Some questions about Vol. 7 (SPOILERS!!!)

LostSpectre said:
So, I don't know if anyone will ever answer these, but I might as well throw them out there on the off chance someone does. Thanks in advance.

1.) There's a discrepancy between what 'O' says and how Maria's box works. 'O' says that when Maria uses the Flawed Bliss it isn't really sucking people into the box, that's just how she perceives it due to her losing her memory of them. However, volume 7 is all about Kazuki literally getting sucked into the box though, and Daiya, as well as Yanaga are present in their own happy worlds. She uses the box on Daiya and he disappears, but then he's alive and in the hospital. So, do people only disappear from her perspective, I don't understand that. Maybe none of the other people inside the box were real except for Kazuki and the zeroth Maria? Is there something I'm missing or does it not make a whole lot of sense?

2.) How is Maria perfectly fine with Kazuki murdering a f*** ton of people? She can't even hurt anyone, let alone actually kill them. She's vehemently opposed to murder, and unlike Kazuki, she never really changes throughout the series. I don't even think it matters that the dream world Kazuki is in isn't real, that has never mattered to her before, she still views that as murder. It just seems like a huge stretch for me to believe that she has zero negative reactions to Kazuki murdering his entire class, and then going out into the streets and just killing everyone. Even if she feels completely responsible, and it's heart breaking to watch, I think she couldn't help but feel somewhat repulsed. I wanted some acknowledgement of it, and maybe her mind would change when she sees him pounding on the walls of her apartment, and screaming her name for an eternity, just a thought.

3.) I'm still not exactly sure what the deal was with Maria and Aya. Was everything we saw about Aya just a lie, that she made her father bow down to her at 3, that she seduced her teacher and he tried to break in, that she let her friend start a fire, that Maria thinks Aya can see the future. Or, was the only thing that was a lie, that Aya never intended to die, that she was just going to move to New York? Maria says something about how she had to deify Aya because otherwise it meant that Aya never really needed her. That seems to support the fact that Maria was tricking herself, and I think that goes along with her losing her memories when she uses the Flawed Bliss. I'm just not 100% on whether she had any good reason to believe it was her destiny to become Aya or if she was always delusional.

Somebody101 said:

1. I believe that O didn't explain how the box really worked that well, after all the box created O in the first place, but in my opinion it might have been inside of her or another dimension/world reality thing altogether. Also I think the people did disappear however once the box was destroyed it returned everyone in a convinent way (Maybe she either didn't notice them as you said, or they were actually gone, but there were false memories implanted into everyone,mentioned somewhere near the end of volume 7, so it seemed like nothing happened even though there was a time gap between when maria lost her memories and when she went inside her box to get kasumi).

2. I think it's a few reasons, one being that it was a false world in a sense, two it showed that he didnt want to live in this perfect world for him despite it being the box's purpose to grant that, and three, it showed kasumi's extent of love for her to the point in which he's gone mad. Psychological shiz is tough to comprehend when you're not the character :P

3. I believe it was true in some parts, however due to her sister's intelligence and "power" she ended up thinking of her way more than she actually was, thus leading to some false memories in order to fulfill her sisters "prophecy" in what she thought she was suppose to. In essence, yes, she became like that due to some serious delusions.