[Renall]

Originally Posted by jjblue1

The real problem is the red that comes after.

Dramatic red, and also a lot of it is descriptive, predictive, or opinion. I am sure Yasu believed all of that, and sees herself as having some injury. Doesn't prove it's true. Yasu can't know it's true. The only people she has to get information from are Genji and Nanjo, who are known liars, and Kumasawa, who we aren't sure enough about to say how much she could have or would have known and told her.

Also, if she really somewhat resemble Beatrice, she's defined a girl and work as maid for the Ushiromiya, it's way more easy for Kinzo to persuade himself she's Beato reincarnated and make a move on her and in her condition it would be even harder for her to refuse him. Considering he said he hid her because he feared this... hiring her it's like if he handed her to Kinzo on a silver platter.

This is an issue with Genji regardless of who Yasu really is, since at the very least he's trying to present her as such and at best she actually is Kinzo's child. In which case... dude. Just... what the hell are you doing, man?

Still... why to lie to Yasu as Kinzo dies short after? If Yasu were to claim to be Lion Natsuhi and the other siblings would, for sure, check if she really is who she claims to be or not. Unless Genji plans to blackmail Natsuhi, who knows the baby was a male, into silence due to her guilt?

The problem is, how do you prove anything about who Yasu is regardless? It's the 80s and Kinzo is dead (and soon Yasu is also probably dead), so it's not like you could take a paternity test. As far as the world is concerned, Beatrice Castiglioni died in 1945 lost at sea and any child she may have had never legally existed at all. Do Yasu's orphanage records indicate she ever had any parents? There's lots of reasons why they might not (sometimes it just isn't known), and also lots of reasons why they might (Genji fudged the records to make up fake dead parents).

Ultimately if Yasu were to claim it's true, there's basically no evidence for it and thus nothing to find, and any evidence that does exist has been under Genji's control and could therefore have been doctored. There's basically no way for Yasu to prove anything if the adults choose not to accept her claim, but there's also no easy way for the adults to dismiss her claim, especially since Rosa knows for a fact that a woman did live on the island in the 60s.

The only sure test would be a genetic one, which should turn up... interesting results if Kinzo was both her father and grandfather. As well as interesting information about Yasu's biological sex. But good luck getting a sample from an asploded person.

Well, we can't actually prove Natsuhi was feeling guilty out of the gameboard or that she was feeling guilty due to the baby. She might have argued with the servant and pushed her off the cliff and in the whole story there was no baby, just Natsuhi killing a person.

Why would the servant have been there though? The implication in all of Natsuhi's confessions to that effect are that she had basically nothing against the servant whatsoever, which made it even worse for her as she was basically murdering an innocent infant and a total bystander, neither of whom bore any blame for her own inability to accept the situation. If they'd had a fight, Natsuhi could try to blame someone else. She's in a situation where she cannot blame anyone, which is why it hurts her so much.