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* If you choose to [[spoiler:mind-wipe Pascal in Route C]], he can later be found [[spoiler: wandering his old village, clearing up and selling on all the "junk" lying around the place. Said junk includes machine body parts and a ''single children's core''.]] Brr...doubles as a huge Tearjerker.

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* If you choose to [[spoiler:mind-wipe Pascal in Route C]], he can later be found [[spoiler: wandering his old village, clearing up and selling on all the "junk" lying around the place. Said junk includes machine body parts and a ''single children's core''.]] Brr...doubles as a huge Tearjerker.TearJerker.
** Upgrade that Machine Head weapon you can buy to Level 4. [[spoiler:Remember that one sidequest where you had to escort the lost machine child back to him mom...?]]
-->[[spoiler:"I TRIED I TRIED SO HARD MOMMY"]]
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-->'''Level 4:''' [[spoiler: "On the morning of the seventh day, a single survivor stood tall. Cleaning the blood from his hands, he chuckled to himself. 'Better go find the traitor!'"]]

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-->'''Level 4:''' [[spoiler: "On the morning of the seventh day, a single survivor stood tall. Cleaning the blood from his hands, he chuckled to himself. 'Better go find the traitor!'"]]traitor!'"]]
* Many of the completed weapon stories either fall under TearJerker territory...or this. [[spoiler:For example, the Virtuous Grief and Cruel Lament stories have two people who kill for the sake of their loved ones (the former out of {{Yandere}} tendencies, the latter out of undying love)...and both end in beheading their loved one.]]

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* The Archives obtained towards the end of the game can be pretty chilling but one line in particular stands out and tells you all you need to know about the minds behind [[spoiler: Project [=YoRHa=]]]

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* The Archives obtained towards the end of the game can be pretty chilling but one line in particular stands out and tells you all you need to know about the minds behind [[spoiler: Project [=YoRHa=]]][=YoRHa=]]].



* The lead in to final boss battle of A route, specifically the loud scream in [[spoiler:City Ruins when you approach Eve in the center of the map. If you're lucky to see some machines loitering around him, you'll notice that they exploded when this happens. ''Eve just killed every single Machines connected to him in one fell swoop out of nothing but sheer spite.'']]

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* The lead in to final boss battle of A route, specifically the loud scream in [[spoiler:City Ruins when you approach Eve in the center of the map. If you're lucky to see some machines loitering around him, you'll notice that they exploded when this happens. ''Eve just killed every single Machines connected to him in one fell swoop out of nothing but sheer spite.'']]'']]
* Speaking of weapon stories, 9S' default weapon 'Cruel Oath' has a very chilling one, once you upgrade it to Levels 3 and 4. Made even more frightening once you realize [[spoiler:this is most likely a nod towards 9S and his SanitySlippage, since his and 2B's default weapons are a reflection of their owners.]]
-->'''Level 3:''' [[spoiler:"With each passing night, another boy died. The survivors grew more and more suspicious of each other, each harboring terrible doubts about what happened to their brothers."]]
-->'''Level 4:''' [[spoiler: "On the morning of the seventh day, a single survivor stood tall. Cleaning the blood from his hands, he chuckled to himself. 'Better go find the traitor!'"]]
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** While 2B and 9S are fighting on the surface, 6O sometimes jives in with talks about fortune telling or how her senior rejected her love confession. And in the ending of an early sidequest, [[spoiler:11D laughs if you tell her about the death of her Type B friend who tried to go AWOL.]] It goes to show how badly the androids where treated.

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** While 2B and 9S are fighting on the surface, 6O sometimes jives in with talks about fortune telling or how her senior rejected her love confession. And in the ending of an early sidequest, [[spoiler:11D laughs if you tell her about the death of her Type B friend lover and teacher 11B who tried to go AWOL.]] It goes to show how badly the androids where treated.
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* Any time you approach a play area and sees [[ParanoiaFuel several dead bodies left behind by other players]], if you turned on online functionality. Especially if the area is suspiciously empty or the corpses turned up in the places you think they shouldn't belong...

