Umineko1 Notes

-Kinzo's alchohol smells sweet/poisonous & is green

First chapter:
- Start October 4
- Battler's been gone for 6 years; left when his mother died; lived with maternal grandparents until they died
- Battler: 180cm (5ft 11in), 18 years old
- George: 170cm, 23 years old, works at father's company as Hideyoshi's aide, Battler admires him
- Hideyoshi: Kansai dialect
- Rudolf: about as tall as Battler, womanizer
- Eva: Martial arts, kind of harsh on George
- Ange: (not present in this story) vomiting, Hideyoshi hasn't seen her in a while, frail, Kyrie's family is looking after her
- Maria: 9 years old
- Eva "A child's health is always more important than an adult's convenience"
- George "I still have very little experience out there in the real world, and I need to work on becoming more bold and sociable."
- Rosa late because of train connection
- Rosa is "not the kind of person who would forget or break a promise" according to Battler
- Maria seems to be the same as she was at 3
- Kinzo obsessed with European names
- Battler cannot handle vehicles (guess: has to do with mother's death)
- Jessica: talks masculine, heir after Krauss, doesn't like her parents
- Kumasawa: slacks off sometimes, elderly, sickly.
- Kumasawa had some purchases to make on the other island which is why she came to pick them up.
- No one wants to talk about why Battler is living in two houses (probably more to it than just his mom's death)
- Rudolf 'betrayed' Battler's mom (guess: Ange is Battler's half-sis from Kyrie whom Rudolf impregnated)
- Only people connected to the Ushiromiya family visit Rokkenjima
- Torii used to be on a crag around the island; now gone; also shrine to regional god
- Kumasawa "perhaps a huge lightning bolt fell one evening and smashed the shrine"
- Maria senses misfortune
- George says he doesn't lie
- Arrive at harbor 10:30
- Gohda: huge according to Battler, working since the year before last, rough-looking appearance
- Usually seagulls (umineko) but none this time
- Maria goes along with other people's moods
- George is good with kids
- Roses not as good this year according to Eva (summer wasn't warm enough?)
- Maria's rose
- Eva wants to see the garden the way it was
- Kanon: slender, probably younger than Battler, inexperienced, 'furniture', working for 3 years, unsociable, possibly 16
- Kanon seemed to have trouble with the sacks of fertilizer
- After Battler helped Kanon 'there was something he (Kanon) just couldn't let go'
- Kanon mutters something after the above line which nobody hears "Even I"
- Guest house built the year before last (same time as Gohda came to work)
- George's parents bicker about Japanese or Western style housing
- Kinzo only trusts Genji
- George asks Kumasawa something as she is leaving with the adults to go to the main mansion
- Natsuhi: has headaches often (born with it), in charge of the kitchen, easily humiliated,
- Silver said to dim in the presence of poison
- Kanon's duty is to watch
- Kanon and Shanon are brother and sister (?)
- Gohda apparently worked at a fancy hotel before, chef. Picks on Shanon and Kanon because they are seniors at the house but less experienced (?)
- Shanon and Kanon hated by Natsuhi
- All that took place at 11:15; jump to noon
- Before Battler came back the talking was more serious
- reference to higurashi (scratching neck open)
- Shanon also refers to herself as furniture
- Shanon: 'furniture', working for 10 years,
- Shanon says that they are not exactly brother and sister
- The house is cold during the winter
- Genji: trusted by Kinzo more than relatives, served there the longest (don't know how long; possibly since the beginning),
- The picture was hung up the year before last too (according to George and Genji) in April
- Witch in the forest
- Kinzo had the picture painted so they would 'understand'. Kinzo thinks she exists, others do not.
- Rosa's husband is not there but he still has a place at the table
- Natsuhi is an outsider
- Lunch at 12:20
- Kinzo seems to be going crazy, talks of making people into firewood, feeding them to the witch's hearth, boiling wormwood on it, forcing them to drink it (broth of the Apocalypse), he will soak their dregs in liquor, and having his demonic absinthe prepared, says that the whispering of the green fairy reaches him no more, says that the apostles are readying their trumpets.
- Kinzo says that he suffers some 'impediment' on the first day of the meeting
- There is a switch on the table of Kinzo's study which apparently unlocks the door
- Kinzo mistrusts his family enough to make sure they had no way to get into his study
- Genji is 'relatively free to enter'
- Genji 'motionlessly waited behind and to Kinzo's left, as though he were a living sideboard.'
