1st kill | video

[justiceerror]

[He's a little curious about something, actually. This place intrigues him quite a bit, what with the monsters and even the wonderful morgue with the dead bodies-.... ah, that murderous urge of his rises every so often, but he manages to keep it down by killing monsters here and there.

In any case.]

Heehh.... How splendid it is to see all the little insects crawling around in here.... the lot of you- do you truly understand how fragile you are? Life can be taken away so easily... hehahaha....!

I wonder, I wonder.... besides the monsters that are here, has anyone taken the life of another? And by that I mean- a person, maybe someone close to you? Maybe someone in this tower you had just met....?

Don't be too shy now.

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[worldend_dominator]

If you are here, Maria should also be here, right? Have you seen her?

[For the first time since she has arrived, Rosa feels excited. She is hanging on Battler's answer, inwardly praying for him to answer to affirmative.]

[justiceerror]

...If she is here.... hehehahaha...! We'll... have some fun.

[no rosa don't trust him for shit....]

[worldend_dominator]

Then, you haven't seen her...

[Did this mean...she was still in the clutches of the Witch? If so, Rosa had to rescue her daughter!]

Then do you know who brought us here? Was it that Witch, or was it someone else?

[justiceerror]

[Ah, she still thinks he's the regular Battler. How cute.]

That witch...? Ah, no no- of course not. It was someone else, I'm not too sure who they are exactly.

[worldend_dominator]

So the Witch had helpers beyond her goats?

[Though she had her doubts before, the final moments with the Witch had shown her that Battler was trustworthy--Battler and Maria and nobody else. She has no reason to doubt him, even if he did seem a little...different.]

[justiceerror]

Helpers.... beyond her goats?

Oba-san.... you're really something. Tell me- what's the last thing you remember from back home.

[worldend_dominator]

You saved me from the Witch. And you told her that you would be her opponent. I...don't remember anything after that.

[She leaves out the gory details. The tea party is one memory she doesn't want to visit.]

[justiceerror]

....Is that so?

[so just after the events of the second game. How interesting.]

How tragic that you ended up here, trapped yet again.

[worldend_dominator]

Battler-kun.

[Rosa looks more calm and composed as opposed to before.]

I will find Maria, and then I will an escape route and rescue both of you. It is my duty as the last of the Ushiromiya parents.

[justiceerror]

...Oba-san...

I hate to be the one to tell you, but even you are dead. Don't you get it?

[worldend_dominator]

That's impossible.

[She clearly remembers being alive during the Witch's tea party.]

We were alive when you saved me, and we are alive now.

[justiceerror]

[...should he continue the charade?

or should he tell her the truth?

It's more fun if she thinks that he's really Battler so....]

Aha, what was I thinking, you're right!

[worldend_dominator]

Did you...see something that made you think we died?

[justiceerror]

No no, my memory seems to be all messed up. My apologies, Oba-san!

[worldend_dominator]

[She frowns. Perhaps Battler too had found the experience with the Witch too traumatizing?]

I understand. There were times when I too wished that the nightmare could all be over.

[justiceerror]

It was such a nightmare, I agree.... no one should have died then.

[aah, internally he was so amused since he was the one that killed them.]

[worldend_dominator]

If only we could have figured it out sooner, there would have been no need for any of that. At least we now know the victims could not have been the perpetrators.

[Even as she says that, she feels doubt gnawing at her. Any of the "victims" could have faked their death with the help of Nanjo. His later death could have been the murderer's attempt to seal the doctor's lips.]

[justiceerror]

All that talk of witches.....

It was so simple though, I think the culprit was among us the entire time.

[worldend_dominator]

But...Battler-kun. You were the one who suggested that we accept the Witch, and in the end, I saw you and her with my own eyes.

[Battler was the one person who she never expected to propose this theory.]

Is there something else that you found out, Battler-kun?

[justiceerror]

[...

....that moron said that? He was so indecisive. Pick a side and stay there already.]

Just thinking out loud, that's all. I mean... there still could be a culprit, just saying it was the witch is so naive.

[worldend_dominator]

That was what I thought, but there was no one on that island besides us, the Witch, and her goats. Are you suggesting there was something we missed?

[Her siblings' deaths she had seen with her own eyes. The same for Kumasawa and Nanjo. The other deaths, however, she had not witnessed.]

[Of the one still alive when Rosa tried to escape, there were Rosa herself, Maria, Battler, and...]

Father...and Genji...

[She almost did not want to believe it. After all, had not Father sealed himself away in his study in fear or the Witch? Though with his inclination for black magic...]

[justiceerror]

Hm? What is it, Rosa Oba-san?

[worldend_dominator]

Father and Genji were not among the victims, at least, not when I last made a count. Could they...

[She stops when she remembers Battler is on the other end. He doesn't need this. He doesn't need to believe his own grandfather, her father, would murder his own children.]

[justiceerror]

...Go on.

[he smiles, amused by all this. of course, that might seem unsettling in itself.]