Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-6052796-20150205162433/@comment-6052796-20150206035837

Well what I was going at was that she only saw the aftermath. Actually instead of her seeing Kouichi kill Reiko,   She sees Kouichi unconscious and Reiko's corpse. Puts two and two together thinking maybe Mei killed Reiko and knocked down Kouichi for trying to stop her, not aware that Kouichi did the deed nor knowing that Mei figured it out. But my main point though was that she arrived too late but not late enough to not see a dead body, but because she didn't know Reiko was the Extra and wasn't present for the actual murder she'd see the body once, then get affected. I suggest that one initally mainly because the book, anime, film and manga have only shown the after effect of the memory alteration. Whereas I'm curious to see what happens to one who's memory's fading faster than the one that killed the Extra. When Matsunaga did the deed he waited until the next day to confess his murder, only to be met with confused eyes, he never told anyone on the exact day nor double checked for the body.

With Izumi and Mei, you'd see her personality change drastically. Izumi at first moving in for the kill then when the alteration begins, she struggles to try to keep her memory intact using the Knife as a way of that struggle. The way I see it, the ones whose memories are fully altered drastically change in personality too. So altered Izumi is literally fighting unaltered izumi trying to take the knife out of her hand. It then drops only landing blade first a few feet away from Mei. Sort of Unaltered Izumi's last ditch effort to try only for altered izumi to stop herself. Then when it finaly happens, she has know idea why there's a knife and why Kouchi's unconscious. That's when Mei asks for help.