#korekiyo watches the collateral damage

[d0g-b0n35]

all your f/os are in a room. what happens?

[ryouverua]

One last time

HE’S BACK -

Fair warning - lots of text below. Like. Lots.

... But first, just before he came to meet with us again -

So all of his classmates in turn talk about how relieve they are that they can work together without suspecting each other, but something about the way she says it rings............ false. But then again, that might be my own bias colouring things. She outright states it in a way that the others don’t, idk. 8′D

Shuichi, though... he’s realized. Maybe not with an exact name, but he knows that isn’t true. He literally can’t bring himself to pretend that it’s true at all.

Oh Himiko...

5 survivors.... or maybe 4, depending on how the mastermind goes out. That’s definitely a new, sad record. :(

I CAN NAME A REASON -

Look who’s back with a brand new ahoge! It’s got that new-hair smell and everything -

H-He was never going to outright attack any of us though, right??? Even if he was willing to let us become collateral damage (which admittedly is super Not Great either, but -). That’s a really morbid thought Shuichi - where did it come from?

And of course, now that his hairpiece is back, he’s gone back to his more deferential, timid self.

“I’m telling you, that ahoge was 95% of my impulse control! Literally!”

But the fact that he’s apologizing now, when he was completely unapologetic before... that has to be that inner voice directing him now, right? But I wonder if it influences his ‘emotions’ (or whatever the equivalent would be for him) as well. Is the voice literally telling him to apologize or does he just ‘feel the urge’ to apologize?

So it is back.

Has it always been that tall???

Maybe if Miu and Kokichi had let him talk before Korekiyo’s trial, we could have followed up on this!!

Honestly though, I’m curious about this too. Is it a literal voice that tells him what to do? Does it appear as a suggestion to him? It sounds like it isn’t ordering him around but more ‘offering suggestions’... something that wouldn’t come across as obtrusive, but welcoming. Something that wouldn’t raise any alarm bells in him. Or maybe he was programmed to accept that just the way things were supposed to be.

.......... Actually the fact that it came up around Korekiyo’s trial, someone else who was revealed to be doing things based on a voice of sorts in his head, is a very strange coincidence? That... may or may not bode well for K1-b0. Is he going to be a foil to Korekiyo, or a parallel?

The inner voice may be good after all if it helped him realize this. 8′D 

Wait, they said there was an accident when he was first created, right? And he reset? This had to have been a fail-safe because something similar to this happened...

As much as I want to comment on the fact that he’s said he can’t cry and he literally is sweating and his ‘eyes’ are ready to overflow, but fffff every single time I see this sprite my heart clenches and I kind of want to hug him. >3>

We’ve officially got everyone on the same side now! ......... well okay there’s technically one specific exception but on the surface we’re all good!

Look at Maki getting better at shedding her tsundere side! She’s getting better at being outright kind and welcoming to people, yay ~

oh my god

This is so..... blatant.... especially with Maki literally saying K1-b0 created this opportunity and Monokuma throwing her under the bus to have another trial. She.... she’s mad at him, isn’t she? And Monokuma too? 

Oh man anyone who doesn’t realize at this point probably thinks it’s one of her anime-reference non-sequiters! But it’s not! It’s definitely a distraction! And she’s totally established herself as someone whose head is in the clouds so she she says random things like this, no one blinks an eye! What other comments has she covered like this?

ARE YOU THOUGH.............

Anyway, it’s time for the trial now so - 

Yeah that’s true - we haven’t actually resolved this clue yet, have we?

I thought your eyesight wasn’t good? But okay, why not! Have a go at it, K1-b0!

Okay before plot progression though, fluff text time -

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WHELP THIS IS A HELL OF A FLUFF TEXT

I have so many things to say about this despite the fact that I’ve definitely talked about it before, because I actually relate to the idea of feeling like a different person in cosplay - of, well, letting yourself become the role. And I’ve definitely said that the theme of ‘becoming the role’ is a huge secondary theme of the game, just under ‘truth vs lies’, which is actually why I originally had Tsumugi as my potential mastermind back in Chapter 3. It’s telling that she’s comparing K1-b0 and his ‘personality enhancement’ with her own cosplay though - she’s often said that she only finds herself interesting when she isn’t being herself, so maybe it applies here too. Is this her way of enhancing her own self? Of becoming what she thinks is a ‘better’ self, a more interesting and charismatic person?

