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A majority of the canon ''Higurashi no Naku Koro ni'' experience exists solely in these eight arcs. There does exist a ninth arc, {{saikoroshi}}, which begins immediately after the ending of the eighth arc, {{matsuribayashi}}. Regardless of its potential canonicity, ''Saikoroshi-hen'' ends with its protagonist, Rika, in the world of ''Matsuribayashi-hen'' and no fragment-hopping takes place. There are two possibilities for how this occurs: {{#spoiler:Rika escapes from the world of ''Saikoroshi-hen'' and returns to the world of ''Matsuribayashi-hen'' or the entirety of ''Saikoroshi-hen'' was a dream that Rika experienced while in a coma. It is not made clear in the text or in any interviews which of these is accurate.}}

 

*Every single member of [[the club]] (except [[Rika Furude]]) is infected with [[Hinamizawa Syndrome]] and is prone to extreme paranoia. This results in unreliable narrators who will mistakenly present paranoid delusions to '''you, the reader''', as if they were facts.

**While Rika is incapable of being paranoid like the others, her nigh-immortality and mental stress drives her to do things that may be considered extreme in normal circumstances, especially if she feels that she has already failed her mission in a particular fragment and needs to move on to the next one.