#Emma cuts her ear off yeah but it's offscreen and it's easier to hide/“forget” about

[fullscoreshenanigans]

While Krone doesn’t reveal to the children the extensive self-defense training she went through at HQ that’s further elaborated on in the second light novel, Isabella proves how capable she is when she easily throws off Ray’s and Emma’s respective attempts to subdue her before making a calculated, clean break of Emma’s leg, so by then any plans to attack her directly without impeding her senses or mental capabilities are out.

(Chapter 16)

But even before then, they know Isabella disappears every day around the same time to report to Grace Field headquarters. If she doesn’t, HQ will know something is up, so that narrows the time frame for when they could neutralize her with other means without alerting them. This is without getting into how Isabella is almost constantly attending to the nearly thirty other children in her charge who aren’t in on the plan, nine of whom are under three years old, so they wouldn’t want to attempt anything in front of those siblings either. They probably wouldn't react well to it, and they don't want to traumatize them further than they already will be upon learning the reality of the house.

(Chapter 24)

Finally, Ray won’t go along with any plan that attempts to permanently incapacitate Isabella. He wants Emma and Norman to remain at the house until his twelfth birthday because he's banking on his shipment being the next one after Conny. He’s still fully convinced at this point escape is only possible for four kids at most, and he’s not willing to jeopardize Emma and Norman’s future on anything so uncertain. All factions in this conflict have incentives to maintain an air of normalcy for as long as possible to keep HQ from stepping in.

If Ray and Norman couldn't kill Isabella because the alarm would go off when her heart stopped, why didn't they take her eyes off with a knife ? Or Krone. Maybe Krone and Isabella had been trained in this, but that gave them time to tie the two together. I really ask honestly. Maybe they think it isn't worth