WHO TURNED MIZU IN (THEORY/ANALYSIS)
It was both Mikio and Mizu's mother. They both plotted it.
So. I just reached ep 5 of bes. And boy do I HAVE A LOT TO SAY. Idk if it's confirmed or not, and there are a lot of theories going around on who turned Mizu in. Initially while I was watching, I thought that both Mizu's mother and Mikio turned her in. The fact that Mizu asks the soldiers "was it her?" and how salty her mother was acting towards her nearing the time where the men came to kill her. And when the soldiers come to kill her, Mikio comes right and he has this GUILTY look on his face, meaning he must have turned her in, or know about it. Like he wasn't shocked when he arrived and saw the men trying to kill Mizu, he looked GUILTY.
His face screams; "I am so sorry for this."
But then Mizu's mother is there, she was in the house ALL ALONG. She watched the scene unfold.
Mikio was WAYYY too quick to blame Mizu's mother. He must have been too overwhelmed with guilt and tried to blame someone else but why is he blaming Mizu's mother specifically? Why didn't he say "Someone else must have did it!" And of course Mizu's mother denies it and has an excuse to Mikio's accuses.
(holy shit tumblr has a 10 image limit fuckk anyways I'll just reblog this with a continuation that has more images)
She's saying she sold herself on the bridge cause she needed her medicine and Mikio must have done it to win back his title and that she's her mother and would never.
Boom. She says Mikio stood by to watch them kill Mizu, but yk who else also watched? Mizu's mother. She watched, both of them watched. And the fact that they're pushing the blame onto each other and fighting against each other to win Mizu's trust and affection has me thinking that they did plan this all along and now willing to sell the other out because of guilt. Also the fact that Mikio KILLS Mizu's mother. Yep, they both planned this. Mikio kills her mom, but Mizu kills him!
All in all, with Mizu asking "Was it her?, " Mikio not being shocked and looking guilty, Mikio and Mizu's mom fighting and pushing the blame onto the other to win Mizu over, yep they planned this. BUT I think Mizu already knew. I think she might have overheard a conversation somehow. They both planned this and she knew. Perhaps when Mikio showed up, she thought Mikio changed his mind to save her but then he's a btich and leaves and ofc Mizu's heart is crushed. She was probably thinking "I thought he would come to save me because he felt bad. Guess I was wrong." And boom. What got me was also Mizu barely reacting to Mikio and her mom fighting. It must be because she knew they BOTH were in this, and didn't bother to intervention with the fight because they're both traitors.
But you know, maybe this dated WAYY back before when Mizu was born, or when the fire happened. Maybe Mizu's mother and Mikio already planned it then, maybe Mizu's mother made a deal with Mikio already then and already planned this out. What if Mikio was one of the men who tried to kill Mizu when she was a baby. But we'll never know for sure.
(Extra: in reblog - Mizu handing over/betraying Akemi. Watching the guards take her away with Ringo, mirroring what had happened to her.)