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Dude, why are you surprised about ""Rika"" and Bern being samefag? I mean, come on! Read Saikoroshi-hen! In that novel, the ""Rika"" who was the main character during the whole Higurashi notices how she isn't Rika anymore. She is a witch now, she has lived for a fucking century! So she turns into a witch and leaves Rika's body.
That's it! Rika never appeared in Higurashi, it was Bern all the time! A Rika who lived for a hundred years thanks to Hanyuu! If our beloved and depressed ""Rika"" from Higurashi turned into a bitch that was because:
1. Immortality
2. She left all her good emotions with the actual Rika, a normal little girl
That's all, dude. There's no second Bernkastel. The manga is bullshit.
>Rika: Girl from Hinamizawa who can see Hanyuu. She is possessed by Frederica Bernkastel during the whole story.
When we see "Rika" saying nipaa and shit, that's just Bern acting like a child. The actual Rika never appears.
>Frederica Bernkastel: Rika after a shitload of years traveling between fragments thanks to Hanyuu. She possesses the inoccent Rika's body in every Episode.
Bernkastel knows about random events, inevitable events, destiny and probabilities that normal people, who only live once, would never know. That's why she calls herself "a witch" during Minagoroshi-hen and Matsuribayashi-hen.
Her name came from Mr. Furude's wine. Read Saikoroshi-hen, it's one of the best episodes in Higurashi. Fucking ruined in the anime, of course...
In short, she isn't Rika anymore. Rika isn't supposed to know all that shit. Rika shouldn't be so mature, Rika shouldn't have lived for 100 years. After all that time, she has turned into someone else. Also, she is fucking tired of Hinamizawa, the cicadas and even her own friends. It has been just too long.