Ok, I think I understand the magic stuff... maybe. Ayaka's ability is to "reroll" (reobserve) each day in her dreams, multiple times. This is why she thinks she never dreams and just skips right to the next perceived morning, the repeat days ARE her dreams (although it seems like they are real in some sense too). This is why, when they were fighting in ch 13, Yuuka said that her idea of the days actually repeating was nonsense and that they are really just dreams: Yuuka obviously knows the truth, and in her frustration with hearing the same wrong explanation for years she let some of the truth slip out.
Dying also triggers the "dreams" since it is also her losing consciousness I guess.
Yuuka's magic is to stitch together or remove past events, including the alternate versions in Ayaka's dreams. I guess she has been both relying on Ayaka telling her about her dreams, and also somehow reading Ayaka's dreams every morning to get the material to work with, hence why it shows her being in Ayaka's room sometimes even when the door was locked and why she seems to know things I doubt she was told about. It seems like normally she picks just one day to use entirely instead of cherrypicking events from the alternate versions, maybe so Ayaka doesn't realize something more complicated is happening. She has used this to remove any days where Ayaka gets closer to anyone else so she would be totally reliant on her and stay under her thumb.
Michiru is the one exception, since she seems to always choose to be friendly with Ayaka on every version of a given day and Yuuka can't cut her out (but can pick bad days like when they fought and remove their best days together). This might be because her "deja vu" is telling her that she will end up being together with Ayaka, so she isn't subject to the same inconsistent whims that other people are. I suspect this is also related to why she keeps dying on oct 5, somehow. Maybe she foresees that Ayaka will die on that day (true in an ironic way since her death causes Ayaka's suicide), and is dying to try to protect her or unconsciously committing suicide so she never has to face that?
There are some smaller details I'm unsure about, but does all this make sense or am I overthinking parts of it?
Two things I really don't get though:
Why did Ayaka wake up in her room after saving Yuuka? They make a big deal about it but I still don't understand the logic there.
Also, what's with the earthquake Michiru couldn't predict? Maybe she did predict it and just lied for some reason, or it wasn't really an earthquake but was a bomb set off by Yuuka to try to kill Michiru, but both feel like weak explanations.
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