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** The cherry on top though is after Moeka eventually opens up about her past, Okabe reassures her that she is worth a damn, and that people do care about her, including Mr. Tennouji, the other Lab Mems, and himself. Having finally heard the words she had wanted to hear for the first time in her life, she just breaks down entirely, and Saori Goto's voice acting during this scene only makes this scene even more heart wrenching. Even this troper was fighting back tears during this scene.
*Faris eventually opens up to Okabe about her past, revealing that she allowed people, adults in particular, to get close to her, only to betray her the first chance they get, with some even telling they'd be happier if she didn't exist. As a result, she developed trust issues growing up, and was scared of losing the friends she has because, in her mind, she won't know what to do if the other lab mems just disappeared from her life. That is until Okabe reassures her that they aren't going anywhere, and tells her to simply have faith in them.
**Faris has another [[Cry Cute]] moment in Suzuha's route when her attempts to charm Daru fall on death ears. There are no laughs to be had this time though,
*Why was Mayuri crying as she spoke to Okabe while he was asleep? We eventually learn that her family was moving away from Tokyo on the 20th of August, and memories of past events where she felt lonely without him resurface. It doesn't help that she had to lie to him to keep him from worrying. Learning this himself causes Okabe to almost have a [[Heroic BSOD]] when he realises just how much Mayuri meant to him,
**As Okabe delivers his [[Love Confession]] at the cemetery, Mayuri admits that she had liked him for years, and soon developed a sense of inferiority when Kurisu first joined the lab; she became saddened by how close Okabe and Kurisu had become, and started to believe she was being replaced
=== ''Linear Bounded Phenogram'' ===
* Okabe's masquerading as "Alpaca Man" stops being funny once we learn that he had been putting on this act to cope with Mayuri's death in the current world line. Even after time had passed, he isn't over her passing, and used the "Alpaca Man" persona as a means to avoid facing that reality.
* Kurisu speaking to her dad on the phone, in tears, and blubbering incoherently as she begs and pleads for his help despite their strained relationship. In her own words, she was a babbling mess for another 20 minutes before she was able to form another coherent sentence. It is one of Kurisu's rare moments of vulnerability, but it shows how much she wants to repair her strained relationship with her father.
*Okabe is a complete emotional wreck after Mayuri goes missing after the lab is raided, and torment becomes so unbearable that Kurisu fears he will suffer a nervous breakdown. He reaches the [[Despair Event Horizon]] when a news report confirms his worst fear: Mayuri is dead. He is such a mess afterwards that Faris' butler, Kuroki, had to knock him out - twice - just to spare him further pain.
*Faris comes close to having a Heroic BSOD after she learns that Suzuha has to go back to her own time the following day, and is hurt that the latter didn't tell her to her face, even snapping at her just for calling her by her real name.
*While rescuing Suzuha from the collapsed underground station, Faris quietly breaks down in tears upon hearing the things Mr. Tennouji was saying about her in terms of how rough she'd had it for the past 10 years.
* Ruka spent her entire story blaming herself for Mayuri's death on the 15th, feeling that her choice to become a girl via D-mail was the cause behind the latter's fate.
** As if her description of what happened that day wasn't bad enough, we get to witness that fateful day for ourselves. This scene will no doubt strike too close to home for anyone who has survived, or lost loved ones to a heart attack. The fact that Mayuri just collapses out of nowhere so suddenly makes it worse.
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**Moeka's internal conflict reaches breaking point once FB gives her the order to kill the Lab Mems. So torn on which course of action to take that she finds any excuse she can to push her friends away to make her decision easier, but luckily Mayuri and Kurisu's words eventually reach her (not even realising she was crying the whole time until Mayuri mentioned it) and she decides not to pull the trigger.
** The Lab Mems crying over Moeka as she slowly dies from the [[Taking the Bullet|gunshot wounds she sustained protecting her new friends]], just before she has Okabe send a D-Mail on her behalf.
* The truth about why the death of Mayuri's grandma hit her so hard: Mayuri had promised to
** Her decision to rewrite this part of her life isn't any better though, as while she did get to spent one final day with her grandma, Mayuri still ended up in a world line in which the lab wasn't formed, and she had lost contact with Okabe for years before they finally reunited.
*Nae (now 13) doesn't have it easy in her story; still coping with the death of her dad even two years later, she doesn't have anyone else to turn to other than the Akiha family. The fact that Mayuri also died in this worldline only makes her feel even more lonely, and the abandoned CRT shop her dad used to run only served as a painful reminder of what she had lost.
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