Line #82 FanFic/ShadowOfTheDragon


1	''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2081666/1/Shadow-of-the-Dragon Shadow of the Dragon]]'' is a ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'' ContinuationFic written by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/22510/Lord-Archive Lord Archive]].
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3	Five years after the events of the anime, Sakura and her friends are drawn back into the world of magic when Sakura faces repeated attacks from an unidentified magical assailant.
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5	Another fic, ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2188199/1/Sakura-s-Christmas-Surprise Sakura's Christmas Surprise]]'', written by the same author, serves as a prequel to this fic.
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7	!!''Shadow of the Dragon'' provides examples of the following tropes (Beware of spoilers):
8	* AbuseMistake: In chapter 12, the ghost of Reiko slams Sakura face-first into a locker at school, bruising her forehead. Since ghosts are InvisibleToNormals and Syaoran was the only other person present at the time, Teikei, the school disciplinarian, assumes that Syaoran attacked her until Tomoyo, the team CameraFiend, provides proof that he didn't do it.
9	* AbusiveParents: Satome's mother Himiko, Tomoeda's district attorney, is revealed to be one, constantly beating him because he is the [[ChildByRape product of rape]] and she only sees him as a reminder of said rape; as a result, Satome has become a StrawMisogynist and SerialRapist. In chapter 19, when Satome is in jail for his AttemptedRape of Tomoyo, he tells the lawyer assigned to him that his mother put him in the hospital ''eight times'' for a total of fifteen broken bones, and that he's perfectly willing to confess to ''all'' of his rape charges as long as it keeps him away from his mother until he's twenty. Shortly after, however, his mother arranges for him to be assassinated and his death ruled as a suicide because his status as a rapist would reflect poorly on her career of prosecuting sexual predators.
10	* AdultsAreUseless: The faculty at school repeatedly fail to take Satome's bullying seriously, resulting in multiple rape victims. It's only after he tries to rape Tomoyo in chapter 18 only for Sakura to stop him violently and him to be arrested that they finally take him seriously. By the time of chapter 30, Teikei, the school disciplinarian, has learned from this, as shown by his plan to deal how the school has gotten out of hand:
11	-->'''Kiriha''': You're not going to take care of this quietly?\
12	'''Teikei''': Trying to take care of a "minor bullying issue" quietly and carefully got us multiple rape victims. This school has gotten out of hand. We need to reign in the trouble. Make sure the students know we're serious about the rules, or else they will grow bolder and cause even more damage to the school and themselves.
13	* AllChinesePeopleKnowKungFu: Well, everyone in the Li family anyway. Meiling reveals at one point that all Lis are trained in martial arts from an early age.
14	* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: Invoked by Meiling as her reason for joining the cheerleading squad.
15	* AllPeriodsArePMS: Chiharu is going through [=PMS=] at the time she and Takashi convince Sakura to put them through a FreakyFridayFlip.
16	* AmoralAttorney: Himiko Satome is a minor example. She's Tomoeda's district attorney, as well as an {{Abusive Parent\|s}} who beats her son at the slightest provocation.
17	* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: In chapter 19, after Satome is arrested and jailed for his AttemptedRape of Tomoyo, not one of the other students is sorry to see him go, with one girl even coming right out and saying that she feels safer with Satome gone.
18	* AntiMagic[=/=]PowerNullifier: Chapter 10 sees Sakura face a "Null Mage," a person who, while unable to actually cast spells, can negate magical powers at will.
19	* AscendedExtra[=/=]CharacterFocus: Sakura's classmates, i.e. Chiharu, Rika, Naoko and Takashi whom were previously background characters in the canon, play a much greater role in this fan fiction as it explores the lives of all the four classmates as well as their implications.
20	* AssholeVictim: Satome is a SerialRapist who tried to force himself on both Sakura and Tomoyo on two different occasions. No one, in-universe or out, feels sympathetic towards him when Sakura beats him up and allows the Mirror to castrate him in chapter 18.
21	* AttemptedRape: Satome, the resident school bully, threatens to rape Sakura and her other female friends on several different occasions, but is thwarted every time. His final attempt, centered on Tomoyo, results in a [[LetsGetDangerous furious Sakura]] brutally attacking him and using the Mirror Card to [[GroinAttack neuter him]].
