Observer

In phase 1 Miyao undergoes several visions of another MIYAO telling him about his future and the horrible things he will do. However it's doubtful if the person who receives these visions is really even Miyao. The text box never specifies that the speaker in these scenes is Miyao, it's simply blank, while blue MIYAO is the one who is named Miyao.

MIYAO speaking

Person responding is unnamed

What's more is that this person speaking with MIYAO does not identify himself with the piece Miyao as he refers to him in the third person.

"Across from us, Lingji is installing Wanyadora with Miyao's refferral id"

instead of

"Across from us, Lingji is installing Wanyadora with *MY* refferral id"

The person is referring to Miyao as someone else than himself, This is also true in the original Japanese script of the game.

Another thing that I found strange when I first read Ciconia, is that Miyao NEVER acknowledges any of the MIYAO visions, outside of the visions themselves. He is told that his existence will lead to the end of the world and the death of his close friends but he never thinks about any of that at all, there is no moment when he thinks about how he is going to kill Lingji and Koshka. It's like those moments are not happening for him.

The biggest instance of this is when MIYAO activates the murder program and he says that once he does this Miyao will become a completely different person set only on killing his target.

He does this and then Miyao is shown the horrifying factory world vision, followed by an instruction to kill someone.

Yet when we next see Miyao there is no noticeable change in his personality from the last time, he doesn't seem like his values changed at all since he still tries to maintain peace with the help of his chivalric order and not talking about murdering someone. Once again it's as if Miyao has not experienced those visions.

The final piece of evidence that proves they are not the same is the second MIYAO encounter in the public bath, which happens AFTER Miyao leaves the virtual room.

Nobody is in the Virtual room

Yet MIYAO still appears and talks with 'Miyao'.

Then what does this all mean:

• This person both identifies as Miyao Mitake but also doesn't identify with the Miyao we see, referring to him in 3rd person
• And their consciousness is separate from him as they are still present when Miyao is away.

So this person is Miyao yet isn't, he shares Miyao's consciousness and doesn't at the same time.

The answer to this is the fact that the background image used in MIYAO visions is called:

Meta.png

Proving that the MIYAO scenes are taking place in a Meta space outside the gameboard.

Therefore the Miyao speaking with MIYAO, is Player Miyao, looking down on the Piece Miyao, which explains why they are separate, yet the same entity and why Player Miyao is able to observe the entire gameboard instead of being limited to his Piece's point of view.

It's the same as Battler looking down on Piece Battler in Umineko.

In other words it's a conflict between the target of the murder program and the murder program which is the higher world Miyao whose consciousness is split into two : Miyao and Blue MIYAO who is his inner conscience, Blue MIYAO's goal is to get Miyao to terminate his own piece and disappear.

According to blue MIYAO's theory, once Miyao is terminated peace will return to the world. All of the disasters, war and death is because of the existance of piece Miyao, so Player Miyao makes deal with Blue MIYAO:

"If it will become undeniable that i was created for an evil purpose regardless of my intent, i will disappear"

So when Miyao fulfills the prophecy of killing Lingji by being manipulated by his father it becomes clear that it was true, he got undeniable proof that he is a murder program.

Right after this the truce is announced and the factions stop war with each other, the story ends.

The story ended because Miyao upheld his promise to erase himself once it became apparent that he was created for evil. As he was the point of view observing the entire gameboard, without him there's no observer and we cannot see anything anymore.

Epilogue

Seshat visits someone in Vier's lab, who is going to use the hatch to put themselves in cryogenic sleep for a thousand years. This person is without a doubt Miyao. 

[7] And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,