They dont feel like death flags because weve already known Rikos chosen fate beforehand.
Its the first timeJJKfucks with our sense of security, but definitelynotthe last.
He tells Suguru to hurry off with Riko and Kuroi while hell handle Touji.
But Touji ends up handlinghim.
For all of his talent and immense power, its like hes trying to fight smoke.
Then another, and another, and another.
Touji had been patiently biding his time, waiting for Satorus senses to dull.
Were they dulled by his sentimentality surrounding Riko?
At first Riko puts on airs like shes come to do the very thing she was born to do.
Shes always been special, to the point where special felt normal and normal felt special.
She doesnt want to go through with it.
Tsuguru accepts her decision and offers her his hand in preparation to leave this place.
But as she reaches out to take it, shes shot in the head, by Touji.
Then Tsuguru reveals that he and Satoru never intended tomakeher sacrifice herself, and my hope was revived.
Right now Im simplygutted, and I miss Riko, the girl we met only just last week.
