Piece

Piece is a character who appears exclusively in Last note of the Golden Witch. She challenges Battler, Beatrice, and Ange to a game in which they must determine her true identity.

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Piece
PieceSpoiler ConsoleOriginal Asumu Ushiromiya
Origin
Origin	Last Note of the Golden Witch
Creator	Ryukishi07
First Appearance	Last Note of the Golden Witch
Actor	Nao Tōyama
Characteristics
Species	Human (Formerly), Witch
Gender	Female
Pronouns	She/Her
Sexuality	Heterosexual
Age	Unknown
Birthday	Unknown
Height	Unknown
Weight	Unknown
Ethnicity	Japanese
Status	Other
Alignment	True Neutral
Archetype	Chaos Agent
Occupation	Messenger to look after the piece Featherine sent
Time Period	1986, 1998
Language	Japanese
Combat Style	Hair Combat, Debating
Homeworld	Earth (For when she was Asumu), City of Books (For Piece)
Relationships
Affiliations	Featherine Augustus Aurora, Ushiromiya Family, Battler Ushiromiya, Sayo Yasuda/Shanon/Kanon, Maria Ushiromiya, George Ushiromiya, Natushi Ushiromiya, Krauss Ushiromiya, Erika Furudo, Bernkastel, Lambdadelta, Eva Ushiromiya
Enemies	Ange Ushiromiya, Kyrie Ushiromiya, Beatrice, Battler Ushiromiya, Gouda, Shanon, Kanon

Background

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Piece’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

PieceAsumu Ushiromiya Last note of the Golden Witch Piece debuts in Last note of the Golden Witch by summoning Battler, Beatrice, and Ange to a tearoom, where she issues a challenge: they must figure out who she really is. The game board mirrors the setup of Twilight of the Golden Witch, featuring a young Ange visiting Rokkenjima, Kinzo still alive, and Beatrice attending as the 19th guest. Piece arrives on the island shortly after and consumes Kyrie, assuming her role as Rudolf's wife under the name "Piece Ushiromiya." Young Ange is the sole person unable to recognize Piece, and she is quickly consumed as well. Kinzo, Beatrice's piece, and the servants identify Piece as an intruder and engage her in battle, only to be effortlessly erased. In the meta-world, Battler, Ange, and Beatrice each present theories about Piece's identity. Meta-world Ange suggests that Piece is Erika Furudo, but neither Battler nor Beatrice finds this convincing. Following further discussion, Battler and Ange arrive at the answer: Piece is Asumu Ushiromiya. Her existence stems from a world in which Asumu never died, which reshapes the lives of every family member and servant. In that reality, Battler and Shannon solve the epitaph with Asumu's assistance and split the gold among the family, going on to live happily. Kinzo's death is not hidden, and the Rokkenjima Mass Murders never take place. However, Kyrie never becomes Rudolf's wife, and Ange is never born into the Ushiromiya family, instead becoming Ange Sumadera. Piece's scenario was designed to torment Ange with the notion that her existence brings pain to her family. Ange starts to believe she should never have been born, but Piece reassures her that she has a brother and a witch who will accept her in any Fragment. Piece decides to erase herself from existence in order to heal everyone's sorrow, causing all memory of her to disappear. Before vanishing, she tells Ange how glad she is that Ange is alive. In the post-credits scene, Piece retrieves several rejected characters from oblivion and speaks about them, including Virgilius. Asumu Ushiromiya was Rudolf Ushiromiya's first wife and the biological mother of Battler Ushiromiya. She passed away six years before the story begins. Asumu never physically appears during the main story of Umineko, instead being mentioned by characters due to her death happening before the beginning of the story. Alliance of the Golden Witch Beatrice presents Battler with a test, demanding that he recall his sin. When he cannot, she has him repeat several statements in red, ultimately revealing that Asumu is not his biological mother. Twilight of the Golden Witch Rudolf confesses to Kyrie that on the day she and Asumu were both due to give birth, Kyrie had actually delivered Battler, while Asumu's child was stillborn. Rudolf bribed the doctors to switch the records because he did not want it revealed that he had an illegitimate child. Last note of the Golden Witch Piece is revealed to be Asumu, depicted as an alternate version of her who survived and became a fully recognized member of the Ushiromiya family. In this version of events, Asumu would uncover the true meaning of the epitaph and assist Battler and Shannon in solving it. Once the gold was found, it would be distributed among all the siblings, resolving their financial troubles. Battler would not forget his promise to Shannon, and the two would live happily as classmates. However, Rudolf's affair with Kyrie still occurs, and Ange is born as the illegitimate child of that relationship. Kyrie remains Kyrie Sumadera, and Ange takes on the Sumadera surname.

Appearance

PieceAsumu Ushiromiya

General Description: Piece has light blue string-like hair.

Clothing/Outfit: A golden crown with a veil on her head. A small red bow tie and a white cravat on her neck. An elegant dress in a shade of blue lighter than her hair.

General Description: Asumu did not have a sprite in the original sound novels or their remakes. She was given an appearance in the manga through flashbacks from other characters. She had light-colored curly hair and big eyes. She appears to be fairly tall, as she and Kyrie have approximately the same height.

Clothing/Outfit: A necklace. A dress.

Personality

PieceAsumu Ushiromiya

• Polite: Piece initially presents herself as polite, but is prone to short bouts where she puts on a crazed expression and makes a double peace sign.

• Verbal Tic: Piece has a verbal tic of "pi-su."

• Animosity Toward Kyrie and Ange: Asumu harbored feelings of animosity toward Kyrie's daughter, Ange, after seeing Rudolf remarry Kyrie.

• Self-Loathing: Piece, as Asumu, blames herself for what happened to Beatrice, Battler, and the rest of the family. She states that if she had not died when she did, she could have been there to help both of them and stopped a lot of suffering.

• Apologetic: Piece acknowledges that such a world would require Ange to not be part of the Ushiromiyas because she would be an illegitimate child. She apologizes for trying to hurt Ange after getting to know her.

• Kind: To Battler and Rudolf, Asumu was overall a kind individual. Rudolf especially wanted to protect her because she accepted him for who he was despite his flaws and would forgive his mistakes.

• Sly: According to Kyrie, Asumu was one of the girls who went after Rudolf during his playboy days. Unlike most girls, she was very sly and able to stir up an instinct within Rudolf to protect her.

• Smart: Asumu was noted to be quite smart by both Rudolf and Kyrie, having an interest in riddles.

Relationships

Battler Ushiromiya

Battler deeply loved his mother and she loved him back. It was to the point that when she died and Battler learned that his father cheated on her with Kyrie, he renounced his Ushiromiya Family name and took his mother's maiden name.

As Piece he at first doesn't recognize her until she gives more then enough hints to where he can find the truth. He starts breaking down crying and refusing to believe his mother can do such acts. He also learns she comes from another world where she never died and the Rokkenjima Incident never occured.

Ange Ushiromiya

Ange and Asumu never met making it the hardest for Ange to figure out who Piece was. Piece notes she held some resentment to Ange for being the child of Kyrie but apologizes for trying to hurt Ange with the gameboard.

In the world where Asumu never died, Ange effectively doesn't exist to the Ushiromiya's as Kyrie and Ange do not take the Ushiromiya name.

Beatrice

Beatrice and Asumu never met, but Sayo/Shanon did meet Asumu. Asumu notes it is her fault for why Beatrice ever came to be as if she lived she would've solved the epitaph far earlier and given her and Battler a happy life together.

