Welcome to Umineko EPX 4. For anyone new playing this round I highly suggest you take a look back at past EPX's so that you have a basic idea of how to play~
The goal of the game is simple: solve the mystery by figuring out who the culprit is in the allotted time, using red texts and blue theories. To sign up for the game just post in the thread and I'll list you. You can join at any time you want, even if it's in the middle of the time allotted or at the very end :P
Spoiler for Intro:
The waves of the sea are quite calming. Many believe water is a medium for purification – water can wash away the past sins and present dilemmas.
My happiness is in your happiness.
Yet when water is used in the wrong way it can be malicious and harmful. For example, it can be used to water a plant but too much water will kill the poor thing.
You lying bastard! How dare you humiliate me this way!
Water is forever flowing. Forever moving through the seams of time. Yet one drop of water didn’t magically become an ocean. It grew through the time and always remembered its past: staying true to it’s past it continues to flow and grow.
I can help you but only if you can accept that you need the help.
Certain events in the past ultimately lead to a different future. There are many paths in life that one can take, but in the end every action has a reaction. The question is if that reaction is equivalent to your action.
Forgive me. I promise to be better! Just don’t give up on me like everyone else!!!
What do you do if someone you love doesn’t return your love?
Sorry, I didn’t mean to hurt you like that.
What do you do if your crutch is taken away, yet you had no injury to begin with?
You don’t care about anybody but yourself, you selfish bastard!
Can you find the courage to go into the water and wash away the sins that plague you?
Promise me that you’ll always be there.
Or will you forever let your sins crawl through your skin, carrying the burden and never learning to forgive?
I only want us to have a happy life.
Your past holds your future, but in order to move to that new future you must relinquish your past, no matter how happy or sad it was.
He deserves only the best and I refuse to let him have anything less than that.
Please, let me wash away your sins and keep afloat your future. Delve into the sea and connect the many past sins so we may be led to our sins of today. All I want to see is a happy future, but then again I am simply a moderator.
Forgive me for my sins, Beatrice!
Don’t go too deep or you might drown and even then I cannot save you from yourself.
Even if it’s a horrifying truth, I will seek it out.
Good luck on your journey through the Seas of Purgatory. I hope to meet you on the other side and see you well and alive, free of the past burdens.
Maria…?
When the seagulls cry, who will survive?
~Sea of Purgatory.
Rules! :
1) You may request red recitals from the witch concerning the mystery. All statements in red are considered the truth for this game. Keep in mind the witch can choose not to repeat something in red on the basis that it is either wrong or outright denial. The witch does not need to state a reason for denying.
2) All theories must be made in blue. A theory is considered your take on what happened. If your theory is correct the witch will tell you so and will add on red statements from your theory to supplement it. If your theory is wrong the witch will tell you so, but does not need to state what is wrong. Theories not in blue will be ignored. Good way to get your theory right is never to assume and have proper red statements to help you.
3) In this game you may also request the following things, besides red statements:
– Reconstruction of the scene of a murder.
– Unseen segments in the story (such as chats between people that weren’t heard)
– Information about character attribute (how strong they are, if they can handle a gun, etc)
The witch, of course, has the right to deny your request as well.
4) Periodically the witch will also offer little games. These games can be from simple trivia about the Umineko game (Episodes 1-3 only) or something a bit more challenging. Winning these challenges can offer you new insight into the game. When you win a challenge you may pick one thing from the list:
– TIPs for certain characters (before and after death included) (TIPs are liable to change, depending on what parts of the mystery is solved)
– Detective Logs (Detective Logs are little journals, written through the perspective of a detective investigating the murders. There are 6 of these.)
– Investigation Logs (Logs from the perspective of detectives recording notes about the bodies during investigation on Rokkenjima. There are X amount of these (the number will be given when someone requests for one) )
– To pick out a theory already presented in the topic and request to know how many statements are right (if not stated before) and which ones are wrong. This option can only be used on any theories posted on the thread already, not new theories you want to present after solving. Silly theories do not apply to this rule.
Win Conditions:
The players must solve the 9 out the following 11 mysteries in the time allotted in order to win:
-The culprit(s) and accomplices, if any.
-Killers, if any.
-The three missing people and their fates (i.e.: the bodies that the police did not find during investigation of the island).
-The first twilight.
-The second twilight (Solved!)
-The fourth twilight.
-The fifth twilight.
-The sixth twilight
-The seventh twilight
-The eighth twilight
-The ninth twilight
Notice: You MUST figure out who the culprit(s), accomplice(s) (if any) and killer(s) (if any) in order to win! Victory will not be handed without figuring out who they are. Also, in solving twilight’s motives for certain deaths must be given. Note: The motive is NOT always money, okay. Just to let you know. Also: sometimes there might not even be a motive. If that's the case then please state so.
In addition there are bonus mysteries. These mysteries do not need to be solved to win, however if they are it shall be very beneficial to helping you out:
-The disappearance of Battler, George, Jessica and Ange, about 2-3 weeks after the game ended. -Who found the hidden gold, if anyone? -Conspirators (those who planned on killing but never did) -The death of Asumu dur hur hur oh Rosa :awesome: -Eva’s note to George -Locations used in the game (hint: Places that were not recorded in the question arc writing were significant to the game) -The voices of the intro (yes, actual characters involved in this game said those words one time or another)
This game will start on May 3nd and end May 24th according to AnimeSuki time. That gives you a little more than 3 weeks to solve this mystery. Plenty of time~
October 2nd, 1986
Two days before the Ushiromiya Annual Family Reunion.
Time: ?????
Location: ?????
“Respond! I refuse to tolerate anything but a simple answer!”
“…….Answer?”
“Yes! What is your answer?! What happened?! I know something happened!”
“………………”
“Well, what is—”
“You can go to hell! That’s my answer!”
A loud bang was heard.
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October 4th, 1986
Time: 9:30am
Location: Ship destined to Rokkenjima.
The air was rushing and felt oddly quiet. Usually the seagulls would come, squawking around, yet today they were nowhere to be found.
“Uu?” Maria hummed; her arms slumped around the railing of the ship’s bow.
“Is anything wrong?” George looked down at his younger cousin, wondering why her mood seemed sour. Maria was usually lively during the conference, yet today she seemed quite mellow.
“Uu-, Ange not here,” Maria grumbled, pursing her lips, her eyes not turning to her older cousin.
“Ah. Don’t worry, Maria. If you just ask your Uncle Rudolph and Aunt Kyrie, I’m sure they’ll let you visit Ange after the reunion ends tomorrow.”
“Uu-Uu! Really, they will, they will?” Maria chimed happily, tugging at George’s jacket playfully.
“Rudolph oji-san and Kyrie oba-san are nice people, I’m sure they won’t mind. Plus you can also see Battler too.”
“Can George and Jessica come too?” Maria asked her eyes wide with anticipation.
“Sure I’ll come – Jessica probably won’t object either.”
“Uu~ Battler, George, Jessica, Ange and Maria can all play together! Play together and have fun, Uu~!”
George nodded and looked back behind him, watching Jessica and Battler tease each other in the distance, not knowing exactly what was happening. Six years had passed since George actually saw Battler himself, and like everyone else he too was surprised at the red head’s growth. Yet sadly, Ange fell ill yesterday, according to Kyrie oba-san, so she didn’t come and in her place Battler did.
Maria had asked him earlier why Battler came all the sudden too, but George just told her that Battler was overseas at boarding school for the past six years and had just came back. It was a lie, but he didn’t think she could understand if he told her Rudolph oji-san and Battler had a bad fight after Asumu oba-san ‘went away for a long time’.
“Uu~! Boat stop!” Maria exclaimed, looking down from the railing to see the dock and sandy beach below her.
“Ah, then we’re here,” George happily smiled, breaking from his small thoughts. “Let’s go, Maria. Everyone needs to get off and meet Krauss oji-san and Natsuhi oba-san at the mansion.”
“Uu~! Meet everyone at mansion. Maria will see Beatrice again!” The girl exclaimed happily, her last words not heard by her cousin, who had walked ahead of her with his longer legs.
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Time: 10:15am
Location: Rose Garden, outside Mansion.
“Good day to you all,” Kanon greeted the family, waiting outside the door to the mansion along with Genji.
“Hey Kanon!” Jessica waved, scurrying up front with a wide smile. Kanon nodded and she put her hand down, her smile still on but with a noticeable change.
Kanon took note of the blond girl and walked over to her, whispering something in her ear. Jessica’s mood instantly soured as soon as he pulled back. Once he did he also noticed Kumasawa coming along in back with Gohda and quickly walked over in front of her, leaving Jessica alone to brood. “Kumasawa-san, Shannon needs you in the kitchen to help prepare the tea.”
Kumasawa nodded and rushed as fast as her old bones permitted, Jessica holding the door open her for as they walked inside ahead of the others.
Once inside, Battler instantly opened his mouth and awed at inside of the mansion, but he then shut it up swiftly. It had been too long since he had seen it, so the way his mouth opened up probably looked really stupid to everyone else, and he promptly shut it.
“You haven’t been in here for a while, haven’t you Battler?” Eva asked, sneaking up behind Battler without a sound.
He laughed nervously at her sudden entrance, rubbing the back of his neck with his right hand. “Yeah, it has been a while. But then again, it’s probably that way for everyone, isn’t it?”
Eva hummed lightly and chuckled. “I suppose so. Your old oji-san is very lucky to see this place everyday, huh?”
“Yeah, I suppose him, Natsuhi oba-san and Jessica are pretty lucky. This place is way bigger than my old man’s place and that place was especially amazing after a long time.”
“So, you would like to have a giant place like this, Battler?~”
“Not exactly – I mean, I wouldn’t know what to do in such a giant place. That and Jessica told me that living on the island is pretty boring, so I dunno if I would even like the secluded feeling.”
“Well work hard and I’m sure you’ll get a nice place like your grandfather one day,” Eva smiled, putting her arm around Battler’s shoulder and motioning him to the dining room, where everyone was meeting ahead of them.
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Time: 10:30am
Location: 2nd floor of Mansion, outside of Kinzo’s study.
“Father—”
“Go back to your greed and die in it! I refuse to come down!”
Krauss hissed quietly, taken back by his father’s words. Even after so many years those words still stung. Of course, after so many years those words only became those of an old miser dying a slow and miserable death.
He quickly recovered with a smirk and sighed. “If not the conference then at least the dinner. I heard Battler-san has come back after many of years, and I’m sure he’ll appreciate seeing his grandfather.”
“Well I won’t appreciate seeing that shame!”
“Now Father—”
A loud bang on wood was heard from the other side and the door rustled visibly from the movement. “Didn’t I make myself clear?! Leave at once, or I’ll have you chopped up and burned for the witch!”
With that final yell the hallway went quite and Krauss sighed, striding from the door with his arms crossed. Even at death’s door his father was as ferocious as ever. Even then though, there was no reason to yell in such a manner. He walked to the staircase and was met by Nanjo and Natsuhi, both showing frowns. One could assume they heard the commotion.
“As I said, Kinzo is quite a strong man for his age,” Nanjo sighed, going down the staircase slowly in front of Natsuhi and Krauss.
“It is an understatement to say Father has lost his vigor, and yet…” Natsuhi trailed off, putting a hand over her head.
“Did you take your pills today?” Krauss asked, looking over at his wife with mild concern.
“Yes, I did. With your siblings though I wonder if the dose I took will be enough,” Natsuhi huffed, reaching the end of the staircase, Krauss following behind.
Nanjo continued towards the dining hall, looking back as Natsuhi and Krauss paused by the staircase alone. He sighed, deciding that what they talked about wasn’t any of his concern.
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Time: 11:45am
Location: 1st floor of Mansion, inside of the Parlor room.
Lunch was finished and everyone seemed to be in a much lighter mood. Gohda gracefully bowed and left the room along with Shannon, who was wheeling away the cart of dirty plates, and Kumasawa who was wheeling a second cart with dirty cups and utensils. The most noticeable part of the lunch was the absence of Kinzo, but the kids didn’t seem too much mind to it as the parents did.
“You would think that he would at least come down for lunch, huh?” Hideyoshi grumbled about Kinzo, coming into the parlor in front of Eva. The kids decided to go down the beach, while the adults would converse alone. The only ones in the room were Eva, Kyrie, Rudolph, Nanjo and himself. Krauss and Natsuhi needed to meet with the servants, while Rosa was at the lavatory. Nanjo was gazing out the window while the other four sat down on the couches, across from each other.
“Say, Eva, why isn’t George here?” Kyrie asked, sitting across from her on the opposite couch along with Rudolph.
“Why would George be here now?” Eva asked, putting her oriental fan to her cheek.
“Well, he’s 23 ain’t he? It isn’t like he’s a kid anymore like the other three,” Rudolph added in, his fingers tapping slowly on the arm of the couch.
“This conference has nothing to do with my son, right now. I am still alive and he won’t inherit anything from me as long as I live,” Eva bluntly stated, with a serious face. In all honesty she wanted her son to inherit the title of the family head, yet at the same time she wondered if he was still too young to understand the importance of such a task. He didn’t even ask if he could attend the meeting, preferring to go with his younger cousins outside.
Just then Rosa entered the parlor. “Sorry for keeping you all waiting,” she apologized, promptly sitting down on the chair next to the couch that Kyrie and Rudolph sat on.
“Don’t worry ‘bout it Rosa. Aniki and Natsuhi sis aren’t even here yet either,” Rudolph chuckled a little, noticing how flushed his sister looked. She was probably rushing to get here and apologized about being late, without realizing she was more punctual than the eldest of them.
“Who isn’t here, Rudolph?” A voice huffed out from the parlor doorway. Krauss had just entered, sitting down on the only free couch around the coffee table.
“Where did Natsuhi go?” Eva hummed, asking what everyone else had in mind. She didn’t follow him through the door.
“She wanted to continue the talk with the servants by herself, seeing as I had to come here to have a wonderful chat with my beloved siblings,” Krauss said with a smirk, sarcasm obvious in his voice.
The conversation between the parents commenced. About thirty minutes into it Natsuhi quietly entered the parlor, sitting herself next to Krauss without even a bat of an eye towards her. They were all too focused on the greed in their eyes. There was no money visible, but even looking at them you could tell that their hearts were being tangled up by the chains of greedy desires.
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Time: 12:30pm
Location: Beach on Rokkenjima.
“Hey Shannon, Kanon – over here!” Jessica shouted, waving over from her seat in the sand at two figures approaching the shore. The figures soon became bigger and finally arrived at the shore to meet the four cousins.
“Sorry for being late. We were held up by Madame a little,” Shannon sighed, pulling Kanon gently by his arms to sit down on the blanket.
“Natsuhi oba-san really likes to push things on you all, huh?”
“It’s to be expected, Battler-sama,” Kanon replied, looking at the assortment of treats that Shannon had brought in a basket, being taken out and put on the red blanket. “We are furniture, so it’s natural that she would put things on us.”
“Furniture?” Battler said, his eyes blinking in confusion. He heard Kanon say that before didn’t he? When they came to the mansion, he told him the same thing.
“Yes, furniture,” Shannon answered instead, opening up the plastic container for the chocolate cookies, smiling as Maria quickly pawed her hand at one of them. “We serve the Ushiromiya family, so that makes us and the other servants furniture.”
“Huhhh?” Battler confusingly questioned once again. “Doesn’t serving the family make you two se – hey!” He was cut off by a sharp punch to his arm. He turned around the rub the wound, looking at Jessica’s hard stare. He turned back and noticed Shannon was giggling while Kanon just gave that same blank look.
A little later after eating, Jessica pulled Battler away from the blanket, punching him in the arm once more. “Idiot! Are you trying to upset them?!”
“Upset them? Whaddya mean upset them?” Battler asked, rubbing his arm again. “Do you mean about them being furniture?”
“You haven’t been around here for a while so let me just give you a quick rundown. Kanon, Shannon and Genji have this…well complex, I suppose.”
“Complex?”
“They honestly believe they’re furniture for the Ushiromiya family to use as they please. Of course they aren’t really furniture, but that’s what they’ve been told for a long time. You probably don’t remember but Shannon also called herself furniture a couple times when she was little too.”
“Huh? Why do they think like that? They’re humans, not furniture or whatever.”
