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Let's Play Umineko no Naku Koro ni: Episode 1 Chapter 16
Episode 1 Chapter 16 – The Golden Land
Apparently it's not one of those at all, but sure. Everyone in the study feels guilty and nervous instead of just nervous now.
Too bad there isn't just a simple, Japanese Encyclopedia of Spooky Shit.
Now that they're less panicked, they remember that Maria is a little kid from a somewhat broken home, not a criminal mastermind. She's probably technically an accessory to the murders, but only because she's delivering messages for someone she thinks is a witch. Someone she thinks of as a super awesome mom who doesn't hit her. It's not like Maria is even physically capable of killing an adult without some kind of weapon.
But they can't exactly take it back now.
You know what? Being besieged by a mysterious murderer sucks.
Well, here we go again. At least this time it's very, very simple. Whoever put that letter down knew exactly what would happen. They knew who would look suspicious at the time the letter was discovered.
Natsuhi doesn't think following this thread of logic is going to do anything good for them right now.
They played directly into the culprit's hands. They delivered at least three more people to kill—the number of sacrifices still needed for the epitaph, mind—on a silver platter.
Battler is sympathetic to Natsuhi's priorities, but that doesn't mean he agrees with them. Nobody else is okay with casting out the others to save themselves anymore. At this point, she's outnumbered.
Pretty please with a cherry on top?
Sorry, Jessica, but no. Mom has already lost everything else in her life. If it meant holding onto you, she'd shove Battler and George out the third-story window right now without a second's hesitation.
It's the least she can do now, considering what she's already done.
By the way.
Battler finally strikes spooky shit oil.
Fuck you, Beatrice.
There's no doubt now. They've... they've gotta do something, right? Before Natsuhi can decide, something does it for them.
The phones are on.
This is fishy as all hell. But there's no harm to be done by answering the thing.
…
I already made one “who was phone” joke in this LP, I'm above making a second.
Battler asks for the phone.
So. Someone called them and isn't saying anything, and somewhere in the distance from the other phone, Maria is... singing?
This is too much. They've gotta go check on her. Of course, anyone with half a brain stem would know that's exactly what the culprit wants, but... they can't just ignore it.
Natsuhi gets pissed off, hangs up and tries making a call.
Goddammit.
Yes, the person with the gun should stay behind, that would be much safer!
Hell, Jessica is probably safer staying with the group even if they leave the safe house.
Battler goes out to face the witch with a weapon that fittingly resembles both a torch and a pitchfork.
They're out. Where's our little pop star?
Quickly, to the TV!
There are worse ways to behave in a slasher film situation, one must admit.
George has no idea how hard it would be to get one of those things through bone, why would he possibly know that? He's just scared and his mind is looking to make him more scared. Still, they operate according to the theory that the culprit is carrying around a cannon that fires ritual stakes, which would be both extremely silly and really badass. And also mean Natsuhi's gun isn't a definitive advantage.
Calm down. CALM DOWN. The parlor. What's in the parlor?
Well, Maria indeed, for one. Let's kick the door down.
Or do something way less cool and effective. These guys are so shitty at action rescues.
So they enter with a good old-fashioned combat roll, got it.
GO GO GO
There's no murderer shooting stakes out of a cannon at them in the parlor, which is a relief.
What's less of a relief is the unspeakable carnage.
[BGM: Golden Slaughterer]
The culprit went back to fucking up the victims' faces for whatever reason. And of course...
The Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Twilights have passed. The witch must be reviving as we speak.
Maria is still here and intact.
What... the fuck...
Did
she do this?
Is she traumatized from witnessing it? She's still just singing, mechanically.
Shut up, Maria!
Who did this, Maria?
OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE
So she didn't want Maria to actually see the murders? Or was it in order to send that phone message? Or both?
Either way, Maria had no problem whatsoever staring away and singing loudly on command while the other three died.
It must be a nineteenth human. It must.
Say. Where the hell is Natsuhi? Maria says she just left after reading a letter. Right, of course there'd be one last letter. So... what...
What...
[BGM: Dead Angle]
You wanted her? Here she is.
The letter was a challenge addressed directly to Natsuhi. If she wants to protect and represent the Ushiromiya family, then Beatrice respectfully grants her the chance to defend that position in a lady's duel.
The kids are out.
There
is
no
such
thing
as
witches.
The Ninth Twilight has passed. The Tenth Twilight is upon us.
And none shall be left alive.
Apparently it's not one of those at all, but sure. Everyone in the study feels guilty and nervous instead of just nervous now.
Too bad there isn't just a simple, Japanese Encyclopedia of Spooky Shit.
Now that they're less panicked, they remember that Maria is a little kid from a somewhat broken home, not a criminal mastermind. She's probably technically an accessory to the murders, but only because she's delivering messages for someone she thinks is a witch. Someone she thinks of as a super awesome mom who doesn't hit her. It's not like Maria is even physically capable of killing an adult without some kind of weapon.