- Kinzo "You (Beatrice) cannot be anywhere but in my arms... You'll continue to whisper for all eternity in my bird cage to me, only to me!!"
- Kinzo is like two different people
- Kinzo "The power of magic is always settled with a gamble"
- Kinzo "The more dangerous the risk, the stronger the magic power will be"
- Kinzo "Moses, instead of betting on incalculable odds in the roulette of those with power, managed to spectacularly draw to himself the single miracle carved within the eyes of many."
- Kinzo "Magical power is that fortune through which miracles are grasped. To obtain this mighty magic power, one must face the risk of despair."
- Kinzo tears the bed with both hands
- Lunch from 12:30 to 1:30
- From 1868 to 1923 Ushiromiya was prosperous (owned spinning mills); Kanto Earthquake 1923 destroyed mansion in Odawara, spinning mills in Tokyo burned down in fire,
- Kinzo formed connections with the US and supplied them during the Korean war 1950. This made him very wealthy
- Gohda's previous work had complicated employee politics.
- Desert was based on the rose garden, with rose petals selected from the garden (could explain where Maria's rose went?)
- Kumasawa like a mother to Shanon
- Nanjo "Kinzo-san's body is being overwhelmed by the demon of ill health"
- Children tried to force Kinzo out last year.
- The rest of the children suspect that Krauss is using Kinzo's private funds to back his resort plans.
- After being told to leave, Natsuhi returns to her room.
- Eva should have been out of the family register but managed to keep herself in because of Natsuhi's infertility; thus the emnity.
- Negotiations went to 2:00, we go back a bit to 1:30 for the children at the beach
- Legend of the Ushiromiya gold
- Epitaph was written 2 years ago (again), written by Kinzo himself
- Gold, 10 tons (or 10 kg) if tons then it would be worth 20 billion yen
- 200 million yen "the price of a life"
- 4000 years of wages
- Maria says that witches exist
- It is important to Maria that everyone believes witches exist
- Krauss denies that the gold exists
- Krauss says that the funding he is receiving is simply from friends
- The other siblings allow Krauss to investigate Kinzo's assests on the condition that he pay them their equivalent share of the gold
- Hideyoshi's company is successful but he is losing control of it thanks to greedy stockholders
- Rudolf needs to settle a lawsuit with another company
- Rosa co-signed something she shouldn't have
- Kinzo "Will the miracle be fulfilled first, or will those fools expose the gold first?"
- Kinzo "Great magic can house a miracle from the fools' greed"
- Kinzo "The sacred night when the miracle is wagered will come, and the devils' game will begin! I will definitely win, and I will definitely remain alive."
- Kinzo "Do you know why I went to the trouble of exposing the hidden location of the gold so that everyone could see it?" Kannon "No" Kinzo "It is because magical power is decided by risk"
- Kinzo "If the number of people who try and discover Beatrice's gold is great, and the danger of that happening is great as well, then assuming that the bet is successful despite those long odds, the magical power will bring about a grand miracle."
- Kinzo "If the miracles are gathered and the magical power is born, it will happen then! Beatrice will revive."
- Cannot enter Kinzo's room without his permission
- 3pm beach
- Ushiromiya mansion in Odawara before the war, Hayakawa is the river running through it.
- Odawara castle at the mouth of the river
- Sogakishi has the word "shore" in it's name
- looking for a 'key'
- the witch is maria's dream
- Just before Shanon started working someone was injured 'by the witch'
- Scorpion can block magic; has holy power, drawn in magic-repelling magical circles
- emerald brings peace to the heart
- Wear charm on arm for peaceful heart, put in wallet to make sure money doesn't decrease, hang on doorknob so bad things can't get in
- When looking for the rose "It felt like [Maria's] intention was to stop us from going to another place"
- Rosa came out of the mansion when everyone was looking for the rose.
- Battler always got in trouble on parent's day in front of everyone
- Kinzo talks about the key of fate
- 6pm Kids in the guest cottage
- Jessica's traveling from the island to the mainland for school (stranded due to rain and storms)
- Jessica wants to move to a city and go to school there instead of a school near the island
- Kanon calls the kids to dinner (why not use the phone?)
- Rosa "bearing a burden" fell asleep. It seemed like she had been shocked awake (slightly after 6:00pm)
- Did Kanon not see Maria on his way over to the guest house?
