Let's Play Umineko Chiru, Episode 6 Scene 32: The Windows

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BGM: Birth of a New Witch (Instrumental)



I hear she has gone to see Zepar and Furfur. With the power of love, that powerful pair could even force the demon king to retreat. I do hope that they can be helpful.



True. However, that is why they are capable of granting such miraculous power.
At any rate, if we can just free Battler's heart from that closed room, we should be able to manage something here. Closed rooms are your favorite, are they not, Gaap? Can you think of any tricks?!
This is a nasty one. Battler and Erika have been dropping red truths all over the place. I can say for certain that it's impossible to escape from the inside on one's own.
So the only way is to have someone else trade places with him and set the chain...
If that person does appear, it should be easy to save Battler. There are 11 people, right?
Those 11 are sealed on the second floor of the guest house... If we could somehow slip them out of there...!
I see. Solving the problem of Battler's closed room is equivalent to solving the problem of either closed room on the guest house's second floor.
Exactly. Limiting your thoughts to just Battler's guest room is like being trapped in a mental closed room. The closed room we need to break open to save Battler isn't the guest room, it's the closed rooms in the guest house!



Tch. And you guys specialize in seals and barriers...
However, that was quite impressive, Miss Gaap. You realized that the closed room you should destroy to save Battler is in the GUEST HOUSE. The ceremony will begin SOON, but why not reconstruct the scene as a way to kill time until THEN?
Are you sure? Doesn't this violate the obligation of confidentiality you have as Lady Erika's pieces?
That is no PROBLEM. Surely if you first have the seals around the scene confirmed and fall into DESPAIR, you will be able to celebrate this ceremony more SINCERELY.
How confident... I'll take that challenge. Lia, let's have ourselves a little snack before the ceremony.
With that, dear ladies of Eiserne, we humbly ask that you reconstruct the scene for us.
We hear and obey.



The next room over has the exact same LAYOUT. This should be enough for your INSPECTION.
This room has... Genji, Gohda, Kanon, Krauss, Rudolf, and Jessica, for a total of six people.
The next room over has Hideyoshi, George, Shannon, Kumasawa and Nanjo, for a total of five PEOPLE.
Don't be stupid, everyone. It doesn't matter who's here. We need to find out how to escape from this room.
You're right. The door and windows are sealed, so we must somehow escape from some other place...
You know what? I know all about how you heaven people specialize in deceiving by force. This is no closed room, right?
Please, allow me to speak. Let it be known that the closed rooms in our charge are perfect!
You were in charge of the window seal of Kinzo's room last game, right? Just how did Battler let Kinzo escape from that room?
That was no fault of Cornelia's. The blame rests on her superior, ME.
This is exactly the same as Kinzo's study. It's the windows. This closed room can be broken by the windows. This trick of yours is just plain obvious.
How?! Lady Erika sealed the entire room, right? That means the entire room is sealed, including the windows!
...I see. It would seem that we have been misinterpreting the definition of these seals. It is not impossible to break a closed room sealed by duct tape. It forms no prison.
That's it exactly. It's true that the seals prove that the room was a closed room. However, they do not prove that the room will remain as such. They only prove that the room is a closed room as long as the duct tape is not broken.
We are not trying to deceive you in any WAY. As long as the duct tape is intact, it is guaranteed to be a closed ROOM. That is ALL.
Then why the windows?! Why is it that we can break the closed room by the windows?!
It's simple. We just tear the duct tape apart and jump out. I don't know what the outside wall of the guest house is like, but it must have enough of a foothold so that girl could crawl up it and stick duct tape on the outside without anyone noticing.
If you break the duct tape, we will immediately know that the seal has been BROKEN. We have already proven that the seals were intact at the time of Battler's logic ERROR.
True. It's true that, at that time,, you proved that the seals weren't broken. That's how you tricked us into thinking that it was a closed room. It's not necessarily 'seals = closed room'.





Remember, Lia. Which seals did Erika and the others show us at that time? Which seals did they show were still intact?!
...Pukukuku. I see. This is the sort of falsification that the Great Court of Heaven likes to practice.
I cannot let that remark PASS. What is your COMPLAINT?
Come on, I've been saying it the whole time. It's the windows. It's true that you sealed everything with those seals. That included the windows, at that time. And at the time they were sealed, that counted as proof. So far so good. But you know what?!



But at the time of the logic error, it was proven that the seals were intact!
Incorrect. At that time, Lady Erika only proved the status of the seals on the doors.
...
Come to think of it... At that time, Lady Erika just showed the doors of the two rooms and claimed that the seals were intact for each... She never mentioned the seals on the windows!
That's correct. It's probably true that the seals on the doors and windows were perfect at first. However, at the time of the logic error, only the status of the seals on the doors was confirmed. In other words, since the time Erika left the guest house, it was not forbidden for them to break through the windows and leave whenever they wished!
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What do you say? I've got you now, haven't I? So this is how you do things.
Hmph...
...Commander Dlanor. It's nearly time...