22	* BigSisterInstinct: In chapter 12, Reiko's ghost invades Syaoran's home, intending to [[RevengeByProxy hurt Syaoran to get at Sakura]], but [[spoiler: the ghost of]] Fanren is there to fend her off.
23	* BirdsOfAFeather: Naoko starts dating a geek-and-proud-of-it named Shinji Asaba, because they both share similar interests. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, this relationship comes to an abrupt end late into the fanfic when Shinji cheats on Naoko.]]
24	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In chapter 25, Sakura is brainwashed into attacking Tomoyo, though Syaoran, Meiling, and Kurogane stop her and snap her out of it.
25	* BringMyBrownPants: In the first chapter, Naoko wets herself at the sight of the dragon.
26	** One of Satome's goons also wets himself after Meiling kicks the asses of his friends.
27	* BrokenBird: Reiko Ichimai. As she puts it in chapter 14, she had no friends, no girl ever called her, and all the boys only cared about her for sex. However, as Tomoyo points out, part of that is her own fault because she never bothered to reach out to anyone.
28	* BrokenMasquerade: The fic opens with Sakura's friends Naoko, Chiharu, and Rika discovering the existence of magic and Sakura's powers after Sakura is forced to use magic in front of them to fight off a giant dragon golem. Takashi and Mr. Terada also become {{Secret Keeper}}s as well.
29	* BrotherSisterIncest: In chapter 36, it's revealed that Meiling's LoveInterest Matsumoto is a womanizer and had been cheating on her with Megumi, the school slut. Tomoyo reveals through a DNA test that [[spoiler: Matsumoto and Megumi are half-siblings through their father, and Naoko had arranged for them to find out ''after'' they did it to get back at Megumi for seducing her boyfriend; Megumi is justifiably grossed out at this revelation]].
30	* TheBully: Ryujin Satome.
31	* BullyHunter: Syaoran and Meiling beat up Satome and his goons in defense of their friends, with Syaoran explicitly warning Satome that if he does anything to hurt Sakura or the others, he will make sure they never find his body.
32	* BurnTheWitch: During chapter 2, Takashi tells stories about witch trials and burnings... [[InnocentlyInsensitive which obviously makes Sakura uncomfortable]]. As a result, Chiharu mistakenly believes that he too has found out about Sakura's magic and chews him out for scaring her, only to discover that he was merely telling a story that Eriol informed him of back in elementary school and end up blowing TheMasquerade to him herself.
33	* ButNotTooForeign:
34	** Sakura and Tomoyo are stated to be of British descent, their maternal great-grandfather, Masaki Amamiya, being a British immigrant to Japan.
35	** In chapter 13, Rika is established as 1/4th American through her father Jyou.
36	* ButterflyOfDoom: In chapter 8, Sakura uses the Time Card to travel back in time by one day to stop Tomoyo's mother Sonomi from getting killed by a drunk driver. She succeeds, but her classmate Reiko Ichimai is killed instead, much to her horror. Both Kero/Cerberus and Yue tell her that, regardless of what Sakura tried to do, someone ''was'' going to die that day, and her interference just changed who died and when.
37	* CallingTheOldManOut: When Sakura discovers her relation to Masaki Amamiya in chapter 24, she is quick to call him out over his disowning Nadeshiko for her marriage to Fujitaka.
38	* CanonForeigner: AlternateUniverse versions of Kurogane and Fye from ''Anime/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' appear in the fic, here as {{Occult Detective}}s hired to investigate Sakura's attacker.
39	* CastFromHitPoints: Sakura and Syaoran both heal one another by transferring their own magical energy to the other on different occasions; the experience leaves them physically drained and requiring bedrest. In chapter 12, Syaoran transfers so much of his own magic and life force to Sakura that he rapidly ages; according to his mother Yelan, if Sakura hadn't shared her magic with him, he would have died.
40	* ChildByRape: Satome himself is one; his mother only sees him as a reminder and thus constantly abuses him.
41	* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: In chapter 3, Sakura is shocked at Syaoran for losing control of himself and brutally beating Satome to protect her. In this case, it's more due to the fact that he lost control and has been explicitly trained to kill.
42	* ContinuationFic: Of the ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'' anime.
43	* CreateYourOwnVillain: Himiko's repeated abuse towards her ChildByRape Satome was responsible for turning him into the SerialRapist and StrawMisogynist he is.
