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Originally Posted by jjblue1

Now the problem is: In Rokkenjima Prime did she really try to stage the murders? Or they were all merely tales and Rokkenjima was destroyed due to an incident unrelated to her?

That's something only Ryukishi knows.

I think it's the second one.

Spoiler for Episode 8:

On October 6th, the third day, Battler said to Beato that she has not committed any sin in the real world, she replies that it's not true and Battler stay silent.
My impression is that Battler is sure that he/she didn't do anything (well, pretty obvious that Battler didn't escape the tragedy by luck, so he knew what happened those days) but he noticed that Beato is deeply bound to her "meta-self" (= she thinks that she really did everything and she can't escape from the that world of hers).

If he knew that Yasu really committed the murders, he'd never say anything like that.