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September 13th, 2009
11:46 pm - Umineko no Naku Koro ni episode 5: End of the golden witch - PART VIII
Ohohohoh, another unsolved mystery.
This is PART VIII.
It is now 11:00.
In the meta world rose garden, where it's also raining, Battler still sits there with a speechless Beatrice and Virgilia knitting something.
Virgilia abruptly stops her work. Someone is coming. Battler notices, too.
It's Dlanor.
Dlanor and Virgilia are old friends and it's been a long time since they last met. Virgilia invites Dlanor to sit with them and brings out more tea.
Even though Battler and Beatrice have already met Dlanor, that 'Battler' and 'Beatrice' were just game pieces in Lambdadelta's game. Dlanor came to the rose garden to greet the real Battler and Beatrice, and she introduces herself to them.
Dlanor laments about how she is a Witch Hunter and outside of her job, her stance is neutral. If she really hated all witches and magic, then the tea Virgilia summoned would've been destroyed in a second. And there she is, asking for milk and sugar in her tea.
Dlanor personally pities witches, but when commanded, she has to execute them, no matter how she thinks. Dlanor wonders if it's better if she doesn't hold any pity. It's no more than an useless lie. Nothing changes, whether she pities them or not.
Virgilia disagrees. Even if the end results look the same, if the heart behind one is different, then the significance of the result differs greatly. It's like baking cookies. Even if the resulting cookies look the same, they hold a different, special meaning if the cook put his or her heart into making them.
Knowing the "heart" is the first step toward understanding the essence of magic.
Dlanor thanks Battler for having mercy on her during their battle, but Battler just shrugs it off and tells her that the 'Battler' at that point in time was still controlled by Lambdadelta and Bernkastel. He had no influence on that 'Battler'. Battler and Dlanor then promise each other a real, full-out duel in the near future.
...But Dlanor must apologize for something first.
Virgilia correctly guesses that it's Dlanor having allowed Battler to win.
"...I know. ..."Kinzo is dead at the start of all games". It's the truth already spoken of by Beat. ...In that battle, it was splendid when Battler was able to bring it to a draw. It was a battle that he absolutely shouldn't have had the chance to win."
"Rule 2 of Knox. The usage of supernatural abilities as a means for the detective is prohibited." We could not directly use that red truth. However, I gave Cornelia, who was guarding the windows, the red truth of "the windows have not been opened after the rainfall"."
If Cornelia used that red truth, then it would've been checkmate for Battler.
Why didn't she?
Battler thinks back to when Cornelia broke form when he verbally attacked her. He thought it was because he surprised her, but now he realizes it's because she was confused about why she was suddenly unable to use the red truth.
Lambdadelta had interfered and prevented the red truth from being given.
""Kinzo does not exist" should already be a definite matter. Lady Lambdadelta and Lady Bernkastel should know it very well. Nevertheless, they are advancing the game while leaving the room for Kinzo to exist. ...It is just as if the two are in conspiracy to not have Kinzo denied."
That is the main thing Dlanor came to the rose garden to say.
She gets up to leave, but tells Battler that she'll be active on the second night of the game as well, so he should fight against her without mercy.
Dlanor may be neutral, but she will not tolerate evil.
Erika is a very evil existence. Both Battler and Dlanor want to give her a good thrashing. Erika must now be burning with vengeance due to her humiliating defeat. What is she planning, no one knows, but they mustn't take her lightly.
Dlanor walks away into the ceaseless rain.
It may have been Bernkastel who summoned Dlanor into the game, but it was Beatrice who sought for Dlanor to enter the rose garden. However subconsciously it is, only Beatrice can allow someone to enter her domain. Everyone in the rose garden is there because Beatrice wished for it.
Elsewhere, Erika is taking her anger out on Cornelia.
She asks Cornelia to stand up on one foot and hold her hands together behind her back, then proceeds to violently knock Cornelia over from the back. Erika repeats the process so many times that she loses count. Cornelia's face is red from having crashed face-down to the floor, each time with a terrific bang.
She hasn't shed any tears.
No, she cannot shed tears.
Because she is forbidden by Erika to even weep...
Erika doesn't know why Cornelia couldn't guard the windows. So she blames everything on her for her crushing defeat.
Gertrude shows up to relieve Cornelia from her punishment. Erika asks Gertrude to do the same things as Cornelia. Just as Erika walks behind Gertrude to shove her over, Gertrude and Cornelia vanish in a brilliant explosion of light. Dlanor has sent them back to Heaven, and now she is with Erika in their stead.
Erika taunts and threatens Dlanor, ripping out some of Dlanor's hair.
Her anger finally subsides and Dlanor summons Gertrude and Cornelia back so that they can recreate the crime scene from the game.
Erika starts off examining the mystery from the first night: the letter bearing the Ushiromiya crest in the hallway after someone knocked on the door at midnight.
