Also, I'm not really sure if Erika is trying to break the triangle "without hurting either Koto or Aya." She knows very well that the breakup she always wished for hurt both Koto and Aya a great deal. Of course, from an objective perspective, the breakup was necessary regardless. But Erika still knew her plan would result in this pain, and she went through with it anyway.
I’m not following this last part at all—what “plan” of Erika’s did she “go through with”? That phrasing implies that Erika has played an active role in causing Koto and Aya to break up.
She's given them valid, reasonable advice. It's also advice that she intentionally framed in a way to encourage them to break up.
She pretty explicity tells her that she needs to do the thing that Aya was upset she wouldn't do or she wasn't ever going to come back to her. I don't understand how people see this as having an ulterior motive. There's very little to interpret here. Yes, some of what she's saying is true about herself, but that's the irony for the reader to pick up on. It seems like she values Koto's happiness over her own and and that's why she hates herself so much. Because she has very little self worth and doesn't think she's deserving of love.
And I see people constantly saying that she is somehow planning this when she absolutely hates herself to an unhealthy degree. And it can't be because she's breaking them up. She hasn't done anything but push them together. She also might knowingly be the cause of Aya's disappearance, which would explain all of this behavior,
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