[Forsaken_Infinity]

Originally Posted by chronotrig

@Forsaken_Infinity

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For the first part, I'm not suggesting that Battler actually put pen to paper. That would have to have been Sayo, the one who played the part of Beatrice for Maria. However, she might have written that story with Battler's input to make it conform to his point of view and therefore become more convincing for him. The point is that Battler must be convinced that magic exists at the end of each game. That is the sole reason why murders following the epitaph are important.


First off, Battler cannot be the culprit. It was said in red, and I do NOT believe that this refers to any Battler other than the one we know. However, the question is "when were the others actually murdered?" Ronove suggests that it was at 24:00 because of the "24:00 answer session", but if there really is an explosion at the end as the Erika tips in EP6 suggest, the possibility exists that no one was murdered in EP5...except for Krauss, unfortunately.

@Rias

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Krauss died. He was almost certainly murdered. The person making the phone call was at the scene of this murder. A phone call was made.
Yep, there has to be another side to this You're totally right.

For the first part, ok, I get that. You are basically saying Battler believed in Beatrice's existence and then made Sayo write the story in the form of message bottles, right? I don't really see a clear motive for Battler to do that but that's possible.

For the second part, its your opinion only; for now, its as plausible as Shkanon theory, I personally don't lean to either of the theories. Its simply something like this for me, Battler argued himself as the culprit to stop Natsuhi from being made into the "true" culprit, therefore, as long as any theory that can explain all the murders just as much as Shkanon exists, Shkanon will only be one of the "truths" and thus not the only truth. In short, Battler culprit theory does the same thing to Shkanon theory as it did to Natsuhi Culprit theory of Erika. Whether it goes against the game's ideals or not doesn't even matter for that reason.

For the third part, I agree that there is more to it. Phone rings, two of them, can be heard in Ep1, first one right after the opening, second one just before the gameboard starts (i.e, they reach Rokkenjima). I don't know if they can be heard in other episodes as I am still in EP1 for this playthrough T_T.