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* NecessarilyEvil: [[spoiler:Paradonite will cause a massive energy and technological revolution that will aid humanity, yet will also slowly drive humanity extinct due to being their souls. When the others suggest simply not harvesting the stones, Maruso explains that if they do so, Suga will simply find/make more openings to Paradise. But, she notes, Suga will eventually be destroyed by his own breakthrough and they can protect their ''own'' souls (and implicitly enough to keep humanity extant as well), as long as ''they're'' the ones doing the harvesting]].
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* NecessarilyEvil: [[spoiler:Paradonite will cause a massive energy and technological revolution that will aid humanity, yet will also slowly drive humanity extinct due to being their souls. When the others suggest simply not harvesting the stones, Maruso explains that if they do so, Suga will simply find/make more openings to Paradise. But, she notes, Suga will eventually be destroyed by his own breakthrough and they can protect their ''own'' souls (and implicitly also obtain and hold on to enough to keep humanity extant as well), as long as ''they're'' the ones doing the harvesting]].
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* XanatosGambit: At the end of the story, Maruso hatches the plan for her and the other Black Paradox members to keep serving Dr. Suga, while also unaffiliating themselves with the paradonite project, realizing that no matter what they try to do to stop him, he will still make doorways into the Spirit World, and see himself as righteous for doing so. Plus, even if people do discover what paradonite really is, they'll still use it anyway due to its effectiveness as an energy source, and because of it already being used on a widespread scale. Maruso realizes that the best course of action is to collect the parodonite, and preserve a good fraction of it to prevent total extinction, and protect their own souls when they find them. In the end, Dr. Suga will still be exposed publicly and meet a grisly end, regardless of if everything entirely goes to plan.
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* XanatosGambit: At the end of the story, Maruso hatches the plan for her and the other Black Paradox members to keep serving Dr. Suga, while also unaffiliating themselves with the paradonite project, realizing that no matter what they try to do to stop him, he will still make doorways into the Spirit World, and see himself as righteous for doing so. Plus, even if people do discover what paradonite really is, they'll still use it anyway due to its effectiveness as an energy source, and because of it already being used on a widespread scale. Maruso realizes that the best course of action is to collect the parodonite, and preserve stockpile a good fraction of it to prevent total extinction, whilst also locating and protect protecting their own souls when they find them. paradonite so their survival is guaranteed. In the end, humanity will find out the truth. Dr. Suga will still be exposed publicly and meet a grisly end, regardless of if everything entirely goes to plan.
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* The final scene also offers another perspective; the four characters are actually seen [[spoiler:walking toward the window, not toward Dr. Suga, perhaps implying that they will jump out the window and finally end their lives, saving humanity before it becomes destroyed--both fulfilling their original suicide plan and finding purpose in their lives together in the very end.]]
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*The final scene also offers another perspective; the four characters are actually seen [[spoiler:walking toward the window, not toward Dr. Suga, perhaps implying that they will jump out the window and finally end their lives, saving humanity before it becomes destroyed--both fulfilling their original suicide plan and finding purpose in their lives together in the very end.]]
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* BribingTheHomeless: Dr. Suga, researching the Spiritual Portal where the Paradoxical Orbs are located while trying to keep a low profile, decides to pay a homeless man to take the plunge. The homeless guy, having nothing to lose, accepts without a second thought, and... [[ImMelting the results]] ''[[BodyHorror aren't pretty]]'', to say the least.
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* PunkInTheTrunk: Tabaru and Baracchi goes on the run after realizing they're fugitives, bringing robo Pii-tan along with them. To avoid suspicion, the latter rides in the trunk of Tabaru's car, and somehow remains in there for ''over a month''.
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* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler:Barrachi appears to die gruesomely before the climax, having ventured into the spirit world only to be melted alive. The dead Barrachi was only a robot, which the readers find out literally two pages later]].
* BaitAndSwitchCharacterIntro: The first chapter introduces the quartet, and ends with the revelation that three of the four are fakes - Taburo is a doppelganger, Pii-tan is a robot, and Barrachi is a sentient reflection that escaped the mirror universe. The one ''actual'' human, Maruso, then encounters the real counterparts shortly after escaping.
