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Let's Play Umineko Chiru, Episode 7 Scene 14: The Last Tale - The First Friend
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Clair vauxof Bernard
Created by Bernkastel to be a Reader. Or else, a substitute actor.
Technically, she is a vessel used to personify Beato and her game. Therefore, she has no personality of her own. In that sense, perhaps one could say that she is not a person, but a tool.
Her name signifies her position as the final guide in Beato's game.
BGM: Far (Piano version)
This isn't the first time Yasu has misplaced something on the job.
Only Shannon takes Yasu's side - can't they see that this kid is working as hard as they can?
Find the broom. It must be somewhere in the chapel.
Nobody ever goes there, but Kinzo orders it to be cleaned a couple times a year regardless.
Every time Yasu sets something down and looks away, it disappears.
Hey, Kumasawa! Let us hear, too!
Tell us the scary, scary tale of Rokkenjima's evil spirits!
It was Kumasawa's favorite ghost story. Every new servant who came to the island heard about it. Though such a story could usually be laughed off, on the night of a violent storm on Rokkenjima, that island where nothing exists except the Ushiromiya mansion, everyone would listen meekly. The shrine by the coast was there to seal the evil spirits away! And the Master had that eerie occult hobby!
And the mansion was so creepy, something must have been lurking around somewhere!
Hohoho. True, true. Sealing up the spirits was all that the travelling ascetic could manage. The seal just managed to hold them, but to this very day, they wander through the mansion, night after night, searching for a victim. Hohohoho... Have you seen the Master's study?! I have! It's like some kind of demon laboratory!
There's that rumor about the Master researching demons!
They also say he's researching how to revive his mistress, Beatrice! Didn't they say he was gathering children to be sacrifices for his magic experiments?! Waah, scary! What'd you do if the Master asked you to come into the study alone?! I heard that, long ago, one kid went into the study and never came out! She must have been a victim of an experiment to give Beatrice's ghost a new body! Hohoho, very true. Beatrice has become a ghost, and wanders around searching for a body. The VIP room on the second floor is where Beatrice dwells... You must always be respectful when cleaning that room... If you aren't... uhihihihihihi!
That's right. Back when I first started work at Rokkenjima, I heard that story from Kumasawa and the older servants.
I heard about it too, mostly from Shannon.
I heard about it too. From Kumasawa, mainly. So not only the timid-looking Shannon, but a boy, Kanon, and a big adult, Gohda, believed in the ghost story? Well, I didn't really... There are tales of ghost stories and jinxes in all jobs. There were several stories of the sort at the hotel I once worked at. So you thought it was stupid, and you didn't mind it at all?
...I think there was a need to blend in with the community. That's it. Ghost stories and jinxes are all the local rules of your workplace. If a newcomer breaks those rules, they can't expect to be welcomed in. Exactly. If I said witches couldn't exist, that it was ridiculous, then I'd get into a fight with Shannon. It was easier if I just appeared to go along with it.
Come on, if you look at it that way, you'll be cursed. There was one servant who got seriously injured...
Hahaha. All workspaces have stories like that. No matter how incredible the ghost stories and tales about the company founder are, you accept and believe them. That's what it means to blend in with your new workplace. Wow! Everyone's so mature!
Yasu can see the others leaving through the window. Probably better this way - imagine the reactions if they had had to wait because of this.
The broom disappeared before Yasu could clean the last window frame. Natsuhi wouldn't overlook something like that.
But where is the damn thing?
The ghost of Beatrice is a very real part of Rokkenjima.
That ghost is here, right now.
It's not the others playing a prank, because it's happened when Yasu was alone. It's more like a curse.
Laughter echoes through the chapel.
The broom is here in the chapel. However, the evil witch has used her magic to hide it.
Wherever Yasu looks, a hole appears to swallow up the broom and move it somewhere else.
Yasu is being toyed with. It's not a search, it's a test of endurance.
The only answer is the witch's cruel laughter.
This world is filled with things that can't be understood. In order to see them, you must look with the eyes of the heart.
A witch's greatest weapon is to not be understood. Yasu has the advantage in knowing how to perceive those not of this world.
Slowly, carefully, Yasu opens the eyes of the heart.
Beatrice
The prankster witch of Rokkenjima
All this time, Beatrice has been pulling little pranks to catch the attention of humans. However, most of them just dismissed the occurrences as mistakes or pranks.
Yasu alone recognizes them as what they really are.
Of course, it won't be there in a moment.
Beatrice snaps her fingers, and various items in the chapel vanish into magic portals.
Another snap, and it all goes back.
What's the border between prank and magic?
A bond now exists between Yasu and Beatrice. To the witch, a strange kid like Yasu is a fine way to relieve a little boredom.
Does that mean that the pranks will stop?
Still, that's enough fun for one day. No more playing for now - appearing before a human is still tiring for the witch.
How about a deal, then? If Beatrice returns the broom, Yasu will acknowledge her as a friend.
She'll take her time in deciding if Yasu is worthy of her friendship or not. Until then, the broom will remain in the abyss.
Beatrice disappears.
In the end, Yasu will have no choice but to accept responsibility for the missing broom--
The broom isn't swallowed up by another void. Yasu is permitted to pick it up.
However, as some of you listeners may have noticed, this was not a meeting with the real Beatrice. The witch I then called Beatrice would later be known by another name. However, she was clearly not human... and being bonded with one who is not human means being bonded with their world. I still had no way of knowing the varied fates that waited for me on Rokkenjima.
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