“Well, no kidding,” Jessica huffed, crossing her arms dejectedly. “But that’s what they think, and when anyone questions it I’m sure they get a little irritated. I mean, Shannon isn’t as bad as Kanon is about it, but still just try not to question them about it. It’s not as if they mean it literally or anything.”
Their conversation ended there and they went back to the picnic blanket, Maria showing George, Shannon and Kanon her book of magical circles and the like. Battler didn’t pay much attention to his younger cousin, still thinking on this ‘furniture complex’ the servants had.
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Time: 4:00pm
Location: Rose Garden, outside of Mansion.
Around the afternoon time Kyrie and Rosa were heading down to the shore. Gohda and Kumasawa were busy making dinner preparations and Genji was with Father, so Rosa had volunteered to go down and retrieve the children, along with Shannon and Kanon. Kyrie decided to join along as well, wanting to continue the conversation they were having amongst the loud yells of the conference.
“It seems everyone is agitated over the money, huh?” Kyrie mused, looking over at the garden as she and Rosa walked to get the kids.
“It’s always like this, Kyrie-san. You’ve been coming here for a while since Asumu-san died – how could you be surprised?” Rosa questioned with a perplexed look on her face. Despite being roughly around the same age, Rosa was admittedly intimidated by Rudolph’s second wife. Kyrie was intelligent beyond her years, and it was obvious Rudolph respected her. Maybe more so than he respected Asumu.
“Well, I know it’s usually like this, but even today the air seemed much thicker,” she chuckled and sighed. “Then again, we’re all in bad situations, aren’t we? Having to corner Krauss like that isn’t the easiest thing to do, as expected.”
“Indeed. In times like this I suppose things tend to get difficult,” Rosa shrugged. She looked over to Kyrie as they began to walk down the trail and the back of her mind began to pick at her again. She was wondering this for so long, she wondered if it would be polite to do so.
“Is something wrong, Rosa?”
Rosa blinked quickly, realizing that Kyrie had stopped moving, looking straight at her. The woman was some kind of mind reader, Rosa decided, and she sighed. “W-Well…I was just wondering this for a while. I really hope you don’t think any worse of me for it.”
“Go ahead. I’m open to all questions,” Kyrie replied with a small smile.
“Kyrie-san…did you kill Asumu-san?”
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Time: 4:50pm
Location: Rose Garden, outside of Mansion.
“Shannon and I need to return to work. Please excuse us,” Kanon said as soon as the cousins, along with Kyrie and Rosa returned. Shannon nodded, walking behind Kanon as he entered the mansion.
The rest looked up at the sky, noticing it turn darker. All of them were in front of the mansion doorsteps now, except for Maria who was looking for something amongst the flower garden.
“Maria’s rose isn’t here?” George asked, walking over to Maria. Her face appeared flustered as she continued a frantic search for something she couldn’t find. Poor thing looked like she was about to cry.
“Uu- Not here, not here Uu-Uu!” Maria fussed, still looking for her poor rose.
“It started to get windy on the way back. Maybe the rose flew away?” Battler wondered, looking at the rose garden besides Maria. Maria then turned to him, her brow furrowed and her eyes obviously watering up. Battler nervously laughed, crouching by her side. “Ummm…what I mean is…well—”
“Uu-Uu! Maria wants her rose! Uuu-Uuu-Uuu!!” Maria cried in rage, tears coming down her eyes as got up and began stomping her feet on the ground. Her cries reached Rosa and Kyrie, who came by to see the girl sobbing.
Rosa looked over at Kyrie, who was watching Maria intensely, and bit her lip. For Kyrie-san to see Maria like this was extremely embarrassing, considering that Kyrie was probably the only one out of the parents who didn’t think badly of her in an obvious manner. Natsuhi and Hideyoshi were polite, but Natsuhi was obviously on Krauss’s side and Hideyoshi couldn’t be all that good if he was with a witch like Eva. She sighed, walking by Maria and kneeling down to her eye level. “Maria, what rose are you talking about?”
“When we came to the island there was a dying rose amongst the others,” Battler began, crossing his arms in thought. “Maria noticed it so Aniki made a little bow around it, with the candy wrapper he got from Hideyoshi oji-san’s candy on the airplane to Nijima airport.”
Rosa nodded, wiping Maria’s tears with her small fingers. “Maria, Mama will stay here and help you look for the rose, okay. Just stop crying.”
Maria nodded happily and Jessica perked up. “Maybe we should all help out!”
“No,” Rosa calmly said, an agitated look on her face. It probably came out the wrong way, but Rosa did not want any help with such a profusely simple task. “It’s getting windy and it’ll rain soon. Go back inside with Kyrie-san. If dinner starts before Maria and I come, just tell them to go on without me.” Although it would be embarrassing for her to show up late as well, she needed to care for Maria’s needs alone first.
Jessica frowned, never seeing her aunt act like that, but was quietly ushered away from them by Kyrie. The four of them went into the mansion, as the mother and daughter searched for the rose.
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Time: 5:45pm
Location: 1st floor of Mansion, the Dining Room.
Rosa entered the dining hall, everyone besides Krauss, Nanjo and of course Kinzo seated, and took her seat by Eva. Everyone was quietly talking amongst themselves.
“Hey Rosaaa~” Eva chimed, looking over at the newcomer at her seat. Rosa frowned, not particularly wanting to talk to Eva after what happened in the last hour. “What’s wrong? Be good and answer your Onee-san~”
“…..Hello,” Rosa politely replied, turning to Eva with a bitter smile and quickly turning back to meet Rudolph’s hard gaze from across the table. She frowned, her eyes turning down to the pure cloth.
Even without Krauss around the two other elder siblings seemed to enjoy picking on her. Eva she understood but she never really got why Rudolph went with her sister too. He was in the same boat as her, right? He was the youngest male and she was the youngest female. If they would tag team together then Eva and Krauss would have never been as accessible to their cruelty towards both of them.
“Rosa?”
Her eyes snapped up from the interesting white cloth to meet Rudolph’s eyes again. “Y-Yes?”
“Did you hear me?”
“Oh! Yes I did, don’t worry,” Rosa laughed lightly, rubbing one of her temples nervously. Of course she didn’t hear what he said, but she didn’t want him to get angry or anything. It was only a small white lie, after all.
Dinner began at about 6:15pm. At that time Krauss, Eva, Rudolph, Rosa, Jessica, George, Battler, Natsuhi, Hideyoshi, Kyrie and Nanjo were present. Meanwhile, Kinzo was eating in his study, accompanied by Genji, Shannon and Kanon. Kumasawa and Gohda were in the kitchen.
Maria was nowhere to be seen.
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Time: 7:10pm
Location: Guest Hotel.
“Ah, so that’s where she was~!” Jessica said, looking at the small body cuddled up in blankets on a bed in the guest hotel. The body was that of Maria’s who was sleeping soundly amongst the sheets.
“The little rascal has been sleeping the entire time, huh?” Battler said to himself, sitting down gently on the bed, watching her sleep without a care in the world. “Man just seeing her is making me tired.”
“She’ll probably be hungry when she wakes up, missing dinner and all. And with her nap, it’ll be hard to get to sleep later in the night. I’ll go find Shannon and we’ll get her something quick to eat,” George said, standing at the doorway, not even entering the room.
“With Shannon, huhh?~” Jessica chimed, a large grin spread across her face.
George said nothing but noticeably turned a light red under his glasses. “D-Don’t wait up for me. I’ll be back as soon as possible with something to eat.” With that he rushed out, his footsteps quickly tapping through the hallway.
“What’s up with Aniki, Jessica?” Battler asked with a small smirk on his face. He had a good clue, from the way his older cousin’s face flushed up, but he wasn’t too sure if it was even real.
Jessica turned over to Maria, who was still sleeping in bed, and then turned back to Battler. “Well…it’s like this. You see…”
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Time: 7:25pm
Location: Guest Hotel.
Kanon stepped into the bedroom of the room shared by three of the four cousins, including Milady, and noticed George was missing.
“Hey Kanon, what’re you doing here?” Jessica asked, just noticing him coming by the open door.
“I was just looking for Shannon. I think she has forgotten the shift in rounds.”
“A shift in rounds?” Jessica blinked, standing up from her seat on the bed.
“Yes. Shannon, Kumasawa and I were suppose to be in the guest hotel tonight, but Madame changed it so Kumasawa and I are in the mansion, while Genji takes our place here,” Kanon said, a noticeable frown on his face. He always wore a frown of course, yet this one seemed particularly upsetting.
“Ah, well Shannon is already at the mansion,” Battler jumped in, turning on the television and immediately turning down the volume, so not to disturb Maria. “George went there looking to get food for Maria too. Can you go there and tell him to hurry it up?~” Battler joked, a wide grin on his face. Jessica had explained the situation to him, so he knew why they were taking so long – but Maria was due to wake up soon and she would definitely be hungry by now.
Kanon didn’t seem to like this ‘joke’, because he certainly didn’t laugh along, but he nodded at Battler’s question, taking it almost too seriously and left from the doorway.
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Time: 7:40pm
Location: 1st floor of Mansion, the Parlor room.
“E-Eva-sama!” Shannon gasped in surprised, noticing the orange haired woman entering the door without a peep.
When George came over to the mansion looking for food to feed Maria, Shannon and Kumasawa made a quick meal for the little girl to eat. It didn’t take more than fifteen minutes, but on the way back George insisted they talk in private, and the parlor was the closest place. All the adults were in the dining room, talking once more on the inheritance, so the place was uninhabited. However, Eva’s entrance was surprisingly unexpected.
So here she was, sitting with George on the couch, and watching, with deathly fright, the eldest daughter of the Ushiromiya family, and George’s mother at that, enter the parlor room.
“Oh hello Shannon, George,” Eva said with a smile, walking forward to the two people. “Shannon, I was just looking for you. We need refreshments at the dining room right now.”
“O-Oh, certainly,” Shannon replied, bowing her head at the tall figure. She looked quickly at George, who wasn’t even facing her, and noticed a stoic expression on his face. Her shy smile turned into a frown and she hurried out of the parlor.
“Actually,” Eva began, stopping Shannon before she could even open the door. “Do you mind bringing me a glass of water here first? Everyone else agreed on having tea, but honestly I think it’s too late for it.”
Shannon turned back and nodded. “Yes, Eva-sama,” and with those hurried words she left the parlor.
Once she was a few yards from the entrance she let out a deep sigh, her feet still moving to the kitchen. She knew that Eva-sama didn’t like her. In fact, the woman probably hated her. Although she kept such an airy appearance around everyone, Shannon knew that the eldest daughter was quite demanding and controlling, especially when it came to George. Shannon knew the woman meant well for George, and George himself knew it as well. Yet at the same time it was difficult to be with each other in such a way.
“Kumasawa-san,” Shannon hummed into the kitchen, where Kumasawa and Gohda were talking amongst themselves.
“Ah, hello Shannon. What is it dear?” Kumasawa asked, walking over to the stove. Gohda took a last look at the old woman and then left the kitchen, paying the younger maid no mind.
“Eva-sama said everyone in the dining room wanted tea. Do you mind delivering it?”
“Ohohoho~ Not at all, dear. I was just getting ready to leave,” the old woman said, as Shannon quickly took a glass from the shelf and filled it up with tap water. “What is the water for now?”
“Oh, it’s for Eva-sama. She said she didn’t want any tea, so I’m bringing her some water,” Shannon replied, taking the tea pot from the stove and placing it on the cart. She turned back and took the water, smiling apologetically at Kumasawa. “I’m sorry for pushing you on this. I’ll serve breakfast tomorrow morning in return.”
“Ah, don’t worry Shannon. There’s no need to. I’m not going anywhere for a while, so don’t fret,” the old maid replied, drying her hands with her apron cloth. “Now you get going – Eva-sama is such a sweet person, but my can she is impatient at times. Just don’t tell her I said that, okay?”
“Of course not,” Shannon smiled. “I should go now. Thank you again,” with that she hurried back to the parlor room.
When she neared the parlor room a loud sound penetrated her ears. It was terribly sharp and it made her think something might have fallen down. Worried, Shannon moved faster to the parlor. Once she got inside she saw both George and Eva standing up and staring at each other. They didn’t seem to notice her though.
“E-Eva-sama, your water,” Shannon timidly spoke out, watching as both pairs of eyes turned to her. The scrutiny of their looks quickly penetrated her body and she thought that the cup would drop for a moment. She looked around the room with her periphery, noticing nothing was broken or on the ground. So where did that sound come from?
“Ah…thank you, Shannon,” Eva replied, her robust energy from the last few minutes gone. As soon as she handed the water over George left the room, the brown bag with him.
Shannon looked back as he left, deciding to follow. “…Hey, Shannon.” But she was stopped by Eva-sama, whose small voice barely reached her ears.
“Ah…yes, Eva-sama?”
“Shannon…am I bad mother?” The orange hair woman asked, taking a small sip of water, the cool water rushing through her throat.
“No, you aren’t, Eva-sama,” Shannon replied, the words coming out almost robotically. She wasn’t allowed to say her true opinion to the eldest daughter, in fear of being reprimanded by her and Madame.
“I see…thank you,” Eva nodded with a small sigh.
Shannon was ready to leave but then was stopped once again, when her hand was grabbed by Eva’s. “Ah, yes, Eva-sama?”
“Do you mind giving something to George for me?” Eva asked with a small frown weighed on her lips.
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Time: 8:20pm
Location: Guest Hotel.
“Uu! Maria hungry! Maria wants dinner!” Maria shouted, stomping her feet on the floor. She had woken up a few minutes ago and immediately demanded a meal, as George predicted she would.
“George Aniki said he’d be back soon, okay,” Battler appeased to her, trying to calm down the girl. He knew Rosa oba-san had trouble doing so at times, but he didn’t imagine it would be this difficult.
“Anyone hungry perhaps?” Like magic had been cast, George and Shannon walked into the room, George holding a brown bag in his hand.
“Uu! Bag for Maria?” Maria cutely asked, running up to George with a large grin.
“Yes, bag for Maria,” George replied, bending down to her level and opening the bag. He reached in and took out a plastic wrapped sandwich. “Kumasawa made it. Its peanut butter and jelly. It’s a popular snack overseas she said.”
“Uu~ Maria knows! Mama makes peanut butter jelly sandwiches for Maria lots of times Uuu~” Maria chimed, feeling quite brilliant with such knowledge. “Uu~ Thank you George and Shannon!”
“Oh, umm don’t thank me, Maria-sama. Kumasawa made it, like George-sama said.”
“Uu~ Can Maria go and thank Kumasawa-san now?”
“It’s getting very windy now and it was starting to rain when we were coming back,” Shannon replied as nicely as she could, knowing that the youngest cousin tended to get very fussy when she couldn’t do something right away. “Don’t worry though, we can thank her tomorrow.”
“Uu~ Maria thanks Kumasawa-san tomorrow! Shannon promises, right?”
“Yes, I promise, Maria-sama,” Shannon nodded, watching the girl brighten up, taking the sandwich from George and running to the television to watch it. She then looked around the room in small confusion. “Where’s Kanon?”
“Oh, you didn’t see him?” Jessica asked, remember what Kanon said. “Your shifts got changed, right? Kanon’s inside the mansion now.”
“Ah, yes! Of course, it must have slipped my mind,” Shannon laughed, embarrassed at her blunder. So that’s why she saw Genji-san when she entered the hotel with George. She sighed, smiling lightly as she looked out the window.
It was now almost 9:00pm.
Inside the mansion, the six parents talked on the inheritance, drinking the hot tea Kumasawa had brought in for them. Eva sat inside the parlor alone, crying in shame over the fight that broke out with her son. Kumasawa, Gohda and Kanon were together in the kitchen, talking amongst each other as they waited for their shifts to officially begin. Meanwhile, in the Guest Hotel, Genji-san was resting in the servant’s quarters, while Battler, Jessica, Maria, George and Shannon talked together in the children’s guest room.
Upstairs in the Kinzo’s study a duel was under way. It was quite the brutal dual but the outcome was becoming more obvious as time went along.
“Hah! I’m quite sorry, but I’m afraid you will lose.”
October 5th, 1986
Time: 6:00am
Location: 1st floor of the Mansion, the dining hall.
