Let's Play Umineko, Episode 4 Scene 13: The Ideal Corpse

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Kinzo's summoning is complete. He gives the Siestas permission to choose six targets to eliminate at their leisure.



The first shot is made by 410. Her target...



BGM: Golden Slaughterer

Natsuhi Ushiromiya dies in a heartbeat.

Those watching are struck silent with fear, shock and confusion.



00 makes the next shot herself. Rudolf dies instantly.



Total pandemonium breaks loose.

Hideyoshi urges Eva to run, but is shot down himself.



As 45 confirms the third kill, Krauss rushes Kinzo, but 00 blocks him, lifting him off the ground with one hand.



As 410 blocks the exit, Kyrie swings a chair at her head. She catches it effortlessly.

Genji, Shannon and Kanon stand calmly at attention as the body count increases.



Four down.



A golden arrow flies past Kyrie, killing Eva. Five.



Rosa is mistaken about something: Kinzo no longer has the power to stop this ceremony. If she wishes to prevent further tragedy, she must do so with her own hands.



Rosa is chosen as the sixth sacrifice.

The First Twilight is complete.



Eva, Rudolf, Rosa, Natsuhi, Hideyoshi and Genji are the first to die.

Now, what to do with the others?





Another mysterious creature has appeared! The only ones present to recognize the demon butler are Shannon and Kanon.



Ronove expresses his regrets at not being able to greet the honorable Genji. Such is the fate of the game.

Kinzo, however, still has more friends to gather. Next...



Virgilia, Witch of the Finite. She will be acting as Kinzo's counselor.

Kinzo's talent with summoning surpasses even Beatrice. Few exist who could summon the Siesta Sisters Corps leader, Ronove, and Virgilia all at once, without even breaking a sweat. In the presence of so many people, no less.

But Kinzo still isn't done.



Virgilia is astounded that the anti-magic power of this island has corroded so far that even a demon as powerful as Gaap can be summoned. Battler must be on the verge of losing after last round.



But this isn't the time to worry about that, is it?




Gaap
One of the 72 Great Demons

BGM: Happy Maria! (Instrumental)



Both Virgilia and Ronove recognize and greet this Great Demon at once.

Kinzo says that Gaap shall act as facilitator in the completion of the Beatrice resurrection ceremony. Her first job?



Do something with the riffraff who survived the First Twilight. A cage would be nice, so that Kinzo can sacrifice them at his leisure. Hey, the six dead plus these seven makes thirteen!



There is no hole in the floor before it happens, and no hole in the floor afterwards. Despite this, Krauss falls, into some dark, unknown place.

Kyrie's instincts pick up on the second hole a moment before it appears beneath her, and jumps out of the way.



But it's futile, isn't it? They're all just humans.

Nanjo falls next.



Shannon and Kannon fall. 410 has to move out of the way as the hole appears - the exit is no longer blocked.



Hole after hole appear in the hallway, but Gohda and Kumasawa manage to escape!



Kinzo agrees that it is too soon for the Second Twilight. For now, the two servants can do as they wish.



The crowd of witches and demons at Kinzo's command are as rowdy as the Seven Stakes. This game will be far from boring!

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BGM: Golden Slaughterer

Damn, always killing in a grotesque way... Smashing half of the heads?! The bad taste you witches and demons have pisses me off!
Smashing half of the heads... I see. She's noticed that, in the games up until now, that was the most ideal method of killing.
Ideal? How is such a grotesque way of killing ideal?!