Given the mysterious circumstance under which the letter appeared, it was from that moment when the story took a turn for witches and magic.
Erika wants to destroy the fantasy from there.
How did the dining room look last night?
Gertrude and Cornelia recreate the previous night's scene. The adults were having their 'family discussions' with Battler. Halfway through, Kanon and Shannon came by with snacks.
So where was everyone at this point in time?
"Ladies and gentlemen, may I humbly say this. Before the family meeting, Erika, George, Jessica, Maria, Nanjo, Gohda, and Kumasawa exited the mansion and moved to the guesthouse."
"Ladies and gentlemen, may I humbly say this. May I offer to say, out of the remaining people, only Krauss, Natsuhi, and Genji were in the hallway of the second floor, and everyone else was in the dining room."
The mansion was locked, so no one could re-enter it.
With everyone accounted for, there was no one left who could've knocked on the door and placed the letter there. An argument for the witch's side.
...Ah, what a boring trick. No one said that the letter was placed there right at midnight; it's common sense to believe it was already there before then.
Minutes before the letter was discovered, Kanon and Shannon entered the room and they repeatedly said that they did not see anything out of place in the hallway; no letters.
"It means that only someone amongst Krauss, Natsuhi, and Genji, who weren't in the reception room, saw a chance immediately afterwards and placed the letter. No, it's possible that it was someone who should've gone to the guesthouse."
"The mansion was locked and it seemed like no one outside could've entered, but if there was someone who pretended to return to the guesthouse and secretly hid within the mansion, then there wouldn't be any problems if it was that person who placed the letter."
Now the problem is the knock. Different from the letter, the knocking must've been done by someone at that very moment.
Erika laughs. Is this the best they can do to convince her that witches exist?
"First of all, I certainly can suspect that the knocking was from something knocking on the door of the dining room. Or, for instance, due to the mansion's structure, when you knock on a specific pillar on the second floor the sound is transmitted through the pillar, and the people in the dining room misidentified it, like the door was knocked on."
"Or, by chance, they misheard some sound for knocking and misidentified it in the same manner. Or perhaps a tape recorded with the sound of knocking was secretly played, and it was manipulated so that they would hear it at just the right timing."
Erika can think of many ways to create the knocking sound. She starts to get a little haughty.
Lambdadelta steps in. She'll do her a service with the red truth.
First, the letter.
The best explanation is that someone not in the dining room secretly placed the letter there, isn't it?
Krauss, Natsuhi, and Genji did not even touch the letter!
"...Oh? Well then, at the moment when Shannon and Kanon came to serve and closed the door, who was the very last person of the last to enter the dining room...? Suppose it was Kanon. Then wouldn't it have been easy for Kanon, the last person, to secretly and quietly drop the letter when he closed the door?"
"Out of everyone in the dining room- no, I'll put it in simpler terms. Not a single person in the mansion at the moment of 24 o'clock! No one placed that letter in the hallway."
"I see. Then I'll explain it this way. Someone who existed outside of the mansion at the moment of 24 o'clock, placed the letter somewhere other than the hallway in advance. Then it moved by some sort of method, and finally came to be "placed in the hallway"."
"This is hypothetical, but what if it was pasted to the underside of the bottom of the food service cart loaded with teaware, which the servants pushed in? A simple adhesive, like it would peel off as time passed. Soon, it did peel and fall off and became "the letter the witch placed" that shouldn't have been there. In short, it was a classic trick in which the real sender tried to create an alibi for that moment in time by making the letter appear at a different time."
The culprit was lucky that the letter fell off right in front of the door of the dining room. If it wasn't done right, then it could've fallen off elsewhere, like the kitchen or after entering the dining room.
Lambdadelta attacks Erika's theories about the knocking first.
"Krauss, Natsuhi, and Genji did not knock!"
"This doesn't mean it's just limited to no knocking on the door, okay? It means, if you guessed it was a pillar that transmitted sound or the play button for a recorded cassette tape, they never generated that sound of knocking! And of course, not directly or indirectly, intentionally or accidentally, or even unknowingly!"
"I'm already driving the wedge in, but I'll repeat. Perhaps someone other than Krauss, Natsuhi, and Genji knocked, or made a sound that was misidentified to be knocking."
"Ladies and gentlemen, may I humbly offer to say this. May I offer to say, that at the moment of 24 o'clock, other than Krauss, Natsuhi, and Genji in the hallway of the second floor and everyone in the dining room, not a single human existed within the mansion."
"Ladies and gentlemen, may I humbly say this. May I say, in addition to Krauss, Natsuhi, and Genji, no one in the dining room knocked, either. This 'knocked' includes everything that generates the sound of knocking, directly, indirectly, intentionally, unknowingly, and accidentally."