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* Any time you approach a play area and sees [[ParanoiaFuel several dead bodies left behind by other players]], if you turned on online functionality. Especially if the area is suspiciously empty or or [[{{Foreshadowing}} the corpses turned up in the places place you think they shouldn't belong...]]
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* Any time you approach a play area and sees [[ParanoiaFuel several dead bodies left behind by other players]], if you turned on online functionality. Especially if the arena is suspiciously empty.

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* Any time you approach a play area and sees [[ParanoiaFuel several dead bodies left behind by other players]], if you turned on online functionality. Especially if the arena area is suspiciously empty.empty or the corpses turned up in the places you think they shouldn't belong...
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** While 2B and 9S are fighting on the surface, 6O sometimes jives in with talks about fortune telling or how her senior rejected her love confession. And in the ending of an early sidequest, [[spoiler:an operator laughes if you tell her about the death of a Type B under her supervision who tried to go AWOL.]] It goes to show how badly the androids where treated.

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** While 2B and 9S are fighting on the surface, 6O sometimes jives in with talks about fortune telling or how her senior rejected her love confession. And in the ending of an early sidequest, [[spoiler:an operator laughes [[spoiler:11D laughs if you tell her about the death of a her Type B under her supervision friend who tried to go AWOL.]] It goes to show how badly the androids where treated.
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* The lead in to final boss battle of A route, specifically [[spoiler:the loud scream in City Ruins when you approach Eve in the center of the map. If you're lucky to see some machines loitering around him, you'll notice that they exploded when this happens. ''Eve just killed every single Machines connected to him in one fell swoop.'']]

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* The lead in to final boss battle of A route, specifically [[spoiler:the the loud scream in City [[spoiler:City Ruins when you approach Eve in the center of the map. If you're lucky to see some machines loitering around him, you'll notice that they exploded when this happens. ''Eve just killed every single Machines connected to him in one fell swoop.swoop out of nothing but sheer spite.'']]
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* The lead in to final boss battle of A route, specifically [[spoiler:the loud scream in City Ruins when you approach Eve in the center of the map. If you're lucky to see some machines loitering around him, you'll notice that they exploded when this happens. ''Eve just killed every single one of the Machines in one fell swoop.'']]

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* The lead in to final boss battle of A route, specifically [[spoiler:the loud scream in City Ruins when you approach Eve in the center of the map. If you're lucky to see some machines loitering around him, you'll notice that they exploded when this happens. ''Eve just killed every single one of the Machines connected to him in one fell swoop.'']]
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-->[[spoiler: "Black boxes were installed after determining that it would be inhumane to install standard AI in androids that are ultimately destined for disposal"]]

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-->[[spoiler: "Black boxes were installed after determining that it would be inhumane to install standard AI in androids that are ultimately destined for disposal"]]disposal"]]
*The lead in to final boss battle of A route, specifically [[spoiler:the loud scream in City Ruins when you approach Eve in the center of the map. If you're lucky to see some machines loitering around him, you'll notice that they exploded when this happens. ''Eve just killed every single one of the Machines in one fell swoop.'']]

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** The androids treat machines as simple and barbaric, and their words are merely mimicking human speech, among other things. However, ''very'' early on, 2B and 9S encounter a machine that expresses fear in both words and mannerism, fleeing to its friends/allies. And that's only the start of it. NotSoDifferent now, are you?

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** The androids treat machines as simple and barbaric, and their words are merely mimicking human speech, among other things. However, ''very'' early on, 2B and 9S encounter a machine that expresses fear in both words and mannerism, fleeing to its friends/allies. And that's only the start of it. it, essentially "revealing" a human mindset of war. NotSoDifferent now, are you? you?
* The self-destruct option is mandatory. While it is ''mostly'' justified by it potentially being necessary to complete a mission that would otherwise fail, it is still an unnerving idea. At least you cant be hacked to self-destruct...
--> '''9S:''' I know no one LIKES the idea of self-destructing, but that is what regulations call for.
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-->[[spoiler:Hello? Is anyone there? Is this thing even on? It's me, radio listeners! [=24D=]! I'm an idol, remember? An idol! An idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an]]

