Kumasawa

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Descriptions

Legend

Rokkenjima

This elderly woman is a part-timer who, though she has quit her job several times along the way, has served the family for a great many years in total.

She is crafty and more than competent when it comes to performing her duties, but because of her chattiness and love of rumors, she is not highly regarded as a servant.

Found in the parlor. Her calf had a weapon resembling an icepick sticking out of it, and her face had been smashed.

At the eighth twilight, gouge the leg and kill.

Turn

Rokkenjima

This elderly woman is a part-timer who, though she has quit her job several times along the way, has served the family for a great many years in total.

She is crafty and more than competent when it comes to performing her duties, but because of her chattiness and love of rumors, she is not highly regarded as a servant.

Died in the servant room, her throat sliced open by a sharp blade or something similar.

The finishing touches are yet to come

Her corpse, which had gone missing, was later found in the courtyard.
At that time, it had a weapon shaped like a stake rammed into its ankle.

With this, even the eighth twilight is finished.

Banquet

Rokkenjima

This elderly woman is a part-timer who, though she has quit her job several times along the way, has served the family for a great many years in total.

She is crafty and more than competent when it comes to performing her duties, but because of her chattiness and love of rumors, she is not highly regarded as a servant.

Her corpse was found in the second floor guest room|guest room on the second floor.
The weapon used on her is assumed to be a gun or spear-shaped object.

This seldom-used second floor guest room was her secret napping spot.

Alliance

Rokkenjima

This elderly woman is a part-timer who, though she has quit her job several times along the way, has served the family for a great many years in total.

She is crafty and more than competent when it comes to performing her duties, but because of her chattiness and love of rumors, she is not highly regarded as a servant.

Her corpse was found in the Rose garden storehouse.
It's assumed that she was hung by the neck after being shot in the forehead.

As long as I could construct a closed room murder, nothing else mattered.

Theories

Virgilia is the meta counterpart of Kumasawa

Like with Genji and Ronove, the author has left some very explicit hints to the point that it doesn't even count as deduction.

Leads:

Virgilia transforms out of Kumasawa on her first appearance on the game board, it's hard to argue with that.
She mentions being really old, but she looks quite young in her witch form.
Mackerel jokes
She is a mentor figure for Shannon and Kanon, aka. Sayo.

Sayo's required accomplices all have a motive to help

The other servants plus Nanjo all have motivations to be accomplices of Beatrice.

Leads:

Genji would do anything related to Kinzo's will. Or alternatively he's following Sayo as his new master after Kinzo died because he sees her, Beatrice, as the true heir.
Nanjo wants money for his sick grand daughter and Ange shows us that's exactly what his family received.
Kumasawa's family also got the money, and she has a personal attachment to Sayo.
Gohda will comply if threatened, he probably isn't even in on the plan from the start.
This is probably circular evidence, but Ronove Viriglia and Gaap are shown taking orders from Beatrice, implying a relationship of servitude.

Kumasawa knew the original Beatrice

The golden witch, that is to say Sayo, gave her the letter and told her to make it look as if the it appeared out of thin air. So that is exactly what she did.

Leads:

This is just based off of Virgilia's one line about her master who taught her magic, and her being the previous golden witch.

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That's the writing on the chapel. What does it mean? Is it how she became Beatrice? Did she solve something aside from the epitaph?

Then conversation continues with them assuming she was trying to solve the epitaph we know but that's a red herring.