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Sayo Yasuda (安田紗代)
Yasu (ヤス)
Lion (理御)

Territory Lord
Head of the Ushiromiya Family
The Golden Witch
Endless Witch

Hair Color

Light-colored (EP7)
Brown (EP8)

Voiced By

Sayaka Ohara
Daisuke Ono (End of the Golden Witch)
Rie Kugimiya (Ougon Musou Kyoku's B. Battler/Sayo route)

"That's right, I'm furniture! Furniture!! Why... why didn't you let me die back then?!!"

- Sayo to Nanjo and Genji

The true form of Beatrice, and writer of the message bottles. Her true name is Lion Ushiromiya, and was given the fake name Sayo Yasuda (安田 紗代) after the cliff incident. When she was taken into the Fukuin House, she was given the "blessed name" Shannon. After Kinzo's death, she succeeded the headship and became the true head of the Ushiromiya family.

Sayo is the child of Kinzo Ushiromiya and Beatrice Ushiromiya who was born due to the result of incest. Sayo is, at the same time, Kinzo's child and grandchild. The series hinges on the mysteries surrounding Sayo.

Relationships

Beatrice - character, role

Shannon - character, role, imaginary friend (originally)

Kanon - character, role, imaginary friend (originally)

Battler Ushiromiya - rival, love interest, nephew, cousin

George Ushiromiya - fiancée, nephew, cousin

Jessica Ushiromiya - love interest, niece, cousin

Maria Ushiromiya - best friend, niece, cousin

Natsuhi Ushiromiya - step-mother (before cliff incident), half sister-in-law, aunt

Krauss Ushiromiya - step-father (before cliff incident), half-brother, uncle

Eva Ushiromiya - half-sister, successor, aunt

Chiyo Kumasawa - mother figure

Genji Ronoue - father figure

Beatrice Ushiromiya - mother, half-sister

Kinzo Ushiromiya - father, grandfather, successor of

Clair Vaux Bernardus - original Beatrice appearance, vessel (during Requiem)

Lion Ushiromiya - alternative existence

Appearance

Originally, Sayo's appearance was left unknown to the reader in the sound novels and it could only be assumed that she looks like her other counterpart Lion.

When she appears in the manga adaption of Requiem of the Golden Witch under just the name of "Yasu", she is portrayed as having long pale hair that covers her eyes and goes down to her mid back till the point that she creates her Beatrice persona. After that she takes on the appearance of Shannon. When she appears as the culprit she is shown wearing a knee length dress with a collar and cravat along with the long pale hair.

In EP8 Sayo is given her post-Beatrice appearance due to Confession of the Golden Witch taking place after the creation of Beatrice. Early on she shown as a frail, young trans girl with short, slightly wavy brown hair. She is usually dressed in the traditional Fukuin maid outfit. As she grows older, she begins to wear pads to simulate breasts. While dressed as Kanon, she straightens her hair (or wears a wig) and puts on the prescribed male servant uniform. When dressed as Beatrice she wears the witch's dress and sometimes a ginger blonde wig. She also has a small scar on her foot from polydactyly operation.

Personality

Sayo is always characterized by a feeling of vast loneliness, pain, want for understanding, and horrible body image. When Sayo first appears she are a rather well-behaved, happy, and very lonely child who creates imaginary friends to feel less lonely. As Sayo ages and grows up she builds up more self-confidence when new servants come and along with it Sayo also grew a love for pranks and magic tricks. After meeting Battler however, Sayo's personality starts breeding a shred of bittnerness, anger, and sadness that will continue to grow over time. Sayo continues to grow and become more content even in the loneliness.

As the time went Sayo grows extreme self-worth, body image, and gender identity issues. The manga adaption goes more into detail about Sayo's gender identity issues. While Sayo was born a male the cliff incident left her body mutilated and she was raised as a female. Her not growing chest, the first menstruation that did not come, as well as her face that looked just like a boy on the first glance started developing her doubts concerning her own body, which grew worse day by day. As a result she started dressing as a boy and pretending to be "Kanon" believing it will make her life happier. This game brought her modest amount of mental stability. Genji and Kumasawa strongly supported it all the way. It is also mentioned that she had many complexes as a woman. After she finds out about the condition of her body she starts calling herself "furniture" believing she is incapable of love.

Bits and pieces of Sayo's full personality are littered throughout Sayo's three personas. She is shown to hold nothing but contempt for the entire Ushiromiya family except for the cousins which pushed her more into wanting to kill them all. When Sayo appears in 1986 she completely lifeless and uncaring of herself and is open to any punishment the roulette will deal out, even death.

Background

Sayo was the child whom Kinzo gave to Natsuhi Ushiromiya to raise as her own, in attempt to atone for his sin by making a child a proper member of Ushiromiya family and giving it a happy life. However, Natsuhi rejected the child and was left guilt-ridden when the child fell off the cliff along with another servant nineteen years ago. Unknown to Natsuhi and Kinzo, the child survived the incident thanks to Genji and Nanjo. According to Nanjo the child was gravely injured, with their sexual organs badly mutilated.

After the accident, Genji decided to keep the child's survival in secret to prevent another incestuous advance by Kinzo. To ensure that child wouldn't be found out easily, Genji lied about Sayo's age, lowering it by three years. Because of Sayo's feebleness and underdevelopment it was easy to fake. Genji personally arranged Sayo's hiring, hoping to reveal the truth if a good opportunity presented itself. He believed that if Kinzo truly felt affection as a parent, he would notice traces of the deceased mother and daughter in the child and Kinzo and Sayo would be able to develop a parent-child relationship without knowledge of truth.

Sayo was initially nervous with life on Rokkenjima, which was completely different from the life in Fukuin House and everything was new and unfamiliar. As the youngest servant to work for the Ushiromiya family, Sayo was the only one who missed work in order to go to school. Though Natsuhi and Krauss always thought there was something odd about it, questioning Kinzo, Fukuin House and Genji didn't shed any light on this. Servants also did not welcome the special treatment Sayo was given and often complained about it and even gave her the nickname "Yasu", which she despised. Because of Sayo's age and sloppiness, they grew to dislike Sayo even more, while Sayo continued to put effort into whatever work was given. However, older servants were annoyed by how often they had to help Sayo with chores because her young age didn't allow the young servant to do most things independently. However, these problems were viewed by Sayo as tests from God to help grow into a wonderful person someday.

It is mentioned that aside from Shannon, Sayo seemed to be in good relationship with the House Director, who played with and taught Sayo about things that cannot be seen with one's eyes, but with eyes of the heart. This way Sayo learned how to recognise beings not of this world at the Fukuin House and often spent free time in isolated rooms dreaming. Later it is revealed by several monologues that Shannon is Sayo's imaginary friend.

Basing on Kumasawa's stories of Beatrice's ghost and evil spirits of Rokkenjima, the young servant created the first Beatrice (later known as demon Gaap). When Sayo's sloppiness resulted in incidents like losing keys or cleaning implements, the servant blamed it on Gaap's magic. Sayo and the prototype Beatrice became friends over the small broom which Beatrice hid in order to prank Sayo. Yet even after getting used to life on Rokkenjima, Sayo didn't manage to make a single human friend.

To help avoid the witch's pranks, Kumasawa gave Sayo a spiderweb charm (the kite strings) and taught Sayo a method to avoid losing things ('take them home' charm). Kumasawa's charms helped Sayo deal with forgetfulness and regain confidence. As time progressed, the young servant formed a relationship with Kumasawa and started borrowing mystery novels from her. Sayo found discussions and theorizing as the most entertaining part of mystery novels. While reading " And Then There Were None" Sayo ended up seeing mystery novels as a game between humans and witches.

After previous servants left, Sayo decided to make a good impression on new servants and teach them the ropes, being the more experienced one. However, the new servants were already warned about Sayo's carelessness and they didn't take Sayo seriously. Because of that Sayo played a prank on the new servants, claiming that the behavior was the result of being possessed by Beatrice, in hopes that they would begin listening to Sayo. Initially they didn't believe but after some time they started admitting that something inhuman existed on this island, as pranks became harder to explain. The day Beatrice pranked servant for the first time Sayo represented a desire to become a witch rather than a perfect servant, claiming to be done playing the part of the servant. Sayo's world was modified and she took on the name of the Golden Witch, the ruler of Rokkenjima's night, leaving previous Beatrice nameless for a while. Sayo's own self was erased from Shannon's memories, making the supposed two-person into single-person room and Beato took the form of a witch in white dress in accordance with rumors of Beatrice's ghost, the opposite of Gaap's appearance.

As time progressed Shannon gained respect from the newer servants. Due to a relationship with Battler and other children, Sayo began to pay more attention to the real world, giving up magic. Few times a year, Shannon and Battler met to discuss mystery novels they read and the motive behind them. Both of them strongly believed that only a heart can move people to commit a murder. At some point these discussions became an excuse for them meeting alone. On the conference of 1980 Battler made a careless promise, which Shannon took seriously. This promise made Sayo think carefully about the future and consider not just quitting work as a servant on Rokkenjima, but also confessing to Battler and sharing a life with him.

After Asumu's death and Rudolf's remarriage in 1981 to Kyrie Sumadera, Battler left the family due to a quarrel with his father and didn't participate in the next family meeting. Sayo considered it a trial of love. Battler didn't participate the family meeting in 1982 either, and jokes by the siblings hurt Sayo even more. She started to believe that the trial must be an eternal torture and couldn't believe that Battler may have forgotten Shannon, even after having such a nightmare. The family conference in 1983 became the most influential. Battler gave Kyrie several letters addressed to all the siblings, leaving out Shannon. That event broke Shannon's heart.

Shannon "visited" Beatrice, who believed that "the Root of Love" would kill Shannon. As a result, Sayo transferred Shannon's love for Battler to Beatrice, sealing those feelings deep inside the heart. Beatrice gained a form of Battler's ideal woman and learned love in exchange of pain. Sayo promised to create a little brother for Shannon so that she would not be lonely and will keep Battler off her mind. The next morning Kanon started working as one of the rare servants who serves Kinzo directly, like Genji.

In April of 1984 the portrait of the Golden Witch and the epitaph, that doesn't exist in Lion's world, were displayed. The epitaph was a message, which only Genji could understand. It is implied that Kinzo, who was facing his last years, already realised that his child Lion is still alive. Afterwards Genji told Shannon and Kanon what was Kinzo's 'beloved hometown', giving Sayo a hint. Once the epitaph was solved, the truth about Sayo's birth was revealed to the young servant. Even after being chosen as the successor to the Ushiromiya family, Sayo decided that Krauss should become the successor and nothing has to change. Sayo only kept Beatrice's dress, the key to the VIP Room, and ten tons of gold. On November 29th, 1984 Sayo became the true Golden Witch Beatrice.

Eventually, Shannon and Kanon started relationships with George and Jessica. In last two years Sayo greatly suffered from the conflict of the furniture with incomplete souls. Because of this complex, based on condition of body, Sayo did not believe in having a future, the right to love, and felt less than a human being. To reconcile these feelings, Sayo conceived there was a duel, the result of which was almost decided. During Dawn of the Golden Witch, this duel was assumed to be resolved along with trial of love. In Twilight of the Golden Witch, Shannon and Kanon suggest that the duel can be decided different ways, like coin toss or the quiz tournament.

See the following pages for Sayo's roles throughout the series: and Clair Vaux Bernardus.

Throughout the series, Sayo has only been depicted through her personas and once as Clair during the events of Requiem of the Golden Witch where she was referred to as Yasu. The manga-only extra chapter, Confession of the Golden Witch, however, depicts her as Sayo Yasuda herself.

Rokkenjima Massacre

Shortly before the massacre Sayo wrote many message bottles signed under the name Maria Ushiromiya. Each one contained a confession of her sins that she set off to sea on October 3rd. She also sent out money to the people whose families would die on the island (Doctor Nanjo and Kumasawa's families respectively).

On the day of October 4th, 1986, Sayo began the preperations to commence her murder-mystery game, but her plans were foiled by the adults solving the epitaph and discovering the gold. Sayo keeps her promise to stop the murders when the epitaph was solved. She gives the adults the gold card and all 10 tons of gold, along with her cooperation to accept any punishment the adults have for her. Sayo was seemingly killed by Kyrie after she was shot when Kyrie brings about the murders with Rudolf.

However, the morning of October 6th shows that she somehow survived, she escapes the island with Battler on a motorboat. Sayo however doesn't feel she can go on and jumps off the boat with a bar of gold to pull herself to the depths of the ocean. Battler jumps after her, but Battler floated up. However in his final moments, Battler was last seen hugging her as they both fall together in the depths of the ocean. But since Battler survived, the Battler that was seen with Sayo was most likely a delusion he experienced moments before his death.

Later on after the incident, Sayo's message bottles which pinned herself as the culprit washed up on the shores of Nijima under the name of Maria Ushiromiya which kick started everyone's interest in the tragedy of the island.

Different Identities and Illusions

It is possible that Sayo created the alter ego Shannon (a perfect maid, loved and respected by everyone; the complete opposite of Sayo), as a role model and friend, before arriving at Rokkenjima. As most of her acquaintances call her the rather rude nickname "Yasu" instead of her blessed name "Shannon", she felt that she could never live up to the name Shannon and hence created an imaginary friend who could.

However, a growing interest in magic resulted in Sayo's desire to become a witch rather than remaining human. Abandoning her persona "Shannon" to be her servant facade, Sayo created Clair Vaux Bernardus, the first prototype of the Golden Witch Beatrice, as a self-image. However, a connection still existed between the two identities: Shannon had become the shy and clumsy, but persistent maid, and lover of mystery novels; and Beatrice (the strong side of the two), the ever so powerful and majestic witch. When Shannon's delusional love of Battler winds up causing Sayo too much pain. Beatrice took Shannon's love for Battler and Shannon splintered a part of herself to form Kanon, who would be Shannon's younger brother and will complete her universe. Sayo eventually begins playing the role of Kanon instead of treating him as a mere imaginary friend after realizing that she was born male, in an attempt to discover whether or not acting in a male role would feel more natural to her.

