

Yamamoto? From his vantage point and considering the past of the Rika of his world, he has every reason to assume that Rika is merely a disturbed child. Perhaps they have plans to do away with her?

Mion doesn't like Rika, Satoko doesn't like Rika, and Rena is teetering on the brink. Then, Rena changes her story to a smile and a statement that what she really meant was, that they would all help her to feel at home in this world, by creating a game club. And she states that they'll try to help her go back to it. Then, out of nowhere, Rena starts talking about Rika's "other world", as though she was ready to trust all of Rika's story, out of the blue. Satoshi seems to be genuine in his desire to befriend Rika, but the other two seem as though they might be going through the motions. Who are Rika's friends, here? It's mostly Rena and Mion I'm worried about. Who is this "friend who moved away" that Yamamoto brought up to Rika? Was it Keiichi? Rika is only assuming at this point that Keiichi isn't here - off the top of my head, I don't see any evidence that she's investigated it. Why was this world's Oyashiro-sama (Rika's mother), unable to resurrect the other Rika? The only things that aren't adding up are: That act will create a conduit powerful enough for Hanyuu to interrupt the world of Rika's mother, and steal her back away from it. If they really wanted to be truly ironic with this story, then I think it's Satoko she's going to have to kill. Rika's going to ultimately have to murder somebody, but her mother is a god, so that's not going to work. One Oyashiro-sama stole said Rika out from under the nose of another Oyashiro-sama (Hanyuu), used the powers of resurrection we know to exist on her, and trapped her in this "other" world. So, she used her awesome godlike powers to search through other realities, and came upon a world where another Rika (our Rika), had just happened to be killed at the exact same moment (by the truck). Rika's mother, the Oyashiro-sama of this world, could not bear to be without her daughter. The Rika of the world Rika is now in was killed inadvertantly by that attack from Satoko. Rika herself said that she thinks that when the "other" Rika was hit in the back of the head by that ball from Satoko, she died. Rather, I get the feeling that she is this world's Hanyuu, and therefore is purposely keeping Hanyuu away from her territory.

Somehow I knew this was going to come down to having to murder somebody, but.I'm still not convinced "the one" is Rika's mother. Good old Higurashi! Just when you think you have ten different explanations for what happened in the past five minutes.the next five minutes completely throw you on your ear.
