- starting in one of the grandchildren's perspective
- Beatrice is called reliable, so it's Maria's perspective
- this ought to be interesting
- however, this is not the Beatrice we know
- this is trying so hard to make me believe this is also Beatrice that I highly doubt it
- she does fit Maria's perception of her though
- or in short, doing stuff you wouldn't need magic for is easy to do with magic
- is magic then even real?
- Beatrice is actually building her own legend here
- because the mansion on Rokkenjima doesn't exist long enough for this to be way back in the past
- it could have been a different mansion of course
- we just assume it's the same because backgrounds
- wait do you want to tell me this was Beatrice's perspective and she took the name of her teacher?
- Battler (abbreviated): "I don't care if I get killed over and over again, if it's by those very lovely seven deadly sins!"
- RED: "Of all the doors that exist on Rokkenjima, none has a crack through which a key can slip."
- "Are you stupid?" No, he's just incompetent
- so young Eva is going to be another game piece for the witch's side?
- 2 PM now, this time no opening cast roll?
- Battler (towards Jessica about love): "Did you get a 'I'm sorry.'?" no, she got a "I'm furniture."
- also means that this happened again.
- rose thing happened again
- new game piece: Ronove
- apparently one of Beatrice's servants
- Beatrice, your logic is faulty because your demon appears as a human
Ronove is supposed to be one of the 72 demons
- oh, episode 3 hints make it more clear which sister represents which deadly sin
- another random note, each episode adds at least one organ piece (music, I mean)
- Maria read the witch's letter again
- Eva might actually try to solve the epitaph this episode
- Kyrie realizes that Beatrice does not make the most optimal moves
- Ryu, I tip my had, you force us to use logic
- of course you understand it yourself, if you're the main member of 07th expansion, you probably had to take a logic course at some point in your life
- furhtermore, I am ashamed that I'm not going more logical into these debates.
- this'll be food for thought
- if she does that and says the culprit is in the 18 person box, she just lost because that means that no witch is the culprit
- her means might become her goal
- for all humans except me = foolish: show that one human of this specified group is not foolish
- 64358223579673204: look up if this number has any significance somewhere
- Beatrice the golden is the illegimite daughter of Kinzo and Beatrice, Kinzo's mistress?
- RED: "A hidden mansion called Kuwadorian does exist in the forest of Rokkenjima."
- RED: "The pair [Kinzo and Beatrice] actually had a conversation like that in this place."
- RED: "This is the world of 1967." My crazy theory of Beatrice being a different Beatrice and being the daughter of Kinzo and unknown Mistress is actually still possible
- or at the very least, Beatrice is the daughter of original Beatrice, not necessarily Kinzo's, following Battler's line of thinking
- RED: "In 1967, in a hidden mansion on Rokkenjima, Beatrice existed as a human."
- god damn with the adult humor
- RED: "It's definitely dead!" when this is addressing Beatrice, why 'it'? Not that I actually want to argue that Beatrice survived that...
- the shrine was destroyed again
- RED: "There are no more than 18 humans on this Rokkenjima!" So it is one of Battler's family.
- George once again proposed
- first time we get to see the first twilight murders as they'd happen with magic
- with the witch's condition (choosing the five to survive), it would be pride she's encouraging
- welp, he was supposed to defeat all seven.
- happy funeral, Kanon~
- ...is Beatrice actually afraid of dying herself?
- what, you wanna tell me Kumasawa also has some crazy magic going for her?
- oh, so Kumasawa is the original Beatrice?
- Going with my crazy human theory, she'd be Kinzo's mistress then
- the amount of magic being displayed really increases with each game, huh?
- hmm, furthering this thought of B&B being mother and daughter, their magic battle is a lot like those drawing battles where one tries to out-deus ex machina the other.
- more precisely, this magic battle is basically danmaku in prose form...