General Information

Name: Asumu Ushiromiya

Other Names: Piece

Titles: Witch of the Piece

Origin: Last Note of the Golden Witch

Overall Series: Umineko When They Cry

Greater Franchise: 07th Expansion

First Appearance: Last Note of the Golden Witch

Company

• Video Game:
  • Publisher
    • Japanese: 07th Expansion (For Windows) Taito (For FOMA), Alchemist (For the PS3 & PSP), Aibee (For iOS), Entergram (For Switch & PS4)
    • Worldwide: MangaGamer
• Main Manga
  • Magazine: Monthly Shōnen Gangan, GFantasy, Gangan Joker, Gangan Online, Gangan Powered
  • Publisher
    • Japanese: Square Enix
    • English: Yen Press
• Manga (Umineko Biyori: Rokkenjima e Yōkoso!!)
  • Magazine: Manga Palette Lite
  • Publisher: Ichijinsha
• Manga (Umineko no Naku Koro ni EpisodeX Rokkenjima of Higurashi crying)
  • Magazine: Dengeki G's Festival! Comic
  • Publisher: ASCII Media Works
• Light Novel
  • Imprint: Kodansha Box
  • Publisher: Kodansha
• Anime
  • Network: UHF Stations
  • Licensor: NIS America

Creator

• Video Game
  • Developers: 07th Expansion
  • Writer: Ryukishi07
• Main Manga
  • Writer: Ryukishi07
  • Illustrator: Kei Natsumi (Episode 1, 3, & 8), Jirō Suzuki (Episode 2), Sōichirō (Episode 4), Akitaka (Episode 5), Hinase Momoyama (Episode 6), Eita Mizuno (Episode 7)
• Manga (Umineko Biyori: Rokkenjima e Yōkoso!!)
  • Writer: 07th Expansion
  • Illustrator: Makoto Fugetsu
• Manga (Umineko no Naku Koro ni EpisodeX Rokkenjima of Higurashi crying)
  • Writer: 07th Expansion
  • Illustrator: Yuki Hiiro
• Light Novel
  • Writer: Ryukishi07
  • Illustrator: Tomohi
• Anime:
  • Studio: Studio Deen
  • Director: Chiaki Kon
  • Producers: Mika Nomura, Hiroyuki Ōmori, Takema Okamura
  • Writer: Toshifumi Kawase

Actor: Nao Tōyama

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Pronouns: She/Her

Handedness: Ambidextrous

Age: Unknown

Birthday: Unknown

Time Period

• Before the Rokkenjima Incident: Before 1986
• On the Game Board: 1986
• In the present world: 1998

Timeline: Umineko Timeline

Homeworld: Earth (For when she was Asumu), City of Books (For Piece)

Residence: Unknown area in Japan (For when she was Asumu), City of Books (For Piece)

Story Role: Mysterious Character

Legacy: Local Legacy

Influence: Event Influence

Language: Japanese

Ethnicity: Japanese

Religion: N/A

Classification: Messenger of Featherine Augustus Aurora

Species: Human (Formerly), Witch

State of Being: Regular in the human domain, Transcendent in the Witch's Domain (Witches naturally exist in higher planes where they can view the "game world" from. Witches are cast adrift from the physical human plane and walk between fragments. The accepted theory of a witch is that one becomes one the moment they gain possession of a power surpassing the boundaries of Humans that they can use as will)

Physiology: Humanoid Physiology in the human domain, Witch Physiology in the Meta World

In-Universe Creator: Featherine Augustus Aurora

Occupation: Messenger to look after the piece Featherine sent

Ranking: Voyager Witch

Combat Style: Hair Combat/Debating

Affiliations: Featherine Augustus Aurora, Ushiromiya Family, Battler Ushiromiya, Sayo Yasuda/Shanon/Kanon, Maria Ushiromiya, George Ushiromiya, Natsuhi Ushiromiya, Krauss Ushiromiya, Erika Furudo, Frederica Bernkastel, Lambdadelta, Eva Ushiromiya

Enemies: Ange Ushiromiya, Kyrie Ushiromiya, Beatrice, Battler Ushiromiya, Gouda, Shanon, Kanon

Height: Unknown

Weight: Unknown

Status: Other (Piece is Asumu Ushiromiya if she never died in another fragment world)

Date of Death: 6 years before the Rokkenjima Incident in the main universe

Alignment: True Neutral (Piece cares about nothing more then seeing an interesting story, she will help whichever side to make the story more interesting. Though she does to an extent still have care for the likes of Battler, Ange, and Beatrice)

Street Threat (Piece does not care about anything beyond staving her own boredom being a threat to those she thinks may stave her boredom. Piece's very abilities has her erase an ally completely)

Potential

• Type(s) of Potential: Transcendent Potential
• Level of Potential: Transcendent
• Description: The accepted theory of a witch is that one becomes one the moment they gain possession of a power surpassing the boundaries of Humans that they can use as will.
• Limitations: It is up to them how much they wish to transcend into higher layers.

Archetype: Chaos Agent

Codex Statistics

Grade: S

Tier: 10-B. At least 2-C in the Meta World

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D in her humanoid form, Devoid in truth

Power Source: Magic

Attack Potency: Average Human level (Used to be a human that lived in the human domain). At least Universe level (Buster) in the Meta World (Piece is able to casually refer to and insult the likes of the witches of the senate being created as the messenger to look after the piece that Featherine sent, noting that if Featherine is a candle that shines upon the great pillar that supports this world, she is a being whose fire is a small fragment of that candle. This should place her on comparable if not superior levels to Lambdadelta and Frederica Bernkastel where it was directly noted in Lambdadelta and Bernkastel's fight that they were destroying the universe itself. Lambdadetla can cause her candy to self-destruct, which results in the birth of a small universe directly hitting from the inside of one's stomach). Can ignore conventional durability in the Meta-World (The Meta World is largely a conceptual plane where attacks are done through the usage of truths. Where witch hunters normally need to consider conceptual areas that witches escape too, with conceptual denials used as a primary weapon)

Durability: Average Human level. At least Universe level in the Meta World. Existence in the Meta-World makes them very difficult to kill (Death in the Meta World is ultimately meaningless a pawn being removed from the game board, a "death" only in the game and once the game resets the pawn can be returned to life over and over, the other being the death of being outside of the game where one loses interest in playing the game anymore effectively being a death as they refuse to come back, otherwise standard "death" does not exist. Even if a witch is killed in the human domain they still exist within the Meta World) & Due to Featherine's Protection (The Witch of Theater provides protection for the Witch of Recitation and attacking her miko is an attack on the master)

Striking Strength: Average Human Class. At least Universe Class (Buster) in the Meta World

Lifting Strength: Average Human Class, Higher in the Meta World

Travel Speed: Average Human Speed, Far Higher in the Meta World (Magic Augmentation can amplify one to reach the speed of sound and even surpass it including if they are being augmentated by their jealously)

Attack Speed: Average Human Speed, Far Higher in the Meta World

Reaction Speed: Average Human Reactions, Far Higher in the Meta World

Stamina: Average. Superhuman in the Meta-World

Range: Standard Melee, Several Meters with her hair. Multiversal+ as a Voyager Witch (Voyager Witches are capable of freely traveling through worlds of different fates and circumstances, with it also being noted that there are infinite fragment worlds)

