Twilight of the Golden Witch/Summary

Summary

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In an attempt to uncover the heart of the mystery, this chapter features a scenario where Ange is present with her family at the 1986 conference. Unlike the previous chapters, this game has features that require direct interaction from the player, including quizzes that unlock extra scenes as rewards, a board that presents some possible culprit(s) and the choice between interpreting the events of the series as magic or a trick, leading to two different endings.

Chapter List[]

Chapter Name	Date	Time
To Rokkenjima
Six-year-old Ange
Returning the Gold
Halloween Party
Quiz Tournament (question #1
Quiz Tournament (first half)
Quiz Tournament (second half)
Banquet of Witches and Humans
Bern's Puzzle
Challenging Bern
The Visitor Who Came Late
Black Cat Scratch Marks
Hachijo Tohya
The Book of the Truth
Hachijo Ikuko
Siege of the Fleet
Ange's Choice

Proloque[]

Location	Summary

Background Music

s/he-end (Giving Ange the key)
l&d-circulation (Opening the game board one last time)
霧のピトス [Kiri no Pithos] (Opening)

Characters appearing

To Rokkenjima[]

Location	Summary

Background Music

HANE [Feathers] (Boat ride; Happy Halloween)
hope (Arrival to Rokkenjima; Weather report)
夏の扉 [Doorway of Summer] (Preparing the guests)
白い影 [White Shadow] (Happy Kinzo)

Characters appearing

Six-year-old Ange[]

Location	Summary

Background Music

ひだまり [In the Sun] (Beach)
久遠 [Eternity] (A tale Battler created)
birth_of_new_witch(inst) (Beatrice's arrival)
旋律 (シラベ) inst.ver [Melody] (Ange's key)
Surrounding (Showing Ange the magic)
くるり [About Face] (It was magic)

Characters appearing

Returning the Gold[]

Location	Summary

Background Music

ひだまり [In the Sun] (Kinzo, Beatrice & Battler)
l&d-circulation (Borrowing the gold)
apathy (Beatrice's loneliness)
cage (Early preparations)
terminal entrance (What happened on October 4th & 5th?)
Monochrome Clock (Amakusa's radio)
透百合 [Sukashiyuri] (Child soldiers)

Characters appearing

Halloween Party[]

Location	Summary

Background Music

夏の扉 [Doorway of Summer] (Cousin room)
far (Halloween Party; Sachertorte)
白い影 [White Shadow] (Returning the gold)
Engage of marionette (Kinzo's speech)
ひだまり [In the Sun] (Battler and Beatrice)
reflection-call (One truth inside the cat box)
Novelette (Two almonds)
ぬいぐるみ [Stuffed Animal] (Quizzes and riddles)

Characters appearing

Quiz Tournament (question #1)[]

Location	Summary

Background Music: ぬいぐるみ [Stuffed Animal] (Kinzo's question)

Characters appearing

Quiz Tournament (first half)[]

Location	Summary

Background Music

ぬいぐるみ [Stuffed Animal] (1st question's correct answer; Gohda & Kumasawa's questions; Natsuhi's question)
てくてく [Steady Pace] (Kinzo's concern)
HANE [Feathers] (Hideyoshi's question)
夏の扉 [Doorway of Summer] (Eva's question)
apathy (Understanding Ange)
白い影 [White Shadow] (Hope for Ange; Natsuhi's sin)
cage (Nanjo & Genji's questions)
Novelette (Kinzo and Genji's relationship; Ange enjoys the puzzles)
エンドレスナイン [Endless Nine] (Krauss' question)

Characters appearing

Quiz Tournament (second half)[]

Location	Summary

Background Music

ぬいぐるみ [Stuffed Animal] (Kanon's question; Rosa's question; Maria and Rosa's departure; Kyrie & Rudolf's questions)
praise (Shannon's question)
wingless (Kanon and Shannon's duel)
Happy_Maria!(Instrumental) (Maria's question)
ひだまり [In the Sun] (Maria and Sakutaro)
白い影 [White Shadow] (Switching the birth results)
cage (Jessica & George's question)
久遠 [Eternity] (The quiz is almost over)
hope (Ange's prize)

Characters appearing

Banquet of Witches and Humans[]

