What happened in the ruinous hulk called Aika Village, to the girl whose name is an elegy of her own life? Here's one possibility...
Aika and her family were once happy, the girl living what she thought was a perfect life. On her 11th birthday, her mother gave her a doll for a present. A doll in red. This doll, resembling her in almost every way, Aika thanked her mother dearly for.
"I love you, mommy," she sang for her.
But the happiness was not to last.
Within days, word reached the father's ears that the mother was pregnant with another child. Aika too was happy, as this would mean she would soon be an elder sister. But then, Aika's father learned that he was not the father of the upcoming child. Furious, he filed for divorce but lost the case, so he left home, never to return.
Aika couldn't believe it when she saw her father never show up, day after day. The longer he remained absent, the less attention she received from her mother, who was busy writing to her missing husband to apologize and beg him to return, wherever he might have been. All at once, Aika's perfect world was coming undone, and not even those she thought were her friends would pay her heed.
"I love you, mommy," she tried to tell herself one fateful night.
"Do you, now?" she heard a voice ask.
It was the doll in red.
"But she doesn't love you, does she?" she heard it ask again. "Always busy with stuff that doesn't matter? And what about your daddy? Where is he?"
Aika could only agree with the doll's seeming voice.
"Then why not get rid of the distractions?"
Again, Aika could only agree. Little did she suspect that her own mind was falling apart.
Soon after, she began trying to be the perfect daughter, hoping to get her mother's attention. Burying herself in books, feverishly playing the piano, and even painting pictures. But the seemingly ignorant mother remained preoccupied with the unborn child inside her and the help she sought from others.
Thus, Aika resorted to killing the family dog with an ax, but again, no attention came her way. Further and further she slipped into madness, louder and louder the doll's voice grew.
Then came the night that would bring Aika to ruin. Her mother had just finished writing a letter to the unborn child's real father and was preparing it for sendoff, when a spell of fatigue gripped her. Seizing her chance, Aika attacked her with her ax, cutting open her womb to kill the unborn child inside.
"I love you, mommy," she tried to say, but what came out instead was, "Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die!"
All too late did she realize that as she murdered the unborn child, her mother died with it. The last of her sanity gone, she turned back to the doll, blaming it for her sin.
"You seem rather upset," it replied. "Maybe you should go for a nice long swim at the beach. Take your shoes off, too. The sand feels really nice beneath your feet, doesn't it?"
Aika knew not what to do, who to believe, but yet she somehow knew the doll was right. Maybe she should go for a swim. And so, she left her house behind, walked to the beach, took her shoes off, and swam out into the ocean, never to be seen again.
"I love you, mommy," she failed to say.
Hearing of the tragedy that had occurred in his absence, Aika's father returned to the ruined hulk that was once his family's home. When he asked what had happened, the villagers all pointed to Aika, a little girl gone deranged and murderous, now doomed to eternal torment in Hell. There, the eyes of the guardians would watch her in her prison, never to be with her beloved mother again.
Yet they always failed to mention the doll in red...