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* DoorSlamOfRage: Natsuki storms ''into'' Shizuru's hospital room when she's pissed off.
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* RantInducingSlight: [[spoiler: After Shizuru confesses to her family about having raped Natsuki during the Carnival, Shinri [[ArmorPiercingSlap nearly knocks her out of her hospital bed.]] He demands to know if she feels she even has the right to live, as far as she's fallen. This,in turn, leads to Natsuki, her arm in a sling, barging into the room violently, kicking Shinri in the shin, and then verbally tearing into the entire Fujino family, Shinri for striking Shizuru, Saaya for trying to keep Natsuki out, Shizuru for trying to make her family hate her, and Viola for letting it all go down.]]
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* TheCameo: Midori's only appearance is via a letter she sends to Shizuru which gets Shizuru thinking about things.
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[[spoiler:--> ''I'd been expecting it. But even so, Otousama's slap almost knocked me over. "If you fell to such a degree, dying is fine, isn't it?" he demanded, with a cold, channelled rage.'']]
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[[spoiler:--> ''"Isn't that an unforgivable presumption?" Otousama demanded. "I've raised you, and yet you embody all things I despise, and your conceit is this, that the one you've most wronged would beg for your life?"'']]
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* RefugeInAudacity: Shnri accuses Shizuru of this after her confession.
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[[spoiler:--> ''"Isn't that an unforgivable presumption?" Otousama demanded. "I've raised you, and yet you embody all things I despise, and your conceit is this, that the one you've most wronged would beg for your life?"'']]
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* PolitenessJudo: The Fujino family is well versed in politeness as a weapon, and Reito knows a thing or two about it as well. Natsuki actually impresses Shinri by demonstrating that she's capable of doing it, too.
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* MythologyGag: Viola is named for Shizuru's ''Anime/MaiOtome'' incarnation.
** At one point, Shizuru describes a dream of Natsuki beating her over the head with a leek, a reference to one of the audio dramas.
** At one point, Shizuru describes a dream of Natsuki beating her over the head with a leek, a reference to one of the audio dramas.
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* BrokenTears/TenderTears: Shizuru and Natsuki do this together in one scene.
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* BrokenTears/TenderTears: Shizuru and Natsuki do this together in one scene.
-->'''Shizuru''': You can't cry. If you cry… for me…" My hands moved upwards, lancing her hair. I pushed her head down, trying to muffle the sound. "It's unbearable." Tears welled up in my eyes, and I tried to stop them.
* CannotSpitItOut: On both sides. Justified. Natsuki has to resolve both questions about her own sexuality as well as reconciling her love for Shizuru with what Shizuru did to her. And Shizuru doesn't dare spit it out, and doesn't want to risk losing Natsuki's friendship, knowing the depth of her own guilt. Natsuki has to make the first romantic overtures, and it takes her a lot of talking to get there.
-->'''Shizuru''': You can't cry. If you cry… for me…" My hands moved upwards, lancing her hair. I pushed her head down, trying to muffle the sound. "It's unbearable." Tears welled up in my eyes, and I tried to stop them.
* CannotSpitItOut: On both sides. Justified. Natsuki has to resolve both questions about her own sexuality as well as reconciling her love for Shizuru with what Shizuru did to her. And Shizuru doesn't dare spit it out, and doesn't want to risk losing Natsuki's friendship, knowing the depth of her own guilt. Natsuki has to make the first romantic overtures, and it takes her a lot of talking to get there.
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* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Shizuru essentially explains this as her stance to Mai, which convinces Mai that Shizuru's repentance is genuine, and turns Mai into a ShipperOnDeck.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: Played with. Natsuki is injured twice in the story. Once, near the midpoint, she is stabbed in the thigh. She's smart enough to wait for proper medical care to remove it. Later on, she's shot in the shoulder, and notes that the blood loss is a serious issue, and it affects her aim later, as she can't weild her gun with both hands. Doctors tell her after the fact that she'll likely lose functionality in the arm, which is only Subverted by her HealingFactor.
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* PintSizedPowerhouse: Mikoto has lost none of her strength, and goes into her combat mode during the standoff in the courtroom. Reito calmly informs the First District survivors that Mikoto will take at least two of them out before they can gun her down.
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** [[spoiler: When Shizuru and Natsuki reveal their relationship to the Fujinos, Shinri has a serious conversation with Shizuru in his study, where he tells her to keep it out of his sight, adding that he'd say the same thing if Shizuru was dating a boy.]]
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** Averted with Natsuki, who isn't so much concerned about feeling attraction to another girl as she is wondering if it's reasonable or sensible to love someone romantically after they've sexually assaulted her in her sleep.
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* TrainingFromHell: Shinri teaches kenjutsu in his spare time. He doesn't hold back, either. When Natsuki asks him to teach her, he agrees. He actually provides her useful information, but not before knocking the wind out of her a few times. She does, however, manage to impress him with her defensive skills. As she notes to herself, having dodged Mikoto's sword, she was more than capable of evading a normal person's attacks.
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* TrainingFromHell: Shinri teaches kenjutsu in his spare time. He doesn't hold back, either. When Natsuki asks him to teach her, he agrees. He actually provides her useful information, but not before knocking the wind out of her a few times. She does, however, manage to impress him with her defensive skills. As she notes to herself, having dodged Mikoto's sword, she was more than capable of evading a normal person's attacks.attacks.
* TransparentCloset: Shizuru worries that she's in this situation, in no small part because of how perceptive and resourceful her parents are.[[spoiler: We learn later that Viola had her suspicions, but kept them to herself.]]
