I feel like that’s part of her appeal. Rika, although she one of the youngest, treats people and situations like a calculating adult. I wish she would have had a bigger role in this chapter, but who knows what she’ll bring in the future.[quote=“Aspirety, post:23, topic:40”]
It really leads me to believe Keiichi is actually going insane, which if we assume is true, then we need to start questioning EVERYTHING. Is anything real??
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That’s what I find so great about the writing in this chapter. Who knows what the truth is? There is room for all the possibilities presented in the “Tea Party” (to use Umineko’s term) and more when talking about the truth behind Keiichi’s experience. You really feel like the people. and maybe even the deity, of Hinamizawa are either, watching him or out to get him.
Of course, this is coming from Keiichi’s perspective, so we have to take that into account, and consider that maybe his thoughts and how he sees the situation presented are completely different to how the people around him see it.[quote=“Pepe, post:24, topic:40”]
I feel that there was a point in which Keiichi crossed the line of being a “paranoid guy swinging a bat” to “danger to hinamizawa”
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I’d probably say that he crossed that point when he swung at the people that were cornering him in the garbage dump. Up until this point Keiichi has usually just used the bat as a sign that he might swing at people if they come near him. Now he has defended himself and shown he was capable in his own mindset to actually use his weapon the way he intended to. This was directly after the scene with Rena following him with the axe, so in his own mind, that was probably the point where he knew that the town was out to get him.
Speaking of the garbage dump scene, I find it odd how Rena explains to Keiichi how she found him. The two men had closed in on him and now he was unconscious unable to defend himself. Then he wakes up in his room and is told that he was all alone and just lying on the ground. It felt like, to me, that the men were after there to hurt Keiichi and had a physical grasp on him, then as soon as he goes unconscious they just leave? Seems fishy.
Kinda makes me think about what @Aspirety said:[quote=“Aspirety, post:23, topic:40”]
Is anything real??
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Beginning to question everything indeed.