A loud yawn lightly echoed in the dining room, as Hideyoshi woke up from a long rest, stretching out his arms tiredly. He looked around the room, noticing the sleeping bodies of Krauss, Natsuhi and Rosa. It seemed that sometime during the talks they had all fallen asleep. He chuckled. “Well, it looks like even the busiest of people have the time to sleep after all.”
He looked down around the table a bit more and then spotted something surprising.
“UWOOOAAAAAAH!”
The loud roar shook the room, awakening Natsuhi, Rosa and Krauss instantly. Rosa moaned at the noise, holding her head with both hands as she lifted her body from the table. “W-What in the wor – eek!!!”
Rosa noticed it too. How could one not notice it? After all if you saw a person leaning stiffly on a giant table, a giant open wound in his throat and blood gushing out all around it, wouldn’t you have the urge to scream as well?
Natsuhi and Krauss lifted themselves up at the sound of Rosa’s scream and followed the other two actions, screaming at the sight they saw. It was unmistakably Rudolph Ushiromiya, his body partly leaning on the table. Judging by the wound on his neck, he was definitely dead.
“What is this?! Why the hell is my brother dead?!!” Krauss screamed, stepping back at the horrendous sight of the body, almost falling over from the shock.
Rosa frantically looked around the room. Noticing something else completely wrong. “H-Hey! Eva, Kyrie – they aren’t here!”
“Whaaaat!!?” Hideyoshi gasped, noticing it now too. His beloved wife and Kyrie-san weren’t even inside the room. “Eva! Evaaa!” Hideyoshi yelled, jumping off from his spot and dashing out the dining hall.
“Hey, wait up!” Rosa screamed, following the large man out the eastern corridor.
Natsuhi was ready to follow as well, but her arm was pulled back by Krauss, who began to move to the west exit. “D-Dear, what are you doing?!”
“The two of them will be enough! Go to the Guest Hotel and get the kids. I’ll look for Kyrie and get the servants – something is going on here and I do not approve!”
Natsuhi was about to interject, but then he dashed out the western corridor. She frowned, following Rosa and Hideyoshi out the eastern door.
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Time: 7:20am
Location: Beach
It had taken over an hour of searching, but eventually the others were found.
On the sandy shore, where the children spent yesterday happily eating a picnic and talking about the past and the present, laid four bloody bodies in a row, as if the beach had become a sunny cemetery. In order from left to right laid the bodies of Kumasawa, Kyrie, Nanjo and Eva.
First there was Kumasawa, who had a dark blood filled gash over her eyes and chest. Her apron was still on, but it wasn’t nearly as clean or dry as it was yesterday.
Then there was Nanjo, with a similar gash as Rudolph had over his throat. His face was not peaceful looking at all – in fact his face was petrified with a look of terror.
Kyrie’s body looked like it was put the most pain. Parts of her shirt were torn off and she had multiple deep slash wounds around her torso. Without the good doctor Nanjo alive no one knew how long it took her to die, but it appears the culprit had fun torturing her for a good long while.
Finally there was Eva, who looked like she was in just as much pain as Kyrie. Her hair was down and in a terrible mess, not to mention that deep stab wound in her stomach. If you looked through the wounds you would probably find her innards, still gushing about. Of course they weren’t working anymore, but if you didn’t think she was dead then you could easily believe that someone was dissecting her alive and never finished.
“What do we say to the children?” Natsuhi thought aloud, sitting on one of the flatter stone beds near the bodies, Rosa on the ground with her head down.
“Say?” Rosa parroted, picking her head up to meet Natsuhi’s solemn gaze. Under her eyes there was a faint glitter of dried up tears. “Say what?! ‘Children, five people just died overnight, but don’t worry about it!’ What the hell can we say!!?”
Natsuhi sighed. “Well we can’t just say anything. I think the children would notice if there were five people suddenly not around. And with the typhoon still around we can’t even notify the authorities.”
At that time Krauss came back to the two women, shaking his head in dismay. “All of them are definitely dead. It’s unfortunate but it is what it is.”
Rosa glared, standing up from her position. Suddenly the youngest sibling seemed very tall and broad. “It is what it is?! What the hell is that! Our brother and sister are dead and you just go and say ‘it is what it is’! Have you no heart, Krauss?!!”
“How rude of you!” Natsuhi spat, standing up in front of Krauss, so that the enraged Rosa couldn’t even come close to touching him. “My husband is only stating fact! If you know of a way to bring back the dead from the grave then please enlighten us, Rosa!”
Her glare only sharpened and admittedly even Krauss was a little frightened at his younger sister. “Both of you stop it! Fighting will get us nowhere!” Krauss shouted, causing Natsuhi to turn to him and back away next to Rosa. Krauss then turned his head, seeing that Hideyoshi was still by Eva’s body, and then turned back to the women. “Listen – someone killed these five people and since the typhoon didn’t permit anyone to come here after we did, that means one of the 18 did it.”
Rosa nodded at Krauss’s words, but Natsuhi frowned. She didn’t want to tell him, but she believed there was a 19th person. She just couldn’t imagine someone killing the others. Her husband’s siblings could be greedy and devious, but she couldn’t fathom the idea that they would murder. The servants swore their loyalty to the family and the children were probably more rational in thought than their own parents at times.
Krauss turned back to the bodies and sighed. He walked over to the mourning man, who was still bawling his eyes out over the corpse of his older sister, and talked. “We need to go back now. Like it or not the children are going to suspect something if we’re all gone for too long.”
Hideyoshi nodded, standing up sluggishly and turning away from the bodies without a second look to Krauss. Krauss sighed, taking a look at the bodies again. That’s when he saw it. “What in the world,” he muttered to himself, stepping closer to Kumasawa’s body.
“Dear, is everything okay?” Natsuhi yelled over, prompting Krauss to turn his head to her.
“Yeah, everything’s fine! Get going back!” He yelled back. No sooner than the sound of his yell did his wife turn around and followed the vanishing figures of Rosa and Hideyoshi.
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Time: 10:45am
“There, that’s the last one,” Gohda heaved with a gasp of relief. To actually be ordered to assist carrying four corpses was quite gruesome. He dealed with chopping things up in a kitchen all day long at times, yet he could never get over his squeamishness towards blood.
“Thank you very much Genji and Gohda,” Natsuhi said, looking at the bodies as the two men walked away from Nanjo’s corpse. “I know this must be quite a burden on you.”
Since Krauss voiced his concerns over the corpses being washed away by the shore it was decided that the bodies would be moved over to the mansion. Now, in the parlor room, laid the five bodies, including Rudolph’s in the dining room. They had told the children of what had happened, but refused to let them see the bodies.
“It is indeed a shame that the four died, but as long as we still have our masters we must obey them,” Genji said in a monotone voice.
“Can you two retrieve Shannon and Kanon. I want to call just a quick meeting,” Natsuhi asked, receiving a nod from both the men. “Thank you. I’ll wait for you all by the portrait of Beatrice.” With that the three of them dispersed from one another.
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Time: 11:45am
Shannon and Kanon entered the guest hotel room of the children, where the mood of everyone’s hearts completely shifted from the jovial laughter of last night. Battler was still sitting down up against the wall, not allowing anyone to see his poor face, while Jessica was on the bed, sparring the two a hopeless gaze when they entered. Maria was the only one who was left unchanged, but she was downstairs watching television.
“Everyone has decided to move into the guest hotel,” Kanon began, trying his best to cut through the air. “They all believe they were drugged last night when the murders occurred and thought that it was an easy place for the murderer to hide out in.”
“Hey, you two,” Battler mumbled, picking his face up. It looked like he had stopped crying but his eyes were slightly reddened. “Who do you think did it?”
The two of them remained silent.
“Well, who do you think did it?!” Battler asked again, his tone more brutal and forceful.
“I apologize, Battler-sama,” Kanon spoke out, his pose and face still as stoic as ever. “But at this time, we cannot suspect anyone.”
“Why not?! Everyone else probably suspects someone, so why not!?” Battler cried, standing up in rage.
“Battler-sama, right now the only living people are four servants and 11 family members. Either we suspect one of our co-workers, or we suspect our employers,” Shannon said, a serious look growing on her face as well.
“As furniture we cannot suspect our masters without being reprimanded for it, yet we do not equally wish to shift blame over to the other furniture,” Kanon continued.
“Then who the hell did it?!” Battler continued to shot, pounding a fisted hand into the wall behind him. Although his screaming was quite undignified and uncalled for, one would probably act in a similar matter if their parents were suddenly dead after one night as well.
“Uu! Maria knows!~” A voice chimed. George and Maria entered the room, George carrying a frown as opposed to Maria’s bright grin. “Uu~ Maria knows who did it!~”
Jessica stared at Maria and sighed, as if she knew exactly what was about to come out of the little girl’s mouth. “Who did it, Maria?” She asked, despite knowing that Maria’s answer would supply no real culprit.
“Kihihihihi~” Maria giggled, like everything was a big joke. “Uu~ Beatrice did it! Beatrice will be revived and will take Maria to Golden Land, where everyone can be happy.”
“Beatrice? The Rokkenjima Witch?” Battler questioned, a dark look still on his face. He didn’t seem in the mood for jokes and was sure Maria was definitely treating this as one. “Why do you think that?”
“Uu! The people that died were sacrifices for the first twilight! The epitaph says it all,” Maria replied, beginning to rummage around her pink bag. She soon took out a small notebook of the same color and opened it up to one of the pages. “Uu~ Maria wrote down epitaph in here! Read it and your questions will be answered, kihihihihi.”
Battler snatched the book from her hands, and began to read it, a look of immense confusion on his face. “What the hell is this? Sacrifices, gouging? Is this serious?” He snickered, a smirk on his face as he looked through the riddle.
Shannon nodded. “Beatrice is certainly real Battler-sama. She’s lived on the island for many years.”
“Shannon you too?” Battler said, a skeptical look on his face. He looked to Kanon, who had a similar look as Shannon had. “Kanon, you believe in this witch as well?!” Kanon nodded, as Battler expected. “I can’t believe this! What kind of ‘epitaph’ is this anyway? You can’t seriously say it isn’t a joke!”
“Uu-Uu! Epitaph serious! Beatrice will be revived according to it!” Maria argued, stomping her foot on the ground in retaliation.
George sighed, forcing a smile on his face. “Maria, how is your rose doing? Did you take care of it yesterday?”
“…Uu?” Maria stopped, looking at George. Suddenly her eyes widened and she shrieked, causing everyone to be taken aback. The way she sounded would make one believe she had heard a ghost.
Only a minute later did Rosa suddenly barge into the door, coming in to see her daughter sobbing and racked with tears. “W-What is going on here! Why are you crying, Maria?!”
“Maria’s rose! Maria’s rose is in the rain!” Maria wailed, pulling on her mother’s skirt in a plea. “Uu! Maria needs to go outside! Go outside to take care of rose, Uu-Uu-Uuuu!”
Rosa’s brow furrowed. “No! You are definitely not going outside. Mama took care of your rose yesterday, and it was fine then!”
“Uu! Rose wasn’t fine. Maria never found rose, Uu-Uu!”
“Be quiet! There are more important things going on than your dumb rose!” The cruel mother shouted, slapping her wailing daughter on her head repeatedly.
Between the wails and slaps a voice of reason emerged from Shannon. “Rosa-sama, perhaps Kanon and I can take Maria-sama to see her rose.”
Rosa turned around, her hard gaze now directed to the benevolent thinking Shannon. “There is no need, Shannon. It isn’t safe to go outside right now.”
“We aren’t going too far away. Plus Kanon and I will be around if anything happens,” Shannon reasoned, looking out the window. The rose garden wasn’t in direct view from the window, but if anyone tried hurting them they wouldn’t get away with it.
“Well…I suppose if Maria promises to be good afterwards,” Rosa thought aloud, her ambivalence towards the suggestion still very high.
“Uu! If Maria goes for the rose she won’t bother Mama the rest of the time!~” Maria offered, walking in-between Shannon and Kanon. “Shannon and Kanon will be with Maria, so Maria will be fine!”
Rosa crossed her arms, a slight anger burning in her. Yet eventually it sizzled down. “F-Fine. But if she gives you two any trouble don’t resist telling me!”
“Very well, Rosa-sama,” Kanon replied, looking down at Maria and then back to Rosa.
“We’ll be back soon,” Shannon finished, walking out the room, Maria skipping behind happily, followed by Kanon behind her.
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Time: 12:15pm
Location: Guest Hotel Lobby
Rosa paced around the area, her worry increasing with each echoing sound the clock made. It had already been more than half an hour since she let Maria out with Shannon and Kanon, yet neither of the three had returned yet.
“…….I’m going to the mansion,” Hideyoshi suddenly said, standing up from the couch.
“I’m sorry, but I must object,” Krauss said, a deep frown on his face. “Shannon, Kanon and Maria still haven’t returned from the garden.”
His words only sliced Rosa’s worry more. “That does it! I’m going outside to check on them. This is taking way too long!” With that Rosa stormed from the lobby. Nobody bothered to stop her, knowing well she could handle herself.
Before leaving the mansion the four remaining adults picked up a Winchester rifle each from Kinzo’s gun collection. Each magazine had five bullets in them and despite it being old the gun was considerably efficient and light-weight. If she would get into any trouble then she knew what to do.
“I want to go to the mansion, dammit!” Hideyoshi screamed, attempting to leave behind Rosa, yet was halted by Natsuhi in his way by the door. “Dammit, she got to go to the roses so why can’t I go to the mansion!”
“Haven’t you grieved enough? Crying won’t make Eva come back,” Krauss said, an unintentional cruel tone to his words.
“I say you haven’t grieved enough! Going off nonchalantly about them being dead and nothing that can be done about it – I bet you’re the murderer, aren’t you?!”
Natsuhi snapped. “What an outrageous accusation. He was with us the entire time last night – you were there too!”
“But we all fell asleep out of nowhere!” Hideyoshi snarled. “I didn’t see neither you two, nor Rosa nor Kyrie or Rudolph fall asleep before I did?! Did you see anything?!”
Both Krauss and Natsuhi went silent. They were probably realizing what he was saying.
“You….believe we were drugged?” Natsuhi asked timidly.
“Of course we were drugged! There’s no doubt about it! And if anything it was probably the servants that did it!” Hideyoshi shouted once more. “Who asked for tea anyway? Whoever asked and whoever brought it in were probably the ones who drugged us!”
Krauss shook his head. “Impossible.”
“Impossible? Why is it impossible?!”
“The person who brought in the tea was Kumasawa,” Natsuhi cut in, recalling the evening. “And the person who had asked for tea…was Eva.”
“E-Eva and Kumasawa?” Hideyoshi parroted, surprised. But that would mean his wife and the old maid were culprit and accomplice.
“Exactly,” Krauss started again. “Both of them are dead. If they were the culprit and accomplice, as you imply, then wouldn’t two of us be dead instead of both of them?”
“I refuse to believe that!” Hideyoshi bursted out again. “I know Eva didn’t get along with either of you two, but do you really believe she would actually employ your servant into drugging everyone?! What’s next – you gonna believe she might be faking death!” Everything fell silent again. Hideyoshi panted slowly, trying to catch his breath from his yells. "Just please, let me go. You just don’t understand. You can’t understand why I’m acting this way. Just please—”
His begs were cut off by a loud boom at the front door. Rosa had rushed into the lobby, breathing erratically and clutching her chest. “O-Oh god! Oh god, what is going on?!” She screamed, falling to the ground while wailing out.
“W-What is it?! What’s going on! Rosa! Rosa!”
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Time: 12:40pm
Location: Rose Garden
What was supposed to be a quick visit to see a dying rose, turned out to be a horrific sight. On the ground by the roses were two bodies, laying down parallel to each other, making an almost unnatural shape. It was the two sibling servants, Kanon and Shannon. Both had similar gaping wounds in their stomachs.
Yet it didn’t end there. Apparently the killer was quite cruel and left a note, right between the two corpses. What more, Maria was nowhere in sight. Not a body that moved or breathed that belonged to her – she had completely vanished from the area.
“This is insane! Father couldn’t have just come down and place this letter by two dead people, without telling anyone!” Krauss shouted picking up the envelope, light blood freckles decorating it. “And how the hell did they die?! Why didn’t we hear anything! Everyone was in the guest hotel, right?!”
