LogFAQs > #888553028

Alright, I've finished reading it.

I need to ask though... is this game board meant to be set up so that Shannon and Kanon are two separate people in their own bodies? Because otherwise, the sentence "Shannon, Kanon, George, and Jessica have been placed in four seats around the table" leads me to think that one of them was cleaved in two and has half a body in one chair. Alternatively, the chairs were situated so that one body occupies both chairs.

In any case, let's discuss Maria's death:

The following is given in red in the story itself:

1. Maria Ushiromiya is dead
2. Before Maria's death, I (Battler) locked the door to this room
3. The door is currently unlocked
4. The killer didn't use a master key or any key to enter this room
5. Nothing indicating a trap of any kind exists in this room

You've stated in red:
1. that Battler didn't see Maria unlock the door.
2. Maria did not let the culprit into the cousin's room
3. There was nobody in the cousins' room before Battler and Maria entered together, and Battler locked the door.

Let's get some obvious ones out of the way

The culprit entered through a window
The culprit entered through a secret passage which Battler did not recognize as being a door
There is no ceiling and the culprit climbed in with a ladder and jumped over the wall (Sorry, that's one of my favorite solutions to a riddle and I felt the urge to use it. I swear I'm not an incompetent fool! I'm just covering all my bases!

You state that Battler locked the door, but not when he locked the door. All we know is that he locked the door before Maria died.

Battler did not immediately lock the door upon entering with Maria. There was enough time for someone to sneak in
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