Ok, so I read this in the Winter Readathon, and despite my lack of confidence that I’d manage, pushed myself for 9 hours of reading and made it to 100k characters. So I have jumped ahead a little 
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Yeah Shannon has been there longer so I guess that explains it, but leads naturally into the question of what brought them together in the past. Ronove is a demon working for Beatrice but as far as we know Shannon didn’t meet her previously when Kinzo was doing… whatever with Beatrice in the past. Genji of course would’ve.
I love how your tarot card looks. I’ve thought before it’d be fun to get a reading if I ever found myself in that situation, but I’m not sure how I would haha. I just find them aesthetically really appealing.
I’m going to struggle to remember everything given the massive volume of Umineko I read all at once. I would’ve taken more proper note of chapter names and things I wanted to mention, but given the readathon concept I was trying to do as much as quickly as I could at the expense of everything else, so I guess to be safe I’ll just mark where I am right now and ramble about what comes to mind. I’ll have to refer to your posts later which’ll probably job my memory, too.
Someone in the middle of Announcement of Sacrifices
This time they’re very systematically taking out all servants. Wealth disparity presents itself again. Since Beatrice mostly seems to want to amuse herself with people’s suffering, she sets up a deal to make Kanon suffer. It feels like all of Beatrice’s deals are kind of scams meants to ultimately torment you, which is interesting considering the whole backstory is built on the Beatrice and Kinzo deal. I mean, it’s not like he seems to be having a good time as he wails about her, so I guess that tracks. The way the servants get gently, nicely killed is interesting. I wonder if there’s more to that.
Kumasawa becoming witch is really funny; I love that compared to how sad and scared she’s been before. The giant battle with all its mythological names and chuuni descriptions was wearing me out reading in bulk like this. Mostly what I’m interested in is how we more clearly see the on-board and off-board separation, former Beatrice loses and dies here so she hangs out with meta-Battler and becomes his assistant. She seems… nice. Also Beatrice literally does the お前はもう死んでる thing lol. Here is where I can see what you meant about the episode being written to deal with how seeing magic makes it hard to engage with the idea of no magic. Feels like here we get this straight up explanation that we’re going to be shown things from a perspective, watch them, but that doesn’t necessarily make them real. The magic is happening just like the CRT gremlins are. A hypothetical method that only needs to match the same final outcome, which is big for how we interpret anything that happens now.
I’ve always heard people joke that every VN has Schrodingers Cat and every VN has a line about a collapsing like a puppet with its strings cut, and both of those happen close together here lol.
IIRC the point Beatrice wouldn’t repeat was that everyone was killed, but she changes it to no suicides. Very interesting 
Then Ronove makes her back off from continuing.
I’ve been curious to see this line in Japanese lol, it’s notorious in the English translation.
I mean… credit to them, it works.
Then we get into epitaph solving and here I wish I wasn’t pushing myself to read through quickly, haha. I’m going to keep thinking about it from here cause it feels like we got big hints. No idea what’s such a big deal about 黄金郷 becoming 黄金の郷 at the end, but Rosa makes it sound like if she hadn’t pointed that out Eva wouldn’t have solved it… other important points are figuring out what the river represents, and the sweetfish could be something else, but maybe their behavior, going out to the ocean and coming back to lay eggs is important? This stuff is still really hard for me but they basically spelled out the process, finding that stuff then removing parts.
Funny how, when they actually try, multiple of them can semi-independently solve it.
I just like this image a lot. I kind of love Eva Witch. She’s horrible, and I keep bringing up how entertained I am by horrible characters, but that’s some of the fun of fiction. Eva’s selfish side that thinks she’s better than the rest of the family for how hard she works gets to run over them now. She has the worst laugh in the world, I love how it gets progressively more shrill and offputting. It’s a really fun, unexpected development. This thing just keeps growing with more characters taking over the narrative.
Speaking of, Ronove is fully Battler’s opponent now that he told Beatrice off. I’ve really liked seeing how her character changes, she’s putting on a bit of a show for Battler but at the same time overdoing it and also being sort of childish around her mentor. Now she’s awkwardly trying to give people nice peaceful deaths so they can play their game for real.
Jesus I thought it was just funny that Rudolph would jump straight to that, a little joke about him being shitty, and was not at all prepared for Rosa to say yes and for that to just actually be a thing she does regularly. 
I’m at a loss for who could’ve killed Rosa and Maria how. But it is sad seeing Beatrice apologize to Maria, and reminds me that she never killed her in the past two games. She definitely actually just likes Maria a lot. I’m glad someone is being nice to Maria.
Probably a lot more that I could say but I still finished this recently, wanted to get out as many scattered thoughts as I could before just completely resting and putting it out of my mind for a bit to relax cause I’m really fatigued now but my thoughts are racing about it. Will just end by sharing my love for happy Hideyoshi with a gun
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