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Originally Posted by Renall
Actually, Eva paying the inheritance taxes would explain why she has assets but still would have to auction Kinzo's books. 1998 evidence suggests most of her wealth was re-built after she escaped the disaster. Certainly the money Ange has inherited is not the wealth built by Kinzo or his children, but the wealth built by Eva herself from the ashes of those things, just as Kinzo built his fortune from what remained of his family's assets after the Kanto Earthquake.
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There are probably credit institutions specialising in lending money for the purposes of paying this particular tax, so Eva could come into possession of the shares immediately after the death of their previous owner was legally established. But immediately afterwards, she would have to sell off pretty much everything not nailed down to pay the loan off, getting a fairly bad deal on the remaining 30%.
But the interesting consequences on that branch don't stop there. Beatrice has to be an Ushiromiya legally written into the family register, otherwise, Eva cannot inherit the shares at all.
Which means that unless Kinzo actually managed to do that to Shannon or Kanon without anyone else noticing, -- and Battler, who returned to the family
after Kinzo died, would have to see the full list while at it -- neither of them can be 'that child that the gold of the Golden Land already belongs to'.