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*** And if ''that'' [[UpToEleven wasn't enough]], [[spoiler:he escapes from DemonicPossession at the price of being merged with an oni, has a brief glimpse of joy with Yumeko, survives all the way through the battle with Genno, only to be killed by Seigetsu in a last ISurrenderSuckers move. He actually needs to be reincarnated to have a chance at lasting happiness.]]
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*** And if ''that'' [[UpToEleven wasn't enough]], enough, [[spoiler:he escapes from DemonicPossession at the price of being merged with an oni, has a brief glimpse of joy with Yumeko, survives all the way through the battle with Genno, only to be killed by Seigetsu in a last ISurrenderSuckers move. He actually needs to be reincarnated to have a chance at lasting happiness.]]
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** Obviously Yumeko wasn't killed by the umibozu early into the third book; this overlaps with SpoiledByTheFormat. [[spoiler:Subverted ''hard'' for the rest of the book, however.]]
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** Obviously Yumeko wasn't killed by the umibozu early into the third book; this overlaps with SpoiledByTheFormat. [[spoiler:Subverted ''hard'' for the rest of the book, however.]]
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*CompleteMonster: [[WickedWitch Lady Satomi]] is a sadistic [[BloodMagic Blood Witch]] in service to the Master of Demons, Genno. A [[PsychopathicWomanchild childish psychopath]], Satomi regularly kills her serving girls for fun and pleasure. To serve Genno, Satomi has an entire village of hundreds of innocents torn to pieces by demons as a [[HumanSacrifice mass sacrifice]] to summon the demon Yaburama, and uses him to massacre a group of monks guarding the scroll containing a wish her master requires. Revealed to be plotting to use the wish to usurp and betray Genno, Satomi admits she knows he intends to cause mass destruction and death upon his return and is fine with it if [[GodhoodSeeker it gives her a chance at godhood itself]].
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Was Oni no Mikoto just bored and looking for talented swordsmen to test his skills against when he went around challenging people? Or, since he stated his "victims" could have refused a duel without loss of honor anytime and went into it willingly, was he also trying to give overconfident samurai what they deserved?
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
** Was Oni no Mikoto just bored and looking for talented swordsmen to test his skills against when he went around challenging people? Or, since he stated his "victims" could have refused a duel without loss of honor anytime and went into it willingly, was he also trying to give overconfident samurai what theydeserved?deserved?
** Hakaimono. Did he really [[spoiler:end up aiding Tatsumi, offering him and Yumeko a fighting chance, saving his life, and later unmerging their souls when he lay dying]] because it benefitted him, like he insisted? Or did he [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold actually wind up caring and simply refused to admit it]]?
** Was Oni no Mikoto just bored and looking for talented swordsmen to test his skills against when he went around challenging people? Or, since he stated his "victims" could have refused a duel without loss of honor anytime and went into it willingly, was he also trying to give overconfident samurai what they
** Hakaimono. Did he really [[spoiler:end up aiding Tatsumi, offering him and Yumeko a fighting chance, saving his life, and later unmerging their souls when he lay dying]] because it benefitted him, like he insisted? Or did he [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold actually wind up caring and simply refused to admit it]]?
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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Of course Okame didn't die in that collapsing watchtower.
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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt:
** Of course Okame didn't die in that collapsingwatchtower.watchtower.
** Even before you get to TheReveal that it was all an illusion, it's obvious that [[spoiler:Hakaimono killing the entire main cast—including Yumeko—can't have been real]].
** Of course Tatsumi wouldn't [[spoiler:have died from Genno's betrayal]].
** Obviously Yumeko wasn't killed by the umibozu early into the third book; this overlaps with SpoiledByTheFormat. [[spoiler:Subverted ''hard'' for the rest of the book, however.]]
** Of course Okame didn't die in that collapsing
** Even before you get to TheReveal that it was all an illusion, it's obvious that [[spoiler:Hakaimono killing the entire main cast—including Yumeko—can't have been real]].
** Of course Tatsumi wouldn't [[spoiler:have died from Genno's betrayal]].
** Obviously Yumeko wasn't killed by the umibozu early into the third book; this overlaps with SpoiledByTheFormat. [[spoiler:Subverted ''hard'' for the rest of the book, however.]]
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* TheWoobie: Poor [[StoicWoobie Tatsumi]]. First he was chosen as the bearer of a demon-possessed weapon as a child, raised to be an emotionless killing machine, shunned by everyone, and frequently abused all his life, with the threat of demonic possession constantly hanging over his head. Then, after he has finally seen a glimpse of happiness and love through Yumeko's friendship, [[spoiler:Hakaimono takes advantage of his feelings and possesses him, and he is ForcedToWatch as the demon uses his body to slaughter at will, including his own clan]]. Talk about a major TraumaCongaLine.
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* TheWoobie: TheWoobie:
** Poor [[StoicWoobie Tatsumi]]. First he was chosen as the bearer of a demon-possessed weapon as a child, raised to be an emotionless killing machine, shunned by everyone, and frequently abused all his life, with the threat of demonic possession constantly hanging over his head. Then, after he has finally seen a glimpse of happiness and love through Yumeko's friendship, [[spoiler:Hakaimono takes advantage of his feelings and possesses him, and he is ForcedToWatch as the demon uses his body to slaughter at will, including his own clan]]. Talk about a majorTraumaCongaLine.TraumaCongaLine.
