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Originally Posted by LyricalAura

So basically, the red says nothing about where the deaths actually occurred. We can only theorize based on the open door that the victims were actually alive and in the cousins' room at 7:00am, and that they left afterward. It's also possible to think that they had already left the room the previous night before Erika started listening at the wall, but then you would need an alternate explanation for the door being opened in the morning.

From my very limited Japanese knowledge, the use of "の" has a very broad meaning. It could mean "four people in the cousin room","four people from the cousin room", "four people of the cousin room".

And that red texts were declared after 00:00 Oct 6 (during the first judgment was passed), it was true that all the four people were inside cousin room at 7:00 am on 5th Oct. However, when the red texts were declared, they were already dead somewhere else but they were still refered to as "いとこ部屋の4人"

And one more thing, the cousin room was supposedly bigger than other guest rooms in the guesthouse(EP1), so it was arranged before the group came. So Natsuhi would not mistake the cousin room. In this case, if they were not pretending dead at 7:00am, the only possibility remained that they were initially killed in some other rooms but the group lied to Natsuhi that they died in cousin room. However, "いとこ部屋の4人" is still used, which proved that it did not mean the four were killed in the cousin room and remained so.