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-->[[spoiler:Hello? Is anyone there? Is this thing even on? It's me, radio listeners! [=24D=]! I'm an idol, remember? An idol! An idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an]]an]]
* The Archives obtained towards the end of the game can be pretty chilling but one line in particular stands out and tells you all you need to know about the minds behind [[spoiler: Project [=YoRHa=]]]
-->[[spoiler: "Black boxes were installed after determining that it would be inhumane to install standard AI in androids that are ultimately destined for disposal"]]

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** Makes all the worse in [[spoiler: Route C]] where it is revealed [[spoiler: humans have already been extinct far before the events of the game and the entire war the androids have been fighting has been based on a lie. Not only that but the whole project was designed to end with the complete destruction of the androids should the ForeverWar swing in their favor]].

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** Makes Made all the worse in [[spoiler: Route C]] where it is revealed [[spoiler: humans have already been extinct far before the events of the game and the entire war the androids have been fighting has been based on a lie. Not only that but the whole project was designed to end with the complete destruction of the androids should the ForeverWar swing in their favor]].favor]].
** The androids treat machines as simple and barbaric, and their words are merely mimicking human speech, among other things. However, ''very'' early on, 2B and 9S encounter a machine that expresses fear in both words and mannerism, fleeing to its friends/allies. And that's only the start of it. NotSoDifferent now, are you?
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* If you choose to [[spoiler:mind-wipe Pascal in Route C]], he can later be found [[spoiler: wandering his old village, clearing up and selling on all the "junk" lying around the place. Said junk includes machine body parts and a ''single children's core''.]] Brr...doubles as a huge Tearjerker.

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* If you choose to [[spoiler:mind-wipe Pascal in Route C]], he can later be found [[spoiler: wandering his old village, clearing up and selling on all the "junk" lying around the place. Said junk includes machine body parts and a ''single children's core''.]] Brr...doubles as a huge Tearjerker.Tearjerker.
*The level 4 story of [=YoRHa=]-issue Blade.
-->[[spoiler:Hello? Is anyone there? Is this thing even on? It's me, radio listeners! [=24D=]! I'm an idol, remember? An idol! An idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an idol an]]
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** Makes all the worse in Route C where it is revealed [[spoiler: humans have already been extinct far before the events of the game and the entire war the androids have been fighting has been based on a lie. Not only that but the whole project was designed to end with the complete destruction of the androids should the ForeverWar swing in their favor]].

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** Makes all the worse in [[spoiler: Route C C]] where it is revealed [[spoiler: humans have already been extinct far before the events of the game and the entire war the androids have been fighting has been based on a lie. Not only that but the whole project was designed to end with the complete destruction of the androids should the ForeverWar swing in their favor]].
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** Makes all the worse in Route C where it is revealed [[spoiler: humans have already been extinct far before the events of the game and the entire war the androids have been fighting has been based on a lie. Not only that but the whole project was designed to end with the complete destruction of the androids should the ForeverWar swing in their favor]].
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* 9S [[spoiler:completely losing it after 2B's death, killing machines that beg for their life in cold blood and ready to let what's left of humanity's memory die with the whole world all to end the pain her feels.]]
* If you choose to [[spoiler:mind-wipe Pascal in Route C]], he can later be found [[spoiler: wandering his old village, clearing up and selling on all the "junk" lying around the place. Said junk includes machine body parts and a ''single children's core''.]] Doubles as a huge Tearjerker.

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* 9S [[spoiler:completely losing it after 2B's death, killing machines that beg for their life in cold blood and ready to let what's left of humanity's memory die with the whole world all to end the pain her he feels.]]
* If you choose to [[spoiler:mind-wipe Pascal in Route C]], he can later be found [[spoiler: wandering his old village, clearing up and selling on all the "junk" lying around the place. Said junk includes machine body parts and a ''single children's core''.]] Doubles Brr...doubles as a huge Tearjerker.
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* If you choose to [[spoiler:mind-wipe Pascal in Route C]], he can later be found [[spoiler: wandering his old village, clearing up and selling on all the "junk" lying around the place. Said junk includes machine body parts and a ''single children's core''.]] Doubles as a huge TearJerker.

