Tear Jerker / Spirit Circle

• Each incarnation's death is suitably sad, tragic, and sometimes senseless.
  • Fone dies trying to save the girl he loves from becoming a Human Sacrifice. Ultimately, he's too late and ends up decapitated for his efforts. Stona, as well, is ultimately rounded up, along with the rest of the elders, by a lynch mob that views Fone as a martyr and executed , despite having good intentions. Worse, it's clear that Fone's spirit still despises Stona and, by association, Kouko.
  • The medicine woman is murdered by Vaan on orders from his superiors in the church in what was most likely simply a political move, despite that she was just making medicine for a plaggue in the nearby village. In turn, Vaan is branded by the medicine woman and subsequently disowned by his family. After become a drunk, he does lead a happy life with the past lives of Fuuta's friends, until they die in completely mundane circumstances. Vaan then takes in an abandoned child (who is the reincarnation of Rei). His death comes suddenly when he takes her to find a husband and he falls, hitting his head on a rock. Though, in his final moments, he was actually happy and had no regrets other than being unable to see his daughter get married.
  • Despite the fact that they manage to not directly kill one another, Flors and Roca still meet sad ends. Flors lives the rest of his life a bitter and depressed man, known only for the sphinx he built which he hated and viewed as a failure. Along with that, he somewhat blames Roca for the fact that he was unable to see his father again before he died. He marries Lihanarra (Umi's ancestor) but knows that she would have preferred her servant, Kertenos. As a result of this and his bitterness, he is distant from her and his son who leaves after Lihnarra dies and refuses to apprentice to him. At the end, he realizes how he'd wasted his life in his bitterness and that he give his wife and son the love they deserved, ultimately dying sad and alone. Roca, on her end, is killed after the pharaoh declares her father, the noble who contracted Flors to build the sphinx and wanted to make his city of place of free thought and learning, a heretic and exterminates her entire city.
  • Houtarou and Iwana, despite a brutal fight which leaves them both heavily injured and hobbled, actually make up, more or less. They even decide to repay the priest and orphan, Akari, (ancestors of Daiki and Nono, respectively) who save them by promising to take care of Akari. However, they leave during the night to check a rendezvous spot where Houtarou was to meet Jinkurou and Rihama. After arriving and discovering they had survived, they both succumb to their wounds and exhaustion and die, unable to keep their promise to Akari. The priest (who was too drunk to notice when they left) feels so guilty that he quits drinking and the rest of his reincarnations follow suit.
  • Lafalle and Lapis actually end up getting married, though purely to take care of their late boss' genetically modified daughter (a Reincarnation of Nono and, by extension, Akari). However, after becoming managers of the Sleeping Tower, Lafalle becomes disillusioned of the government and begins to see the Towers as imprisoning peoples souls and keeping them in a state of half-death, with their souls unable to reincarnate and inadvertently causing the slow extinction of the human race. To stop this, he leads a conspiracy to shut down the life support of several towers, effectively killing (or mercy killing) over one hundred million Non-Living. Lapis attempts to stop him but is unable to. In the end, both of their efforts are rendered moot as the terrorist organization Arion's black hole bomb experiment fails, leading to the destruction of the planet anyway. The real kicker comes later when Fortuna outright states that what Lafalle did was pointless - the birthrates were simply so low because souls didn't favor that era in the first place.