44	* CripplingCastration: In chapter 18, Sakura arrives JustInTime to save Tomoyo from being raped by Satome. After she kicks him into a wall, the Mirror Card manifests in the form of Tomoyo, shatters a mirror, and declares that Satome will ''never'' hurt a girl [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil like that]] again before stabbing him in the groin with the mirror shards; the next chapter outright confirms that the Mirror castrated Satome.
45	-->'''Shinji Asaba''': Satome is a girl now.
46	* CripplingOverspecialization: Subverted; in chapter 10, Sakura actually trains to fight so as to has something other than her magic to fight the assassin with.
47	* {{Crossover}}: Two omakes features crossovers of CCS with ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' and ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''.
48	* DarkerAndEdgier: Definitely darker than the source material, exploring such themes as AttemptedRape, AbusiveParents, and the negative aspects of a TeacherStudentRomance.
49	* DeadFic: The last update was Christmas Eve 2014 with no updates from Lord Archive until a surprise update of their ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' fanfic ''The Red Digivice Diaries''.
50	* DefiledForever: Satome invokes this when he is preparing to rape Sakura in chapter 10, stating that by the time he's finished having his way with Sakura, not even a "foreign piece of shit" like Syaoran will want her. Fortunately, he's stopped before anything truly unfortunate happens.
51	* DiscOneFinalBoss: To describe Satome as an "asshole" is a ''massive understatement'', but he's not the main villain of the fanfic; [[spoiler:he's dead by chapter 19. The main villain is an enemy striking at Sakura magically from the shadows.]]
52	* {{Doppelganger}}: In chapter 17, the mystery BigBad uses SympatheticMagic to turn Reiko into a corporeal duplicate of Sakura.
53	* DrowningMySorrows: After Sakura and Syaoran [[spoiler: finally consummate their relationship]] in chapter 32, Tomoyo and Meiling spend the night drowning their sorrows with wine... with very little actual alcohol in it, of course.
54	* DyingDeclarationOfLove: Inverted; Renji, one of Reiko's one-night stands, confesses to her spirit that he loves her and wanted to be her boyfriend before she died. Reiko is so moved by this that she finally lets go of her anger towards Sakura and peacefully passes on to Heaven.
55	* ElectromagneticGhosts: In chapter 14, Tomoyo uses a tape recorder to hear what Reiko's ghost is trying to say to her.
56	* EvenEvilHasStandards[=/=]VillainousRescue: In chapter 10, the assassin after Sakura saves her from being raped by Satome and brutally [[{{Fingore}} punishes]] him for it, remarking that only the "worst of scum" would stoop so low. However, he also tells Sakura afterwards that if Satome had intended to merely kill her rather than rape her, he would have allowed him to do so.
57	* EvilLawyerJoke: In chapter 22, Meiling pokes at Takashi for his career choice as lawyer.
58	--> '''Tomoyo''': I always figured you'd make a good lawyer.
59	--> '''Meiling''': He certainly lies well enough.
60	* EtTuBrute: An unusual retroactive example of this trope, as the act in question wasn't considered a betrayal at "the time it actually occurred", since no one knew at the time. The act in question is [[spoiler:Tomoyo secretly videotaping Sakura and the rest of their friends while they were naked, or changing, or in swimsuits, etc. This is discovered in chapter 26, and since the tapes technically classify as child pornography, Tomoyo [[LampshadedTrope lampshades]] the trope by predicting in advance that her friends will react by feeling betrayed, which is exactly what happens.]]
61	* EveryoneHasStandards: In the {{flashback}} in chapter 13, when a client at the adult bar discovers that all of the prostitutes there are only there because they were kidnapped and "[[BreakTheCutie trained]]", he is completely taken aback and punches out one of the employees, remarking that he may have bad luck finding a girlfriend, but when he "buys a girl's time," it should be ''her'' decision.
62	* FairPlayVillain: Ryuji Akuma, the assassin hired to kill Sakura in chapter 10, states that he will fight Sakura his own way rather than the way his employer wanted him to… by giving her four days to prepare to a fight to the death, warning her that, if she does not do so, he will simply kill Sakura and her entire family, including Tomoyo and her mother.
63	* {{Fingore}}: In chapter 10, Satome attempts to rape Sakura, but he is stopped by an assassin targeting her, who beats Satome up and breaks his hand as a reminder to keep his hands off women.