"In short, it means that no one out of all people in the mansion could have been the source of the sound of knocking. ...And by "all people", it includes people who no one apprehended or were not observed, if there even was one."
'All people in the mansion' contains even the unknown Person X hiding secretly in the mansion.
Therefore, without any wordplay, it means that "no one within the mansion could've knocked".
"...I see. No matter how you spin it, you're saying that only the guesthouse group could've created the sound of knocking, right? For example, me. What if, I, Furudo Erika, recorded the sound of knocking on a cassette tape, set it up somewhere secretly, and gave it some mechanism that made it play right at 24 o'clock?
Of course, I couldn't have been in the mansion at the moment of 24 o'clock. There aren't any problems with this, are there?"
If the knocking happened without the letter, then people would've looked out into the hallway, saw nothing, and went back to their business. Reversely if only the letter was there, then it might've been ages before someone opened the door and noticed it.
Only by having the two coupled together was it possible to give them a greater significance and claim that someone else, perhaps a witch, was there.
However, it has been declared in red that not a single person within the mansion placed the letter in the hallway.
"I'll reiterate the red about 'placed in this hallway' in finer detail. Not a single person within the mansion, no one placed the letter in the hallway. That's the general idea behind everything, direct, indirect, intentional, accidental, and unknowing."
The theory about the letter peeling off of the food cart doesn't work, because then Shannon and Kanon would've "indirectly, unknowingly" placed it. If the letter peeled off due to the passage of time, then it would've been "accidentally, unknowingly" placed, and of course that's no good, either.
Bernkastel asks Lambdadelta to repeat something in red. Naturally, Lambdadelta puts on her act about how she doesn't answer things in red so readily like Beatrice.
Bernkastel bribes her with the promise to "give her a full-body massage with marshmallow and kompeito scrub and a good, hard rub to exfoliate her the next time she's in bath".
"Uhhuhuhuhu, that's a promise then, absolutely. Drool! ...Well fine, I'll service you ♪
I comply to your request for repetition. "At the moment of 24 o'clock, only Erika, George, Jessica, Maria, Nanjo, Gohda, and Kumasawa existed outside of the mansion"!"
In short, no matter how you slice it, the group of eight* with Erika couldn't have been in the mansion, and everyone within the mansion couldn't have been outside.
*: I think this might be a typo in the game. Erika's group only has seven people, not eight.
"If so, then maybe the letter wasn't pasted to the food service cart but the ceiling of the hallway. The ceiling of the hallway is unexpectedly high, so even if it was pasted in plain sight, maybe no one noticed it. If this was the case, then it definitely would've fallen into the hallway. And if someone outside of the mansion did it, that's able to evade the red, too! Good! Me...!."
"Ladies and gentlemen, may I humbly say this. No letter ever existed on the hallway ceiling."
"Ladies and gentlemen, may I humbly say this. Let it be known that the letter never touched the food service cart."
Erika has lost her haughtiness and she's getting flustered again. The details of her deduction are being struck down one by one.
"Ladies and gentlemen, may I humbly say this. Everyone outside of the mansion could not do anything in the mansion after the family meeting started."
"Well then, before the family meeting, someone outside of the mansion set up some sort of mechanism. Besides on the ceiling or the food cart!"
Erika didn't specify an object or place, so those words didn't become the blue truth. Everything said in red has destroyed all other blue truths Erika proposed about the letter.
She is losing everything again.
...To Erika, words that deny her deduction are the worst agony and humiliation, more than anything else.
Dlanor suggests that Erika considers the knocking sound again. Her blue truth about the cassette tape still holds.
"That's right, my blue truth for the knock should still be valid...! Not everything has been denied...! My Master! I'll show you that I'll most certainly solve the mystery of the letter. Please allow me more time...!! But for the mystery of the knock, I certainly pierced it through here! With the blue wedge of "someone outside of the mansion set up a mechanism with the cassette tape or such to make the sound of knocking be heard"...!"
None of the people would misidentify the sound of knocking.
"It means they didn't misidentify the sound of knocking, in short. It means they didn't mistake another sound that closely resembled the sound of knocking for the sound of knocking. Stuff like 'the pillar made a knocking-like sound when it was knocked on' is out. Even if the sound of knocking was recorded in a cassette tape, that would also be "the sound of a tape recorded with the sound of knocking", thus not the sound of knocking. So that's out, too!"
"In short, it means, in reality, everyone correctly discerned the sound of knocking on that door and absolutely couldn't have misheard it. It means it's absolutely impossible for them to have mistaken any sound except directly knocking on that door for the knocking!!"
"...In short, you're saying, other than knocking on that door, nothing else would deceive them. If so, then how does this sound? Like, there was some mechanism that knocked on the door for me. Or there was an automatic door knocker-like mechanism, so, consequently, it was possible to knock without touching."
