Let's Play Umineko Chiru, Episode 8 Scene 21: The Journey's End

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Furudo Erika

The Witch of Truth, who has successfully revived from the depths of oblivion. She is an enigma, a witch who is also a detective and a human.

Once again, she will serve her master Bernkastel in her scheming.

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Good! This is really getting fun, Battler!
Sorry, but I don't have time to play with you right now!
I'm sorry, too, but as a fellow Witch of Truth, I can't let you get in Ange's way.
Come to think of it, you're a Witch of Truth, too, aren't you? I see, that makes you sort of a mentor to Ange.
The Single Truth! It is the supreme, the ultimate! Only a Witch of Truth can break down all barriers that stand between her and that truth!
Is this Single Truth of yours really so important?! There are lots of things in this world that aren't worth knowing. How important is 1986 to Ange, really?! It isn't important at all!
You're probably right! No matter what happened or didn't happen in 1986, it won't change anything for the Ange living in 1998! There's no point in learning that truth. However, there is just one thing that will change.
What's that?
How she lives!



You're right. Knowing certain things often changes the way a person lives her life. In that case, I have one hope as her blood relative. I hope that, at the end of my game, Ange finds a better way to live her life.
By learning things, people change the way they live, but not always in a good direction. There are plenty of things in this world that you'll be more comfortable not knowing.
The number of ticks living in the seats of a train. Those urban legends about nasty stuff in the tap water. The world's full of things you'd be better off not knowing!





It's time for Ange to be free of her sadness from 1986! That's the thing all of us Ushiromiyas pray for!
Who cares about that? The truth is everything! The truth is justice!
It's a disease everyone gets at least once, usually in middle school! They just live to find out all those things adults are hiding!
And don't you think it's fine to find that out?
Yeah, totally. Reading dirty books wouldn't be nearly so fun if you didn't have to do it in secret.
Pfft--







Unlike Battler and Erika, Ange's familiarity with the mystery genre is limited. As far as she can tell, Beato's closed room is perfect.

None of her blue truths can even make Beatrice flinch.



I'm just buying time until Battler finishes dealing with Erika. He's the only one who can bring you to your senses.
Bring me to my senses? You're the ones doing this to me by hiding the Single Truth! That's why I'm fighting you! This is my right! As the final member of the Ushiromiya family, I have a right to know the truth!
Indeed. And that is the purpose of this final game.
That's right. Without this final game, I wouldn't have been given a chance to reach the truth. At least for that one thing, I'm grateful.
But as for what happened in 1986... As for who took your family away from you... As a human, your desire to know the truth is quite natural. However, even knowing this, Battler decided that it would be best if you didn't return to 1986.
I know what he's trying to say! He's telling me to look to the future and live, instead of being stuck in the past, right?!
Correct. Battler wanted to use this final game to show you that.
In that case, there's no need to keep waiting for my answer. The answer's no, Golden Witch! Back in 1986, I was already dead. I've wandered about like a ghost for 12 years! When Eva died, I lost my only reason to stick around on Earth as a ghost! That's why I decided to do one last thing before ending my life!
And that thing would be learning the truth of 1986?
Yeah! Something wrong with that?!



Living without truth is no better than dying! I'm trying to find the truth so I can live!
You just admitted you were searching for the truth so you could die.
Yeah, that's true. Then let me rephrase that... I'm trying to find the truth so I can die! I offered up my life when I made my contract with Bernkastel! All so that I could learn what happened that day! That Single Truth will be the souvenir I take with me to hell!
It's useless. You cannot break this closed room. This closed room is perfect! And yet, I will kill you in this closed room!



At first, this was supposed to be a game in which you were given a key. A key that would let you decide your future.
Liar. You wanted to hide the truth in this chapel, then make me choose a door that leads to some optimistic future. That's not a choice! You're trying to decide for me!
Parents have the right to prevent their children from making unsuitable choices.
I'm not a kid! I'm an 18 year old woman, who can think and act for herself!
Fool! You're just a six-year-old girl who can't think of anything except the past!
And whose fault is that?! Because of you, I've been stuck as a six-year-old all this time! Now it's time for me to tear apart your illusion covering the truth! Yes, now that I think about it, it's not this chapel you've locked me inside! Since that day in 1986, for all these years, you've had me locked away in a closed room where I'm all alone, and where no one will tell me the truth!



