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Originally Posted by JakeK08
The family engages in several activities that leads them to be in danger of being killed or captured; Kinzo is protecting the family. Once he dies he can no longer protect them and so the whole family is to be killed off. The only way for someone to survive is to become the head through solving the epitaph as then they will be protected and transport will be given to them to escape from the island.
Yasu solves the epitaph before the murders happen. In the secret room she is informed that when Kinzo dies everyone on the island will die during the annual conference, but as she has solved the epitaph she has a chance of survival. Kinzo did want someone to become his successor but he also wanted to kill of everyone else. If she commits the murders she can escape from the island. She is given the name “Endless” and starts planning the murders.
Somewhere just before the process begins Yasu no longer wishes to live, so during the conference in which she will kill everyone she gives them the chance to survive instead of her. She gives Maria the letter which states that if someone solves the epitaph they can inherit the gold, but doesn’t inform them that they will also survive the murders.
In one episode (Banquet) Eva solves the epitaph. Yasu relinquishes her role as “Endless” and gives it to her. Yasu’s only wish is that Eva murders everyone in order of the epitaph. Eva then proceeds to carry out all the murders and survives. Eva never reveals the truth as she also committed murder. In another episode (End) Battler solves the epitaph and so gains the title “Endless” and also survives.
Endless = They have survived and therefore live on in that ‘gameboard’. The person with the name endless is also given the task of killing the rest of the characters.
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I have a few questions about this theory.
- If a person can only survive the murders and leave the island through solving the epitaph, but they are also the person who must plan and commit the murders, what on Earth is making them go through with it?
- Why can't they leave the island through the usual means? The Ushiromiyas have transport to and from the island. People and supplies are transported back and forth.
- If everyone will die during the family conference even if Yasu doesn't do it or appoint anyone else to do it, why doesn't Yasu warn people not to go to the conference?
- If appointed the successor, why would Eva go through with it, especially with the murders of her son and her husband? And assuming she could somehow be forced into it, why wouldn't she transfer the successorship to her son in order to protect him?
- Why did it take so long for the family to be killed off after Kinzo's death, if he was protecting them?