Intelligence: Supergenius Intelligence (Piece viewed Beatrice solving Kinzou's riddle as trivial noting that if she were to challenge the riddle she would easily solve it, knowing this because this was the first time she tried to solve the riddle of the epitaph and she solved it so easily. The epitath is noted to be extremely difficult to solve, and the probability of reaching the correct answer is akin to an astronomical miracle)

Knowledge: Grandmaster level (Compares the amount of time Beatrice spent studying and solving riddles as trivial compared to her)

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Powers and Techniques

Standard AbilitiesInnate Abilities

Standard Fighter AbilitiesAccess to Truths

• Superhuman Physical Characteristics
  • Superhuman Strength
  • Superhuman Durability
  • Superhuman Speed
  • Superhuman Reaction
  • Superhuman Energy Efficiency
• Fighter's Intuition (Fighters can throw out short ranged quick attacks average-ranged, average damage dealing attacks, or jigh-ranged, high damage dealing attacks, however these attacks come out slow. Fighters can do typical throw attacks that can be countered if the opponent uses inputs throw at the same time)
• Partner Swap (The fighters can switch in with their partner fighter during battle)
• Acrobatics (Fighters can run and jump along with doing super jumps while fighting against their opponents)
• Guard Break (A break limit is a gauge dictating how long fighters can block and guard from attacks before it breaks)
• Counter (Guard Touch is a method to counter against guard breaks to temporarily stun the enemy. Knockback Guard Touch causes the enemy to knockback from the counter)
• Second Wind (Fighters can get back up after one round and continue to fight)
• Staggering (Fighters can combo a fighter enough to where they enter a state where they're dizzy)
• Invulnerability
  • Physical Invulnerability: Assault Touch is an invicible dash attack that has the fighter crash into the opponent. Assault Touch can go through special attacks.
• Forcefield Manipulation (Damage Touch is a combo breaker that causes the opponent to fly far away)
• Metaphysics Manipulation (Once fully charged, a fighter can activate Meta-World at the cost of one stock, which alters the stage's appearance. While Meta-World is active, the passive abilities of the activating fighter takes effect. The fighter also gains access to their meta attacks for the duration, as long as they continue performing the correct button inputs)
  • Nullification
    • Metaphysical Nullification: Fighters can cancel Meta-World by activating it themselves as soon as it is declared. In response, the first fighter may reactivate it again, provided they still have enough stocks and the other fighter can attempt denying it again.

Able to use truths, which gives her:

Red TruthBlue TruthGolden TruthPurple Statement

• Truth Manipulation (Red Truths are a concept where everything said in red is the truth, the user of the red truth is under no obligation to provide further proof as what is said is objective)
  • Reality Warping (Red truths change facts)
  • Logic Manipulation & Mind Manipulation (Red Truths can change logic and everyone's perception of logic to where everyone suddenly believed Kinzou could survive a jump out of a third-story window and be unhurt despite beforehand trying to claim Natsuhi is hiding Kinzou)
  • Law Manipulation (Red Truths can be shared across all game boards and can operate into the human world)

• Truth Manipulation (Blue Truths are much like Red Truths except for use against the opponent's position)
  • Negation (Blue Truths refute and nullify the ability to use a red truth if the theory is too solid)
  • Denial: Blue Truths make a theory that denies the opponent.

• Truth Manipulation (Golden Truths exist as a means to counter a red truth in certain situations)
  • Nullification
    • Truth Nullification: Golden Truths are sometimes superior to red truths, being able to overturn a red truth.

• Truth Manipulation (Purple Truths hold the same power as red truths)

Standard Witch AbilitiesMain AbilitiesOther AbilitiesAs Featherine's MikoGame Master

• Superhuman Physical Characteristics
  • Superhuman Strength (The murders committed by Beatrice were noted to only be feasible if there were four armed people and can easily mutilate a persons body after killing them)
  • Superhuman Durability
  • Superhuman Speed
  • Superhuman Reaction
  • Superhuman Energy Efficiency
• Intimidation (A witch's portrait and stories can unnerve one enough to send a chill down their spine)
• Longevity (Witch's can live for over a thousand years, and this is considered young for a witch. In the world of wtiches, six years can be a thousand and a thousand years can pass in a single sweep)
• Contract Bestowal (Witch's can forge contracts in return for one's soul)
  • Soul Manipulation
• Immortality
  • Life and Death Immunity: To a witch, death on the game board is nothing more then sitting to the side of chess board, and they can freely enter back into the game board even if they're dead.
• Dimensionless Existence (Witches are real and exists however they has no form lacking a body therefore ordinary people cannot see them unless they wish it)
  • Abstract Existence
    • Mathematical
      • Primordial Source: Witches exists as illogical integers, having a case where there can be more then 18 people but less then 19. Battler likens a witch's existence to an imaginary number. Witches can exist as mere illusions that should not exist, even after being noted to be a hallucination by a red truth.
      • Personal Nonexistence
        • Mathematical Nonexistence:
      • Logic Manipulation
  • Transformation
    • Shapeshifting: Witches can take a human form if they wish or can sometimes manifest in the form of a shining butterfly.
  • Extra-Planar Existence (Witches naturally exist in higher planes where they can view the "game world" from. Witches are cast adrift from the physical human plane and walk between fragments. The accepted theory of a witch is that one becomes one the moment they gain possession of a power surpassing the boundaries of Humans that they can use as will. In the world of Umineko it is noted that there's the Chessboard, the Meta Room, and the witches world which each of the different worlds being hierarchically piled up and the witches critiquing the lower world)
  • Personal Domain (Witches create a world or Fragment in which they can use their powers freely known as a "territory")
    • Pocket Reality Manipulation
  • Avatar Creation (Witches can make themselves pieces in the game world as they view themself from the higher-plane. The pieces can also still operate even if their higher plane self is effectively loses all will. It's noted that choosing a piece is the equivalent of a character select screen of a video game and one's consciousness from the higher plane can be sucked away when throwing their piece in)
  • Incorporeality (Witches initially manifest as shadowy figures that cannot be seen or felt asides from the occasional odd sixth sense)
    • Invisibility (It's noted that witches like Beatrice have mysterious happenings happen around the mansion with no one ever seeing anyone, down to claims of seeing floating lights and shining butterflies along with eerie footsteps echoing through the halls. Witches are completely invisible to those who either do not believe or they do not wish to show themselves too)
    • Intangibility
      • Phasing: Witches can phase their hand through objects.
      • Planar: Witches cannot be interacted with in their domain without summoning a pawn into their domain.
• Empowerment (October is the most active time for the powers of witches and demons)
• Supernatural Resilience (Supernaturals are perfectly fine with small holes in their chest even being able to play with it with no real injury)
• Precognition (Witches can have premonitions of the future)
• Extra-Planar Existence (Witches naturally exist in a higher realm from the human world)
• Magic (It's noted by Maria that witches can do anything with magic)
  • Emersion (It's noted that witches like Beatrice can step out of their own portrait and prowl the halls)
  • Flight (Witches can fly)
  • Creation (Witches can make gold appear out of thin air)
  • Absolute Access (Witches can attempt passage by physical, conceptual, or other means. Witches can travel outside of the story to the realm where Featherine resides)
  • Erasure
    • Physical Erasure: Noted how Kanon's corpse was erased for fun.
  • Transferal (Witches can transfer their power to other witches)
  • Regeneration
    • Type: Immortality-Based
    • Source: Magical
    • Capabilities: Witches possess the power to endlessly regenerate to where any concept of destruction or decay no longer applies.
  • Non-Standard Defenses (Witch's can take being pierced by Red Truths)
  • Duplication (For witches it is easy to make a hundred from one)
  • Subjective Reality (Witches can bring objects back into existence with magic through belief. Witches have the power to make whatever they think reality"Umineko When They Cry - Episode 3 - Banquet of the Golden Witch (Visual Novel)">Umineko When They Cry - Episode 3 - Banquet of the Golden Witch (Visual Novel)</ref>)
  • Emotion Manipulation (Witch's can give love and steal it away)
  • Light Manipulation (Witches can make floating lights and shining butterflies)
    • Animal Manipulation
  • Weather Manipulation (The summoning of a witch causes massive storms and winds, cutting an island off from the rest of the world)
  • Lock Manipulation (A witches magic can not only forcibly lock doors but it can also make it where doors cannot be locked)
  • Miracle Manipulation (The ability to win despite the astronomical odds is a "miracle" while the astronomical rewards received from such a bet is "magic")
  • Paradox Manipulation (The usage of magic causes layered world compression causing an effect similar to paradoxes like Schrodinger's Cat.
  • Forcefield Manipulation (Witches can make anti-bullet barriers though it requires significant practice and ritual preparation)
  • Illusion Manipulation (Lambdadelta notes that she can use her witch's illusion to crush one's spirit, the witch's illusion exists to prove they exist)
  • Fate Manipulation (Witches can bestow one with the Golden Butterfly Brooch, an object that arranges all fate variables in a favorable manner to form relationships between the sexes)
  • Resistance Manipulation (It is revealed in reality that witches set their own weaknesses as they believe being an all-powerful witch with no weaknesses would lead them to boredom)
• Plot Manipulation (Witches like Bernkastel and Lambdadelta showcase that they can interfere in a game master's gameboard and tamper with the story. This is even shown in Bernkastel and Lambdadelta's story mode in Umineko: Golden Fantasia where they tamper with Beatrice's game board just by entering it. The witches domain is a world of narrative, where a witches true form resides while their human self resides in the human domain).

