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Post by Segaco on Oct 13, 2017 11:32:41 GMT 12
Kinzo thought cats were better than dogs. Battler wanted to crossdress as Shannon. George too. Tomato = fruit
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Post by animex75 on Oct 13, 2017 11:48:24 GMT 12
"Indeed I shall. However, I will reiterate: Jessica Ushiromiya is the culprit!" The cloaked figure raises his golden blade above him. "The first twilight: the victims were Battler Ushiromiya, George Ushiromiya, Maria Ushiromiya, and the servant Shannon! Jessica sedated these victims (and the servant Kumasawa) using her mother's medicine, via the food. The murder weapon was a knife from the set brought for the meal! Shannon willingly sedated herself after the other victims so she could die with George. After this, Jessica used the time she had gained to change clothes with Shannon, and bring the murder weapon to the kitchen for cleaning, where she was found during the investigation. The second twilight: the victim was Toshiro Gohda. Jessica, taking advantage of the group scattering, went up to the study with the help of Genji's key and got multiple guns. She used one to kill Gohda at close range, then returned that gun to the study. The third twilight: quite simply, there was no actual victim. The only "death" that occurred was the disguise as Shannon. Shannon had been decapitated, surely so nobody would realize that the body was the same as one of the ones that had been in the waiting room. To complete the trick, the victims had been moved so nobody would realize that only one body was being reused. This is why there was so little blood at the scene, as corpses don't tend to bleed all that much. Genji or Kanon took advantage of the commotion with the fire - not planned, but a happy accident indeed - to move Shannon's corpse into place. The fourth twilight: Krauss Ushiromiya actually managed to catch Jessica off-guard and attacked. In the struggle, he got bruised and ended up stabbed on his own weapon before Jessica used the gun she kept from the study to kill her father. The fifth through eighth twilights: Jessica managed to slip into the gold room and hide without being seen, but she didn't get by completely unscathed. Kyrie noticed something was up so she looked under the bed and found Jessica. Unfortunately for Kyrie, Jessica had a gun; Kyrie, Rudolf, and Kanon were led above ground and Jessica killed the former two. She did not kill Kanon, however...at least not directly. She and Kanon died together when the bomb went off. The victims in Kuwadorian drank poisoned tea; Jessica had poisoned their supply just before she slipped under that bed. Nanjo and Natsuhi died because of the damage the bomb did to the tunnels; they got unlucky and the tunnel happened to collapse on them in that moment, leaving Eva as the sole survivor on the island.
Kinzo Ushiromiya is dead. His death paved the way for Krauss to steal his fortune to invest in various projects, which turned out to be rather obvious scams (seriously, Moon Tourism?) and opened the door for Jessica to inherit his name, his title as Master of the House, and the fortune." With this, the cloaked figure brings his sword down and pierces the image of Jessica before him through the heart.
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Post by Yarn Witch on Oct 13, 2017 12:02:59 GMT 12
With the declaration and final strike, Kinzo shatters and vanishes completely, leaving only Jessica impaled on a golden blade, the glow from which lighing up her hair.
"Fortune? Hah. It's too bad... she didn't die. Everyone else was supposed to when the bomb went off." She says quietly, before she too, vanishes.
On the island, Eva wanders alone for hours through the forest. The rain had stopped and the sun has begun to rise as she makes it to the mansion. Or at the very least, where the mansion should be.
Because all she sees, is a crater. Everything has been completely destroyed.
A glint catches her eye, and when she inspects it, she finds the golden ring of the head. It is battered and has soot on it, but it is undeniable what it is.
No matter how long Eva searches after this, she doesn't find anyone. No survivors, and the culprit doesn't come for her.
A rescue team, called by the boat captain when he discovers the destruction, eventually finds Eva. The bodies of Natsuhi, Nanjo, Rosa, Hideyoshi, Kumasawa, and Genji are also found, but the other victims are never discovered, their remains presumably destroyed by the explosion.
And so, Eva becomes the sole survivor of what becomes known as the Rokkenjima Incident....
Game End! Human's victory!
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Post by animex75 on Oct 13, 2017 12:06:22 GMT 12
"I am curious of a few things yet. I wish to know the motive, and the hidden reason behind Shannon's inclusion as an accomplice." The cloaked figure returns to his seat and rests his head on a hand that emerges from under the cloak.
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Post by Yarn Witch on Oct 13, 2017 12:51:26 GMT 12
A shadow of Jessica reappears after the cloaked figure says this.
"I see.. I guess.. it'd be hard to understand why this happened just from this," she says.
"You already know, how badly my father did in business. He was tricked badly by the Iwaguchi group and because of that, they could manipulate him. They knew about the family fortune, so they made him agree to arranging a marriage so they could get ahold of it. Mom told me it was to keep me safe, that I'd be in a better position if I just went along with it, but I knew the truth.
"I'm not stupid, after all. I knew grandfather was dead this entire time. And some of the phones on the island, they're nice, but old. They don't hang up right, so if you listen hard, you can even hear conversations anyway. It was by chance, but that's how I happened to hear Uncle Rudolf threatening Dad. About either admitting grandfather was already dead, or poisoning him and actually killing him.
