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marshmallowprotection · 1 year ago

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Have you ever done an in-depth analysis of Mika's character?

I haven't written one at length before, mainly because nobody's ever asked me to write one AND because nobody plays Rika's Behind DLC so they're not aware of who the heck Mika is. I've used Mika in one of my stories before, though! But, if you're curious about Mika, sure, let me go ahead and talk about who Mika is and how I interpret her with the story of Mystic Messenger.

Rika, birth name Mina, baptismal name Serena. She spent the early years of her life in a church nursery that took care of children in need, but if the children weren't adopted by a certain age, they were sent to the traditional orphanage where they would stay until they aged out of system or they were adopted by a family.

She is three years old the first time we meet her, and as it turns out, there's another little girl in the nursery that takes cares of her and the other kids since she's the oldest of the bunch.

Her name is Mika.

She was adopted by a family and returned by that family not long after that. The teacher in charge implies that the reason why Mika is a good girl is because she's desperate to be chosen and wants to be seen as someone who is worthy of a family who won't leave her like they did the last time. She is adamant about staying there, and will throw tantrums and crying fits whenever it's brought up that she has to go to the orphanage.

The rule is that the kids can only stay in the nursery until four years old, and while Mina is three years old—Mika is six years old and she can't stay there any longer. The teacher says she'll have to leave by the end of the year because they can't fund her there. She needs to have an education and move on. Mika refuses, she claims that most parents want babies and if she moves up, she won't be able to have a family.

Mika's favorite baby is Mina. She wants them to be adopted together, and she wants them to be sisters. She comforts Mina when she cries, strokes her hair and tells her that she deserves a childlike heart so no grown-ups abandon her like she was abandoned. She insists she will cut Mina's hair because "little sister's have short hair, big sisters have long hair! I saw it on television. Let's be together!"

Mika was left scarred by her experience with her first adoptive family. It's to the point where she believes in her heart that the best way for her to find a family is to stay in the nursery, and perhaps, if she's just lucky enough, she'll get to be adopted with Mina since Mina is sweet and innocent. If Mina loves her enough, if Mina needs her enough, it will be hard for parents to adopt just one of them, right?

It seems that she doesn't want Mina to be adopted by bad parents, either. The experience was something she understood to be a bad thing, even at six years old. It seems that she doesn't want Mina to be adopted by bad parents, either. The experience was... something she understood to be a bad thing, even at six years old. "I loved my mom and dad who adopted me, but they sent me back because they didn't like me."

We're never given an explanation as to why Mika was sent to the nursery again but this experience of abandonment shapes every avenue of her life going forward. The only love Mika gets is what's given to her from Mina. Mina doesn't care about being adopted by anyone, she just wants to spend her life with Mika since that's the only person she knows deeply in the nursery! Mika cares, though. She cares about what's going to happen to them if they don't get adopted together.

She's worried about what will happen to her if she's not adopted by a good family.

In the end, the closer the months pass Mika and Mina by, neither of them gets adopted. Mika finds herself at a standstill where it seems like there won't be any good parents to save her and Mina from this place whatsoever, and life will be hard if that doesn't happen. She's a little girl who doesn't understand why love is conditional, and why it's easy for a baby to love someone without hesitation but difficult for a grown-up to love someone without something getting in the way.

It doesn't make sense to her in the slightest. To me, it makes sense to see how Mika comes to her inevitable conclusion because she's a kid in a situation where she has no control over her life. She has to hope and pray that someone will save her and take care of her because she doesn't have any other options. She's an orphan, she's aware that the older she gets, the more likely it is that she won't have a family.

The statistics agree with that, unfortunately. Most kids who're in the system won't get adopted if they're older. People like to adopt young children so they can "start from the beginning". They don't want to do anything that would make less "miss out" on the experience. There's some people who don't want to think about helping children who're traumatized, either. They don't want to deal with the baggage a kid who's older may have.

Mika is aware of how harsh the world is at an age where she should only be worried about having fun.

Eventually, Mika's conclusion is that the world isn't built for love in mind. It's based on right and wrong conditions. The only way for a grown-up to survive is to understand the conditions. You can't be a gentle soul. You'll get chewed up and spit out before you know the next day.

She says, "So, the only way to learn how to live in this world without love is to be given the bad parents who show you from the start the truth of the world." Even so, she said that Mina wasn't ready to learn a hard truth like that.

