Really curious to see where this is headed next.

All the way through, there’s been something sinister about this entire “Agency” system.

And this whole "insurgent " thing has reeked of false flag from the start.

We know that both Hinagiku and Sakura suffered at the hands of the village of spring, but it seems to run much deeper than that. And there’s the ominous last words from Hinagiku’s mother, which I’d almost forgotten until Sakura reintroduced the idea of the agents standing and fighting together. It sounded then, and again now, as if the background reality is that the agents are little more than slaves, with this entire bloated Agency essentially parasitizing on them.

And, apparently, worse.

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that what happened to Hinagiku is that she was kidnapped and held by the Agency, and that they experimented on her, trying to diplicate or control her power, so it would be entirely theirs.

We’ll see.