Eventually each character developed their own love story: Beatrice-Battler / Shannon-George / Kanon-Jessica

Sayo-Beatrice also created imaginary friends alone or with the help of Maria:

Gaap: Sayo's idea of Beatrice before taking the name and the title of a witch. Gaap would be Sayo's first friend on Rokkenjima.

Ronove: Beatrice's butler. (Reflection of Genji)

Virgilia: Beatrice's teacher. (Reflection of Kumasawa).

The Seven Stakes of Purgatory: Beatrice's high class furniture. All the sisters are a reflection of the servants who teased Sayo. (With Maria's help)

The Chiesters: High class furniture made from Maria's bunny forest band. (Maria's furniture)

Sakutaro: Maria's best friend and furniture. (Maria's furniture)

Before her full name was revealed to be Sayo Yasuda the nickname given to her by the servants "Yasu" was widely used by fans.

Her name "Yasu" is a reference to the "Yasu is the culprit" meme which came from the Famicom game The Portopia Serial Murder Case. The game is infamous for having the detective's partner Yasuhiro "Yasu" Mono being the culprit which created the meme.

Sayo's note at the end of Legend of the Golden Witch is very similar to the note Keiichi Maebara left at the end of Onikakushi-hen.

Portraits of Sayo's character/alternate universe self, Beatrice and Lion, have been featured, meaning Sayo is the character with most featured portraits.

Sayo's appearance is not shown in Episode 7 (manga is an exception). Bernkastel constantly displays Sayo as Clair Vaux Bernardus to confuse Theatergoers. Shannon and Kanon are only played roles.

Twilight of the Golden Witch manga shows that Sayo reacted to the truth of being Kinzo's child and grandchild incredibly badly. Just the thought of Kinzo's impure blood flowing within her body was too much. As her relationship with George and Jessica grew stronger she couldn't stop thinking about truly being Kinzo's child.

In the "Answer to the Golden Witch", Ryukishi07 responded to "a body that is unable to love" with "If you take this expression as a basis, you can imagine their sad fate of having some kind of imperfection on a sexual level" implying that the injury had some influence on Sayo's sexual problems/gender. He also states that he had to obscure it, because it was a very adult topic.
Also Ryukishi said:"How scary must it be, to be told that your partner "wants children", when you have a body that cannot make love." - referring to Shannon/Sayo, what might imply that Sayo is unable to have sex.

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The true form of Beatrice, and writer of the message bottles. Her true name is Lion Ushiromiya, and was given the fake name Sayo Yasuda (安田 紗代) after the cliff incident. When she was taken into the Fukuin House, she was given the "blessed name" Shannon.

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Beatrice Ushiromiya
右代宮 ベアトリーチェ

Name

Beatrice Ushiromiya
右代宮 ベアトリーチェ

"I, have had enough of Beatrice. I want to know who I am. I want to start out as a new human, not Beatrice. So I want you to take me from here. I don't need tea anymore. I don't need this dress. I won't meet with Kinzo again. Please take me from here. Rosa."

- Beatrice asking Rosa to take her away

Beatrice Ushiromiya, also known as Kuwadorian-Beatrice, is the daughter of Kinzo Ushiromiya and Beatrice Castiglioni.

Relationships

Shortly after Beatrice was born, her mother died. Raised in secret by Chiyo Kumasawa at Kuwadorian, where her mother once resided, Beatrice lived a sheltered life. To prevent others from discovering Kuwadorian, rumours were spread about a witch that allegedly lived in the nearby forest, though many suspected that Kinzo's mistress was hidden in the area, due to the supplies sent there.

Because Beatrice grew into the exact image of her mother, Kinzo, consumed with grief, believed his daughter was a reincarnation of his lover and named her after her mother. She became subject to his sexual advances and a child was conceived, as a result of the incestuous union, who would be recognized as Sayo Yasuda, or in the world of Requiem of the Golden Witch, as Lion Ushiromiya.

Beatrice remained in Kuwadorian until Rosa found the mansion and decided to show her the outside world. While exploring the island, Beatrice fell from a rocky cliff and died. The news of her death was covered up by Genji and other trusted servants.

In her honor, Kinzo ordered a painting of her to be placed in the main Rokkenjima mansion. She eventually became the basis of the legend of the Golden Witch, whom Sayo uses as the basis for creating the Beatrice persona.

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Beatrice Ushiromiya (右代宮 ベアトリーチェ Ushiromiya Beatorīche), also known as Kuwadorian-Beatrice, is the daughter of Kinzo Ushiromiya and Beatrice Castiglioni. Shortly after Beatrice was born, her mother died. Raised in secret by Chiyo Kumasawa at Kuwadorian, where her mother once resided, Beatrice lived a sheltered life.

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Beatrice "Bice" Castiglioni
ベアトリーチェ "ビーチェ" カスティリオーニ

Name

Beatrice "Bice" Castiglioni
ベアトリーチェ "ビーチェ" カスティリオーニ

"If you are gone I'll die right away. Take responsibility because you kidnapped me."

- Beatrice to Kinzo as they leave Rokkenjima

Beatrice "Bice" Castiglioni was Kinzo Ushiromiya's first and only true love and his "mistress", as said in many rumors. Introduced in 1944, Beatrice was the daughter of an Italian Social Republic naval official. Often called Bice (pronounced "Bee-che"), she accompanied her father to Rokkenjima on a submarine containing ten tons of gold, though her father died during the trip. Because Kinzo was the only person able to speak English, he and Beatrice became interpreters between the Japanese and Italian soldiers on the island.

Appearances

Relationships

Appearance

Beatrice is of Italian descent. She has ginger-blonde hair and blue eyes. She seems to be of average height, well-endowed and has fair skin. She wears a red fulard and a white shirt, along with green army pants with brown boots.

Personality

Beatrice is a light-hearted person who is very intelligent. She comes from a noble Italian family and is treated as a noble lady. Despite her origins, Beatrice is quite a tomboy and a tough woman, and dislikes the treatment she receives for her family name. She is very friendly and tells her friends to call her "Bice."

Beatrice is seen only in a flashback of Kinzo's memory in Requiem of the Golden Witch, when Lion Ushiromiya and Willard H. Wright ask Kinzo to tell them about Beatrice. Kinzo first met Beatrice while he was stationed at Rokkenjima as a soldier during the war. Her submarine was badly damaged and had just barely arrived to Rokkenjima; plenty of men had died inside it due to a gas leak, with Beatrice's father included in the casualties.

As Kinzo spoke English, he and Beatrice acted as interpreters for the two different troops, which allowed them to get close to each other. The two found sympathy for each other and talked about each other's lives and interests. As they talked, both of them understood the beauty of life and fell in love. Later on, tension arose between the Italians and the Japanese soldiers when the Italians unloaded 10 tons of gold. A fight broke out between the two for ownership of the gold, and in the end only Kinzo and Beatrice survived, though with Beatrice hurt badly. Beatrice asked Kinzo to stay with her and "kidnap" her until her death. Kinzo, however, refused to let her die, saying he'll kidnap her forever, and took Beatrice to Niijima via boat to see a doctor.

While on the boat, Kinzo referred to her as a "witch, a golden witch." He entrusted Beatrice to a doctor on Niijima, asking him to keep Beatrice and his visits a secret. The doctor, who ended up being Nanjo, tended to her wounds, and she and Kinzo headed back to the mainland, though she was kept a secret as Kinzo was already married. The two secretly met when they could. Later on, Beatrice died giving birth to her and Kinzo's daughter. Kinzo names their child ' Beatrice' in honor of her late mother, and takes her to Rokkenjima to live in the hidden mansion Kuwadorian.

Her clothes (from the fulard to the pants) are red, white and green: the Italian flag.

The nickname "Bice" shares the same nickname with Beatrice Potinari, a person inspired in La Divina Commedia.

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Beatrice "Bice" Castiglioni (ベアトリーチェ "ビーチェ" カスティリオーニ Beatorīche "Bīce" Kasutiriōni) was Kinzo Ushiromiya's first and only true love and his "mistress", as said in many rumors. Introduced in 1944, Beatrice was the daughter of an Italian Social Republic naval official.

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Battler Ushiromiya
右代宮 戦人

"It's useless, it's all useless!"

- Battler's notable quote when in a difficult situation

Battler Ushiromiya is the protagonist of the Umineko no Naku Koro ni series. Much of the series follows his battle with Beatrice in which he attempts to prove that the murders on Rokkenjima, of which he himself is a victim, could be committed by humans.

Battler is stubborn and doesn't believe in magic, preventing everyone from entering the Golden Land, during the events of Legend of the Golden Witch. While Beatrice vows to show Battler the errors of his ways, Battler vows to crush her; thus, beginning the fight between them. Along the way, new foes and allies enter the fray and, soon, Battler finds himself fighting over something even more precious: the truth behind Beatrice herself and the world she created.

Background

However, when Asumu died, Rudolf immediately married Kyrie, who was pregnant with her child. Battler, in his grieving process, fought with his father and says to him that Asumu's death benefitted Rudolf so that he can be with Kyrie. He also tells Rudolf that since the unborn child is innocent, he won't hate him or her, but will hate Rudolf in his mother's place, since Asumu is dead. He later on left the Ushiromiya family and lived with his supposed maternal grandparents for six years.

Appearance

Battler appears as a young man with short, spiky, auburn hair parted to the side. He has a light skin complexion and has either blue (as seen in the anime, Umineko: Majo to Suiri no Rondo and the portrait in Twilight of the Golden Witch and Symphony of Golden Dreams) or brown eyes (as seen in the original sound novels and in his portrait in Dawn of the Golden Witch). He appears to be quite a fascinating man with a slim body and is described as very tall. According to the sound novels, he is over 180 cm (close to 5 ft 11 inches) and is 10 cm taller than George. It has also been stated that in the past, he was of below average height.

He wears a khaki suit with the Ushiromiya crest. Underneath this suit, he wears a black vest with a red long sleeved shirt with a black tie. After becoming the Endless and Golden Sorcerer, he appears with a black cape (similar to the cape Kinzo, or "Goldsmith", wears), symbolizing his position as the Game Master.

In a flashback in Umineko: Majo to Suiri no Rondo, Battler's casual clothing consists of what seems to be a white jacket with a dark colored shirt underneath. In the anime, his casual clothing consists of a short-sleeved white shirt with a long-sleeved dark blue shirt underneath. In the manga, his casual clothing consists of a jacket, with a black shirt underneath with a metallic necklace. He also wears jeans with a chain on his left pocket. He also wears a typical Japanese highschool uniform. In Pachi-Slot Umineko no Naku Koro ni, he wears a white collared long sleeved shirt as casual attire as seen in a flashback with Ange.

In Twilight of the Golden Witch, he ages and assumes shorter and white hair, less spikier than his original red hair do and greatly resembles Kinzo when Kinzo was younger. He now wears a black khaki suit with a green tie and white shirt.

Personality

Although stubborn and hotheaded with the habit of flirting with young women, Battler is a very compassionate young man. However, he is also very emotional which is both his greatest strength and weakness, as while he refuses to acknowledge a witch to be the culprit, he also refuses to accept the fact the culprit is among the people he loves and mostly when he gets caught up in disproving Beatrice's magic, he forgets the most important question about the game: Why did Beatrice commit the murders?

Battler also has a perpetual fear of 'shaky' transportation, thinking he might fall out. He is also shown to be intuitive and intelligent at certain situations, as he uses Kyrie's " flip the chessboard" mindset to predict his enemy's thoughts based on the situation at hand. Though he doesn't look like it, Battler also enjoys reading, mostly mystery, which explains his extensive knowledge on the subject.

By Dawn of the Golden Witch, Battler's personality makes an exceptionally drastic change compared to his former cheerful self; Battler then shows to be very serious, discarding all signs of his once goofy habits and quicks, and can become easily angered with anything that involves Beatrice such as how he became furious with Erika for wearing the ring meant for Beatrice. This is due to how he is unable to forgive himself for not remembering the sin, the reason that caused Beatrice in committing the murders, in time before she died, as well as how he indirectly caused the death of his sister, Ange Ushiromiya, during the Alliance of the Golden Witch.

In Legend of the Golden Witch, most of the story is told through his point of view. In the beginning, he meets his cousins George and Maria (which is pretty much a first meeting between the two for when Battler and Maria last met, she had been three years old) at the airport. It has been six years since he has seen the rest of the Ushiromiya family and been to Rokkenjima after living with his mother's parents. He is very playful and jokes around with his cousins while at the mansion on Rokkenjima. He indulges in Maria's occult knowledge but is surprised when she goes into her creepy mode and he receives her wrath for not taking Beatrice seriously. In the end, because he does not believe in Beatrice and does not admit that her and her magic is real, the door to the Golden Land is closed. He costs everyone their paradise.

Missing

He is the fool who made the world where everyone could be happy come to nothing.

Even though Beatrice is infuriated, for some reason she is enjoying herself immensely. It's as if he is an amusing toy she has obtained after one thousand years.

I hope that you too can see this amusing fool soon.

In Turn of the Golden Witch, Battler is less prominent in the story itself, as he is observing the events along side Beatrice, whilst continuing to deny her. Although he is still part of the world taking place, it could be said the real him is with Beatrice. During the first half of the story, Battler is only significant through little interjections made by him and Beatrice, when events turn dissatisfying in the world they are observing. Eventually he plays a prominent role, when presented with a situation that occurs during the game and attempts to explain as possible by "human tricks." This is the point where he begins stating his famous line "Repeat it in Red." He is successful in disproving the need for magic in that mystery, which seems to stir Beatrice's arrogance. Unfortunately for Battler, it's the only one of many mysteries that take place during the game world that he is able to solve. This causes Battler to accept the witch and magic and become Beatrice's furniture for a while until he's ultimately killed at her banquet.

