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This question is something to speculate about.

Spoiler for Takano:

What do you think happens to Takano in the worlds where she succeeds in killing Rika and all of Hinamizawa? Will she accomplish her goal of making Japan look at Takano Hifumi's theories in amazement oder will she be betrayed by Nomura-san who just played with her all the time? Will she even be killed for knowing too much about the political intrigues within "Tokyo"?

Are there any scenarios which point out what her fate will be?

There is another thing which bothers me, which might be not very easy to answer.

Spoiler for Rika's parents:

After reading the Matsuribayashi chapter of the Sound Novel, I think the death of Rika's parents is the work of the Yamainu. I am disappointed how rarely all the Higurashi scenarios talk about their deaths. Ooishi seems willing to investigate at first. Even if the Yamainu made the police stop investigating via their connections to the police, why is the obvious motive of the murder never mentioned or thought about by anyone later on in any scenario? Rika's mother made a lot of fuss in the clinic refusing to allow further experiments with her daughter. A few days later she disappears leaving a cliché goodbye note. At least Irie has to see clearly what must have happened to the parents, because he knows what the Yamainu can do. But somehow it seems he doesn't really care, neither does Rika, at least it is never really mentioned.

By the way, has someone noticed this before?

Rika always says "Mi-", Hanyu always says "Au", which makes "Meow" together. So I think it's a game between both of them. Everytime Rika says "Mi-" to someone, Hanyu adds "-Au" (which of course can't be heard by most people until Matsuribayashi).

Maybe this has been known before, but I never read it anywhere so far.