[Matrim]

I'm enjoying this so far, minus one scene.

One wonders how that particular scene will be animated. Not that I found it any more brutal than the final few scenes of ep.2, mind you.

Well. I think the problem is grasping what parts of the "supernatural events" (this is what I them) are supposed to mean.

That's probably the key to it all. I think many of us have the tendency to disbelieve just about anything we see in the "fantasy" scenes which is probably a mistake. Problem is we have no clue whatsover how much of these scenes is true and how much is not. Probably the best reference would be ep.1 where the narrator presumably can be trusted more.

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Problem is he (Battler) never sees any of the murders actually taking place.

Or it could be all rather straightforward, with all the fancy battles and moe-weapons there to confuse us and meta-Battler. Basically these scenes show us the victims and the murder weapon. The Siestas are guns and stakes are...well, stakes, just not really alive ones. The goats could be the unknown tool which made a total bloody mess of the people which Natsuhi left with Maria in the end of ep.1.

Interesting tidbits I noticed from my replay in the first the chapters of ep.1:
- Battler is very strong, apparently much stronger than Kanon.
- The arriving family members were scanned with a metal detector when they boarded the plane. Probably the security wasn't exactly top class but still if someone was carrying a gold ingot or weapons they would be running a big risk of being detected.
- Natsuhi's headaches were, according to her reply, not bothering her much before the gatheirng. Rosa gives her a special tea which is supposed to help - maybe it aggravated her illness? Eva jokes about poison in the tea Shannon brings - a hint that the actual fishy tea is not that one but Rosa's gift? So much to ponder in just two chapters. Too many suspects.