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Spoiler for Epitaph theory:

What if the epitaph is actually not meant for any of the pieces on the gameboard to solve but it's meant only for meta-Battler to solve and each game's epitaph has a different answer? All those answers could lead to the truth.

No gameboard has followed the epitaph exactly. Examples:
Ep1 - Kinzo died many years prior so he couldn't be the 4th twilight
Ep2 - Nanjo and Kumasawa were killed prior to George, Shannon, and Gohda. They should have been the fourth and fifth twilights. The stakes should have been in the head and chest.
Ep3 - Krauss and Natsuhi died by strangulation not by gouging the knee and leg.
Ep4 - It was said in red that Kanon was the ninth to die so that means he should have had the stake gouged in his head. However, it was Kyrie who was found with the stake in her head.

What is in common between all games is that six people are chosen but not necessarily killed (Example - Kinzo couldn't have been killed in ep3 since he was already dead).

First Twilight
Instead of trying to remove six characters immediately you can assume the first twlight's purpose is to give you your starting characters. Removing the characters can be done later on in twilights 4 through 8. It could be the first names of the victims:

EP1
蔵臼 - Krauss
留弗夫 - Rudolf
霧江 - Kyrie
楼座 - Rosa
俊朗 – Toshiro(Gohda)
紗代 – Sayo(Shannon)

EP2
蔵臼 - Krauss
夏妃 - Natsuhi
絵羽 - Eva
秀吉 - Hideyoshi
留弗夫 - Rudolf
霧江 - Kyrie

EP3
源次 - Genji
紗代 – Sayo(Shannon)
??? – ???(Kanon)
俊朗 – Toshiro(Gohda)
チヨ – Chiyo(Kumasawa)
金蔵 – Kinzo

EP4
夏妃 - Natsuhi
絵羽 - Eva
秀吉 – Hideyoshi
留弗夫 - Rudolf
楼座 - Rosa
源次 - Genji

EP5
源次 - Genji
楼座 - Rosa
蔵臼 - Krauss
真里亞 - Maria
朱志香 - Jessica
譲治 - George

At this point we have 11-14 kanji(2 katakana for Kumasawa's name from ep3) from the names but we don't know the order in which they should be placed.

Second Twilight
Seperate the two that are close could be interpreted as move the names that have the closest meaning farthest away from each other.

Third Twilight
Place ベアトリーチェ at the beginning of the phrase being formed.

Fourth through Eighth twilights:
Break down all the kanji into kana first then eliminate kana when possible. Since the six chosen change with each episode it is possible that sometimes no kana are eliminated in any given twilight. For example, 頭 = あたま(atama). This doesn't work for ep1 but for ep5 it would erase 真(ま) and 亞(あ) learving just り(ri).

Ninth Twilight
Hopefully after following this none of the original names will remain.

Tenth Twilight
You should will have enough kana/kanji left to put together a sentence.


I just made this up and haven't tried to work this out since my Japanese is terrible but it's just a theory.