- Gungnir, Mjolnir, pretty nordic, this predecessor
- Beatrice's reasoning of why Battler believes it in manga and anime but not here is way more directed at the reader, since for us both are fiction, and thus we have a suspension of disbelief
- oh, much more likely, Kumasawa was one of the servants that also attended the hidden mansion
- First twilight: Kinzo, Genji, Kanon, Shannon, Gohda, Kumasawa
- wait, are you introducing Schrodinger's Cat now?
- Virgilia: Fitting for someone who supposedly doesn't have a name anymore
- this time every sibling has a gun
- Kinzo was burned again
- phones are dead again
- breaking one of the six locked rooms is enough, as that gives us access to the other five
- So... is Virgilia secretly Bern's piece?
- Master keys: RED: "There are five, one for each servant"
- Shannon (parlor) -> Kumasawa (second floor guest room) -> Gohda (third floor waiting room) -> Genji (second floor VIP room) -> Kinzo (underground boiler room) -> Kanon (chapel) -> Shannon (parlor)
- RED: "Furthermore, all of the doors and windows on the six rooms are normal. No device exists which can lock them without a key such as an auto-lock."
- RED: "These six are all dead: Kinzo, Genji, Shannon, Kanon, Gohda, and Kumasawa!" you could go with some crazy "identity is dead" like last episode, but I don't like that solution
- RED: "There is no one hiding in the six rooms!"
- RED: "The six died instantly!"
- classic murder-suicide trick still works
- RED: "The six were not killed by traps!"
- RED: "None of the six committed suicide!" she didn't repeat homicides, so an accident is still possible
- so in episode 3 I actually get told that I can check these things at any time
- a bit late
- so the epitaph riddle is a riddle lost in translation?
- if that sacrifice section really is about taking away letters, might you end up with characters that form "Beatrice" phonetically if you take away 13 characters from all names in the Ushiromiya family? well, or in a similar fashion, actually the name of a place maybe...
- Oh hey, Beatrice's (first) theme played with a jazz organ
- it really seems to be a riddle that can only be solved with understanding of the Japanese language
- this family is filthy to the end...
- so the gold was found by more than one person
- it's actually young Eva though who gets the title of endless witch
- Battler is starting to get genre-savvy, I like it. Is it going to change his "Incompetency" though?
- Eva is now living the good old mad with power phase if we look at it as a fantasy story
- and even if we don't, having so much gold at one's disposal can make one mad as well
- I'm almost surprised that there wasn't a closeup of a spider
- actually what we have here with those witches is a case of blue and orange morality
- RED: "Rosa and Maria died. The causes of death were as Nanjo diagnosed."
- RED: "Rosa's and Maria's deaths were homicides."
- WHITE: "Only adult male who wasn't armed" what about Nanjo?
- should have noted this before, but this episode makes several references to Alice in Wonderland and possibly Alice through the looking glass
- How to blame it on Eva...
- Hideyoshi fell asleep, bathroom, Hideyoshi covers Eva, there's a number of possibilities
- Keeping Hideyoshi safe makes it easy for Battler to blame Hideyoshi
- both Rudolf and Kyrie won against the furniture
- Organ is in general the instrument used for everything magical
- oh god dammit, now you're employing rabbits as furniture?
- look up Chiest and Pendragon
- mirrored english background text: "Firing Guidance System Startup"
- "Commence Data Accumulation"
- "Formulating Firing Curve"
- "Firing Preparations Complete"
- "Accuracy: 97.89%"
- By having Beatrice's own theme play with only a jazz organ, it also shows musically that she has lost her title and is weaker
- Battler might eventually lose the final game, but only because it will bring him happiness
- Battler just had a crowning moment of awesome for me. Maybe mixed with heartwarming
- Even Beato is going to go through character developement
- is this story of bringing Shannon back going to be similar to Orpheus?
- Is Virgilia actually gone for good?
- at the parlor door: "07151129"
- if you say it, a small golden land will be opened
- another riddle lost in translation?
