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Originally Posted by jjblue1
Ep 3 has a fundamental problem. The killing should have stopped with the discovery of the gold and yet it goes on. Ryukishi said Yasu would have stuck to her word of stopping the killing if the epitaph was solved but we know she, for sure, killed Nanjo.
So, either the epitaph wasn't solved and the magical scene depicting its solving represent something else or something happened (possibly murders not made by her) that forced her to continue in her plan of killing people.
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This is actually not an unreasonable conclusion. Public opinion around the time of writing held that Eva was the culprit. That theory necessarily involves Eva solving the epitaph so that she can gain the head's ring and the means to escape the explosion after committing the murders. If we see the Eva-Beatrice narrative as the result of the Reader projecting that theory onto the blank spaces of the game board, then it's actually pretty natural to think that the scenes of Eva solving the epitaph and sneaking out to find the gold could also be part of that projection.
You can build a pretty solid theory of EP3 on the premise that Piece-Beatrice initially made Eva an accomplice and then set out to frame her for the remaining murders as a distraction after she was forced to kill off her other accomplices prematurely.