prof | Let's Play Umineko, Episode 2 Scene 11: The Banquet

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BGM: Red Dread

Krauss, Natsuhi, Eva, Hideyoshi, Rudolf and Kyrie are all dead. No, not just dead - they were massacred.

Roda orders Genji and Shannon to contact Kinzo. Gohda and Kanon are to go and call the police. Then, Nanjo is to come here.

Back at the mansion...

The cousins are mostly just confused. Maria is upset because someone took her letter from Beatrice.

Battler remembers that, before Maria woke up, Rosa came to get something from Maria's bag.

The atmosphere is strange. The cousins haven't encountered a single person today.

There's Nanjo! Who has no idea what's going on.

Someone's coming from down the hall - looks like Gohda and Kanon.

Battler and his compatriots quickly figure out that something is wrong.

Nanjo is called outside. The cousins chase after him.

Purgatorio

BGM: Golden Slaughterer

Hahahahaha, I was hoping I'd hear words of gratitude rather than grief from you.

Gratitude?! Did you say gratitude, you old bitch?! Damn it, if there's something wrong with your ears, I'll cut them both off so you can hear better! Why should I say "oh, thank you very much, Beatrice" about that insane way of killing? I'll beat you to death!

In the last game, you were grieving that you couldn't see your parents' faces when they died, right? So I didn't touch them! Without a doubt, your father and the rest have been killed!

R-Really, that's a great service, I'm so happy! I swore that if I choked the life out of you, I'd plow your face, but I'll take that back! I'll drag out your guts!

Don't give into emotion and stop thinking. My game has already begun! I decided to leav the corpses clean this time. Do you know why? When you denied my existence last time, you said: Their faces were crushed, so the identity of the corpses couldn't be checked. Therefore, the possibility that fake corpses had been prepared to create an alibi cannot be eliminated. As long as that possibility can't be denied, a human culprit theory could apply!

What did you say?!

Then don't leave the examination to Nanjo. Do it yourself. Make completely sure that, without a doubt, the six corpses are those six people, and that they really, really are dead! To make sure that your father and mother really have been killed by having their stomachs cut open and their entrails pulled out, you should stick your hand inside their stomachs and feel around inside! Kuhahahahahahahahahahahaha, kiiihahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Rokkenjima

What Battler feels is as much rage as it is anguish. He feels an overwhelming need to find the one responsible and make them pay.

If he has enough time to cry, he has time to think instead.

Jessica is positive that it's Beatrice - the 19th guest. She runs out, and Rosa sends Kanon and Gohda to restrain her.

After all, there's no proof that Beatrice did this.

Battler has still never seen this alleged 19th person. She might not even exist!

Ever since the typhoon began, Battler has been drawn deeper and deeper into an insane world of witches and murders.

Rokkenjima is a closed room. The laws of common sense no longer apply here.

At the crime scene is another letter. It's addressed 'to those who remain'.

It's the letter from Beatrice, same as last time, announcing her intent. Solve the epitaph, or die.

Just then, George notices something else on the table. Hidden in plain sight, gone unnoticed due to the horror of the rest of the display.

The gold is real.

October 5th, 1986, 6:43 AM
17 hours, 17 minutes remain

Kanon and Gohda try to keep Jessica from barging into the VIP room. She's still convinced that Beatrice is the culprit, beyond any doubt.

Jessica pounds at the door and screams, but there is no reply.

It's locked, of course. Jessica demands a master key, and Kanon complies, giving his to her.

But the room is empty. The bed shows signs of use, but nobody is here.

The only people who have seen the 19th guest are Rosa, Maria, Kyrie, Genji, Kanon and Shannon.

Kanon knows what kind of creature was staying in this room. Because he's thinking about Beatrice's ways instead of searching for her body, he finds it first.

Kanon points out the message, and Jessica snatches it away to read it. After reading it, she crumples it up and throws it in a rage, then starts tearing the room apart.

What the letter said was this:

The instant the interior stand she was swinging around to wreck the room is taken away rom her, Jessica collapses in tears and anguish.

Jessica screams and cries until she has another asthma attack. She wants blood.

For the first time since he arrived at Rokkenjima, Gohda trusts Kanon to handle a task.

Eventually, Jessica makes it back to her room.

After Jessica's had a moment to recover, Kanon excuses himself and waits in the corridor.

So she asks, but Kanon won't let her stay alone. He'll be right outside, ready to come in if she needs anything at all.

With that, he closes the door, more sure than ever that he is mere furniture, incapable of understanding human sadness.

BGM: Organ Short No. 600 Million in C Minor

The third way is to betray their hopes. In this way, Kanon is the one person in the world most capable of wounding Jessica.

However, Beatrice isn't just here to taunt. She's here on business.

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