At 11:30 AM he is seen getting drunk at the dining hall when Genji came to him and brought him to Beatrice and Kinzo. Although it is stated that he ended up missing during this arc, it is most likely that he died as he witnessed golden butterflies between 11:30 PM and 12:00 AM. Per the rules of the forgeries, Battler witnessed the golden butterflies in the timespace of 30 minutes before his death and before the explosives went off and blew up a crater in Rokkenjima.

At the end, Bernkastel's words cause him to become willing to fight Beatrice once again, knowing that even if he loses the game once more, it will continue endlessly with the objective of torturing him.

In his third match with Beatrice, Battler's disgust with his opponent grows increasingly apparent and eventually leads to an interruption of the game proceedings. Meanwhile, the Battler on Rokkenjima spends much of this episode holed up in the Guest House, making only brief forays outside with armed family members to search for people who go missing.

Death

Was shot to death by Ushiromiya Eva inside the mansion.
The weapon was a Winchester from Kinzo's collection.

Jessica lost her eyesight. Battler was with her.
Wolf and sheep puzzle.

Much of this episode is told from the perspective of Battler's sister Ange, which leads to a reduced role for Battler himself. Meanwhile, the Battler on Rokkenjima barricades himself in the Guest House with his cousins while reports of bizarre murders filter in. It is revealed in this episode that Asumu is not his real mother.

Missing.

As he was held by the witch, he went to hell.
But to the witch, that hell was the Golden Land

At the end of Episode 5, Battler is stabbed to death by the Red Truth. However, Meta creatures do not actually die; they just lose the concept of themselves in the sea of nothingness. Battler takes a hold of himself and, in that dimension out of time and space, he discovers the truth behind everything. Since the rule established by the first Game Master entails that whoever discovers the truth and the gold will succeed Beatrice, Battler is recognized by Lambdadelta, who becomes his guardian, as the Endless and Golden Sorcerer, BATTLER, and inherits from the dead Beatrice the world of the game board, making him it's new Territory Lord.

In Dawn of the Golden Witch, he grows increasingly obsessed with reviving Beatrice, his attempts were successful as he had revived Beatrice, but she did not have the memories she had as a witch before she died, resulting her to be both childish and naïve, frustrating Battler. He attempts to demonstrate his understanding of the game but ends up inadvertently producing a Logic Error that Erika takes advantage of, and forfeits himself to her entirely.

However, alongside the newly awakened Beatrice, he manages to ultimately defeat Erika and win the game.

It is possible that he had purposely set himself up to enter the Logic Error in order to revive Beatrice's original personality.

Battler only appears at the very beginning of Episode 7, in the Tea Party and in the epilogue.

In the prologue of Requiem of the Golden Witch, Battler is at a funeral with Virgilia in the Chapel. After Virgilia made her prayers, he placed a book inside a coffin. The book is a tale he dedicated to the Beatrice he could not reach in time: " Dawn of the Golden Witch". This is the most beautiful tale he could weave and is a secret between them that no one will ever defile. It is buried along with Beatrice. After a few glances at the coffin, he left the Chapel with Virgilia.

Battler finally returns to Rokkenjima after six years and goes about normal interactions with the cousins until the murders of Kyrie and Rudolf begin. The two orginally intended to pull Battler into their plan but both are killed by Eva before Battler could ever speak to them. What exactly occurs after he is called out to the Chapel by Rudolf is shrouded in mystery as he is never shown afterwards.

The Tea Party shows him to walking to a supposed trial created by Kinzo. In reality, Rudolf should convince him to escape from the island knowing every other member and servant has been killed. An interaction between Rudolf and Battler hasn't been shown. Battler is last shown walking to the Chapel, but he is never shown to arrive. Rudolf was killed by Eva while waiting for Battler to show up, therefore Rudolf did not kill him. His fate is unknown at the end of Episode 7.

In the epilogue his Meta-World character, the Endless Sorcerer, consoles Ange by telling her a happy ending tale of the 5th October 1986. That way, it is not really clear if the last game has Bernkastel or Battler as Game Master.

As the Game Master, he invites his sister Ange to the 8th game. However, Ange eventually found out that it was just a farce. Later on he was challenged by Bernkastel to solve her game. Together with Beatrice, he eventually found out that his game incarnation was the culprit along with his parents Kyrie and Rudolf.

At the end of the chapter, on the morning of October 6th, he and Beatrice escape the island on a boat. Beatrice then attempted suicide and was followed into the ocean by Battler. However, he floated back up and away from Beatrice's sight. But he was later then seen embracing Beatrice as they fall down together in the bottom of the ocean. He however ends up surviving and the Battler that was seen falling down with Beatrice was most likely her imagination. He washes up on the shores of Nijima with severe memory loss. He is later found on the road by Ikuko Hachijo and begins living his life as Tohya Hachijo.

Several decades later, Ange, now known as Yukari Kotobuki would reunite with her brother and invite Tohya to the Fukuin House, where it is seemingly shown that Battler has returned and that Beatrice offers to give him a hand to get up from his wheelchair. After the credits, a silhouette of both him and Beatrice can be seen in the Golden Land.

Other Appearances

He has appeared in every adaptation of the sound novels due to being the main character. He has also appeared in the game Ougon Musou Kyoku and manga exclusive series Forgery of the Purple Logic and the Higurashi and Umineko crossover manga.

Relationships

Powers and Abilities

Battler is the rival Beatrice chose and the reason she created her game board. Battler fights on the white part of the chess board and is the representative of the human side, along with the first detective. He doesn't know the truth behind Beatrice's tale and views himself as a traveler on his way to find it, guided by Virgilia. He makes crushing the illusion of the witch his goal. His determination and rejection of magic provide him with a powerful anti-magic barrier. He is a worthy opponent; at times, even brilliant, thanks to the knowledge he's built up as an avid reader and his own talent.

His Meta-World counterpart has the ability to control his piece on the gameboard. His piece on the game board is human and unaware of the Meta dimension, so it acts as an ordinary human of his age would. This piece is moved by Battler himself on the upper plane, with exception of most of Episode 5, in which it was moved by Bernkastel. Because he refuses to acknowledge the existence of the supernatural, he is protected by a barrier known as Endless Nine, which protects him from magical attacks. By the fourth game, he was granted the ability to use the Blue Truth. In Ougon Musou Kyoku, he can use this as an attack fused with his kicks and punches. He was granted the ability to use the Red Truth temporarily during this arc. As one of the pieces inside the cat box, Battler has access to the truth of the tale.

As the Golden Sorcerer

During the ending of End of the Golden Witch, Battler is named the "Endless Sorcerer" and "Golden Sorcerer" by Lambdadelta after he inherits Beatrice's power and becomes the new Game Master.

But in order to win the game, he has to prove that he understands everything by weaving and winning a new tale against Erika and Bernkastel. Battler weaves two tales:

Dawn of the Golden Witch: The first of his tales is dedicated to Beatrice and her resurrection. It was challenged by Erika and was interrupted at the first twilight.

Twilight of the Golden Witch: He dedicates this last tale to his sister, Ange. He invites Ange to the final party, hoping to end her turmoil, as well as inspire her to live on in the future as the final witch. Ange, EVA-Beatrice, Bernkastel, and Erika challenge this final tale.

"Well, who you love depends on the person. Isn't everything fine as long as it's someone who's fun to be with? Being with someone doesn't require any permission as long as the two people accept each other. If you worry about your parents or your family, then you lose. Don't forget that. You can't go out with someone with incomplete feelings."

"If you lined up all the things I wanted, all the gold in the world wouldn't be enough."

"It's okay, you can stop talking like that. I'm not going to ask you for anything in return. Anyway, I want to apologize. And I want to talk with you. I don't even know where I should start."

Appearances

In Dawn of the Golden Witch, it is stated by Lambdadelta and later confirmed in Twilight of the Golden Witch, that Battler has a third title, "Lord BATTLER, Golden Endless Sorcerer of Miracles", a title on par with Bernkastel's. Bernkastel is the witch who knows the true form of miracles and knows that they do not occur. She can only wait for one endlessly, whereas Battler is the sorcerer, who knows that miracles exist and can create one. This is why Bernkastel can't stand him and wants revenge. This affinity (and others) might also be the reason Bernkastel became interested in him in the first place.

In the manga, Battler spotted Rudolf and Kyrie's clothing in the shed on the first night and tried to get a better look. In the anime, it was Jessica.

A character in Ryukishi07's newest work, Rose Guns Days (Philip Butler), is a shout-out to Battler, though the two have no relations to one another.

Battler wears his cape much earlier in the manga. It materialized the moment he became a sorcerer in End of the Golden Witch.

His birthday is 7/15 and his blood type is O. He likes mystery novels and books but dislikes high places and vehicles.

According to one of Ryukishi07's twitter posts, his favorite sport is dodgeball.

References

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Battler Ushiromiya (右代宮 戦人 Ushiromiya Batora) is the protagonist of the Umineko no Naku Koro ni series. Much of the series follows his battle with Beatrice in which he attempts to prove that the murders on Rokkenjima, of which he himself is a victim, could be committed by humans.

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Ange Ushiromiya
右代宮 縁寿

ANGE-Beatrice

Casual

School

Witch

Child

Title

Witch of Resurrection
Witch of Truth
Golden Witch
Endless Witch

Name

Ange Ushiromiya
右代宮 縁寿

ANGE-Beatrice

"I may have lived in a gorgeous mansion, dressed in expensive clothes, but my heart and dignity had been trampled upon, and I was the Ushiromiya family's slave, its cattle."

- Ange's Monologue

Ange Ushiromiya is the daughter of Rudolf and his current wife, Kyrie, she's Battler's younger sister. She couldn't come to Rokkenjima in 1986 due to sickness. After the incident on Rokkenjima, Ange is placed under the care of her last living relative Eva Ushiromiya. She attends St. Lucia Academy and is hated by Eva. In the world of 1998, she inherits the family headship and becomes the final Beatrice, ANGE-Beatrice. Despite not being on Rokkenjima herself, a future version of Ange plays a major role during the events ofAlliance of the Golden Witch.

During the events of 1986, Ange is six years old and was left behind due to sickness, which was mentioned early in Legend of the Golden Witch by Eva and Hideyoshi, and she later becomes the sole survivor from Rokkenjima besides her Aunt Eva. She loves her family very much, but almost never sees them, and due to that, she easily succumbs to loneliness, as shown during the Alliance of the Golden Witch, where she does not make any friends in St. Lucia's Academy and is often bullied by her classmates. Her only friends are Maria, Sakutarou, Mammon and the Seven Sisters of Purgatory. Mammon is her closest friend.

In the 8th game, Twilight of the Golden Witch, Ange isn't sick, making her able to finally participate in the family meeting of 1986.

Relationships

Appearance

Ange Ushiromiya has dark blue eyes and auburn hair. Her hairstyle is usually in small pigtails (high), leaving most of her hair down. She secures her hair with a cheap accessory, given to her by her older brother, Battler Ushiromiya.

As a young woman, she wears a black blazer with a black belt over a white collared shirt with a lavender bow tie, along with a white skirt, long black stockings, and plain black shoes. She wears a red armband with the Ushiromiya crest on her left arm. Kasumi Sumadera points out that she inherited the shape of Kyrie's eyes and nose. In addition, Ange seemed to be well-endowed which she also inherited from her mother.

In her appearance as a six-year-old girl, she wears a green dress with a lavender bow and white socks and plain shoes; the Ushiromiya crest is displayed on her left sock. She also wears a golden butterfly key given to her by Battler.

Personality

Before the Rokkenjima incident, Ange was like any regular young girl; cheerful and upbeat who loves her family, especially her older brother Battler despite not seeing each other so often. She also hates being alone.

After the events on Rokkenjima with Eva the only supposed survivor and the rest of her family dead, Ange's personality changed. Due to the hardship she had been put through from the loneliness she suffered and the pressure of being the next head, as well as being manipulated by Bernkastel into rejecting Eva as a surrogate mother, Ange lost her smile, developing her cold, calm, and cynical personality.

As a young woman, Ange can also be sarcastic at times and like her brother, she has a habit of saying, "It's useless, it's all useless" during difficult situations. Despite her cold and calm front, she would sometimes be emotional, especially during the EP 7 Tea Party when she broke down after Bernkastel shows her the possible scenario of the Rokkenjima incident with her parents as the culprits. It can also be noted that deep down, because of her grief, she became bitter and lonely, resulting in Ange wanting to find the truth. It is also what clouded her memories on the happy moments she had with her family.

Background

Ange was Rudolf's illegitimate child with Kyrie, as at the time he was already married to Asumu. Because of this, Battler rebeled and left the Ushiromiya family, partly so that at the time Ange is born, she would have a loving home and family. After her birth, she had a nice childhood for the first six years of her life. She grew to be very close to her brother Battler, despite only meeting him on her birthdays. At some point in time, she sneaked into her parents' room and found Kyrie's diary which details on how much she hated Asumu. On one of her birthdays, she and her family went to an amusement park where her brother won cheap hair ornaments from a crane game, a possession which she would treasure for the rest of her life.

She was also close to Maria, and would often play with her doll Sakutarou. She also attended every family conference. However, on the family conference of 1986, she was sick and so could not attend. However, in that same year, the Rokkenjima Massacre occurred with only her aunt, Eva, surviving the incident. As a result, she became her foster parent. When Eva took her in her care, she welcomed Ange with open arms, telling her that she could count on her for anything, so that they would slowly become happy again. At first, they had a good start for a good relationship, but this would eventually all come down to nothing.

During tanabata, she made a wish for her family to come back. Then, on that night, a witch visited her telling her that she would grant her wish if she would deny Eva's offer of a loving relationship, in the guise of saying that she shouldn't let anyone take the position of her mother so easily and that her mother won't return if she accepts Eva and by also telling her that Eva was the cuplrit. Because she was still a child, she believed the witch, and followed the witch's instruction and her relationship with Eva was destroyed, even until the latter's death.

