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Interesting; the assumption of Maya entering the picture much earlier than anticipated indeed can be used to explain Niki vaguely recognizing Maya and the mysterious playdate girl without pink hair simultaneously. While Niki technically could have just unintentionally met Maya at any other time point, I highly doubt Niki would have enough mental capacity to give two shit about it. So if the source of Niki vaguely recognizing Maya indeed comes from briefly meeting her before, some time before the accident seems to be the most possible.I was recently replaying some old events, and in the Chapter 2 event "What Was", Ami mentioned that she barely remembered playing with a girl at Sensei's old house, back when he used to tutor, but that it couldn't have been Noriko because the hair color was different
So Niki and Ami (probably?) met Maya but don't remember, yet Noriko clearly does remember Maya and we have seen wizard Maya and Noriko in Sensei's sudden flashbacks
But Sensei started only tutoring after the accident, so if Niki met Maya it had to be before the accident, but it couldn't have been years before right? Does Maya hates Niki just because she used to be Sensei's girlfriend? maybe. If it was something deeper then Niki probably would've remembered her
I don't fucking know, the timeline of events are all fucked in my head
EDIT: Wait no Ami went to visit Sensei and played with some girl BEFORE he started tutoring and BEFORE the accident. In Ami's "Heaven for Human Blood" she said that Sensei never tutored anyone at his own house and that she never met Noriko because of that, so she had to have played with Maya before the accident, and Niki also remembers her from before
So for some reason Maya was at Sensei house before he started tutoring and presumedlywhile he was in college? the obvious answer would be "well clearly Sensei groomed her even before the accident" but then why didn't Sensei hide her from Ami and Niki? Why was no one weirded out by a little girl living with a grown man she isn't related too?
Also if Ami used to visit Sensei's old house, did Sensei picked her up? or was she dropped off by Nozomu or Sekai and that means they were aware of Maya's existence? I don't fucking know, I think I might be stupid and forgetting an important piece of the puzzle lol
What gives me much to think about in fact is that this idea also opens window on the timeline to let Sekai have a chance to meet Maya. The pair meeting each other may not bear any significance, but I always wonder why Sekai in different happy events exhibits such high toxicity toward Maya if they never met before Sekai died, and this idea enables just that. Of course the possibility of a ghost Sekai always lurking around Akira, watching him fucking Maya, and accumulating distaste remains tall (as well as the possibility of interpreting these happy events on an overly facial level), but now there could be an alternative that doesn't immediately resort to the supernatural or the metaphorical.