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I feel like the wishing well drying up could mean either one of two things: A: this cycle has gone on so long that their ability to correct it is failing (you can see many girls having issues/having actual insights on the time manipulation), or B: that not only this cycle, but the entire thing is on its last legs (Pareidolia says that he's been trying to get it to this point for far far longer than Maya Prime has been awake).
If it's the former, they would have to reset (a proper reset including Akira) - which, granted, they seemed to have tried to two times during summer. The first time being stopped (probably) by Sekai, and the second one (probably) by Pareidolia (since Yasu seemed certain that Akira was going to be factory reset). If it's the latter then we're going into the endgame for everyone involved, whatever that means I have no idea. But it's possible that we won't see another reset and maybe some kind of war will take place, from which (maybe) USER4 will finally come out of the shadows and bring back Fall.
I agree. I feel like that during the first chapter a lot of the Happy Events seem to support this, in the sense that there is "a Maya" (AmIOkay) with him in the room with the clocks and more or less out of the current timeline (also during other Happy Events). The recurring flash of a Maya entity waiting for him at the end of a white corridor could also suggest this.
And more from a storytelling perspective, while Sekai currently brings the entire timeline together, she's a controversial, if not malevolent being. I feel like there's something to be gained from a more "positive" figure also tying everything together so that there's more than one choice by the end (which Maya prime would be if she remained as one of the narrators, still searching and trying to protect him after her reset), not to count the enormous payoff from her reveal as both still alive and present in the entire game (but hidden as a narrator).
Of course, what I just said about Maya could also be applied to Ami. Being Sekai's daughter she would serve a somewhat similar role as an alternate figure present throughout but of a different and more positive tone than her mother. I don't really buy the narrative of Himawari being the narrator that seems in love with Akira (while she is obviously a narrator at certain points). Unless Himawari is also either Ami or Maya, but that would be even more out of left field. I think it's more likely that one of the narrators simply is Ami or Maya - and between them Maya seems the more likely also.
