Let's Play Umineko Chiru, Episode 7 Scene 18: The Last Tale - Days of Trial

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...You have my gratitude. This way, I won't have to expose my pitiful form.
Then... is this a tale about me in another world?
Lion. This is a tale of you in another world, and also my tale. The tale of the world where I live as a witch, not a human.
I am capable of imagining 'what if' scenarios for my own life, but the tale you tell is beyond anything I can imagine...
Even so, it's the life that another you has led.





Even if it is a different world, you're saying that I get my entire family and all of the servants involved in a terrible crime that I'm the mastermind of! How am I supposed to deal with that?!
Be quiet, listen, and figure it out.
In a different life, I end up as a servant! And if that wasn't enough, I suddenly become a witch! And then, I eventually carry out terrifying murders! How am I supposed to figure that out?!
Yeah, I see where you're coming from. I doubt anyone could understand. This person here thought that no one would ever understand. That's why you're here. That's why Bernkastel brought you two, two people who never should have met, together like this.
It's not like I had any deep reason for it. It was just a whim.
It's a motive that no one else can understand, Lion, so you need to be the one to understand it. I'm not the main character in this tale. You are. I'm just here to help you understand.
You said that you understood the culprit's motive.
I did.
Is it a satisfying motive for explaining why I'd kill my entire family?
That's for you to decide. Even if I say it's satisfying, that doesn't mean it'll satisfy you. You have to decide that for yourself.
I really don't have a clue what's going on! I've seen several crimes called game board that Beatrice supposedly carried out. And now, I'm hearing another me talk about a different life from mine. But none of that fits with the crime. I don't understand!
At this point in the tale... even I could not have dreamed that I would eventually carry out such terrible crimes. In fact, even if I could have dreamed it, I did not have the power to commit those crimes at that time.



First, a system for gaining different accomplices for each crime. Reasonung leads us to the possibility that the culprit possesses a vast amount of money. And, the other system... for inviting all to the Golden Lan, and making all loves bear fruit.
...So you've already seen that far.
That's the answer to the final riddle in the 4th game. Your great misfortune was solving the epitaph, reviving as the Golden Witch in the truest sense, and gaining magical power.
Looking back... perhaps that was an ill-fortuned event. I do not know. However, as long as the fact that Battler returns in 1986 remains unchanged, some sort of tragedy would certainly have occurred.
That's right. If Battler had returned a year earlier or later, that incident might not have occurred.



If Battler... had returned a year earlier or later, then what?
Fate can be so filled with irony. It made me walk the path of a witch, and when I solved the epitaph, I became a true witch. Then, six years passed, and I learned of his return. If all of that was fate, then this crime must have been inevitable and inesccapable for me.
In 1980, when Asumu died, and his father remarried too soon for his liking, Battler left the Ushiromiya family. For six whole years, he had no direct contact with the family.



That bad luck gave birth to your motive for the crime.
I did wonder. Why, after six whole years, did he finally come back?
I understand. In a way, it would have been better for you if he had never come back.
Of course, my suffering would have continued. However, I would not have tainted myself with the unforgivable crime of mass murder.
How could Battler leaving create a motive?
You've got it backwars.
Backwards?
The crime didn't occur because Battler left. It happened because he came back.



He did remember, in the end, but that was long after you gave up and disappeared.
If that is so... then it would give my heart some peace.
I don't have a clue what you two are talking about any more, but I'd like to ask you directly. I want to know: What on Earth happened to you that made you decide to commit the crime?
Yes, that's the most important part. Just like how Ushiromiya Battler respected the whydunnit in mystery novels. In the tale of the Golden Witch and in the game, the answers to all the riddles are hidden there.

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Kinzo is in a towering rage.



Rudolf's remarriage has caused more problems than he anticipated.



Rudolf still loves his son, but it's going to take time to repair that relationship.





The only way he can atone for his sins is to make up with Battler, no matter how many years it takes.



The news travels quickly through the mansion. Battler won't becoming to next year's conference.



Did he forget what else he abandoned along with his family?





Two old friends reach out to Shannon in her anguish.

She doesn't remember them, or this place, but it still feels somehow familiar...



When men argue, it starts strong, but burns out quickly. They should forgive each other soon enough, right?



It's like a kid running away from home - he'll just cool his head for a few days, then skulk back.

Without a doubt, Battler will come to the next conference.



But Shannon doesn't really have any way to check one way or another. As a servant, all she can do is wait and hope her fears are groundless.



Shannon's promise for one year from now wasn't just to stop being a servant.



Not just a new life - A new life with Battler.

But now he might not come back on the day of her decision. Beyond even that, what would that life mean?



The universe created by Shannon and Battler would then begin.



Shannon's determination in this is still too weak. She can barely imagine it.

She has to build that determination within one year. This is a trial.



Shannon must believe that he will come back in one year, against all odds. That is her trial.

Beatrice suggests another theory: What if Battler abandoned the Ushiromiya name because it would cause trouble for his relationship with Shannon, a servant of said family.



If nothing else, that the two witches would come up with such ridiculous theories to cheer her up makes her feel better.



Be at peace, and wait. Until the next conference.





Some new faces at the next conference! Kyrie, Rudolf's second wife. Ange, their little daughter.



No sign of Battler. Will he ever come back?





There comes a time in every man's life when he must go out into the world. Whether or not he comes back... well, time will tell.





The day Shannon has been waiting for didn't come.

The witches once again desperately try to cheer Shannon up, and she is warmed by their earnest panic.



George said it might be time for Battler to leave the nest. If he's in the middle of a voyage to find himself, it's too soon for him to come back anyway.



Battler will come when she finds that determination.



Once both lovers share the determination to be together, God will surely grant them an opportunity for it.

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So, you had to wait six whole years feeling like that?
When one waits every year for something to happen the next, and then the same thing the next year and the next, it becomes similar to waiting for eternity.
Pretty pathetic, don't you think? After all, this promise you thought you made with Battler seems to be something he knew nothing about.
Battler does tend to use melodramatic phrases, just like Rudolf. His roundabout way of putting things might have led to a misunderstanding.
Some girl's gonna stab Battler in the back some day. Well, that's more or less what this tale is.
When words can mean different things, they can turn a person's life upside-down. There are times when careless talk costs lives.
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