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Originally Posted by Asuka0NK
Oh my gosh that was so awesome but it fell apart in the end. It is the video you are talking about right? That was perfect I never thought about that everybody was in the cousin's room besides Kinzo and those in the next room over.
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It's supposed to fall apart at the end. That's the joke.
I don't think it was intentional that Ryukishi actually meant to define "everyone else" to mean "everyone not excluded from the location check," or at least that when Erika said "else" she meant "that isn't me." The rational argument is the one Bernkastel makes immediately, that Erika clearly knows her own location. Battler's counter-argument (it's her responsibility to make sure of that) and the notion that she lacks Detective Authority and thus can't know where she is unless she's told do
sort of fly in the face of it, but I prefer to think of it as an unclear statement that was clearly intended not to refer to Erika and not to refer to anyone else in the universe.
Indeed, nothing really stops a canny witch from declaring that no universe exists
except Rokkenjima, since this
is a fictional story about a closed-off island. Perhaps nothing exists but empty sea infinitely in all directions around the island?