So I read another two chapters. This write up is coming a couple days after my last reading session, so it probably won’t be as detailed as they normally are. I do have a few interesting things to talk about though.
Battler and new chick find the gold, and it is once and for all confirmed to exist, be real, yadda yadda. Piece Battler “sees” Kinzo, who provides a final hint how to reach the golden land. Meta Battler quickly explains this way as Battler delusionally seeing Kinzo, that really nobody was there. He asserts this in blue, and Lambdadelta says that she will not deny the blue assertion for now.
I’m going to make a sort of bold claim: sometime later in this episode, Lambdadelta is going to lay a bomb on Battler that he will seriously struggle to overcome. She will pronounce, with the red truth, that Battler did see his grandfather standing there, that his grandfather did indeed point him to the promised land. The key word here is “grandfather,” though, and Battler has two of those.
I don’t remember this at all, but KP told me that in the last episode it is revealed that Battler’s supposed biological mother isn’t actually his biological mother. I don’t know who his real mother is, but I doubt that kind of stuff wouldn’t be revealed if it didn’t have some application to this mystery, and this seems like a perfect situation for it to come into play.
Who is his grandfather, then? Genji? Nanjo? Gohda? No one else on the island really seems old and male enough to fit. And only Genji and Nanjo both seem to be in-on-it enough for it to be one of them. It seems pretty obvious to me at this juncture that the scenario, the motivation behind these murders, is to prompt them to solve the riddle.
This gets into Beatrice’s dejection. The actual killer has nothing to gain or lose from anyone finding or failing to find the gold. He or she was put to the task by Kinzo. If no one solved the riddle in a certain amount of time after his death, the no one was worthy. The letter Beatrice continually sent was supposed to be a final, nonviolent-but-still-eerie notification that would motivate them to solve the riddle. But no one ever took it seriously.
But there was more than that that happened in these chapters. Some sort of relationship between Battler and Beatrice, whoever she is in real life, was heavily implied. In every game, he is the last one left alive. But she wasn’t trying to scare him, she was trying to give him the best chance to solve the riddle. That he never does is a source of supreme sadness for Beatrice. I never expected that, but it really adds further to her character. The fact that the culprit, both Beatrice and whoever Beatrice really is, never took any pleasure in the horrific means of killing and presenting her victims, affirms the idea that whoever is behind this isn’t a psychopath or in any serious way crazy.
So about me not putting a lot of detail into this post? I just can’t help myself. Gonna read some more right now. I think you all might find it humorous to know that I’ve been going to the trendiest, hipsterish places in Cleveland to read this. I’m in a beautiful coffee shop, sitting in a vintage chair tucked into a cozy corner, drinking some obscure tea, posting on GameFAQs and am about to read a dorky Japanese visual novel. It’s a pretty good time.
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