* [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Daughter Girl]]: Shizuru lives to meet her parents' expectations, which are very high. But we begin the story with her fully aware that her actions during the series, her slaughter of First District, and her rape of Natsuki, are in direct violation of the ideals of her family, and, indeed, of any decent person. She also [[{{Gayngst}} believes her attraction to Natsuki is shameful, especially as a Fujino.]] [[spoiler: Her family forgive her of her crimes, and accept, if not embrace,her orientation.]]
* TransparentCloset: Shizuru worries that she's in this situation, in no small part because of how perceptive and resourceful her parents are.[[spoiler: We learn later that Viola had her suspicions, but kept them to herself.]]
* [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Daughter Girl]]: Shizuru lives to meet her parents' expectations, which are very high. But we begin the story with her fully aware that her actions during the series, her slaughter of First District, and her rape of Natsuki, are in direct violation of the ideals of her family, and, indeed, of any decent person. She also [[{{Gayngst}} believes her attraction to Natsuki is shameful, especially as a Fujino.]] [[spoiler: Her family forgive her of her crimes, and accept, if not embrace,her orientation.]]
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* EasilyAdopted: When [[spoiler: Shizuru takes ill]] Viola cheerfully says she'll pretend Natsuki is her daughter. Natsuki says it's a bit if a sudden promotion. Saaya takes to calling Natsuki her favorite daughter, and describing Natsuki and Shizuru as twin sisters. [[spoiler: Both Viola and Saaya say it more seriously after Natsuki takes a knife to the thigh saving Shizuru from a vengeful survivor of First District]].
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* HappilyAdopted: Played with. When [[spoiler: Shizuru takes ill]] Viola cheerfully says she'll pretend Natsuki is her daughter. Natsuki says it's a bit if a sudden promotion. Saaya takes to calling Natsuki her favorite daughter, and describing Natsuki and Shizuru as twin sisters. [[spoiler: Both Viola and Saaya say it more seriously after Natsuki takes a knife to the thigh saving Shizuru from a vengeful survivor of First District]].
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* EasilyAdopted: When [[spoiler: Shizuru takes ill]] Viola cheerfully says she'll pretend Natsuki is her daughter. Natsuki says it's a bit if a sudden promotion. Saaya takes to calling Natsuki her favorite daughter, and describing Natsuki and Shizuru as twin sisters. [[spoiler: Both Viola and Saaya say it more seriously after Natsuki takes a knife to the thigh saving Shizuru from a vengeful survivor of First District]].
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* AfterActionHealing: [[spoiler: Shizuru spends a good deal of time in the hospital after the confrontation in the courtroom.]]
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* AfterActionTreatment: [[spoiler: We're given a detailed account of Natsuki's knife wound being treated.]]
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* OneTrueThreesome: Natsuki wonders if Shinri, Viola, and Saaya are this before [[{{Squick}} deciding that she'd really rather not know.]]
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* BigDamnHeroes: Akira Okuzaki shows up to aid Natsuki after she escapes the hostage situation.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Viola Fujino and Saaya. Saaya was hired back when both were 19 to serve as Viola's eyes, and they've been together ever since.
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* ServileSnarker: Viola relies on Saaya to be her eyes, including describing guests and their facial reactions. As such, she's given much more leave to speak freely than most servants would ordinarily be granted. She takes full advantage. Including making Natsuki blush almost as effortlessly as Shizuru.
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* ShownTheirWork: Viola is an albino and has poor eyesight, which, while not universally the case, is a symptom of some forms of albinism. Averted with depictions of kenjutsu, which the author freely admits were made up whole cloth.
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-->'''Shizuru''':''I've caused you too much pain and sadness, and betrayed you in too many ways, for me to forgive myself. That can't be outweighed by my small and selfish kindness.''
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* GladToBeAliveSex: Subverted. Our heroines try after they get out of the hospital, but Shizuru accidentally pulls Natsuki's injured shoulder, then realizes that she pulled something in her gut that still hurts. The two lay side by side and suggest that they heal completely before trying again.
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* NotUnderTheParentsRoof: Cited by Mikoto, of all people, leading Natsuki to wonder what Reito is teaching her. After she kisses Shizuru in Shinri's study, Natsuki actually stops to consider that it might be sage advice, as Shinri owns real katana and is quite versed in using them
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* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: Saaya suggests Natsuki and Shizuru are doing this after this exchange:
--> "You know, I'm not so bad at matching my tone to the person talking to me myself."
--> "That's very lucky for me," I said hurriedly, trying to defuse the situation with tone of voice alone. "Can I test that?" I leaned sideways, coming up close to her face and whispering sensually in her ear. "Please pass the water jug, Nat-su-ki."
--> To my delight, she flushed, glaring at me. "Shizuru!"
--> "You know, I'm not so bad at matching my tone to the person talking to me myself."
--> "That's very lucky for me," I said hurriedly, trying to defuse the situation with tone of voice alone. "Can I test that?" I leaned sideways, coming up close to her face and whispering sensually in her ear. "Please pass the water jug, Nat-su-ki."
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** [[spoiler: Shizuru was forced into a SadisticChoice to sacrifice one of her friends, and she chooses Saaya. Saaya is spared by circumstances, and Shizuru apologizes to her. Saaya forgives her, saying she understood Shizuru's reasoning.]]
** [[spoiler: Shinri eventually forgives Shizuru, largely because Natsuki pointed out to him that it was she that Shizuru had wronged, and she'd already forgiven Shizuru.]]
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* PrincessCarry: Shizuru and Natsuki fell asleep in the Fujino dojo, and Shizuru wakes to find herself being carried to her room by her father. He then does the same for an injured Natsuki, to her consternation and Shizuru's amusement.
