At 6:00 PM on October 4th

Furudo Erika washed up on Rokkenjima

The portrait in the entrance hall clearly showed the figure of this witch, also displaying her riddle, her challenge to the family.
If the riddle were to be solved, the ten tons of gold would be theirs.

Erika had deduced that the epitaph in the entrance hall could be interpreted as Kinzo's test to see who should get the inheritence.
The family members slowly realized the girl was probably right, and they discussed the riddle for hours.

Erika successfully solved the epitaph before midnight.
She left the family members to distribute it as they wished.
In the meantime, Erika sealed every room in the mansion and guesthouse with ducttape, before finally going to the room next to the cousin'd room in the guesthouse, and listening next door the whole night.

Earlier that day, Maria had given Jessica and Battler two scorpion charms to repel magic.

The charms continued to remain in their possession the whole night.

Thus ends the first day. October 4th, 1986.

The next morning, six people had gone missing, and there was a huge uproar.

The First Twilight:

Hideyoshi: marks around neck, found in the chapel
George: hanged, found in the chapel
Rosa: decapitated, found in the chapel
Natsuhi: missing
Kyrie: hanged, found in the chapel
Gohda: marks around neck, found in the chapel

Upon discovery of the bodies, the door and window were locked. Additionally the key to the chapel was found inside of a letter which was underneath Rosa's head.

Come at me as you wish.

>>3422
There's some opening in the chapel's ceiling! The bodies were lowered in using ropes, and some of them snapped, simply leaving marks but no rope (and in one case, a decapitated head!)

>>3423
Nice try but,
There is not an opening in the chapel's ceiling.

>>3424
There's an auto-lock on the chapel's door, so the culprit didn't need to lock it on their way out.

>>3425
There is no auto lock on the chapel's door.

>>3426
There's some other entrance or exit, aside from the door and window(s), that the culprit used to leave.

>>3427
The door and windows are the only entrances and exits to the chapel.

>>3428
Good, good. Was just making sure of the basics.

Here's my real theory: Repeat it in red! Rosa's head is inside the chapel!

>>3429
I had a feeling you had some crazy idea, but that...is not what I was expecting!

Rosa's head is inside of the chapel.

>>3430
Let's try this, then. Repeat it in red!

The key to the chapel was found inside the chapel!

>>3431
Even if your safe it might come back to bite you.
The Chapel Key was found inside of the chapel.

There is a way to lock the chapel from outside the door. For instance, another key.

>>3433
The chapel door can only be locked from the outside with the Chapel key. There is only one Chapel Key.

>>3426
There is an auto-lock on the window. If not, then there is a way to lock the window from outside, such as a key or perhaps the window is just broken but still "locked"

>>3435
There is no auto lock on any of the windows.
The culprit did not lock any window from outside of the chapel.
The windows are intact.

>>3436
*if that is the case

>>3436
The culprit locked the window from the inside (although I have no idea how this will help me) or one of the victims locked the windows.

I guess the easiest way would be for you to repeat in red the victims were all disabled at the time of their death (that they were unable to do anything since they were being hung)

>>3438
None of the people who died locked the window.
The window was locked from the inside.
At the moment the victims received their wounds they died and stopped moving.

There were more than 5 in the chapel or perhaps They're not all dead (they = the 6 people)

>>3441
When Erika entered the chapel and discovered the bodies she could only find 5. Those five bodies being Hideyoshi, George, Rosa, Kyrie, and Gohda.

>>3442
I realized I didn't fully explain two things.

The door to the chapel can be locked from the inside without a key.
The way i worded the red about the door only being able to be locked from the outside with the chapel key could have been misinterpreted etc.
Erika cut the heads of the bodies, they are dead.

Anyway, don't mind if I'm offline. Just post any blues you have and I'll get to them.

The two hung bodies were on a pulley system, so that after X amount of time the weight of the bodies caused the door to become locked from the inside.