With that reveal of ‘Junko’ at the end of the last trial and Tsumugi often comparing cosplay to ‘bringing someone to life’, ‘channeling’ and ‘and being a vessel for the gods’, that means she’s basically resurrecting Junko in a sense... or acting as her vessel? Is that what will happen here? I think it’s possible for her to bring the ‘larger than life’ Junko from history (like the way long-dead historical figures can often become their own entities that walk the line between fiction and reality) as a way to get around the cospox issue unless I’ve really been accusing the wrong person this whole time lmao. It also lines up with all the times resurrection has been brought up in the game which is A LOT - the funeral scene/reviving the Ultimates, Ryoma describing himself as an empty shell walking around (and trying to ‘revive’ himself via a reason to live, killing off the initial protagonist then reviving the role for Shuichi, the Necronomicon, the seance, Korekiyo and his sister, and lastly, Kokichi via Kaito in the exisal. Combine that with my theory of the students just being normal kids who were reborn with the memories of actual Ultimate students who already died... and them even being forced to dress for those roles... this line of hers becomes really important!

Is this going to become a showdown between personalities who died ages ago? But for what purpose? Even though it looks like there’s a decent amount of things that were made up/embellished in those lights, the clip of the funeral, Kaede wearing the helmet and the meteors were shown outside of the flashback light scene - so are we still facing a doomsday scenario?

And back to Tsumugi herself - does she not have enough conviction to follow through with these plans and Monokuma unless she’s in Junko-wear? That would explain why she and Monokuma don’t seem to be on the same page... So which one of them is pulling the strings, exactly?? They’re definitely independent entities!

Meanwhile Himiko is having a grand old time because she’s finally got a friend in Maki. Aaaaaaw ~

We’re, uh, going to have problems if that’s true.

SHUICHI REMEMBERS TOO LMAO

Strength of an old man, average or below-average agility, eyesight and intelligence... what else was there?

And it wasn’t stripped from you???

But... maybe they didn’t realize you had it. Or don’t care? It’s not a dangerous upgrade, so maybe they didn’t realize it could be used in a way that could possibly hinder them...

He says he’s accepted it, but I think it was more out of necessity. It’ll take him some time to adjust to this new state of mind... but I’m happy to hear it, tbh. Just like Shuichi, he’s really struggled with his Ultimate identity up until now, you know? And even though it’s on more of an extreme level, these talents created differences in everyone and how they related to the world, not just him. It’s just a bit more... well, obvious in his case.

It’s all about accepting the good with the bad, K1-b0! And despite some, uh, questionable actions on your part, you really did do so much for us - we never would have gotten to Kokichi’s and Rantaro’s lab, the mastermind’s room, or discovered the flashback light machine without you!

Oh???

.... Uh.

Uh. What. What are those. What.... What are those?!?!

GONTA WAS RIGHT - !

w h a t they’re so stupid and cute

Tiny.... cameras....??? They look like little camera men?

..... I.... I don’t know... if this rules out VR or not. Because if they need little these little guys with cameras, doesn’t that mean they don’t have the omniscient power of a computer program behind them....????

Again, why did they not strip you of these new functions along with the weapons???

First of all, damn, K1-b0! Getting your ahoge back didn’t kill all of that fire in you after all!

Second of all.............. your skin???? Shell??? It’s definitely changed colour? Since when has it been so human-like -

Looks like K1-b0 can still be tough with his ahoge. :D

Oh god, there’s a whole swarm of hivemind Camera-kubs all over the campus? And they’re literally everywhere?!?! wtf -

I guess that’s a similar concept to the regular Monokumas??? Sure there’s usually only one operational at a time, but they always seem to pick up where the last left off. kind of like Kyuubey

First of all, ew.

Second of all, TRAUMATIC BUZZING NOISE FLASHBACKS

THE ONES THAT I STUPIDLY THOUGHT WERE PART OF THE MONITOR SETUP AROUND THE SCHOOL

but that wouldn’t have made sense because there’s nothing like that outside -

So there’s nanotechnology that exists on such a scale............

MONOKAMERA, THE SIXTH MONOKUB, HIDING ALL OVER THE ACADEMY. THE ONE THEY CALL THE ULTIMATE CAMERA GUY. WATCH OUT FOR HER THEM....

