#when dlanor said it was boorish to question alibis to figure out who for example put a candy on maria's pocket etc...

[kushanna]

what i'm understanding from all this is that the epitaph in reality has no relation to determining how the murders happen. by "all this" i mean the gold being found and the crimes continuing (again), the murders happening in a slightly different way from how it's presented in the epitaph and that whole conversation with virgilia. i'm not saying the epitaph is meaningless, just that its meaning doesn't actually depend upon how the murders are committed or the gold being found. if the whole point is that battler (and maria...? she always stays until the very end too) has to make it until the end, then the murders would continue anyway, they were never supposed to stop. almost as if the gold itself is what's meaningless, it has no effect whatsoever on the grand scheme of things, you find it, you don't, nothing changes, you yourself live to see october 6th but that's it. the gold and the murders are only there to put focus on the epitaph for battler, which is what matters. but she keeps her promises and isn't it a promise that the ritual should stop? or the ritual stopping means something else? ..............................? i very much not do see yet how i'm supposed to connect 1986 rokkenjima with beato, who at the very least is Not An Alive Person At The Moment, in a fully "realistic" way, without taking into account other planes of existence at the least, which is the biggest problem i have. i'm not really seeing the tools that are supposed to help me (i believe they exist lmao just not seeing them yet), but i do understand it's as if they're "reenacting" previous scenes, like with eva and the receipt and the chain in the door, but there's a focus on natsuhi for reasons i don't fully understand. i am very lost 👍🏻