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Originally Posted by Renall
Here's the thing about the stakers and whatnot: Why are they doing this? Assume they aren't killers, but are responsible for creating a witch illusion. What would make them risk doing this? Either they don't know ahead of time there will be deaths (making them innocent of any murder-related crimes), in which case they're manipulating a murder scene for a very weird reason and potentially implicating themselves in a crime they had nothing to do with, or they do know ahead of time, and are acting as accessories to murder even though by this logic they aren't part of the killer's faction (or even sure who it is, if Kanon is faking his death to find them).
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Originally Posted by Oliver
There may be a lot of good emotional reasons to do that if you know or suspect who the murderer is, but few to no rational reasons.
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I think it's important to consider the context here, because it generates three perfectly good reasons for non-murderers to stake people. This is a closed circle serial murder, so before anyone can worry about the police, they have to worry about staying alive.
First, this is a situation where a faction of characters had been planning elaborate fake deaths ahead of time, and the murderer apparently knew about this and took advantage of it. In other words, for the non-murderers in this faction,
unstaked corpses are not trustworthy because the murderer might try to fake their own death. Staking them completely removes them from suspect consideration for everyone on the island, even the innocent people who weren't in on the original faking conspiracy.
Second, in the particular case of EP1, the servants should know at the moment they discover Eva and Hideyoshi's bodies that they'll become Natsuhi's prime suspects. Natsuhi has a gun and demonstrated earlier that she's possibly unstable, so trying to throw suspicion off themselves is healthier for their well-being.
Third, the servants' prime suspect in that situation should be
Battler, the only person other than Maria and the victims who they know left Natsuhi's supervision at some point. They'd already been psyching him out about Beatrice before the murders were discovered, so building on that would give them an opportunity to scare him and prevent him from committing more murders. He might even accidentally reveal something he shouldn't know about the second twilight. This idea is backed up by the fourth twilight, since staking Kinzo is meaningless unless it's directed at someone who didn't know Kinzo was dead.