Saturday, July 25, 2009

Umineko no Naku Koro ni (うみねこのなく頃に) 04

Why they all look shocked?


The truth is... (Joji... I know you need breast milk or have sex urge or whatever but you mom is dead... well, I guess Joji's really obsessed with huge breasts...)


Well done, Batora!!! I wanna punch Maria for so long!


Locked room mystery remains unsolved and Maria believes that Beatrice uses a magic circle to unlock the door... so have the couple been killed while the butlers outside are knocking the door? So does the same guy leave the letter under the door, draw the scribble and murder the couple over such a short amount of time?


While investigating the source of the bad smell, Kanon goes to the boiler room alone and take Rena's billhook(?) for self-defense...


Kanon feels someone is in the room but is stabbed in the heart in the dark (Doesn't Kanon see the cloud of golden butterflies or is it just Kanon's imagination?)


When the rest of the group rush into the room, they makes another discovery, Kinzo's corpse (because of the six toes but who knows who else is having six toes in this family...)


Another master-butler/master-maid relationship reveals... (... I've thought Kanon's a girl...)


People in the mansion suspect that the murder might have a master key so they all go hiding inside Kinzo's study, in which there are only two keys to this room. Also, the magic on the door works similar to the charms and should be able to block Beatrice.


"Glorify my name" is the message of the second letter and people go on and discuss the mysterious background of Beatrice: 1) Beatrice exits and is Kinzo's lover. 2) Beatrice's dead and Kinzo's trying to use black magic to revive her. 3) Nobody knows if there's a hidden child between Kinzo and Beatrice. 4) There're rumors that Kinzo sacrifices homeless children for his black magic experiments.


Then Batora realizes that everything's happening just like in the epitaph, which foretells that all people in the mansion would be killed eventually.


Then a few seconds later, Maria points out there's another letter from Beatrice which clearly isn't there moments ago when Natsuhi places the can on the table.


This is a shot around 15 seconds before the letter is discovered and from this angle, it seems that the letter hasn't appeared yet.


Then it just shows up and nobody knows how it gets there.


Natsuhi suspects that either one of the four people behind the table leaves the letter on the table and threatens to shoot them if they don't leave immediately.


On their way out, Batora gives his charm to Maria saying that he's lying about losing it and her smile is wicked... (because she's got protection or Batora showing signs of believing Beatrice's existence?)


Later on, the four remain in the room look up the meaning of the magic circle coming with the third letter and find out its effect is to create discord within a group.


Then, the phone that is not supposed to work rings and they hear someone singing from the other end.


So they get out of the study and see three more people are killed but Maria's unharmed facing the wall singing...


Comments: Basically, I don't think I have any clue now but I tend to believe Beatrice is within the 18 people inside the mansion and the murderer is one of the presumably dead characters. I guess Maria'd have something to do with Beatrice's letters and she's most likely to be the one who places the third letter on the table since she seems to be short enough to sneak around without getting people notice when all of them are clearly focusing on the portrait and epitaph at that moment. After all, isn't Maria Beatrice's messenger?

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