Mika truly didn't want Mina to go with the woman who came to the nursery, that woman being Rika's adoptive mother, but it's revealed in the following episode the DLC that the only reason why that damned woman took Mina from the small nursery was because the pastor of her church said he liked Mina more than Mika.

That pastor is a sorry piece of shit who deserves to rot in hell. I won't go heavily into detail but he abused Rika and her adoptive mother did nothing to stop it. If anything, she just left Rika, named Serena at the time, with the pastor to be "cleansed".

She turned her head and let that happen without thinking twice about how horrible her actions were to her adopted daughter. A child who depended on her to be a good person.

The next time we meet Mika, she's in the hospital being treated, and Serena happens to find her by chance. The hospital tells her there isn't anything more they can do for her at the moment. Serena gets dragged to the hospital by the pastor because her mother wants her father to be properly converted to the faith. Her father is the director of the hospital, and it's implied that he's normally out of the house at all times.

There's not a lot we can infer about Serena's father, but the fact that he's not shown or around often proves that he doesn't care about his adopted daughter all that much. If he did, I'm certain he would've put a stop to what was happening at home. Given what we know about Yoosung's Aunt and Uncle, they're not nice people, and his parents go out of their way to avoid them for good measure. It's why he didn't meet Rika until she was thrown out of her parent's home.

The nurse and pastor state that Mika is being treated in a specific ward of the hospital. She has cancer in her eyes, that's what we're told. But, they don't tell us what she has specifically, they just say it's in her eyes and it's not something they can do anything about at that point. Cancer can be varied when it comes to treatment and how it effects the body.

There are some types that don't have treatment, and there are others who have treatment but only work best at delaying the inevitable we all face as humans. Without knowing what kind of cancer Mika was dealing with at the time, it makes it hard to gauge what she's going through, what she might need from the hospital, and if it would be remotely possible to help her live as comfortably as possible before the disease progressed to the need of a hospice.

But, my God, when the pastor said: "YOU MIGHT CATCH WHAT SHE HAS!" Like, rude, can someone smack the pastor before I do because that kind of mentality is disgusting. As if someone is sick has to be in quarantine no matter what. As if their life should be closed off to the rest of the world for your comfort. That's the kind of man who thinks a disabled person should stay inside for the rest of their life if they're afraid of catching a virus on top of what they already have.

Yes, many of us have no choice but to stay inside and stay home because some people won't wear a fucking mask and wash their hands. But, I digress. Yes, there are cases when people in general need to be in quarantine for their health and safety, and that's the guideline in hospitals and for patients that need to stay at home for awhile.

But, every time I hear someone shriek the words that pastor said, I think about how someone dear to my heart was ostracized by many people because of AIDS, and the way society barked fear-mongering bullshit like, "Don't touch them! You'll catch it!" I wish they were still here so I could hug them one more time, because nobody deserves to feel like they could never be hugged ever again. In this instance, I feel for Mika, because regardless of what she's going through, I know hearing those bullshit words stings like nothing else.

Being told you don't have any other options in a hospital can mean a few different things. I do think there were a limited number of options for Mika at the time, but it's possible she might've had better luck if she had doctors that wanted to fight harder for her sake. Even if the country bars the use of for-profit hospitals overall, it doesn't change the fact that I believe they still deny patients if they want.

They have to have "justifiable" reason.

And, living in America, I can tell you that insurance companies and even some doctors will find every excuse in the book to deny you a treatment you need. While I may not be able locate everything to be sure of different policies in South Korea, so take everything I say with a grain of salt.

I go by the age the characters were in 2016 to gauge the timeline and how to look up different policies in South Korea. Serena's a teenager in that particular scene so that means it's the middle-2000s. I could not find much to piece together what was going on then as far as the policies go, just a lot of old Catholic mission websites asking you for donations to help kids in need.

Their health care system isn't free, but they don't have to take out an arm and leg to afford the healthcare they need. I don't know what percentage the patient is meant to pay out of pocket, though. It may depend on their income. But, Mika wouldn't have an income as a kid in an orphanage outside of what the government provides them to take care of her.

I think while the orphanages have government aid, I can't say for sure how much of that would be allocated to a sick kid, especially one like Mika who is much older, and older kids have their foot out of the door because of the people in charge of the orphanage in most cases.

