Memory 12 (trivial positive), Memory 13 (significant positive)

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Just dumping script excerpts here for the time being.

Memory 12: Hideyoshi's murder. "Whenever I go traveling, someone always dies." [EP5] Form of four heart-shaped raspberry jam tarts in a red velvet bag. 3/4 remaining.

Eva dashed back, bringing everyone with her.

Gohda was gripping some wire cutters to cut the chain with.
After trying to open the door again and confirming that the chain was still set, she yelled through the crack in the door.
"Dear!! We're going to open this up...!! Cut it right now!!"
"Y, yes...!"
Gohda stuck the large wire cutter, which looked like it could slice off a whole finger, and easily severed the chain.
"Dear!!"

As soon as it was severed, Eva pushed Gohda aside and dashed in.
The others tried to follow her, .........but they bumped into Eva, who had fallen to her knees, moaning.

So even though they couldn't tell much of what was going on inside the room, ...they could tell by Eva's moans that they were too late......
"......What the hell......"
"Dear...!! Deeeeeeeeeeeear!! Doctor Nanjo!! Look at my husband...! Quickly!!"
"I, I'll do it right now......"
"You've got to be kidding me.........It's only been about ten minutes since Hideyoshi oji-san went out saying he wanted to rest......"
"......Is there anyone in the bathroom?"
"N, no...! There's no one here!"
"What could have happened, ...aaaaaahhhh......"
"Dear!! Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeear...!!"
".........I'm afraid to say...that there's nothing I can do......"

Nanjo stood up, hanging his head sadly.
It was only natural.

Because anyone, even if they weren't a doctor, would think that at a glance.
......Hideyoshi......was lying face down on the bed.

And stuck deep into his back.........was something like a blade with an intricate demonic design on it.
When Eva pulled it out with all her might, they could tell that it wasn't a blade, but some kind of stake.

And its sharp tip had penetrated nearly 15 centimeters in.
It had probably dug deep into the lungs.

......If it had been stuck in any harder, the tip might even have pierced all the way through to the surface of his chest......
"Didn't I tell you to wait for me?!! Why did you go on alone...?!! Stupid, stupid, stupiiiiiiiiid!! Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!"
"......The culprit probably waited for us to get careless and split up......"
"That bastard...... So he still hasn't had enough blood...?!"
"So he really is......hiding somewhere in this mansion......and coming after us......?"
"But there's something strange here. ......The doors and windows to this room are completely sealed."
"............ah. ...Th, that's right. The shutters are all shut, and the chain was on the door until a second ago......"
"Huh?! Isn't that bizarre...?! In that case, how did the culprit attack Hideyoshi-san in this room...?!"
"Perhaps they threw this stake through the crack in the door......!"
"Hideyoshi-san's bed is in a total blind spot from this crack. You couldn't even kill him with a gun. .........This really is strange. It's a closed room murder."
"A, ......a closed room murder......"
"......It's a bit too early to be sure about that. Maybe he removed the ceiling in the bathroom and escaped to the space above it, or maybe you can close the shutters from outside."
"The shutters. ............They didn't budge an inch from the outside. I just went and checked."
"......Erika........."
It's no wonder everything felt so quiet and relaxed.
At some point, Erika had split from the group.

Just now, she had finally arrived and poked her face in from the hallway.
......When she heard that a crime had occurred in this room, she had watched everyone rush towards the room, but circled around to the outer wall herself.

And she had gone all by herself to check that the shutter was down on the window, that you couldn't do anything with it from the outside, ......and that there was nothing out of the ordinary.
"Is the inside of the room just like usual......?"
"......There's no need to say it like that."
"My deepest condolences. So? What's the situation inside the room?"
".................."
"......The chain was set on the door, so we cut it and entered."
"And all the windows have the shutters down. They're locked tight from the inside."
"......What are they bickering about in there?"
Eva was arguing with Nanjo about something.
Apparently, she wanted to carry the corpse to the parlor.

Nanjo tried to calm her, saying that they should leave the crime scene as untouched as possible until the police came.
"What happened to the other corpses?! The culprit carried them off somewhere, right?! It may be that the culprit isn't satisfied with just killing, but intends to do something with the corpses...!! So no way! No way we're leaving my husband all alone here!!"
Eva does have a point.

After all, the victims before now have all been carried away after we were shown their terrible wounds.
"......Erika-chan. ...You'd probably like to preserve the crime scene, but could you just let this one slide...?"
".....................Do whatever you want. All I'm interested in is the fact that a closed room has appeared that's much more serious than Kinzo-san's study. I have no interest in corpses, so do as you please."
"............"