"The knocking was from a person knocking on the door by hand, okay? I won't accept that it was knocked by a mechanism, uhhuhhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhu!! The knock was heard when it tolled 24 o'clock. At that time, all people in the dining room definitely heard it. And none of them misidentified the sound of knocking. Krauss, Natsuhi, and Genji had nothing to do with the knock. Besides all of the above, no one else existed within the mansion. And I point out that the knocking was from the act of knocking on the door by hand while standing directly in front of the door."
Lambdadelta and Bernkastel are taking delight in the back-and-forth of red and blue truths and rolling in laughter. It does seem to be impossible to explain without resorting to witches and magic.
Erika, through pangs of mental agony, swears that she'll solve the mystery in time.
If she doesn't, she'll become an useless game piece, which Bernkastel will completely forget about and allow to collect dust for all eternity, never to be played again.
With all of the hubbub in the morning, the Ushiromiyas have completely neglected food until now, and they sit down for a very late breakfast. The mood in the dining room is dour, despite Magical Gohda Chef's excellent cooking. The empty chairs at the table are silent yet powerful remainders of the tragedies that have already taken place.
Erika suddenly stands up from her chair, yammering about how she now understands:
Battler couldn't have jumped down from the third floor, because no one actually witnessed the entire process.
"When you put up the ladder in the courtyard and watched Rudolf-san go up to the window of the third floor, you closely examined the structure of the outer wall. You realized that it wasn't impossible to get down to the courtyard from the window of the third floor if you successfully went along the downspout...! You didn't jump down! You went along the downspout and crawled down the outer wall in disgrace!! How's that, my blue truth?!! So, what's your rebuttal?!"
"...'Rebuttal'?"
"No rebuttal? Then my truth is valid, right?! Hey, you see?! You seemed so cool jumping down, but it was all a delusion! You pretended to look so cool jumping out, but you merely clung onto the downspout...!!"
...It's true, Battler did clamber down the wall via the gutters and downspout, just as Erika guessed. Midway through, his hand slipped and he fell from a fairly good height, but he was able to land safely without breaking a hip.
No one witnessed it, but probably everyone except Erika knew what really happened. No one ever believed from the start that Battler actually jumped all the way.
Nevertheless, that doesn't invalidate his deduction about how Kinzo could've escaped from the locked room.
Seeing that the Ushiromiyas aren't really paying attention but simply whispering amongst themselves, Erika tries to declare her victory over Battler to Bernkastel.
"My Master, please recognize it!! I am not incompetent, nor will I make you disappointed...! I'll show you that, like this, I'll most certainly live up to your expectations, so please don't forsake me!! My Master...!!" she yells, with her hands outstretched toward someone beyond the ceiling.
A deafening clap of thunder answers her.
Erika falls back into her seat like a puppet whose strings snapped. Then she quietly returns to her meal as if nothing had happened.
To the Ushiromiyas, the outburst quickly becomes a distant memory. They reason that they're so tired they probably just hallucinated the whole thing.
Erika gives a silent thanks to Bernkastel, then speaks up about the salad everyone's eating. She would like to use chopsticks instead of the knife and fork.
It is now 11:26.
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| From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | September 14th, 2009 11:03 am (UTC) |
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lol, I think you did it again.
Of course. XD As always, I upload the pictures first, then edit the text according to each screenshots.
| From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | September 14th, 2009 01:05 pm (UTC) |
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So where's the text?
Why no text ;_;? Haven't edited it yet or something XDD?
Yeah, Part VIII's text took longer than I thought it would to edit. It's all up now though.
| From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | September 15th, 2009 05:23 pm (UTC) |
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Neee, Je veux les traductions moi, je sais pas lire le japonais...T__T
Bref bref...u__u'
When will the texte come?XD
I mean, You did a pretty good job till now, this must be hard.
But unfortunately for me, I don't understand japanese.==
So all that I can say is that there will be blue text, and red, and... And that's all that I understand...XD
(I'm not English, so I must have made a few -I should say "a lot", I know...--' - mistakes... Just hope you understand me, anyway, I'm not very good at english...X'D )
Sorry that it took so long; it took a while to edit the translations for the red and blue text.
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| Date: | September 15th, 2009 07:11 pm (UTC) |
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i to saw the text was missing
whats up
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| Date: | September 16th, 2009 12:07 am (UTC) |
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It's because I upload the screenshots first, then copy & paste the text in. This part was pretty long, so it took over a day to complete.
I think Dlanor will become my favorite character of this arc.
Thanks for the translation <3
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| Date: | September 16th, 2009 02:51 pm (UTC) |
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No one witnessed it, but probably everyone except Erika knew what really happened. No one ever believed from the start that Battler actually jumped all the way.
Oh, Erika...
The suspense is killing me softly inside |
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