• Resistance to
  • Disease Manipulation (Noted by Maria that witches don't get sick)
  • Mortality Manipulation & Plot Manipulation (Witches are incapable of being killed through the execute command which changes a character's bio to explain how their story ended)
  • Conceptual Manipulation (Witches need to fight against the trials where disproving their existence puts their life on the line though denial of their existence is translated as pain which they can take until there's no possible way to prove their existence)
  • Piece notes that unlike normal Humans, those versed in magic are not easily swallowed in their entirety which will have her hair spit out the "existence" of the swallowed victims, giving magic users a natural resistance to:
    • Plot Manipulation (After she completely swallows one others forget about the person's existence and impersonate their existence without needing to change form, with Battler noting that even the fact that Kyrie has existed has been swallowed whole. She effectively erased Kyrie's existence to pure white and then inserted herself into her story. Through rewriting herself as Kyrie Ushiromiya she could easily pass into the barrier surrounding the manor along with having her entire history change to having been married to Rudolf for many years. Pieces of Battler and co. could not see through this magic. It was noted that her power was similar to Featherine Augustus Aurora. Beatrice notes her power is to devour an opponent's existence and all fragment of their story. Directly confirmed by Bernkastel and Lambdadelta that Piece's ability is to remove somebody's existence from the script. This power is noted to be Featherine's power of erasure)
      • Erasure
        • Existence Erasure: Piece effectively represents a eraser that scraps rejected characters.
      • Morality Manipulation (The erasure of one's existence even affects those with a high magic affinity as none of the magic sensitive servants, Kinzou, or Beatrice could tell Piece erased anyone, making it harder to detect them as an enemy)
      • Memory Manipulation

• Consumption & Absorption (Piece's power is noted to be to swallow anything from the world and replace it with herself. Getting caught in her hair has one get swallowed and drowned in the sea of Piece's hair, completely swallowing and erasing the corpse. It is implied even witches like Beatrice would be affected by this meaning she ignores a witches abstract nature. Through consuming one Piece tampers with the world to make it as if one has been fighting alone from the start when they originally had allies. Noted to have consumed and erased reject characters that have no definite form and were mere concepts)
  • Hair Manipulation (Scattered her hair to such a degree that it was assumed that a strong wind to blew around herself)
  • Plot Manipulation (After she completely swallows one others forget about the person's existence and impersonate their existence without needing to change form, with Battler noting that even the fact that Kyrie has existed has been swallowed whole. She effectively erased Kyrie's existence to pure white and then inserted herself into her story. Through rewriting herself as Kyrie Ushiromiya she could easily pass into the barrier surrounding the manor along with having her entire history change to having been married to Rudolf for many years. Pieces of Battler and co. could not see through this magic. It was noted that her power was similar to Featherine Augustus Aurora. Beatrice notes her power is to devour an opponent's existence and all fragment of their story. Directly confirmed by Bernkastel and Lambdadelta that Piece's ability is to remove somebody's existence from the script. This power is noted to be Featherine's power of erasure)
    • Erasure
      • Existence Erasure: Piece effectively represents a eraser that scraps rejected characters)
    • Morality Manipulation (The erasure of one's existence even affects those with a high magic affinity as none of the magic sensitive servants, Kinzou, or Beatrice could tell Piece erased anyone, making it harder to detect them as an enemy)
    • Memory Manipulation

• Intimidation (Piece's eyes seemed to freeze the soul with a mere glance)
• Breaking the Fourth Wall (Piece noted that she is a person that existed from Episode 1 to Episode 8)
• Transformation
  • Shapeshifting: Took the form of Erika before turning back into herself.
• Absorption & Consumption
  • Metaphysical Absorption/Consumpion: (Once on a level of a voyager or higher witches can effectively eat one having that one become one with them merges their individuality into one.
• Dimensional Travel (Voyager Witches are capable of freely traveling through worlds of different fates and circumstances)
• Air Manipulation (Appeared with a flurry of wind surrounding her).

• Resistance to
  • Water Manipulation (Despite being in a massive rain storm with no umbrella, Piece was completely dry)
  • Consumption & Absorption (Even after she ate herself, she was perfectly fine in the post-credits)
  • Plot Manipulation
    • Erasure
      • Existence Erasure
    • Morality Manipulation
    • Memory Manipulation

• Supernatural Protection (When Ange was appointed as Featherine's reader, Featherine noted she will protect her as she follows through the story. It's been re-affirmed that the Witch of Theater provides protection for the Witch of Recitation and attacking her miko is an attack on the master)
• Plot Manipulation
  • Reader Authority: Featherine appointed Ange as an observer where she reads the storybook for Featherine aloud with Featherine calling her the reader.

Is the Game Master of the new game, giving her:

• Reality Warping (Game Masters are the controllers of the game board)
  • Bestowal (Game Masters can grant the power to one to pull the truth from someone, known as "the right to spectate")
  • Plot Manipulation
    • Author Authority: Game Masters are telling entire stories and controlling it how they see fit with their pawns gameboard stories are compared to films such as mysteries and splatter films. Erika getting the title and power of Game Master was able to construct a new truth on the game board and give it a new title. Game Masters can smoothly alter their plot at will.
  • Illusion Manipulation (The Game Master can establish an illusory court when one believes they have found the culprit)
  • Law Manipulation (Game Masters can make entire court trials based off the games they made)
  • Truth Manipulation (Game Masters have full control over what is or isn't truth. Through this control, they decide the story of the world and how it will play out)
  • Mortality Manipulation (Battler as Game Master was able to full reconstruct an entirely new Beatrice without her old memories)

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Notable Techniques

Main TechniquesStandard Fighter TechniquesWith Truths

Devouring Through Hair

Piece can extend her hair to unnatural lengths, using it to drown and devour characters and pieces.

