[ she doesn't need to ask how it ended. she had been there, holding keiichi's hands so he didn't tear his own thought out. hearing those words - go die, go die, she told me to die. Hearing him tear himself down.

Hearing all of that self hatred... ]

... Rika doesn't know Luceti as she once did. With Takano here, from one of those worlds, I can't risk her safety by drawing her out in the open or involving her in these things. [ because rika is a child, even if she no longer truly is. and she deserves a chance at living a normal life here, as she once did. ] ... You'll have to come to me when these conflicts happen.