Location	Summary

Background Music

happiness_of_marionette (True party)
worldend(bp) (The door is locked)
永遠の鎖 [Eternal Chains] (Following the cat; finding six bodies)
birth_of_new_witch(inst) (Conversations between humans and magical residents)
599_million_ruins (Bernkastel appears)
鈍色の空笑 [Gray Empty Smile] (Bern challenges Battler and Beato)
hikari [Light] (Preparing the game)
Answer (Bern doesn't need a reader)
嬰児クインビー [Infant Queen Bee] (Finding the other seven bodies)

Characters appearing

Bern's Puzzle[]

Main article: Bernkastel's Game

The tragedy of the first twilight was discovered at 6:00 in the morning on the following day. Gohda and Kumasawa had discovered Eva, Hideyoshi, Rudolf, Kyrie, Rosa and Genji lying covered in blood in the dining room. It was a closed room murder. Everyone gathers. Shannon then says that his or her own child confirmed the deaths of each parent. Nanjo had confirmed the death Genji. Natsuhi and Krauss began to suspect the servants, as there was no other way the crime would have been committed perfectly as a closed room as no one was hiding. However everyone lacked an alibi.

BATTLER then questions Bernkastel if there was any way to lock up from the outside without a master key. Bernkastel confirms with the red truth that all doors can only be locked or unlocked with a master key. Beatrice asks if there are keys to each individual room in addition to the master keys. Bernkastel says that she had eliminated them from the game and only master keys exist. She also confirms that there are only five master keys in total, one held by each servant. She also adds that it is impossible for the master keys to be stolen, handed over, or used by any humans other than themselves with the red.

Back in the game, Krauss reveals to the party that there wasn’t any luck retrieving Genji’s master key and that he and Natsuhi destroyed the master key.

In the second twilight, everyone returned to the parlor to discuss what should be done next. The phones were out so they couldn’t contact the police. Again none of them had alibis. By midday everyone had started arguing and took a break. Krauss and Natushi announced that they wanted to talk with each other alone and went up to the second floor. Everyone then went their separate ways now and then, such as to head to the bathroom or gaze at the rain. As time passed, only Krauss and Natsuhi did not return. The survivors then discover Krauss’s and Natsuhi’s corpses sprawled on the floor. Natushi’s room was locked and it was Shannon who unlocked the door. Nanjo had confirmed their deaths. The servants then claimed that they each had an alibi for one another, as they became the suspicious ones once more.

The survivors decided to preserve the crime scene as it was. Duct tapes were used to seal the outside of the doors and windows. Battler claims to have sealed the dining hall in the same way. The survivors decided to preserve the mansion by sealing it and take refuge in the guesthouse.

BATTLER found it hard to believe that the whole mansion was sealed and that everyone had access to the ladder to seal the windows on the third floor. Bernkastel says that she simplified the game to the point that all the windows had steel bars on them, making it impossible to enter or leave through them. She then gives another red truth claiming that the survivors can seal the whole mansion by sealing the front and back doors. BATTLER suspects that the servants were a group of culprits responsible for the murders and notes that more importantly, his game avatar is suspicious since the first twilight. Beatrice asks if BATTLER thought that on of the six who died was actually alive and committed the crime, to which BATTLER agrees and theorizes that the culprits killed Krauss and Natsuhi, then locked the door from the inside, hid inside the room, and found a good chance to escape. In response to his theory, Bernkastel confirms with the red that the culprit of the first twilight really did kill six people. Beatrice responded with the blue truth that the culprit locked the door from the inside, and then hid in Natsuhi’s room. Then, after everyone left, they found an opportunity to escape. Bernkastel denied her theory with the red claiming that the group sealed the room at the same time they left and that no culprit joined the group as they left. She also claims that all of the seals made would not be broken.

Back in the game, all those who took refuge in the guesthouse decided to hole up in there until the typhoon passed. However, from time to time, some people had taken breaks. This left their actions with a weak point open and this resulted in the fourth twilight. Battler said that apparently Shannon and Kanon who ran errands have not come back. George became upset and went outside to look for them only to discover Shannon dead in the rose garden, a death confirmed by Nanjo. This time, some people did not have alibis as not everyone were in the guest house from time to time and this made George a prime suspect. To prevent the culprit from using Shannon’s master key, it was destroyed.

Back in the meta-world, Bernkastel stated in red that Kanon is to be treated as being killed for the duration of the game, despite his corpse having no appearance. This also meant that his master key is now destroyed.