"At that point... it was awful, I didn't know what to do. I thought about running away like Battler did; but I didn't know where I could go. It was on a day I was alone on the island with the servants that I figured out the epitaph Grandfather had left though. Suddenly, everything made sense. I solved it, found the gold... the headship ring was on the pedestal... And Genji, Kanon and Shannon came to greet me. I thought everything was going to be okay, there was so much gold, how could it not be, after all?
"That's when Genji told me.. All of it, All ten tons of gold, is worthless.
"There's no way to prove the foundry it came from, because Grandfather had it all re-crested. All of it might as well have been plastic, for all anyone would care."
Jessica sighs. She opens up one fist, and a shadow of the headship ring is there. She stares at it.
"So, it was all useless. No matter what I did; no matter what any of them did. My arranged marriage wouldn’t save my family. Going along with assassinating a grandfather who had died years ago wouldn’t make a difference either. I'd begun to understand what vicious people my aunts and uncles were. They would no doubt take my parents to court when the truth finally did come out, and for what? What good would it do any of them?
"That's not to say my parents were excluded either. My father always falling for the absolute stupidest scams! And what my mother had said… She threatened that she'd have me put in chains if she had to to make me get married. Gods, there was no saving anyone! Even if I got away, even if all of my cousins ran away, did what Battler did, we wouldn’t escape this.
"So, they only thing I could do, I realized, was end everything. My plan was to just set the bomb, I'd drug my cousins and kill them and myself beforehand. I told Genji, Shannon, and Kanon my plan in advance so they could get to safety, but each of them said that they'd stay with me until the end... Kumasawa and Nanjo were supposed to have the day off that day, but I guess my parents wanted him there to make it look like Grandfather was still around, and it was too late to turn back at that point.
"Then at the conference, there's this big deal made about me and everyone going up to eat with Grandfather, and my Mother still can't trust me with the truth that he's really dead. She just tells me to go upstairs and 'maybe he won't even bother showing up, he's been feeling very ill lately after all, he might be asleep already.' She wants me to lie for her, but she won't even trust me with this. So, I get upstairs first, drug the tea, and tell everyone about how I solved the epitaph.
"It was... a really great time, actually. Everyone was happy. Maria showed me some interesting stuff in her magic book. Then the sedatives kicked in. I figured, if Mom and Dad wanted it to look like Grandfather was still alive until then end, then fine, it'd look like that. I took the time to paint one of the symbols in Maria's book on the door, and left a note in the book too. Then I planned on killing everyone, and then myself. Kumasawa must have seen me pick up a knife before she went down entirely though, and Before I got to that though, Shannon showed up. She.. looked just like me. She told me that she would switch places with me. Or maybe not 'would' but 'was'. She said that I should see things through to the end, and that my life was hers to use. That she'd prepared a disguise, and one of the rifles in my room under the pillows. Then she told me, as she was falling unconscious, that if I didn't, she'd tell everyone the truth when she woke up.
"So, I did it. But the way Mom and Aunt Rosa treated each other.. I couldn't stand it. So while they were distracted, I went with Genji to get Shannon's body so I could switch with her and just wait out the bomb. We managed to get Shannon's body downstairs and out the back kitchen door, but Gohda came across us as we were moving everyone else into the study. I grabbed a gun from the study, and he slipped down the stairs when I chased him. I shot him before he could get up.
"From there, you know the story. I faked my death as Shannon, Dad caught me trying to find out what was going on when everyone split up and I shot him... Aunt Kyrie and Uncle Rudolf realized I was hiding under the bed after I poisoned the tea, and with Kanon's help I got them above ground and killed them... And then, Kanon stayed with me until the bomb went off."
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Post by animex75 on Oct 13, 2017 12:58:48 GMT 12
"I see. An unfortunate fate, indeed. Perhaps one of these fragments will find you with a more...agreeble end."
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Post by animex75 on Oct 13, 2017 13:39:09 GMT 12
"I feel I should point out one other thing, Jessica. You missed a cousin: you killed her parents and her friend Maria...but you left Ange alive. If you plan had gone as intended, she would be cursed to live with the Sumadera family." The figure shrugs. "She may well have been cursed to the life you did this to avoid. I would also point out that you didn't even need to die in order to escape; you could have faked your death in that explosion and ran away with Kanon. Nobody would have suspected that you survived, you would have been freed from the arranged marriage. Worthless gold wouldn't have helped you, but you would still have been free to live your life your way."
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Post by Yarn Witch on Oct 13, 2017 13:48:16 GMT 12
"True, Ange didn't come this year.. But, I couldn't wait. There was nothing that could be done, but.. once everyone figured out the gold was worthless, and all the assets of each company were gone, Ange wouldn't be of any interest to people would would use her like that. That's all I could hope fore." Jessica says.
"I.. I might have but..." She sighs. "Would Kanon have gone with me though? Even though I was responsible for killing everyone.. I.. I don't think so." Her gaze doesn't raise itself from the floor. "He did.. stay with me to the end though... So, would he have..?"
She laughs bitterly. "This must have been why Shannon insisted on switching with me. But I'm just as hopeless as the rest of them. Of course, nothing went right..."
With that, the shadow fades away again, leaving the view from the tea room on the remains of Rokkenjima.
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