

In the second season of "Love, Chunibyou and and other Delusions", Rikka's
powers start weakening in the 9th episode. I don't get what's going on. Their
powers are supposed to be imaginary. Then how is it possible for something
imaginary to weaken unless the person imagines them to be weakening
themselves. Rikka doesn't really have any reason to imagine that and
apparently, from her reactions, she doesn't like it. Then what's causing it
and why is it happening?

Furthermore, Shichimiya also tells Rikka about what once happened to her and
that she decided to keep her powers and remain the magical devil girl. Does
that mean that if she had fallen in love with Yuuta back then, her powers
would have disappeared?

What do their powers have to do with Yuuta?


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How are Rikka's and Shichimiya's powers being affected?


First let's go back to why they develop the "power" in the first place. Rikka
developed her power after she witnessed Yuuta in action as Dark Flame Master
from the balcony of her sister, Takanashi Touka's room. Why do she develop
such power? Because she was lonely. She was very close to her father and her
father's sudden death (because Touka and her mother didn't inform her
beforehand as they thought she was too young) caused a great shock to her. She
can't accept his death and thus, seeing Yuuta's power, she developed her own
where her goal is to find the Unseen Horizon which she believe is the place
where she can meet her father again.

She then fall in love with Yuuta, the one that she idolized. However, at that
time Yuuta was no longer Dark Flame Master. Yuuta has accepted reality and is
living in it despite his power coming back occasionally (and accidentally).
Rikka realized that Yuuta wanted her to stop being a chuunibyou (happened in
the 2nd season of the anime). This caused her to waver between the chuunibyou
way of live and the real world and that manifest in her power growing weaker.
**Her love for him caused her power to grow weaker since Yuuta expected her to
be 'normal'**.

As for Shichimiya, I don't know why her power got weaker when she fell in love
with Yuuta since it was only mentioned briefly in the anime and I don't read
the light novel.


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Rikka's imaginary "powers" are a reflection of how she perceives herself. The
events of the series had begun to make her question whether it was time for
her to "grow up" and give up on chuuni games; this internal doubt "manifested"
itself as "weakened" powers.


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It would have been 100x better if she just showed signs of growing up and
giving up that childish act she had going on, it’s really weird watching a
17-18 years-old act like some kind of edgy chunibyou. I understand if she was
still in elementary or middle school or even a high school freshman but after
that, it just seems like that person might have a mental disability of some
sort because that isn’t normal.

I believe the whole reason she acts that way is mainly because she wants to
cover up her feelings of what had happened to her family. By putting on this
act of some edgy devil girl with “powers”, it would have been a happier ending
if she threw it all aside and decided to give up that act and see life for
what it really is.


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