Let’s take a minute to appreciate Maeda’s little mind games, shall we?
Pretty much the moment Ayumi has been first introduced in a PV, people started saying “She’s SO gonna die.” A childish, pure and innocent little sister like her is pretty much destined to die in order to move the viewer’s hearts and invoke a change in some characters. Fast-forward to episode 5: Around the end, Ayumi was coughing. The voices prophesizing the loli’s death grew louder. It would only be a matter of time until her sickness kills her. At this point, Ayumi became a dead person that hasn’t died yet. …except it was actually just a normal cold. Maeda pulled a fast one on us… and then, after giving us a week of time to speculate, he killed the loli anyway xD
Oh, but the games didn’t end with just that. A few episodes (and an unexpectedly bloody flashback) later, time travel became a thing in Charlotte. The little sister could be brought back. And she was. So Maeda still refuses to kill important characters. Or so we thought. Come next episode, Kumagami dies a painful death.
So maybe, just maybe, we’re still in for a surprise in episode 13. I doubt it, but I can’t entirely dismiss it.
