I know it's a stretch, but Trap Clause in EP 03 doesn't cover poison, when poison was considered to be a possible weapon in the first 2 episodes for night 1. And again the trap clause is for 遠隔殺人 not for immobilizing victims. My train of thought is: paralyzed then stab then moved to a "closed" room. I doubt the murders were done in the rooms they found the bodies at.
Also I don't understand why poison has to = trap. A trap may have poison, but poison doesn't have to be on the trap nor does poison need a trap to rig it. If I served you tea with poison on it and watch you drink it in front of me, is that a trap? What if shake your hand and nicked you with poison needle? What if the poison bottle was open unintentionally and used in a dish and killed off 6 random people which it was not intended to do? I'm not saying that this is how it happened but poison = trap is not a correct assessment, imo.
Personally, I can't think of how 5~6 people got poisoned. Poison the the knob to Kinzo's room? Poison on Kinzo himself? Served something with poison in the drink/meal or on the platter/utensils?
If my stretch works (poison trap but does not kill thus covered in the Trap Clause - again this is a big stretch), then toxic knock out gas triggering the 即死定義 but not 遠隔殺人/トラップ定義, killed by stabbing and moved to where they need to be. Again this is a stretch. I'm hoping for something else that isn't as BS. I guess, the gas doesn't need to rigged by a trap if the room was already filled with said gas and the victims just entered it unwittingly as gasses like carbon monoxide are pretty hard to detect (no smell, no taste, no color). The トラップ定義 itself suggest that to be a trap it needs to be triggered, flipping that around, if no trigger not a trap. By the time people feel the effects of carbon monoxide, it's too late, they probably can't move to get out regardless if the room was locked or not. Household cleaners (bleach+Ammonia/vinegar, etc) might produce similar results in large enough quantities to knock out someone. Kinzo's study seems to be the most likely for this to happen as even if there's an awkward odor detected people may just ignore it because its Kinzo's room. Is it a trap if people could leave any time they want? <-- Another stretch, I know... ^^;
If the above is possible, I would like to throw in the possibility that the gas may not have been intentional but I think that might be covered in the 事故死 that Beato was about to cut down (stopped by Ronove before anything was really said). I doubt this line of thought but I'm throwing it up as something to keep in mind until it can be 100% ruled out.
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If it was taken before they entered the closed room, they must have been paralyzed, which means that someone else carried them or threw them into the room, in which case they couldn't lock the door with the keys inside.
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We establish that at the very least the boiler room is not a closed room. I also have doubts about the chapel and the parlor as well. In any case, as long as one of the six rooms is not a close room none of them are.
Probably the easiest pattern to create this illusion is...
Place body in room 1, place master key (1) -> room 2, master key (2) -> room 3, master key (3), -> room 4, master key (4) -> chapel, master key (5) -> boiler room, chapel key, leave out the other door.
Another possibility is doing the chapel last and leaving through a hidden door (this has not been denied).
Another possibility is do the parlor last and leave out the window. The narrator/Virgilia led you to believe the window was locked but it was never confirmed to be. Rudolf smashed the window before anyone could confirm it, and Rudolf is the only one to touch the window in EP 03.
But I agree. Probably 2 or more people involved. I've always had that stance.
How they were poisoned or immobilized, I don't know.