As a teenager, she was enrolled at St. Lucia's. By the time she was already a teenager, it has already become common public knowledge that Eva would give all her assets to Ange by the time she dies. As a result, the public already started to believe in the Rudolf's family culprit theory, and thus she became a subject to bullying by her classmates, as her classmates believed that even though her brother and parents tried to take the gold for themselves, Ange would still inherit everything. It has also became public knowledge that she had a full-blooded relationship with Battler, and that they are not half-siblings. She has also learned all about the illegal and fraudulent businesses that her parents were involved in.

Because of this, she was a lonely teenager, and escaped her harsh reality by reading Maria's diary and creating imaginary friends. Through this, she was able to create an illusory version of Maria, Sakutarou and the Stakes of Purgatory. She also learned about Maria's life story before the Rokkenjima incident. She learned magic to become the Witch of Resurrection and learned how to summon the Stakes of Purgatory, although initially, she was only able to summon Mammon, who later on became her close friend. For a bit, her teenage years became a bit bright and happy and eventually was able to summon all seven sisters, who eventually became her Furniture.

At the same time, however, bullying became much more harsh, and one day, she asked her Furniture to kill her bullies, but they couldn't, and so one by one, they refused her order, and at the same time denied their existence, thus killing them. She also ended up killing Maria, Sakutarou and finally her best-friend, Mammon, who told her that in the end she is just a lonely person. It was not until that at the end of her graduation she would be able to summon them again. On Eva's deathbed, she finally asked her what happened on Rokkenjima, but ultimately, Eva refused to tell her and told her to ask her parents who are now in hell. She dies without an answer and Ange inherited all of Eva's assets. This marked the beginning of her search for the truth of Rokkenjima.

Role in the Games

Ange is mentioned at the begining of the game by Eva asking how is she doing and Kyrie replying that she is sick and is staying with her family.

Ange is summoned into the Meta-World as a piece by Bernkastel to help Battler regain his lost courage/confidence. She first appears in the ??? scene, to stop Battler from signing a document that states that he acknowledges the existence of witches. While stopping her brother, she fights against some goats and Beatrice realizes that Ange is the Head of the Ushiromiya family in the future as well as Bernkastel's piece.

World of 1998

After inheriting all of the assets and Ushiromiya headship from Eva, Ange was later found in the rooftop. As soon as she was about to jump off the building, she met Bernkastel, who tells her to become her piece. She accepts her offer and Okonogi's guards came after her telling her that it was dangerous. Not heeding their warning, she jumps off the building.

When Battler asks her name, she tells him to call her 'Gretel'. Bernkastel had given Ange one golden rule, that in order to stay with her beloved brother, she must never reveal her identity to him. Though, when Battler falls into utter depression and defeat, Ange tries to regain it and tells him that his little sister is waiting for him back at home. "Don't leave me...alone..." Ange says. Battler soon realizes that the Ange of 1986 is waiting for him, and then the thought of 'Gretel' being his sister quickly consumes his mind. Though, before he can say anything to her, Ange is painfully ripped to shreds and disappears from the Meta-World.

World of 1998

During the credits it is stated that Ange died in 1998.

ANGE-Beatrice

Ange makes an appareance in the sixth game, Dawn of the Golden Witch. She is rudely awakened by Amakusa, who tells her she had an appointment with someone. She realizes that she is in the room of an infamous author, Tohya Hachijo, who wrote novels about what happened during the Rokkenjima Mass Murder Case of 1986. Ange doesn't believe what Tohya wrote and quickly discerns that Tohya Hachijo is the witch Featherine Augustus Aurora. After much discussion and arguing, Featherine hands Ange a copy of her newest work: Dawn of the Golden Witch. Ange is then given the opportunty to find out the truth of Rokkenjima, by herself, by reading the manuscript. During that time, he is shocked how Battler became the new Game Master as well as his new motives in reviving Beatrice. She continues to read to learn why Beatrice later became so important to Battler. Ange also later becames displease in her brother's initial cold treatment to the Chick Beatrice; while even though Ange still had a grudge against Beatrice, Ange agrees with Chiyo Kumasawa in how Battler's behavoir was very displeasing for any woman and grew sympathetic to the Chick Beatrice.

Ange is summoned by Bernkastel to watch the true events of what transpired on Rokkenjima where she is tortured with the story of her parents Rudolf and Kyrie being the true culprits. In the end after watching the events all the way through she is ripped apart by Bernkastel. At the end of the story Meta-Battler finds young Ange in the Chapel and she asks him to tell her what happened on Rokkenjima in October, 1986.

Ange was crying in the Chapel and tells Battler that everyone are saying that Rudolf and Kyrie are the culprits. Battler consoles her then she asks what happened on Rokkenjima that day. Battler agrees to tell her what happened. She then asks her brother if it was a scary or sad story, to which her brother replies that it is for her to decide. Battler then tells her that what she really wants is to be there on that day, not know what happened. He goes on to tell her that since he is now the Game Master, he decided to invite her on that day.

Ange then asks if she can stay there forever in which Battler replies again that it is for her to decide. Then Battler gives Ange a key necklace. Battler then tells Ange that it is hers alone and tells her that she does not need to listen to everything he says, but if she believes everything he tells her then she will pick the best choice he has planned for her. As they proceed to exit the Chapel, Ange notices a book with a key lock and asks if the key she was given is meant to open the lock. Suddenly, Battler replied with a dark and slightly angry tone to not touch that book. Then Battler's tone changed again this time telling her that he will now take her to Rokkenjima on October 4th 1986 as they exit the Chapel.

After reading the Book of Truth, she begins to break down refusing to accept her parents as the culprit, blaming Eva for the murders and begins to jump on the City of Books. In a real world perspective, she jumped off the skyscraper and was not caught by the safety net and died. She then turned into scraps of meat and was sent to oblivion. But she was rescued by Beatrice.

She later woken up by her parents and she begins to plot with Battler and the others to stop Featherine and Bernkastel from revealing the truth of Rokkenjima.

In the Trick ending, Ange is seen holding a present from Kinzo, which she then throws into the water. When Amakusa asks her why she did this, she shoots him and Captain Kawabata, suspecting them of trying to kill her. Her fate afterward is unknown.

The Trick ending is present in manga version of Twilight, but this scenario doesn't actually happen. It is just Ange's visualization about an alternative reality, where she doesn't accept the truth about Rokkenjima's tragedy. The manga version also implies some connection between Ange and Erika.

In the Magic ending, Ange resigns her position as the head of the Ushiromiya family and leaves Okonogi in charge of her family's estates and to deal with the Sumadera family. Through arrangements made by Okonogi, she retires to live privately and becomes the last Beatrice. Decades later, Ange establishes herself as a writer named Yukari Kotobuki, whose most well-known work is an adventure series called The Adventures of Sakutarou. As a writer, she finally meets Tohya Hachijo again. During this meeting, she realizes that the real Tohya Hachijo is her brother. While they go their separate ways, Ange eventually invites Tohya to the Fukuin House for a Halloween Party, saying it will finally allow Battler to leave Tohya.

Magical Abilities

Ange inherited the titles of Golden Witch and Endless Witch from Eva, as well as the name Beatrice. She was taught magic by the witch form of Maria through Maria's diary.

When ANGE-Beatrice's magical abilities manifest, she is recognized as The Witch of Resurrection, as she was able to resurrect Sakutarou from the remainders of his vessel; a feat that Beatrice was unable to accomplish, since she believed Rosa destroyed Sakutarou by denying his existence. Ange is also able to summon the Seven Stakes of Purgatory as well, even in areas full of anti-magic toxin.

Because she hails from 12 years in the future, ANGE-Beatrice has developed a high-magical resistance, making her dangerous to witches, who see her as the ideal witch-hunting witch. While Ange herself denies the existence of magic, she admits that it can exist for others. In addition to her magical abilities, Ange appears to demonstrate close combat skills, as she was able to single-handedly defeat several Goat Butlers in the anime series at the end of the third arc.

In Twilight of the Golden Witch, Ange fully unlocks her magical abilities, now able to revive anything she wishes to within the cat-box.

"People live in order to be satisfied. And they hope to die while still satisfied. So, not knowing how to make yourself become satisfied is very tough."

"Criticism of yourself as you're observed by others doesn't matter. If your existence is firmly acknowledged by you yourself, that's enough. If you can live with confidence in yourself, surely you can accept any kind of lifestyle."

"Because magic exists for people who believe. Even if I don't. If someone believed, then magic will exist in the human world."

"Keep the jokes to your hairstyle."

"Keep the jokes to your clothing."

"Skipping school for one day might not be a problem, but if you skip for three days in a row, it'd be really hard to convince yourself to go back."

"Pieces move according to their player's directions. And they are incapable of moving in any other way."

"Even if you have two of the exact same person, they could change enormously depending on their upbringing."

"No person can become a replacement for another. Not even the past version of themselves."

"A result without an observer can possess an endless number of ways in which it might have occured. Humans, who can't grasp anything more than a single possibility, are unable to imagine anything."

"No idiot would want to be friends with an unmoving, unspeaking telephone pole. However, unmoving and unspeaking is exactly what you'd want from a telephone pole."

"If two people love each other, what other miracle could they possibly need to be together?"

"Just like some people say men don't belong in the kitchen, there's also a sense that women should stay out of financial affairs."

St. Lucia shares the same name as the school Shion Sonozaki attended in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. No connection between the two has been made as of now.
Although not related, Saint Lucia is an island Agatha Christie visited on holiday to influence her works. Her story And Then There Were None was an influence for Umineko No Naku Koro ni. In the novel, people are on an island killed one by one and no one can figure out who the murderer is; all the murders happen according to a song/poem.

"Ange" means "Angel" in french.

It is revealed in that the reason for Ange's hate towards Eva was caused by Bernkastel telling her when she was a child that scorning Eva would bring her family back to life.

Ange's pseudonym, Yukari Kotobuki, derives from the characters used to write "Ange" (縁寿); the character '縁' can be read as "Yukari" and the character '寿' can also be read as "Kotobuki".

She and Virgilia are fujoshi and really enjoy creating and collecting yaoi involving mostly Battler but some times other males as well.
This is only shown in the spin-off games and joke stories. It's validity in the actual story is questionable.

In the spin-off 2D fighting game; Ougon Musou Kyoku, Ange is shown to have longer hair; reaching up to her midback. The same appearance alteration is present for Rosa as well.

Her birthday is on 6/17 and her blood type is A.

The manga's representation of "Trick ending", in Twilight of the Golden Witch, implies that Erika may be actually very related to Ange, as Ange talks just like Erika before killing Amakusa, and all of Erika's speech balloons are drawn in double lines (as if there are two people talking at same time). In fact, Erika might be some kind of anti-fantasy persona of Ange.

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Ange Ushiromiya (右代宮 縁寿 Ushiromiya Enje) is the daughter of Rudolf and his current wife, Kyrie, she's Battler's younger sister. She couldn't come to Rokkenjima in 1986 due to sickness. After the incident on Rokkenjima, Ange is placed under the care of her last living relative Eva Ushiromiya. She attends St.

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Asumu Ushiromiya
右代宮 明日夢

Asumu Ushiromiya is Rudolf's first wife, who had died six years prior to the start of the series. She is initially believed to be Battler Ushiromiya's mother until Alliance of the Golden Witch, when Battler learns he is not her true son when Beatrice challenges him to say the statement in the Red Truth and he finds that he is unable to. However, Battler is unaware of his true parentage until Twilight of the Golden Witch.

Asumu never appears directly in the story, but is mentioned frequently in the game's dialogue and TIPS. She is said by Kyrie to have butted in on her relationship with Rudolf and forced him to marry her. Both women became pregnant around the same time and Kyrie had hoped to shock Asumu with the news; according to Kyrie, Asumu had responded callously and Kyrie believed that Asumu had been much slier than she appeared.

Upon her death, Rudolf immediately remarried with Kyrie, leading Battler to believe that Rudolf had betrayed Asumu and he cut his ties to the Ushiromiya family for the next six years. While she is frequently vilified by Kyrie, it is hinted that Asumu was vastly different from how she is described, being a far more gentle woman who was capable of soothing Rudolf's pain, and that he married her not just out of obligation but out of love.

Relationships

Appearance

Although Asumu didn't have a sprite in the original sound novels and its remakes, she was however given an appearance in the manga through flashbacks from other characters. She seemed to have light-colored curly hair and has big eyes. She appears to be fairly tall as she and Kyrie seemed to have approximately the same height, and it should be noted that Kyrie is a very tall woman. She also wears a necklace and a dress.

Personality

According to Battler, Asumu was a very caring mother who loved him very much. According to Rudolf, she was a very kind individual who accepted him for who he was despite his flaws and would forgive his mistakes. Because of this Rudolf wants to protect her. To Battler and Rudolf, Asumu was overall a kind individual. However, Kyrie's perception towards Asumu is almost the complete opposite. According to Kyrie, Asumu was just one of the girls who went after Rudolf during his days as a playboy. However, unlike most girls, she was a very sly individual that was able to stir up an instinct within Rudolf to protect her. She was also noted to be quite smart by both Rudolf and Kyrie as well. Therefore, due to these contradictions, it is unknown what kind of person Asumu was really like.

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Asumu Ushiromiya (右代宮 明日夢 Ushiromiya Asumu) is Rudolf's first wife, who had died six years prior to the start of the series. She is initially believed to be Battler Ushiromiya's mother until Alliance of the Golden Witch, when Battler learns he is not her true son when Beatrice challenges him to say the statement in the Red Truth and he finds that he is unable to.

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Kyrie Ushiromiya
右代宮 霧江

"When a rose gives you too much trouble, it's always best to snip it at the root."

- Talking about Rudolf to Rosa

Kyrie Ushiromiya is Rudolf's second wife. She has a long association with him as a business partner, and after the death of his previous wife, she publically made the place of legal wife her own. She has worked as his right arm in handling several shady pieces of business, which led them to success. She is quick thinking, and trusts Rudolf implicitly.

Kyrie is the mother of Ange and stepmother of Battler; later in the story, it is revealed that she is his real mother. She is said to be very jealous of Asumu, Rudolf's first wife. Kyrie has a younger sister named Kasumi Sumadera.

