Tear Jerker / Judgment Of Corruption

• Elluka's execution in the prologue. She gets to spend one last moment with the man she loved and her baby boy, before being taken away to her death. Both Gallerian and Gandalf cry for her as she goes. Even if it ended up being a lie, Gandalf never gets over it and squanders all of his money ruining himself.
• Bruno's backstory, when it's not being horrifying. He was born as a slave in Maistia along with the rest of his family, and even that wasn't so bad despite not being a happy life. But then they're bought by the Freezises, and treated akin to animals. Loki ends up hunting all of his loved ones for sport, including his little sister. Bruno is the only one to survive. His reward? He gets to spend his life acting as a butler for the boy who slaughtered his family.
• The breakdown of the relationship between Gallerian, Loki, and Mira. Even after discovering that his best and closest friend is actually a serial killer who hates him, Gallerian (and Mira for the record) still clings to some faint hope that the relationship is salvageable. After everything they go through, Gallerian is actually a little happy that Loki got 30 years imprisonment instead of the death penalty, thinking that they could start over when they're old men. Then Bruno sends Shiro to shoot Loki in his cell. When Gallerian hears the news it's implied he weeps over it.
  • On Loki's end, evil or not, it's still a little depressing to see how terribly being in jail has affected him. His eyes are gaunt and he's hardly eaten. When Mira comes to see him she tells him that his whole family has turned their backs on him to protect their reputations, and that she's pregnant with Gallerian's child. He actually almost considers suicide before snapping himself out of it. Not that it changes his eventual fate.
• The death of Michelle, basically Gallerian losing the one bright spot in his life at that point. Everyone is crushed, but he ends up laying off all of his servants and spending most of his time in his mansion completely alone. When Ma comes to see him with the doll he finds her by wandering into Michelle's room at night, and it's implied he goes down there a lot to remember her.
• Bruno watching Gallerian talk to the doll that he thinks is Michelle. He doesn't know what's going on or why. The only conclusion he can come to is that his dear friend has completely snapped from grief, and despite being ecstatic earlier that they caught the person responsible for the Titanis incident he cries in sorrow.
• Shiro's death during Tony's massacre of the Netsuma town she used to live in. The very last thing that she is able to say as she falls is "Bruno". Tony even admits to Gallerian later that it was a complete accident, and that he'd had no intention whatsoever to shoot her, feeling deeply sorry for it.
• Tony offering Gallerian money when asking for help getting exonerated for his massacre. It's a small moment but it's one that shows Gallerian that what he had clearly thought was an appeal between old friends was being treated as nothing more than a business arrangement. It also shows just how far he's fallen by this point.
• The fight between Adam and Gallerian near the end of the novel. Adam thinks that the Clockworker's Doll is his beloved Eve, with Gallerian saying that it is Michelle. Both of them are wrong; the doll turns out to be the Master of the Court , who is Irina Clockworker's reincarnation. It's sad to see that Adam, who has been working with Seth for over 900 years to find Eve, and Gallerian, who lost his daughter Michelle to an accident, are basically fighting over nothing.