- Maria says that Beatrice lent her the umbrella
- After Rosa left the siblings they moved to 'their room' and had a "'friendly' chat"
- Genji ordered Kanon to go and get the kids from the guest house
- 8pm Dinner
- 10pm after dinner
- Jessica is shocked by her parents fighting about the money
- Rudolf wants to talk with Battler and Kyrie after the adults finish
- Rudolf thinks he will be killed on the first night
- Natsuhi is in the hallway
- Krauss has an ingot of high purity gold with a one winged eagle crest stamped in it. It is supposed to be the ingot that was used to gain trust for Kinzo.
- Natsuhi feels rejected because Krauss did not tell her about the gold before. She feels abandoned.
- Natsuhi forced to join the ushiromiya family because of 'that unavoidable fate' which she is trying to forget
- Natsuhi probably wouldn't care if someone appeared in the state that she is in
- Natsuhi meets with Jessica in the hallway
- Jessica gives Natsuhi the charm
- Natsuhi wants to give Jessica a charm that was important to her when she was a child
- Natsuhi goes off down the hall
- Jessica returns to Battler and George (Maria asleep on couch with them)
- This is at a little past 10pm
- Rosa enters parlor
- Children are about to head back to the guest house. Rosa gets called back to the siblings. Shannon comes out of servant room
- Shannon to hold umbrella and flashlight for George who is carrying Maria
- Children invite Shannon to stay with them. She goes to check the schedule to see if she can
- Servant shift change ordered by Krauss
- Kanon and Genji in the servant room
- Gohda on the night shift in the mansion
- Shannon and Kanon have the night shift in the guest house
- Kumasawa and Genji are in the guest house too
- Phone call came saying for Shannon to 'stay here'
- Originally:
	*Shannon and Kanon were night shift in the mansion
	*Gohda was night shift in the guest house
	*Kumasawa was in the guest house
	*Genji was in the mansion
- Genji "For the Master, tonight is special"
- Shannon returns to the guest house and leaves again with George
- George is talking to Shannon about business practices.
- Immediately honoring soldiers with medals
- Caring for troops immediately
- George really seems to respect his dad
- Shannon is an orphan brought up in the Fukuin house which is owned by Kinzo
- Servants from the Fukuin house take names with the character 'on' in them
- The orphans were taught to think of each other as family
- There are also other servants, Manon and Renon
- Not many stay for long (generally 3 years)
- Shannon's actual name is Sayo
- Does Shannon think that her whole life will be like this?
- Shannon goes back to the mansion instead of the guest house
- Goes to 11pm
- Gohda stays in the servant room and Shannon goes to lock up
- She hears the voices of the siblings
- She thinks she sees something flickering across the hallway
- Beatrice flying around the mansion in the form of sparkling butterflies
- At midnight is seems that everyone is alive
- 6am 1986 Oct 5
- Kanon and Genji exit the guest house
- Genji has a bundle of keys
- Natsuhi orders that the mansion is locked from midnight to early morning
- Gohda has not begun preparing breakfast yet
- Phone broken?
- Natsuhi sleeps light and with medicine
- Natsuhi wants to lock herself in her room
- Natsuhi's mirror to ward off evil spirits
- Genji knocks on the door
- Telephones appear to be down
- Dark red liquid on door and marks around the door knob that look as though someone was tearing at it
- Natsuhi thinks that maybe they are still continuing the discussion
- Eva and Hideyoshi say that they went to bed slightly after midnight and that Krauss and the others were still talking at that point
- Genji gives the key to Kinzo's study to Natsuhi
- Genji leaves with Kanon
- Maria throws a fit when she can't find Rosa
- Children go to the mansion
- Kinzo looking out of the window, had been ignoring the knocking apparently
- Gentle talking sounds like it comes from a different person
- Kinzo had looked at her and seemed to accept her as part of the family
- Says the last stuff looking away from her
- Missing people not inside of the study
- Eva and Natsuhi return to parlor; Hideyoshi, children, Genji and Nanjo there as well
- Kumasawa preparing breakfast
- Shannon missing
- Children watching TV; Nanjo reading a book (possibly about chess)
- Natsuhi goes to make tea
- Something odd about the rose garden storehouse
- Kanon described as usually fearless
- Key to the storehouse inside of the servants room
- Kanon, Genji, Eva and Hideyoshi go to storehouse
- Dark red liquid on the shutter enterance to the shed
- Magic circle drawn
	*two circles with a cross in the center with words written in between gaps
- Not there until at least it started raining says Kanon
- Genji suggests that they use paint from the shed to paint over the magic circle
- Same color red liquid that was on Natsuhi's door
- Genji returns to mansion out of breath and wet
- Brings Nanjo back with him
- They come across Natsuhi who they bring with them
- Maria stays and watches TV
- Nanjo says that they were probably dead about 6 hours ago (at least)