Battler's expression was clearly unhappy, ......but she ignored him completely.
"......Feel free to carry it out anytime. That corpse. Or am I in the way?"
Erika backed away from the door to open a path.

......There was no trace of any sadness for the dead.
Her eyes simply blazed at the thought of this closed room murder that had appeared.
In any event, the great detective had given her permission.

......Eva and some others wrapped Hideyoshi up in the sheets, and Gohda and Rudolf carried him out...
The sheets were quickly stained red.

It was so painful to see that Shannon and Kumasawa stripped the blanket off the bed to further cover the corpse...
"......Hey, out of the way."
"Yes, I am out of the way."
"Let's go to the parlor."
"Y, yes...!"
"Dear, deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeear, awaaaaaaaahhhhh...!!"
"......Listen up, everyone. From now on, we'll always move as a group. You must not let yourself be isolated."
"When the culprit attacked Genji, he probably got a master key. It's clear that even locking up will no longer make you safe."
"B, but...even the chain was set. How did they do it......?!"
"......It's impossible... The shutters and the chain were firmly set. ......Even with a master key, it's impossible to force your way into that room......!"
"It must have been Beatrice-sama's doing......, ...oooohhhhh......"
"......Th, there's no way Beatrice-sama did this.........The epitaph has been solved, so there shouldn't be any more reason to hold the ceremony..."
"How could we understand it...? This is impossible for anyone except a witch...!"
"......Impossible for anyone except a witch...you say? ! Has a nice ring to it."
"Erika-chan, are you listening? We've decided to stick together from now on. First, we're carrying Hideyoshi-san's corpse to the parlor. Can you hold off playing detective until we get there?"
".................."

When she heard the words 'playing detective', Erika grimaced visibly.
Then, everyone stumbled out, and she took a single step into the now empty guest room, .........looked around, and burned that scene into her eyes.
......Erika claimed to have a photographic memory.
If that was true, those few seconds were more than enough for her.

Later on, she could sip black tea in the parlor while perusing the photograph of the scene inside her memory, playing the part of an armchair detective...
Then, suddenly, her eyes stopped on the closet off to the side.
......A closet for hanging overcoats.
If it was large enough to fit a coat on a hanger, .........a person should be able to hide in it............
Slowly, ............Erika......stretched her hand out towards the closet............
".........ah-"

Erika's shoulder was grabbed roughly from behind.
"......Let's go, Ms. Detective. Didn't you ever learn how to stick together on school field trips?"
"Well, whenever I go traveling, someone always dies."
"Hey, what do you think you're doing, brats?! Come quickly...!!"
Rudolf told them to hurry.
After clicking her tongue and glaring at the closet, Erika followed Battler back to the parlor for the time being...

Notably Erika isn't there to observe any of that stuff at the beginning - she only really sees them carrying away the bloody corpse. '-'

Memory 13: Declaring detective's authority to investigate the murders in the cousins' room. [EP5] Form of a small jar with the smell of rotting fish. 3/4 sniffs remaining.

I softly pulled the blanket up......covering George-aniki's corpse.
His neck......was split wide open.

...It was probably.....larger and deeper than his mouth.
Would it have looked like a clean and neat corpse if that part had been covered up...?
Of course not...

......The large amount of blood which had poured out stained the bed a horrible red and black, ......and even covering him with the blanket couldn't hide the traces left by the blood which had leaked out.
After all, there were even large, red-black stains on the blanket, and covering him with it made his corpse look even more gruesome......
So I stripped the blanket off of my bed and placed it on top of the first one.
......But there were only two extra blankets.

So if we covered one more of the corpses, ......we wouldn't be able to cover any more.

I feel bad about the ones we can't cover, ......but for some reason, ...times like these make me feel like muttering 'don't complain about it being unfair' inside my head......
"......Kyrie. Put blankets over all of them. ...Wouldn't want them to catch cold."
"............Sure."
Kyrie-san and I covered the other corpses up to their heads with their blankets, just like George-aniki's...

......So that they wouldn't have to undergo any more shame...with their terrible wounds exposed like this......
In one bed, ......rested Jessica.
......Jessica was exactly the same as George-aniki.

Though she appeared to be resting quietly in the bed.........her neck had been sliced deep and the wound lay open in a brutal way......
And Maria was the same.
......Not only Maria.

