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Obviously she wasn't completely confident which is why she checked Hanyuu before completing the question, but se3eing Hanyuu's negative take on the situation is when her thoughts start getting pessimistic. You can literally follow her monologue.

>See the last paragraph of
Well, there's nothing that I can do about the story in your head. I'm just arguing neither the anime nor people behind it ever pushed your theory.

>For the 3rd time, what part of "Rika forgave Takano while she was shooting Hanyuu" did you miss? In other words, Rika forgives your sins without you needing to repent. Also no, there's no proof that she even learned about the prison, don't try to pretend otherwise.
She was literally there when Satoko was punished for several days. And like I said, if you're arguing she's too good of a person to blame the principal/staff, she wouldn't be fine with some random person being punished like that even if it isn't Satoko.

>Okinomiya isn't Hinamizawa.
But she often goes to Okinomiya and the whole conflict happens due to her not wanting to go to an Okinomiya school in the first place.

>Yeah, her friends, duh.
Yeah, living alongside her friends, so she wouldn't abandon them and stay many years without seeing them. If she was fine with that she could have ran away during the loops, but she didn't try - like mentioned, even the one time she run it was just to the nearby mountains. At least as portrayed in the VN. Obviously the new material doesn't line up with that. You'd think the later loops would involve a lot of Rika trying to leave Hinamizawa altogether considering her current characterization.

>If you're gonna use that weird interview as justification
Like I already said, I'm not using the interview as justification for my argument. R07's interviews about Rika being interested in western architecture and style and that being her reason for going to St.Lucia don't contradict the anime at all. He also has talked about that multiple times. It's not a one off quote. I only brought up the quote to show that the anime's surface level "I want a high school with a sophisticated style" IS everything there was to her motivations. Your headcanon about her wishing high education to gain a prosperous future monetarily is pure headcanon as far as the anime goes.

The bit about her dropping off after high school and going back to Hinamizawa was from a one-off interview from the 20th anniversary event, but that's not what I'm referencing most of the time here.

And I brought up Mei exactly because how it handles St.Lucia is much better written than Gou/Sotsu, since it's not just there to create a conflict that shouldn't even exist.

>It still shows Rika not giving a shit about living in Hinamizawa and instead living a fancy life travelling the world, that sure as hell matches a prestigious background more than a dropout.
There's not even any evidence she has any high education in Reiwa. They haven't mentioned a profession related to her at all. How do you think someone who can't stand staying in the same place for long would even focus on that? If you go by Natsumi Kei's words and the joke page she added at the end of the volume, Rei Rika is an online personality who just gets money so people follow her travels.

Oniokoshi volume joke page about how Rika's traveling expenses are supported by 500 patrons around the country.