- 'Damaged after death'
- Outside of Nanjo's expretise
- Battler "Their faces had been plowed"
- Can't tell where eyes or nose are but can see the mouth. Front teeth missing, cheek torn up and exposed
- No face
- Krauss still has half of his face
- George asks if Shannon is the same, Hideyoshi does not respond which we are meant to take as meaning she is
- Hideyoshi sees that half of Shannon's face has been smashed off and the other half is soaked in blood
- Repeatedly making it clear that it definitely is shannon makes me suspicious
- Shannon has the ring on her left ring finger
- Only one key to the storehouse
- New padlock is placed on the storehouse and key is given to Natsuhi
- 8:30-8:45
- Kumasawa finds blood in the dining hall
- There seems to be a lot of blood so it could mean that they were killed there last night
- Hideyoshi says that he and Eva left a little after midnight
- They all leave the bloody dinning room
- Radio did not work
- Genji says that there is a boat coming Monday morning
- Krauss' boat is not on the island anymore since it has been sent for repairs
- Kinzo is not in his room (that Natsuhi and Eva could see)
- Natsuhi is the last one to see Kinzo, before the corpses were found
- On the way back from going to see Kinzo, Natsuhi and Eva called out to him on all the floors, looking for him but weren't able to find him
- Kinzo might already be dead and his corpse is somewhere they haven't looked yet
- Natsuhi leaves the parlor with the remaining servants
- Everyone else is in the parlor
- Rudolf would get 'violently happy, sad, and angry, but he would always regain his cool immediately afterwards.' according to Eva
- Eva assumes that the culprit killed them in the dinning room and carried them to the shed
- Again, only key to the storehouse is the one in the servant's room
- The culprit/s had to assualt the four in the dinning room and drag 6 bodies to the storehouse according to Eva
- It seems more likely to Eva that there are multiple culprits
- Eva suspects that there was someone behind the servants doing it
- Battler thinks that if the servants really did do it then they wouldn't have hidden the bodies in a place that would implicate them
- Eliminating the introduction, like Keichii's mom says in  Higurashi, would be the perfect crime. If it is never discovered then the murderer would get away free
- In this case why expose the spot you hid the bodies and make everyone more cautious and suspicious.
- What does the culprit gain from this?
- Only Eva and Hideyoshi were relatively unaffected by the deaths
- Could the murder have been meant to implicate Eva?
- Eva says that she and Hideyoshi returned to the guest house to go to bed slightly past midnight
- Maria says that the magic circle is the seventh magic circle of the sun
	* Characters are Hebrew
	* Angels in charge of 4 elements written on the top, bottom, left and right
	* 4 kings written in the corners
	* Psalms 116:16-17 written around the circle
	* Suposed to bring freedom from actual bonds or obligations or fate
- Battler remembers Rudolf telling him that the reason people go to so much effort about the occult is because it doesn't exist
- Natsuhi and servants are taking a while
- Kinzo had a gun which he used to shoot at birds
- The part of the gun that ejected the cartridges was more interesting to Kinzo than the actual gun and he played around with it in the forest
- 9:30am-1pm
- They all have lunch
- Kumasawa mourns Shannon with her back facing Genji and Kanon
- Genji says that it looked like someone with bloody fingers had tried to scratch through Natsuhi's door
- Genji and Kanon say that Beatrice exists
- Servants say that Beatrice has no body and that regular people can't see her unless she wants them to
- Servant chased a glittering butterfly and met with great injury
- Maria says that Battler is on a different wavelength and that is why Battler can't see Beatrice
- Maria says that Battler is the kind that Beatrice hates the most
- Beatrice is a 1000 year old witch
- They keep saying that Beatrice 'exists' with the word in quotes
- Battler says it feels like she has a dual personality
- It seems as though Maria's laughter has been seen before
- Difference between an adult and a kid is life experience
- Kids trying to gain their identity
- Jessica says that she was never into the occult
- Natsuhi's been holding the key to Kinzo's study the whole time
- Genji says that the only way in or out of the study is the enterance
- Genji says there is no hidden door
- Kanon says there is no hidden door
- Kumasawa says that she doesn't know about any such door
- Nanjo played chess with Kinzo last night
- Genji gave Kinzo his dinner after the chess game
- Shannon and Kanon were with Genji for that
- Eva and Hideyoshi are saying that Natsuhi did not meet with Kinzo in the morning
- They are saying that she faked meeting with him so as to give herself and alibi for killing him
- Eva is saying that Natsuhi killed Kinzo and threw him out the window and, when checking windows and doors, hid Kinzo's body
- Possible that Kinzo is hiding and then escaped after the receipt was removed.