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* If you choose to [[spoiler:mind-wipe Pascal in Route C]], he can later be found [[spoiler: wandering his old village, clearing up and selling on all the "junk" lying around the place. Said junk includes machine body parts and a ''single children's core''.]] Doubles as a huge TearJerker.Tearjerker.

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* As 2B travels deeper into the Copied City, [[spoiler:she starts to see many, many bodies of fallen [=YoRHa=] units littering the streets...then Pod 042 tells her that they were brought here [[ForTheEvulz to disturb her]].]]
* [[spoiler:After 2B and Pascal narrowly escape the extremists at the Abandoned Factory and 2B goes back to the Resistance Camp, you're treated to a horrifying cutscene of the machines attacking and nearly overwhelming the Resistance androids (some machines are even ''eating'' them!)...]]



* 9S [[spoiler:completely losing it after 2B's death, killing machines begging for their life in cold blood and ready to let what's left of humanity's memory die with the whole world.]]

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* 9S [[spoiler:completely losing it after 2B's death, killing machines begging that beg for their life in cold blood and ready to let what's left of humanity's memory die with the whole world.world all to end the pain her feels.]]
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** The birth of Adam and Eve. For the machines to produce something ''human-like'' out of generic tin-can automation you've seen until that point is quite startling.

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** The birth of Adam and Eve. For the machines to produce something ''human-like'' out of generic tin-can automation you've seen until that point is quite startling. Add the fact that those robots were humping each other a few minutes ago and now assemble into a womb it's just so surreal.
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* 9S [[spoiler:completely losing it after 2B's death, killing machines begging for their life in cold blood and ready to let what's left of humanity's memory die with the whole world.]]

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* 9S [[spoiler:completely losing it after 2B's death, killing machines begging for their life in cold blood and ready to let what's left of humanity's memory die with the whole world.]]]]
* If you choose to [[spoiler:mind-wipe Pascal in Route C]], he can later be found [[spoiler: wandering his old village, clearing up and selling on all the "junk" lying around the place. Said junk includes machine body parts and a ''single children's core''.]] Doubles as a huge TearJerker.
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* Any time you approach a play area and sees [[ParanoiaFuel several dead bodies left behind by other players]], if you turned on online functionality.

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* Any time you approach a play area and sees [[ParanoiaFuel several dead bodies left behind by other players]], if you turned on online functionality. Especially if the arena is suspiciously empty.

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* The Opera Singer Boss, who kept Yorha androids ''alive'' dangling all over her body. Then she used them against you. After you defeat her 2B tries to [[spoiler:rescue the androids only to find out that their brains are all fried at that point.]]

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*Any time you approach a play area and sees [[ParanoiaFuel several dead bodies left behind by other players]], if you turned on online functionality.
* The Opera Singer Boss, who kept Yorha androids ''alive'' dangling all over her body. Then she [[spoiler:It eats the skin of androids in an attempt to become beautiful, with more skinless android bodies crucified all over the battlefield which are used them as weapons against you. you]]. After you defeat her 2B tries to [[spoiler:rescue the androids only to find out that their brains are all fried at that point.]]fried. They are only kept alive by the Singer...]]
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** While 2B and 9S are fighting on the surface, 6O sometimes jives in with talks about fortune telling or how her senior rejected her love confession. It's unsettling, to say the least.

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** While 2B and 9S are fighting on the surface, 6O sometimes jives in with talks about fortune telling or how her senior rejected her love confession. It's unsettling, to say And in the least.ending of an early sidequest, [[spoiler:an operator laughes if you tell her about the death of a Type B under her supervision who tried to go AWOL.]] It goes to show how badly the androids where treated.



* The attack on [[spoiler:City Ruins]] right after you deliver oil to Pascal. [[spoiler:Giant freaking Goliath out of nowhere, tearing a massive hole in the middle of the map!]]

