All's well that ends well

[thecastle]

[ So you've wished the dead back to life, but there's still 2 wishes you have to make. Ultimately what happens from here is entirely in your hands, but for the first time in eight weeks everyone is alive and whole again (even that pesky merman). There is that corruption you should deal with, but surely you know what to do about that.

Once you've settled and wound down a bit, maybe you should relax a bit before going your separate ways. You've earned it.

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[miirai]

....

[ She understands that it isn't impossible, considering the miracle that happened today, but it's still a little hard to grasp. The idea of her living is like water that spills through her hands; she just can't pass that day in Showa 58.

It's with a lowered gaze that she speaks up after a while of being silent, however: ]

Hey, Hanyuu. If... I told them everything. Do you think they would believe me?

[ Rika doesn't specify if she means the group here or her fellow club members. It might be both. ]

[aumygoddess]

[ Hanyuu has to think about it for a moment, but when she comes to a conclusion, she smiles. ]

After everything that's happened, I'd find it strange if they wouldn't.

[ Not specifying the club or the murdercastle survivors either, but really, it probably means both. The club members were their longtime companions, why wouldn't they be by Rika's side even if they found the truth difficult to swallow? And looking back on the past two months, well, being stuck in an endless time cycle isn't the most farfetched thing. ]

[miirai]

You already know that they wouldn't believe me when I tried, before.

[ This is a little more specific; even though it's still vague, it's obvious now that she's referring to her fellow club members. There's some hesitance when she says that but it's when she continues that it's filled with something a little more confident. ]

But... you're right. After everything, it wouldn't hurt to try again.

[aumygoddess]

They've already started to gain back pieces of their memories, though, from other fragments. It's more possible now than it ever was.

[ a pause ]

Anyhow, when it's time to leave, I'll be taking Zamasu-san with me, so that may already be changing the flow of the fragments. [ matsuribayashi but with a dbz villain in a soda bottle tagging along for the ride ] I might end up meeting with "this you" after all. I heard some of the others talking about being able to travel to each other's worlds, so depending on how things conclude on my end, I may be able to find "this you" in your own fragment, if only now and again.

[ Bypass her own powers entirely and just rely on this world as a even more meta sea of fragments, she means. She could even go see Tiki's world if that happened. ]

But we'll have to wait and see how things pan out, of course. [ Again, she's...being very cautiously optimistic about all of this, but it can't hurt, now. They already saw a miracle, today. ]

cw: torture.... why is higurashi like this

[miirai]

That's true.

[ That much she can agree with. Although honestly, screw Matsuribayashi-hen and the fact that Rika never remembers Minagoroshi-hen!! A DUMB FRAGMENT. ]

And I heard. [ From where she was when she was dead, anyway. ] If this 'Furude Rika' doesn't recall the events of this Fragment, then you'll definitely have some explaining to do about why there's an idiotic, green god stuck in a ramune bottle in the saiguden.

[...]

Actually, maybe you should let him out when Takano and the Yamainu try to kill me in that Fragment. I'm sure he'd make a good guard dog.

[ RIKA!!!! Also apparently he's a masochist, so the saiguden will be a fun time for him. Maybe you can appease him with torture objects (no) ]