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Originally Posted by Rias

2. Refuse in red doesn't mean much. She refused to say that there's 17+ in the beginning, but at the end...

I only pick that up because I found it interesting myself.

Spoiler for End of Episode 4:

The problem here is, she stated, that even though Kinzo is dead there is no replacement for him on the island.
But her final riddle indeed rises a quite interesting question, which I have to admit I never really got to ask myself seriously. If Battler is alone in the end and there is no 18th person and everyone else is truly dead, then who is the myterious Beatrice who comes and kills him. The only possible way (not involving magic) would be suicide.

The thing that bothers me is more a fear that Ryukishi might return to the paranoia topic and make Battler himself the culprit, making Beatrice only a figment of his mind, trying to save him from realizing that he commited the sin of killing. Which contradicts with her saying that the Battler from 6 years ago already had a sin.

Well okay, running in circles again, but my point is, I just hope that the answer is not 'Battler = culprit'...at least not JUST that, because it would be a bit too horror cliché....