64	* FreakyFridayFlip: In chapter 4, Takashi and Chiharu persuade Sakura to use the Change Card to swap their bodies so as to get a view on how tough the other has it. They both come out with better understanding of the other: Takashi has a better understanding of the inconveniences Chiharu has to deal with being a girl, and Chiharu has a better understanding of how much pressure Takashi's family places on him to succeed.
65	* FreeRangeChildren: Fujitaka states that he has resolved himself not to butt into his children's love lives because he doesn't want to make the same mistake Nadeshiko's grandfather did.
66	* FreudianExcuse: As revealed in chapter 6, Satome is the way he is because his mother constantly abuses him, and he attacks girls out of misplaced anger towards his mother.
67	* GenerationXerox: In chapter 13, it's established that Sakura, Tomoyo, Rika, Naoko, and Chiharu's mothers are similar to their daughters, albeit with slight differences:
68	** Tomoyo is a LipstickLesbian and [[AllLoveIsUnrequited in]] [[KissingCousins love]] with Sakura, echoing the relationship between their mothers Sonomi and Nadeshiko.
69	** Nadeshiko was in a TeacherStudentRomance, whereas Rika is in one with Mr. Terada.
70	** Yuuka, Rika's mother, had a "foreign boyfriend" (Rika's father Jyou is [[ButNotTooForeign Japanese-American]]); Sakura is in a relationship with Syaoran, a Chinese boy.
71	** Chiharu's mother, Yukiko, had a tendency to [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale strangle]] her then-boyfriend just as Chiharu does to Takashi, though in that case, it's for getting lost in sports stories rather than telling lies.
72	* TheGhost: The mysterious BigBad who's targeting Sakura has yet to confront her directly, though in [[spoiler: chapter 25 onwards, it's all but confirmed to be Meiling's grandfather]].
73	* GodGuise: Well more Angel Guise than anything but in Chapter 22, two robbers mistake Yue for this and promptly turn themselves in to the cops right after.
74	* GroinAttack:
75	** In chapter 18, after Sakura saves Tomoyo from being raped by Satome, the Mirror Card, taking Tomoyo's form, shatters a mirror in the room and stabs him in the groin with a shard of said mirror, ensuring he will never hurt a girl as such again.
76	** Naoko knees Shinji in the crotch with enough force to put him in the infirmary [[spoiler:as payback for cheating on her]].
77	* HeadDesk: Sakura, Syaoran, and Meiling all do this when Takashi sings "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman" in chapter 14.
78	* HeroicBSOD: Sakura spends several chapters after Reiko's death depressed and angst-ridden.
79	* HollywoodToneDeaf: Syaoran's singing has been described as sounding like a strangled cat.
80	* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: [[spoiler:By chapter 32, Meiling and Matsumoto develop chemistry together, because Meiling decides to take Matsumoto's sexism as a ''challenge'' so she can be even more awesome just to prove him wrong, and Matsumoto could easily conceive an heir with more submissive girls, but they "wouldn't be as much fun" as Meiling.]]
81	** [[spoiler:However, the chemistry between Meiling and Matsumoto comes to an end in chapter 36, as Matsumoto cheats on Meiling with Megumi.]]
82	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: An unusual variation in that we only learn this after it's already backfired. [[spoiler:After Shinji cheats on Naoko, Tsuda becomes furious with Shinji, and after reading Shinji the riot act on how Shinji's behavior means Naoko can't trust Shinji, Tsuda reveals that he's mad because Shinji had everything Tsuda wanted, but threw it away. Shinji asks in confusion whether that means Tsuda liked Naoko. Tsuda confirms it by immediately punching Shinji in the face.]]
83	* IWillWaitForYou: Two different examples:
84	** In chapter 15, when Fujitaka is conflicted over moving on from Nadeshiko and dating [[MayDecemberRomance Hinami]], the spirit of Nadeshiko herself appears and encourages him to go for it, wanting him to be happy.
85	** In chapter 16, after Sakura and her friends finally manage to redeem Reiko's spirit, Renji vows to wait for her as she's going off to Heaven, but Reiko tells him to start a family and have fun with his life before then.
86	* InnocenceLost: Chapter 18 features Sakura furiously attacking Satome when he kidnaps Tomoyo and tries to rape her, climaxing when she allows the Mirror to break a mirror and castrate him. The chapter is rightfully named "Sakura's Loss of Innocence."
