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I have solved Tataridamashi.

The thing that nobody has yet considered is that Teppei had a memory leak of K1 killing him.

Satoko was going to tell K1 the truth that there was no abuse, secretly reconcile with both parties behind Rika's back. Essentially, her goal was to use beautiful Teppei and deny all abuse to gaslight K1 into L5 and get Rika killed by him once everything seemed like a good end from Rika's POV. (She might have known that Rika would retain memory of this death; it is unknown but both ways are plausible.) But unfortunately for Satoko, Teppei remembered more than he should have, went crazy and thought he was acting in self-defense under some degree of Hinamizawa Syndrome.
Ooishi going L5 was a purely unrelated and unplanned mistake. But it kinda worked out for Satoko. From Rika's perspective, the end result was almost the same as what Satoko had planned--inexplicable tragedy after reaching a good end.

That's the first part. R07 said in the Febri interview that solving Tataridamashi is going to require a perspective that hasn't yet been shown. That perspective is Ooishi's.

Ooishi naturally went L5 from all the inexplicable weirdness surrounding the Houjou case and the extra stress placed on him by various parties, some of which we haven't explicitly seen yet. The unusual behavior of redeemed Takano was also a part of it--the final straw, most likely. It's unclear how events unfolded at the Houjou household and after he left, but he ended up catching Takano and Tomitake redhanded at the festival parking lot, just as they were about to steal a yamainu van to escape. He may have found Takano's scrapbook, some argument about it took place, and that gave him the L5-fueled idea that Rika is behind everything, and that finally drove him over the edge, killing them on the spot and heading off to the festival.

Please poke holes in this. This started more or less as a joke but it ended up making sense to me. The conclusions aren't exactly well-founded and I'm sure I've missed something that invalidates everything, but right now it seems like a plausible take.

>>33760256
I'll agree that making her a looper was not a fate she deserved. Even after all these years, R07 just can't stop torturing Satoko...
>>33760382
It does feel like that, but I want to believe until the end of second season.

In the meantime, a rare pitslut outfit Satoko.