“Krauss just read the damn letter!” Rosa screamed at him, not in the mood for any games. Any person would understand how she felt – at least the two servants had corpses. Maria could easily be dead like them, but without a body how could she know whether to give up all hope or pray for a miracle. A most terrible torture indeed.
“Why?! This letter is probably just as much nonsense as this situation!” Krauss screamed back, crumbling up the envelope and throwing it at Rosa. He turned back to the bodies and began to kick the poor maid Shannon’s corpse. “Wake up idiots! You aren’t dead – no way in hell you’re dead! Stop slacking off and tell me what is going on!” He then proceeded to kick Kanon’s corpse as well, but it was all in vain. Dead people were dead: kicking their fragile vessels wouldn't awaken them.
Natsuhi stepped in, taking her husband by the shoulders and nudging him to move away. “Dear, it’s no use,” she spoke, looking down miserably at the two dead people. She knew full well she drove them into despair at times, treating them like nothing. Yet even then, such a horrible way of dying shouldn’t be wished on anyone.
Krauss turned back to his wife, giving her a dark glare. The two of them looked at each other for a moment and finally Krauss stepped away from the bodies, looking with a look of disgust at his blood-stained white shoes.
“…….Why is this so…familiar?” A voice questioned. Krauss and Natsuhi turned over to see Rosa, who was intensely reading up the contents of the crumpled up envelope Krauss had thrown at her.
“Familiar?” Natsuhi questioned, going over to Rosa with the intent of reading what was inside.
“Yes, familiar,” Rosa repeated.
“What does it say?” Krauss asked now, curious at the letter he had discarded.
Rosa stared at the letter again for a minute and then began. “‘At the Second Twilight those who remain shall tear apart the two who are close.’”
“And?”
“That’s all,” Rosa said, giving the letter to Natsuhi half-heartedly. “It seems awfully familiar, doesn’t it?”
“It is the epitaph of the witch.”
The three turned around, startled by the sudden voice. It was Genji, Kinzo’s head and immediate servant.
“A-Ah Genji, how goes it?” Rosa asked, holding her temple lightly. She was still quite saddened over Maria’s disappearance, her eyes not even focusing on Genji clearly. “Is Father okay?”
“Master was in his room playing chess,” Genji replied, looking down at the two bodies in front of him. Shannon and Kanon were dead now. He sighed, a bit saddened by the deaths. Shannon and Kanon always felt like grandchildren to him, despite not being related. They trusted each other more than anything. “I told him about the recent deaths but he didn’t respond with much concern.”
Krauss groaned, frustrated at the attitude of his father towards all this. He probably thought this was some fun game, like everything else. His eyes looked around the three people and realized something missing…or someone. “Where the hell did Hideyoshi go?”
Natsuhi sighed. “If anything he probably went back to the mansion to mourn over Eva. Genji, did you see him by any chance?”
“Ah yes, I did see him entering the mansion when I was going down the stairs. But he had a gun with him.”
“Well, we should probably get these bodies moved to the parlor,” Krauss sighed, looking back to the bodies and then to the three. “You three go get Gohda from the guest hotel to help us carry the bodies. I’ll watch the bodies here until you return.”
Genji nodded and went off on the path to the guest hotel. Rosa soon followed with an angered look on her face. Natsuhi was about to go but had her arm tugged back by Krauss suddenly.
“Dear, what is it?” Natsuhi questioned, looking at her husband’s hard gaze confused.
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Time: 1:10pm
Location: Hallway
“Hard to believe such a little kid can be so heavy,” Gohda heaved, carrying Kanon’s corpse delicately in his hands. He was just preparing a small meal for everyone in the guest hotel when suddenly Genji and Rosa came through and told him Shannon and Kanon were dead. Now he was carrying another bloody body for the second time today.
“I can carry him if you want,” Krauss interjected, standing at the end of the hallway near the parlor entrance.
“Ah, but Krauss-sama, you’ll get your clothes stained,” Gohda reasoned. Although he complained he didn’t want his employer to think too badly of him.
“I’m wearing a red suit, Gohda. I’ll just blend in,” Krauss chuckled; the morbid joke beyond suitable in this situation.
The two men made it to the entrance at last; Genji carrying Shannon and Gohda carrying Kanon. Rosa and Natsuhi were together in the guest hotel looking after the children, so the three of them were the only ones in the mansion.
Krauss knocked on the door once again, frowning at the lack of response. “Hideyoshi, we know you’re in there. Stop crying over Eva and open the door!”
There was no response.
“This is getting annoying. Can one of you two give me a key?”
Genji nodded, placing Shannon’s body gently by his feet, taking his hand and shuffling through his pocket. He took out a metal key-ring with three keys on them. “The middle one will open the parlor door.”
Krauss thanked him, taking the keys from his hands and waiting for Genji to pick up Shannon’s body once more. He then twisted the small key through the keyhole and a clicking sound was heard. Krauss took the knob and turned it, pushing through the door.
“Hideyoshi – bwaaaaaah!!!” Krauss shouted, tripping backwards and landing on the ground, startled at the small sight of blood on the white carpet.
“K-Krauss-sama!” Gohda questioned, looking down at his boss. “What is it? Is everything okay?!”
Krauss ignored Gohda, standing up again and walking into the room. He immediately turned away from the sight he saw and moved from the entry way. Gohda and Genji looked to each other and then walked inside, immediately noticing what Krauss noticed. At the horrific sight Gohda dropped Kanon’s corpse, screaming himself at the sight.
On the ground, outside the small couch square where the parents conversed yesterday was Hideyoshi’s body. His body had over several bloody gashes, going from bottom to top; his face was completely bashed in at the end. He was unrecognizable, besides his brown suit.
“Hideyoshi too?! What the hell is going on?!!” Krauss screamed looking away from the body, knowing that once he would look again his eyes might not be able to detract.
“Krauss-sama,” Genji began, looking at his fallen master after he gently laid Shannon on one of the couches. “What are we to do?”
“Just…just take his gun and put down Shannon and Kanon on the beds. We can’t do anything more,” Krauss panted, helped by Gohda to stand up. “Close up the room and get going to the guest hotel. We’re staying there until the police come – this psycho isn’t going to get away with this!”
Genji looked around the room and then to Hideyoshi’s bloody corpse. “Krauss-sama, Hideyoshi’s gun isn’t here?”
Krauss turned around, his eyes widening at this realization. “His gun is gone?!” That meant that this psycho was armed with a weapon now. “Everyone go to the guest house now. Genji, take the master keys from Shannon and Kanon. Make sure the lock the door behind you.”
Genji nodded, walking to Shannon and Kanon as Gohda led a disgruntled Krauss out of the parlor.
Spoiler for “October 5th Part 2”:
Time: 4:45pm
Location: Guest Hotel Living Room
Natsuhi yawned, stretching her arms tiredly. She glanced around the room, noticing two sleeping bodies. One was Rosa’s small figure, napping on the couch opposite of her and the other was her husband, lying in a lounge chair fast asleep.
Her eyes glanced to the grandfather clock in the room, wondering how long she had been out. It was almost 5 now; three hours since Krauss, Genji and Gohda came back from the mansion, telling them of another dead man. She sighed, standing up in a daze, walking to her husband. Her hand rested on his shoulder and he immediately jolted, causing her to take back her hand.
“D-Dear?” She whispered, wondering if she had woken him.
“Mmhmm.” Krauss mumbled in his sleep. She sighed, glad he wasn’t awakening, but he continued to mumble. “Eva…mhmm…”
“Eva?” Natsuhi whispered, confused at the talk. She knew she should wake him up, sure that her husband was probably having a nightmare if he was talking in his sleep about his sister.
“Mhmmhm why are you…mhmma,” he continued to mumble.
Natsuhi tapped his shoulder a few times again, trying to wake him now. “Dear, wake up.”
“Hmm…huh?” Krauss muttered, opening his eyes up slowly. “Natsuhi…where are we?”
“In the guest hotel…remember, Hideyoshi?”
“Ah…yes, of course,” he sighed, shaking his head. “What time is it?”
“It’s almost 5 now,” Natsuhi said looking at the giant clock again. “We should probably have something to eat.”
Krauss looked at Rosa, who was still sleeping undisturbed. He turned to Natsuhi. “Go get Gohda and Genji; tell them to prepare some dinner.” She nodded and left her husband’s side, leaving the lobby silently.
She walked through the hallway, entering the servant’s room. But no one was inside. She frowned, walking upstairs to the children’s room, knocking on the door.
“Whose there?” A voice quickly asked through the door.
“It’s Natsuhi. Have any of you seen Gohda or Genji?”
The door opened and Jessica stepped out, looking behind her back to see her two elder cousins sleeping soundly. “Sorry mom, but we’ve been in here since…”
Natsuhi frowned, noticing her daughter’s downcast gaze. She must have been upset about Kanon and Shannon’s deaths. Natsuhi knew there was something there but always tried to ignore it. Then she tried to stop it. Perhaps that was wrong of her to do. “I understand. Thank you, Jessica.”
Her daughter slowly nodded, stepping back inside the room and shutting her door. She went back downstairs to the living room and told Krauss of her failure to find Genji and Gohda.
“The only place I can think they went was the mansion,” Natsuhi sighed, hoping that it wasn’t true.
“You think they would actually go?”
The two turned their heads to Rosa, who was slowly sitting up on the couch, awakened by their chatter.
“How long have you been up?” Natsuhi asked confused.
“Just a minute,” Rosa yawned, looking around her surroundings.
“So Genji and Gohda are supposedly back at the mansion?” Krauss asked, annoyed at this new discovery.
“Well if they’re together then I’m sure it’s okay.”
“Hey!” Rosa shouted suddenly, causing another glance at her from the couple. “W-Where is it?!”
“Where’s what?” Krauss asked, wondering what his sister was screaming about now.
“My gun! My gun isn’t here!!” Rosa spat, checking under the table to no avail.
“Your gun is gone?! Where did you put it?!” Natsuhi questioned.
“Before I went to sleep I placed it here,” she pounded the coffee table. “But now it’s gone! Someone took it?!”
Natsuhi gasped. “D-Do you think?”
“Natsuhi, do you know who took my gun?!” Rosa snapped at the older woman.
“What if it was Genji or Gohda?” Natsuhi wondered, looking behind her at the door. Both the men were gone and now Rosa’s gun was missing too.
“…Good point,” Rosa smiled, walking to the door.
“Rosa, where are you going?” Krauss queried, standing up from his chair too.
“To the mansion of course!” She exclaimed, trying her best to subdue her rage so that the children upstairs wouldn’t hear. “Genji and Gohda are gone. My gun is gone. Common sense says one of them took it!”
Natsuhi got up, going to the woman’s side. “If they went to the mansion maybe they took it to protect themselves?”
“Yeah, because it’s so hard to ask me to me borrow it,” Rosa sarcastically said. “And for that matter why the hell are they going there anyway?! Everyone is here safe and sound, yet they decide to just go off on their own for some reason!”
“She has a point, Natsuhi,” Krauss agreed, leaving the room. “Even if placing your gun like that was simply careless.” He then left from their sights, going upstairs.
Rosa gritted her teeth, not in the mood for her brother’s snide comments. They were in the midst of a mass murder situation and he seemed more than fine with making such cruel comments.
“I’m sorry Rosa,” Natsuhi sighed. “My husband means well; he’s not trying to be cruel.”
Rosa turned away from her, deciding not to even pay head. Natsuhi was obviously on Krauss’s side so why even bother with her. With Maria missing all Rosa cared about now was staying alive. And yet what was she going to do when came back? Was Maria even alive anymore?
Krauss came back a minute later, gun in hands. He explained that he left his gun in the children’s room. “Natsuhi, Jessica said she wanted to ask you something by the way.”
Natsuhi sighed. “Very well, you two go on without me. Someone needs to watch after the children after all.”
Rosa nodded and started towards the exit. Krauss followed the suit, leaving behind his wife.
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Time: 5:10pm
Location: Mansion Lobby
When Krauss and Rosa made it to the mansion they came to the discovery that the front door was carelessly left open. They decided that Gohda and Genji had to be here – besides Krauss, only they had master keys to access the door.
“Where should we search first?” Rosa asked, standing near her brother. Although she hated her brother he was the only one with a firearm. If he wanted to kill her he would have just done so on the way to the mansion, right?
“I honestly have no clue,” Krauss admitted, looking around his surroundings. There were four ways to go. They could go towards the parlor, towards the dinning room, towards the boiler room or upstairs to the second floor.
Suddenly a loud noise boomed in the room. Krauss immediately spun around, corking his gun at the source of the noise. It was Natsuhi, who had just entered the mansion, her clothes and hair lightly soaked from the rain.
“Natsuhi, what are you doing here?” Rosa questioned with confusion on her face.
“I wanted to stay there but…” Natsuhi began, trailing off silently.
“But what?” Rosa pressed, crossing her arms in frustration. It was made clear that she would stay behind to protect the children and yet she was here.
“Rosa, that’s enough,” Krauss grimaced, putting a hand on Rosa’s shoulder. “We need to find Genji and—”
Rosa then retreated from the hand, smacking her brother on the face. “Don’t you dare touch me!”
“R-Rosa!” Natsuhi yelled, amazed at the display she just saw. “How rude! He was just trying to calm you down!”
“You shut up too! Both are you are in cahoots with Genji and Gohda, aren’t you?!” Rosa shouted accusations, stepping away from the couple.
“What nonsense are you talking about?!” Natsuhi yelled back, her eyes burning with as much rage as Rosa’s.
“Kumasawa was the one who drugged us, right?! We all fell asleep and next thing we know 5 people are dead! Then Kanon and Shannon die and my daughter goes missing! Not to mention Hideyoshi’s sudden death! Now your servants are gone with my gun! Krauss, one way or another I know you and Natsuhi are responsible!”
“Don’t be absurd! When Hideyoshi died Krauss and I were with you!”
“That may be so, but who’s to say he was even dead?”
“What are you talking of?!”
“Krauss, you went with Gohda and Genji to check on Hideyoshi while Natsuhi and I stood at the guest hotel. Fact is you guys could have easily killed Hideyoshi there and then and just told us you found him dead! The parlor was locked as well, according to you three – obviously no one could have killed him from the inside out!”
“This is outrageous!! My husband has been helping to protect us since the first murders this morning and you claim he is the culprit?!”
“Why not? Personally I find it to be a funny coincidence that no one from your family has been killed or is gone, Natsuhi. Battler and George lost both their parents and Maria is missing! Yet you and Jessica seem to be just fine, don’t you?”
“Insanity! To actually accuse my husband on such baseless accusations!”
“Then what about my gun? Both your servants are gone and my gun is missing. I think it’s pretty cute how they decided to go on a field trip to the mansion with a loaded firearm.”
“Just because my husband actually took precaution with his gun doesn’t mean he’s a killer!”
“But why even take that precaution to begin with?!”
“How dare you—”
“Enough!!” Krauss yelled, his voice echoing through the hall, dousing the fire caused in the heat of Rosa and Natsuhi’s arguing. “While you two are wasting time bickering there is a killer still on the loose on this island! Our first priority is to find Genji and Gohda and retrieve Rosa’s gun, wherever she might have misplaced it.”
“I didn’t misplace—”
“Rosa, I assure you nothing is going on with me! I am sorry for your loss and for Battler and George’s losses, but that is no reason to point the finger at me!”
“……………”
The three suddenly became enthralled with hatred towards one thing or another. Rosa, angry at the person who stole away her daughter, presumably her brother. Natsuhi, angry at Rosa for going into an unnecessary temper tantrum of rage at her husband, who has been trying to protect all of them as best as he could; and Krauss, angry at the culprit who was committing all these atrocities and tearing what little left there was of his family in two.
“I want to see the bodies,” Rosa stated, walking into the north hallway.
“Rosa!” Natsuhi called, following her sister-in-law as she walked to the parlor. “It isn’t a pretty sight – we still need to find your gun!”
“The gun can wait. Krauss said Hideyoshi had his face plowed in. I want to see it for myself.”
“You wish to give yourself nightmares?”
