It's worse, I think, if she has some access, but not total access, as it fools her into somehow thinking she's getting all the information she wanted when, as you put it, she's really nothing more than a puppet.
While I expect that degree of cruelty from Bern, even to the point that I can accept it being done to her own allies, I just have trouble believing that Erika would somehow have ticked off Battler so badly that he'd be okay with simply manipulating her at will and allowing her to believe a completely unfair scenario that was engineered right down to her own actions. At least if she stumbles into his trap of her own depravity the whole thing becomes her own fault. If she wasn't even able to control that much, she's basically a witches' chew toy.
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