87	* {{Irony}}: As lampshaded in chapter 19, Satome's mother, Tomoeda's district attorney, has made a career stopping sexual predators, while her own son is a SerialRapist.
88	* ItsAllMyFault: Sakura is reduced to a sobbing wreck after Reiko dies in a car crash, which Sakura herself was [[ButterflyOfDoom indirectly responsible for]].
89	* ItsPersonal: Satome develops a feud with Sakura and her friends.
90	* UsefulNotes/JapaneseChristian: Sakura mentions at one point that Tomoeda has a higher-than-usual Christian population and that she herself was baptized, though she identifies more as Shinto.
91	* KarmaHoudini: Satome's mother, Himiko gets off scott free, despite her abuse of her son was largely responible for him becoming a rapist and arranging his murder to protect her reputation.
92	* KnightInShiningArmor: Played with. Shinji Asaba tries to defend Naoko from Satome and his thugs, but Shinji only gets his ass kicked. However, Naoko thinks what Shinji did was impressive anyway, because he lasted a while and actually managed to hit one of the thugs.
93	* [[KnightTemplarBigBrother Knight Templar Cousin]]: In [[WholeEpisodeFlashback chapter 13]], Sonomi shows just how far she's willing to go for Nadeshiko's sake by breaking her captor's jaw with a lead pipe.
94	* MayDecemberRomance: In chapter 15, Fujitaka finds himself attracted to a girl named Hinami Togashi, a girl around Toya's age. With [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy approval]] from the spirit of Nadeshiko, he decides to go for it.
95	* MistakenForPedophile: Tomoyo unfortunately gets hit with this after tapes of Sakura and the rest of her friends changing for gym when in elementary surface. The fact that Tomoyo is the same age as the rest of the girls doesn't affect the damage to her reputation. It doesn't help that she later becomes a sponsor to Yuuki Tachibana, a female elementary-aged painter that seems to have a crush on her.
96	* MyFistForgivesYou: When Renji discovers that Sakura's group knew that his LoveConfession would redeem Reiko's spirit and let her move on, he remarks that he isn't sure if he should thank Syaoran or deck him. When Syaoran tells him to do as he wishes, Renji promptly punches him out, remarking that they could have let him know Reiko still had a few days so they could have gone on a real date. Nonetheless, he's grateful that he'll be able to see Reiko again because of them and walks off with a TearfulSmile.
97	* {{Necromancer}}: In chapter 24, Sakura's attacker reanimates the corpses of several of Sakura's family members at the Amamiya family graveyard, including her mother, so as to use Sakura's [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes fear of ghosts and zombies]] to his advantage. Sakura uses the Light Card to free their souls, and both she and Syaoran agree that the fact that her attacker resorted to such a tactic is [[MoralEventHorizon going too far]].
98	* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: Part of the reason Sakura decides to hit the ResetButton at the end of chapter 6 is because Syaoran and Chiharu never got the chance to say goodbye to his sister and her father, respectively, before they passed.
99	* NeverMyFault: In her EstablishingCharacterMoment in chapter 6, Satome's mother shatters a plate while ranting at her son, and then blames ''him'' for it before beating him.
100	* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: The entire reason that [[spoiler: Meiling's grandfather]] is staging these attacks on Sakura is because he wants [[spoiler: Meiling's engagement with Syaoran to be reinstated]]. However, while he claims he's doing it [[spoiler: for Meiling's happiness]], Sakura and Syaoran are able to piece together rather quickly that he's only doing it because [[spoiler:he wants to "correct" his failings to the Li clan and produce a purer heir by having magic-wielding great-grandchildren]]; Fanren even states outright in chapter 18 that he's only doing it for himself. In any event, the fact that his plans have repeatedly caused collateral damage and endangered innocent lives prevents him from being sympathetic.
101	* OccultDetective: Kurogane and Fye run a private investigation firm and have past experience with magic and the occult.
102	* OurDragonsAreDifferent: The story opens with Sakura fighting off a giant dragon golem, [[BrokenMasquerade exposing her secret to her friends in the process]].
103	* ParentalNeglect: One chapter reveals that Rika has been neglected by her mother Yuuka in favor of her little brother to the extent that Yuuka has no idea who Tomoyo is. She starts getting better after Touya confronts her about it.