* BaitAndSwitchCharacterIntro: The first chapter introduces the quartet, and ends with the revelation that three of the four are fakes - Taburo is a doppelganger, Pii-tan is a robot, and Barrachi is a sentient reflection that escaped the mirror universe. The one ''actual'' human, Maruso, then encounters the real counterparts shortly after escaping.
* FourIsDeath: Four strangers decide to kill themselves in a suicide pact, and [[spoiler:their antics inevitably brought forth the apocalypse]].
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* LiterallyShatteredLives: Early in the story when Maruso is attacked by Robo-Pii-tan and Reflection-Barachi (whose true identiy she is oblivious about, believing them to be the real deal), Maruso instinctively grabs a nearby rock and hurls it at the latter. Cue Reflection-Baracchi smashing into bits.
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* LiterallyShatteredLives: Early in the story when Maruso is attacked by Robo-Pii-tan and Reflection-Barachi (whose true identiy identity she is oblivious about, believing them to be the real deal), Maruso instinctively grabs a nearby rock and hurls it at the latter. Cue Reflection-Baracchi smashing into bits.
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* BarefootCaptives: Marisou is shoeless for the entire duration when she's ChainedToABed by Dr. Suga.
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* TheChewToy: Pii-tan and [[spoiler: robot Pii-tan]].
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* ChainedToABed: The state Marisou ends up in after she passes out in shock at the sight of Barrachi's face expelling orbs, where she regains consciousness and realize Dr. Suga had imprisoned her in his basement, her wrists and ankles shackled to the sides of a bed. She spends the remainder of the story until the final chapter all chained up and helpless to do anything when she starts having visions of Suga's experiments causing the apocalypse; there's a brief moment where Taburo, [[EveryoneHasStandards disgusted with Suga's actions]], contemplates to release Marisou so that she can be his witness to expose Suga's plans to the public, but then Marisou starts ranting aloud that Suga will doom humanity, and Taburo promptly changes his mind.
* TheChewToy: Pii-tan and [[spoiler: robotPii-tan]].Pii-tan]], where ''nothing'' goes right for either of them.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Marisou attempts to flee from Dr. Suga after realizing his intentions to harvest the paradoxical orbs by recreating Pii-tan's stomach in his underground lab, making a break for it the moment she heard someone ringing the doorbell outside Suga's mansion. Alas, that someone happens to be Barrachi, whose face is currently expelling large quantities of paradoxical orbs. Cue Marisou {{fainting}} on the spot.
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* ClimateChangeAllegory: [[spoiler: The ending could be interpreted this way. The protagonists discover a seemingly miraculous power source with an invisible but nevertheless deadly side effect, and they decide that the only way to save humanity is to warn them of how dangerous it is before the entire human species is killed off by overusing this power source]].
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* GasolineDousing: An enraged Barrachi tries incinerating her own bio-portal after catching Dr. Suga forcing himself on Maruso, by drenching the portal's surface with contents of a jerry-can and threatening to drop a lit lighter when Dr. Suka catches her. In the ensuing struggle to stop her from destroying everything Dr. Suga unintentionally pushes Baracchi into her own portal.
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* PowerWalk: At the ending. [[spoiler:The four main characters, after witnessing personally the spirit plane and gaining understanding of the paradonite's true nature, listening to Maruso's foresight of humanity's destruction and Dr. Suga's inevitable bad reputation in the future. They're then called to do their job of taking more paradonite. Keeping the knowledge to themselves, they stoically walk out of their room to exact their revenge by proxy toward Dr. Suga.]]
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* TeamPowerWalk: At the ending. [[spoiler:The four main characters, after witnessing personally the spirit plane and gaining understanding of the paradonite's true nature, listening to Maruso's foresight of humanity's destruction and Dr. Suga's inevitable bad reputation in the future. They're then called to do their job of taking more paradonite. Keeping the knowledge to themselves, they stoically walk out of their room to exact their revenge by proxy toward Dr. Suga.]]