Everyone took shelter in the guesthouse where they carefully sealed all doors and windows, locking themselves in a closed room. The cousins are now arguing about finding the culprit and decided to double check Nanjo, Kumasawa and Gohda’s testimony. However the victims for the fifth and sixth twilights were Gohda and Kumasawa. Nanjo claims that they both died instantly. According to Battler, no one had an alibi. However Jessica claims that the four cousins and Doctor Nanjo couldn’t have killed Gohda and Kumasawa as they were in the cousins’ room. George claims to have checked the guesthouse in case some might have snuck in, but it was completely locked up. Gohda’s and Kumasawa’s master keys were also destroyed meaning that all master keys have now been lost.

In the seventh twilight, Doctor Nanjo becomes the victim, having been killed in the entrance hall of the guesthouse. All cousins agree that none of them could have done it.

Jessica flew out of the guesthouse in a rage, searching for the culprit that she was sure hid somewhere outside. George, Battler, and Maria hurriedly chased after her. Then outside the building they found Jessica lying on the ground, dead. Battler is now seemingly becoming frustrated at the turn of events, as none of the cousins could have killed Jessica. Each cousin had alibis for one another.

Bernkastel ends the tale. Lambdadelta, BATTLER, and Beatrice praise her tale. BATTLER then asks Bernkastel what the purple text was about that appeared constantly throughout the game, asking if it was a new rule. Bernkastel explains the concept of the new rule, which she calls the purple declaration. Beatrice asks if the purple statements are as reliable as red truth to which Bernkastel confirms.

However, she also says that the culprit could lie with the purple statements. Bernkastel then explains the rules of her game. She also adds that ‘the Reader will tell no lies’, backed with the red truth that ‘outside of spoken statements, there are no lies in the narration’. Lambdadelta adds in red that the game is solvable with the information Beatrice and BATTLER have received.

After this, the player is given the chance to solve the mystery with the information that he or she has received throughout the chapter.

In this chapter the player is given various options

Challenging Bern — Options for Bernkastel's game in the PS3 version

as seen in the picture from the left. The first option is to read a section of each twilight that has occured thus far. The second option is a list of Bernkastel's rules in the game. The third option is to view each purple statement made. It could be viewed either by twilight or by character. The fourth option is the hint section. By clicking on this section, the player can view the problem solving process made by Beatrice and Battler. If one were to keep on clicking on the hints, it would eventually reveal that Battler and Beatrice would eventually solve it and the solution would be given. The fifth and final section is the culprit select. The purpose of this option is to continue Bernkastel's story from where it was last left off as well as proceed to the next chapter of this arc. This is achieved through selecting the culprit(s) by clicking on the characters' faces and clicking confirm. If the player gives a wrong answer, a witches laugh is heard and they are brought automatically to the Hint section, where they watch Battler's and Beatrice's problem solving process. It is important for this section to be solved if the player wishes to continue the overall story. The solution for culprit select are Battler, Kyrie and Rudolf.

Background Music

Surrounding (Bern's tale)
resurrectedreplayer (Guessing the culprits)

Twilight's Background Music

ワルツ [Waltz] Op.34 (First twilight)
蒼色の冷笑 [Deep Blue Jeer] (Second twilight)
Happy_Maria!(Instrumental) (Fourth twilight)
黒のリリアナ [Black Liliana] (Fifth and sixth twilights)
キ・ナの香り [Kina no Kaori] (Seventh twilight)
ruriair (Eighth twilight)

Tip's Background Music

suspicion (Search for reliable purple statements; Nanjo and Jessica are innocent!)
Closed My Heart (Who can't be a culprit?; George and Maria are the chicken and the egg)
Core (The narrated text speaks the truth; the culprit was shut up inside?)
rhythm-changer (Keep searching for confirmed deaths; one culprit played dead, and another culprit exists)
prison (9 people are innocent)
where (The master keys can't be used?)
暗闇の刻 [Hour of Darkness] (Something odd about the red text?)
witch_in_gold(cembalo) (They really did kill six people?)
踊る煙管 [Dancing Pipe] (An accomplice exists)
599_million_ruins (Anyone but George could have killed Shannon)
dead angle (Is there yet another culprit?)
胡散の香り [Fishy Aroma] (Checking Maria culprit theories)
蒼色の冷笑 [Deep Blue Jeer] (Checking George culprit theories)
孤独な深海魚 [Solitary Deep Sea Fish] (George's purple statements)
少女たちの魔女狩り [The Girls' Witch Hunt] (Two adults, one kid)
継接キメラ [Patchwork Chimera] (The three culprits are family)
discolor (The kid culprit is Battler)

