#me? overanalyzing a minor detail in an event from 2019?

[juriyuna]

So you know how in Crimson Resolve, Ryuugasaki caught word that Torayamachi had lost their "Horse", and Yuna and her friends were wondering who leaked the info? My personal theory/headcanon is that the Bat of Monzenbashi was the one who found out.

To start, there's some evidence to suggest that the Bat knows who Hikaru is, and that she'd left Torayamachi:

1. While none of the NPCs are nametagged, the Bat's whole thing is hawking grief seeds off other magical girls, so we could reasonably assume that it's her and some Ryuugasaki mooks chasing Hikaru down at the start of CR. Hikaru had only just left (or rather, been sent out of) Torayamachi at this point.

2. Even most of the other Torayamachi girls had no idea who the "Horse" was-- her identity was a well-kept secret. Yuna speculates that a Ryuugasaki spy may have slipped into their ranks.

Guess who shows up in Ao's first Bad End alongside a couple of "Torayamachi" girls? If the Bat wasn't the spy herself, she's at least got a couple of lackeys keeping tabs for her.

(Funny enough, 蝙蝠 (bat) doubles as a derogatory term for "turncoat". She's living up to her name.)

3. In Ao ep.13, despite having been held captive in Janomiya's base for the past few days (and thus absent from the battle where Hikaru's true identity was revealed), the Bat immediately recognizes her as "Torayamachi's Horse", and knows that Hikaru is so devoted to Yuna that she'd become a witch if Yuna died.

Ranka was the one who relayed "Torayamachi lost their Horse, apparently" to Juri. Ranka used to be the Bat's second-in-command back in Monzenbashi, and the two of them are still on good terms now that they're in Ryuugasaki together. (Or at the very least, the Bat still likes Ranka, even going so far as to protect Ranka in her fight with Ao.) It'd make sense for the Bat to share important info with her.

"But if the Bat works for Juri, why wouldn't she have just told Juri directly instead?" - well, Juri is the one who beat Monzenbashi into submission, and the Bat tells Ao "juri's such a dumb bitch; it's only a matter of time before we can take her down" in Ao ep.3, so I'm gonna say the Bat is... not exactly fond of her, haha. I doubt they interact more than they absolutely have to. Juri gets to receive intel secondhand because fuck this guy in particular.

idk how much of this was intentional and how much is coincidence, but I thought it was an interesting possibility!

#me? overanalyzing a minor detail in an event from 2019? #it's more likely than you think #magia record #kirari hikaru #bat of monzenbashi #spec #hc post #also: the tora girl in the middle with the scruffy hair #is the one who told yuna ''ryuugasaki knows we lost the horse!'' #this is either Very Suspicious or just a sprite limitation