In a way this is kind of ironic. Takano spent a lot of her life just fighting to control her own destiny and in the end she is being played like a marionette by someone else.Also, it is pretty impressive how Rika's friends were able to deduce a lot of Takano's (and the mastermind) motives just by imagining it as the story for a manga! It does make me more hopeful that this time they will be survive