There was one more victim.
Lying on the same bed as though they had been sleeping alongside each other......was Rosa oba-san.
George-aniki, Jessica, Maria, ...and Rosa oba-san.
......In this room were four humans who had been killed, their necks sliced open.

They had probably been like that since last night.

......I'd returned without noticing anything, gotten in bed, and fallen asleep.........
.........All of them had a horizontal cut across their throats.
I had been...forced to see all the way......into the depths of those gashes in everyone's throats...

At worst, the wound might have been deep enough to stretch halfway through their necks.
......If you tried to open it up, you'd probably be able to see that the gash reached all the way to the bone.
The only wounds were the single gashes on each neck.

......So if you just covered their necks with your hand, ......you might be able to persuade yourself that they were merely sleeping.
But even so, ......this frighteningly deep wound.........was incredibly......gruesome.........
There's no such thing as 'clean' or 'dirty' ways of killing.
...All methods of killing are equally brutal.

But even so, .........this was horribly......brutal............
And...there was one more thing which adorned these brutal murders to make them even more unsettling.
Drawn very large on the wall.........was something like an eerie magic circle.

It was drawn in a bright red paint which looked like blood and made it look as though some creepy ceremony had taken place in this room, with the four of them offered as human sacrifices...

However, that wasn't what we were concerned about.

......No one has a heart so cold that they could witness the deaths of those close to them......and still worry about some scribbles on the wall...
".........Good morning, everyone. .........Oh, ......what a wonderful magic circle."
The girl who bragged that she drew more pleasure from the process of exposing the truth rather than the truth itself......and who went so far as to call herself an intellectual rapist, ......appeared in the hall.
When she saw the extraordinarily creepy magic circle in this gruesome room, I heard what was unmistakably a sigh of admiration escape her lips...
"You............don't come in here......"
".........I just heard about it in the corridor. It's four people who've passed away, correct? ......Allow me to express my sincere regrets."
On Erika's face......no, that's not it.
It was in her eyes.
......In Erika's eyes, I could see......an indiscreet smile, .......that was hard to describe.

She...found this interesting.

......She found the outbreak of a crime......interesting...
It was like the smile of a kid off to the side of the stage just before her turn to appear in a school play...
"......Sorry, Erika-chan. We're busy at the moment. ......Could you wait in your room?"
".........Well, we can't have that. It's the detective's right to investigate the scene."
"We're saying that we have no business with you...! Now's the time for outsiders like you to stand back!!"
".........'Mysteries in which a suspect who tries to interfere with the investigation turns out to be the culprit are third rate', ......is how I see things."
"Who gives a damn about what you want?!! Get out!! No one needs you here!!"
"Erika-chan...! I'm truly sorry, but could you return to your room?! We're busy at the moment!"
"Geooooooooooorge, Geooooooooooorge, waaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!"
"......Stand back. I can't investigate the scene like this."
"If anyone needs to do something like that, we'll do it! The police will do it! Like hell you have the right to shame everyone's remains more than they already have been!!"
"Detective's authority. ......The detective has the right to inspect all crime scenes. Stand back, Ushiromiya Battler. This is an official right of this game, which the human side has acknowledged."
Those words, which seemed to be utterly ridiculous at first, ......were words of power which had come from a world on a much higher plane than the one they were in.
Battler was thrown back by an unseen power and landed on his butt.
Struck silent by this quiet intensity, ......nobody was able to prevent Erika from entering the room, suffocated by this bizarre atmosphere...
".........Don't worry. My goal is not to profane the dignity of the deceased. It's not like I want to peek into something as disgusting as a slit through someone's neck. ......I want to know something completely different."
"In other words, who committed these murders. .........Doctor Nanjo. And everyone else. ......Particularly the first one to discover them, Battler-san. .........There are many things I want to question you about, so I ask for your cooperation."
"L, ......like I said, by what authority are you doing this...?!"
"Because I am the detective."
Battler couldn't argue against this incomprehensible nonsense.
......No, ...he wasn't permitted to argue.
It was a restriction...placed on pieces.
Erika summoned Doctor Nanjo and heard the details of his preliminary autopsy.
......Normally, he wouldn't have spoken of that to an outsider so casually.

...However, for some reason, the atmosphere about the place had begun to make it feel as though nothing should be hidden from Erika...

ONCE AGAIN, Erika doesn't come in until after the corpses have been wrapped in blankets. Nanjo and everyone fill her in on all the details as described though.