When Piece devours someone, she completely erases them from existence, making others lose their memories of them. Piece can also take the place of devoured characters and make people think she existed as them all along.

Standard Attacks (A Button)

Short-ranged, low damage dealing attacks, the typical fighter's attack, however these attacks come out fast.

Standard Attacks (B Button)

Average-ranged, average damage dealing attacks, these move also at decent speed.

Standard Attack (C Button)

High-ranged, high damage dealing attacks, however these attacks come out slow.

Partner Switch

The fighters can switch in with their partner fighter during battle.

Throw

A typical throw attack, can be countered if the opponent uses inputs throw at the same time.

Specials

When the special gauge is up, a character can utilize their special attacks.

EX Specials

Stronger specials that take away one of the fighters stocks.

Super

The fighter's super attack that causes two stocks to use.

Break Limit

A break limit is a gauge dictating how long fighters can block and guard from attacks before it breaks.

Touch

Guard Touch is a method to counter against guard breaks to temporarily stun the enemy.

Knockback Guard Touch causes the enemy to knockback from the counter.

Damage Touch is a combo breaker that causes the opponent to fly far away. Though damage touch greatly increases the charge recovery time.

Assault Touch is an invicible dash attack that has the fighter crash into the opponent. Though it greatly increases the charge recovery time. Assault Touch can go through special attacks.

Stunning

Fighters can combo a fighter enough to where they enter a state where they're dizzy. In this state, they cannot do bursts.

Metaworld Gauge

A red gauge appears beneath the timer. Once fully charged, a fighter can activate Meta-World at the cost of one stock, which alters the stage's appearance. While Meta-World is active, the passive abilities of the activating fighter takes effect. The fighter also gains access to their meta attacks for the duration, as long as they continue performing the correct button inputs. The opponent can cancel Meta-World by activating it themselves as soon as it is declared. In response, the first fighter may reactivate it again, provided they still have enough stocks.

Red Truths

The Red Truth is an absolute truth spoken in red text, introduced by Beatrice during her game with Battler. Everything said in red is the truth, and the speaker is under no obligation to provide further proof confirming what they say. Red truths cannot be used for things where the speaker cannot give an explanation, though they can tweak facts if an explanation can be provided.

It is normally advisable not to use red truths when one already has the advantage. They can be used to insult someone as if it were the truth, and can fix quick mistakes. In Episode 3, Beatrice notes that everything she speaks in red is absolute and unwavering truth with no room for dispute.

Battler discovers that red truths are a double-edged sword that can cut one down if used carelessly. The red is information that exposes the truth and allows a counterattack if used incorrectly.

The Red Truth is defined as an absolute truth and a tool available to witches. Witches can permit humans to use Red Truths. Red truths cannot be used to force oneself to speak in red when unable, which will cause suffocation. There are no red truths in the Human World.

The usage of a red truth effectively changes everyone's perception of logic, such as making everyone believe Kinzou could jump out of a third-story window and be perfectly unhurt upon landing.

Red truths can only be said about actual truth. If a witch's trick contradicts the red truth, it is a lie which breaks the rules.

There are two types of red truths: one that applies to a specific game board and one that is shared across all game boards and can operate outside the cat box.

Blue Truths

Blue Truths were introduced when Beatrice allowed Battler to use them in Episode 4. They function similarly to red truths, but the blue truth must deny the witch's position or it is not valid. For example, "There are five master keys" is not a valid blue truth as it does not deny the witch. Instead, it must be phrased as "In actuality, there are more than five master keys, and the killer used an extra key to access the locked room!"

Blue truths allege that humanity and clever trickery are the truth of the matter. Witches can use blue truths too, as they exist purely to denote a theory that denies the opponent, forcing the opponent to disprove the blue with a red truth.

Blue truths not only refute red truths but make them unable to be used if their theory is too solid for a red truth to counter.

Golden Truths

Golden Truths were introduced when Battler rose to the level of a Game Master and used one to prove a corpse could be identified as Kinzou Ushiromiya after a red truth countered it. Golden truths can only be used by the Game Master. The strength of the truth varies; its power is equal to a red truth, sometimes inferior but other times superior.

Purple Truths

Purple Truths were introduced by Bernkastel during the final game. Purple statements have equivalent power to red truth. However, only the culprit is capable of lying in purple statements.

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Other

Standard Tactics

• Chess Board Debates: Characters in Umineko on the chess board largely fight in debates, normally over one's existence (notably witches or supernatural creatures), as a typical fight will not do much to either side if it's two witches or it would be unfair for a human. Game Masters normally need to construct a story in order to do a debate making sure there's no paradoxes or fatal logical fallacies as these all largely matter to make the debate even otherwise the witch would just win.
• Out of Chess Board: When not cosigning to debates, characters instead decide to fight physically being able to utilize different punch and kick combos along with weapons or supernatural powers. Piece largely showed in one fight to enrap her opponents within her hair and make them start questioning themself by bringing up the possibility that she may have already gotten one of their allies and they don't remember them anymore.

Weaknesses

• Witch Weaknesses: One can make special chants or charms to protect themself and others from witches. These charms protected Natsuhi from the witches attacking her. Maria initially thought Battler was safe from Beatrice due to the charm she gave him with Battler admitting later he actually did have it. It's further explained that these charms are the fifth pentacle of mars, acting as a powerful ward against evil making it difficult for magical beings to get past. A witch cannot fully complete their miracle if one person born with a high resistance to magic doesn't believe in magic fully, making their magic slowly stop working overtime. Witches cannot appear before everyone as long as someone with a high resistance to magic denies their existence. If too many gazes turn a witches way with their anti-magic toxins they will cause the witches body to vanish. Spiders and their cobwebs are able to ward off evil. Witches are in constant need of entertainment or else they will literally die of boredom. Beatrice notes most witches grow tired of life after a millennium. Boredom is considered a direct toxin to witches. Eternal boredom is the worst poison of all: that which kills all witches. Holy based magic even if it's not targeted towards a witch can seal and weaken their powers. Items such as the Spirit Mirror showcase their ability to suppress the evil spirits of Akujikishima and by proxy can effect witches and holds evil spirits at bay. Witches cannot completely debunk the argument of the human realm as scientific and magical theories co-exist making it where to fully prove their existence they would need to show it, allowing things like Battler to ever deny a magical battle happening because there are no leftover traces or proof of it. Beatrice explains to EVA-Beatrice that contemporary humans like Battler have a fundamental denial of all magic, being made of anti-magic toxins, which can be spread and weaken a witch's magic. Witches when using summoning or resurrection spells require a vessel, without it, a difficult spell becomes virtually impossible. A denial of a witch's existence is translated as pain for them. Most witch items lose their power if they are not given directly by the witch. Magic is limited by what the user believes they can achieve, it being the reason the seven sisters of purgatory couldn't kill Ange's classmates at St. Lucia's. Witch's cannot commit logic errors within the rules of the game as it would go against red truths causing them to not make magic that's still feasibly a trick under human methods. If they are caught within a logic error their soul is trapped in the sealed room for eternity with them trying to figure out how to get out of it through the logic error. Unless a witch becomes a Voyager Witch, most witches cannot leave their territory at will.
• Truth Weaknesses
  • Red Truth: Red Truths cannot be used for cases where the explanation cannot be given an explanation with a red truth. They are a double-edge sword that can be used against the user if they use it incorrectly. One cannot use red truths to speak in red for something they do not believe. Red Truths do not exist in the human world as they possess powerful anti-magic toxins. Witches cannot use red truths to lie and can only be said about the actual truth.
  • Blue Truth: Blue Truths can only be used to deny the opponent's position, it cannot be used to make an assertion unless it specifically is worded in a way that denies the opponent's position.
  • Golden Truth: Golden Truths can only be used by the Game Master.
  • Purple Statement: Purple Truths hold the same power as red truths, however the culprit can lie in purple statements, making it harder to be able to tell when it is the truth or not.
• Game Master Weaknesses: Game Masters in reality have a difficult process when constructing their stories as they need to watch out for paradoxes and logical fallacies as inconsistencies within the story that cause paradoxes can prove fatal to the game and instantly cause it to fall flat on its face and disintegrate.
• Miko Weaknesses: Featherine cannot aid her Miko if she is busy recording another's end, only being able to have her familiars assit. If the opponent of the Miko is a game master that has invoked creating a story then Featherine will not interfere and return to merely being an observer.
• Magic Weaknesses: Magic requires risk, every kind of magic carries its own risk and weaknesses.
• Unique Weaknesses: She cannot fully eat the existence of those who have an affinity for magic.

