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Did he really stop though? Hanyuu spends all her screentime interacting with others showing herself off as a harmless cutesy idiot that loves creampuffs only to go cold once no one's looking and tell Takano to kill herself. The moment Rika is isolated from her friends, Hanyuu takes her chance to ''show'' Rika why she's in the wrong for believing in an ideal ending. Saikoroshi is Hanyuu constructing her own narrative in which she believes in moral purity and imposes that on Rika with her ''fixes'', only for Rika to break out of it afterwards, Rika's obsession with being a pure victim and having no faults is largely because of Hanyuu. I hate GouSotsu as much as the next guy but the whole joke of Eua is that she and Hanyuu are very similair actually, Eua just doesn't wear a mask and it lets people engage with her character straight up rather than trying to fool you.

I'm not saying Hanyuu is inherently evil, a lot of it comes from her loneliness and wanting Rika's suffering to end, but what she puts up is very much a facade in my eyes. She has an obsession with purity. Hanyuu is like an abusive mother to Rika almost, and Ryukishi criticizes her for it in the narrative. It's like how Rika puts up a mask as a cutesy nipah village mascot but is actually cold and cynical behind it, she does the same except she fools the reader instead. Hanyuu's character progresses throughout the story (It'd suck if she never came around imo) but I very much see her antagonistic side mainly when I think of her, all of this is just me though.