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>>35914747
>her self-reflection during the watanagashi scene.
But during this same scene we see a few of Rika's memories, one of which is the bookstore scene where Rika asks Satoko to come with her to St. Lucia and it's shown not just once but twice. At first when Satoko accuses Rika of wishing to leave Hinamizawa, Rika instantly thinks of it and then she thinks of it again during the series of "happy memories", it's too much of a clue I think. I suppose it doesn't necessarily mean that Satoko did go to St. Lucia during the fragment that Rika remembers, but one interpretation of her happy memories is that she is reminiscing and Rika wouldn't reminisce about the bookstore if Satoko didn't go to or failed to get into St. Lucia. But then again if she fell out with Satoko at St. Lucia she probably wouldn't think of it either...

>>35914972
We have just finished Watakashi and as far as we know, Satoko doesn't know about the sword yet, but during Watadamashi we were apparently shown that the sword is missing. Assuming the sword was actually missing during Watadamashi and it wasn't actually "cleverly" hidden in the interior of the statue, assuming that it was Satoko that stole it might require some extra strong looping action to explain. Not to mention that it seems Rika doesn't even know know about the sword at that point either, Hanyuu telling Rika about it seemed to be the first Rika learned of the sword, so why would Satoko steal it?