end of Dawn Book I. Akiyasu’s betrayal is bad enough, but then Mototaka takes a hex to save his daughter.
- Mototaka then has a Disney Death in every Dawn Book II other than Koga’s. It hits hard, especially since the heroine believes her father is really dead and goes through a painful grieving process.
Dawn Book II
Koga's Route
- The true nature of Koga’s illness. He’s still haunted by the fact that he accidentally killed Masanobu’s older brother.
- It’s revealed that he feels so hopeless about it that he’s asked Kuya to kill him if he ever loses control again. Luckily, the heroine’s love is able to bring him to his senses.
- The heroine regains her memory of how she died in her previous life. Koga’s past incarnation was there, and he was begging her to hold on. Koga still remembers this one lifetime later and is haunted by how he failed to save her.
- Just before that, the past heroine returned to her home only to find that her family and their servants had all been killed. Twilight Book I elaborates more on how this happened.
Kuya's Route
- Kuya gets possessed by Taira no Masakado, then Akiyasu sends him to the Netherworld and the heroine follows after him, because she can't lose anyone else.
Ginnojo's Route
- Just...how badly Ginnojo misses his Shinsengumi comrades. He carries a photo of himself and Hijikata around, and his grief is so deep that he doesn't really care if he dies in battle...until he find himself in love with the heroine.
Aoi's Route
- Doubles as nightmare fuel: 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.
Yura's Route
- Yura’s curse. It was originally intended for Gaku, but he wasn’t able to endure it and almost died. Yura took the curse in his stead, and if he doesn’t keep using his song of death, Gaku will take the curse again and die.
- Near the end of his route, the heroine goes to the “cursed plane” and meets the manifestation of Yura’s guilt that he locked away. Yura pretends that killing animals is justified since it keeps Gaku alive, but in truth, he feels awful about all the lives he’s taken.
- When Mototaka is found alive in this route, he's in a coma because his soul has been separated from his body. Yura and Gaku are able save him with their music, but there's a moment where it seems not to have worked. It's heartbreaking to see the heroine begin mourning her father all over again.
Twilight Book I
- A soldier in Aizen's headquarters encounters Kuro and yells "Monster!" at him. Then, in Kuro's route, we find out the soldier was his childhood friend.
- Toichiro's former life. He killed the heroine's brother at his request, to save him from going mad. The other Ayakashi didn't understand this and assumed Toichiro did it out of malice.
Twilight Book II
Toichiro's Route
- Toichiro's Cain and Abel relationship with his brother Shuichiro. This is actually common among the sons of the kitsune village chieftain, since everyone is vying to be the next leader.
- One of Toichiro's other brothers, Kyoichiro, was close with him and didn't even want to be leader...and then he was murdered.
- Toichiro erasing the heroine's memory to protect her.
Shizuki's Route
- The death of Kagemaru's parents at the hand of Keijiro. Made worse by the fact that Kagemaru never knew how they really died and grew up wanting to finish what his parents' murderer started.
Kuro's Route
- Kuro's entire backstory, which we got a glimpse of in the "Embracing Lost Nightmares" event described below. He parents were killed because they were nue, and his grandmother, who raised him, was also killed, and he asked an onmyoji to seal him away. Hiroyuki was Kuro's first friend, who broke his seal, but when Kuro showed his true form in order to save Hiroyuki's life, Hiroyuki got scared and believed that Kuro later sent ayakashi to ruin his village (which was really Hisui's doing). After that, Kuro kept wandering, getting hurt by humans, until he ran into the Lorenzi circus troupe.
- The protagonist sees Kuro's true form and doesn't realize it's him at first, so she gets scared. When she realizes that it was Kuro, she feels really bad and thinks Kuro might hate her.
Gaku's Route
- Yura ends up turning into a flute after risking himself to save his comrades from wraiths. Everyone comes to the conclusion that Yura died for good, which causes Gaku to lose his will to live and become a drum. They come back in the end.
- There's a scene where the protagonist cradles the two instruments and mourns them. It's heartbreaking.
Event Stories
Embracing Lost Nightmares
- We get a little glimpse into Kuro's past. He was all beat up when the Lorenzi circus troupe found him, and he didn't interact with anyone else for awhile because he was afraid he would hurt them.
Those Steeped in Shadows
- Zantetsu's motivation for joining the Senkitai? The government murdered his sister.