But they can't exactly take it back now.
You know what? Being besieged by a mysterious murderer sucks.
Well, here we go again. At least this time it's very, very simple. Whoever put that letter down knew exactly what would happen. They knew who would look suspicious at the time the letter was discovered.
Natsuhi doesn't think following this thread of logic is going to do anything good for them right now.
They played directly into the culprit's hands. They delivered at least three more people to kill—the number of sacrifices still needed for the epitaph, mind—on a silver platter.
Battler is sympathetic to Natsuhi's priorities, but that doesn't mean he agrees with them. Nobody else is okay with casting out the others to save themselves anymore. At this point, she's outnumbered.
Pretty please with a cherry on top?
Sorry, Jessica, but no. Mom has already lost everything else in her life. If it meant holding onto you, she'd shove Battler and George out the third-story window right now without a second's hesitation.
It's the least she can do now, considering what she's already done.
By the way.
Battler finally strikes spooky shit oil.
Fuck you, Beatrice.
There's no doubt now. They've... they've gotta do something, right? Before Natsuhi can decide, something does it for them.
The phones are on.
This is fishy as all hell. But there's no harm to be done by answering the thing.
…
I already made one “who was phone” joke in this LP, I'm above making a second.
Battler asks for the phone.
So. Someone called them and isn't saying anything, and somewhere in the distance from the other phone, Maria is... singing?
This is too much. They've gotta go check on her. Of course, anyone with half a brain stem would know that's exactly what the culprit wants, but... they can't just ignore it.
Natsuhi gets pissed off, hangs up and tries making a call.
Goddammit.
Yes, the person with the gun should stay behind, that would be much safer!
Hell, Jessica is probably safer staying with the group even if they leave the safe house.
Battler goes out to face the witch with a weapon that fittingly resembles both a torch and a pitchfork.
They're out. Where's our little pop star?
Quickly, to the TV!
There are worse ways to behave in a slasher film situation, one must admit.
George has no idea how hard it would be to get one of those things through bone, why would he possibly know that? He's just scared and his mind is looking to make him more scared. Still, they operate according to the theory that the culprit is carrying around a cannon that fires ritual stakes, which would be both extremely silly and really badass. And also mean Natsuhi's gun isn't a definitive advantage.
Calm down. CALM DOWN. The parlor. What's in the parlor?
Well, Maria indeed, for one. Let's kick the door down.
Or do something way less cool and effective. These guys are so shitty at action rescues.
So they enter with a good old-fashioned combat roll, got it.
GO GO GO
There's no murderer shooting stakes out of a cannon at them in the parlor, which is a relief.
What's less of a relief is the unspeakable carnage.
[BGM: Golden Slaughterer]
The culprit went back to fucking up the victims' faces for whatever reason. And of course...
The Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Twilights have passed. The witch must be reviving as we speak.
Maria is still here and intact.
What... the fuck...
Did
she do this?
Is she traumatized from witnessing it? She's still just singing, mechanically.
Shut up, Maria!
Who did this, Maria?
OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE
So she didn't want Maria to actually see the murders? Or was it in order to send that phone message? Or both?
Either way, Maria had no problem whatsoever staring away and singing loudly on command while the other three died.
It must be a nineteenth human. It must.
Say. Where the hell is Natsuhi? Maria says she just left after reading a letter. Right, of course there'd be one last letter. So... what...
What...
[BGM: Dead Angle]
You wanted her? Here she is.
The letter was a challenge addressed directly to Natsuhi. If she wants to protect and represent the Ushiromiya family, then Beatrice respectfully grants her the chance to defend that position in a lady's duel.
The kids are out.
There
is
no
such
thing
as
witches.
The Ninth Twilight has passed. The Tenth Twilight is upon us.
And none shall be left alive.
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What an incredible badass. What a great character. She's perfect.
Now to decide whether to read Ep 1 in full for myself or just jump right into Ep 2. :|a
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Afterwards, an inspection of the crime scene was performed by the policemen who came.
The corpses of the children who were thought to have survived until the end were not found after all, but from the pieces of the corpses that were found in that unimaginably gruesome crime scene, the police had no choice but to conclude hopelessly that the lives of all of the eighteen people, including the children, were lost... How gruesome was the feast of the Witch? Thus, how beautiful the Golden Land is, is a tale that can only be told by them... There are no tales to tell to those who came after the feast had ended. They can only imagine what happened during those two days.
However, ...the Witch was fickle.
She did not bother herself to hide this tale that had no need of telling, and she allowed its transmission.
Then, many years later.
