prof | Let's Play Umineko Chiru, Episode 8 Scene 24: The Truth of Rokkenjima

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Congratulations. So, the time has finally come. The period to mark the end of your life.

Take the key and go to Lady Bernkastel. One of the cat familiars will guide you.

We weren't together long, but I enjoyed it. It was a very enlightening experience to learn what disgust for your own kind is like.

Same here. Next time we meet, you'll have to teach me the trick to making tea this terrible.

Are you happy? Now, you'll finally get to learn that secret I've been hiding from you these past 12 years.

I am happy. Yeah, now I can understand how Erika feels. It feels like I've taken a shot back at you, exposing the secret that you kept until your death.

And is that a good feeling?

Well, it's better than nothing.

Good luck, Ange. This is the path you've chosen. You aren't six years old any more. You're 18. Choose how to live your own life.

What an over-protective aunt you are.

I'm going to watch the ceremony. What about you?

It's almost time to begin the attack, so I'm heading for the ships. I've got to go pick up Beato's corpse. The guts will go to the party. I get to keep her skin, so let's stuff and mount it.

So, this is the end to the mysterious tale of Rokkenjima.

Which means that it's also the end for you. I mean, you are a piece from there, right?

A piece is all I am. The role of a piece is to remain faithful to its purpose until the game ends. It's not a piece's place to worry about what happens after the game is over.

And it's the same for me. Let's both enjoy this time while we have it. Well then, allow me to take my leave.

The guests begin to head towards the party.

The guests are Witch Hunters, one and all.

Everyone's heard the rumors. Could there really be a book hiding the truth of Rokkenjima?

In addition to the guests, the press is here in force. Rokkenjima's mystery has become a phenomenon over the years.

The night before, a press conference was held.

Nobody knew until now that Tohya was a woman.

She said that she's read the diary, and will soon reveal its contents to everyone.

The interview ended there. Then, at her signal, a hotel worker revealed something on a cart.

Hachijo left the hotel, surrounded by escorts.

Things are getting pretty crazy out there. Did you enjoy it?

How tiring... though, it didn't feel bad. This diary truly is heavy.

I will rest in one of the waiting rooms.

You're up again pretty soon. There's no time to rest.

In that case, call it a short break so that I can properly enjoy this long-awaited excitement.

I need to borrow that book. I promised Ange that I'd show her first.

I see. In that case, do as you please.

I'm late, aren't I? Sorry about that. Here you go. I've brought it with me. The Book of the Single Truth.

Ange slowly approaches the book.

Yes. Right here.

I won't rush you. You don't have to open it until you're ready.

In here, there's the truth of what happened at midnight after October 5th, 1986, right?

Yes. Everything that you wanted to know so much that you offered up your life.

Despite the feeling that she's betraying her brother, Ange is powerless to stop her hand from moving the key towards the lock.

The light from the key dulls.

Didn't Battler tell you? He said you couldn't hand that over to anyone else. That magic, which left the decision to you, has just fulfilled its role and disappeared. That key is just a key now. It can't do anything but lock and unlock that diary.

I see. Then, I guess I have no more use for Battler's key.

Can I have it? Once you've read the diary, I'll lock it up again. Opening that lock will be a big part of tonight's ceremony, it seems.

I see. Do whatever you want.

Go ahead, then. Before the courage that led you here fades.

Ange has been prepared for this for a long time.

BGM: Alive

Ange learns the truth.

Time has stopped for Ange.

The goats spread out, filling the room around her.

Whatever they're saying, it doesn't reach Ange. This is a world without words.

However, their meanings and emotions still come across.

The goats bite all over Ange's body, chewing into her bit by bit.

One of the goats grabs Ange's hair, forces her to make eye contact, and speaks.

Ange, calm down. You're the one who wanted to know, right?

Hahahaha, ahahahahahahahahahahaha! Yeah, I get it now, I know what you meant! That's right, Eva, you're the culprit, you're the culprit! It's the world that's messed up and broken for not realizing that! I'm the right one, I'll deny the red truth, I'll deny the whole world!

That's right. In that case, try writing the red truth that only you can write. But how is it possible for a human to write with red truth?

It is possible! There's a red ink that only humans can write with!