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Originally Posted by Killer Loli

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Could Akasaka's wife be considered the first victim of Oyashiro-sama's curse and not the construction site manager?
On a side note: i really teared up in this ep when his wife died, did oyashirou really have to to go out of his way to get her all the way in Tokyo?

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Really don’t think so, it was more like Oyashiro, or rather Rika wanted to save his wife and didn’t want him to be sad. Why didn’t she say what will happen exactly? Maybe she knew Akasaka won’t believe her or she only knew that something bad will happen if he won’t go back to Tokyo (we know her prophecies aren’t perfectly accurate, well if she knew who will kill her own self, she surely would be able to do something about it). And really, I don’t think that Oyashiro would be powerful enough to influence people who have never been in Hinamizawa. Oyashiro isn’t an omnipotent good, he can’t even do anything about “his” own death (or rather Rika’s), also all deaths which are supposed to by Oyashiro's work were planned long before they happened (interesting is that Rika didn’t mention Tomitake and Takano, let’s not forget what was in Takano’s van in Tatarigoroshi), I think what Rika said indicate that it was human’s work (let’s add to it what Takano said, when she first time met Keichi in Tatarigoroshi).