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  • Any of Endings 1-3 are the harrowing conclusion to the tragedy of Elise and her greed. After a week of flirting, Elise and her chosen love interest finally confess their love for each other on the day of St. Walpurga's Festival, in what is easily the most romantic moment of the entire game. The character development that accompanied their romance also pays off at last, with either Elise or her love interest deciding to adopt a more positive attitude towards life. All of that goes to waste when Elise foolishly decides to risk her lover's safety in the Woodlands. Once Elise has brought her love interest to the Sacred Tree of Creation and reached the end, it turns out that the love interest is the final price to be paid for the wish, and will be served as dinner. Elise is Forced to Watch as her most beloved girl, who she spent the entire game bonding with, is torn apart and crying out for help, all because she brought her there despite all the signs that it would end this way. She gets her wealth, but is unable to enjoy it without her beloved beside her, and is tormented by her guilt for the rest of her life; even her one joy left, her two children, will soon be taken by Ozzy as payment, and she knows it.

    • Ending 1, where Rozenmrine is sacrificed to Ozzy. Elise finally accepts Rozenmarine as her soulmate and says her name correctly for the first time, admitting that her habitual misnaming was more out of convenience than actual malice. She also promises Rozenmarine that their audience with Ozzy would mark the beginning of a better life for both of them. Upon meeting Ozzy, however, it is revealed that Rozenmarine is to be sacrificed as part of the deal. Elise is completely horrified by the truth, but Rozenmarine happily welcomes her fate and congratulates Elise for her good fortune. She is forced to watch as Rozenmarine meets her horrifying demise with a disturbing smile, only to scream in agony and call out for her deceased grandmother towards the end. In the epilogue, Elise is confronted by a disgusted Lebkuchen over her past actions, upon which she deeply regrets the sacrifice of her beloved Rozenmarine.

      • Rozenmarine's ecstatic reaction towards her terrible fate. While it was hinted throughout the game that accepting Ozzy's offer would result in Elise forfeiting the life and soul of her lover, Rozenmarine's unhinged acceptance of her destiny is both tragic and extremely disturbing. Her entire purpose in life, after enduring so much misery and suffering, amounted to becoming a sacrifice for Elise's ill-advised wishes. Even more heartbreaking when you realize that Elise was likely the first friend she ever made, and that the week during which Little Goody Two Shoes took place was probably the happiest period of her entire life...
      • Lebkuchen ending her friendship with Elise in the epilogue. When a desperate Elise seeks out Lebkuchen in the hopes of saving her daughter Goldia from Ozzy's clutches, Lebkuchen coldly reveals that she is aware of Elise's contract with Ozzy, and does not even attempt to hide her extreme disgust at Elise's actions. Though she does provide a protective charm in the form of a pocket mirror, she bitterly questions whether Elise was indeed satisfied with sacrificing Rozenmarine in return for wealth, and finally cuts off all ties with Elise. The reunion is even more depressing if you recall that Lebkuchen had long harbored unrequited feelings for Elise, and was the friend who understood and trusted her the most. Elise had, through her own actions, lost her bosom friend as well...
      • Although not explicitly mentioned in Little Goody Two Shoes, the Bonus Room of Pocket Mirror reveals that Ozzy had failed to collect Elise's soul after her death. Since Golden Maidens are bound to Ozzy forever, this implies that Rozenmarine and Elise weren't even reunited in death and would remain so for all eternity...

    • In Ending 2, Freya finally takes Elise's advice to heart and determines to make the most of her talents by pursuing a career as a dressmaker in Primeldorf. In a moment of affection, she asks Elise to accompany her both as her lover and business partner, also revealing that her father Gustav had been fully aware of, and indeed wholeheartedly approved of, their relationship. However, the night ends with Freya being sacrificed to Ozzy. Finding herself surrounded by demons, Freya desperately seeks Elise's help and even begs Ozzy for mercy. She dies screaming and crying for her father Gustav. In the epilogue, Elise returns to Kieferberg after losing her daughter to Ozzy and discovers a grave dug for Freya and herself by a grieving Gustav. She finally realizes that Gustav had always seen her as a surrogate daughter, and overwhelmed with grief at the thought that she had betrayed the two people who had genuinely cared for her, tearfully apologizes to Freya and declares her undying love for her.