Appearances

Umineko no Naku Koro ni

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru

Anime Adaptation

Manga Adaptation

PS3 Remake

PSP Remake

Ougon Musou Kyoku

Relationships

Appearance

Kyrie is a tall woman with fair skin, short white hair and onyx colored eyes. She is well-endowed and wears a long black coat. She wears a purple long sleeved purple shirt underneath with a black tie with a cross on it and a belt. She also wears black pants and brown shoes.

Personality

Kyrie is a cool, calm and collected individual. She is quick-thinking, logical and very analytical in different sitautions. She has a lot of pride in herself, which she claims to be her mistake that led to Rudolf marrying Asumu.

She has an extreme devotion and attraction towards Rudolf. She can be sly at times as she would get rid of girls who went after him and go as far as having a child with Rudolf to have him for herself. When she and Asumu were both pregnant with Rudolf's children (the latter who was married to Rudolf), she did not give up and wanted her child to be more superior than Asumu's to the point that she wanted her and the child to be acknowledged by Rudolf. Her love towards Rudolf may be what can be described as obsession, as she has also stated that she won't let anyone take Rudolf away from her and that if he wanted to, she would commit murder. However after Rudolf's death, she remained in her calm and usual self and saw it as an opportunity to start her life over. She admitted to have never loved Ange and only used her as a chain to have Rudolf to herself.

She has a tendency to hold grudges, in particular with Asumu, who she believes stole Rudolf away from her. Even after Asumu's death, she hated her and to a certain extent, hated Battler, whom she believed to be Asumu's son. She eventually had a brother-sister like relationship with him however she only acted like this because it was the mature way to act towards Battler. She even claimed to not care if Battler died as he is not her son, but would let him live as she knew her daughter Ange would be sad.

When the gold was found and the murders between the siblings took place, she was the only one who was not so naive to think that the gold can be brought out on the island at that point and that the one billion cash card was the only thing she and Rudolf can get out of the island. It could be said that she is pragmatic.

Role In the Games

Death

Her corpse was found inside the storehouse of the rose garden. Her face is believed to have been damaged after her death. The Devil's roulette chose.
It's that simple.

Death

Her corpse was found inside the chapel. The immediate cause of death is uncertain. But it seems her stomach was cut open and her intestines were pulled out after her death. And also, sweets were stuffed into her stomach

So, I'll take you to the country of the dreams.
Happy Halloween.

Death

Died in the hall of the mansion, her stomach pierced by a stake-shaped weapon. The stomach isn't a very lethal spot. Is it OK to kill in a different way and stick the stake in the corpse?

Death

Her body was found in a guest room inside the mansion. There was a single hole right in the center of her forehead. It is probably appropriate to think that she was shot with a gun or something.

A demon stake was buried in the hole in her forehead, but it is hard to imagine that this was the cause of death.

It didn't miss. It missed on purpose to tease her, nyeh...!

Alive by the time of game suspension.

Death

Her body was found in Krauss' study.

Erika didn't perform a detailed examination.

Certain Death

Her neck was completely severed by a blade.

Perfect kind of corpse. Impossible to be mistaken on an autopsy and being perfectly capable of being identified.

She was revealed to have been the true culprit along with Rudolf of the Rokkenjima Mass Murder Incident. After discovering the gold along with the other adults her and Rudolf came up with a plan to take it all for themselves by murdering everyone on the island and escaping to Kuwadorian with the gold. Her plans however are ruined by Eva Ushiromiya who she thought was dead. Kyrie is killed by Eva thus putting an end to her killings.

In Bernkastel's game she was the culprit along with Battler and Rudolf.

"They often say that stupid thoughts are no better than sleeping. "

"As they say, you can never be too careful."

"Action is more important than wracking our brains."

"I guess trust is the most important part of that business."

"Don't you think worrying about a problem when you have no other options is a bit pathetic?"

"I never like to work based on trust. It takes hard work to build up trust, but only an instant to lose it. There's no less profitable investment."

"Kids these days have nerves of steel."

"I am ruthless and intellectual. Rational and economical. In a plank of Carneades situation, I would push the other person off without hesitation."

"What if that fruit you've worked so hard to nurture gets pulled off the branch the next morning? You'll regret that you didn't choose to harvest it the previous day instead of complaining. That regret really hurts. It'll make you crawl through hell."

"You know, miracles only appear for those who can make them come true themselves."

"For the sake of love, a woman should be willing to kill at least once in her life. I can tell you that all women in the world who call themselves mother have been through that. After all, women who don't do that are chewed to bits by the others and forced to crawl through the hell of envy and regret for the rest of their lives."

"Love really is like playing with fire. Anyone can play easily and lightheartedly. But when you mess up and get burned, that scar stays with you your whole life."

"Didn't I tell you that I've lived through the hell of jealousy? I've been nearly burned a couple of times already. I know how it feels just before a surprise attack."

Her birthday is on 11/8 and her blood type is A.

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umineko no naku koro ni murasaki: forgery of the purple logic

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Kyrie Ushiromiya (右代宮 霧江 Ushiromiya Kirie) is Rudolf's second wife. She has a long association with him as a business partner, and after the death of his previous wife, she publically made the place of legal wife her own. She has worked as his right arm in handling several shady pieces of business, which led them to success.

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Maria Ushiromiya is the daughter of Rosa Ushiromiya, and the granddaughter of Kinzo. She is prone to childish and whimsical behaviors, of which her mother usually punishes her for by slapping and abusing her in various ways. Maria takes pride in her knowledge of magic and knows Beatrice's epitaph by heart. She is usually the one who receives the letters from Beatrice or finds them after revealing another closed-room murder.

Relationships

A little magician who inherited the black blood from Kinzo. She has a natural talent that Kinzo didn't have, and even though she's very young, she reaches the level of magician. Nonetheless, her powers are still very weak and she is just an apprentice. However, her enchanting ability to give magical power to tools is a natural gift, and the magical items she makes are a match even for the master class.

Later it is revealed that her reference to witches comes from the behavior of a person. For example, when her mother gets violent, she is considered as Black Witch by Maria. Same goes for Beatrice.

Witch Profile

The Witch of Origins, who will live for one thousand years in the future. She holds the motherly magical power to give birth to one (1) from the Sea of Zero. At a glance, this magical power is frail, but no matter how many times you multiply zero (0), it doesn't become anything but zero. It is said that the one that she gives birth to could eventually surpass the heavens. She is loyally protected by Beatrice, who understands her true worth, and is in an alliance with Beatrice. Her magic is to make sweets fall from the sky (sprinkle sugar into water cleansed by the sun and say an incantation), magic to make tomorrow's dinner to be cream croquette, magic to make delicious bell peppers, magic to make the weather good when you go outside,

Appearance

She has short light brown hair, fair skin and violet eyes. When she smiles she appears sometimes to have a snaggle tooth. She is of short stature due to her young age and weighs 28 kilograms (61 pounds).

For bottoms, she wears a black skirt with a pink stripe at the bottom and a lacey slip underneath. Going up, she has on a pale pink long-sleeve button down shirt, with frills of the same color on the shoulders and the collar.

Over this, she wears a dark, sort of navy blue color corset, of which, on Maria's left side, has the family crest in gold at the top, and red ribbon lacing up the front. Maria wears white knee-high socks with a lacey rim at the top and red Mary-Jane-like shoes that buckle over the top of the foot and around the ankle.

On her head, she has a small black crown, tied with a red ribbon whose bow sits just under her chin. She almost always has her pink purse, of which has a red scarf tied around it. It is in this bag that Maria carries the envelopes she recieves from Beatrice. In the latter arcs, she is also seen playing with and talking to her stuffed lion, Sakutarou.

Background

Maria grew up in a lonely environment with her mother being at work most of the time and having no knowledge of her father. Many people thought of her as a pitiful and weird child which she does not understand as she does not know why people think of her as pitiful but instead she thinks that she is very happy. Once, Rosa showed her a photo of a tanned man whom Rosa said was Maria's father. However, when Maria request to see it again, her mother yelled and said that the photo does not exist. After a while Maria starts to doubt who she is and felt not even a teacher was able to answer her many questions.

One day, a priest visited her school and Maria asked the priest whether it is weird to not have a father. The priest then tells her that is not weird and tells her about Jesus was also born from virgin birth. From then onwards, due to misinterpreting what the Bible really means, Maria got back her sense of self with many of her answers answered. This resulted in her believing that she is special and different from other people as well as sparks her interest in the occult.

Later, she meets Beatrice when she went to Rokkenjima and became best friends. She taught Beatrice on many occults subjects and magic circles whom she at first looked down upon until Beatrice showed her magic which was actually a sleight of hands. There they created the Golden Land and many new friends.

Personality

Maria is a child of elementary-school age (in the first episode, her mother confirms that she is "nine and a fourth grader"), though usually acts as though she is much younger. This often gets her in trouble with her mother and earns her a slap or two on the cheek. Normally she acts younger than her age but seen as cute by many. But when talking about witches, her personality changes and acts creepily. She also becomes defensive when someone rejects witches and magic which she believes to help her become happy.

She deeply loves her mother and even believes that the abusive and neglectful side of her mother is not her mother but a witch possessing her kind and loving mother to do horrible things despite them both being Rosa. She even went as far as defending Rosa's action in her diary and through Sakutarou's thoughts which in turns are her own thoughts when Rosa is not being a good mother. There are even times when she stated she does not need anyone but just her mother. It is also stated by Will that she never lies.

She often argues with her cousin Battler, oftentimes over whether or not Beatrice is real.

Role in the Story

Missing

Kihihihihihihihihihi.

Note from Maria

By the time you have read this, I will probably be dead.
The only difference will be whether there is a body or not.
You who have read this.
Please find out the truth.
That's my only wish.

-- Ushiromiya, Maria

Missing

At the Golden Land, she could know her Mama still loves her. For now, she is satisfied.

Death

Her corpse was found in the rose garden. The cause of death was strangling. Probably with bare hands. Judging by the situation, it is probably appropriate to think that she was killed after Rosa. Then her blood became red ink for the witch's oath.

Death Her body was found in the dining hall. Unable to notice any particular external wounds, Battler hypothesized that there might have been some kind of poison. The most peaceful form of invitation to the Golden Land.

Death

Her body was discovered in the cousins' room on the second floor of the guesthouse.

The direct cause of death is unknown, but her neck was slashed open by a sharp knife.The wound is very deep, so anyone can easily see that she definitely died.

In the Guest House, Maria is gathered with her cousins, Shannon, and Erika, discussing the legend of Beatrice. When Erika begins questioning it, Maria throws a tantrum and describes how Beatrice once filled an empty, closed cup with candy using her magic. Erika taunts Maria and challenges her to prove it, though the others try to intervene. Maria and Erika bring their argument to the Meta-World, where it escalates into a full-blown witches' battle of Red and Blue Truth. Maria demonstrates the spell that fills the cup with candy while it's still closed and says that Erika cannot use the spell due to her anti-magic toxin. To Maria's shock, Erika performs the trick anyway by opening the cup and filling it with candy while Maria's eyes are closed, just like she had done when Beatrice performed the spell, and dismisses it as third-rate trickery. Maria is defended by Sakutarou, who negotiates a truce between the two. Maria returns to the real world in tears, and the others (oblivious to the Meta-World aspect of the argument) scold Erika for bullying Maria. Maria soon begins laughing and reaffirms her faith in magic, stating that Erika's toxin will prevent her from seeing the happiness that comes with magic. Maria is then taken upstairs to play with her cousins, managing to revert back to her old, cheerful self.

Death

Her body was found in the parlor.

Erika didn't perform a detailed examination.

Certain Death

Her neck was completely severed by a blade.

Perfect kind of corpse. Impossible to be mistaken on an autopsy and being perfectly capable of being identified.

She was murdered off-screen by Kyrie.

In Bernkastel's game, she survived till the end and was shot to death by Rudolf, Kyrie, and Battler, whom she had correctly guessed as the culprits just moments before.

In several episodes of the anime, Maria watches scenes from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni.

Maria's name comes from the name Mary as in the Virgin Mary from Christianity due to the fact that she believes she was a virgin birth because Rosa always told her she never had a father.

Her birthday is on 3/29 and her blood type is O.

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Maria Ushiromiya (右代宮 真里亞 Ushiromiya Maria) is the daughter of Rosa Ushiromiya, and the granddaughter of Kinzo. She is prone to childish and whimsical behaviors, of which her mother usually punishes her for by slapping and abusing her in various ways. Maria takes pride in her knowledge of magic and knows Beatrice's epitaph by heart.

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Jessica Ushiromiya is the daughter of Krauss and Natsuhi. She is eighteen years old and is not interested in matters of the family inheritance. She dislikes her parents at times, but still shows concern for them. If Krauss does inherit the Ushiromiya family fortune, she will become the heiress of the Ushiromiya family (strictly speaking, a future husband).

Jessica was born with weak bronchi and frequently has asthma attacks. Jessica is shown in Turn of the Golden Witch and Alliance of the Golden Witch to be skilled with brass knuckles. She has very strong feelings for Kanon to the point of even sacrificing her own life for him.

Relationships

Appearance

Jessica is a very pretty young girl. Her blonde hair is rather curly and usually tied up in a ponytail. Her eyes are black in the original Visual Novel, but became somewhat greyish-blue in the anime and clearer blue in the PS3 version. She has a fair skin and a slender figure. Most of the time, she wears a blue jacket with a white blouse and a red tie underneath, combined with a red miniskirt, knee-length sockings and black shoes. She wears the One-Winged Eagle on her sleeve. Her sleeves are somewhat over her hands in all of the series.

Role in the Games

Missing.

Even though she was beckoned to the long-awaited Golden Land, all the magic ended up vanishing because of one fool who didn't believe in the Witch.

Afterwards, she was torn to pieces and eaten by the demons, and went to hell.

Death

She was found in her own room inside the mansion, with an icepick-type murder weapon piercing her back.

At least in her last moments, she was together with the person she loved so much. She surely was happy.

Missing.

She was surely joined with Kanon in the Golden Land. They both apologized for their cowardice, and communicated their true and honest feelings. And they hugged each other until the last moment.