That's the case in most countries if you land in an orphanage that doesn't think of the quality of life and happiness of the kids. But, if there's no issue with money, I have to wonder why she's being sent away from the hospital. What "justifiable" reason would they have to turn her away? Because, it just doesn't make sense to me that they want to turn away a patient like this who may be near the end of her life and needs care from an empathetic human standpoint.

I know the real answer is oftentimes, "We can find an excuse to deny treatment to this orphan child because A) we don't like orphans, B) we don't think they're worthy of treatment because they're orphans and that means they don't have anyone who cares if they live or die, or C) we're not getting money from the government to pay for this and even if we care, policy comes first."

Most children who're sick and don't have anyone to take them to the hospital won't even know what's happening to them because they've got no means to afford treatment. That's the case across the world! I feel for Mika here, because even though she knows what's happening to her, the doctors told her they can't do anything, and without the game telling us more factors about her health, my heart aches at the notion that they could've done more for her and they just... didn't. It's impossible to know for sure.

Rika's meant to be in her middle-to-late 20s at the time of Mystic Messenger, and Mika is three years older than she is. But, in this particular flashback, Mika's just shy being of 18.

Orphans "graduate" at eighteen from the orphanage, and it doesn't matter what they know or don't know, they're on their own and have to learn how to fend for themselves. It's the same for kids in America too. Once you're 18, the system bumps you out and if you don't have anyone, you don't have anyone. It's on you to figure out how to fend for yourself.

She makes no point of hiding how hard her life is going to be when she speaks to Rika about her condition later on, and she's well aware she might spend her life trying to make the best of an existence with a health condition that's shortened her life. I know what that feels like and it's hard to be in a perpetual state of grief about your health. It is hard to realize that you can't do as much as you want to do with your life, and while our conditions don't define us, we have to change how we live and adapt as best we can to make our lives better, to what we want them to be.

Nurse: It appears you must leave tomorrow. Mika: ...It's okay. I appreciate your work. Nurse: But, please don't forget to take your meds, alright? Mika: Of course. Thank you for your care. Have a good day.

I think, Mika, in this instance was starting to show signs of her health failing her because of the way Serena described her, but I do think it's possible that she was being treated for her mental health, too. Serena is treated poorly because of her mental health from the get-go. She's never given the love or support she deserves, and you can see it from how readily her adopted mother calls her the devil for struggling with trauma.

If Mika's main reason for being there wasn't just her cancer, but for her mental health as well, yeah, I could see the pastor being a piece of shit about it.

Serena: What did she tell him? I wonder what made him go back without pushing any further. Mika: It's because I'm a good patient around here… um, that sounds weird.

The nurse told the pastor that Mika is dying of a cancer and since she has no one to care for her, leaving Serena there would be a kind offer. While plausible, I know there has to be more to it than that. He isn't a good pastor, unfortunately, so I think it's a combination of factors in this instance that made him leave.

In a hospital, he has no power to be able to fight the system the way he does when he's in the church. It was already "dangerous" for him when the nurse told him, "Hey, you're not her real father. I know her father." Part of me thinks he ran off because he didn't want to risk what he did to Serena coming out, and another part of me thinks it's because the way Mika reacted to him told him that he needed to get out of dodge to save his own ass.

Plus, he looks like a horrible pastor if he denies someone who is on their death bed the company of a friend who wants to see them.

The episode after this one has Rika tells us about Mika's condition explicitly.

Rika: I learned from my father only once I got home that she had cancer in her eyes, close to untreatable. Upon hearing that she'd meet an early demise if she were not treated, I implored my father to pay her hospital bills. Rika: I tried to find her after she was discharged. But, the address and the contact number for the orphanage were fake. so, there was nothing I could do.

This clears up many of the questions I had above after I spent time trying to researching different Korean policies from the mid-2000s.

Mika was capable of being given treatment, but she could not receive it due to the inability to pay for it. Which, leads to me believe that it's possible Mika ran away from the orphanage at a young age, began to work in volunteer programs to take care of herself, but fell sick and was probably convinced by her fellow workers to get looked at even though she did not have the means to pay.

It would explain why Mika falsified documents. I don't know how she would get away with that, but somehow, she did.

But, that being said, Mika moved to defend Serena from the pastor. She could sense that he was a horrible man, either because she was just old enough to remember what happened at the nursery or just due to the fact that she's good at picking out good and bad adults at a single lance. That helped Serena breathe a sigh of relief.