“I’m already in a nightmare, Natsuhi. I’m stranded on an island, everyone is dying and my daughter is missing. In for a penny in for a pound is the saying,” with that she walked ahead of Natsuhi, quickening to the parlor.
When she finally got to the door she tried turning it but found it locked up quite tightly. “Dammit! Krauss, open up the door right now!”
Krauss came by the two women, shaking his head. “I won’t open it Rosa.”
“If you don’t open it then I say you’re the killer! Let me see Hideyoshi as dead as you said, or rather claimed!”
“My husband simply does not wish to frighten you!” Natsuhi defended.
“I’m not a little child anymore! Krauss never gave me protection and I never asked for it. Now open up this door!” Rosa declared, banging on the door with her fist.
At that time a loud gunshot was heard.
All three stopped, staring at each other.
“D-Dear?” Natsuhi quietly said.
“Don’t look at me – I didn’t fire my gun,” Krauss whispered, showing them the gun in his hand. There was no smoke coming from it and the shot sounded like it came from far off in the mansion.
Rosa’s eyes widened and she ran away from the parlor door, heading back to the stairs. Natsuhi called out to her, following her steps, immediately echoed by Krauss, who was trying to get to the front lines, just in case a showdown was imminent.
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Time: 6:00pm
Location: Mansion Lobby
“This is obviously no joke!” Krauss spat, thinking about the bloody corpse of Genji, which they had just found in the 2nd floor honored guest room. It was far more conservative looking as far as wounds went – unlike the many gashes Hideyoshi had on his body, Genji simply had a simple gunshot through his chest. “Some psycho thinks that it’s funny to kill off everyone randomly!”
They had just returned from the 2nd floor. After the gunshot erupted they rushed upstairs to find no traces of anybody around. They looked around the rooms until Natsuhi came across a locked one – the honored guest room. When Krauss opened it a terrifying sight to behold. There Genji was, dead on the ground with a hole through his chest. By his hand was a Winchester rifle; Rosa’s rifle to be precise.
After finding the body they locked up the door again and here they were, sitting on the stairs wondering what to do next. Genji was found, dead, and Rosa had her gun back. Yet Gohda was still missing. However, for whatever reason, it looked like everyone had lost their will to even care about the chef.
Natsuhi muttered something under her breath with a sigh. Rosa turned to the other, a deep frown on her lips. “What was that?” She asked in a threatening manner, raising her gun to her chest but not preparing to aim it.
“On the 5th Twilight, gouge the chest and kill,” Natsuhi repeated, her voice smoother to their ears.
“Twilight? Is that the epitaph or something?” Krauss asked.
“Yes. I believe that whoever is doing this is following it,” Natsuhi replied, stepping down the staircase to the portrait. Below it was the epitaph, carved in stone for all to witness. “Six people on the First Twilight, 2 on the Second and from there one for each one.”
“Wait…six?” Rosa questioned, walking to the elder woman with a confused look on her face. “That can’t be right.”
“What do you – ah! Y-You mean!” Natsuhi gasped, realizing it herself as well.
The sound of a gun corking could be heard from behind them. Krauss was arming his weapon. “Six people according to that epitaph – but only five corpses.”
“So is someone else dead then?!” Natsuhi asked, startled by the revelation.
“Either that or the culprit isn’t completely following the epitaph,” Rosa theorized.
“What about Father? Did anyone check on him?” Natsuhi wondered, staring up at the stairs. What if Kinzo has been dead and no one has even realized it yet. Since finding the bodies they have pretty much neglected him – they have been so wrapped up in keeping themselves safe that the patriarch of the large family has been in potential danger since the morning came.
“Genji told us he checked on Father around the time we found Shannon and Kanon dead, right? So that means he was fine.”
“What if Genji lied?”
“Do you honestly believe that, Rosa?” Krauss questioned, looking around his surroundings. “Genji is Kinzo’s most trusted butler – why would he lie about something so serious?”
“I still want to check on him,” Rosa stated, glaring at her older brother angrily. “It’s been a few hours since then – Father might be a strong willed person, but he isn’t as young as he used to be.”
“Are you saying Father isn’t healthy?!” Natsuhi snapped, gritting her teeth at the younger woman.
“Both of you relax,” Krauss shouted at the two of them, their eyes drifting to him quickly. “We might as well go and check. Genji should have the key to his study on his…body. Let’s take it and see.”
The three of them went upstairs, stopping at the guest room where they left Genji’s body. Krauss rummaged around the corpse’s pockets until he found the study room key, along with a master key to all the doors in the mansion and guest house. They then proceeded to the study, the hallway suffering from an eerie silence that pierced through all three of the adults.
Krauss took the study key and opened the room. When they opened it they came to a realization that they were all so hoping would not be seen. Kinzo was nowhere in his room.
“F-Father is gone!” Natsuhi stated the obvious in shock, nearly falling to her knees.
“Let’s not get hasty here!” Rosa said, helping up the woman with her free arm. “There doesn’t appear to be any blood around here.”
“But he’s still gone, after Genji said he was here!” Natsuhi spat back, covering her face with her hands, refusing to get up from the floor.
“Natsuhi get up alr—”
“Do you smell that?”
The question broke the voices of the women, looking back at Krauss. They began to sniff their noses, Natsuhi covering hers immediately from the scent. “W-What is that? It smells so…so foul!”
Rosa did not flinch. “It smells like something is burning.”
“Burning…the boiler room!” Krauss exclaimed.
This smell just came out of nowhere. If anything that meant someone was in the basement boiler room burning something…or someone.
Krauss corked his gun, turning to the women. “Rosa, stay here with Natsuhi.”
“Dear!” Natsuhi cried out, knowing what her husband was thinking.
“What do you mean ‘Rosa stay with Natsuhi’?!” Rosa spat, raising her own gun. “I know what you’re thinking and you aren’t going down there without me.”
“Rosa, I plead to you to stay here. Natsuhi is unarmed and you’re the only one besides me with a rifle. Go into the study and lock yourselves in with the key. There’s no way anyone can enter unless you let them: this is something you cannot do! No matter what happens do not let anybody inside – even if it’s me,” Krauss explained calmly, handing the key to Natsuhi.
“Hold on just a moment! There’s a possible killer down there and you want to go alone?!” Rosa shouted, her anger rising.
“Forget it – stay in the study.”
“If the study is so safe then Natsuhi can stay here alone! Now let me go with you!”
“…….” Krauss paused, his face completely calm. He betrayed no emotion to either woman. “Rosa……have you ever wanted to be the head of the family?”
“Huh?” Rosa simply asked, her stone gaze still on. No matter how much her glare pierced at him he didn’t seem to flinch.
“Rosa, if you come with me and we both die then who is going to take care of the family?”
Rosa paused, her gaze falling. He was right – technically she was next in line after Krauss to be the head of the family, due to the sudden deaths of Eva and Rudolph. If they both died though then Natsuhi would probably become the next head until George married, if he did.
“No matter how many of us died today the Ushiromiya family is still a family. As the standing head of the family I refuse to let us die off any longer – I will not forsake anyone and increase the list of casualties!” Krauss exclaimed, causing Rosa to go back a couple steps.
“D-Dear,” Natsuhi pleaded silently, standing up and weakly moving to Krauss.
Krauss looked at his wife, barely standing in front of him. He frowned somberly, putting down his gun by his side for a moment and warmly embraced his wife in his arms, a solider ready to go to war on the front lines. Rosa watched the display, amazed at the spectacle she was witnessing. Her older brother, the cruelest man she has ever known, was holding his frail wife in his arms, muffling the damp sounds of her sobs. What was so amazing was this was perhaps the first display of affection she had ever seen from the two. Perhaps the fact of Natsuhi’s infertility for a long period of time had formed a rift between the two, but this one moment seemed to leave such a deep rift stitched up.
The two separated from each other, Krauss giving a sober smile to his wife and picked up his gun again. He sighed, turning back to the direction of the hallway they had entered through, ready to go down to the boiler room alone. “You two get inside and don’t let anyone in under any circumstances.”
Natsuhi nodded with her head facing down to the carpet. She couldn’t look at her husband – once a proud man, he was now about to become some sort of martyr for the sake of the family.
Rosa silently agreed, but then a thought occurred. “Wait! What about the children – we left them in the guest house. What if the killer goes there?!”
Krauss stopped walking down, gun readied in his hands. He looked over his shoulder at his younger sister and withering wife and smiled, a confident smile suddenly rising on his face. “Well, where else do you think Natsuhi’s gun went?” With that he ran down the hall, not waiting for his sister’s reply.
Rosa stared at the hallway now, turning her head back to Natsuhi, who was sluggishly moving into the study. “He didn’t…”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Time: 6:40pm
Location: 2nd floor of Mansion, Kinzo’s study.
It had been ten minutes since Krauss left. Rosa was beginning to get nervous, tapping the gun rhythmically. She was sitting on one of the spare chairs in the room, not daring to sit on the chair behind Kinzo’s desk.
Natsuhi meanwhile was occupying herself while going through Kinzo’s many books, lightly padding her fingers along the hardcover spines. “To think how much time Father invested in these books,” she muttered aloud to herself, afraid of removing one because she probably wouldn’t be able to fit it back in again.
“What a waste of time,” Rosa sighed. “To even think how much of his life was wasted on such things.”
“Yes…a waste…” Natsuhi agreed, although it was obvious from her voice that she did not share Rosa’s opinion.
Rosa looked at the elder woman and remembered something. A distant memory from a long forgotten past. It was the day of Krauss’s wedding to Natsuhi, held on the island. Many people were invited to the large event, mostly friends of Kinzo. Rosa was a young girl back then, barely five years old. During the event she was chaperoned by Eva and her eventual husband Hideyoshi. Both of them were college students and Eva only periodically visited the island anymore.
The wedding was the first time Rosa had ever been in the chapel. Although Kinzo reserved it especially at all times, not allowing anyone to enter, he decided to let them marry inside of the chapel to settle a disagreement with Natsuhi’s family, who wanted a ceremonial Shinto wedding. About an hour after the ceremony ended everyone was invited inside the mansion to look around. While Hideyoshi was getting food for Eva and herself the older sister had talked to her in an almost friendly manner; a rare occurrence out of Eva, who happily taunted her whenever she could.
“You know Krauss’s wife, what’s her name again – Natsuhi I think, comes from a family of Shinto priests. I heard she’s the eldest daughter out of four. But I also heard she’s not very talented at all, so she was sold off as Krauss’s bride. You get what I’m saying, Rosa? Your older brother is marrying a loser, just like himself. Isn’t it romaaaantic~?”
It was obvious that Eva’s malice to Natsuhi probably didn’t even stem from the woman herself. If anything it was a mere branch of hatred that led back to Krauss. Rosa never did like Krauss, knowing well of his chauvinistic behavior towards Eva despite her young age. Yet she always wondered if Krauss had ever changed his ways from that long forgotten past.
Rosa sighed, shaking away her fantasies, standing up from her seat. “Natsuhi, lock the door behind me and don’t let anyone come in.”
Natsuhi immediately turned around. “Rosa, Krauss said not to leave.”
“I’m sorry, but Krauss has been gone for over ten minutes. Something is up and I’m going to find out. You’re still safe in this room as long as you keep the door locked so don’t be afraid or anything.”
“B-But Krauss said—”
“Frankly, I can care less what he said,” Rosa cut her off, her eyes sharpening. She opened the door and stepped out of the study, gun cocked and ready. “Stay behind here. Don’t come out until the police come, okay!”
With that Rosa left the study, leaving Natsuhi in the small study room alone with the books. It would be the last time she saw Rosa.
October 10th, 1986.
Location: State Department of Affairs
Time: 11:30am
“Okay, let’s go over this again,” A disgruntled detective grumbled, putting in a new cassette tape into a recording device in the middle of the table. “Are you ready?” He asked to the person across the table from him.
“I don’t see why you even bother. I already told you the same thing five times and yet you never seem to understand what I’m saying. Am I not speaking clear enough for it to reach your ears?”
“Don’t play smartass with me, kid. Let’s begin,” the detective snorted back. He then clicked a button on the recorder, a red light blinking on like magic. “Okay, please state your name for the record.”
The other sighed. “George Ushiromiya.”
“You are the 23 year old son of the late Eva and Hideyoshi Ushiromiya, correct?”
“Yes.”
“On October 4th you were stranded on an island called Rokkenjima, owned by Kinzo Ushiromiya, until the morning of October 6th 1986, correct?”
“Yes.”
“During the time stranded on the island mysterious murders began to occur and your family was killed off one by one until the evening of October 5th 1986, correct?”
“…Yes.”
“There were a total of 18 people on the island. Can you list all of their first names?”
George sighed again. These were exactly the same questions as the last five times. He knew where this was going and the fact that he knew such an obvious answer didn’t make him happy that he was still stranded in this small gray room.
“You included yourself in this list as well, yes?”
“Yes.”
“And a typhoon occurred near the vicinity of the island from October 4th to October 5th 1986, which means once all 18 people were there they could not leave nor could anyone come on the island until the typhoon passed. Is this correct?”
“Yes.”
“So the only possible murderer in this crime had to be one of the 18 people, correct?”
“No.”
“No?”
“The killer wasn’t one of the 18 people on the island.”
“Then who was the killer?”
“It was the 19th person—”
“I swear if you say what I think you’re about to say then you better shut up!”
“…………”
“Now, who do you think killed the 15 people on the island?”
“15 people?” George asked confused.
“We are assuming everyone but you and your two cousins died, despite missing three bodies.”
“Ah I see.”
“So, to repeat the question: who do you think killed 15 people on the island?”
“…It was—”
“Don’t say—”
“The Golden Witch Beatrice.”
“Rrraaawwwwgh!” The detective roared, slamming the desk with his fist, the shock wiping away the red glow of the tiny light. “Six times! Six times I’ve had to do this now! Is this some kind of joke to you?!”
“Sir, my entire family died in a matter of a day. I assure you, I am not joking.”
“Really? Because I have six tapes now with you saying, on the record, that a witch killed 15 people! So excuse me if I think this is some big hoax and you’re just screwing with me!”
“I apologize if you think I am not serious, but I still assure you that I am.”
“Stupid brat – be realistic!”
“You did ask me who I thought killed everyone.”
“Only because I expected a legible answer,” the detective snarled back, slumping into his chair, holding his balding head with his two bulky hands. “Please, anyone! I don’t care who you blame anymore – it can be your mother, your father, you can even blame the little girl that’s still missing! Just tell me that you think one of the 15 dead people killed all those people, so I don’t look like a moron!”
There was a long pause in the room. Both men were agitated. It’s been over an hour since George came to the department and neither of them has left the room since they entered. It was quite unnerving.
“Sir, I apologize that you’re stressed out, but I refuse to blame anyone from the family or the servants, because they couldn’t have done anything.”
“Couldn’t? Kid, if you’re trying to protect them you aren’t helping yourself or I. They’re dead – hah, I mean, you and your three younger cousins are the only ones left out of this family. If one of the parents or servants did it then just say so and that’ll be it. We can’t prosecute the dead after all.”
“It’s not that. I just know for a fact they didn’t do it.”
“So then you’re going to blame a witch?”
“You don’t understand. Normally it would be crazy to blame a witch, I understand that, but Beatrice is the witch of Rokkenjima. She and my grandfather, Kinzo, made a deal and none of us even tried to solve the epitaph. If we at least tried then maybe she wouldn’t have killed everyone,” George somberly spoke, his head hanging down.
“Beatrice is real and she did kill 15 people. I know you have just recently started the investigation, but I saw the corpses sir. I saw them fresh and with blood, mercilessly tortured and killed. You honestly expect me to believe that someone in my family could do such a horrendous thing – my family might have been spiteful, always trying to better than the others, but even they had some love for each other deep inside!! Maybe you don’t understand because you weren’t part of my family, but I assure you that no one in the family or any of the servants, who were loyal to the end for them, would commit such merciless acts of violence and murder!!”
The detective stared at the boy pitifully. This boy and the other two must have seen such terrible things on that island to talk this way. He had been hard on him, but he was right – he was a lowly detective and he had no idea what they saw during those two days. All he could do was looking at the corpses, blood and wounds dried up.
“Besides,” George began again, holding his head up with a small smile. “You shouldn’t worry about looking like a moron to the others.”
