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Originally Posted by Cao Ni Ma
Like the idea of Battler simply forgetting something causes all of this or at least Beatrice wanting to seek him out. If this was following the standard mold of detective novels this wouldn't happen not because it involves a love story, but because people just dont forget anything in them. Everyone has photographic memory, no matter how minute the thing was, they'll remember it. If they tell you something contrary to the evidence it wasn't because they forgot, its because they lied to you.
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No that's really just not true. What makes the classic scene where the detective unravels the truth so great is that he points out the important things that the innocent and the Watson overlooked when they were trying to solve it. The stupid friend of the detective, the Watson, for example will get distracted by other mysteries that are not important to the central one. He remembers only what he thinks is important. Sometimes it's even because the culprit forgot something that he makes a mistake and says or does something that gets him caught.
Besides there are probably a lot of tropes in Japanese mysteries that we generally wouldn't know about.
If Battler didn't forget the sin it would mean he's not as much of a Watson as we thought. He wouldn't be incompetent in that case either.