Wait there. Confirm whether or not the seals on the windows were preserved at the time of the logic error. If you don't, it's possible for anyone in that room to save Battler!
And who do you think such a rescue would be possible FOR?
It doesn't matter who! Then, just by personal preference, I'll name Kanon. He seems agile, and hiding his presence is his specialty. He's the perfect person to follow after Erika and quickly come to Battler's rescue!
Kanon? Heheheheheheheh... IMPOSSIBLE.
Impossible? Come now, we can't trust what you say with normal words. Use the red truth. Swear upon that red longsword of yours.
Miss Gaap. A sacred wedding is about to begin HERE. You ask me to draw my sword in a sacred place such as THIS? How inelegant and RUDE. Let's do this some other TIME. GOODBYE.





The peaceful mood of the wedding falters.



We thought that Beatrice might eventually reach that thought... then barge in on the wedding with that as the key to Battler's ESCAPE. I did not think that you would press us first... and force us to show our HAND.
You do fight dirty, don't you... You were trying to trap Beato by making her suspect the windows, then turning the tables on her...
What else should a human who guards the bride be expected to DO? Are you satisfied NOW? A hellish wedding truly is culgar and BARBARIC. If you would excuse US.
...Wait up, you haven't fooled me yet... You were talking about the seals blocking Kanon, the ones on the windows of the cousins' room, right? Then what about the windows on the next room over? All you've done is shown that the rescue would have been impossible for Kanon. There's still a change for the humans in the next room over!
How very PERSISTENT--



...Dlanor A. Knox. I am with the bride's PARTY. Here is my stamped INVITATION. Also, here are my credentials as bodyguard to the BRIDE.
Confirmed as Chief Knox. Welcome to Lord BATTLER's wedding!
I'm Gaap. I'm with the groom's party. Here's my invitation and... ah, oh no.
You didn't get it stamped at the reception desk, nyeh.
I came here directly, so I didn't go by the reception desk.. Tee hee, haven't got a stamp yet.
Why do you always have to do that at times like this?!



Wait there, Dlanor! Respond to my blue truth!
If you want the opinion of the Great Court of Heaven, please fill out an application in accordance with court PROCEDURES.
Allow me to speak. Know that the ticket window is open from 10:00 to 5:00 on weekdays. Lunch break runs from 12:00 to 1:15.
Allow me to speak. Know that the use of white-out or strikethroughs is not permitted when filling out forms.
There's a rumor that they refuse Comiket applications for the same thing, nyeh.
That's an urban legend... probably.
Let us provisionally accept that blue truth VERBALLY. It will be put on hold until the proper forms are received, and multiple submissions are not ALLOWED.
I don't understand! Can you respond to my blue truth, or can't you?!
If you fill out the application on Monday, we should be able to have an answer for you by the end of next MONTH. Multiple submissions are forbidden, so the blue truth you just spoke will be unusable during this wedding CEREMONY. This is in accordance with the laws of evidence, official Great Court regulation 214, line 15, regaring the prevention of multiple SUBMISSIONS!

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...My apologies, child of man. I am stuck on this just like you are.
Huh... What are you saying?
I also realized that the windows of the next room over were left available... However, I hadn't imagined that the use of that argument would be prevented...
Doesn't this completely violate the rules?! I mean, how can a quiz be fair if you can't say the right answer?! Isn't this a logic error for this other side?!
...We can also view the fact that the tale is continuing as proof that it wasn't a logic error...
In other words, there's some other answer completely unrelated to the windows of the next room over?
Or... it may be possible to explain, without discussing the windows, how one of those five came to Battler's rescue.
And not discussing the windows means getting out of the room without using the windows. That would make this next room over a closed room again!
Yes. That is why I am also stuck. Because of these strange seal proclamations, the two rooms have once again become closed rooms. Most likely...
Most likely what? If you're so vastly intelligent, what kind of answer have you found?!



There is no way out except for the windows of the next room over. And yet, we are not allowed to include those windows in our reasoning. There is probably no answer... for this closed room.
And if so, what next?!
Since no answer exists, then defeat is absolutely certain for whichever player is burdened with the responsibility of explaining.
So we have no moves left? In other words, that statement of Dlanor's was the final blow? Doesn't this make it checkmate?!
...No, one move does exist. However, that move... is one that can never be used again. And... it is also a part of Beato's heart.
You mean... one of the greatest riddles of this tale...?










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