- Jessica has a coughing fit
- Eva goes to her room with Hideyoshi, She says that she'll call Genji when it's dinner time
- She announces that they'll lock themselves in with the door chain
- Eva and Hideyoshi leave after George refuses to.
- It is evening now
- Beatrice familiar with all 72 demons
- was 4pm, now 7pm
- Kumasawa as in the kitchen cooking
- Kanon was helping Kumasawa in the kitchen
- Genji and Nanjo in the kitchen with them
- They are playing a game of chess
- Genji thinks things are proceeding like Kinzo would want them to. He feels like doubting that would exceed his role as furniture
- Eva and Hideyoshi's room had been built to house guest before the guesthouse was built
- Eva and Hideyoshi are familiar with their room
- Bedroom and bathroom
- Eva wonders whether she should have had George so soon
- Eva had a revelation about producing the next heir
- Hideyoshi agreed so that he could 'feel once more the long forgotten thing called family'
- Eva slightly glad that Shannon was dead.
- Eva and Hideyoshi knew that George loved Shannon
- Hideyoshi lost all his relatives in the war
- Hideyoshi and Eva plan to go to the Maldives
- Hideyoshi wants to take care of some business first
- Eva wants to go now
- Genji goes from the kitchen to the parlor
- Everyone had been drawing
- It seems like everyone can draw fairly well
- Distance from the kitchen to the parlor is not long
- guest room to parlor is a little further
- Kanon went with Genji to the guest room
- Note left under Eva and Hideyoshi's door
- Servants would stick a note under the door if the guest did not wake up
- Kanon hears what he thinks is the TV
- He doesn't 'sense anyone'
- Lights still on in the room
- Chain had been secured
- Kanon is told to cut the chain but to go and get Kumasawa first
- Genji goes back to the kitchen with Kanon and tells Kumasawa to go with Kanon
- Nanjo goes with Genji to talk with Natsuhi
- In the time that they left the door, a magical mark has been drawn up on it
- There was perhaps 5 minutes between leaving the door and going back to the door
- There is something stuck into the center of Eva's forehead
- Something like a knife or resembling an ice pick
- The handle has a complicated design
- Hideyoshi also has a similar weapon stuck into the center of his forehead while he was taking a shower
- Hideyoshi was seen tumbled down in the shower totally naked and with his eyes pointing right at Kanon
- Body soap in the shower had fallen with it's cap off
- About one hour has passed since they died
- Can't see either of them from the door
- George enters the room and sees his parents
- Maria seems unfazed
- Room is locked
- They decide to unseal the letter in the parlor where everyone can see it
- They notice the smell
- Kanon and Kumasawa go and check the kitchen
- Kanon searches in other directions as he follows Kumasawa
- The chain makes the room a closed room scenario
- The chain stops people from coming in
- Eva and Hideyoshi cannot be reached through the small crack
- First magic circle of the moon
- The Hebrew is from Psalm 107:16
- It can open a door regardless of how it is locked
- Gives a solution that you hadn't ever thought of
- Kanon and Kumasawa realize that the smell is coming from the stairs leading to the basement
- Bioler is down in the basement
- They hear a slam of the door closing
- Kanon runs toward the basement to chase after the sound
- The person is now in the boiler room
- Kumasawa then goes down after Kanon
- Kanon grabs a hatchet
- Sees butterflies
- Kinzo calls winning against the odds a 'miracle' and the payoff is 'magic'
- Kanon says that he is no longer furniture
- Kanon drops the hatchet
- Kanon is stabbed with the weapon in the chest
- Kanon pulls out the weapon
- Kumasawa comes into the basement
- Natsuhi, Battler and Genji all enter the basement
- Genji goes to get Nanjo
- Battler chases after the person through the slightly open other door
- Battler enters the courtyard
- Doors in the courtyard are built without locks
- Nanjo and George carried Kanon to the Servants room which can be used like a nurses room
- Kumasawa and Jessica go with them
- Weapon is the same kind that was used to kill Eva and Hideyoshi
- Handle design a little different
- Like an icepick or thin stake and had a spiral pattern like a drill
- 25 centimetres long, half handle, half pointy bit
- Charred corpse in the incinerator
- Face, age or even gender could not be guessed
- There are 6 toes on each foot of the corpse which Kinzo also had
- Ushiromiya trait (it is genetic probably)
- Possible reason that Kinzo was chosen as head
- Child with polydactyly may be treated before they are even aware that they had it
- can occur in 1/2000 babies
- One of those weapons was stuck into his forehead
- No Head's Ring on his finger
- They leave the room and lock it shut
- Not clear when the corpse was started burning
- Fire was not strong so it must have started long ago
- The boiler room is usually locked according to Genji
- The person may be outside of the group and may have something like a masterkey?