Characters appearing

Game

The Visitor Who Came Late[]

Location	Summary

Background Music

dead angle (Finding Battler, George & Maria)
lie-alaia (Guessing the culprits; Eva's diary)
stupefaction (The culprits are Battler, Kyrie & Rudolf)
継接キメラ [Patchwork Chimera] (Battler culprit theory)
where (Escaping from the goats)
the executioner (Erika Furudo)
resurrectedreplayer (EVA-Beatrice)
くるり [About Face] (Searching for the truth)
l&d-circulation (Bern's test of learning the truth)
ひだまり [In the Sun] (Discussing Bern's mystery game)
刹那 [A Single Moment] (The path to the truth)
ridicule (Ange's own purpose)
痕音 [Scar Sound] (Featherine and Tohya Hachijo are the same being)
The_End_Of_The_World (Eva's diary is the Book of the Single Truth)

Characters appearing

Black Cat Scratch Marks[]

Location	Summary

Background Music

月夜 [Moonlit Night] (Waiting for Ange and Erika)
嬰児クインビー [Infant Queen Bee] (Ange confronts BATTLER)
Golden Nocturne (inst) (ANGE-Beatrice and EVA-Beatrice)
The first and The last (The swarm of goats)
怪奇ディヴェルティメント [Bizarre Divertimento] (Retreating to the Golden Land)
the executioner (The Siege against the goats)
JUSTICE (William and Dlanor)
Rebirth (The door to the Golden Land is opening)
where (Chain deathmatch)
Dread_of_the_grave_-more_fear-(remake) (Battler vs Erika)

Characters appearing

Hachijo Tohya[]

Location	Summary

Background Music

透百合 [Sukashiyuri] (Tohya Hachijo and Company X)
Love Examination (Hachijo's opinion)
en-counse (Writing the tale of the Single Truth)
lixAxil (Battler vs Erika & Beatrice vs Ange)
Life (Looking for the truth to die)
Voiceless (Humans live to learn)
くるり [About Face] (A happy ending with certainity)

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The Book of the Truth[]

Location	Summary

Background Music

s/he-end (Finding the Book of Truth)
one (City of Books)
l&d-circulation (Ange and Erika)
7-weights (The goats are personifications of opinions on the tragedy)
旋律 (シラベ) inst.ver [Melody] (Surrounded by pirate ships)
Revelations(inst) (Lambda helps out; the truth is in the diary)
Haruka [Distant] (The seal is broken)
Bring The Fate (Unlocking the diary)
ALIVE (The Single Truth)

Characters appearing

Hachijo Ikuko[]

Location	Summary

Background Music

le4-octobre (Ikuko Hachijo)
en-counse (Tohya's headaches)
far (flat) (Writing novels in secret)
ballade-continuer (Finishing the book)
Revelations(inst) (Remembering the Rokkenjima incident)
なまえのないうた full-inst [Song Without a Name] (The truth is not worth anything)
Novelette (Ange believes in magic)
wingless (Battler and Ange)

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Siege of the Fleet[]

Location	Summary

Background Music

bore-ral (Erika's negotiation)
lie-alaia (Buying time for Battler and Ange)
Revelations (Lambda provided 'powerful friends')
Closed My Heart (Seeing through Beatrice's ruse)
Worldend_dominator (Beatrice's army vs Erika's army)
Future (Lambda's sacrifice)
飛翔 [Soar] (Lambda vs Bern)
dive_to_emergency (Battle for the Golden Land)

Characters appearing

Ange's Choice[]

Location	Summary

If the player chose "trick", Ange will appear on the boat to Rokkenjima with a stuffed toy, which she throws away. When Amakusa asks Ange why she discarded it, she explains that she has been "reborn." She subsequently kills both Amakusa and Captain Kawabata because she suspected that they are trying to kill her. Erika suddenly appears and applauds her. Ange's fate afterward is unknown.

If the player chose "magic", Ange will appear back on top of the building she attempted to leap from to commit suicide with the stuffed toy. However, she does not leap and asks the men who have arrived to capture her to give her a cell phone. She resigns from her position as head of the Ushiromiya family and arranges for Okonogi to become the head of the company. Ange disappears to live an anonymous life as a novelist and as the last Golden Witch and the last member of the Mariage Sorcière.