- even though it's probably not even Beato's intention, she is working like the sun now
- RED (Hideyoshi): "I was in the room the whole time. Both before and after the time of the crime." doesn't say anything about Eva
- by the way, Battler is actually living up to his given role as the "detective" in this one
- RED: "Kyrie didn't think that they needed food. She claimed that they should not leave the guesthouse. But she suggested that they leave the guesthouse to get food." So we need to find out Eva's lure
- Kyrie might have figured it out herself and wanted to lure Eva out. Sadly, she misjudged.
- RED: "The reason she changed her mind was not passed on to anyone, nor was it written down!"
- RED: "Until the last instant before she died, Kyrie's behavior pattern of 'not going to get food = not going to the mansion' was maintained" Kyrie solved the riddle, the cart was for getting the gold
- Kyrie had Hideyoshi's cigarette with her
- She wanted to show that Eva is the main culprit
- "What's wrong with there being a cigarette in an ashtray?" It means Eva was not there for a moment, because otherwise Hideyoshi wouldn't have smoked there
- RED: "After Jessica was injured, Eva was constantly under Battler's supervision. Battler is neither the culprit nor an accomplice. By this, we can establish a perfect alibi for Eva." It was never established thaat 4th through 6th twilight are really dead, so we can reason that Hideyoshi's death was faked and that he killed Nanjo.
- RED: "There are no more than 18 humans on this island."
- RED: "No life forms other than humans have any connection to this game." Either a witch is no life form or Eva just denied herself as being a witch
- RED: "Kinzo is dead. Krauss is dead. Natsuhi is dead. Hideyoshi is dead. George is dead. Rudolf is dead. Kyrie is dead. Rosa is dead. Maria is dead. Genji is dead. Kanon is dead. Shannon is dead. Gohda is dead. Kumasawa is dead. Nanjo is dead. Those 15 are all dead. Battler is alive. Eva is alive. Jessica is alive." So either Nanjo died by accident or was killed by Jessica.
- RED: "Eva was with you the whole time. So committing a crime was impossible for her. Of course, Battler-kun isn't the culprit. He wasn't forging an alibi for her and he took the possibility that she was the culprit into account, watching over her actions carefully. No chance existed for her to do anything suspicious. In short, at the time of the crime, only Nanjo and Jessica were in the servant room."
- RED: "Ushiromiya Jessica has not committed murder! She was not involved with Nanjo's murder!! Her eyes were completely covered. It'd be impossible for her to carry out a murder like that! Neither Eva nor Battler killed Nanjo, nor were they involved." So suicide or accident are about the only options left
- RED: "The culprit who killed Nanjo was neither Battler nor Eva nor Jessica!!"
- RED: "Nanjo's death was a homicide. Of course, it was with a direct method of murder, not a trap. A weapon was readied and he was killed with it from point-blank range in front of him. The culprit appeared openly before Nanjo's eyes, and as they both looked at each other's faces, the culprit killed him."
- RED: "Absolutely no factors other than humans participated in this game board. The one who killed Nanjo was definitely a human." Is that denying a witch or not? I'm confused
- RED: "A human with their feet on the ground, held up a weapon and killed with it! Right before his eyes!"
- actually this might be a stalemate
- So it was intentional. Beatrice managed to be the sun, and not the northwind. Although she herself didn't realize it
- Seems like she did realize. It was her strategy. But who is the new face?
- wow. With that, we have associated the act of first being Northwind, then Sun, to the way a tsundere captures the heart of men...
- that new character on Battler's side... who has similar speech patterns like Battler... and who just said "On the Rokkenjima of 1986"... could this be Ange, 6 year old daughter of Kyrie and Rudolf, investigating this case at a later point in time? It would be a pretty crazy theory and would be way out there...
- turns out my theory was right, at least to some part
- also explains why the cast roll happened at the end this time
- and now my theory is confirmed completely
- Soviet KGB. in 1998. Suuure, Eva