“I…shouldn’t?” He was confused. Of course he would look dumb if he said a witch killed 15 people, but at this rate he wasn’t getting anything out of the kid.
“Of course not,” George continued, his grin widening. “After all, if you said Beatrice killed everyone you wouldn’t look dumb because you would only be telling the truth!”
“Get out! Get out of here!!” The detective snapped back, any grain of sympathy towards George draining out of him. He didn’t care anymore – this brat was mocking him and it was as clear as the fact that George Ushiromiya was a loon. “Go back to your house and have fun making up fantasy stories about a witch killing your family! Come back when you develop a brain!!”
George didn’t say a word as the man went on insulting him. Most people would get offended by the awful things the detective was saying, but he didn’t mind it. He got up from the chair and moved to the entrance.
Once the door opened the two figures of his cousins stepped out of the doorway, embarrassing looks on their faces. George smiled at the sight of them. He knew the two were probably listening to his interrogation through the door and the fact that they got up so early in the morning just to come with him to the department was truly heartwarming to him.
“H-Hey George!” Jessica flustered, nervously rubbing her arm. “Um…how did it go?”
“Shouldn’t I ask that?” George teased the younger girl. He then turned to Battler, his expression still the same. “Or maybe you would like to tell me, Battler?”
“Uhh…well…heh, yeah, well,” Battler stuttered, his embarrassment no different from Jessica’s.
After thirty minutes of waiting the two cousins became worried about George, who was easily the most startled after the incident. Of course all of them were shocked by the sudden deaths, but George was easily the most distraught out of the three. So they decided to listen in through the door but the sound was still muffled up through the door. Unfortunately they listened too much this time and were caught.
“So, George, how did it go?” Jessica asked tentatively, as the three of them walked to the exit. All of them were interrogated about this affair but George had extra interrogation at him because his fingerprints were found on one of the Winchester guns. Of course it wasn’t his fault at all. A couple hours or so after Shannon, Maria and Kanon left Natsuhi came to them and told them the horrible news. Maria was missing, Shannon, Kanon and Hideyoshi were all dead too.
She said that because the killer was most likely hiding in the mansion it wouldn’t be safe for the three of them to go there, so instead she left them their own personal protection. So she handed George her Winchester, telling him sternly that he has to keep watch of their door and make sure the three of them would stay inside at all times. It was never fired, but nonetheless they still gave him special treatment for it.
“It went fine, Jessica. Although the questioning was a little redundant he let me go.”
“Let you go?”
“He got angry with me for some reason and threw me out.”
“Huh, why did he get angry?”
“George,” a deeper voice intruded. Jessica and George stopped walking and turned to see Battler. “You didn’t say that Beatrice did it, right?”
George chuckled. “Of course I did. Who else did?”
Jessica joined in his laughter. “Yeah Battler. Beatrice is obviously the culprit after all! ~”
Battler frowned, trying his best not to get angry. George wasn’t playing around. Since they saw her body George had decided that a witch was responsible for everything. There was no changing his mind, no matter how much he had talked to the other. He honestly felt bad for George. It wasn’t even a matter of fiction and reality – he really did believe Beatrice existed and basically killed the entire family besides them.
The three left the station together and George had bid them fare well from there. “I’m going to visit mother and father’s grave sites. I’ll pay respects to your parents as well, okay.”
“You don’t have to do that, George,” Jessica said, concern growing in her eyes.
“No, no, I will. It’s the least I could do to pay you two back for coming all the way here with me so early in the day,” he replied back. He waved the two off, walking in the opposite direction to catch a taxi cab.
After he was out of sight Battler and Jessica began to walk towards the train station in silence. It was short lived though, when Battler talked again. “Hey, Jessica.”
“Yeah?”
“You don’t believe a witch did it, do you?” He asked bluntly.
“…No, I don’t,” Jessica admitted, crossing her arms around her stomach. Despite everything that happened she just couldn’t conceive to the idea that everyone was murdered by a witch. She just agreed with George about it to appease him, worried he would get upset if no one would trust his word.
“It sounded like George gave trouble to the detective. They were in there for more than an hour at best.”
“…George is lucky,” Jessica sighed as they stopped at the edge of the road, waiting for the street sign to turn green.
“Lucky?”
“I wish I could believe a witch did it, like he does.”
Battler frowned. “Don’t say that. Aniki has lost his mind since he first held that gun! The fact that you can think an actual person did it means you’re still sane.”
“But I don’t want to be sane!” Jessica spat, walking in a huff as the light turned green. Battler caught up to her walk and she went on. “I don’t want to think someone from our family or even the friendly servants could have murdered so many! I wish I could be like George and think a witch did it – then I wouldn’t have to lose sleep, from thinking about who killed my family and friends, because I would know a witch did it without even having to think how!!”
The two stopped walking, making it over to the other side of the street. Jessica looked like she was ready to fall down from the anguish building up inside of her. Battler could only look at her sympathetically, putting an arm around her shoulder as she began to lightly shake. When he saw tears go down her cheeks he sighed.
“Jessica…don’t cry, okay. If you’re going to cry over something don’t cry because you can admit what is logical.”
“I don’t care about that!” She sobbed, pushing him away. “I just want this feeling to go away! I don’t want to believe in a witch because I know it isn’t true but I just want to go over to the other side.”
“The other side?”
She sniffled. “Once mom said a phrase…that’s really well known overseas. The grass is always greener on the other side or something.”
“Ah, I heard of that one too.”
“I want to go to the other side of the grass. I know it’s greener but even then for some reason part of me is content staying on the side of dying grass!”
He didn’t know what to do. His blond cousin was becoming deranged as well and losing her own grasp on reality. She was fighting it but she was losing it. “Jessica, witches don’t exist.”
She spun around at the sound of his voice. “Of course they don’t! And yet, why not believe that they do?! At least this way I don’t have to burden myself with such horrifying thoughts!!”
“It’s easy to throw away reality but the challenge of life is facing it! The grass may be dying on this side, but that’s reality! The green grass is artificial and a cheap imitation! Aniki will realize that one day, I’m sure of it, but until then I need you to be strong, Jessica!” Battler pleaded, grabbing a hold of her once more.
This time she did not resist and began to sob into her cousin’s chest. To most people the two of them would look like a quarreling couple, but what they thought wasn’t of any concern to them. At this time Battler only cared about two things.
The first was ensuring whatever left of his family was kept healthy and well.
The second was figuring out who caused so much misfortune and what events in the past and present led to this day.
“Jessica, we’re going to be late for our train. Okonogi has his own job to do and I rather not burden him with babysitting Ange,” Battler finally spoke, detaching Jessica from her grasp around him.
She slowly nodded her head and they continued to walk towards the train station. Even if the grass was dying they would happily stay on it, because at least they knew it was real. The other side held nicer grass but it wasn’t real and he refused to accept it was real.
Because there was no way in hell he would ever believe a witch existed.
Solved Mysteries:
-Maria is one of the 3 missing bodies.
-Genji is not an accomplice to anyone.
-Kinzo did not kill anyone
-Rosa was a killer
-The conversation on October 2nd was between Natsuhi and Kanon.
-It occurred on the evening of October 2nd after the servants meeting and it concerned Kanon and Jessica's 'date' at the School Festival
-Shannon is not a killer
-Maria is the 2nd twilight killer
-Kanon survived the 2nd twilight
-When Jessica, George and Battler got off the island there was absolutely no one alive! Everyone but them died. They were dead. Not the fake dead: the brain dead, no pulse no moving no nothing dead!
-Between October 4th 1986 and October 5th 1986 George Ushiromiya found the hidden gold.
-Kumasawa is an accomplice to Eva
-Gohda was paid to be an accomplice by someone
-George and Kanon became mentally ill
-Natsuhi, Rosa and Maria are the three missing bodies
-Krauss is the fourth member in Eva's group and the leader.
-Krauss's group only contains Kumasawa, Gohda and Eva. This is one group.
-Gohda shot Kinzo using Eva's pistol.
-Kinzo ordered Genji not to inform anyone of his death, excluding Kanon and Shannon.
-Kanon and Shannon were ordered to not inform anyone of his death as well.
-On October 18th George's fingerprints were discovered on Kanon's body
-George, at one point, took the knife Kanon had
-Kuwadorian exists but is not relevant to this game.
-Kanon is a Culprit
Relationship Truths:
-Krauss and Natsuhi love each other
-Eva and Hideyoshi love each other
-Kyrie and Rudolph love each other
-Kinzo likes his in-laws (Hideyoshi, Natsuhi and Kyrie)
-Shannon, Kanon and Genji have a furniture complex
-Shannon and Kanon trust each other
-Shannon and George's relationship is the same as in the other games
-However, Kanon does not reciprocate Jessica's feelings for him.
-As a sidenote, the witch has nothing against Kanon/Jessica, it just doesn't exist in this game :U!
-Natsuhi knows of Jessica's feelings for Kanon and believed Kanon returns her (Jessica's) feelings.
-Eva knew about Shannon and George's relationship and did not approve of them.
-The note Eva gave to Shannon would not end her relationship with George
-Kanon had no romantic feelings towards anybody on the island.
-Genji is always loyal to Kinzo
-Kumasawa was working hard on her retirement funds
-Natsuhi identifies herself first as an Ushiromiya, then as Krauss's wife.
-Kyrie did not suspect Natsuhi
General Information:
-Despite missing bodies 15 people died on Rokkenjima between October 4th and October 5th 1986
-Battler, Jessica and George survived and were found alive when the police came to the island.
-On October 16th Battler Ushiromiya went missing
-On October 20th George Ushiromiya went missing
-On November 4th Jessica and Ange Ushiromiya went missing
-Kyrie did not kill Asumu. So don't even start, okay! :|
-Grass is green.
-There were only 18 persons on Rokkenjima in the timespan of the fourth till fifth October 1986
-The 18 people present and ALIVE on Rokkenjima on October 4th were introduced in the story.
-Furniture counts as people
-Eva did not know the location of the gold.
-Death means no pulse, no breathing, brain dead!
-Maria is dead
-George did not kill anyone
-Maria was killed by another person.
-Maria did not fall of some cliff or died in an accident
-Maria did not commit suicide
-George believed Beatrice killed everyone
-Okonogi was never on Rokkenjima from 4th~5th October.
-Kasumi and Amakusa have no role in this game.
-Ange has a very minimal role in the afterstory of the incident, but was not present on the island between October 4th and 5th and is not involved in any murders.
-Names do not equal Titles.
-Jessica, Battler and George were not involved in any of the murders.
-Someone on Rokkenjima became mentally ill
-No one was mentally ill when they came to Rokkenjima on October 4th
-Rosa brought tea leaves to Rokkenjima
-Rosa's tea leaves were perfectly normal
-No one was killed using Natsuhi's pills
-No one died from aerial assault
-There are only 4 Winchesters on the island
-After the 1st twilight Krauss, Natsuhi, Rosa and Hideyoshi were all carrying one Winchester.
-The door of the parlour can be unlocked from the inside
-To unlock and lock from the outside you need the proper key
-Kyrie did not get enraged after Rosa asked whether she (Kyrie) killed Asumu.
-Kanon and Jessica did go to the school festival together
-Natsuhi was asking what Kanon did with Jessica
-Kanon and Shannon saw what happened between Rosa and Maria before dinner on October 4th
-Rosa abused Maria like she did in the game and Shannon and Kanon saw it through a window in the mansion.
-Someone other than George also became mentally unstable
-Shannon gave George the letter from Eva
-Eva's note was specifically for George
-Both George and Shannon knew the contents of the letter when it was opened
-All things in the story of October 4th, 5th and the Epilogue are the truth. Thoughts are true as well.
-However, there is one instance in which a character over exaggerates and this instance is reflected in the story. Besides this one occurrence everything else in the story is true.
-Someone found the gold on Rokkenjima
-Battler knows where the secret stash is
-The person who found the secret stash became mentally unstable
-The person who found the secret stash was not Battler
-The person who found the secret stash told Battler where it was
-No such thing as Stake Shooters
-Battler did not conflict with the person who found the secret stash
-The person who found the stash loves Battler as a family member.
-The person who found the stash survived at the end.
-If one uses a slashing weapon at close quarters and strikes a human, enough blood will get on their clothes that others can easily see when close by (assuming their angle is usual, not some weird angle. Thus, if one were facing the attacker's front, one should see blood.)
-If you are in the mansion you clearly heard a gunshot fired from inside the mansion.
-Natsuhi talked to the servants about the schedule change before going to the meeting over money on October 4th.
-Originally the schedule called for Genji and Gohda in the mansion, while Kumasawa, Shannon and Kanon were in the guest hotel. However, Natsuhi revised the schedule so that Kanon would be in the mansion because she didn't want him near Jessica.
-No asteroid or comets fell from the sky on Rokkenjima between October 4th and 5th 1986.
-No animals or robots were involved in this game
-The chapel key would normally be in the servants room inside the mansion.
-There is only one key to the chapel on Rokkenjima
-Eva's note had something to do with the chapel
-Eva's note, Gohda's note and Kumasawa's note all have the same handwriting and were written by the same person.
-Eva did not write her note.
-Hideyoshi did not write the notes
-Eva did not read her note to George
-The paper bag contained a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for Maria.
-It was given to Shannon by Kumasawa, the former requesting it for the little girl.
-Natsuhi's talk with Kanon was just Natsuhi's paranoia that Kanon did something 'impure' to Jessica.
-Eva's note to George was given to her
-Natsuhi is paranoid
-George did not kill Battler or Jessica
-After the incident Okonogi received guardian custody of Battler, Ange and George under Rudolph and Eva's wills.
-Jessica was taken under custody of her mother's side of the family.
-Genji is not mentally ill
-Genji lied about Kinzo for a reason
-Nobody swam off Rokkenjima
-That conversation between Natsuhi and Krauss before lunch was just Natsuhi expressing her concerns towards Kanon and Jessica's 'relationship' and just informing him that she's changing the shift schedule because of it.
-There is no Hinamizawa Syndrome
-George was given the purple key to the door.
-George was given a key on Rokkenjima between October 4th 1986 and October 5th 1986.
-Natsuhi had possession of her Winchester from the moment she got it to the moment she gave it to George
-Krauss had possession of his Winchester since he got it.
Regarding 1st Twilight
-Rudolph, Kyrie, Kumasawa, Eva, Nanjo and Kinzo are the 1st twilight victims.
-Kinzo was not aware who the culprit was.
-Kinzo was not impersonated.
-Rudolph was killed in the dining room.
-He wasn't moved to the beach because the culprit was afraid of waking everyone.
-All bodies found on the beach were moved from their original place of death.
-The culprit moved the bodies using a carrying device.
-The culprit used a rolling cart
-Rudolph wasn't moved to the beach because the culprit was afraid of waking everyone.
-The "duel" in Kinzo's room was between Kinzo and Nanjo. They were beginning a new chess match at 9:00pm that lasted about 2 to 3 hours.
-There was a drug that caused the 6 adults to sleep
-The drug that caused the adults to sleep was delivered in the tea
-X number of people were drugged in the dining room.
-The culprit of the first twilight was not drugged.
-Neither Rudolph nor Kyrie survived to the end. They were both killed on the 1st Twilight and, as stated before, only Jessica and George survived along with Battler to the end.
-Genji changed his clothes
-He kept spare clean clothes of his uniform in the guest hotel because he knew he would be staying there on the evening of October 4th.
-Furthermore, all servants on the island (Shannon, Kanon, Gohda, Kumasawa and Genji) have spare clothes and extra servant garbs.
-Kinzo died on the 1st twilight.
-Eva died completely. She did not fake her death
-The culprit did not move Rudolph's body because they were afraid of waking everyone.
-Gohda and Kumasawa had no conversation relating to the game on the 1st twilight before Shannon entered the kitchen.
-Kinzo and Nanjo did not gamble in their chess match
-All bodies were moved by the same person
-Maria did not participate in the 1st twilight
-Shannon did not participate in the 1st twilight
-Rudolph and Kyrie did not kill each other
-The servant schedule change was not made in preparation for the 1st Twilight.
-The only one to have the key to Kinzo's room is Genji.
-When Nanjo left Kinzo's room, the killers used the temporarily open door to enter and kill Kinzo.
