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All fair points. There are also a lot of hints dropped in ep6 that the "game" Bernkastel was trapped in wasn't Higurashi. Or at least, it doesn't match up. Naturally, our assumption that this is the case is going to lead us down that road, but maybe not! If we discard any prior backstory and take Bern and Lambda at face value, it's hard to even be sure they're anything but literary devices in the first place. Now granted, we have an Ange in a 1998 setting apparently interacting with Bern, so who knows. Where would Ange have heard of Frederica Bernkastel? As far as we know, Maria never once dealt with any such person or wrote about her. And why should she? So what's with that scene?
EDIT: Also of interest. In Ep6, Battler is referencing the "kakera" while writing his own episode. If the kakera were merely a set of all possible universes, he would select an appropriate kakera that fits his circumstances. The fact that he has to write his own somewhat insinuates that the story he wrote did not already exist. If the sea of kakera encompassed all possible realities, this would either mean that Battler's story should already exist, or Battler's story is not a possible reality. In either case, it wouldn't make any sense.
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