      • Freya crying and pleading for Elise and Gustav's help. A girl with an almost child-like innocence, she never suspects that her lover Elise was the one responsible for her predicament. Plus, her instinctive reaction to an imminent painful death is to seek her beloved father...
      • Freya's dreams of becoming a successful dressmaker in Primeldorf ultimately amounting to nothing. Of the three love interests, Freya has the most well-defined plans for a shared future with Elise, which makes her death even more tragic due to her unfulfilled potential...
      • The gravestone in the epilogue revealing that Freya's father Gustav cared for Elise as if she were his own flesh-and-blood daughter. It explains why Gustav was so supportive of his daughter trying to win Elise's heart, despite Elise being a lowly, poverty-stricken orphan and maid-of-all-work. He probably wanted to help Elise as best as he could, and saw Freya's relationship with her as an excellent opportunity to properly greet her into the family. Yet Elise had managed to betray such a loving father-in-law...
      • Gustav grieving the apparent deaths of both Freya and Elise. Much like Freya herself, he never suspected that Elise might have had a hand in Freya's disappearance, instead believing that the two girls had met their demise due to some unknown tragedy. Moreover, he prays that the two girls might be in a better place, which is ironically true for Elise but tragically misguided regarding Freya, whose soul is now enslaved as a Golden Maiden by Ozzy. One wonders how he might react to the truth...

    • In Ending 3, Elise manages to coax Lebkuchen to let go of her inhibitions and be true to herself. Lebkuchen finally admits her heartfelt love for her dearest friend Elise, and decides to leave both the nunhood and Kieferberg in order to fully live out her life together with Elise. But after being lured into Ozzy's realm by Elise, she quickly realizes that she was to be part of the payment to Ozzy for granting Elise's selfish desires. As she succumbs, she angrily blames Elise for selling her out, and tearfully reminds her of just how deeply she had loved her. In the epilogue, Elise joins the nunhood after losing her daughter to Ozzy. While thinking herself unworthy of salvation, she nevertheless prays for a final opportunity to be reunited with Lebkuchen. At the moment of her death, she sees a vision of Lebkuchen as an angel, comforting Elise that she had repented more than enough and was thus forgiven for her betrayal. She meets her end tearfully apologizing to Lebkuchen, and declaring her undying love for her.

      • Lebkuchen's reaction when the true extent of Elise's involvement with Ozzy dawns upon her. The revelation of her betrayal is enough to drive the normally calm, composed and gentle Lebkuchen into an extreme outburst of grief, anger and disappointment towards Elise. - a betrayal all the more painful because they had been bosom friends since childhood, with Lebkuchen being the only one who truly understood Elise's flaws and motivations. Even more tragic when you consider that of the three love intrests, Lebkuchen was implied to harbor the most powerful feelings for Elise, as evidenced by her choice of words, 'aishiteru', in the Japanese dub when she confesses her love for Elise, and had been in love with her for the longest period of time. Their long-term friendship and love for each other ended with Lebkuchen furiously declaring that she would never forgive Elise for her treachery...
      • Lebkuchen never getting to experience a truly free life outside of Kieferberg, without the duties and social expectations of nunhood weighing her down. Elise punishes herself in the epilogue by giving up her life of luxury as a countess and joining a convent - thereby experiencing Lebkuchen's stifling life as a nun.
      • The implications of Lebkuchen's death. In this ending Elise is left only with Rozenmarine (a 'friend' whom she has barely known for a week and at least partially to blame for the entire disaster) and Freya (a childhood rival with whom she isn't on particularly good terms) - the loss of her closest childhood friend means that Elise no longer has anyone to confide in...
      • Elise's vision of Lebkuchen's spirit comforting and forgiving her in her dying moments. While the truth is left ambiguous, the spirit was likly a hallucination formed from Elise's desperation to beg Lebkuchen for her forgiveness, given that Lebkuchen's soul was enslaved by Ozzy as a Golden Maiden...

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