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Originally Posted by Loran Kira

Sorry if someone already asked this, one day long long time ago i found a post here on AS which explained

Spoiler for for those who do not know the ending:

the witches game, Federika vs the other one in higurashi series

I looked all over the forum but wasn't able to find it. It was well done in my opinion.

Thnx

I don't know If you want an explanation, or looking for that post itself, but I'll try to give you a correct answer, I may be wrong at some points.

Spoiler for The real truth behind Higurashi - don't read unless you've played Umineko - Episode 2+:

Spoiler for Seriously, Have you played Umineko VN series?:

Spoiler for I've warned you! This can spoil your fun at Umineko anime itself!:

Both Rika and Miyo are toys of two powerful witches, Frederica Bernkastel and Lambdadelta. They are just playing a game to defeat each other, and Rika is Frederica's (notice how it sounds very close to Furude Rika) and Miyo is Lambdadelta's toy. (Lambda is 3, and Delta is 4 in Latin I think, and Miyo can also be read as 3 and 4 respectively, in one of the Japanese alphabets.)

The reason why Rika is resurrecting over and over is Witches (or at least Bernkastel) can resurrect a person as many time as they want, and thus the worlds repeat until she wins. And as you see at the end of Higurashi no Naku koro ni Rei, Bernkastel goes to Miyo's past and prevents her parents from dying in the accident, enabling Miyo never to start researching Hinamizawa Syndrome, thus saving Rika from her horrible fate.

Those are the info that I've gathered when I played up to Episode 2 on Umineko no naku koro ni Visual Novel. Some info may be flawed.