>>3450
don't use my theories etc

>>3451
lol, sorry. I actually forgot you used that.

>>3450
I like the theory but I'll have to deny it~
The culprit did not set up a device to lock the door from the inside.

>>3451
Why don't you post more theories then?

>>3452
Pfft, don't worry I'm just being silly
>>3454
no need to solve rosa's first

>>3454
An accomplice set up a device/method then.

Or

A person who was not an accomplice nor a culprit set up the device/method, planning on using it for something else (a prank perhaps.) the culprit or accomplice just used it.

>>3458
Your are correct about that.
An accomplice locked the door from the inside.

I'm sure you can get the rest of these twilight now.

>>3459
*the rest of this twilight now.

>>3459
Hmmm..

The accomplice hid in the chapel. And locked the door after the culprit left.

>>3461
That is Correct.

Occam's razor, you know~
I'll post the 2nd twilight tomorrow. You may have gotten the first twilight but there are many more harder mysteries to solve~

>>3462
That's what happens when I play... Occam's Razor cuts me in two...

As everyone sat in the parlor thinking about who the culprit could be Erika started to doze off. Battler noticing this offered to take her up to a guest room. The rest of the people split up in groups. Rudolf, Jessica, Maria, and Krauss went to Kinzo's study. Kanon, Genji and Shannon went to the servant room. Lastly, Kumasawa and Nanjo stayed in the parlor. Erika asked Battler to go seal each of the doors with the duct tape seals she made. Additionally, after setting the chain lock to her room also asked him to seal her own door. She also told him to come back here and wait outside the door once the job was done.
After Erika awoke she unlocked her door and left the room. Then with Battler, she checked the tape seals one at a time. When the group from the study exited, they noticed that Krauss and Rudolf, feeling unsafe had gone to Kinzo's gun collection and had each taken one of the Winchester rifles. They then went to the servant room and got Genji's group. Lastly upon arrving at the parlor they found a paint like substance on the door. Upon further investigation it seemed to be locked. Genji used his master key to open the door.

Second Twilight:

Kumasawa: blue in the face, found in the parlor
Nanjo: blue in the face, found in the parlor.

Demonic stakes were found lying next to each corpse.

Upon discovery of the bodies the door and window were locked.
Inside of Kumasawa's pocket was her master key.
Each tape seal was still intact when Erika checked them.

Obviously only Magic could solve this mystery!

>>3494
There's no closed room here.

Anyone could have used a master key!

>>3495
Kanon's master key never left the servant room.
Shannon's master key never left the servant room.
Genji's master key never left the servant room.
The follow applies to when Battler placed the seal on the door to servants room, to when Erika watched them leave the servants room.
Additionally, Gohda's key was disposed of once he was found dead. It is unusable.

Obviously magic was used to fly through the wall.

>>3497
ffffffffffff
*the before mentioned applies to

>>3497
Good, that's just what I wanted to hear!

The murders were committed before Battler placed the seal on the servant's room! Since Erika wasn't in the room at that time, anything could have happened!

>>3499
Heh.
The Nanjo and Kumasawa were not killed before before Battler placed the seals.

Your right though~ Anything could have happened during that time, like Magic for example.

>>3500
The window was not sealed. It could have easily been utilized!

I can always go through all of the expected possibilities of how the window was closed/locked...

>>3501
I wanted to save this but...
The window to the parlor was never opened this whole game!

>>3502
The timing of the seal's placement was not what we have been led to believe.

Or perhaps the "intact seal" is not the same seal which was first placed.

>>3503
Battler placed the seals minutes after Erika ordered him too. There is no deception to when the seals were placed.
The three intact seals are the same that Battler placed.

>>3504
>when the seals were placed
There is some deception to where or how the seals were placed. Perhaps the way the door was sealed allowed for entrance into the room via the door without breaking the seal.

>>3505
Oh?
The seals were placed over the crack between the door frame and the door. If someone would to try to open the door while the seal is placed there it would rip.
If can think of a way to bypass that then go ahead.