...I refuse.
Of course. You've been killing me for 18 years. Thanks, Beatrice. If you hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't have figured out the trick.
Ange. You are young, and you have a long future ahead of you. In fact, you are a Golden Witch living in the future, are you not? Then live in the future. Just how much is a truth of the past really worth? Isn't the truth of the future, the truth that you will create yourself, far more important?!
My life is trash. My whole family died, leaving just me behind. That's why I'm going back to them once I've gotten my Single Truth.
If you learn the truth, you'll just have to accept your family's deaths! Haven't you ever thought about living on, hoping that by some miracle, one of them might have survived? And that someday, you might get a chance to see them again?!
I'm not worried about that. Even the Witch of Miracles couldn't find a Fragment like that.



So, even though I wanted to know the truth, I was unconsciously averting my eyes. I felt that learning of my family's deaths for certain would force me to deny any possibility of someone miraculously surviving... But I'm tired of living on and on, with nothing but that impossible hope of a miracle to keep me going.



How foolish, to be blinded by the truth of the past and unable to see one's own future...! Forgive me, Battler. I was not strong enough to guide your sister to a proper future...





Ange's blue spear pierces Beatrice, pinning her to the chapel window.



...If you read that, then by your contract with Bernkastel, you will die... Learning the truth just to die? Ridiculous...!
That's right. I'm looking for the truth so I can die. At least let me choose how I go. I'm not an idiot. I know the real me is still floating in that starry sky.



Bernkastel promised Ange revenge. The chance to destroy the illusion that hid the truth of that day.



Ange gave up on the wish of being reunited by her family, so that she could be granted the wish to learn the Single Truth.

That wish has now been granted.



You really think you can heal my wounds by saying they'll always be watching over me from the clouds, like some kind of fairy tale?!
...Didn't you come to understand the power of magic through Maria's grimoire...?
Yeah, I understood it. Then, I despaired when I realized how powerless it was. That's what Battler is trying to force me to use now, isn't it? If I believe, if I use magic, then my family will always be by my side.



Yes, my master, I have the Book of the Single Truth! I'll take it back to you, so let me have the truth! For a long time now, I've been prepared to abandon my naive hopes for a miracle! Now, tell me the truth of that daaaaaay!



What...?!
It would seem that Ange has completed her task. It looks like you've used some useless steal, but to my master, that'll be easier than thawing frozen saury fish.
D-Damn!
Master said I could play with you until Ange finished her task. I've had enough fun from this reunion, so I think it's time for me to leave.
Why did you talk Ange into looking for the Single Truth?! Your master must know...! That truth doesn't mean anything for Ange!
Yes. All truths in this world are meaningless. In the end, 'meaning' comes from the mind of each individual human. Even when there is a Single Truth, it can mean different things to different people! The truth has no meaning in itself! There's just one reason why I'm stuck on the truth despite it all!



Good! But Ange isn't a detective. To her, the truth itself is the finish line. A way to mark the end of her unhappy life. Now, she's finally finished the last purification ceremony! She's a one-night Witch of Truth, focused on learning a certain Single Truth before she dies! A temporary witch for the short time until she slams against the ground!
I won't let Ange die! No matter how tough it gets, she has to live! That's the only thing all of us want! If she lives, all sorts of magic and miracles would be possible!
If only you'd put your arm around her shoulder and told her that directly, you might not have lost. What do you say? Just be hearing you howl, see how far Furudo Erika's reasoning takes her.





EVA, our mission is complete. Let's withdraw.
Oh, are we done already? And I was just about to tear the island apart with my own Eva culprit theory!



However, she's decided this for herself. She's 18 years old now. Don't you think people should decide how they live their own lives?
Sorry for being an overprotective big brother.
Later. I'm Lady Bernkastel's piece at the moment. It's time for me to leave.
I'll see you later, EVA.



Bernkastel is a Voyager Witch, so she has the power to move between game boards. She can grant this power to her pieces as well.

Erika opens another blue fragment.



...Wait. We haven't settled our fight yet.
What is there to settle? Time's up. However, if you feel like taking one last hit, I'd be happy to oblige.
Let's go, Erika. This'll decide it...!
This'll be the last one before I go, so go ahead and give me the craziest of your hilarious theories.
Your closed room definition claimed that the walls, windows, floor, ceiling, and chain were all unbeatable! However, there was one possibility that I didn't check because it was too ridiculous: Whether or not the chain could be set from the outside!
...!



Battler's blue wedge pierces Erika's chest, and the Fragment she was holding falls from her hand.



Erika's scythe catches Battler before he can grab it himself. Erika reclaims the Fragment.



But I disagree! To me, the process of exposing that ridiculousness is ecstasy! That's why I'm Furudo Erika, the detective!
Dammit.. you figured out the answer a while back, didn't you?
Not true. I thought it up between the time you let loose your blue truth and the time you stretched your hand out to grab the Fragment. I've just been buying time since the beginning. I only started reasoning a second ago!





Erika vanishes into another Fragment.




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