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You know ... I may have said it before, but I'm of the opinion that both End and Dawn represent "works in progress", that haven't been finished yet. And Erika, a piece born of the established fandom's wish for Piece!Battler to not be incompetent, represents either the writer struggling, or a helping figure "suggesting" the sorts of actions an aggressive detective like that would take, just to make the writing process more difficult.
Okay, I mean yeah, BATTLER was presented as having completely baked the proverbial cake, and the EP opens with him putting the icing and cherries on a perfectly woven tale, but ... well, Featherine's still working on it, right?
Also, my own problem with Shkanon isn't so much that it EXISTS, but that he tried to hinge almost EVERY mystery on it. Could have explored several other directions to mix things up, especially with 18 characters to play around with.
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