Explanations

In-Universe ExplanationsOut of Universe Explanations

Rokkenjima

Rokkenjima is an island in the Izu Archipelago South of Tokyo, being a small island no more than six miles across and owned by the wealthy Ushiromiya family. The island is plentiful with wildlife (specifically large flocks of seagulls) being left largely untouched by the Ushiromiya family and they only disappear to incite disaster occurring. The island was bought by the head of the Ushiromiya Family after the great Kanto earthquake nearly brought the clan to ruin in 1923.

During the events of Episode 3 and onward, Rokkenjima entered a state of being a layered world, where both scientific and magical theories coexist thus neither side can cancel out the others arguments.

Ushiromiya Family

A wealthy family that annually goes to Rokkenjima island for family gatherings. There was a time when the great Kanto earthquake brought the Ushiromiya clan to ruin in 1923 but the head of the Ushiromiya family used his considerable talent and astonishingly good luck to revive the family's fortunes, being the one to have bought Rokkenjima where he makes his home. This is done due to his legendary ten tons of gold that he used as the foundation of his fortune, which other members of the Ushiromiya family are trying to get through inheritance of finding the location of the gold. According to Kinzou Ushiromiya he got ten tons of gold by making a contract with the witch Beatrice.

Those that marry into the Ushiromiya family are not treated the same as those born by blood into it, they are never allowed to wear the family's crest even after marrying into it and are treated like a complete outsider due to not sharing the blood being considered by some of the family members "glorified maid-servant" and insulted at the idea of receiving any orders from those that do not share the blood.

The family is sat in according to the line of succession which is as follows: Head of the Family, Kinzou Ushiromiya -> Future Head of House, Krauss Ushiromiya (Jessica's Father) -> Second in Line, Eva Ushiromiya (George's Mother) -> Third in Line, Rudolf Ushiromiya (Battler's Father) -> Fourth in Line, Rosa Ushiromiya (Maria's Mother) -> Fifth in Line, Jessica Ushiromiya -> Sixth in Line, George Ushiromiya -> Seventh in Line, Battler Ushiromiya -> Eight in Line, Maria Ushiromiya -> Ninth in Line, Natsuhi Ushiromiya (Jessica's Mother) -> Tenth in Line, Hideoyoshi Ushiromiya (George's Father) -> Eleventh in Line, Kyrie Ushiromiya (Rudolph's Second Wife)

Spirit Attunement

It's explained by the family servant Chiyo Kumasawa that every human being has the ability to sense the presence of ghost, but this affinity gradually fades with age, characters like Maria Ushiromiya being the youngest of the family is able to sense oncoming calamities and disasters.

Witch of Rokkenjima

The Witch of Rokkenjima is a legend that was told to the children of the Ushiromiyas about how Beatrice comes on dark, stormy nights wandering out of the forest in search of human sacrifices. With this legend also comes a mystery with Beatrice's epitaph that reads as follows:

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If you seek the Golden Land, follow the river and seek the key downstream, you will find a village. In this village, seek the shore of which two will speak. There the key to the Golden Land sleeps. Whoever finds the eky should follow these directions to the Golden Land. On the first night, offer up as sacrifices the six the key chooses. On the second night, those who remain will tear apart the two who are close. On the third night, those who remain will praise my noble name. On the fourth night, gouge the head and kill. On the fifth night, gouge the chest and kill. On the sixth night, gouge the belly and kill. On the seventh night, gouge the knee and kill. On the eighth night, gouge the foot and kill. On the night night, the witch will revive, and none shall be left alive. On the tenth night, the journey will end, and you shall reach the capital in which the gold dwells. The witch will praise the wise and bestow four treasures. One shall be all the gold in the Golden Land. One shall be the resurrection of the souls of all the dead. One shall be the ressurection of love lost. One shall be the witch, put into an eternal sleep. Rest in peace, My beloved witch, Beatrice. —The Witch's Epitaph Manga

English TranslationJapanese Text

OriginalOriginal Witch Hunt RetranslationSecond Witch Hunt Retranslation

Behold the sweetfish river running through my beloved hometown. You who seek the Golden Land, follow its path downstream in search of the key. As you travel down it, you will see a village. In that village, look for the shore the two will tell you of. There sleeps the key to the Golden Land. The one who obtains the key must then travel to the Golden Land in accordance with these rules. On the first twilight, offer the six chosen by the key as sacrifices. On the second twilight, those who remain shall tear apart the two who are close. On the third twilight, those who remain shall praise my noble name. On the fourth twilight, gouge the head and kill. On the fifth twilight, gouge the chest and kill. On the sixth twilight, gouge the stomach and kill. On the seventh twilight, gouge the knee and kill. On the eighth twilight, gouge the leg and kill. On the ninth twilight, the witch shall revive, and none shall be left alive. On the tenth twilight, at journey's end, you shall attain to the power of the Golden Land's treasures, once and for the last time. The witch shall praise the wise and bestow four treasures. One shall be all the gold from the Golden Land. One shall be the resurrection of all the dead souls. One shall be the resurrection of the love that was lost. One shall be to put the witch to sleep for all time. Sleep peacefully, my beloved witch, Beatrice. —The Witch's Epitaph Original English Translation

My beloved hometown, the sweetfish river running through it. You who seek the Golden Land, follow its path downstream and seek the key. If you follow the river downstream, you will find a village. In the village, look for the shore the two will tell you of. There sleeps the key to the Golden Land. He who lays hand upon the key shall travel under the rules below. At the first twilight, you shall lift up as sacrifice the six chosen by the key. At the second twilight, the surviving shall tear apart the two who are close. At the third twilight, the surviving shall praise my honorable name on high. At the fourth twilight, gouge the head and kill. At the fifth twilight, gouge the chest and kill. At the sixth twilight, gouge the stomach and kill. At the seventh twilight, gouge the knee and kill. At the eighth twilight, gouge the leg and kill. At the ninth twilight, the Witch shall be revived and none shall be left alive. At the tenth twilight, the journey shall end and you should reach the village of gold. The Witch will praise the wise, and should bestow four treasures. One shall be, all the gold from the Golden Land. One shall be, the resurrection of the souls of all the dead. One shall be, even the resurrection of the lost love. One shall be, to put the Witch to sleep for all time. Sleep peacefully, my most beloved witch, Beatrice. —The Witch's Epitaph Original Witch Hunt Retranslation