- Someone is trying to make it seem like there is a 19th person
- This person is able to do things that seem impossible, so it isn't that absurd to think that they could make it seem like there is a 19th person
- Battler considering the possibility of someone faking their death
- Maria said that Beatrice promised to take Maria to the Golden Land
- To Maria these series of crimes seems to prove the witch exists
- 7:30-8:00
- Kanon dies
- Jessica crying for Kanon
- Maria says that she 'exists'
- Natsuhi slaps Jessica
- Maria says that George wants to hit someone.
- Maria says that even if she told him the truth he wouldn't accept it
- Maria says that Beatrice said that by the time the typhoon has passed she will have ended everything
- They want to find somewhere were they can barricade themselves in
- Shannon, Kanon and Ghoda have master keys which they are supposed to have on their person during work
- Someone might have stolen a key from one of them
- Someone might have taken a master key from the servant's room when they went to get the key to the shed's shutter
- Every time the shift changes the keys were passed from one servant to another
- They have keys to all the rooms in the mansion and guest house
- The killer has only gone after isolated people except for the first night
- Battler stops Maria from saying something
- One place that can't be entered with the servants' keys: Kinzo's room
- Genji always has the key to Kinzo's study and Kinzo had the other.
- Genji shows the key that was on the burnt corpse
- They want to force the killer to reveal how they got into the locked room
- The weak point of the chessboard thinking is noise. Sometimes, things change which will make some ways of thinking wrong
- Humans are the noise in this thinking, emotion and such can make people act unpredictably
- Thus: this way of thinking is weak against noise, fickleness and mistakes or incorrect knowledge
- The rules are unkown so it is not easy to make predictions
- Jessica hates the idea of moving into Kinzo's study
- They didn't eat any of the food that Kumasawa prepared.
- They get some canned food and go up to the third floor
- Fifth magic circle of Mars on Kinzo's door: repells magic
- This was the magic circle that was on the charms that Maria gave to Battler and Jessica
- Door automatically locks
- Kinzo's room is now certainly a closed room
- Window is tightly locked
- They don't find any hidden doors
- 4 sections: Study, bedroom, bathroom, and cooking (w/ sink)
- No TV or radio in this room
- Black has white well cornered in the chess game between Nanjo and Kinzo
- Endgame had been rushed
- Nanjo talks about 2 Kinzos, a wise one and one trapped by some kind of madness
- Painting of Beatrice in Kinzo's study
- They finally get around to opening the letter that was under Eva and Hdeyoshi's door
- Natsuhi puts the letter out on the table so that all can read it
- 'Praise my name' (Ref to epitaph)
- Maria says that it is just as she suspected
- The envelope is identical which we take as confirmation that the author of the first note is the author of the second
- Same type of envelope and sealing wax that Kinzo used
- Genji stays silent when asked about Beatrice
- Was Beatrice his lover?
- Jessica says that Kinzo's wife seems to have suspected it
- Mansion was finished in 1952
- Genji says that Kinzo certainly had deep feelings of love for Beatrice
- Cared for Beatrice more than wife
- Genji says that he heard that Beatrice passed away before the mansion was completed
- Genji says that Kinzo mourned for Beatrice
- Apparently Kinzo studied black magic looking for a way to revive Beatrice
- Nobody tried understanding why Kinzo had this hobby
- Kumasawa was only told about Beatrice once, when Kinzo was very drunk
- She says that she's forgotten details but that he loved Beatrice deeply
- Are the servants pretending that Beatrice's soul is alive in the mansion to make Kinzo feel better?
- Lost love revived?
- Consideration is magic?
- Genji has not heard of any illegitamate children
- Kinzo supporting Fukuin House orphanage
- Rumor that Kinzo supported an orphanage and that the orphans worked for Kinzo as part of their social studies
- Some people said that this was because of Kinzo's hobbies
- Orphans as sacrifices for his magic
- Only Shannon and Kanon were from the Fukuin House this conference
- Battler is interested in the word 'sacrifices'
- Maria "Magic works the same way. ...If you want an unlimited, impossible effect, then you must pray earnestly. ......Then the feelings from all those stored up prayers gain magical power and become incarnate."