To reiterate, "Upon further investigation it seemed to be locked. Genji used his master key to open the door."
When Genji opened the door he broke the seal. The door's lock was set when they arrived at the door.

>>3506
There are plenty of ways to bypass this. The simplest would be for the door to come off of its hinges. It would open from the other side, leaving the seal unbroken!

>>3507
As if I would use that old trick.
The door's hinges were not removed.
When the door is locked and closed no one can pass through the doorway.

That is, unless they used magic etc.

>>3509
There is a method of projecting a weapon or tool (physical or otherwise) into the room without entering. Perhaps there is a hole in the door, wall, window, floor, or ceiling.

>>3510
When the entrances are locked there is no way to project any objects into the room.
Additionally there are no other entrances or exits other than the window and door.

>>3511
Repeat in red! Nanjo and Kumasawa are both dead and are the two bodies found within the parlor!

>>3512
Nanjo is dead. His body is in the parlor.
Kumasawa is dead. Her body is in the parlor.

>>3513
A culprit or accomplice is still in the room (or left somehow immediately following the detective's entrance into the room). An accomplice in this case must not necessarily be a willing or knowing accomplice (accidentally helped is still being an accomplice by this definition)

>>3514
When the corpses were discovered no one was hiding in the room.

>>3515
Suicide... or perhaps they killed each other...

>>3516
Nanjo and Kumasawa did not kill each other.
Neither Nanjo or Kumasawa committed suicide.

>>3517
An accident... or perhaps some sort of name trade...(like the whole shannon=kanon thing)

>>3518
This was murder, not an accident.
There is no name trick involved with this murder.

>>3500
That's right, I totally agree!

They weren't killed before before Battler placed the seals! They were killed in between before before Battler placed the seals and before Battler placed the seals!!!

>>3520
Kinjo.....I have no idea what the fuck you are saying.

Well anyway It was probably my fault for having the biggest brain fart when writing that red true.
The Nanjo and Kumasawa were not killed before Battler placed the seals.
"before" is not a time interval or whatever.

>>3522
Ok, just clarify something for me.

"Nanjo and Kumasawa did not die until after Battler placed all the seals."

Also,

Nanjo and Kumasawa died from lack of oxygen. There was no way for air to get into the room, so they died.

>>3523
Sure.
Nanjo and Kumasawa did not die until after Battler placed all the seals.

Nanjo and Kumasawa did not die from lack of oxygen.

Let me try three shots: before the corpses were discovered, no one was hiding in the room.

When Battler sealed the room, not only Nanjo and Kumasawa was inside but the culprit or an accomplice.

While Battler put the seals, Nanjo and Kumasawa were dying.

>>3539
For your first blue;
>>3515

As for the second two.
When Battler sealed the parlor only Nanjo and Kumasawa were inside of it.

When Battler sealed the parlor Nanjo and Kumasawa were not dying.

>>3540
Nanjo and Kumasawa choked on food and died.

>>3541
Neither Kumasawa or Nanjo died from choking on food.

And if my theory was right,

neither poison or traps killed Nanjo or Kumasawa.

And they don't killed each other, right?

>>3545
Poison wasn't used to kill Nanjo or Kumasawa.
A trap wasn't used to kill Nanjo or Kumasawa.

I have already answered the third blue here.
>>3517

>>3546
Pardon me, Ozaki-san. I'm little stunned here.

While Kumasawa e Nanjo died, they're alone in the room. They're killed for someone by outside.

Even if it was magic, their killer definitely not entered or left the room.

>>3547
Well you might be even more stunned when I tell you that...
The killer entered the room, killed Nanjo and Kumasawa and then they left the room!

>>3548
I wish to examine the bodies further.

Please provide a detailed explanation regarding any wounds received and any other oddity that may point to the cause of death.

