History TearJerker / AITheSomniumFiles

* Mizuki during the [[DownerEnding Annihilation]] [[KillEmAll Route]]. By the end of it, [[TraumaCongaLine she lost both of her parents, her two closest friends and her teacher. And to top it all off, Date, the only person she has left, is trapped inside Boss's body.]]

* The story of Hayato Yagyu, the original identity of Kaname Date. A man who grew up in an orphanage, where he was abused and developed a desire to pass justice on criminals. That path lead to him becoming a detective, but eventually became a KnightTemplar focused on disposing of evil, eventually getting unwillingly recruiting as an assassin for the Kumakura gang. By chance, he met Hitomi and Iris, who he had a chance to settle down with and live a normal life, but he was ordered to pull one last job first: killing them. With help from Boss and Pewter, he executed [[GrandTheftMe a gambit]] to save them and put an end to the cyclops killings, only for things to [[GoneHorriblyWrong go terribly wrong]]: Hitomi lost the use of her arm, Yagyu lost his body and memories, and the events leading to the New Cyclops killings would eventually be set into motion.

** Mizuki also reveals on this route that she blames herself for her parents' deaths and even for Shoko's abuse of her. Her crying that "if only she'd been a good girl", her parents would still be together and none of this would've ever happened is absolutely soul-rending.

* Iris's fate in her route. Thanks to the confusion caused by Iris and Date not having all of the facts, and compounded by their descent into delusion from Iris's Somnium, they desperately try to save Iris from her terminal brain cancer by delving into a Somnium based around a legend of a magical fruit that can gift eternal life. [[RealityEnsues It doesn't work like that]], and upon returning to the real world, Iris succumbs to her cancer [[DiedInYourArmsTonight in Date's arms]], [[AllForNothing rendering their attempts useless]].

** Hitomi isn't much better off. She's barely able to answer Date's questions. Even worse is how well her Voice Actress is in playing a mother trying to push down her grief enough to function. Every line she gives is watery and fractions of a second away from being replaced by crying. And then she starts to cry into Date's chest begging him to catch the killer. Her cries are heard while you are selecting the next location to go to on the map.

* Iris's fate in her route. Thanks to the confusion caused by Iris and Date not having all of the facts, and compounded by their descent into delusion from Iris's somnium, they desperately try to save Iris from her terminal brain cancer by delving into a somnium based around a legend of a magical fruit that can gift eternal life. [[RealityEnsues It doesn't work like that]], and upon returning to the real world, Iris succumbs to her cancer [[DiedInYourArmsTonight in Date's arms]] [[AllForNothing rendering their attempts useless]].

* Mizuki during the [[DownerEnding Annihilation]] [[KillEmAll Route]]. By the end of it, [[TraumaCongaLine she lost both of her parents, her two closest friends and her teacher. And to top it all off, Date, the only person she has left, it's trapped inside Boss's body.]]
** Its not that much better for her on the other routes either; all routes see her lose Renju and Shoko, and on any route aside from true end, she loses Iris too. Poor girl deserves all the hugs.
* Hell, Mizuki towards the end of her route. In addition to her parents both dying horrible deaths and her friend being mutilated into a coma and her actual personality being dead and replaced with So's, she sees Date get shot in the eye while trying to save her, putting him into a coma himself, with her brave front eventually crumbling into her tearfully begging Date to wake up. With the Boss's prodding, she Psync's with Date's Somnium to try to awaken him, where she gets to see how much Date had done for her and how much they mean to each other. By the final Mental Lock, she sees the truth behind why Date is distant with her: that he, deep down, thought the best thing for Mizuki was for her to be with her real parents instead of him. When his subconscious tries to push her away, she's nearly broken until she tells him her true feelings that she needs him in her breaking voice. When Date awakes, she (after some prodding), outright tells him "welcome home", and her route ends with the case ending with only a few loose ends and them still being mutually tsundere-y, but both of them clearly knowing how much the other means to them.
* Mayumi during the Annihilation route. All the dialogue options has Date unable to say anything. Eventually she breaks the silence by screaming at Date about how it's his fault before throwing her head onto the table and crying. Date and Aiba leave her to her mourning.