- Maria says that the key randomly selected sacrifices in a lottery
- Carried out the ceremony on the day with the greatest number of people on the island so that he could increase the chance of him living?
- Another letter appeared
- This letter is on top of the table where the canned food lay
- All of the people gathered around the portrait before the letter was seen
- The letter was not there and then suddenly it was?
- 'Beatrice' says that this can only end in her victory or theirs
- Just before going to the portrait Natsuhi put down a can of food and she says that there definitely was no letter then
- At that point the children sans Maria were already at the portrait
- Natsuhi basically forces Genji, Kumasawa, Nanjo and Maria out of the room
- Genji hands over two golden keys which he says are to the study and the rest of his keys to the mansion
- Battler was lying about having lost the charm
- Magic circle on a second sheet that was in the third letter
- There is a triangle inside the circle with another, smaller triangle inside that
- Some Hebrew writing inside again
- 10:00 - 11:30
- Natsuhi was staring at the door, George was looking out of the window, Jessica was laying down on the sofa next to Natsuhi
- Jessica liked Kanon and may not have figured that out until he was killed
- Maria's father ran off a long time ago
- Rosa says that he is on a foreign business trip
- It has become taboo to talk about Rosa's family
- It's possible that Rosa didn't really like Maria because Maria kept Rosa from remarrying
- Battler "It's all useless"
- Natsuhi cares a great deal about her daughter because she got her 12 years after marrying Krauss
- Natsuhi says that she would become the worst kind of demon to protect Jessica
- The magic circle that was in the envelope was the third magic circle of Mars
- Psalm 77:13
- The meaning is discord
- The phone rings and Natsuhi picks up
- It sounds like someone is singing at the other end of the phone line
- They all decide to leave the room to see what is happening
- Natsuhi takes the lead with the rifle
- Battler takes a three-pronged candlestick
- Sticking one of those weapons into someone's skull wouldn't have been easy
- It is possible that there was something else that could shoot or pound the weapon in
- Could they be using something like a crossbow?
- When they get down to the first floor they can hear Maria's voice
- It sounds like she is singing mechanically
- The door to the parlor was closed
- The door to the parlor is locked
- Parlor stained with blood
- All the rest dead but only identifiable from their clothes since their faces are smashed again
- Weapons in Genji's stomach, Nanjo's knee and Kumasawa's calf
- Maria seems just like normal
- Maria says that Beatrice had done it
- Beatrice apparently told Maria to face the wall and sing for a long time
- Maria says that Genji locked the door (how? He had given away his keys. Unless the room locks from a latch or something like that)
- Maria says that Beatrice turned into butterflies and came in the crack in the door that way
- Maria says that Beatrice said she couldn't get into the study and so was going to select sacrifices from among the four
- Beatrice apparently has Maria sing the songs so that she doesn't hear something
- Natsuhi leaves the room reading a letter
- The handle won't open
- Natsuhi has barred the door to the parlor by using the candlestick that Battler took with him
- Natsuhi goes into the entrance hall alone with her gun and yells
- Natsuhi says that she has been challenged to a duel
- The butterflies form a human shape
- The witch raises her staff
- A shot is heard
- On Natsuhi's forehead 'almost as though a sparkling shard of pigeon's blood ruby had been placed there'
- Her gun smells like it discharged
- Did she shoot herself in the forehead
- The letter is gone
- None shall be left alive referring to Natsuhi?
- The journey has already ended according to Maria
- Midnight is apparently the end of the journey
- It seems like someone is standing there who looks like Beatrice
- The witch wins when the time runs out
- What does 'none shall be left alive mean?'
- The events on Rokkenjima are known about because of some notes that had been put into a bottle
- The notes are signed Ushiromiya Maria
- A piece of Maria's jaw (identified from her dental records) was found by police
- There was no sign of the children other than some body parts (see above)
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Tea Party
- They didn't try and solve the riddle and so they lost
- They spent too much time trying to find out who the culprit is
- Jessica says that Shannon had a worse fate than all of the rest of them
- They reitterate that half of Shannon's face is smashed
- George says that he seems to remember something like his body being eaten apart and dismembered
- Battler remarks that Kanon's last moments were the coolest
- Kanon's end better than the rest of the children's confusing end
- Shannon says that because of Kanon's death we can assume a 19th person
- George agrees that everyone's location was obvious so it could only have been a 19th person
- Jessica agrees that it was a witch
- Shannon again chimes in saying that there were things that humans couldn't do that were done
- Maria "Even one of her witch friends says that miracles won't occur if you don't believe."
