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"Gremio... No."
- Gremio's Sacrificial Lion death, even though he gets better in the good end.Gremio: Young Master, can you hear me? I'm sorry I can't protect you anymore. ...But now that you've grown up, you no longer need my protection. Young Master...You make me proud. I wish Master Teo could see you right now.Viktor: Gremio...Gremio: Young Master. I think it's time to say goodbye. I can't see anymore. Young Master. I'm proud of you. Promise me that you'll always follow your heart. That is my first, and final... request...
- To make this even more heartbreaking, listen to the Drama CD version. Tir spoke, and Kenichi Suzumura's performance as an utterly heartbroken, desperate and helpless Tir screaming for Gremio to just frickin' open the door is just heartbreaking.
- The scenes after the duel between the Tir McDohl and his father make quite an impact. And again, the Drama CD version also amps this up with the heartbreaking performance of Kenichi Suzumura as Tir.
- Ted's back story of his village being attacked by Windy along with the village's theme song may make you reach for your tissues. Not to mention his own death.
- While it can be considered fairly Narmy, Odessa's Heroic Sacrifice. Odessa really had a good future and looks really cool... if it wasn't for her womanly instinct kicking in the wrong time and costing her life. It's even worse that her last words are basically telling Tir that despite Flik's clingy attitude on her, she cared about him a lot. The later Player Punches are just as bad, especially when it is finally made clear that it's the fault of your True Rune that everyone you care about is dying. It's known as the Soul Eater for a good reason.Viktor: Are you all right, Odessa?Odessa: C-come...you can come out now. Quickly! You must run...Little boy: O-OK.Odessa: Ahhh!Gremio: Lady Odessa! You're bleeding!Viktor: Odessa! What have you done? Without you, the Liberation Army...Odessa: I'm...so sorry, Viktor. It appears...I've chosen to be a woman...rather than commander of...the Liberation Army. I couldn't let that child die. I'm a failure...as a leader...Cleo: Don't talk, Odessa. You'll reopen your wound!Odessa: Tir, will you...come here? I have...two requests. First, give this earring...to a fellow called Mathiu...in the village of Seika...Viktor: Stop it, Odessa. I don't want to hear any final requests!Odessa: Viktor...thank you, but...I know the end is near. Tir, take it...M-my other request...Please throw my body...into the stream there...Gremio: What? But why? I can't do such a horrible thing.Odessa:Please...Tir.Tir: I can't.Viktor: He's right, Odessa. Why do you ask such a thing?Odessa: If the Liberation forces find out I'm dead...the Movement will lose faith and die...That is why you must keep my death a secret. The tiny...newborn hope...must be kept...alive...Tir: I can't.Odessa: Look, Tir, this is blood...my blood...You are not aware of it, but a lot more blood is being shed by the innocent...at the hands of the Imperial Government. You must put an end to it. Even if I die...If my hopes remain alive...I can be proud of my life. My blood...Tir: As you wish.Viktor: Tir! How can you...Odessa: Thank you, Tir. You understand me, don't you? Viktor...if the Liberation forces find out I'm dead...the Movement will lose faith and die. That is why you must keep my death a secret. Our tiny, newborn hope...must be kept alive... If you...ever see Flik again, tell him his kindness always saw me through hard times...Well...it appears the end is near...Tir, I hope that you will be able to see the Free World that I was...never able to...
- That last line got another throwback in the Drama CD in a different kind of Tear Jerker, namely an expansion of how Flik finally joined the Liberation Army after getting pissed off that Tir replaced Odessa. Viktor ended up convincing Flik to stay because he finally put out Odessa's final message to Flik, finally calming him down and convincing himself to join the Liberation Army on his own. Adding to this is the spot-on performance of both Katsuyuki Konishi (Viktor) and Yūichi Nakamura (Flik), managing to convey Viktor's regret on the tragedy and just how crushed Flik was at the reveal that his girlfriend was dead.
- The sequence after the last boss is a sequence of Tearjerkers, from Barbarossa's confession to Windy of his desire to save her from her sadness and their subsequent suicide to Viktor and Flik's apparent deaths (not so much if you play II, but it counted before II's announcement) to, worst of all, Mathiu succumbing to his wounds and finally passing away just as his sister's dream is realized.Mathiu: Master Liukan, those voices...Have we won?Liukan: Yes, undoubtedly.Mathiu: I see. Master Liukan. I despise war. I always felt that to take a life of another, for whatever reason, was wrong. And yet, I became a military strategist and took many lives. Did I do the right thing?Mathiu: Perhaps I should have remained in that village, fishing in my idle moments, until my death.Liukan: Master Mathiu...the answer to that...Liukan: Are you asleep now, Master Mathiu? May you rest in peace. You have accomplished so much in your life.
