Let's Play Umineko, Episode 4 Tea Party: The Red and Blue

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The Golden Land



BGM: Dreamend Discharger

Me.
How brave.



The red of the roses is not of the red truth. Roses are flowers of passion.

The flower of truth is the forget-me-not. That flower is blue.



Very well. I shall witness your skill. Come.
Here I go... I've already proclaimed it, but I'll say it again. This isn't just for the murder of Doctor Nanjo in the last game. This will tear apart every scene from every game since the beginning!



You can break through all of the murders in Episode 1 by supposing an unknown person X. It's even possible to explain the mystery of Kinzo's evaporation from the closed room sealed by the receipt by making the assumption that Kinzo wasn't there from the beginning. Unless you counter with the red truth, the Illusion of the Witch from Episode 1 has been completely smashed. The blue truth is effective!



Hmm, not bad... But I must not be denied yet, I must not be killed yet. That is not yet enough. There were mysteries that couldn't be explained with that alone in the following games, right?
Which mystery?
In the final stages of the second game, George took Gohda and Shannon with him, barricaded them in Natsuhi's room, and was killed. The key that could unlock Natsuhi's room was locked up inside the room, and all of the remaining keys that could unlock the door were in Rosa's hand. Even if culprit X existed, it should be impossible to construct a closed room.



No, that doesn't shake my blue truth. If culprit X were to obtain a master key, that's not even close to a closed room.
No, it was impossible for the culprit to obtain one. All of the master keys were under Rosa's control!
But that's meaningless if Rosa was the culprit! Rosa handed a key over to culprit X by some method, assisting in the closed room murder! And after that, she retrieved the key by a similar method! Too naive, Beato! I'd already guessed that much at the time!



The blue wedge drives itself deeper into Beato's foot.



Continuing on to the third game. The six linked closed rooms, the murders of Rosa and Maria, Dad and the rest's deaths in the hall, the murders of Krauss and Natsuhi... all of that can be explained if we suppose that Eva was the culprit. This argument already won back then. And even that final riddle you proposed through EVA, the murder of Doctor Nanjo, can be explained with an 18th unknown person X. This way, I've broken through the entire third game! Can you counter that?!
Guh, aah...! Of course! This much is... nothing to worry about...! In that case, how do you explain George's disappearance from the guest house? I shall add to the red truth. George did not go down the stairs of the guest house. He flew out through the window!
So what? It's just like you said. He flew out the window, right? There was a lawn, so we couldn't tell if he'd jumped down, and it was raining so hard. Any light traces would have disappeared.
I will repeat the red truth. All windows and doors leading to the outside were locked from the inside. Furthermore, it is impossible to lock any of those from the outside! George had no technique by which to lock them!
I will repeat the blue truth. I said it myself at the time. In that case, everything works out as long as someone locked the window after George escaped through it! Nothing difficult about that!
Gwaaaahhaaaah! Gguuuhh... can I not... escape after something like this...?



Up until the third game, there is still nothing that shakes the blue truth. In that case, the only game that can prove you're a witch... is this game, the fourth game.
As long as I do not counter with the red truth, that may be the case. I will have to prove witches with only this game. Very well. Come as hard as you want.
There's nothing strange about the murder of the six people in the dining hall. The 18th person X went wild with a gun and killed everyone. Regarding the pitfalls, there is a chance that pitfalls truly were hidden there, and it's possible to explain by Kyrie's theory, supposing that poison dart-shooting device X, which can knock a person out instantly, exists. The murders of George, Jessica, and those who escaped from the dungeon can also be explained with guns, just like the dining hall. There's nothing strange about it! But I'm sure you've got a counterattack, right? Bring it on!
Your greatest sword, this 18th person X, is based on the theory that Kinzo was already dead. I had known that you would make this claim. That's why I took Kinzo out of his study. All members in the family conference welcomed that Kinzo, right? All of those who met at the family conference recognized the existence of Kinzo!
That's right. But grandfather had become seriously ill, sleeping on the verge of life and death, right? Even if he was so worn out that he looked like a different person, maybe no one would have minded, right? I'll come back with this: That grandfather was a different person, a body double. A different person who the relatives mistook for grandfather!
Then I'll come back at you with this. No person would mistake Ushiromiya Kinzo by sight. No matter what the disguise, they would not mistake Ushiromiya Kinzo!
Then I'll return with this. By proclaiming with the red truth in the second game that the true number of master keys was five, when in the first game the number could have been more than five, you changed the premises of the later games. In the same way, there is a possibility that Kinzo's life or death status was changed for the 4th game. Therefore, Kinzo's existence in the fourth game does not serve as proof that he existed in the previous games! Therefore, even if we suppose that the six murders in the dining hall were carried out by grandfather, it doesn't create any contradictions!
Then I'll counter with this. Kinzo's life or death status is the same at the start of each of the four games. The setup was not different for the fourth game alone!
Repeat it! 'Kinzo was alive at the start time of every game'!
I refuse to repeat it. I will not respond with the red truth you desire!
Damn geezer... you're standing in my way! Are you putting yourself on the line to protect Beatrice, this most beloved witch of yours?!