*** And if ''that'' [[UpToEleven wasn't enough]], [[spoiler:he escapes from DemonicPossession at the price of being merged with an oni, has a brief glimpse of joy with Yumeko, survives all the way through the battle with Genno, only to be killed by Seigetsu in a last ISurrenderSuckers move. He actually needs to be reincarnated to have a chance at lasting happiness.]]
** Tsuki Kiyomi. She was married off into an ArrangedMarriage at fourteen, had an okay but distant and childless marriage, then finally got the love and attention from her husband that she wished for, fell in love and got pregnant—only for her "husband" to turn out to be [[spoiler:a yokai impostor]] who ran off with her newborn baby while she was in a postpartum delirium and both disappeared from her life without a trace for sixteen years.
** By the end of the story, Yumeko herself qualifies. She's the SoleSurvivor of the massacre at the Silent Winds temple, deals with SurvivorGuilt that makes her fear seeing any more of her companions killed, to the point where she'd rather [[spoiler:hand Genno the scrolls than have him slaughter her friends—and then she has to [[AllForNothing watch them die one by one anyway]] while battling Genno's demons, including the boy she loves, after they [[HopeSpot already thought they won]]—''twice.'']] Ouch.
** Poor [[StoicWoobie Tatsumi]]. First he was chosen as the bearer of a demon-possessed weapon as a child, raised to be an emotionless killing machine, shunned by everyone, and frequently abused all his life, with the threat of demonic possession constantly hanging over his head. Then, after he has finally seen a glimpse of happiness and love through Yumeko's friendship, [[spoiler:Hakaimono takes advantage of his feelings and possesses him, and he is ForcedToWatch as the demon uses his body to slaughter at will, including his own clan]]. Talk about a major
*** And if ''that'' [[UpToEleven wasn't enough]], [[spoiler:he escapes from DemonicPossession at the price of being merged with an oni, has a brief glimpse of joy with Yumeko, survives all the way through the battle with Genno, only to be killed by Seigetsu in a last ISurrenderSuckers move. He actually needs to be reincarnated to have a chance at lasting happiness.]]
** Tsuki Kiyomi. She was married off into an ArrangedMarriage at fourteen, had an okay but distant and childless marriage, then finally got the love and attention from her husband that she wished for, fell in love and got pregnant—only for her "husband" to turn out to be [[spoiler:a yokai impostor]] who ran off with her newborn baby while she was in a postpartum delirium and both disappeared from her life without a trace for sixteen years.
** By the end of the story, Yumeko herself qualifies. She's the SoleSurvivor of the massacre at the Silent Winds temple, deals with SurvivorGuilt that makes her fear seeing any more of her companions killed, to the point where she'd rather [[spoiler:hand Genno the scrolls than have him slaughter her friends—and then she has to [[AllForNothing watch them die one by one anyway]] while battling Genno's demons, including the boy she loves, after they [[HopeSpot already thought they won]]—''twice.'']] Ouch.
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* HoYay: In spades between Daisuke and Okame in ''Soul of the Sword''. [[spoiler:Near the end of the book, they take a RelationshipUpgrade.]]
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* HoYay: In spades between Daisuke and Okame in ''Soul of the Sword''. [[spoiler:Near the end of the book, they take a RelationshipUpgrade.RelationshipUpgrade, pulling them out of this and into OfficialCouple territory.]]
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* NightmareFuel: The gaki are plenty creepy, but the Path of Shadows is even creepier. Walking between the worlds of the living and the dead on a narrow path, with dead souls constantly trying to lure you off it and make you join them? Definitely creepy.
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* NightmareFuel: The gaki are plenty creepy, but the Path of Shadows is even creepier. Walking between the worlds of the living and the dead on a narrow path, with dead souls constantly trying to lure you off it and make you join them? Pretending to be your deceased loved ones, no less? Definitely creepy.
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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Of course Okame didn't die in that collapsing watchtower.
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* HoYay: In spades between Daisuke and Okame in ''Soul of the Sword''. [[spoiler:Near the end of the book, they take a RelationshipUpgrade.]]
* NightmareFuel: The gaki are plenty creepy, but the Path of Shadows is even creepier. Walking between the worlds of the living and the dead on a narrow path, with dead souls constantly trying to lure you off it and make you join them? Definitely creepy.
* TheWoobie: Poor [[StoicWoobie Tatsumi]]. First he was chosen as the bearer of a demon-possessed weapon as a child, raised to be an emotionless killing machine, shunned by everyone, and frequently abused all his life, with the threat of demonic possession constantly hanging over his head. Then, after he has finally seen a glimpse of happiness and love through Yumeko's friendship, [[spoiler:Hakaimono takes advantage of his feelings and possesses him, and he is ForcedToWatch as the demon uses his body to slaughter at will, including his own clan]]. Talk about a major TraumaCongaLine.
* NightmareFuel: The gaki are plenty creepy, but the Path of Shadows is even creepier. Walking between the worlds of the living and the dead on a narrow path, with dead souls constantly trying to lure you off it and make you join them? Definitely creepy.
* TheWoobie: Poor [[StoicWoobie Tatsumi]]. First he was chosen as the bearer of a demon-possessed weapon as a child, raised to be an emotionless killing machine, shunned by everyone, and frequently abused all his life, with the threat of demonic possession constantly hanging over his head. Then, after he has finally seen a glimpse of happiness and love through Yumeko's friendship, [[spoiler:Hakaimono takes advantage of his feelings and possesses him, and he is ForcedToWatch as the demon uses his body to slaughter at will, including his own clan]]. Talk about a major TraumaCongaLine.