Can we note that once again it is Maki declaring that Kokichi was correct? She is doing her damnedest to check her own prejudices against him this chapter as penance and it’s great.

It’s not ideal, but I also wonder if some of the things he uncovered were only possible using his methods. not that you probably actually are happy about that

actually I bet you were pissed about the whole chapter 5 thing too

..... I want to go back and see that tbh

TALK OF REINCARNATION AGAIN.... also lol Himiko that’s kind of mean

Monokuma thinks he’s going to win... and if I’m reading this correctly, he can still win at the expense of Tsumugi losing....? Is that why? Even if Tsumugi’s plan fails and we see past her trap of ‘Kaede is the mastermind’, identifying Tsumugi will still end up being a victory for him....?

And your sudden hope!extremism, yeah? Because that really was something. 8′D

OH GOD WE’RE GOING IN I MEAN... I’M READY BUT I’M ALSO NOT TBH, I’M NOT 100% SOLID ABOUT THE BIG MYSTERY SURROUNDING THE GAME

like

I feel like I ~get~ some stuff but there’s still something just beyond...........

“M-Maki I know you’re trying to put my mind at ease but can we not bring up dying before we’ve even tried to win -”

Real talk - I love Himiko’s spell names.

Y.... Yeah........ but why are you excited about this....?

Then again, I feel like you were actually really attached to Gonta? I mean, you were always defending him, right? Is this your way of giving him some postmortem love? ...... AAAAH I DON’T KNOW -

aslkdjf I know this was the same amount as last time but this is such a small cast left -

Man, we’re just... swinging right back to despair and hope again. Look, I know we’re appeasing K1-b0 but -

Why.... why is it back again. Why is Monokuma back again. Why did the killing game come back at all - what is the point of trying to be Junko? What’s to gain from all of this?

I remember thinking and really liking the idea that this game was completely separate from the last two, so it’s strange to have arrived at this point at the very end, but.... well. Here we go, I suppose.

Well said, Sweetcheeks.

So.... normally I’d have a drawn out map of the crime scene, but this is a pretty different situation so I made this at the trial save point:

It’s a bit small, so I’ll recap and expand on that and a few other things:

“TSUMUGI IS THE FUCKING MASTERMIND AND SHE IS TOTALLY TRYING TO SET KAEDE UP AS THE ‘FAKE’ MASTERMIND TO SCREW WITH SHUICHI’S (ET AL)’S HEADS

She set up the document saying Kaede has a twin and is trying to draw parallels to Junko (to trick Shuichi)

She planted the shot-put ball in the mastermind’s lair

She didn’t talk about ‘birthing a Monokuma’ (when everyone else did)

SHE IS THE ‘MOTHER’ THAT WAS REFERRED TO BY MONOTARO IN TRIAL 4, NOT MOTHERKUMA

So I went into some detail earlier about Tsumugi herself, and over the last few investigation posts I ended up decided on what I outlined above. On top of everything else, I think we’re going to nail her on the idea that while Kaede’s murder occurred, she went to the library via the mastermind’s lab and stole Rantaro’s Survivor’s Perk. The problem is... then what? What exactly will we do after that? Also I swear Kaede thought of the same thing, with no idea what to do once we confronted the mastermind -

As for the general situation, I’m sticking to my guns about the class not actually being the Ultimates they think they are - I saw the ‘talents�� part of the flashback light setup menu. Actually, the flashback lights themselves.... jeez. Okay. Ironically enough, my thoughts on them are that their execution in the game is similar to Kokichi’s lying style.

First the game has a cutscene that’s completely truthful. Kaede and Shuichi remember being kidnapped at the beginning of the game. The entire prologue scene. The funeral at the beginning of chapter 2. The meteors in chapter 3. Hell, the kid at the beginning of this chapter, who seems to be watching them and getting inspired by them...??? Then... that’s when the flashback light comes in and embellishes that truth with fantasy. That funeral? It was for the entire class, and they all see themselves as being part of it (picturing ‘themselves’ in those photos rather than the students whose memories they all have). The meteors? It gave rise to an entire death cult - the Ultimate Despair, in fact - and they, themselves, were hunted (which plays off of the players’ knowledge of knowing they remember being kidnapped off the streets). Or something like that....