A strange wine bottle that had drifted on the waves to the pier of a neighbouring island was pulled out by a fisherman. Inside it was a thin, tightly rolled notebook fragment, written upon in crammed small letters.
That was,............this tale.
People will know for the first time, through this notebook fragment, the enigma of the mystery-enshrouded October the 4th 1986, and the truth of those two days filled with strangeness.
This incident was later called "The Rokkenjima Mass Murder Incident", "The Rokkenjima Eighteen Murders" or such, but connoisseurs of the world came to refer to it as "The Witch's Legend Serial Murders Incident".
People who delved in the occult claimed that it was the aftermath of an corrupt ritual that had sealed the island, and spread the two days filled with mystery embellished and twisted beyond recognition through each and every person's interpretation. However, even with all their interpretations, they will not be the ones to reach the truth of this incident. And even though the notebook fragment in the wine bottle will tell of this incident filled with mystery, it won't be telling it with the truth. That's right, ...perhaps not even the writer of the notebook knew the truth. ......It's possible that she wanted to know the truth.
According to the name written down,...her name is Ushiromiya Maria. Furthermore, as the result of an all-out police investigation, concerning Maria, a body part, ...a piece of her jaw was found. It was a precious instance where they managed to identify the owner of a body part through dentist medical records.
...Since in that gruesome situation there were countless body parts whose ownership or even provenance couldn't be determined, it can probably be said that this jaw was an extremely fortunate piece. The police, since the piece of jaw was damaged, and even though no other parts were discovered nor identified, judge it is hopeless to believe any are still alive. And so, let us tie this tale to the last sentence of the notebook fragment that Ushiromiya Maria left.
"By the time you have read this, I will probably be dead.
The only difference will be whether there is a body or not.
You who have read this.
Please find out the truth.
That's my only wish."
—— Ushiromiya Maria
-- The truth of "The Witch's Legend Serial Murders Incident" has not been brought to light even today.
Ushiromiya Krauss
Died at the first twilight.
Chosen by the key of the Golden Land, offered up as a sacrifice.
Ushiromiya Rudolf
Died at the first twilight.
Chosen by the key of the Golden Land, offered up as a sacrifice.
Ushiromiya Kyrie
Died at the first twilight.
Chosen by the key of the Golden Land, offered up as a sacrifice.
Ushiromiya Rosa
Died at the first twilight.
Chosen by the key of the Golden Land, offered up as a sacrifice.
Servant Shannon
Died at the first twilight.
Chosen by the key of the Golden Land, offered up as a sacrifice.
Servant Gohda
Died at the first twilight.
Chosen by the key of the Golden Land, offered up as a sacrifice.
Ushiromiya Eva
Died at the second twilight.
Pierced through the forehead by the "Stake of Asmodeus".
Ushiromiya Hideyoshi
Died at the second twilight.
Pierced through the forehead by the "Stake of Beelzebub".
Ushiromiya Kinzo
Died at the fourth twilight. Forehead gouged by the "Stake of Mammon".
Servant Kanon
Died at the fifth twilight.
Chest gouged by the "Stake of Satan".
Servant Genji
Died at the sixth twilight.
Belly gouged by the "Stake of Lucifer".
Attending Physician Nanjo
Died at the seventh twilight.
Knee gouged by the "Stake of Belphegor".
Servant Kumasawa
Died at the eighth twilight.
Leg gouged by the "Stake of Leviathan".
Beatrice the Witch
Revived at the ninth twilight.
She finally opens the door to the Golden Land.
Ushiromiya Natsuhi
Died at the ninth twilight.
The Witch praised her nobility, and granted her the honor of a duel.
Ushiromiya George
Missing on the tenth twilight.
The Witch, whose existence he recognized and whom he prostrated himself before, beckoned him to the Golden Land.
Ushiromiya Jessica
Missing on the tenth twilight.
The Witch, whose existence she recognized and whom she prostrated herself before, beckoned her to the Golden Land.
Ushiromiya Maria
Missing on the tenth twilight.
The Witch, whose existence she recognized and whom she prostrated herself before, beckoned her to the Golden Land.
Ushiromiya Battler
Missing on the tenth twilight.
Would the Witch beckon him, he who didn't recognize her existence and denied her, to the Golden Land?
The Witch will praise the wise, and should bestow four treasures in the Golden Land.
There, they should resurrect the souls of the dead, resurrect the love that was lost. For, if what they desired were even a mountain of gold, it was not something for them to obtain.
For George it was the fiancee he lost. For Jessica it was the person in her thoughts she lost. For Maria it was the love of her mother she lost.
Sleep peacefully, Beatrice.
A sleep from which no one shall disturb you again.
The winner is the Golden Witch, Beatrice.
All the eighteen people's time ran out before the riddle of the gold was solved.
All eighteen people are dead.
When the Seagulls cry, there are no survivors.