** The last decision to make in the game is how Date reacts to seeing Aiba again, with one of the options to cry. Aiba meant so much to Yagyu/Date, that he can break into genuine tears of happiness at seeing her again when he lost her forever.

* Hell, Mizuki towards the end of her route. In addition to her parents both dying horrible deaths and her friend being mutilated into a coma and her actually personality being dead and replaced with So's, she sees Date get shot in the eye while trying to save her, putting him into a coma himself, with her brave front eventually crumbling into her tearfully begging Date to wake up. With the Boss's prodding, she Psync's with Date's Somnium to try to awaken him, where she gets to see how much Date had done for her and how much they mean to each other. By the final Mental Lock, she sees the truth behind why Date is distant with her: that he, deep down, thought the best thing for Mizuki was for her to be with her real parents instead of him. When his subconscious tries to push her away, she's nearly broken until she tells him her true feelings that she needs him in her breaking voice. When Date awakes, she (after some prodding), outright tells him "welcome home", and her route ends with the case ending with only a few loose ends and them still being mutually tsundere-y, but both of them clearly knowing how much the other means to them.

* Hell, Mizuki towards the end of her route. In addition to her parents both dying horrible deaths and her friend being mutilated into a coma [[spoiler:and her actually personality being dead and replaced with So's]], she sees Date get shot in the eye while trying to save her, putting him into a coma himself, with her brave front eventually crumbling into her tearfully begging Date to wake up. With the Boss's prodding, she Psync's with Date's Somnium to try to awaken him, where she gets to see how much Date had done for her and how much they mean to each other. By the final Mental Lock, she sees the truth behind why Date is distant with her: that he, deep down, thought the best thing for Mizuki was for her to be with her real parents instead of him. When his subconscious tries to push her away, she's nearly broken until she tells him her true feelings that she needs him in her breaking voice. When Date awakes, she (after some prodding), outright tells him "welcome home", and her route ends with the case ending with only a few loose ends and them still being mutually tsundere-y, but both of them clearly knowing how much the other means to them.

* Iris's fate in her route. Thanks to the confusion caused by Iris and Date not having all of the facts, and compounded by their descent into delusion from Iris's somnium, they desperately try to save Iris from her terminal brain cancer by delving into a somnium based around a legend of a magical fruit that can gift eternal life. [[RealityEnsues It doesn't work like that]], and upon returning to the real world, Iris succumbs to her cancer [[DiedInYourArmsTonight in Date's arms]].

* Mizuki during the [[DownerEnding Annihilation]] [[KillEmAll Route]]. By the end of it, [[TraumaCongaLine she lost both of her parents, her two closest friends and her teacher. And to top it all off, Date, the only person she has left, it's trapped inside Boss's body while the New Cyclops Killer is roaming freely inside his former body.]]

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* Aiba's HeroicSacrifice in the True Ending. Pretty much everything about it, but most notably how torn up Date sounds as he issues the second layer self destruct command: Telling a lie.

** Its not that much better for her on the other routes either; all routes see her lose Renju and Shoko, and on any route aside from true end, she loses Iris too. Poor girl deserves all the hugs.

* Mizuki during the [[DownerEnding Annihilation]] [[KillEmAll Route]]. By the end of it, [[TraumaCongaLine she lost both of her parents, her two closest friends and her teacher. And to top it all off, Date, the only person she has left, it's trapped inside Boss's body while the New Cyclops Killer is roaming freely inside his former body.]]

-->'''Date:''' [[BlatantLies I... I hate you, Aiba. I hate you and I never want to see you again.]]

* Aiba's [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]] in the True Ending. Pretty much everything about it, but most notably how torn up Date sounds as he issues [[spoiler: the second layer self destruct command: Telling a lie.]]
-->'''Date:''' [[spoiler: [[BlatantLies I... I hate you, Aiba. I hate you and I never want to see you again.]]]]

* Mayumi's Somnium, [=PSYNCIN' IN THE SUSTaiN=], is heartrending. We see how much she's had to struggle, with Ota's brattiness and their financial troubles leading to her husband's death by overwork. In the end, her Somnium turns into an endless black void in which she's left sobbing all alone, begging Ota and Takero to not leave her. Thankfully, it turns into a SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoment in the end, when we finally get a happy memory of Ota and Takero's Mother's Day gift to her.