Afterwards, she was chewed to pieces by the demons, and went to hell. It's alright. Kanon is with her.

Death

Her body was found in her room on the second floor of the mansion. Her head was half destroyed. It is probably appropriate to think that she was murdered with something like a powerful gun.

She was smashed by her own attack due to George's counter-offensive specialized barrier.

Death

Her body was discovered in the cousins' room on the second floor of the guesthouse. The direct cause of death is unknown, but her neck was slashed open by a sharp knife. The wound is very deep, so anyone can easily see that she definitely died.

Alive by the time of game's suspension.

Death

She has been killed by Kyrie. After Kyrie missed a shot in her head, Kyrie smashed Jessica's face with the rifle.

In Bernkastel's game she survives till the end and is killed by Rudolf, Kyrie, and Battler.

When Jessica was about to kill Kyrie during the love trial, her eyes changed to having cat pupils, this was a common trope in Higurashi when a female character was viewed as insane by the reader.

In Ougon Musou Kyoku, one of Jessica's alternate color palettes gives her the color palette of Natsuhi.

She knows how to play the electric guitar.

She is nicknamed 'Jessie' by her friends and classmates.

In the anime, manga, original Visual Novel, and PC versions of Ougon Musou Kyoku, Jessica is dressed as Marisa Kirisame while singing or performing her Meta Special.

In the console ports of the Visual Novel and Ougon Musou Kyoku the outfit is replaced by an original outfit most likely because of copyright issues.

In Pachi-Slot Umineko no Naku Koro ni, she and her band wore Angel Mort uniforms.

Her birthday is on 8/25 and her blood type is O.

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Jessica Ushiromiya (右代宮 朱志香 Ushiromiya Jeshika) is the daughter of Krauss and Natsuhi. She is eighteen years old and is not interested in matters of the family inheritance. She dislikes her parents at times, but still shows concern for them.

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Natsuhi Ushiromiya
右代宮 夏妃

Name

Natsuhi Ushiromiya
右代宮 夏妃

"If I can't overcome this hardship then no one else can."

- Natsuhi as the final Ushiromiya head

Natsuhi Ushiromiya is Krauss Ushiromiya's wife. She manages the Ushiromiya family in the stead of her husband, who doesn't pay any attention to his household. She took charge of the preparations, the arrangements, and everything for this family meeting by herself.

She has a strong sense of responsibility, and is very proud. However, she is not understood by her husband and his siblings, so it can't be said that her situation is enviable.

Natsuhi is a tall, middle-aged woman with fair skin and light brown eyes (her eyes were very dark brown, almost black, in the original series).

She wears a purple dress and green earrings. Her hair is brown, though many fans find the exact combination of its shades a bit strange. Her lower/head hair and her upper/ponytail hair are noticeably different shades of brown. In the novels, the ponytail actually seems to fade to red. Like most of the women, Natsuhi has an imposing figure, being both very slender and rather voluptuous.

Natsuhi is a very strict and serious woman who has been described as "stiff" by multiple characters. However, she hides a surprisingly short temper and tends to shout quite a bit. She is also very loyal and responsible, and tends to bottle up her feelings and write them down in her diaries so that she will forget about them rather than express herself.

Her strictness seem to have stemmed from grown up in a strict family as shown in Dawn of the Golden Witch manga where she had to wake up in the middle of the night to greet her father who had just returned home and her parents telling her to be a good wife before she gets married. She regrets not being able to build a good relationship with her daughter but does not know how. In contrast to Rosa's hot tempered treatment to her child's bad behaviour, she is cold when Jessica does something she is not pleased with.

Her biggest weakness will be her pride and will do anything to protect the family's honour and is even willing to sacrifice herself for the family head's honor. Because of her pride, she is unable to accept Yasu as it makes her feel shameful of being unable to conceive a child for many years. This is one reason why the possibility of her accepting the baby very low and thus making it a miracle. However, when she accepts the baby, she will give the baby as much love as her biological daughter so much that the baby never realized that she was not his/her real mother until someone tells them.

Natsuhi appears to be rather misfortunate, as she is disrespected by most of her family, frequently suffers from headaches, and is very often criticized by her rather snide sister-in-law, to the point where she is verbally abused by her in EP1 .

Death
She is one of the last survivors, found dead by Beatrice's painting.

She was found shot before the portrait of the Witch.

To challenge the Witch with a firearm, she had truly no idea of her proper place.
The outcome was obvious.

Unfortunately, she wasn't lucky this time and was chosen as a sacrifice of the first twilight.

Death

Her corpse was found inside the chapel. The immediate cause of death is uncertain, but it seems her stomach was cut open and her intestines were pulled out after her death. And also, sweets were stuffed into her stomach.

I said it, right? That sweets are stuffed into her stomach.

Death

Her corpse was found in the arbor of the rose garden. It is assumed that the cause of death was strangling with a thin object. A stake-shaped weapon was sticking out of her calf.

Why follow the epitaph in the first place? A game?

Once again, she was one of the sacrifices chosen by the key for the first twilight.

Death

Her body was found in the dining hall. Her head was half destroyed. It is probably appropriate to think that she was murdered with something like a powerful gun.

However, the witnesses don't believe that she was killed with a gun...

She is alive by the time of the game's suspension.

Natsuhi is the most unfortunate character in the fifth game as her past is revealed. Krauss, her husband, is kidnapped and her daughter, Jessica, is killed. She is suspected in the witch's court and Erika Furudo's Detective Declaration as a culprit. While Battler cannot disprove this theory, he is able to create another one in which the man from 19 years ago is the culprit; Battler suggests that he himself is the man from 19 years ago. (This is false however, as it's revealed in the 8th game that he is truly Kyrie and Rudolf's son.) She is also physically abused by Eva Ushiromiya, who believed Erika's accusation and believed Natsuhi had murdered her son.

Death

Her body was found in her own room.

Erika didn't perform a detailed examination.

Certain Death

Her neck was completely severed by a blade.

Perfect kind of corpse. Impossible to be mistaken on an autopsy and being perfectly capable of being identified.

Death

When the siblings were given the ten tons of gold and also a cash card worth 1 billion yen the siblings began to argue over it. Krauss tells his brother and sisters that the only way to exchange the money is through him, Natsuhi agrees to this but starts to become desperate as the argument continues. The argument became very heated and Eva tries to convince everyone that they already have enough money on the cash card. Natsuhi becomes frantic and runs at Eva who accidentally shoots her in the head, hitting her eye, starting the massacre shown in the Tea Party.

Died on the 2nd Twilight of Bernkastel's game.

Her name means "summer consort".

Natsuhi is descended from a line of Shinto priests, and her spirit mirror (which can deter or harm Beatrice) is a family heirloom.

She, along with Krauss and the servants, is privy to the secret that Kinzo has in fact died two years before the family conference, leading others in the family to suspect her in the murders.

She is the only character shown to have committed murder before the events of the story.

Her birthday is 7/30 and her blood type is A.

She shares her voice actress with Sailor Jupiter. Coincidentally, Rosa's voice actor has also voiced Sailor Jupiter.
Her daughter's voice actress has also played a green magical girl, as Marina Inoue voiced Cure March in Smile! Pretty Cure.

"Jessica is a daughter who I wouldn't let go of even for ten billion yen. In that sense, I believe she has a value that can't be counted with money."

"You can't determine the contents of a cat box that can't be opened no matter how many people you have with you."

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Natsuhi Ushiromiya (右代宮 夏妃 Ushiromiya Natsuhi) is Krauss Ushiromiya's wife. She manages the Ushiromiya family in the stead of her husband, who doesn't pay any attention to his household. She took charge of the preparations, the arrangements, and everything for this family meeting by herself.

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George Ushiromiya
右代宮 譲治

"A monarch's force is something that's only shown. It's about making your enemy know that they won't escape unharmed if they oppose you. That's what a monarch's force is."

- George to Gaap

George Ushiromiya is Eva's and Hideyoshi's son. He is an affable young man, and is liked by everyone in the family. He is an apprentice to his father's company, and it looks like he finally has dreams of independence. He is the oldest of the four cousins and often acts as a peacemaker.

Relationships

Appearance

George appears as a fairly young man and is described as a typical average man that is not too ugly nor too handsome. He has black curtained, short straight hair and black colored eyes (in later adaptations, his eye color was changed to green). He has bad vision so he is always seen wearing glasses. He is of average height, standing at approximately 170 cm and has pale skin. In the original sound novels he was thicker, but in later adaptations, he was changed to being fairly slim.

George's formal attire consist of a black long sleeved buttoned shirt with a white tie. Over it is a brown vest with the Ushiromiya family crest and over it is a green suit. He also wears green trousers and black shoes. His casual attire in the sound novels and the anime consist of a black jacket, a green sleeveless shirt, and black pants. He also wears a dog tag neck cord. His casual attire in the PS3 version consist of a blue jacket, a buttoned long sleeved light blue shirt, and white trousers. Like in the original version, he also wears a dog tag neck cord. In one ending of Ougon Musou Kyoku, he and Ronove wore the same swimwear attire as Jirou Tomitake in Batsukoishi-hen, which consist of a dark green baseball cap and red trunks.

Personality

George is polite and good at resolving a tense situation. He is the only cousin who had not made fun of Maria for beliving in witches and magic. He is often praised by the other members of the Ushiromiya member to be mature and knowledgeable in many things such as tea.

He loves Shannon and had stated a few times he will do anything to be able to be with Shannon including killing all his relatives. According to Answer to the Golden Witch, were he to find out Shannon's true gender, he would be more than happy to modify his plans to the future with her.

But in school in he had been bullied by other kids and runs aways when he sees other being bullied unless the person is his friends. George also held negative emotions towards Jessica and Battler when he was younger thinking that he is superior to them as he thinks they speak in vulgar ways.

Role in the Games

One of the last to die, his death isn't throughly explained in-game.

Missing.

Even though he managed to meet again with all his close friends in the Golden Land, all the magic came to nothing because of a stubborn fool.

Death

Afterwards, he had even his bones gnawed upon by demons, and went to hell.

Death

At Natsuhi's room, he died by having his stomach pierced by an icepick-type murder weapon.

At the sixth twilight, gouge the stomach and kill. Perhaps, they could have been the second twilight.

Death

His corpse was found in the mansion's parlor. The weapon is assumed to be a gun or a spear-type object.

In exchange for his soul, the witch gave 8 numbers.

07151129

If you say it, a small Golden Land will be opened.

Death

His body was found by the arbor of the rose garden. There was a single hole right in the center of his forehead. It is probably appropriate to think that he was shot with a gun or something.

That was a brand of disgrace marking his loss to Gaap.

Death

His body was discovered in the cousins' room on the second floor of the guesthouse.

The direct cause of death is unknown, but his neck was slashed open by a sharp knife.The wound is very deep, so anyone can easily see that he definitely died.

Alive by the time of game suspension

Death

As shown in the Tea Party, he was killed by Rudolf with one shot in his side and one shot in his head.

His status depends on the decisions being made and the answers being given.

In the sound novels, his "casual wear" includes a set of dog tags and a T-shirt with the expression "TOMITAKE FLASH". Both seem to be a reference to Higurashi character Tomitake Jirou.

His birthday is on 3/16 and his blood type is B.

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George Ushiromiya (右代宮 譲治 Ushiromiya Jōji) is Eva's and Hideyoshi's son. He is an affable young man, and is liked by everyone in the family. He is an apprentice to his father's company, and it looks like he finally has dreams of independence. He is the oldest of the four cousins and often acts as a peacemaker.

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Hideyoshi Ushiromiya
右代宮 秀吉

Name

Hideyoshi Ushiromiya
右代宮 秀吉

Hideyoshi Ushiromiya is Eva's husband. He was adopted into the Ushiromiya family as Eva's husband. Since he does not have the spiteful genes of the Ushiromiya family, his cheerful, smiling face is very precious in the family meetings.

He started his business from scratch, and now works as president of a medium-sized restaurant chain. Its performance is extremely promising because of its growth.

Relationships

Appearance

Higeyoshi is a larger man who normally wears a light brown suit and pink tie. His hair is trimmed short and his skin is a medium brown, like his eyes.

Personality

Role in the Games

Hideyoshi is an accomplice with the killer in this episode, along with Eva. Together, they prevent the non-accomplices of the family from closely examining the corpses in the first twilight, and Hideyoshi describes Shannon's corpse in detail when she is not actually in the shed. Both of them are killed in the second twilight.

Death

He was found in a bathroom of the same guest room as Eva, and like Eva, there was an ice-pick type murder weapon piercing his forehead. No one can be seen from the chain's gap. He can't be seen and can't be reached. Hey, how could a human being kill him? Kihihihihihihihihihihihi.

True Death

As accomplices of Beatrice's murder game they did not believe they would be killed so he and Eva left their door chain unset which lead to the murderer easily getting in and murdering them both.

Death

His corpse was found inside the chapel. The immediate cause of death is uncertain, but it seems his stomach was cut open and his intestines were pulled out after his death. And also, sweets were stuffed into his stomach. It doesn't mean that filthy things were packed inside his stomach.

For the second twilight, he provides an alibi for Eva. Kyrie is able to contradict his story (he had left a cigarette butt in the room, but never smokes in his wife's presence), and convinces him and Rudolf to accompany her to the mansion, ostensibly to collect food but really to question him. All three are ultimately murdered as part of the next three twilights.

Death

Died in the hall of the mansion, his chest pierced by a stake-shaped weapon. How careless. He was still living......

Death

His body was found in the dining hall. His head was half destroyed. It is probably appropriate to think that he was murdered with something like a powerful gun. However, the witnesses don't believe that he was killed with a gun...

Death

His body was discovered in the guest room on the first floor of the mansion. He was pierced by a demon stake from his back. The tip of it reached his lungs. He was lying face down on the bed, so it's hard to believe that it was a suicide.

Alive by the time of game suspension.

Death

As shown in the Tea Party, he has been shot in the chest by Kyrie.

