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Riku Amami, your average [[Ordinary High School Student]], receives a call from his long-lost aunt and stepmother's younger sister, Amane. She asks him to meet her in the hospital he was hospitalized at several years ago. When arriving there, he hears a woman scream. Thinking it is Amane, he instead finds a gang of criminal youths who are attempting to rape a girl. Meanwhile, his entrance into the hospital has been spotted by two other young people, Rena and Yohei. They save Riku from the criminal youth gang, who run off. Yohei is revealed to be one of Riku's old friends from the period he was hospitalized.

* [[An Aesop]]: "The lies you tell end up hurting someone. And someday, they will come back to you."

* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: Jinki.

* [[The Atoner]] / [[Must Make Amends]]: {{spoiler|Ryuusei for his home, Riku for his lies, the chairwoman for releasing Shirou, Rena for her family, and Shirou for his actions.}} It's basically a theme at this point.

* [[Little Miss Badass]]: Clara.

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Rena.

* [[The Glasses Come Off]]: Riku and Rena. In Rena case, [[Clark Kenting|her glasses are art of her "disguise".]]

** In Riku's case, {{spoiler|only when his Jinki is activated.}}

* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Takao and {{spoiler|Kanshuu-Riku}} do this.

* [[Hair Colors]]: Riku's hair is white with violet streaks when his Jinki is activated, while it is black normally.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Several times.

** Yui, I've come to help you.... {{spoiler|Oops, sorry for getting you hit by Jinki....}}

** Practically the whole story up until chapter 64 is an entire string of Riku doing this.

* [[Nosebleed]]: Riku has one when Neene sounds 'so like an adult'.

* [[Take My Hand]]: "There had been 3 people {{spoiler|(Rena, Yohei, Takao)}} who grabbed my hand... but she {{spoiler|(Rena, during her own [[Heroic BSOD]])}} [[Call Back|was the first one whose hand I grabbed]]."

* [[The Dreaded]]: {{spoiler|Takao as the Jinki Hunter, has a great deal of the 30+ Jinki Users too scared to leave their homes.}}

* [[To the Pain]]: Riku's tactics for getting information. {{spoiler|Not that he'll really going with it....}}

* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: Poor Riku. {{spoiler|A classmate dies as a result of his lies, which gets him to start doubting his actions and lose control of his emotions. Then Neene disappears in front of his eyes, protecting him and Rena, just as he realizes how precious she is to him, not as a means of bringing Amane back but as Neene herself. After that, Karasawa indulges him in a little information via flashback - that he and Riku were pretty much identical to each other. This breaks him even further, compounded with the grief from having lost Neene. He bounces back a bit after returning, though, in which he then gives up on Amane and decides to embrace his present, especially the people important to him now. Nanami, the one who made him have that realization, then dies, and he and Rena arrive on the scene just long enough to see her body disintegrate to dust, save her decapitated head. Intent on having his revenge, he chases after the Kanshuu responsible, only to stumble onto a very much alive and older Neene - who is then taken over by Amane, and is revealed to be a Coffin Princess. Even worse, Amane reveals to him that everything up until that point was thanks to Riku's actions after having received Amane's text message calling out to him - and because of that, indirectly or directly, he was responsible for all the deaths and destruction that have occurred.}} Poor kid just can't catch a break.

* [[Was It All a Lie?]]: Riku questions this after it is revealed that {{spoiler|he had been manipulated to raise Neene.}}

* [[Wham! Line]]: Chapter 67, starting up another mystery

** Chapter 71, after Riku finds {{spoiler|Neene}}

** Chapter 73 brings again this world-shaking lines:

* [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]: NEFT's [[It Got Worse|longest]] [[Gone Horribly Wrong|day]]. {{spoiler|Because the [[Big Bad]] is also a [[Magnificent Bastard]] [[The Chessmaster|chessmaster]] who has taken [[Failsafe Failure|precautions that totally undermine the NEFT's own precautions]].}}

* [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]: Invoked. The chief gives Riku a lecture on how the non-Jinki users also have names and faces, and asks him to remember their sacrifices.

* [[World of Cardboard Speech]]: In chapter 74. And it was ''awesome''.

 

* [[Yandere]]: A rare male example: Riku, concerning [[Dead Little Sister|Amane]]. {{spoiler|A classmate who spoke bad of her ended up in hospital after Riku had a [[Heroic BSOD]].}}