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Originally Posted by Renall
This was addressed, but exactly who said this? Kinzo said it in one of Eva's flashbacks. Eva has a massive compensation complex and feels the need to excel at everything out of clear feelings of inadequacy. In her mind, she shifts the blame for this onto her father considering her unworthy of the headship (which, you'll note, she believes that she totally deserves). But we don't actually know if this was really how Kinzo behaved.
In fact, it's contradictory to the epitaph if Erika's logic about its purpose is correct. The epitaph is conspicuously displayed, and apparently open to being solved by any old person who happens to do it. If indeed anyone who solves it becomes the next head (and while we aren't sure this is true, it seems plausible), that means the "true" Ushiromiya Kinzo never cared beans about gender, social status, or even family relationship.
The Kinzo we have seen in Umineko up until this point is highly suspect. It is equally possible that every action undertaken by Kinzo is as distorted as Natsuhi's vision of a kind Kinzo.
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Makes sense and is practically the definition of
Knox's 9th. All we ever see about Kinzo is other peoples interpretations. Also regarding the epitaph, it also goes along with what Okonogi says in EP4, that it was simply a way for Krauss not to automatically gain the headship without Kinzo having to go back on his decision.