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Originally Posted by m0h

Beato left the number of people quite open to interpretation, due to Kinzo.
Kinzo ceased to be an actual PIECE when Battler found out that Kinzo is already dead at the start time of every game


What did she? She LOWERED THE COUNTER BY 1, because she was FORCED.

Everyone on the island belived Kinzo existed, so the number was +1 by Magic ( yes, when everyone believes, here's the magic ).

The same thing could apply to Kanon: if everyone believes that Kanon the Servant exists as in individual, the number is indeed CORRECT!
The very exact moment that the human side finds out about the trick. Puff. The Game master would be forced again to lower the counter.

Remember how was the human explication of the Trial in ep 5? Erika that in front of everyone one explains everything. And when Lambda confirmed the theory, EVERYONE IN ROKKENJIMA ACCEPTED IT AS TRUTH!. Turn over the chessboard and voila', here's the people number illusion!


Remember, Red Truth is not GOLD TRUTH. It's open to interpretations!

Also, we do remember that Red Truth applies to specific moments of the game unless specified?
We can quote the red truth, but we have to think WHEN it was made, because unless it specifies "it applies for all games" , its time-dependant.

Gold truth is more open to interpretation that red truth. We know that red truth in one form or another is truthful. All we know about gold truth is it is sometimes superior and sometimes inferior than red truth.