I’m just trying to place a few things, like that picture of Kaito with his grandparents in the motive video and the flashbacks of Shuichi and Kaede in the helmets. Where do they get placed in all of this? Was Shuichi able to project the image of ‘Kaito’ he knew when watching the video, or is that part of the technomagic of the video itself? We did have a whole segment of the VR chapter talking about the mind being able to be fooled into overcoming the reality of the situation (dying via simulation murder) so is it safe to extrapolate from there? And did Shuichi and Kaede remember themselves with those helmets separately from those flashback lights, as a delayed reaction (which as of this chapter is proven to be possible) or is that real?

As for whether this is a simulation, there’s evidence for and against that. The flashbacks with the helmets - pro. The physical presence of cameras - false. Though with that said, I’ve done a bit of work in computer programs where you actually have to set up cameras in-program and when testing the animation, it’ll only capture what’s set up in the frame - so then again, maybe not??? Those computerized cameras can be programmed to move along a certain path and the lens/frame/etc itself can also be altered.... and they did counteract having blind spots by swarming the campus with them so. Hm. Honestly, it could go both ways. I don’t want to dwell too much on this only because I don’t think that’s going to be the ‘big’ reveal anyhow tbh...

Still though; roles, escapism, resurrection. That’s what I picked up on the most through this entire thing. So how does that work together...? The students were told they were replaceable, and the game will never end. Rantaro lived through one but died in the next. Did he live through a game with this same group of classmates or other people? Or, hell, were they ‘other people’ but with the same names/personalities/memories, but different physical people? And if he was willing to repeat the game again, then why? Was it for a chance to break the loop? Or is there a goal to be accomplished if he wins it properly?

Okay, I think I’m starting to go in circles here. What I know: Tsumugi is the mastermind, and she’s not in complete sync with Monokuma. She’s trying to get Kaede(’s twin) framed; Monokuma is perfectly fine with Tsumugi being identified. Tsumugi falls back on the Junko persona when she’s in mastermind mode - when she was alone, she couldn’t help but be that way with Motherkuma. It’s a role she’s able to take - maybe passed down. Anyway, the point is, she uses it to ‘enhance herself’ or maybe to ‘escape her plain self’. Almost like an emotional support thing....? I wonder...

A lot of the truth as we know it is embellished. Only things we can trust from the flashback lights are things we saw independently of them as well, I think? At the bare minimum, pre-Chapter 4. After that point we didn’t have any corresponding prologue clips to match with the lights. With that said, the students were given talents and memories to match them - I think the Ultimate students they belonged to were actually killed... by the Ultimate Hunt, perhaps. Either way, these kids were brought in as ‘replacements’, the same way the Monokids were replaced. Rantaro, at the very least, was not a replacement though - he had a chance to do this again and took it, for whatever reason... Is this a simulation for the Gopher Project? Or something else entirely? Why ‘resurrect’ the Ultimate students at all? And why is there potentially a scenario where Tsumugi loses, but Monokuma still wins? WHY DON’T I HAVE A FULLY CONFIDENT ANSWER FOR EVERYTHING FFS -

Oh, and of course, Kokichi Ouma was 25 steps ahead of everyone and had Rantaro’s figure in his room too, so that’s cool.

[oumakokichi]

So what exactly happens in chapter 3? I know that Angie started a student council, but I dont know what the motive was or why the culprit decided to kill at that moment.

Chapter 3 is, as per the usual DR tradition, kind of a hugemess. It has its fun moments, of course! But motive-wise it’s definitely theweakest, in my opinion. The given motive is interesting in theory, per se, butit’s actually not the reason the culprit killed at all. In fact, the culprit’sreal motive for killing is really just… oh boy, how do I put it.

I can explain what happens a little more in-depth, but I’llgo ahead and put it under a read more, just in case!

Basically, Angie’s Religious Student Council started takingshape as early as Chapter 2, but it didn’t really fully form until Chapter 3.In Chapter 2, Angie began showing a lot more influence over Himiko about midwaythrough the chapter, taking her under her wing and “converting” her to herreligion. The word change is so sudden that the word “brainwashing” is actuallybrought up several times, and Angie always avoids the subject whenever anyone asksher what she did to Himiko.

