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Originally Posted by Jan-Poo
Why? Kinzo's has been dead for a while, the only way to conceal that is burn the body.
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Because according to that motive, there was never a need to expose the body in the first place. Natsuhi was going to report him missing, not produce his corpse. If anything, burning it makes her and Krauss look guilty of murder. The only way it could make sense is if real murders had already taken place, as in EP1, or if the burner wanted to frame Natsuhi and Krauss (or others in the conspiracy), which doesn't work in EP1 since the real murderer would obviously receive the blame.
However, passing the corpse off as a victim of the real murderer doesn't work at all in EP3 if the first twilight was originally fake. Since the fakery would eventually be revealed, producing a real burnt corpse would be the height of stupidity; as before, it would trigger a murder investigation. Moreover, since Natsuhi and Krauss were trapped in the family conference all night, there would be no way for the servants to find out that their deception had fallen through.
And yet, the framing motive doesn't work either. Since both Natsuhi and Krauss had an ironclad alibi all night, the suspicion would end up falling on the servants who had been faking their deaths instead. Therefore, there was no reason for a conspirator who was not also the actual murderer to expose the corpse, and that conspirator could not have done so with the cooperation of the others.
In short, neither variation of "Phantom Kinzo conspirators concealing the time of Kinzo's death" can possibly work for both episodes.
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Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon
Brain parasites. Queen bee.
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You realize that both of those were actually debunked
within Higurashi, right?