104	* ParentalObliviousness: In chapter 19, Himiko Satome apparently had no idea just how much of a monster her son was (said son being a vicious bully and SerialRapist who has been causing trouble at the school for a ''very'' long time) until after she discovers he's been arrested for trying to rape Tomoyo. Of course, this is at least in part because she never returned any of the school's calls or showed up at any parent-teacher conferences.
105	* PayEvilUntoEvil: In chapter 18, when Satome kidnaps Tomoyo and tries to rape her, Sakura shows up just in time, kicks him through a wall, and allows the Mirror card to castrate him with glass shards. While Sakura is left guilt-ridden over her part in it, considering he had tried to rape both Tomoyo ''and'' Sakura previously, and is confirmed to have raped seven different girls in the next chapter, you won't feel bad for him: Meiling states outright that even if it wasn't the right thing to do, Satome certainly deserved it.
106	* PervertedSniffing: In chapter 23, Syaoran succumbs to temptation while waiting for Sakura to get ready for a shopping trip and sniffs the panties she had worn to bed. Unfortunately, Sakura reenters the room at that moment and catches him in the act.
107	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Not exactly villains in the true sense, but there are two examples:
108	** [[TheBully Satome]], due in part to his [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]], firmly believes that girls are only good for making babies and thus has raped at least seven different girls, as well as nearly raping Sakura, Tomoyo, and Naoko on different occasions. Furthermore, he also spitefully calls Syaoran and Meiling "foreign trash."
109	** Likewise, Reiko, as part of her [[{{Poltergeist}} hauntings]], derisively carves "lesbian" into Tomoyo's desk, and later calls her a "lesbian whore."
110	* {{Poltergeist}}: After dying from getting hit by a truck, Reiko becomes a vengeful spirit who begins to torment Sakura, who she blames for her death, and her friends and family as RevengeByProxy. Upon discovering that Reiko will go to Hell if she keeps going down this road, Sakura manages, through much trial and error, to redeem Reiko's spirit and get her to peacefully move on. It's later discovered that Sakura's mystery attacker arranged for this as part of his campaign against Sakura.
111	* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil:
112	** In chapter 10, Satome attempts to rape Sakura, only to be [[VillainousRescue stopped]] by an assassin hired to kill her, who firmly believes that "only the worst of scum use sex as a weapon against women."
113	** In chapter 32, it's revealed that, prior to becoming a card, the Mirror was a girl who was raped and subsequently murdered, something that Clow Reed mentioned in his journals while trying to figure out how to save her. In retrospect, this adds new meaning to her volatile reaction to Satome's AttemptedRape of Tomoyo in chapter 18.
114	* ReallyGetsAround:
115	** In life, Reiko is stated to has regularly slept with members of the school sports teams as a way to boost morale. When the BigBad uses SympatheticMagic to transform her into Sakura's undead {{doppelganger}}, she uses it to her advantage to have sex with other male students and tarnish Sakura's reputation. In chapter 16, she explicitly states she's slept with at least fifteen different boys.
116	** Chapter 23 introduces Megumi, who is explicitly described as a slut and doesn't hesitate to flirt with and try to seduce even taken men. She even has plans to become a prostitute after school, stating it's "good money." [[spoiler:Syaoran flatly turns down Megumi's advances, but she succeeds with Naoko's boyfriend Shinji Asaba, by offering Shinji the opportunity to experience what it's like to have sex with someone besides his girlfriend. This causes Naoko to dump him.]]
117	* RedLightDistrict: Chapter 13 features the red light district of Shibuya as the third version in chapter 13. The brothel members are described as having been "[[BreakTheCutie trained]]" by the pimps, who state that one has to break a girl to make them a "good whore," and has a waitress described as not looking old enough to drink the alcohol she serves. Sakura's mother Nadeshiko was kidnapped by the employees there, but her friends raided the building and rescued her before anything truly unfortunate happened.
118	* RuleOfThree: In chapter 8, three people die simultaneously: Tomoyo's mother Sonomi, Syaoran's sister Fanren, and Chiharu's father. Thanks to Sakura and the [[ResetButton Time Card]], Sonomi is saved, but Reiko is killed in her place.
119	* RummageSaleReject: Sakura's combat clothes in chapter 10 are described as a cross between a martial arts uniform and a SailorFuku.
