#but until he does i'll insist it's stupid and reductive

[piduai]

do you think there’s some wiggle room for assuming that fina and olga were killed accidentally by a stray bullet or do we all agree unanimously that wilk killed them purposely in order not to get compromised?

who is this "all" you're talking about, not only i disagree with that theory i think it's incredibly stupid and one of the worst to float around. wilk did not kill fina and olga on purpose. stating otherwise is a disservice to both wilk and tsurumi as characters. it is reductive.

first of all it is logically unsound. why would wilk do that? he is not omnipotent; even in the event that he saw that it was fina behind the bushes (which he didn't) for him it would have been just seeing her in her own backyard. he didn't know of her agreement with hasegawa. why would he kill her then? i've seen people propositioning that he must have seen her holding the wanted posters and put two and two together because he's smart, but he hasn't. he saw the poster only after she has been shot:

and because he is indeed very intelligent, he did put two and two together; hasegawa is not the man he thought he was, he's wanted by the government too, he's MUCH more dangerous than he seems, and he is aware that the three of them are considered enemies of the state. on top of that one of the three just accidentally shot his wife and child. this is trouble. that's the reason he hastily dragged sofia out of there, because he didn't know what hasegawa is capable of. even in the unlikely event that he killed fina because, as you say, he didn't want to be compromised, why would he let hasegawa live, then? if that were the case, he would have killed him too. so this makes absolutely no sense.

second of all, this would unnecessarily paint wilk as an absolute monster. and for what? he is a difficult case i'll grant you that, but he is not a monster. wilk's cold and cruel logic was extended to circumstance, but even that considered, would he kill the woman who has been receiving him in her house for months while her husband was sharing his precious knowledge with them, and their infant child besides? he has been shown as being a person capable of feeling deep gratitude even before he had asirpa (he gifted inkarmat his own mother's kimono for being his guide and teacher around hokkaido). would he do that to the people who showed him so much kindness? i don't think so. wilk has assassinated the russian emperor because he was a political extremist. he killed his own dying comrade when they were being chased because it was absolutely necessary, sofia admitted that after a lot of hesitation she would have done the same. killing fina and her child wouldn't have been a necessary sacrifice even if he concluded that she knew about what he is; it would have been an act of evil. and wilk is not an evil figure in golden kamuy.

third of all, if he had done that, then he would have completely, unequivocally justified tsurumi's hatred and vendetta against him. if we look at it the way it is in canon - it was a tragic accident that happened in the midst of chaos, nobody at the site knew exactly who was the killer (until tsurumi retrieved the bullet), they all shared the blame in some way but ultimately it couldn't be pinned on someone alone - then tsurumi's attitude towards wilk is complex and multi-layered, but while he has a right to be resentful towards him and the trio as a whole, ultimately his grudge borders on petty because, again, it was an accident. if it were on purpose, then he would have been 100% justified in his actions towards them. who can blame someone for loathing the intentional(!) killer of his family and for wanting to get revenge? which would murder a good chunk of tsurumi's carefully crafted characterization at the core for no good reason.