-The culprit's motivation for the 1st twilight was not money
-Shannon left the guest house sometime between 9pm Oct 4 and 6am Oct 5. She saw the 1st twilight culprit kill someone while she was out and therefore knows who the culprit is without a doubt. She also told the name of the culprit to Kanon.
-A cart was used to transport 4 out of the 6 bodies to the beach.
-Either Gohda or Kumasawa drugged the tea.
-Kumasawa drugged the tea
-Kumasawa clearly knew what was inside the vial she had.
-Kumasawa emptied the vial into the tea.
-Rudolph can fit in a food cart (with some hilarious bending)
-Eva wanted to go to the chapel on the night she died.
-Eva did not leave the mansion alive
-Somebody dropped a pistol in the garden
-The drug is strong, but slow-acting (meaning that they don't fall asleep immediately after taking it)
-The drug is long acting
-Kyrie knew who the culprit was
-Eva knew the tea was drugged
-Kyrie did not drink tea
-The culprit acted when the drug took full affect
-Eva was not drugged
-Eva planned to kill
-Rudolph did not drink tea but liquor instead
-The six twilight victims did not drink the drugged tea
-Rudolph was drunk
-Eva planned for the tea to be drugged.
-Eva failed to carry out most of her plans
-Rudolph did not kill.
-Natsuhi, Krauss and Rosa were drugged
-Nanjo was with Kinzo from 9:00pm to around 12:00pm
-Eva did not kill Kinzo
-Nanjo died after Midnight
-At least two independent groups (individuals can be groups) tried to kill for the 1st twilight
-Maria's gun was used in the 1st twilight
-Kyrie had a silver wedding ring (???'s), a phone number (Okonogi's) and a charm bracelet (Asumu's)
-Nanjo knew someone entered Kinzo's room but saw them as no threat to Kinzo
-The pistol belongs to Eva
-Shannon never entered the mansion between 9pm Oct 4 and 6am Oct 5.
-At least one 1st twilight murder happened outside. Shannon saw this murder.
-Eva did not use her pistol to kill
-The ones who left the guesthouse from 9PM October 4 to 6AM October 5 were not involved in the 1st twilight.
-It was dark outside
-Hideyoshi was drugged
-Eva's motive was not money
-Yes, Eva intended to kill Shannon originally, but their locations made it impossible.
-Eva was not mentally unstable
-Eva did not kill
-No one was alive near the beach before the four adults came down together
-Shannon, George, Maria, Battler, Jessica and Genji were in the guest hotel sleeping
-Gohda and Kanon were in the mansion sleeping
-Eva was stabbed
-Rudolph is actually a pretty good drunk. He can hold his alcohol and stay relatively clear minded, despite having a couple shots of scotch.
-The person who carried the bodies suspected one was alive but did not know for sure and ignored it as just paranoia.
-X people did not drink tea
-The conversation Natsuhi had with the servants after the 1st twilight was just her telling them that Genji would stay in the mansion while the other remaining servants would go to the guest hotel.
-Eva was planning to kill Shannon but gave up after her conversation.
-Eva's murder spree would follow the epitaph
-Kyrie and Eva did not fight
-Nanjo left the room sometime between 10:00pm and 2:00am
-Nanjo did not kill Kinzo
-Eva gave her pistol to her accomplice
-The one moving the bodies knew a drug was used
-It is possible for someone not of the 5 servants to get a food cart from the kitchen.
-Kyrie did not fight with her killer. She attempted to flee but was caught.
-The many wounds on her body were caused after being killed.
-When Kyrie was caught she was killed
-Kyrie did not commit suicide
-Kanon is not mentally ill on the 1st twilight
-Eva gave away her gun before the murders started
-Eva had a dagger with her when she came on the island, hidden in her pant pockets
-Eva did not kill Nanjo
-Kumasawa was paid for drugging the tea.
-Someone gave Eva her knife back
-Kyrie did not kill on the 1st twilight
-Nanjo and Kinzo did not die at the same time
-Shannon did not try to stop the culprit of the first twilight because she was weaker and only because she was weaker and afraid of dying.
-Rudolph was killed while sitting in the dinning room.
-At least two independent groups tried to kill for the 1st twilight. These groups began separately but possibly could have conjoined later on.
-Eva brought the letters (her note, Kumasawa's note and Gohda's note) to Rokkenjima
-Each note was only read by its recipient and the sender (not including the note Eva gave to George)
-The sender does not order his own death through the letters.
-Eva's motivation for the 1st twilight has nothing to do with money
-Eva's gun was silenced
-Gohda's motivation is money
-Nanjo and Kyrie figured out a drug was used
-Nanjo did not supply the drug or knew it existed until figuring it out.
-Kumasawa lowered Krauss's drug dose.
-Shannon saw someone get killed. She believed the person who killed was the culprit.
-Krauss wrote Gohda's note, Kumasawa's note and Eva's note.
-Kumasawa was found on October 6th 1986 with large quantities of red paint on her body. When they found her after the 1st twilight they thought it was blood.
-Shannon was very aware of the fact that the person she had seen kill was stronger than her and that attacking the killer was in vain.
-Kyrie was not armed with any weapon when she was attacked. Therefore she ran away and died.
-Kumasawa only woke up one person
-When Krauss woke up Kinzo was being killed
-Kanon did not find out about the drugging until Natsuhi explained to him, and the other servants about everyone being drugged, at the meeting with them before going to the guest hotel.
-Hideyoshi and Natsuhi were unaware of Krauss and Eva's plans.
-Hideyoshi and Natsuhi were not planned to be killed.
-George and Jessica were not planned to be killed
-Eva and Krauss planned to kill their accomplices, Kumasawa and Gohda
-Eva's pistol was the only non-winchester fire arm
-Nanjo went into the dining room
-Rudolph died in the dining room
-Krauss planned to kill Eva.
-Krauss and Eva did not fight/quarrel on the first twilight.
-Eva's death did not go according to Krauss's plan
-Kumasawa's body is the only one with paint on it.
-The majority of paint on Kumasawa's body was around her eyes.
-Kumasawa was attacked
-Eva did not give her knife to Gohda
-Kumasawa gave Krauss a knife.
-Kumasawa did not kill on the 1st twilight
-Your interpretation is correct. Kumasawa's note told her to patrol the garden, for XXXXX reason.
-Rudolph died in his chair
-Eva's letter was originally to be opened by Eva and only Eva.
-There is a reason she gave George the letter
-Kyrie and Nanjo knew something odd was going on
-Rudolph was not drugged. He was drinking scotch that night and did not fall asleep.
-When Eva got her knife back, she was still alive.
-Besides Krauss, one of the other three drugged woke up by themselves
-The person who discovered the bodies on the beach was Rosa
-When Natsuhi was told to get the children she immediately went to the guest hotel and informed Genji and Shannon of what was happening. The two of them informed the children of what happened, while Natsuhi left to help look for the missing people.
-Eva planned to kill even after her arguement with George.
-Gohda and Genji made two trips in carrying bodies from the beach
-Gohda carried Nanjo, Eva and Rudolph (from the dining room) since they were the heaviest
-Genji carried Kumasawa and Kyrie since they were the lightest.
-The memory loss aspect to roofies is important to this story
-Krauss deliberately allowed himself to be drugged so that he could have a better act later on.
-Krauss saw Kyrie missing when he woke up.
-Rudolph did not leave his chair to do something important (besides getting more scotch)
-Kyrie was not in the bathroom
-Krauss was woken up around midnight.
-Kyrie figured out the tea was drugged soon after everyone began falling asleep.
-Neither Genji or Gohda thought that they might be carrying someone alive.
-Kyrie went to seek out Nanjo but didn't know where he was.
-Kyrie did not go to the servants
-Kyrie went to arm herself after failing to find Nanjo
-The winchesters are not held in Kinzo's study. They are held in a room close to the study.
-This room is locked though and can only be opened with a master key.
-Kyrie did not have a master key and nobody opened the door for her.
-One reason the roofies were used was to prevent those people from knowing what happened.
-Rudolph was only concerned about getting alcohol.
-Kyrie did go to the kitchen.
-Kyrie attempted to wake up people but failed
-Kyrie did not get a Winchester
-The other person drugged that woke up, woke up on their own.
-Kyrie went to Nanjo
-Then she went to the kitchen and got a knife
-Then she went to Eva
-Then she went to the dining room
-Rudolph was under the influence of alcohol (aka: he was a little tipsy)
-When Kyrie went to collect a kitchen knife, Krauss not yet awakened.
-Kyrie got the knife before midnight and before Nanjo died
-Kumasawa was attacked after waking Krauss
-Kumasawa did not attack Eva
-Kumasawa is not a missing person
-Krauss pretended to be shocked when he woke up in the dining room in the morning
-Kyrie did not fight with her killer because she had left her knife. So she ran away.
-Natsuhi does not know who committed the first twilight
-Krauss first believed everyone who died in the 1st twilight was absolutely dead
-The person who woke up by themselves went to sleep again within the hour they awoke.
-Kinzo was killed in his room, after Nanjo left
-Eva passed out in the mansion after being stabbed. She was wheeled to the beach, her killer believing she was dead.
-Eva died outside the mansion.
-Eva attempted to go to the chapel after regaining conciousness on the beach but was stopped.
-Eva never reached the chapel
-After Kinzo died Gohda wrote a note on the desk and then moved Kinzo out of the room
-The note Gohda wrote just informed the reader that Kinzo was killed by Beatrice
-The other person who woke up saw a murder committed but cannot recall it.
-The person who woke up eventually remembered the murder they saw.
-The person who woke up could not move around very much when they woke up.
-Rosa did not wake up
-At least one murder happened in the dining room
-Kumasawa did not following her orders directly as the note said she should have
-Rudolph was murdered in the dining room
-Kumasawa did go to the garden after waking Krauss and just wasted time there
-Kumasawa did not kill Rudolph
-Rudolph's wound was caused by a knife
-Kanon did not have a Winchester
-Gohda did not kill Rudolph
-While in Kinzo's room, Nanjo was unarmed.
-Nanjo lost his chess match with Kinzo (again)
-Nanjo did not immediately go to the dining room.
-Either Nanjo or Kanon killed Rudolph
-Nanjo was not working with Krauss
-Kanon is not working with Krauss
-Eva planned staying faithful to Krauss's plan
-Kinzo was never moved into the parlor, ever.
-Kanon knew who the 1st twilight survivor was
Nanjo's Note:
Take this key to Genji - he'll tell you what to do next.
May the Roulette be kind to you.
~Kinzo Ushiromiya
-Nanjo got the note from Kinzo before he left his room
-Nanjo's note contained a purple key.
-Nanjo planned to go to Genji in the morning to ask him about the note.
-Nanjo died before getting to Genji
-The purple key opens the door to the gold
-The 'roulette' is a metaphor for how the twilight murders are arranged in Kinzo's eyes: randomly
-Nanjo was not in Kinzo's room when Kinzo was killed.
-Nanjo is definitely dead by the 1st twilight
-The murder Shannon saw occurred outside the mansion
-Shannon saw Eva getting killed (for real) outside the mansion
-Shannon told Genji who killed Eva.
-Krauss got the purple key from Nanjo's body after the 1st twilight
-Kinzo's ring was obtained by Krauss after Kinzo got killed
-Krauss and Kyrie most certainly did not fight or conflict with Eva during the 1st twilight in any way.
-The person, besides Krauss, who woke up did not kill on the 1st twilight.
-The person, however, did witness a murder occur before going back to sleep.
-Furthermore, the murderer knew the awake person saw them.
-The person who woke up and saw the murder occurring did not even remember seeing it happening, due to the drugs. They only remembered before dying.
-The murderer did plan to kill the awake person at first, but then decided against it after realizing they didn't remember.
-The person who woke up and went back to sleep has very murky memories of what happened but eventually did remember.
-Eva was 'revived' on the beach, but she did not leave the beach alive afterward. -Kanon killed Eva on the beach. Shannon saw him.
-Kanon overheard Eva's talk with George
-However, this is not the main reason Kanon killed Eva. It is only half his motive.
-Eva told Kanon she was going to kill Shannon, so he killed her.
-Kanon only armed himself with the switchblade after the 1st twilight ended.
-Kanon killed at least three people between October 4th and October 5th 1986. One of these people was Eva.
Regarding 2nd Twilight
-Shannon and Kanon are the Second Twilight.
-Maria didn't run away from Shannon and Kanon
-Shannon and Kanon did not fake their death to kill everyone to break free from the whole furniture thing and committed suicide in the end.
-Kanon and Shannon did converse with the culprit just before their deaths.
-The culprit/killer of the 2nd twilight did not plan on killing Shannon and Kanon
-Shannon and Kanon's deaths were accidental.
-One of them struggled against the killer
-The letter was not left by their killer.
-Kanon and Shannon's corpses were found by Rosa
-When Rosa found the corpses the note was already there
-Gohda never left the guest hotel before Rosa found Shannon and Kanon.
-Maria was aware of who the culprit was
-Kanon and Shannon did not get into a fight at the rose garden
-Kanon struggled against the killer
-Rosa ran back immediately upon discovering the dead bodies of Kanon and Shannon
-Gohda was in the guest hotel when Maria went missing
-Genji was in the mansion when Maria went missing
-What happened between Natsuhi and Kanon was one of the things that Shannon and Kanon talked about before being killed.
-Once outside Maria went to find her rose and paid almost no mind to Shannon and Kanon's presence.
-After Rosa left the guest hotel nobody left until she came back.
-After Shannon, Kanon and Maria left the guest hotel nobody left again until Rosa went and found Shannon and Kanon's bodies.
-When Rosa went outside Kanon and Shannon were already dead -After Kanon, Shannon and Maria left the guest hotel nobody in the guest hotel left before Rosa left!
-Shannon knew who killed everyone on the 1st Twilight.
-The 2nd twilight was not planned.
-Kanon and Shannon's corpses were not mutilated. The stomach wounds are the killing blows.
-When her wounds were inflicted, Shannon immediately died.
-Kanon did not kill Shannon
-When everyone living except for Genji went into the guest house at 10:45am none of them left again until Kanon, Shannon and Maria did
-Genji is the only person who did not go to the guest hotel at that time and stood in the mansion
-Maria did not put the letter
-The only people possible of committing the 2nd twilight was Kanon, Shannon or Maria
-Shannon did not kill Kanon
-Shannon did not think Maria was the 1st twilight culprit
-During Shannon's conversation with Kanon, she brought up her suspicions on the one responsible for the 1st twilight
-Kanon struggled against Maria
-Shannon physically touched Kanon in the second part of the conversation.
-Shannon and Kanon were caught off guard
-Maria did not use something sharp to kill
-Shannon and Kanon both believe Beatrice exists
-Maria was not close enough to Shannon and Kanon to overhear them
-Maria can hold any kind of knife present on Rokkenjima
-Maria can hold a Winchester but firing it would cause her to ricochet so much that she would probably break her shoulder due to it's firing power.
-Maria was physically weaker than both Shannon and Kanon.
-There were no extremely sharp objects in the area (like a fence)
-Maria's unintentional shooting killed Shannon
-Kanon and Shannon hugged
-Kanon did not kill Maria
-Shannon hugged Kanon first
-The only object capable of causing Kanon's wound is a sharp object or a projectile launched out of something.
-When Maria shot Shannon she was aware of it.
-Maria shot Shannon at the ending of Kanon's conversation with her (Shannon)
-Kanon did not commit suicide on the 2nd Twilight.
-Maria took no winchesters
-Maria did not kill Kanon
-Kanon died in the garden
-During the 2nd twilight the only people in the rose garden were Shannon, Kanon and Maria.
-Shannon immediately died from the projectile
-The projectile was not removed.
-Kanon has no disease (furnituritis is not a terminal disease)
-Maria killing Shannon was unintentional
-Maria does not carry any kind of sharp weapons, projectiles and launchers in her bag. So don't even ask.
-The thing she used to kill Shannon was found in the rose garden
-Kanon was healthy when he went to the garden and not injured in any way that could cause death.
-After dying Kanon's body was not moved until Gohda took it from the rose garden to the mansion.
-Maria did not leave the garden of her own free will at any time.
-Maria did not place that weapon there in advance
-She found this weapon and believed it to be a toy and accidentally shot Shannon, thinking she was just using a play toy.