Was killed on the First Twilight. He was found by Ange in the dining room.

He's birthday is on 11/25 and his blood type is B.

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Hideyoshi Ushiromiya (右代宮 秀吉 Ushiromiya Hideyoshi) is Eva's husband. He was adopted into the Ushiromiya family as Eva's husband. Since he does not have the spiteful genes of the Ushiromiya family, his cheerful, smiling face is very precious in the family meetings. He started his business from scratch, and now works as president of a medium-sized restaurant chain.

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Rosa Ushiromiya
右代宮 楼座

Eye Color

Black (PC Version)
Brown (PS3 and Anime Adaption)

"I'll show you my golden dream!!!"

- Rosa when she fought against the Goats

Rosa Ushiromiya is Kinzo Ushiromiya's fourth and youngest child. She is ranked the fifth of all family members. As the youngest Ushiromiya child, she has very little say at the family meetings.

Rosa only has one child, Maria. Before her birth, Maria's father abandoned them.

Rosa is in charge of a company called Auntie Rosa, which designs western-styled clothing. Lately, the company has floundered, and Rosa seeks Kinzo's money to pay off her co-endorsers. She works extremely hard, and as a result, Maria is often left home alone.

At some point, Maria supposed that the truth of the matter behind her mother's long hours; is because Rosa often secretly went on small vacations to lavish locations with her supposed boyfriend. However, that was in fact never true.

Rosa had been working long hours, hoping to earn enough money in order to repay the debt that she owed to her absent lover, in the hopes that he would finally come back and be a proper father for Maria...

Rosa suffers from mood swings, and because of this, she would be calm and happy to Maria in one scene and the next, would then abuses her for the childish way she acts, especially if Maria is acting particularly difficult or when Maria acts extremely creepy.

Rosa is actually terrified by Maria overly expressing her belief in the occult, as well as mentioning the name of a certain witch whom Rosa had convinced herself that she was to blame for the witch's death years ago.

Usually, after slapping her daughter, Rosa will feel guilty and reconcile with Maria, often who remarks that she is glad her mother is not controlled by 'the Black Witch'.

Relationships

Appearance

Rosa has sandy brown hair with a hime cut. The length of Rosa's hair varies between different adaptations. In the visual novels, her hair falls past her shoulders. However, in the various manga adaptations, her hair can reach past her waist. Her eyes were originally black, but were changed to light brown for the anime and PS3 adaption. She has fair skin and appears to be somewhat more flat-chested than other women.

She wears a long, black, country-styled gown, combined with what appears to be a long red skirt and a white dress shirt. Her casual attire is a blue vest over a white, long-sleeved shirt with a matching blue skirt. When she was young, she wore a checkered red-and-black skirt and wore her hair in ponytails. She wore a blue vest over a white, long-sleeved shirt.

Personality

Rosa is seen as a calm and loving person who is also very quick-tempered and violent. Especially, towards her own daughter, whom she physically and verbally abuses on multiple occasions. Though she has very violent tendencies, she tends to always regret her choices and feel bad about what she did. Even though the other siblings find her to be rather dense, she is also shown to be rather intelligent as she is the only one besides Eva to solve the epitaph on her own.

Background

Rosa was born as a child of Kinzo and his legal wife and as the fourth child of the Ushiromiya family. Being the youngest of the four siblings, and growing up on Rokkenjima, she never had anyone to play with. Whenever she tried to play with the young servants, her brother Rudolf would flirt with them and take them away. In short, she had a very lonely childhood and only had a rabbit doll to play with. Being a child among her siblings, who at the time were already adults, she was an eyesore that her siblings could not comprehend. One day, her siblings took her doll and ripped it to shreds, a mistake that she would also make to her daughter one day.

As a teenager she had tutoring and had a secret with her tutor. Approximately 20 years ago in the past, she was shocked when one day, her tutor told her mother the secret she kept. Out of desperation she ran through the forest, having heard of the legend of a witch living in the forest. Eventually she found the hidden mansion Kuwadorian and met her half-sister Beatrice Ushiromiya. From that day on, she and Beatrice became friends and talked about many things, such as about how Kinzo would visit her every few days, among other things. On 1967, she took Beatrice outside of Kuwadorian and as they were about to go to the beach, Beatrice died when she fell down a cliff. Shocked, she ran back to the mansion. That night, she confessed what she had done to Genji, who later on covered up for her telling her not to tell anyone of the accident. Ever since this incident, Rosa blamed herself completely for Beatrice's death. This also strained her relationship with her father to a certain degree, as she once was frightened when Kinzo would call her. It would also later put a strain on her and Maria's relationship due to Maria's obsession with the occult and her friendship with a person who calls themself Beatrice.

As a young adult, she had a lover who later on became Maria's father. When her lover was about to leave overseas, he tells her that he will come back for her. She believed him for a while, and because of this she would show Maria a picture of him and her on the beach. However, he never returned and was then forced to become a single parent for Maria. Whenever Maria would ask her who her father was, she would avoid the topic. Once, when Maria asked her where the picture she showed her was and drew a picture of it, she had a violent outburst. This ended up pushing Maria even further into the occult due to Maria thinking she never had a father and that she was a virgin baby.

On Maria's birthday, Rosa and her daughter celebrated it in a family restaurant. As a present for her daughter, she bought and gave her the doll Sakutarou. Since she is a working, she is away most of the time, leaving her daughter Maria all alone. On one occasion, however, she told her daughter that she would be away on a business trip. She was called in for a meeting with her siblings Rudolf and Eva, on the topic of what they could do to make Krauss share the inheritance. Not wanting to drag her daughter into something that only concerned the siblings themselves, she did not take Maria along (despite Rudolf suggesting that she did), because she hated talking about the gold in front of Maria. When she returned from her supposed business trip, Maria discovered the hotel receipt, which she defensively took away from her.

One night, Maria lost the key to their home. When Maria went to the police, the police contacted her company, Auntie Rosa, to which her employees told the police that she was on a date with her boyfriend on Sapporo, Hokkaido. When she returned home, she was faced with a child welfare officer. After violently sending her out, she ripped Sakutarou apart and smashed one of the bunnies from Maria's ceramic bunny band collection.

Role in the Games

In Legend of the Golden Witch Rosa is killed on the first twilight with her head smashed in, so that was impossible to recognize, despite the clothes. Earlier, she gets into a fight with Maria over Maria's rose in the Rose Garden. Rosa is killed as the sacrifice chosen by the key for Beatrice's revival, as depicted on Kinzo's epitaph.

Death

Her corpse was found inside
the storehouse of the rose garden.
Her face is believed to have been
damaged after her death.

Another meeting is possible.
So, no sadness.

In Turn of the Golden Witch, Rosa survives the first twilight and leads the group of survivors. In addition, she appears to be " collaborating" with the killer, under whose direction she lies at several key points in the story, creating a locked-room puzzle (when the door in question was never locked) and later providing an alibi for them. She is the gun-holder for this episode. Under the guise of mistrust of the servants, she divides the survivors several times into "Wolves" and "Sheep", isolating certain individuals that become sacrifices for the later twilights. As with Eva in the first game, her attempts to shift blame to the servants provoke a sympathetic response from Battler, dissuading him from attempting to solve the mystery. From the magical perspective, Rosa turns against Beatrice when she realizes that being the witch's accomplice is no guarantee of safety for herself and her daughter. She and Maria survive the entire ceremony but are captured and killed by the Goats while trying to escape the island, or, alternately, killed by the bomb, their attempts to escape hampered by the gold ingot Rosa insists on liberating.

META-WORLD

She was tortured and forced by Beatrice to eat a meal made of each one of the siblings: Bloody Krauss, Double Eva's tongue seasonal's salad, Sea Bass Pie (wrapped in Rudolf's face) and finally, Oven baked Maria with apples.

Death

Missing. In the Golden Land, she finally
found her own treasure, more
important than the gold.
However, that was only for a brief
time. Because of a fool, she was
forced to once again lose sight of
what she had found at great pains.

Afterwards, she was torn to pieces
and eaten by the demons,
and went to hell.

After her sister, Eva solves the epitaph, Rosa also solves it and arrives seconds too late. She congratulates her sister on finding the gold and Eva asks her to keep it a secret. Later Rosa is sacrificed again, ironically (in the magical perspective) by her own witch-transformed sister EVA-Beatrice. She is brutally tortured with some bizarre magic, and in the anime adaption, Maria is tortured along with her before finally being killed by Beatrice who ended her torment by piercing her head onto the spear-shaped part of the fence.

Death

Died in the rose garden, her medulla oblongata
was pierced by a spear-shaped part of the fence.
If Maria hadn't been killed by
another person, you might suspect
that Rosa died in an accident.

She was the sacrifice for the birth of the new witch.

Rosa was sacrificed once again by her own father, Kinzo. While she tries to get a grip on her situation, Chiester 00 killed her by piercing her golden arrow through Rosa, baring all her flesh to the floor. In the anime, her throat is slashed open.

In the 1998 scenes, Ange, through reading Maria's diary, learns of Rosa's complex relationship with her, showing her creation and destruction of Sakutarou, and her ongoing cycles of affection and neglect/abuse. Later on, Maria dreams of when Rosa destroyed Sakutarou, where she is repeatedly killed and revived by Maria and Beatrice for her past abuse and destruction of Sakutarou, ultimately screaming that she has hated Maria since the day she was born. Though because it was just Maria's dream this could be how Maria personifies Rosa's feelings towards her and not Rosa's true feelings towards Maria.

Death

Her body was found in the dining hall.
Her head was half destroyed.
It is probably appropriate to think that she was murdered with
something like a powerful gun.

However, the witnesses don't believe
that she was killed with a gun...

Death

Her body was discovered in the cousins' room on the second floor of the guesthouse.

The direct cause of death is unknown,
but her neck was slashed open by a sharp knife.
The wound is very deep,
so anyone can easily see that she definitely died.

Death

Her body was found in the parlor.

Erika didn't perform a detailed examination.

Certain Death

Her neck was completely severed by a blade.

Perfect kind of corpse. Impossible to be mistaken on an autopsy and being perfectly capable of being identified.

Meta-World

Kanon killed her with a supersonic true strike, in order to complete the trial of Zepar and Furfur.

Death

After refusing to comply with Eva's plan to cover up the accidental murders of Natsuhi and Krauss, she was killed by Kyrie by a shot to her head, due to having an unused bullet in her rifle, which threatened Kyrie's plan.

Was killed on the First Twilight.

Umineko fans ironically dubbed her "Best Mom Ever", or "Mother of the Year", due to her cruel treatment of Maria. However, in the Battle of the Golden Land, both Maria and Rosa prove to Erika that Rosa truly cares for her daughter. Maria also ascertains the fact by reminding Erika that none of the rumors existing outside the cat-box are true.

Rosa's escape attempt during the second game earned her the fan nickname "Musou Rosa" because of her strength to face dozens of goat servants (and the similarities to the Sangoku Musou/Dynasty Warriors game series this brings to mind). A flash titled "Rosa Musou" was made based on the scene and, in the expansion of the spin-off fighting game, Ougon Musou Kyoku, one of her super moves is the 4-hit Goat Killer combo that starts her now famous scene in the visual novel.

Upon reading the witches' record for each game, Rosa is shown to have the worst luck, especially when the torture she suffered at the hands of Maria, EVA-Beatrice, and Beatrice (during the second game) are taken into account.

Whether she was married to Maria's father or whether they were simply lovers was not confirmed or explored upon.

In Banquet of the Golden Witch, when EVA-Beatrice was torturing her and Maria, EVA-Beatrice mentioned that Rosa once had several dreams such as wanting to fly like a seagull to escape Rokkenjima or becoming a Witch.

Her birthday is on 6/3 and her blood type is O.

Rosa and Natsuhi's voice actors have some odd coincidences.

Both voiced Sailor Jupiter at some point in time.

Both's daughters' voice scraps have played a Pretty Cure, as Yui Horie (Maria's voice actor) lends her voice to Cure Magical in Mahō Tsukai Pretty Cure.

She is one of five characters who shares her voice actress with a Pretty Cure. Her voice actor voiced Cure Melody in Suite! Pretty Cure, Maria's voice actor voiced Cure Magical in Mahō Tsukai Pretty Cure, Jessica's voice actor played Cure March in Smile! Pretty Cure, Shannon's voice actor played Cure Ace in Dokidoki Pretty Cure, and Chiester 410's voice actor played Cure Berry in Fresh Pretty Cure!.

"M-Maria is my cute and only daughter. Her value cannot be measured with money. That is all."

"There's no doubt that my world has been a total hell."

"This is hell. In this hell, I'll regret not fighting when I should have until the day I die. I've even dragged my daughter into it. I wish someone would just kill me. I want to be told that I've already been killed, that I am a ghost."

"Because of you, even I'm treated like a weirdo!"

"I'll show you how lukewarm the hell you came from is!!"

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Rosa Ushiromiya (右代宮 楼座 Ushiromiya Rōza) is Kinzo Ushiromiya's fourth and youngest child. She is ranked the fifth of all family members. As the youngest Ushiromiya child, she has very little say at the family meetings. Rosa only has one child, Maria. Before her birth, Maria's father abandoned them.

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Rudolf Ushiromiya
右代宮 留弗夫

"People can kill over money."

- Rudolf to George

Rudolf Ushiromiya is Kinzo's third child. Together with his sister Eva, at the family meeting he strengthens the goal of not allowing the eldest brother Krauss monopolize their father's fortune. He lost his previous wife, Asumu, six years ago and afterwards immediately entered his second wife Kyrie in the family register.

Appearances

Umineko no Naku Koro ni

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru

Anime Adaptation

Manga Adaptation

PS3 Remake

PSP Remake

Ougon Musou Kyoku

Relationships

Personality

Rudolf is shown to be sly and cunning. He had a talent to do things that are boderline swindles or illegal and running away with it even when he was in his university years where he sold party tickets. He is heartless to those he swindled and thinks it is not any of his business when he drove some of them to commit suicide. Rudolf is also a playboy who attracted and toyed with many women's feeling thinking that it is fun to see them fight over him. All this as Ange said made him a horrible person.