Behold the sweetfish river running through my beloved hometown. You who seek the Golden Land, follow its path downstream in search of the key. As you travel down it, you will see a village. In that village, look for the shore the two will tell you of. There sleeps the key to the Golden Land. The one who obtains the key must then travel to the Golden Land in accordance with these rules. On the first twilight, offer the six chosen by the key as sacrifices. On the second twilight, those who remain shall tear apart the two who are close. On the third twilight, those who remain shall praise my noble name. On the fourth twilight, gouge the head and kill. On the fifth twilight, gouge the chest and kill. On the sixth twilight, gouge the stomach and kill. On the seventh twilight, gouge the knee and kill. On the eighth twilight, gouge the leg and kill. On the ninth twilight, the witch shall revive, and none shall be left alive. On the tenth twilight, the journey shall end, and you shall reach the capital where the gold dwells. The witch shall praise the wise and bestow four treasures. One shall be all the gold from the Golden Land. One shall be the resurrection of all the dead souls. One shall be the resurrection of the love that was lost. One shall be to put the witch to sleep for all time. Sleep peacefully, my most beloved witch, Beatrice. —The Witch's Epitaph Second Witch Hunt Retranslation

懐かしき、故郷を貫く鮎の川。 黄金郷を目指す者よ、これを下りて鍵を探せ。 川を下れば、やがて里あり。 その里にて二人が口にし岸を探れ。 そこに黄金郷への鍵が眠る。 鍵を手にせし者は、以下に従いて黄金郷へ旅立つべし。 第一の晩に、鍵の選びし六人を生贄に捧げよ。 第二の晩に、残されし者は寄り添う二人を引き裂け。 第三の晩に、残されし者は誉れ高き我が名を讃えよ。 第四の晩に、頭をえぐりて殺せ。 第五の晩に、胸をえぐりて殺せ。 第六の晩に、腹をえぐりて殺せ。 第七の晩に、膝をえぐりて殺せ。 第八の晩に、足をえぐりて殺せ。 第九の晩に、魔女は蘇り、誰も生き残れはしない。 第十の晩に、旅は終わり、黄金の郷に至るだろう。 魔女は賢者を讃え、四つの宝を授けるだろう。 一つは、黄金郷の全ての黄金。 一つは、全ての死者の魂を蘇らせ。 一つは、失った愛すらも蘇らせる。 一つは、魔女を永遠に眠りにつかせよう。 安らかに眠れ、我が最愛の魔女ベアトリーチェ。 —The Witch's Epitaph Original Japanese Text

Despite it being a legend, Beatrice the witch is real and exists.

It is also revealed by Genji that Beatrice was the second lover of Kinzou who perished before the mansion was built and he spent years focusing on his dark arts in order to revive her.

The Meta-World

Debates

There is a plane that watches the regular plane where one can deal with debating, effectively the same as a chess game, effectively being the same as viewing them from a different plane where witches can simply restart over and over the game, the number of times they can play being entirely up to them.

Gameboards can have witches effectively get everything they want, making it harder to prove them wrong during a debate. One can tweak facts previously established on the game board to effectively create new rules and truths.

Gameboards can have turns stalled if one of the members refuse to continue, one can even fall into the reality of the game board.

Death is also handled differently in the gameboard where the lost of a piece means they simply bide their time on the side of the chessboard. One's voice cannot reach into the Game Board.

Along with this it has no effect on anything in the main world.

It is established further in Battler's game board against Eva Beatrice that witches are allowed to resurrect the dead for testimony the human side cannot use this move even if there's witches on their side. Along with this, witches can bind one in solid undeniable red truths that they cannot break out of unless they can deny the truth. Though red can also be used to fully deny a witch exposing the answers and destroying all the magic.

Witches can also add new pieces into the Gameboard that function as detectives.

Each gameboard is its own world with each one's conclusion having an effect on reality. For example, Eva Ushiromiya being the only survivor in one of the gameboards allowed her to live in the real world and escape the island, even when Ange found other bottles that listed the other game worlds endings.

Each gameboard exists as one small game in the endless sea of Fragments.

Pawns

Pawns are pieces on the game board set by the people in the Metaworld.

Some pieces have awareness that they're pieces on the game board.

The rights a pawn are given within a game allow them to enforce their rights within the gameboard making them able to push others off of them if it gets in the way of their role in the game.

The injuries pawns receive in a game board or events they experience within a game board have no effect on those in the metaworld. Battler even makes note that the versions of him and Beatrice on the game board aren't actually them but just pawns under the Game Master's control.

Pawns cannot do what it deems impossible, and will execute actions best suited to the original personality, Dlanor notes that due to this, if Battler and Beatrice of the game board were in the same position as the pawn they would have done the same thing. Battler makes note that the people within the chessboard aren't a meter metaphor, they really are chessboard pieces.

Game Masters

Game Masters are the controllers of the game board. Erika getting the title and power of Game Master was able to construct a new truth on the game board and give it a new title.

In these games, they are telling entire stories and controlling it how they see fit with their pawns with these gameboard stories being compared to films such as mysteries and splatter films.

The Game Master can establish an illusory court when one believes they have found the culprit.

Game Masters can make entire court trials based off the games they made.

Game Masters have full control over what is or isn't truth. Through this control, they decide the story of the world and how it will play out.

Battler as Game Master was able to full reconstruct an entirely new Beatrice without her old memories.

Battler as Game Master learns how difficult in reality game board stories are to construct with Beatrice constantly agonizing over contradictions in her story and a constant battle with logical fallacies as inconsistencies within the story that cause paradoxes can prove fatal to the game and instantly cause it to fall flat on its face and disintegrate.

Noted during Ange and Featherine's discussion that the Game Master is allowed to smoothly alter their plot at will.

Game Masters can grant the power to one to pull the truth from someone, known as "the right to spectate".

Death in the Gameboard

Death in the Game Board occurs in two ways a pawn being removed from the game board, a "death" only in the game and once the game resets the pawn can be returned to life over and over, the other being the death of being outside of the game where one loses interest in playing the game anymore, Beatrice gave up her victory during the previous game causing her to die and disappear thus she will never come back to life.

It is later revealed that Beatrice as the game master made all of these stories as an attempt to hide the true story in Rokkenjima of the Ushiromiya's all being killed by Rudolf and Kyrie before Eva killed both of them.

Truths

Red Truths

“	In that case... From now on, when I speak the truth, I will use red.	„
	~ Beatrice introducing the Red Truth

During the gameboard between Battler and Beatrice, she introduced the concept of red truths, where when she speaks the truth, she will use red. Everything said in red is the truth, when speaking the truth one is under no obligation to provide further proof that will confirm the truth of what they say. They cannot be used for things where they cannot give an explanation with a red truth. Red truths can tweak facts if an explanation can be provided. It is normally advisable to not use red truths when one already has the advantage. They can be used even to insult one as if it was the truth along with being used to fix quick mistakes. In Episode 3 when explaining red truths again Beatrice notes everything she speaks in red is absolute and unwavering truth with no room for dispute. Battler finds out the loophole to red truths as they're a double-edge sword that can cut one down if they're not too careful with it, where the red is actually information that exposes the truth and allows one to formulate a counterattack if used incorrectly.

