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Anyway, this is probably a bad time in the story for me to idly speculate (I left off right in the middle of Ange's confrontation of the black witch who had transformed into adult Eva) but I am left wondering some things. The events that happened just before with the seven sisters was very cool, but I wonder what that could mean. It's possible there's a real world explanation like maybe Amakusa DID follow Ange and was able to take everyone out from a distance with some kind of rifle. But I don't know.

Back in episode 2 I think, maybe 3 Virgilia discusses the idea of both a real human world and a magical world. This is also emphasized by Beatrice talking about the two colors of a chess board. And I begin to wonder if this might actually be a real explanation. In the universe of Umineko, there is actually a plane of magic that people with the right frame of mind and training can tap into. Or at least, something that looks like magic to us.

BUT, even if such a thing exists that doesn't mean the killings are being done by magic. Elephants are real, but if someone tried to say that all the killings were done by an elephant trampling over the entire family that would just be impossible to be true. Maybe something like that is in play here, but with magic.

There's also what I believe is a non-zero percent chance that much of what we see between Battler and Beatrice is Ange's imagination. It could fit too. Ange, traumatized by losing her family and all the awful shit she's been through begins to have elaborate fantasies of her beloved brother battling an evil witch for everyone's souls. Even the events happening in the present/future could be called into question, and I'm not just talking about the seven sisters. This whole story of Ange being on the run from the Sumaderas and slowly piecing together clues is like something out of a globe-trotting thriller and might be some kind of exaggeration of real events.

But I really hope it's not imagination. I sad this before, but I want a solution that both shows real-world explanations for everything but also allows for the magical stuff to have happened. And I think there is still something to the idea that this "magic" is a level of understanding of the universe that is so beyond what normal people can understand that at this point in the story it's just being called magic but there will be a greater reveal about it all.
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