[Dante of the Inferno]

Originally Posted by Joly

Spoiler for Rika, the manga, Hinamizawa Syndrome:

* Rika's syringes from Watanagashi/Meakashi-hen, manga

During Rika's confrontation with Shion, in the syringe contains the suppressing drug, C120 (improved version of C103). If a person is not diagnosed with the Hinamizawa Syndrome and are injected by the C120, do they grow weak and immediately enter L5 state?

The manga shows Rika scratching her throat out after the injection and after stabbing her throat out. I'm not sure how she had the strength to do that... o_o or is some of that apart of Shion's hallucinations?

* Rika, the Hinamizawa Syndrome

I remember in one of the TIPS that she was asking if Satoko, everyone, and even herself had the Hinamizawa Syndrom. Her father answered with a yes. So, is it possible for Rika to show signs of the Hinamizawa Syndrome and we just haven't seen it happen? (other than being injected)

* Rika's deaths

Rika can only remember what she sees, so that is why she remembers her suicide and torture in Meakashi/Watanagashi-hen. And I guess the school exploding in some worlds such as bad end Tsumihoroboshi-hen for the DS and Yoigoshi-hen.

How is it that she remembers that she was disemboweled with her intestines drawn out in worlds where she's killed by Takano/Yamainu when she's drugged to sleep? Or was that a mistake in the manga? I believe she describes the process in the Himatsubushi-hen manga.

In response to the last 2:

Spoiler for Explanations:

2. From what I understand, even if Rika herself contains the parasites, her role as Queen Carrier ensures that she herself can never NATURALLY progress through the stages. Only an outside source (say C120) can induce systems of the higher stages.

3. In Himatsubushi-hen, she only goes into the details of the deaths leading to her own. Her only words concerning her own demise are:

"And then...on this day of June in Showa 58 or a few days later...I will be killed. They will stuff up my mouth with something. I'll lose consciousness, and like that, my life will come to an end."

Any visual representation of her death is merely shown by the artist for the "benefit" of the reader, but no direct description of her death is ever given by Rika.