She was so scared to be alone with that man for any reason, FOR DAMN GOOD REASON, and seeing Mika again was both a relieving and sad feeling.

Mika is very envious of Serena, and that's an undeniable fact they both understand and don't confess to each other. That seems to be how the two of them best communicate their problems, and by that, I mean they do not communicate at all about what's troubling them. There's a reason why Serena is holding onto shame when Mika looks at her closely.

"She stared at my school uniform at least a dozen times as she said that. I knew she envied my school and my household. So, I couldn't just tell her that I was afraid of being forsaken, by my family, and by the Believers with faith. Thousands of children have found good families, but why were we left to dread like this?"

The flashback in Ray Route shows us a scene of Rika in elementary school, and even then, she's told she's the problem for being bullied. They don't protect her from the any bullies. They blame her for being "wrong", they tell her she's "wrong", and that "we should've taken that other little girl (Mika)!"

tLike I said earlier, the only reason why Rika's mother adopted her is because of the pastor and Mika fought with everything in her power that day to not let Mina go with them. But, Mina was a little girl, and so was Mika. They didn't have any power over their situation and that guilt stuck with Rika for the rest of her life. She blamed herself for what happened to Mika because she didn't have anyone to care for her, even though that wasn't Rika's fault.

Mika: Mina, no! Mika: Don't go! You can't go with them! They're bad parents! Teacher: Bad parents?! Mika...! Mina: Mika, Mika...! Pastor: She is a lost lamb. Mother: Are you sure she is the right sign given by God? I think that girl crying right now would be more of a service to Him. Pastor: No. You'll get to experience as much grace as He would allow upon adopting THIS one... That's what I feel. Mika: Mina, no... please. Take me instead! Mika: Even if you adopt her, you're going to forsake her if you don't like her...! I can see it! I know it! Because that's what happened to me! Mika: Mina, don't go... please, don't leave...!

They were just little kids in a world that didn't care for them, and it's not their fault that fate dealt them a bad hand. They didn't have any say over who adopted or didn't adopt them. Rika didn't have power, either. She did plead with her Father, but he refused. She tried to do what she could with her own situation and power, but it didn't do a thing for Mika and that's not her fault.

But, she believed it was her fault.

Rika: She was still in her teens when she had cancer. Did she really grow up at an orphanage? She knew I was the adopted daughter of the hospital director. She heard the nurse. Why didn't she ask me for help? I blamed myself. I couldn't pick up on her signal begging me to save her. Rika: Poor Mika, poor Mika. Rika: Why didn't anyone save her? Why didn't anyone take responsibility for her? Rika: When did all of this take the wrong turn? The underlying cause to all of this would be the parents. The parents that favor only young, pretty babies are to blame... right? Rika: But, in the end, I also blamed myself. I was powerless and incapable of anything.

Rika blamed herself in the end. She never saw Mika after that in her teenage years, and she assumed her friend died. It wasn't long after that when she encountered Sally, and she decided she would fight to keep Sally safe because she failed to keep Mika safe. But, we're very aware in this fandom what happened with Sally in her later years.

Sally and Mika's fates are inevitable tied together in Rika's mind because they both had health conditions that could've been made better with costly surgery, and Rika didn't have the means to help either of them. Rika's stubborn refusal to get the surgery for Sally honestly feels like she told herself that she needed to pay for it by herself and if she couldn't do that, it wouldn't happen.

I don't know for certain, but sometimes I fear Rika was punishing herself just as much as Sally was punished because she wasn't able to help Mika like she wanted.

Sally was an innocent puppy who Rika should've taken better care of, and that sweet dog was her world because she defended Rika from both her Mom and the pastor. But, while the game doesn't confirm it one way or the other, I do think we're meant to read into this and the weight of the comparisons and similarities.

Rika could've helped Sally without a second thought if she were willing to accept help to help Sally. But, she didn't. She didn't let herself trust others to help her because nobody helped her with Mika's care when she pleaded.

My heart aches in this sense because Rika could've helped Sally and prevented Sally from dying before her time. She could've lived for a few more years without pain, even if the surgery for her eyes didn't fix everything. Rika TRYING to do right thing and ACCEPTING that she didn't need to be sole savior would've made a world of difference for her and Sally.