- They discuss the fact that Maria respected the witch and so wasn't touched
- They then say that the servants also did the same and were killed
- Shannon saying that her death didn't hurt
- Maria says that it isn't fantasy and that Beatrice 'exists'
- Kanon and Shannon agree with Maria saying that she 'exists'
- Shannon says that Gods and witches might seem scary but that they are nice to people who respect them
- Shannon says that they ignored the first letter and so she felt sorry for Beatrice
- Battler disagrees with them that a witch did it
- They all express disbelief that he could still hold such a viewpoint
- Battler tries eplaining some of the things that happened to show that there was no witch
- They all say that because he can't explain it he has to admit that it was a witch
- Battler says that a fallback of mystery novels is that someone isn't really dead that we think is dead
- Hard for one of the people killed in the first round since the shutter was closed and padlocked such that it couldn't be opened from the inside
- Maria points out that Battler isn't giving any practical ways that it could be done
- If Battler doesn't believe then the magic won't be complete
- Battler refuses to believe it because he doesn't want the lie to become the truth
- Battler says that real miracles occur if people believe in them or not
- Beatrice enters
- Everyone apologizes for Battler
- Beatrice says that after a thousand years most witches get tired of living
- She says that it is nice to meet a man with backbone like him
- Beatrice says that he must have strong magic resistance
- She says that he will never believe in her and so the magic won't succeed
- As long as someone denies the witch she is only an illusion that can't exist
- Jessica says not to let the witch break Battler's spirit
- George and Jessica end up looking like a pile of meat
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- Beatrice and someone else talking in some unknown place
- The other person looks like Rika from Higurashi
- She calls herself a wandering witch and that she didn't intend on violating the rules of Beatrice's territory
- She also says that Beatrice shouldn't display so much hostility
- Beatrice says that she isn't hostile and that she is only concerned that Bernkastel is well attended to
- Bernkastel says that she is powerless before Beatrice who has the power to kill an idividual a hundred times
- Beatrice says that Bernkastel possesses a power that none can approach
- Beatrice says that Bernkastel dethroned Lambdadelta (another witch)
- Bernkastel says that she only won an endurance contest
- Lamdadelta does not feel the same
- Bernkastel says that Beatrice has the power to kill an individual 'without fail'
- She then says that 'without fail' doesn't exist in this world
- She then says that you can never get down to a zero percent chance
- She says that Beatrice can give rise to 'almost perfect certainty'
- Beatrice says that Bernkastel can cause success without fail 'as long as the odds are not zero'
- Bernkastel says that Beatrice can kill someone endlessly
- Bernkastel says that she is a traveler crossing fragments, running from boredom
- She heard that Beatrice is doing something interesting
- Bernkastel says that Lambdadelta is terrifying because of her cruelty but she can understand her
- Bernkastel then says that Beatrice has affection but she can't understand her
- That is why Bern says that Beato is more terrifying
- Beato says that she is fickle
- Bern says that Beato never lets the dice fall
- Bern says that boredom is the only thing that can kill her and then says not to kill her
- Bern calls Beato the 'Endless Witch'
- Bern says to someone that something troublesome seems to have taken a liking to them
- She says that she would like to lend this person her power but Beato and Bern have a bad compatibility
- She says that this person is pitiful so she'll help them out
- She says that this person has the name Beatrice but that she isn't necessarily one person
- Bern says that her existence is a personification of the rules of this world
- To beat her you have to expose the rules of the world and unravel them
- This is like learning the rules of chess by watching a game
- First, know the board
- Then know the pieces
- Last look for the conditions required to win the game
- When you manage to do this, her heart will be exposed
- Bern says that when she had a human body it took her a hundred years to learn all this
- Bern says that she is the cruelest witch in the world
- She calls this person her gamepiece
- Probably this person is the player
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Stakes and Sins
- Eva		Asmodeus: Lust		(Head)
- Hideyoshi	Beelzebub: Gluttony	(Head)
- Kinzo		Mammon: Greed		(Head)
- Kanon		Satan: Wrath		(Chest)
- Genji		Lucifer: Pride		(Stomach)
- Nanjo		Belphegor: Sloth	(Knee)
- Kumasawa	Leviathan: Envy		(Calf)