This, combined with the strong implications in her FTEs thather art talent works in a similar way to Mitarai’s, seems to suggest that shedoes “convert” people to her religion by showing them her artwork andessentially “painting” them the picture of god that they want to see the most,as she says her god has a different form for everyone. Himiko is the first onetaken under her wing in part because Himiko herself is seeking an escape from reality,because she doesn’t want to confront either the horrible things that arehappening around her or her own grief and trauma, and in part because Angieprobably saw her as a relatively easy target.

By Chapter 3, Gonta, Tsumugi, Kiibo, and Tenko also “convert”to Angie’s religion, giving them enough members to declare themselves a “ReligiousStudent Council,” whose interest isn’t in trying to escape outside but insteadis in a “peaceful school life.” Tenko only joins in order to keep a closer eyeon Himiko, because she’s worried about the amount of influence Angie has onher, but she pretends to be on pretty good terms with Angie for the first partof the chapter.

Gonta and Tsumugi, meanwhile, seem to have been taken in bypretty much the same methods as Himiko was. Where Angie told Himiko that hergod was young and handsome, she tells Gonta that his is like a kind and nurturinggrandmother. As for Tsumugi, her god has “black hair and red eyes” (a possiblereference to any number of DR characters, but my money is on Kamukura).

There are a few reasons I doubt Tsumugi was taken in nearlyas much as Gonta or Himiko, but I’m not sure how far you want to be spoiled, soI won’t go too far into depth. As for Kiibo, I’m pretty sure he joined mostlydue to wanting to feel more “human” himself. By taking an interest in humanreligion, it was a way for him to show that he was also an “ordinary student”like the rest of them.

In any case, Angie’s Religious Student Council takes theforefront in Chapter 3. With so many people backing her up, Angie feelscomfortable enough to say that they’re going to start enforcing some measuresto ensure that they all have a peaceful school life. No one is forced to jointhem, per se… but it becomes clear very early on that non-student councilmembers won’t get the same benefits as the student council themselves.

They set up a curfew, much like Celes’ own suggestion backin dr1 that no one leave their rooms at nighttime. But student council membershave full privileges to walk around whenever they want, at whatever hours theywant. It’s only non-student council members who are told to stay in their rooms,the reason being that they haven’t actually agreed to cooperate with everyone’s“peaceful school life.”

This sort of authoritative behavior gets taken up to the maxwhen the Monokumerz come by later on to deliver another remember light. Therewas one earlier on in the chapter which the group did use, but upon thedelivery of a second one later on, Angie actually takes the light and crushesit underfoot, saying that “they don’t need memories of the outside worldanymore because they’re all going to live peacefully in the school.” Despitethe fact that her motivations are largely driven by self-preservation, thisscene was actually quite interesting since it’s true that the desire to getoutside is the main motivating factor for most of the murders, not only inndrv3 but in DR as a whole. Not using the remember lights isn’t actually such abad idea in itself.

As for the actual motive presented in the chapter, that’swhere things start to get weird. While most of the motives in ndrv3 feel morestrongly paralleled with dr1’s motives, I’d say Chapter 3’s feels more like ansdr2 motive. The Monokumerz tell all the cast that there’s going to be a “transferstudent”—then tack on the fact that this “transfer student” is actually goingto be one of their deceased classmates. They say that they can pick whoever theywant to resurrect, but only one person. Then they give them a ritual handbook,to tell them how to carry it out.

All the characters express their disbelief, but theMonokumerz assure them that it’s 100% possible, and that they really canresurrect someone. Whether they mean it in the literal sense of the word, orwhether the meaning is a little trickier (which I think is the case, judging bysome of the later chapters in ndrv3 and some of the foreshadowing with theMonokumerz themselves) is hard to judge. Either way though, Chapter 3 as awhole deals a lot with very occult and religious motifs and themes.

Angie, of course, takes the decision of who to resurrectinto her own hands, as the leader of the Religious Student Council. Of the fourpeople who’ve died, they choose Amami, and Angie begins holing herself up inher research lab shortly afterwards in order to prepare for the ritual. Her labis one of the only ones which actually can be locked even though she discoveredit while she was still alive, because she specifically asked for a key in orderto work, stating that she can’t “work as god’s vessel” while other people arewatching usually.

And then we have… why the murders actually took place. As Imentioned earlier, they happened for reasons pretty much entirely unrelated tothe “resurrection” motive, or even the Religious Student Council itself. Themost that can be said is that Korekiyo’s personal motive are religious innature—but that’s about it.