However, he is also shown to be similar to Battler especially when he was younger that he is also the Ushiromiya sibling to be the energetic one and the one joking around. They are also both stuborn and refused to make up even though neither are angry at each other after a while until 6 years later. When he was younger and was told that there are wolves in the forest, he said that he wanted to pat them causing Kinzo to change the story to witches in the forest. This scared him and cause him to cling to Krauss for a while.

Despite always teasing Battler, he is also shown to care about him and even gave Asumu's parents money to take care of him as well as take note of what is happening to Battler in school. He also love guns and enjoys watching many western films.

Role In the Games

Death
His corpse was found inside the storehouse of the rose garden.His face is believed to have been damaged after his death. He has the right to lament his bad luck.

Death
His corpse was found inside the chapel.The immediate cause of death is uncertain, but it seems his stomach was cut open and his intestines were pulled out after his death. And also, sweets were stuffed into his stomach. So, sweetly like the sweets,we want to be naive.

Death
Died in the hall of the mansion his forehead pierced by a stake-shaped weapon. From here on, a stake must be the finishing blow. How vulgar.

Death

His body was found in the dining hall.His head was half destroyed.It is probably appropriate to think that he was murdered with something like a powerful gun. However, the witnesses don't believe that he was killed with a gun.

Alive at the time of Games suspension.

Alive at the time of Games suspension.

In the Tea Party it is revealed that Rudolf and Kyrie are the true culprits of the Rokkenjima Mass Murder Incident. After discovering the gold along with the other adults he and Kyrie came up with a plan to take it all for themselves by murdering everyone on the island and escaping to Kuwadorian with the gold. Rudolf and Kyrie then call each of the children one by one, with Rudolf assigned to kill George. After killing him, his plan with Kyrie are ruined by Eva who he thought was dead. Rudolf is killed by Eva thus putting an end to his killings. She shot him in the chest before shooting him in the head.

In Bernkastel's game he ends up being the culprit along with Battler and Kyrie.

"Compared to George-kun, there's nothing about Battler I can brag about. If he was kidnapped and we were threatened with a ransom of ten billion, I'd feel like sticking a bow on the guy and letting them have him. On top of that, he's idiotic and reckless. He talks about grand dreams and things that couldn't be done. I guess in that way, he's a super idiot worth the equivalent of ten billion more idiots. But I'm sure that guy could do things that even a group of ten billion average people couldn't do. Well, I'm pretty sure he'll fall flat on his face. The world isn't easy. But at the very least, there's no doubt that watching over his life will be more pleasant than looking at ten billion average people."

"All the trust in the world isn't worth a good banknote."

His birthday is on 9/29 and his blood type is O.

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Rudolf Ushiromiya (右代宮 留弗夫 Ushiromiya Rudorufu) is Kinzo's third child. Together with his sister Eva, at the family meeting he strengthens the goal of not allowing the eldest brother Krauss monopolize their father's fortune. He lost his previous wife, Asumu, six years ago and afterwards immediately entered his second wife Kyrie in the family register.

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Eva Ushiromiya
右代宮 絵羽

Title

Head of the Ushiromiya Family

(Post-massacre)

"Until the moment of your death, you worried about the daughter you left behind. Yes. I'll write that into the lid of the cat box."

- Moments after killing Kyrie

Eva Ushiromiya is the eldest daughter of the Ushiromiya family and the second child of Kinzo, ranked the third of all family members. Hostile towards her brother Krauss and takes a stance to confront him in every way possible, from issues of the fortune to the succession of the head of the family. Originally she would have lost her place in the register of the Ushiromiya family when she got married, but since she made her husband, who took her family name, be recognized, the whole story forcibly came to a halt.

Relationships

Personality

Eva is sly and the only Ushiromiya sibling who appears to want to snatch up the headship from Krauss while Rudolf and Rosa seem to only want the gold. She holds a deep rivalry with Krauss since she was young and had been the smarter one who is more capable of being the head. However, because she was born a woman and after Krauss, she was told by both Kinzo and Krauss that she should focus on learning to be a good wife. That angered her even more and caused her to study harder to gain her father's approval. Since she was young, she has been looking down on Rosa and bullies her. Even in the games, she still makes snide remarks against Rosa and Maria. In Requiem of the Golden Witch, it is also stated that she is capable of knowing when Rudolf is lying. She is mean and is also constantly mocking Natsuhi and Shannon when she feels that George and Shannon are getting too close saying that Shannon is too low for George.

Eva has a own soft side that only her husband seems to know. She loves her family a lot and constantly worries about George's future. There are times when she gets worried that she has been using George as a way of getting revenge on Krauss who had a daughter not a son.

After the incident, she wanted to begin a life with Ange. But after Ange rejected her, she started to lose her mind and became abusive towards Ange which she regrets and starts to make many enemies. It is also said that after that incident she becomes unable to trust anyone.

According to Tetsuro Okonogi, Kinzo believed that Eva was more intelligent and competent than Krauss, and regretted the decision to make Krauss the next head. He further believes that the test of the epitaph was to indirectly name Eva as the next head of the Ushiromiya family.

Appearance

Eva is a woman with fair skin and ginger hair tied up in a bun, held together with a purple hairpin. She has black eyes in the original sound novel, but has purple eyes in the anime and PS3 adaptation.

She is shown wearing a Black cheongsam (Purple in the PS3 and Anime Adaptions) with golden one-winged eagles. She also wears two gloves, of which one is shorter than the other, which reveals the one-winged eagle tattooed on her arm. She also wears a pink bracelet, light blue pants and black shoes and is usually seen holding something (frequently a hand fan).

Role In the Games

Eva is an accopmlice with the killer in this episode, along with Hideyoshi. Together, they prevent the non-collaborating members of the family from closely examining the corpses in the first twilight. When discussing the murders with Battler later on (trying to get him interested in solving the mystery in order to further the killer's goals), Eva refers to their wounds as "horrible make-up," indicating she and her husband were led to believe the deaths were faked. Her attempts to frame Natsuhi as a suspect ultimately trigger a sympathetic response from Battler, dissuading him from attempting to solve the mystery and making her a liability to the witch. Believing their lives to be safe, Eva and her husband separate from the main group. Both of them are killed in the second twilight.

Death

She was found in a guest room inside the mansion, on the bed, with an ice-pick type murder weapon piercing her forehead. The room had its windows and door locked from the inside, and even the chain was set. There is no way a human being could kill her.

True Death

As accomplices of Beatrice's murder game they did not believe they would but killed so she and Hideyoshi left their door chain unset which lead to the murderer easily getting in and murdering them both.

Death

Her corpse was found inside the chapel. The immediate cause of death is uncertain, but it seems her stomach was cut open and her intestines were pulled out after her death. And also, sweets were stuffed into her stomach. The insides of everyone's stomachs are full of sweet dreams.

In this episode, Eva solves The Witch's Epitaph after the first twilight, rewarding her with the gold and the position of head of the Ushiromiya family. She attempts to keep this secret from the rest of the family, but is found out by Rosa. From an anti-mystery perspective, this leads to the birth of EVA-Beatrice, a witch who starts to murder the rest of the family in order to keep the witch's rewards all to herself. From an anti-fantasy perspective, Eva has no plausible alibi when many of the murders are committed, and admits to being the murderer at the end of the game when confronted by Battler, who she shoots and kills. She survived the massacre and returned from Rokkenjima safely, staying with her niece Ange.

Death

Unfortunately, she eventually falls ill and dies.

1986 Character Sheet
Her body was found in the dining hall. Her head was half destroyed. It is probably appropriate to think that she was murdered with something like a powerful gun. However, the witnesses don't believe that she was killed with a gun...

1998 Character Sheet
After being repeatedly hospitalized from psychogenic stress, she is already dead in the world of 1998 due to acute heart failure. She lived her later years isolated with no one to understand her, and is the only survivor from Rokkenjima. The media gave her the name "Queen of Suspicion". She continued to make reckless expansions of management like Kinzo had done in the past, creating many enemies. In her later years, as though she enjoyed it, she no longer continued for economic reasons, but did it simply to harass others. And that was all for the sake of Ange, who would eventually succeed her.

Alive by the time of game suspension

Death
Her body was found in the VIP Room.

Erika didn't perform a detailed examination.

Certain Death
Her neck was completely severed by a blade.

Perfect kind of corpse. Impossible to be mistaken on an autopsy and being perfectly capable of being identified.

Eva was one of two surviors of the Rokkenjima Mass Murder Incident and survived by escaping to the Kuwadorian mansion. As the sole known survivor of the event, she lives the rest of her life enduring vicious rumours that she murdered her family. She adopts Ange and becomes her legal guardian; in spite of vindictiveness towards Ange, she actually loved her as a daughter and hired Amakusa to protect Ange.

While Eva is the only person who knows the truth behind the incident on Rokkenjima, she reveals the actual events to no one, thus neither confirming nor denying the rumours. The only known record of what truly happened on Rokkenjima was detailed in a diary written by Eva, who refused to allow anyone to read it.

Was killed on the First Twilight.

Even though Eva is shown to be very cruel it is revealed in Dawn of the Golden Witch that all her cruelty was done to help George and that she wanted nothing more than for him to have a good life. It is also revealed in Twilight of the Golden Witch that both Eva and EVA-Beatrice truly care for Ange and her well-being.

Miki Itō is the same seiyuu (voice actor) of Takano Miyo of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni.

Due to the prescence of the one-winged eagle tattoo, fans speculate that Rudolf, Krauss and Rosa all have the tattoo but on different limbs.

Her birthday is on 10/21 and her blood type is A.

Even though she is the sole survivor of the Rokkenjima Massacre, she dies in five out of the eight games.

Eva's age is unknown, but in Legend of the Golden Witch it is stated that she is three years older than Natsuhi.

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Eva Ushiromiya (右代宮 絵羽 Ushiromiya Eba) is the eldest daughter of the Ushiromiya family and the second child of Kinzo, ranked the third of all family members. Hostile towards her brother Krauss and takes a stance to confront him in every way possible, from issues of the fortune to the succession of the head of the family.

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Krauss Ushiromiya
右代宮 蔵臼

"Chess pieces taken aside may have no purpose, but there's a great purpose for shogi pieces who've been captured. Just one captured pawn should be able to put pressure on the opponent."

- Krauss

Krauss Ushiromiya is Kinzo's first child. As the eldest son of four siblings, he is in a position to lead the family meeting. However, to the other siblings, it seems that he is trying to monopolize the fortune, which intensifies the clash with the siblings. He is a real estate investor and is heavily interested in the development of a resort. However, the results are being severely criticized.

Appearances

Relationships

Appearance

Krauss has old gold colored hair and wears a red suit with a blue under shirt, yellow tie, and white boots. He bears the one-winged eagle on his shirt collar and the lapel of his suit jacket.

Personality

In the beginning, Krauss is shown to be an arrogant person due to being the eldest and the one was thought by many who will be Kinzo's successor. He is disliked by his siblings especially Eva who he had a rivalry with and whom he seem to look down upon as she was a woman. He also appeared to be unsensitve to his wife's feeling in Legend of the Golden Witch uncapable of understanding her.

However shown in End of the Golden Witch and hinted since the first game, he is not doing well as a businessman and was often tricked by other people causing him to fall into a huge debt. He is also not as smart as he appeared to his siblings and is trying hard to gain approval from his father. Also in the fifth game when told in Natsuhi's point of view, he is shown to truly love his wife and daughter despite them being arranged married. He also had a childish side which seemed to never to be known to his siblings.

He is good in boxing which he took up when he was in his college years.

Role In the Games

He was chosen by the key for the first twilight. It appears his death took place a little after midnight, right after Eva and Hideyoshi went to rest.

Death

His corpse was found inside the storehouse of the rose garden. The direct cause of death is unknown but, it seems the side of his head was destroyed after his death.

First of all, it's the beginning of everything.

He was also chosen by the key for the first twilight. He acknowledged Beatrice's existence and was killed.

Death

His corpse was found inside the chapel. The immediate cause of death is uncertain, but it seems his stomach was cut open and his intestines were pulled out after his death. And also, sweets were stuffed into his stomach.

Welcome Maria. Happy Halloween.

Death

His corpse was found in the arbor of the rose garden. It is assumed that the cause of death was strangling by a thin object. A stake-shaped weapon was sticking out of his thigh.

If only there wasn't that stupid epitaph, I wouldn't have needed a stake. What a pain.

After the first twilight, Krauss is believed to be captured and imprisoned along with Kyrie, Nanjo, Kanon and Shannon. As part of the killer's plan, he telephones his daughter and passes along instructions for the test of leadership. He is ultimately murdered after escaping.

Death

His body was found in the vicinity of the back door to the mansion. His head was half destroyed. It is appropriate to think that he was murdered with something like a powerful gun.

A demon stake was buried into the damaged area.

No one can escape from the 'Chiesters' golden arrows.

Death

Was murdered sometime after the early morning call from which Natsuhi learned he was still alive.
His corpse was not found, but his death was guaranted by Bernkastel with the red truth.

Alive

by the time of game suspension

Death

He has been shot in a brawl with Hideyoshi by the rifle he had in his own hands after Eva shot his wife.

Was killed on the Second Twilight.

His birthday is on 2/26 and his blood type is O.

"Don't you think education for women is like sugar in black tea? When there is none it's just tasteless, but too much of it ruins the tea."

"If you're afraid of the risk, it's alright to bide your time until the price starts to go up. However, if you're too afraid of losing, you might end up with just a scrap of paper. Though these are our lives."

"Love and madness are two sides of the same coin, or so they say. How bothersome."

"We'll definitely be able to reel this fish in. There's no need to rush."

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Krauss Ushiromiya (右代宮 蔵臼 Ushiromiya Kurausu) is Kinzo's first child. As the eldest son of four siblings, he is in a position to lead the family meeting. However, to the other siblings, it seems that he is trying to monopolize the fortune, which intensifies the clash with the siblings.