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Originally Posted by GuestSpeaker
I feel like you are saying something really interesting in this paragraph, and I just can't quite understand what you mean
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Somebody must have delivered the letter to somebody for it to appear in the dining room so that Battler would receive the ring of headship and further instructions about his role as the successor. Whoever delivers that letter is bound or at least highly likely to have been in close contact with the former holder of the ring, if not even the former holder of the ring itself.
Because at this point it is still upheld on the island that "Ushiromiya Kinzô has the ring of headship and would never pass it to anybody until his death", it also means that whoever possesses the ring stands in direct context with "whatever happened to Kinzô".
Natsuhi and Krauss are probably aware of the fact that the ring of headship is missing, but either Genji told them he put it in a secure place or they are just not able to question it's dissappearance because it would immediatly blow the cover of the Kinzô situation.
Now to the problem of Shannon or Kanon delivering the letter.
Remember that, them delivering the letter also entails that they are in (at least temporary) possession of the ring of headship, which raises the question why they would possess such item. Why, if they have no right to possess it, would Genji, Natsuhi or Krauss place an item of high importance to Kinzô in the hands of a klutzy girl and/or a rebellious boy?
But if the actual goal was to make Natsuhi admit to Kinzô's death, then she had to be put in the situation of being the only one capable of placing the letter.
The plan is basically ingenious, because Natsuhi won't say what happened during the time where she would need said alibi concerning the whole affair. We (the reader) know that she is on the 2nd floor and after that in her room, confined there by the call from the man from 19 years ago, but if there is nobody to observe that truth or testify for her "it stays in eternal process".
Further, EP5 is actually the first game where all parties present in the mansion when the letter appears can be accounted for from their arrival on the island. This means that by extension whoever delivers the letter on this night, in EP5, within the mansion is the person who already possessed the letter and therefore the ring from the beginning. And if we combine all knowledge about what possessing the ring entails then Shannon or Kanon delivering the letter on this night would have only framed them as the only possible core culprit.