Background Music

怪奇ディヴェルティメント [Bizarre Divertimento] (Breaking the magic circle)
くるり [About Face] (No answer from Lambda)
飛翔 [Soar] (The fight continues)
the executioner (The Golden Land is torn apart)
鈍色の空笑 [Gray Empty Smile] (Featherine interrupts the fight)
Revelations(inst) (A happy ending will come)
少女たちの魔女狩り [The Girls' Witch Hunt] (Rewriting the story)
The_End_Of_The_World (Lambda's death)
lastendconductor (Battler's last stand)
螺旋 [Spiral] (The Golden Land is destroyed)
生まれてきてくれてありがとう [Thanks for Being Born] (Accepting death)
goddess-gardena (Going beyond life and death)
worldend(bp) (Ange's wish)
罪 [The Sin] (Ange's Endless Nine)
Engage of marionette (Featherine congratulates Ange)
Thanks for all People (Two doors)
wingless (The answer is chosen)

Trick Ending

The_End_Of_The_World (Ushiromiya family dock)
lie-alaia (Ange's suspecting Amakusa)
くるり [About Face] (Ange shoots Amakusa and Kawabata)
l&d-circulation (Erika congratulates Ange)
うみねこのなく頃に [When the Seagulls Cry] (Ending)

Magic Ending

haze (Ange's exchange to Okonogi)
The_End_Of_The_World (Eva's diary will not be made public)
Loreley (Battler and Beatrice's escape)
Thanks for all People (Atoning for their sins)
白夢の繭 [White Dream Cocoon] -Ricordando_il_passato- (Jumping into the ocean)
なまえのないうた full-inst [Song Without a Name] (Ange becomes an author and changes her identity)

Characters appearing

Trick Ending

Magic Ending

Tea Party[]

Location	Summary

Featherine is on her desk and seemingly talks to the reader, breaking the fourth wall.

Bernkastel and Lambdadelta part ways and declares that they will meet again when something cries again.

Background Music

刹那 [A Single Moment] (Featherine's tale)
くるり [About Face] (Bern and Lambda's farewell)

Characters appearing

????[]

Location	Summary

Many decades later, Ange has become a successful author, living under the alias Yukari Kotobuki and publishing the Sakutarou's Adventure series. She receives a letter from someone and goes to meet the sender: Hachijo Tohya. Tohya is actually an alias shared by two people: the woman is named Ikuko while the real Tohya is Battler, who survived the Rokkenjima Incident.

Battler escaped the island but almost drowned and received brain damage, later found on the side of the road by Ikuko. He began to disassociate from Battler's memories, unable to accept that they were his own memories. He was offered surgery to fix his brain damage, but declined for fear that he would be erased. When Ange met with Ikuko all those years ago, Battler refused to see her.

Later, Ange invites Ikuko and Tohya to an event she was hosting; she donated money to the Fukuin House and was holding a Halloween party. Tohya enters the revamped orphanage and discovers that the interior had been designed to resemble the Ushiromiya mansion hall. At this sight, Tohya is able to let go of Battler, who rejoins everyone in the Golden Land.

Background Music

le4-octobre ("Sakutarou's Great Adventure" wins the novel category; Fukuin House)
rain (Tohya Hachijo wants to meet Yukari Kotobuki)
soul_of_soul (Tohya's true alias; replica of the Ushiromiya mansion hall)
てくてく [Steady Pace] (Tohya's true name is Battler Ushiromiya; Yukari's event)
旋律 (シラベ) inst.ver [Melody] (Tohya's memory loss)
en-counse ('Battler Ushiromiya' was inside Tohya)
Engage of marionette (Everyone was here)
白夢の繭 [White Dream Cocoon] -Ricordando_il_passato- (The End)

Characters appearing

Twilight of the Golden Witch/Summary

Contents

Chapter List[]

Proloque[]

To Rokkenjima[]

Six-year-old Ange[]

Returning the Gold[]

Halloween Party[]

Quiz Tournament (question #1)[]

Quiz Tournament (first half)[]

Quiz Tournament (second half)[]

Banquet of Witches and Humans[]

Bern's Puzzle[]

The Visitor Who Came Late[]

Black Cat Scratch Marks[]

Hachijo Tohya[]

The Book of the Truth[]

Hachijo Ikuko[]

Siege of the Fleet[]

Ange's Choice[]

Tea Party[]

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