But, she wouldn't be the Rika we know in the game if she made that decision.

This is the point where theories in the fandom begin to diverge with each other and nobody agrees on what the real answer is since this episode is the last time where we see Mika before the time-jump to Jihyun gifting Rika the apartment. I've seen two main theories over the years in regards to Mika's reappearance.

There are people who believe this Mika is merely a byproduct of Rika’s psychosis. That is to say, she is a representation of Rika’s innermost "devil."

She is there to help Rika somehow “justify” her decisions as far as the creation of Mint Eye and everything that comes after that. Given the language that is shared between the two of them in this scene, I don't think it's that wrong for people to assume this is the takeaway from the scene. Rika has always been torn between being angel Rika and devil Rika for a lack of a better explanation.

The shining Rika who holds charity parties and is seen by so many people as a lovely woman who can do no wrong, and the dark Rika who is afraid of everything and wants to forsake the world before it forsakes her. She's afraid of becoming the devil her abuse family has always told her she was, and yet, she found autonomy by being the devil when she told her adoptive mother the devil was inside of her and scared the church by telling them the same.

She found a sense of self in being a devil but that doesn't mean she likes being the devil. She's afraid of it. She's afraid of herself. She is afraid of being cruel and wicked, and yet, it's a part of her just like the swathe of intrusive thoughts she has.

Being the "perfect Rika" makes her fear that nobody will ever love her if she's honest with them about her intrusive thoughts and feelings.

If she stops being the "angel Rika" for even a second, they'll hate and forsake her in a day. Why do you think that Mint Eye, at least within Another Story before she's lost sight of her original plan, focuses so much on bringing the RFA to her side to "fix" them? With the elixir in hand, it means she can make sure nobody leaves her no matter how they see her. She's desperate for love, so desperate that she's willing to force people to stay with her and be her family.

Even though she had a family in the first place with the RFA, she just was... she was just so caught up in playing the "angel and devil" that she refused to see what was in front of he the entire time. I've already been yapping for a while so I'm not going to get onto the entire mess with V/Rika's dynamic and how that toxic, obsessive relationship was its own mess on top of this stuff, but just talking about Rika's view of reality here, I can see why people think Mika isn't alive here and why they think she's in Rika's head.

On the other hand, if you were to believe Mika is alive in this situation, it doesn’t change much from how we view this, given how it doesn’t change that Mika is still there pushing for Rika to give into her devil and make people pay for what they’ve done.

I think the main issue most people have with Mika being alive is that it makes so many people believe Cheritz was trying to cast off blame from Rika onto Mika. I don't think so. Even if Mika was alive, she was still unwell, struggling with her health as it continued to get worse for her every day. As someone who has many chronic illnesses, I can tell you that it takes me days to prepare myself for an outing and I have to minimize what I do to make sure I even have the energy to do the things I want to do.

Even if that wasn't the case for Mika, I feel like it's worth pointing out given how disability and illness can be represented in media. Not all of us fit within a box of inspiration porn, and none of us want to be a person who is used to tear other disabled people down because you want to say: "XYZ did this, why can't you do it?" Mika's already lost an eye in the CG we're given in this scene, and when I saw her, all I could think was that maybe she was able to afford a cheaper operation to have the eye removed but the cancer itself already spread too much for them to do anything.

After all, over here in America, pulling teeth out is cheaper if not free for some people compared to the expensive alternative of trying to save teeth that could be saved if you have enough money to pay for the treatment. Can't say it's the same in South Korea, but given the way American insurance handles things, I hope it's not that way other there.

I digress. The point is, a lot of people get upset when they read this particular scene because they think it means that Rika was coerced by Mika to do all of this. She wasn’t. She wasn't at all. She had many chances to stop. She agreed with Mika and decided to go along with the creation of Mint Eye, but you want to know the most important thing about that in my opinion?

It has always been my theory that Rika manipulated party guests from the first party as well as possible investors to help fund the creation of Mint Eye. She used her brilliant smile to talk them into helping her and they did. She did that herself. Mika didn't do that. There's a point you could argue that maybe Mika answered some emails or did a few phone calls, but you know who went into public and did the dirty work?

Rika Kim.

You know who probably embezzled some of the funds from the first (one-to-two depending on your timeline) RFA parties to fund Mint Eye? That's not proven by any means but it's always been my opinion that she willfully took some of the money from and only donated just a certain amount to make sure it didn't look suspicious. But, who did that?

