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Originally Posted by Renall
The only plausible murder motive in the entire series is Kyrie's motive to kill Asumu, especially if you read between the lines a little bit. Even then, that's so unfathomably specific that it isn't generalizable as a culprit theory; Kyrie's motive is so plausible only because we actually know exactly who she wants to kill and why. If you remove the cause or the victim, there's no more motive.
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Technically, there's also Natsuhi's motive for attempting to murder the baby that's decent enough.
Anyway I think the real problem in Umineko is the huge number of victims with an also high different number of relations with each others who apparently were all supposed to be murdered in the same location and at around the same period, with the culprit having a method to kill them all at the same moment but likely chosing to off them one after the other.
For example, let's assume that things started to go as in EP 7 teaparty and Kyrie wanted all the money for herself. Natsuhi and Krauss died due to an incident, Kyrie then offed Rosa, Hideyoshi and Eva.
First of all she should check if they're really dead and then...
Is there any need to go and kill everyone else personally when you can just use the bomb?
They could say they're in reunion with grandfather, check if there's really a way to Kuwadorian and to another boat, maybe even wait for the telephone line to resume working so they can check if Yasu's credit card really work and when they have checked everything they can turn on the bomb and leave the island.
You don't even have to find an excuse to persuade Battler as they would leave AS PLANNED and after amking sure everything is as they say.
Even better, they check everything before killing Rosa, Eva and Hideyoshi so if Yasu lied they won't be in a mess for no reason at all.
That's the sort of plan I would expect from Assassin-Kyrie, not just a 'let's murder everyone without even knowing if we're being tricked' party.