Kinzo's form expands with a flourish of his cape, becoming that of a vast black dragon. Slay the dragon or be swallowed in a single bite!



Hoh, so you call me a ghost. So you intend to see it through to the end, this theory that I am already dead! That will prove fatal to you! Be swallowed up by the first twilight of the fourth game and disappear!





What...?
See ya, damn geezer. This is goodbye. As a basis for claiming the 'Kinzo was dead' theory for even the fourth game, I lay out the following theory!
Very well, come with all you have, my descendant!





This is the final blow. Damn geezer, I demand that you repeat it. 'Among all of the people there, not one had multiple names'!



Rest in peace, damn geezer. Thank me. You were finally able to die. This is your requiem, take it and drop dead! Ushiromiya Kinzo was already dead! That's right, you sure are pitiable, since whenever we find your corpse, it's always completely burnt. That's a device to make it so that no one noticed the fact that time had passed since your death! And you passed that name on to someone else! With the previous theory, even though 'you' were dead, 'Kinzo' was able to appear at the family conference!



Dozens of blue stakes tear Kinzo's ghost apart.



The dragon Kinzo scatters as golden flower petals. He dies fighting to protect the woman he loved.



Don't hate me. Let the dead sleep. You're going to be next, and you'll be the last. I've gone along with you a whole bunch, but it's about time to finish things up. I've got a lonely little sister waiting at home. Let me take my leave with my whole family!
Then kill. I won't run or hide, by now I won't even be able to avoid it! Come oooooooooooooooon, Ushiromiya Battleeeeeeeeeeeeeer!!
You got it! With the 18th person X from the Dead Kinzo Theory, everything remaining is pierced through! George and Jessica's deaths in the fourth game can also be explained by culprit X! And the five who escaped from the dungeon and were killed, and the two in the gardening shed, and Maria in the end! All of those can be explained with the 18th person X! There's nothing strange at all! With this, the explanation of the culprit with humans is complete for all games! Beatrice... this is checkmaaaaaaaate!



BGM: Worldend Solo



Try as she might, Beato can't remove the blue stakes. Their power denies her, and death is approaching.

There's only one route of attack left.



Rosa alone witnessing it isn't very credible, right...? That's why I increased the number of witnesses to the uppermost limit. Which is what... happened in the last game... The summoning of my minions! And brutal murders due to magic! All of those were witnessed by a great many people! That is... proof that my magic exists...! How do you explain that, Ushiromiya Battleeeeeer?!
...Stalemate.
Wh... What...?
'Magic exists because magic exists'. I believe the rules of our Braun tube trial say that that kind of argument doesn't work.
Y... Yes, you're right... heh... guh...
No matter who or how many people witnessed magic, that cannot become proof of magic's existence! Whether all the magic you've shown exists or not, I can ignore it all and explain things with humans. That's my unmistakable right. Am I wrong?



It's the end of Beatrice's resistance.

This was a game without victory from the very beginning.



The only one with the determination to create a miracle is Battler.

Beatrice is fighting to be killed. Nothing more.







...Is this... checkmate? Beatrice?



Can't... even let out... a squeak...



Don't be... ridiculous... How can you look at this... and think that it isn't... over? Quickly... deliver the final blow... Just say it... with your blue truth. 'According to this... witches do not exist'. Say it... Just say it... with that single blow... put a stop to my breathing...
It's useless.
Hoh... So you would expose me... to ridicule... even more than this... Isn't it settled already...
Stand up. Our brawl still isn't over.
Still... You say...
That just now wasn't you losing. You just stopped and gave up.
Isn't that... good enough? Wouldn't giving up... mean your victory? You should... return to your little sister... right away... Just throw me away... right here...



What kind of person are you? And what in the world is it that you want?



Isn't it fine this way...? Just... a delusion... and illusion... Isn't that... good enough...?
It's all useless. I won't let you run away. I'll break through you. How could I let you run away like this? I won't let you run back to the darkness of illusions while you're still all vague like this. I'll break through you, completely. So stand up. Don't act all frail like that! You're still hiding several moves! I can tell!
Why... won't you just let me escape?
Dad, mom and Ange. All of the cousins and all of the relatives. All of the servants. You toyed with them so much and killed them! I definitely won't forget, won't forgive that inhumanity!









When Beatrice became a witch, she was promised one thing: Her end would come through tragedy.







That's not something for you to hand over. I'm gonna take it from you! It goes the same for you, right?! Isn't the fact that you couldn't accept an easygoing style of victory where I say 'Maybe it's all right for witches to exist' or something the very reason that you intentionally fell apart like that in the end last time?! That's right, I received your sympathy that one time, didn't I?! So now I'll pay back that debt! Stand! My enemy, my Golden Witch, Beatrice!
Hahahaha, fool. You fooooool! You simpleton! You think you'll get another chance?!



You can't pull it out yet. You can't pull out the blue truth of the 18th person X!
I will answer to one thing you told me to repeat. As you reasoned, Kinzo is already dead at the starting time for all games! However, this means you can take one person out! Before now, I have proclaimed that no more than 18 humans exist on this island. I will lower that by one for Kinzo!




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