Rika Kim.

She sweet-talked anyone from the medical sector to help her create the elixir. She didn't make that by herself. Rika might've been deeply involved in finding the herbs, but let me tell you, she had find people to not only supply her with the drugs to make the elixir, consistently deliver those drugs to her, and find some alternatives when certain drugs weren't in supply because they make BATCHES OF ELIXIR IN BULK UNTIL THEY RUN OUT. No batch is the same as the last due to quality control and the different strains of drugs!

Rika had agency over her choices and she made her bed. Even if Mika was alive and stood by her side during the creation process until her death, Rika made the decision to go along with it, and not only that, she took it upon herself to go above and beyond. I have had a difficult life, as I'm sure many of you have had your own struggles, too, but do you see any of us making a cult?

Nope!

Your tragic backstory doesn't excuse your actions.

In my opinion, it doesn't matter if you believe Mika is alive or not by the end of Rika’s Behind DLC, because Rika makes the decision to create Mint Eye, either with Mika standing by her side to create the foundation of the cult or with a vision of Mika created by psychosis egging her on to help her feel justified in doing something wrong to others. Rika still makes her choice at the end of the day. She could have stopped at any time and she didn't.

I sympathize with what she went through as a child because nobody deserves to go through that kind of abuse. But, understanding what she went through doesn’t excuse what she did to everyone else in her life later on. I think, at the end of the day, no matter how you slice it, Mika is just another piece of the puzzle that helps us understand who Rika is as a person, just as much as V, Sally, and the twins are a huge part of her story, too.

I find Mika to be an interesting character because it really sets up the foundation of Rika's survivor's guilt and helps us better understand so many things about why she does what she does when cornered. She shares with Saeran so many times that if he decided to forsake her, it would mean that nobody would ever want to be close to her again.

A word that is echoed not only by Rika's fears but by her experience in life with Mika.

Mika: "You'll no longer be forsaken only once you become a person who can judge who is a good child. This is a secret between Just The Two Of Us. We have to take it to our graves. We’ll both be forsaken if people find out where we came from."

Rika comes to believe that the only way she can have power is if she becomes her devil and decides who is worth saving and who is worth forsaking. She decides that she needs to be the one in control at all times because if she's not in control, that means she's going to be doomed to a life where she might continue to lose everything over and over again.

She can't lose everything if she is the judge and executioner.

This is not a healthy way to think about the world or is it a healthy way to contend with yourself and the people you supposedly care about. It is the way she feels, and understanding this helps us better see how she becomes the person she becomes not only in Another Story, but in Casual and Deep Story, too.

If you're playing in Deep or Casual Story, you're contending with a Rika who doesn't care about anything but being the executioner. But, in the Secret Endings, my God, Rika doesn't care about that. She only cares about making Jihyun pay in blood, and anyone who continues to side with him is going to suffer until there is nothing left of them but a mindless drone—if they survive.

In Another Story, there's a part of her that Saeran can cut into that gives us a piece of the puzzle that you would never see in Deep or Casual Story... because Saeran hasn't been lost to Unknown's pure apathy. He sees the truth for what it is and tells Rika what she is in front of him, someone who hurts others because she's afraid to be left alone, and he won't let her hurt him anymore. He won't let her hurt MC or the RFA anymore if he has a say in it.

That's why her meltdown on Day 10 of Ray Route is the way it is, and why it unlocks a Rika flashback that shows us a glimpse of her time in childhood where she began to hear everything was her fault and how it led to her invoking the devil to be strong. He cuts down to the part of her heart that she tries to bury, because frankly, Saeran knows her heart more than she wants him to.

Because she's been projecting her fears and nightmares onto him for a long time and what are they if not narrative foils in this route while MC and V are foils to each other?

Either way, you asked me about Mika, and while a lot of this was just me recapping Rika Behind for people who won't play it to learn about her or Rika in general for comfort reasons or because they don't care for her, and this is pretty much my consensus. God, I didn't even get to talk about Mother Choi's death here but that also plays into a lot of this.

The death of Mother Choi was the nail in the coffin for Rika. That was the moment she saw herself as the devil for good. But, if you want to hear more about that, you can ask about it specifically.

TLDR; Doesn't matter if Mika was alive or not, Rika made her bed in the end, she can lay in it.

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