>>3549
Kumasawa's corpse is lying on the coach. Nanjo's corpse is on the ground beside the coach. The faces look as if they are bruised and a bit blotchy. Both of their corneas are filmed over, and the white of the eye is grey.
From what Erika can tell they died from either failure of the heart or lungs.

Nothing else could be found from looking at the bodies.

...Is this really it?

There is an auto-lock on the parlor's door. As for the seal, perhaps this auto-lock system which shouldn't exist prevented it from breaking when the door was opened.

>>3552
Nope.
There is no auto-lock on the door.

>>3553
Repeat it in red.

'Kumasawa's master key was found in the parlor, inside her pocket.'

>>3554
Kumasawa's master key was found in the parlor, inside her pocket.

>>3555
...That's right, even if I make a theory where the key was used, it has to return to the inside of the room in the end.

By 'found', you mean a sleight of hand trick. When the survivors entered the room, the culprit pretended to discover the key in Kumasawa's pocket by physically placing it there and pulling it out.

>>3556
That would be a good answer but sadly...
Kumasawa's key never left her pocket.

>>3557
Irrelevant.

Repeat it in red:

'Kumasawa's pocket never left the parlor.'

>>3558
Kumasawa's pocket never left the parlor.

>>3559
...Repeat it in red.

'The parlor never left the mansion.'

Repeat this please Ozaki.

"A door can be sealed only when it is fully closed."

>>3560
The parlor never left the mansion.

>>3561
Well, sure.
A door can be sealed only when it is fully closed.

>>3563
Ok good. Next, up.

"No other tapes seals have existed aside from the ones either Battler or Erika placed."

>>3564
Up to this point in the game no other tapes seals have existed aside from the ones either Battler or Erika placed.

>>3562
Hey, Ozaki.

Mind telling me what happened to the original key to the parlor? The culprit probably used that to lock the door, after all.

>>3565
Ok thank you. Next,

"No tape seals were broken until after Erika left her room she rested in, in the main house."

>>3566
Ahaha oh that?
Erika asked the servants about it. They say that they all saw it in the key box when they entered the servant room after Erika went with Battler. When Erika checked after the second twilight the key to the parlor was in the key box.

>>3567
No tape seals that Battler placed were broken until the moment Erika left her room upon waking up, which was in the main mansion.
Erika already placed seals on every door in the main mansion, but since the groups had to break some of them to enter she asked Battler to go replace them before the second twilight happened.

>>3568
I was wondering if I would catch you with that.

Anyway, moving on.

"No other exists or entrances in the parlor ever existed during this game aside from the door which leads into the hallway, and the windows."

>>3569
Sure, I have no problem repeating that.
No other exists or entrances in the parlor ever existed during this game aside from the door which leads into the hallway, and the windows

>>3568
Wait? You are saying Battler resealed all the rooms that were broken?

Alright, I request a list of the rooms Battler sealed.

>>3571
Battler Sealed;
A Guest room(the one Erika slept in)
The Parlor
Kinzo's Study
The Servants' room

These are the rooms the groups went into, hence why Erika asked Battler to go put seals on these doors. He was "replacing" Erika's on these rooms because the groups would have broken the seals to get into the rooms in the first place.

Your requests are rather exact so I usually have to rewrite my response more then once.

>>3572
Alright so am I correct in assuming the following room's tape seals are broken.

Natsuhi's room, Krauss's room, the room Rudolf slept in, and the kitchen.

Also the following is requested.

"The parlor key never left the key box during this game."

>>3573
I refuse.

>>3574
Both of them. Interesting.

Alright then,

"The window in the servants room was never opened."

>>3575
I also refuse.

>>3576
Alright next.

"Nothing entered or exited the room using the window."

>>3577
I refuse to repeat it.

>>3578
Hmm.....

Alright I guess since you refuse I'll attack that for now. Though I didn't expect it.

The window has a hole in it. Allowing something access even when it is closed.

The windows were always open, so therefore it doesn't violate your red about them being opened, since they were already open.