You! So, you're that new demon or whatever who just appeared... Damn, so does that mean that the witch's corrosion continued and that there are even more unsavory characters?!
Hahahahahaha! They'll keep increasing more and more! I'll defile the foolish 'closed circle' rule humans speak of, over and over again! Welcome to my elegant game, Gaap!
It's been a long time, Riiche. Have you been well? ...Why do I ask, you look great! Have you gotten younger? You look 200, 300 years younger than when I last saw you! ...Ah, I see.
Looks like she's Beato's friend, which means she must be a seriously unsavory character. So, they were saying something about a closed circle or whatever, but what does that mean?
Serial murder mystery novels that occur in places isolated from the outside world, like Rokkenjima is now, are sometimes called closed circles. Since it's isolated from the outside, it's like a circle with no escape. Therefore, in general, the characters and suspects are limited. Having new suspect candidates added one after another from outside the circle goes gainst the etiquette of mystery novels. In other words, the witch is probably trying to desecrate humans and the mystery genre.
You're Gretel? I see, you look like a smart kid. I like that kind of kid... their taste is so sweet and tantalizing.
Gross. Keep the jokes to your clothing.
It's Devilish Pretty's latest, Jack the Ripper, Christmas Blood. Sorry for having a style that a country bumpkin from the human world couldn't understand, okay?
At least we know it's breathable. Why don't you add a gap to the head part, too? That might help the breathability you're so worried about.
Gaap is always sensitive to the fashions of the spirit world! But this year's fad truly is bold. I think I'll order one some time!
For you, Riiche, I'd recommend Alice and the Graveyard. Let's go to 666 sometime soon to look at the clothes. You should head over to the spirit world every now and then.
When this game is over, I'll be sure to do that!
Still, your two opponents are pretty cute, Riiche. It looks like this kid has figured out the meaning of the corpses with their heads half-smashed. Get it, girl?



At that time, there were two types of corpses. They were the ones with their faces pulverized, and the ones with half of their faces pulverized.
That's right. The ones with their faces smashed were Rudolf, Kyrie, Rosa and Gohda. The ones with the sides of their heads smashed were Krauss and Shannon. At that time, I had fickly created two types of corpses, but I realized that the former, more atrocious type was actually disadvantageous for me.
Disadvantageous... right, I get it.



If this reasoning battle had taken place during the first game as well, I would probably have claimed that, since the identities of dad and the rest's bodies were impossible to confirm, there was a possibility that one was a fake corpse. After all, Beato didn't state anything in red during that game.
Well done. A faked death is one of the basics of the mystery genre. Even if you make a doctor examine the corpse, you can't trust the results if you suspect him of being the culprit's accomplice. Therefore, corpses that can't guarantee a death for certain are always disadvantageous for the witch's side.
You can suspect faked deaths for all corpses, and hypothesize that they are the culprit for the cases that follow. It's a move Battler doesn't like, but it's the most elementary move to use against a witch.
Yeah, that's right. That's why Beato started using the red. With the red truth, she can carry out a perfect autopsy.



Since you use it as a grounding from which to counterattack, I will not use the red easily. I can just make you come apart at the seams by using red in a single place, as rarely as possible! In the end, it means I will permit all rants regarding your guesswork for all the closed rooms, and I only have to smash one of those once with the red truth.
Ihihihi! Even though you've always teased me, once I start counterattacking, you hole up back inside your shell. Quit kidding around.
I do not want to use the red, I want to be stingy! I want to bully Battler! But how could I guarantee a death for certain without using red? I worried and worried over it. Then, Gaap gave me an idea! It truly is a simple method.
I just said something obvious and you hit upon the idea, Riiche. I just said that you only had to create corpses whose identity could be distinguished and whose complete death could be known.
Kuhihihihihihi! In short, I put those two things together! The face which is necessary to distinguish their identity, and the perfect symbol of death, which is the pulverization of the head, the vessel for the soul! When I put those two parts neatly together, aah, wonderful! I came up with the perfect answer of corpses with their heads half-smashed!
I'll bet you love two-colored ice cream, too. A shameless hobby of a greedy kid...
In any event, even if half of their heads are smashed, we shouldn't assume that they are dead at this point in time.
I get it. Since Beato is trying to act tough and refuse to say anything in red, I have to suspect everything. Of course, I'm definitely not going to swallow the magic mass murder by those Siesta chicks.
Hehehe, you sure have gotten prudent. If this were the first game, you would have swallowed everything.
Hahahahaha! It wouldn't be fun if the rival wasn't like that. Since there is no red now, he can imagine whatever he wants and reason over and over again as he likes. At the very end, at the very sweetest spot, I'll cut him down at once with the red truth!






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