120	* SchoolBullyingIsHarmless: Completely averted. Satome, the local school bully, has committed all manner of violations, up to and including robbery, rape, and vandalism, but even when he's reported by Sakura and her friends, the school faculty [[AdultsAreUseless doesn't take his threats seriously]] and believes it's all just a "minor bullying issue." Their blasé reactions lead to both Sakura and Tomoyo nearly being raped by him, along with at least seven other girls being actually raped, before his AttemptedRape of Tomoyo leads to Sakura attacking him and [[InnocenceLost allowing the Mirror to castrate him]]. As of chapter 30, Teikei has learned from the staff's mistakes and refuses to deal with such things quietly and carefully anymore.
121	* SecretKeeper: Tomoyo, Touya, and Meiling fill this role, but the first chapter adds Chiharu, Naoko, and Rika to the list. In the second chapter, Mr. Terada and Takashi know as well. Later, we also find out that this also applies to Fujitaka after he discovered Cerberus, and chapter 8 reveals that Sonomi apparently also knew for a long while.
122	** SecretSecretKeeper: In the chapter 7 omake, it's revealed that Tomoyo's bodyguards knew of Sakura's secret ever since the Shadow Card and have kept quiet of this, but now they're standard {{Secret Keeper}}s.
123	* SerialRapist: Satome confessed to his lawyer in chapter 19 that he's raped at least seven girls. He tries to rape Sakura, Tomoyo, and Naoko as well, but he's thankfully stopped from that.
124	* ShoutOut:
125	** In chapter 2, Takashi's tall tales about witches and of the first (recorded) one being from Egypt could've been a reference to ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' were it not for the fact that this chapter was published well before the show was aired.
126	** Chapter 10 has another of Takashi's tall tales where he said the first duels started in Egypt using stone playing cards, a reference to the ''Anime/YuGiOh'' animé.
127	** Sakura's "battle costume" for chapter 15 had a logo that all but references ''Series/TheGhostBusters''.
128	* SpottingTheThread: Renji knew enough about Reiko to [[spoiler:see through her fake Sakura body during sex]].
129	* StrawMisogynist: Satome, hands down. During chapter 10, he states outright that girls are worthless and only good for making babies.
130	* StrongFamilyResemblance: When Chiharu comes across the photo of her and her friends' mothers in chapter 13, it's noted that they all look so much like their daughters that Chiharu is briefly convinced that they ''are'' of her and her friends. However, she realizes otherwise when she notes Nadeshiko's [[LongHairIsFeminine feminine long hair]] and Sonomi's BoyishShortHair.
131	* SympatheticMagic: In chapter 16, the BigBad uses a strand of Sakura's hair to convert Reiko's spirit into a corporeal duplicate of Sakura.
132	* TakeAThirdOption: When trying to find out how to help Reiko, most of the rituals and exorcisms Sakura researches either talk about forcing the spirits in question from moving on (which, seeing as Reiko is being consumed by hate and anger, means Hell in her case) or [[CessationOfExistence destroying the spirits outright]]. Sakura refuses to do either one, wanting to redeem Reiko.
133	* TemptingFate: In chapter 18, Satome laughs off Tomoyo's warnings about Syaoran's threats and what her mother will do to him if he does rape her, stating, "I've heard that bullshit before. I'm not dead or in jail, am I?" After Sakura [[BigDamnHeroes swoops in]] and saves Tomoyo, he ''does'' end up in jail, and by the next chapter, his own mother has been arranged for him to be killed and his death ruled as a suicide.
134	* TooDumbToLive: Even after being beaten senseless and getting a death threat from Syaoran, Satome still keeps targeting Sakura and her friends. This not only gets his hand broken, but eventually gets him arrested and ultimately killed.
135	* TheUnfettered: Sakura's attacker really does not care who gets hurt or how much pain he causes in his attempts to get at Sakura. On several different occasions, he has endangered innocent lives, including Sakura's friends.
136	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Sakura is ''extremely'' reluctant to [[TechnicalPacifist harm]], let alone [[ThouShaltNotKill kill]] anyone or anything, human or otherwise. In the first chapter, she attempts to peacefully calm down the rampaging dragon, but changes her tone as soon as she discovers that said dragon is actually a magically-animated golem and thus not actually alive.
137	* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Chapter 13 centers on a flashback featuring Sakura, Tomoyo, Rika, Chiharu, and Naoko's respective mothers and [[GenerationXerox the parallels]] between them and their daughters.
138	* YouAreWorthHell: Sakura and Syaoran both state on different occasions that without the other, life is meaningless.

Context FanFic / ShadowOfTheDragon