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* The attack on [[spoiler:City Ruins]] right after you deliver oil to Pascal. [[spoiler:Giant freaking Goliath out of nowhere, tearing a massive hole in the middle of the map!]]map! Turns out the aliens have been hiding underground right below the Resistance for centuries.]]
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*The attack on [[spoiler:City Ruins]] right after you deliver oil to Pascal. [[spoiler:Giant freaking Goliath out of nowhere, tearing a massive hole in the middle of the map!]]
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* The Invasion. [[spoiler: After Adam and Eve are killed, your faction decides it's time to take back Earth. It all sounds glorious and triumphant right? Wrong. The invasion is brutal with your allies getting overwhelmed and slaughtered left and right without your help. They get hacked and brainwashed, they turn against you and all this time you also have to fight the machines who are stronger than ever. Your friends at the Bunker get infected and brainwashed as well and you have to kill them to make it out safely with the Commander. Just when it seems like 9S, 2B and the Commander are gonna make it out, the Commander reveals she is infected too and tells you two to flee, as she is going down with the ship. Then a dying 2B gets put out of her misery by A2.]] It is all as nightmarish as it sounds.

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* The Invasion. [[spoiler: After Adam and Eve are killed, your faction decides it's time to take back Earth. It all sounds glorious and triumphant right? Wrong. The invasion is brutal with your allies getting overwhelmed and slaughtered left and right without your help. They get hacked and brainwashed, they turn against you and all this time you also have to fight the machines who are stronger than ever. Your friends at the Bunker get infected and brainwashed as well and you have to kill them to make it out safely with the Commander. Just when it seems like 9S, 2B and the Commander are gonna make it out, the Commander reveals she is infected too and tells you two to flee, as she is going down with the ship. Then a dying 2B gets put out of her misery by A2.]] It is all as nightmarish as it sounds.sounds.
* 9S [[spoiler:completely losing it after 2B's death, killing machines begging for their life in cold blood and ready to let what's left of humanity's memory die with the whole world.]]
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** The birth of Adam and Eve. For the machines to produce something ''human-like'' out of generic tin-can automation you've seen until that point is quite startling.

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** The birth of Adam and Eve. For the machines to produce something ''human-like'' out of generic tin-can automation you've seen until that point is quite startling.startling.
* The Invasion. [[spoiler: After Adam and Eve are killed, your faction decides it's time to take back Earth. It all sounds glorious and triumphant right? Wrong. The invasion is brutal with your allies getting overwhelmed and slaughtered left and right without your help. They get hacked and brainwashed, they turn against you and all this time you also have to fight the machines who are stronger than ever. Your friends at the Bunker get infected and brainwashed as well and you have to kill them to make it out safely with the Commander. Just when it seems like 9S, 2B and the Commander are gonna make it out, the Commander reveals she is infected too and tells you two to flee, as she is going down with the ship. Then a dying 2B gets put out of her misery by A2.]] It is all as nightmarish as it sounds.

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* The Opera Singer Boss, who kept Yorha androids ''alive'' dangling all over her body. Then she used them against you.
* The birth of Adam and Eve. For the machines to produce something ''human-like'' out of generic tin-can automation you've seen until that point is quite startling.

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* The Opera Singer Boss, who kept Yorha androids ''alive'' dangling all over her body. Then she used them against you.
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you. After you defeat her 2B tries to [[spoiler:rescue the androids only to find out that their brains are all fried at that point.]]
*The entrance to Desert City is full of [[spoiler:multiple dead Yorhas gathered together in one area. Makes you wonder what happened to them before they died.]]
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**While 2B and 9S are fighting on the surface, 6O sometimes jives in with talks about fortune telling or how her senior rejected her love confession. It's unsettling, to say the least.
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*It's unclear what is worse: the simpleton machines that managed to overwhelm humanity, or the humanity who kept trying to retake Earth over and over again for centuries at all cost. WarIsHell.
*The Opera Singer Boss, who kept Yorha androids ''alive'' dangling all over her body. Then she used them against you.
*The birth of Adam and Eve. For the machines to produce something ''human-like'' out of generic tin-can automation you've seen until that point is quite startling.

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