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- Eva hates Krauss, and loves George and possibly Hideyoshi.
- Rudolf cares for Kyrie and Battler.
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For the first twillight, at least, Krauss (and Rosa) are probably the most suspicious of the siblings, just because of the people who died. After all, we know that Eva loves George, and that Rudolph loves Kyrie, and it would be hard to think of any situation so dire that they would want to kill the ones they love. Meanwhile, Natsuhi could have died of a natural reason (I'm still hanging on to this theory), and Jessica may have not died with all the others(I'll explain this below). For this one, I'm think Krauss as the culprit, and possibly Rosa as an accomplice, or Rosa as the culprit and Krauss as the accomplice/murderer. (I'm leaning more to the latter.)
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-Rosa hated krauss nii-san and her other siblings.
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Rosa, as we know, hates her siblings. I'll also willing to assume that she wants money. Of course, Rosa is suspicious, what with her child being the only one alive, and her frequent disappearances during the time of murder. However, I think she got Krauss and Nanjo on her side. For Krauss, I'm assuming she tricked him. Simply speaking, Rosa could have noticed Eva talking to Krauss after dinner (it does say 'without anyone noticing', but really, this is from Eva's point of view), and Krauss' nervous actions after it, and assumed that Eva had blackmailed him, in some way. Rosa could have later approached Krauss, and told him that she had overheard some plot to murder Natsuhi (did Rosa know about Natsuhi's illness?), taking advantage of Krauss' presumably paranoid state (from Eva's blackmailing), and making him even more paranoid.
It could be that Rosa was the one who drugged the tea (after all, she was the only one, besides Maria and the servants who left for the guest room, thus giving her a plausible excuse to NOT drink the drugged tea). Krauss, meanwhile, may have been too nervous during the conversation, to drink much tea, or he could have been tipped off by Rosa. As his siblings, their spouses, and their children fell asleep, Krauss could walk to Natsuhi's room to check on her (why he would do such a thing is somewhat unclear, but we can spin all sorts of tales to explain this). Upon reaching her room, he could see that she had presumably died (either of her illness, which seems to be pretty bad, or because she was killed.)
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-Money is related to the killer/ culprit / accomplice's motive.
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Again, I'm assuming that Rosa wants money. However, Krauss, the 'accomplice' could have been motivated, not by his father's fortune, but by the death of his wife (and presumably, his child?). Jessica's location during this is awfully vague, and I notice that she is not really accounted for. Thus, Krauss, seeing the dead Natsuhi, and not being able to find Jessica, might assume that the plot Rosa told him about was true. Then, it could have been that, in anger, he went back to the living room and killed his sibling's spouses and children, and hid them somewhere. Again, there is an inconsistency here, as to why Krauss did not kill Rudolf and Eva, but again, it can be explained. Perhaps morning had almost come, and Krauss was afraid that the two would wake up. Perhaps he wanted his siblings alive, as to coerce them into telling him who exactly who responsible for the plot.
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"It’s definitely her! Who else on this damn deserted island has blonde hair other than you and Rosa!? Be Rational already! But I don’t know why, when she noticed that I saw her, it was as if she was trying to avoid me, and ran up this path. Darn! What the hell is she thinking!? Can it be that Natsuhi is with her too?!”
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During all this, Rosa and Maria are coincidentally absent. Again, I have no idea about Jessica's whereabouts during the incident. Aside from that though, Jessica was probably brought somewhere outside the mansion and kept there by Rosa and/or Nanjo. She could have easily been blackmailed to stay in the forest and not to show herself .Something like, "If you show yourself to anyone, we will kill Krauss" would work; Jessica is pretty young and naive, anyways, and she probably cares enough for her father. However, she probably is old enough to guess that she would be killed, and thus, tried to escape. This is when Krauss sees her running up the hill. Of course, Jessica probably wasn't trying to avoid Krauss, but the murderer. Then, something could have happened, to result in her death (maybe she fell down the hill because of a trap set by Rosa/Nanjo?)
Of course, while this is happening, Rosa and Maria, are, again, mysteriously absent. From around, say, 7:45 (when she and Maria went back into the building), to around 8:45, she could have found the bodies (obviously, Krauss had a very limited time to carry out his murders, so it's likely that he didn't hide the bodies in some very complicated and hard-to-find place. Rather, he probably hid them in some rather obvious place. There have to many corners like that in an island so big, eh?), and, with the help of a servant (I'd say Kumasawa or Gohda, they seem desperate enough for money), could have set up the First Twillight.