Mostly, he kills because he was always a potential threat,and in Chapter 3 he finally saw an opportunity. He wanted to kill one of the girlsunder the guise of the kagonoko ritual, a ritual specified in a book from his researchlab which supposedly allows for communication with spirits. He set up all thepreparations in advance to make it possible to kill someone in secret duringthat ritual, and Angie walked in on him setting it up while walking through theschool at night. She heard the sound of him sawing and grinding at thefloorboards, walked in on him, and he realized that he needed to silence her ifhe wanted to get away with the murder he’d originally wanted to commit.

Basically, Angie was collateral damage in the same waySaionji was in sdr2. After knocking her unconscious with a plank of wood fromthe floorboards, Korekiyo taped up her head injury, carried her back to herresearch lab, and killed her there with the katana from his own lab. He thenused it to create a locked room by thrusting it into one of the wax figuresAngie had made and tried to make it look as though the murder could only havebeen committed by one of the Religious Student Council members.

Later on, during the investigation for Angie’s murder, hebrings up the suggestion of “trying to talk to Angie’s spirit,” in order to goback to his original plan of killing during the kagonoko ritual. Originally,Himiko volunteers for it, but Tenko steps in, saying she wants Himiko to have achance to say goodbye to Angie as her friend. During the course of the ritual,once the lights are out, he jumped on the floorboards that he’d prepared andslammed Tenko’s body up into a sickle that he’d taped to the top of the cagecovering her, which jammed its way into her neck and killed her instantly.

His reasons for this are… uh, well, because he wanted to “reunite”with his deceased sister. And it goes a lot darker than that. He wanted to sendher “female friends” in the afterlife—by killing them. As long as they werepolite enough, any of the girls would do (the only girls he says weren’tqualified at the end of the Chapter 3 trial were Maki and Miu). He’s confirmedin the Chapter 3 trial to have killed almost100 girls for this reason, saying that he was “almost there.”

He wanted desperately to reunite with his sister because hewas in love with her. It’s gross and it’s not portrayed as some romantic ormisguided thing by the narrative, thankfully. Pretty much all the charactersare shocked and disgusted when they find out. But it’s still really, reallymessed up. He says he and his sister “swore their love to each other,” thatthey were “like lovers,” and that their “forbidden love” had “nothing to dowith being siblings.” So it’s pretty undeniably just incest.

It’s not really clarified whether he was in love with hissister or if the feeling was mutual. All that’s really mentioned is that hissister was older than him. Also, during the trial, he definitely seems to believe he’s being possessed by herspirit. While I doubt such a thing is actually possible considering there’s noforeshadowing for it or indications, I will say it seems like Korekiyo isdefinitely somewhat unstable near the end of his trial, as he begins to “communicate”with her more and more often whenever he takes off his mask. By the end of the trial,he’s a screaming, shaking mess, and he and his “sister” yell at the group to “apologize”repeatedly, like a mantra.

This brings me back to… well, Chapter 3 being a mess. Ithas parts that are a lot of fun, and I will say the actual case this time wasprobably the best one in terms of actual mystery-solving out of all threegames. But the motive given by the Monokumerz is shaky and not expanded upon,and Korekiyo’s actual motives are horrifying and disgusting, and I know a lotof people (myself included) are uncomfortable with Kodaka even touching on thesubject at all. Again, it’s good that nothing about Korekiyo was portrayed in aforgivable or understandable light, but it’s still territory I’m not sureKodaka should’ve really written about since it’s a very, very sensitive matter.

There’s really not much reason as to why Korekiyo pickedChapter 3 specifically to kill, other than that he saw an opportunity and hewent for it, much like Celes in dr1. Just like Celes, Korekiyo was always apotential threat—he just laid low and bided his time until he felt like hestood a good chance of getting away with it. His own research lab opening up inChapter 3 was probably what he had been waiting for the most, considering thekagonoko ritual book gave him the perfect pretense for committing the kind ofmurder that he wanted to.

That’s… really the gist of it. It’s still a pretty confusingmess no matter how I explain it. Again, I feel like it’s probably the weakestin the game, though that’s pretty normal for DR games, but Korekiyo’s motivesin particular were really, really awful, and it’s one of the few instances I canthink of in which a murder (a double-murder, actually) had absolutely nothingto do with the actual, given motive.

I hope I was able to answer your questions, though! Thanks forstopping by!