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Erika was told, in no uncertain terms, that she had certain powers and abilities. These powers and abilities require certain base conditions to be true, as otherwise the abilities either do not exist or she cannot actually use them.
Erika never once seemed to complain about not being able to use an ability other than in ep6 where she was faking.
So either Erika has been lied to about all of her abilities but is neither smart enough nor perceptive enough to actually notice that none of her powers really work unless she's spoon-fed them, or she has noticed and said nothing, or she believes that everything is working correctly and is right/wrong about it.
Yet, to believe most of the explanations that are being posited here, we basically have to assume she doesn't know a damn thing, doesn't notice a damn thing, and doesn't give a damn about it when that runs entirely counter to her character.
Can you see how this appears completely incoherent? Trying to handwave it away doesn't change that Erika herself should have said something if things were not operating the way she was told that they operate. To say nothing of the literary flop that would result if it turns out Battler and Beatrice defeating Erika wasn't even particularly triumphant or impressive because she was consistently and repeatedly lied to about the things she was actually allowed to do, to the point that she basically was never able to actually accomplish anything that higher powers didn't force on her.
This is completely not the same as a deception played upon the reader's assumptions. To even compare it to Christie shows a complete lack of understanding of what a literary faux pas such a scenario would be. It makes Erika's character either mutable as a matter of convenience, or utterly incapable of actually accomplishing anything she believes herself capable of doing.
It's beyond pitiful. It's just pointless. She's not even a villain, she's just meaningless filler that exists to be toyed with and tossed away. Nothing she did mattered at all, basically, and nothing in End or Dawn matters either. Battler might as well have gotten the point at the end of ep4 and skipped over that crap, because it was a bunch of pointless lies that existed solely to torment Erika, and he was willingly and gleefully complicit in that torture. It's sick.
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