-The weapon Maria found was used in the 1st twilight by someone. They dropped it.
-The weapon Maria used was a gun, which was not of the Winchester variety.
-This gun is smaller than a Winchester.
-Firing it would cause Maria no physical harm.
-When Maria fired the gun, however, it was quiet enough that no one in the guest hotel nor mansion heard. The only people that heard the actual shot were Kanon, Maria and obviously Shannon before she died.
-Kanon managed to get the gun away from Maria
-Kanon is not a missing person
-Kanon knocked out Maria and took her from the garden
-Kanon took Maria to the chapel
-The chapel requires a special key. Kanon did not have this key on him when he went to the rose garden.
-Kanon obtained the chapel key and used it
-Kanon's wound is not faked - it was actually there
-Kanon did not get the key from Gohda
-Kanon eventually did die from his stomach wound
-Shannon had the chapel key
-Shannon got the chapel key from Eva's note to George
-When Rosa found Kanon's body the wound was already there
-Kanon's wound is self-inflicted. He used something sharp to inflict it.
-Kanon attempted suicide on the 2nd twilight (From this point the 2nd twilight is solved. A summary of the events can be found on page 19)
-The knife was not in Kanon's wound when Rosa found his body.
-After stabbing himself the knife was not used in any murders again.
-It was hidden inside his hat
-Kanon knocked Maria out because he loved Shannon
-Someone treated Kanon's wounds
-Kanon's wound was not deep enough to cause terrible bleeding, so it could have been stopped with some bandages and pain could have been subverted with pain killers
-The gun Maria used = Eva's gun
-Krauss became nervous after Shannon and Kanon's death
-Shannon and Kanon did not plan to kill themselves
-Shannon did not name Gohda the 1st twilight culprit.
Regarding 4th Twilight
-Hideyoshi is the 4th Twilight.
-Genji did not go to the guest hotel and stood behind in the mansion to look after Kinzo and the corpses.
-Everyone living besides Genji went to the guest hotel after leaving the 1st twilight corpses in the parlor.
-Hideyoshi died from a blunt weapon.
-Hideyoshi died knowing who his killer was.
-When Hideyoshi died there were 5 corpses in total in the parlor.
-Kinzo was not in his study when Genji went to check on him.
-When Genji was preparing to leave the mansion, Hideyoshi was already inside of it! They even crossed paths!
-Genji saw Hideyoshi
-Hideyoshi did not see Genji
-Hideyoshi only returned to the parlor because he wanted to mourn over Eva
-Hideyoshi did not commit suicide
-Hideyoshi's death was over exaggerated by Krauss. His face was not impounded, but he still had multiple gashes on his body, along with being gouged in his forehead.
-After Natsuhi, Rosa, and Genji returned to the guest house to get Gohda, Natsuhi and Rosa stayed in the guest house while Genji and Gohda left.
-Krauss, Gohda and Genji went to the mansion with Shannon and Kanon's corpses.
-Natsuhi and Rosa stood behind to watch over the children.
-After Natsuhi, Rosa, and Genji left to get Gohda, Krauss stayed guarding the bodies of Kanon and Shannon until Genji and Gohda came back.
-Genji changed his clothes in the guest hotel after he returned from carrying Shannon's body to the mansion.
-On the 4th twilight at least one 1st twilight victim was alive.
-Only five bodies were in the parlor when Hideyoshi died
-These bodies are Kumasawa's, Rudolph's, Eva's, Kyrie's and Nanjo's.
-They only brought five bodies into the parlor after the 1st Twilight.
-Hideyoshi did not die of natural causes (lol magical air pressure)
-Hideyoshi did not die of non-human causes
-Hideyoshi died permanently.
-When his head was gouged Hideyoshi died
-Hideyoshi did not die in an accident. He was definitely killed!
-There are no traps in the parlor.
-Hideyoshi died immediatly after his head was gouged
-Krauss and Gohda had no knowledge of Hideyoshi's death until they saw him dead in the parlor
-Krauss did not anticipate Hideyoshi's death
-Krauss suspected someone was alive
-Maria did not kill Hideyoshi
-Neither Genji nor Nanjo killed Hideyoshi
-A human killed Hideyoshi
-Kyrie survived the 1st Twilight and killed Hideyoshi
-Kyrie did not kill for Hideyoshi's gun
-Kyrie did not mistook Hideyoshi's mourning over Eva as something else
-Kyrie has a logical reason for killing Hideyoshi
-Kyrie used a vase and smashed it over Hideyoshi's head
-After Genji left the parlor room (when he collected the master keys) Krauss sent Gohda back in to restab all of the corpses inside, excluding Shannon and Kanon's corpse, because he suspected one of them survived.
-Gohda stabbed four corpses in the room. He did not stab Kyrie.
-Gohda was working with Kyrie
-If they weren't dead before the extra stabbing, Rudolph, Nanjo and Kumasawa are now.
-Kyrie told Gohda to eventually come back to the mansion when he had the chance
-Gohda told Kyrie about Krauss
-Gohda worked with Kyrie for the money.
-Gohda did not take Hideyoshi's winchester from the parlor
-Kanon was unconscious when Hideyoshi died.
-When Kanon regained consciousness he noticed Kyrie was alive.
-Hideyoshi was dead when Kanon was carried to the parlor
-Kyrie gave Gohda instructions on what to do when he came to restab the four corpse.
-Hideyoshi never fired his Winchester
-Kanon eventually left the parlor
-Krauss did take Eva's pistol from the garden after the 2nd Twilight
-Hideyoshi died before Genji.
-When Kanon regained consciousness he was in pain
-Genji was alive when Hideyoshi's corpse was discovered. He was one of the three discoverers, along with Gohda and Krauss
-After Kyrie woke up and Hideyoshi acknowledged her awakening, he left the parlor for a certain amount of time before coming back.
-Hideyoshi gave something to Kyrie when he returned.
-On Hideyoshi's way back Genji noticed him but Hideyoshi did not notice Genji.
-Hideyoshi brought Kyrie two painkillers
-Krauss gave the pistol back to Gohda after Hideyoshi died.
-Krauss did plan to kill Gohda originally, but after the fourth twilight he decided not to anymore.
-Gohda admitted to Kyrie that he killed Kinzo and was working with Krauss.
-Krauss and Kyrie were not working together
-Kanon does not know where Hideyoshi's Winchester is
-Kyrie did not tell Kanon where Hideyoshi's Winchester is
-Krauss thought Gohda was useful
-Kyrie took Hideyoshi's gun after hiding it.
-Kyrie became angry at Hideyoshi for some reason
-Hideyoshi was holding Eva's hands in the parlor
-Kanon is capable of shooting a pistol and walking at a slow pace. He cannot run as fast as he usually can due to the injury.
-Hideyoshi did not know Kanon killed Eva. He did not know who killed Eva period.
-Kanon was treated by Genji.
Regarding 5th Twilight
-Genji is the 5th Twilight.
-Genji did not shoot himself
-Genji was shot at by the killer
-Gohda did not kill Genji
-Before dying Genji knew who the culprit was
-Rosa's gun was taken by Gohda.
-Eva's pistol was not used for the 5th twilight
-Genji attempted to resist.
-Genji did not just stand there and let himself get shot
The gunshot Krauss, Natsuhi, and Rosa heard was the shot that killed Genji.
-The shot they heard was done to lure them into the room.
-Genji was dead before Krauss, Natsuhi and Rosa came.
-Either Krauss, Natsuhi, Rosa or Kyrie killed Genji
-Genji followed Gohda out the guest hotel
-Genji was killed with a Winchester
-Rosa noticed Gohda leaving the guest hotel
-Gohda was asked to place Rosa's Winchester next to Genji.
-Rosa did not follow Gohda.
-Rosa saw Krauss return to the guest hotel before falling asleep.
-Natsuhi did not leave the guest hotel after entering until she followed Krauss and Rosa to the mansion
-When Gohda died these people were in the mansion and alive: Krauss, Rosa, Natsuhi, Kanon and the 1st twilight survivor X (Kyrie)
-After Krauss, Gohda and Genji all returned to the guest hotel Rosa left the building for a certain amount of time. She came back before Natsuhi woke up.
-Rosa did not kill Genji
-Kanon did not kill Genji
-Genji believed Gohda was suspicious.
-Genji took the chapel key from Shannon's corpse.
-Sometime between dying and the three parents entering the mansion the chapel key was taken from Genji's corpse.
Regarding 6th/7th/8th/9th Twilights
-Gohda was the 6th Twilight
-Krauss is the 7th Twilight
-Maria is the 8th Twilight
-Rosa and Natsuhi are the 9th twilight
-Krauss wanted to go alone to the boiler room because of the reasons he said to Rosa
-Krauss died in the boiler room
-Rosa wasn't killed on her way to the boiler room
-Krauss is not one of the missing bodies. His corpse was found by the police.
-Kinzo was the one who is burnt.
-Kinzo's burning was planned.
-Rosa found Krauss dead in the boiler room
-Rosa was killed
-Krauss suspected Rosa just as much as she did.
-Natsuhi suspected Rosa as well.
-When Rosa got to the boiler room Krauss's body was on the stairs leading to the secondary boiler room exit (the one that leads outside the mansion), face down. She noticed him immediately, particularly the bloody hole through his back.
-She noticed two more things in the boiler room besides Krauss's body
-Rosa saw her killer and knew who her killer was.
-Maria is either the 8th or 9th Twilight
-Maria was not in the boiler room
-When Rosa saw Krauss dead in the boiler room he was dead-dead
-In the boiler room Rosa saw Krauss's body, Gohda's body and one more mystery thing
-Gohda died in the mansion
-Gohda had a pair of master keys, a check for 1,000 dollars signed by Krauss, and a note with the same handwriting as the person who wrote Kumasawa's note.
-That check in Gohda's pockets was his paycheck. As in "his check for working for Krauss and Natsuhi on Rokkenjima as a servant".
-The note Gohda had in his pocket does not equal the paycheck.
-The paycheck and the note are completely different things.
-Natsuhi did not talk to Jessica before leaving to the mansion
-When Natsuhi went upstairs to talk to Jessica she told her mother that she didn't need to talk.
-Krauss stored his gun in one of the extra guest rooms, not in the children's room.
-Krauss and Rosa are deeply suspicious of each other for a reason other than sibling rivalry, or that they are the only siblings alive
-Krauss did not believe Rosa would harm Natsuhi.
-Gohda died in the mansion
-Krauss was in the mansion when Gohda died
-Although he suspected Rosa he knew that she would not kill Natsuhi because it would not benefit her.
-When Gohda died these people were in the mansion and alive: Krauss, Rosa, Natsuhi, Kanon and the 1st twilight survivor X
-Rosa was not killed in the boiler room
-Maria died in the chapel
-Maria was in the chapel from the moment Kanon carried her there to her death.
-Kanon died from excessive blood loss
-Gohda was shot with Eva's pistol
-Gohda has five holes through his belly
-After the first shot Gohda was already dead
-Only one shot was fired at Genji
-Genji saw clearly who killed him
-Genji was not obstructed - he was in clear sight
-Genji ran for a reason, but was still in clear sight when shot
-Genji was shot in close range.
-Maria did not die from starvation
-Her body has no type of wound on it, except for the concussion on her head due to being hit with Eva's pistol
-Kanon killed Gohda
-Gohda was shot
-Krauss had a fountain pen, a purple key and Kinzo's ring on his body
10th Twilight
-After waking up Jessica insisted that Battler, George and herself go to the mansion
Definitions: Culprit: A person who plans out mass-murders. Killer: A person who kills someone, not including themselves. Note: A killer becomes a culprit after they killed at least 3 people in this game. Survived: When October 5th 00:00 struck you were still alive. No culprit or killer killed you and you got off the island alive. 1st Twilight Survivor: Someone who died during the 1st twilight but at some point was revived after dying, whether it be that they weren't killed properly or they faked death. Fight: A physical fight. As in at least two people getting into a confrontation. Physical Strength Comparison (Krauss being strongest and Maria being weakest)
Krauss > Rudolph > Gohda > Eva > Kinzo > Genji > George > Hideyoshi > Nanjo > Battler > Rosa > Kyrie > Jessica > Natsuhi > Kanon > Shannon > Kumasawa > Maria
And with that you may sign up and begin asking for red recitals :3 -is going to finish her homework now-
Starting slowly... repeat in red!!
-The children didn't went missing on their own accord
-There were only 18 persons on Rokkenjima in the timespan of the fourth till fifth October 1986
-Furniture counts as people
-Kanon&Jessica and Shannon&Georges relationship are the same as in the other games
-Eva did not know the location of the gold
-No one faked his or her death in the first twilight(it's getting old, i know)
-Death means no pulse, no breathing, brain dead!
-Maria is dead
Almost forgot:
-Kanon did not commit suicide
-Shannon did not commit suicide
-The children didn't went missing on their own accord
-There were only 18 persons on Rokkenjima in the timespan of the fourth till fifth October 1986
-Furniture counts as people
-Shannon and George's relationship is the same as in the other games
-However, Kanon does not reciprocate Jessica's feelings for him.
-As a sidenote, the witch has nothing against Kanon/Jessica, it just doesn't exist in this game :U!
-Eva did not know the location of the gold.
-Death means no pulse, no breathing, brain dead!
-Maria is dead
-Kanon did not commit suicide
-Shannon did not commit suicide
-No one faked his or her death in the first twilight(it's getting old, i know)
-However, Kanon does not reciprocate Jessica's feelings for him.
-As a sidenote, the witch has nothing against Kanon/Jessica, it just doesn't exist in this game :U!
xDDDDDDDDDD poor Jessica though...xDD
-Everyone except Battler, Jessica and George is dead
using Shotgun
-Kanon and Shannon were ordered to kill themselves
What do you do if someone you love doesn’t return your love?
Sorry, I didn’t mean to hurt you like that.
Most likely Kanon or Jessica
He deserves only the best and I refuse to let him have anything less than that.
Eva of course^^
Even if it’s a horrifying truth, I will seek it out.
Thanks...and yes he is an asshole I'm a domestic duck, I can't love you. I don't care about you at all nanananana
Repeat in red:
-George knew the truth and went insane because of that
-Shannon and kanon were dead the time they were found
-Maria didn't run away from S&K
-Maria was killed by another person
But before George started believing Beatrice killed everyone...did he knew the truth and went insane, denied it and is now all "Beatrice did it Uuuu! uuu!"
Repeat it in red:
-Maria did not fall of some cliff or died in an accident
-Maria did not commit suicide (a rather amusing thought)
-Shannon and Kanon did not fake their death to kill everyone to break free from the whole furniture thing and committed suicide in the end.
I only want us to have a happy life. by Shannon
for the lulz
You don’t care about anybody but yourself, you selfish bastard! by Jessica to Kanon
-Maria did not fall of some cliff or died in an accident
-Maria did not commit suicide
-Shannon and Kanon did not fake their death to kill everyone to break free from the whole furniture thing and committed suicide in the end.
Quote:
I only want us to have a happy life. by Shannon
for the lulz
You don’t care about anybody but yourself, you selfish bastard! by Jessica to Kanon
Damn I liked the last one xDDDDDDDDDD I always wanted Jessica to call Kanon a selfish bastard
Now let's gt a little bit more serious
-"was killed by another person" means that another person caused that death in some way
-Krauss wanted to go alone to the boiler room because of the reasons he said to Rosa
-Krauss died in the boiler room
-the children didn't went outside their room after Natsuhi gave George the winchester and left
-Rosa wasn't killed on her way to the boiler room
-Rosa and Krauss met again after Krauss had gone to the boiler room
-The culprit killed his(herself in the end
-"was killed by another person" means that another person caused that death in some way
-Maria was killed by another person.
-Krauss wanted to go alone to the boiler room because of the reasons he said to Rosa
-Krauss died in the boiler room
-Rosa wasn't killed on her way to the boiler room
-the children didn't went outside their room after Natsuhi gave George the winchester and left
-Rosa and Krauss met again after Krauss had gone to the boiler room
-The culprit killed his(herself in the end I refuse to repeat these three.
However, I will give you a bone:
-Krauss is not one of the missing bodies. His corpse was found by the police.