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The Higurashi opening is being intentionally ambiguous.

The figure with short hair is clearly middle schooler Miyoko wearing a fancy school uniform, but it could also be Lambda somehow. Definitely not Satoko, her hair is different. Near the end Rika's sleeves become more frilly, this could be a reference to Bernkastel's dress, but it could also mean Rika is sent to St. Lucia and that's the uniform. And the hands reflectes in her eyes are either Hanyuu's or Lambda's. Everything about this OP sends mixed signals.

Its it possible... that Rika is adopted by a rich family and becomes the REAL Furudo Erika, studying at St. Lucia? We never knew Erika's real personality, only what Ikuko came up with for her troll detective. The ages kinda match as well. It makes sense that a nearly 15yo Rika would kill herself by jumping off a boat to go back to 1983 once she has enough knowledge and maturity to come up with a plan. Maybe someone on the internet figured out that the nurse was suspicious and everything clicked for Rika. The name change to Furudo Erika would make sense too if she was put in a witness protection program after her attempted assassination or didn't want to be associated with Hinamizawa (remember how Hinamizawans are discriminated against after the disaster in every arc because people from there keep killing themselves or murdering someone all over Japan).

Is it possible... that Ciconia is Lambda's origin story and the person in the OP is Jestress/Lambda instead of Miyoko? Jestress wears similar clothes to the person in the OP. Is Rika the person she wanted to meet so badly that she did all that shit in the Ciconia fragment just to become a 5th dimensional entity and travel to 1983 Japan? Will they meet in St. Lucia? Maybe Lambda will incarnate as a human for that purpose? Is this how they fucking meet? Mindblowing.