The red truth is defined as an absolute truth, a tool available to witches. It is later shown that witches can permit humans to use Red Truths.

Red Truths cannot be used to force oneself to speak in red when they cannot which will cause them to suffocate.

It is noted by Ronove that there are no red truths in the Human World.

The usage of a red truth effectively changes everyone's perception of logic, such as making everyone believe Kinzou could jump out of a third-story window and be perfectly unhurt upon landing.

Red Truths can only be said about actual truth, if a witch's trick contradicts the red truth then it is a lie which breaks the rules.

Battler later reveals there are two types of red truths, one for red that applies to a specific game board and a red truth that is shared across all game boards and can operate in the world outside of the cat box too.

Blue Truths

Beatrice: As of now, Battler, I will allow you to use the blue. Battler: Blue...? Meaning that I can demand that you repeat my words if I say them in "blue"? Beatrice: Not quite. Your requests could be concerning any minute detail. But the blue truth must deny the witch's position, or it is not valid. Battler: ? Beatrice: For example: "There are five master keys." This is merely a confirmation of the number of keys and does not deny the witch. In order to use the blue, you must change your phrasing. In actuality, there are more than five master keys, and the killer used an extra key to access the locked room! ...And by doing so, you have now forced the witch to respond.

Blue Truths are something Beatrice allowed Battler to use in Episode 4. They function similarly to red truths, however, the catch is that the blue truth must deny the witch's position or it is not valid.

For example, a blue truth cannot be used to claim "There are five master keys." as that does not deny the witch, instead the phrasing must be "In actuality, there are more than five master keys, and the killer used an extra key to access the locked room!".

Blue truths alleges that humanity and clever trickery are the truth of the matter.

However, witches can use blue truths too as they exist purely to denote a theory that denies the opponent where the opponent must disporve the blue with a red truth.

Blue Truths not only refute Red Truths but make them unable to be used if their theory is too solid for a red truth to counter.

Golden Truths

“	The Golden Truth... It is the divine truth, derived through different means than the red truth. Its power is equal to the red truth- sometimes inferior, but other times superior!!	„
	~ Dlanor on the Gold Truth

Golden Truths were first introduced when Battler raised to the level of a game master and used it to prove the corpse could be identified as Kinzou Ushiromiya after a red truth countered it. However, golden truths can only be used by the Game Master along with the strength of the truth varying, its power is equal to a red truth; sometimes inferior but other times superior.

Purple Truths

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Purple statements have equivalent power to red truth. However, the culprit alone is capable of lying in purple statements.

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During the final game made by Bernkastel, she introduced a new statement known as "Purple Statements" (otherwise Purple Truths), Battler directly asks what they are with Bernkastel responding that it's a rule devised to make the story easier to understand, purple statements have the same power as red truth, however, only the culprit can lie in purple statements.

Souls

One's soul can linger even after they are killed.

Kinzou nearly resisted through his soul being erased until a red truth was placed on him.

Fate

When something is fated to happen it is hard to change such, if a vase is broken even if a witch uses magic to remember its original state the ultimate fate "the vase was smashed" has not been changed thus it will remember the true state and break.

The Endless Witch

The infinite realm that all witches ought to aspire to, the endless witch is free of all worldy suffering, certain to eternal bliss. Life and Death are empty concepts to the Endless Witch.

The Endless Witch succession has them pass their most secret arts to a single pupil, once they pass down their arts they retire to further stem their propagation.

Normal custom includes that a witch from another sect makes a recommendation before a succession may occur.

Lambdadelta recommended EVA and Bernkastel recommended Ange.

Initially the name Beatrice was not passed down but it later became customary for the name to be inherited as well with EVA following suit giving ANGE the name of Beatrice.

Knox's Decalogue

Knox's Decalogue The ten commandments created by Dlanor A. Knox's father and used in heresy trials. Knox's 1st: It is forbidden for the culprit to be anyone not mentioned in the early part of the story. Knox's 2nd: It is forbidden for supernatural agencies to be employed as a detective technique. Knox's 3rd: It is forbidden for hidden passages to exist. Knox's 4th: It is forbidden for unknown drugs or hard-to-understand scientific devices to be used. Knox's 5th: (not included) Knox's 6th: It is forbidden for accident or intuition to be employed as a detective technique. Knox's 7th: It is forbidden for the detective to be the culprit. Knox's 8th: It is forbidden for the case to be resolved with clues that are not presented. Knox's 9th: It is permitted for observers to let their own conclusions and interpretations be heard. Knox's 10th: It is forbidden for a character to disguise themselves as another without any clues. The debate over the interpretation of these laws continues to this very day, and it has become the source of countless unfair controversies. While fundamentalists call any infringement upon these commandments heresy, revisionists point out that many canonized geniuses have violated these rules. —Umineko: When They Cry - Answers Arc Episode 5 Tips Knox's Decalogue

Knox's Decalogue were first mentioned by Bernkastel as a way to refute arguments used against Lambdadelta in their game.

Duel Pistol Set

Duel Pistol Set A set of demon duel pistols prepared by Zepar and Furfur. The number of shots loaded depends on the format of the duel. In most cases, it holds just a single round. The emotions of the duelers are loaded into them, and if one of their bullets grazes any part of the body, the concept of the target will be denied without exception. In the past, duels were performed in the classic style with swords, but this took a great deal of time before an outcome was reached, which displeased certain impatient theatergoing witches. For this reason, a duel weapon that would always kill with a single shot was asked for and created. Of course, this weapon is not particularly popular among theatergoing witches who are fans of good-old drawn out, dramatic duels. —Umineko: When They Cry - Answers Arc Episode 6 Duel Pistol Set

A pistol set created by Zepar and Furfur for duels that were made in order to reconcile impatient theatergoing witches.

Even if one grazes the other with a bullet, the concept of the target wil be denied without exception.

City of Books

"The Honored City of Books Curated By Her Majesty The Witch Of Theater, Drama, and observation", a massive "library" that contains all stories, including where the entire stories in Umineko are merely a single book.

Virgilia describes it as a place where the witches who traverse the sea of fragments collect those fragments in text form and store them.

The City of Books is sacred territory under the administration of the Senate and there are holy barriers erected around it.

Only Witches of the Senate are allowed in the City of Books, though non-members can be given a special invitation that temporarily grants them entrance tot he sacred territory, but the invitations specify arriving on the dot, a second late tot he party's starting time and they automatically lose the effect.

Creators

Creators are mentioned multiple times throughout the series, however Lambdadelta defines them more properly, noting they are omniscient all-powerful beings beyond even witches.

Canon

Manga
The manga adaptation is directly noted to be an official answer from Ryukishi07 and is essentially the primary canon as it deals with extra info and more concise answers he did not add in the original Visual Novel.

Anime
There are some beliefs the anime for Umineko is non-canon, however this is not true. In an interview, Ryukishi directly stated he is all for anime and manga adaptations of his works, which adds on to a later interview where he noted that he fully overlooks and supervises the anime suggesting one to watch all of the versions of Umineko.

Minor Differences
While it is noted that one won't be able to discuss all mysteries by looking at just the anime, Ryukishi not only notes, though as explained in the same quote, this is due to the impossiblity of having the mystery written the exact same way across different media, an anime cannot perfectly replicate a visual novel and vice versa, thus the anime is limtied in the amount of clues it can receive as opposed to the visual novel. Ryukishi himself directly notes that things need to be condensed to fit in the manga or anime versions but there's also far more fake leads in the original compared to the manga and anime and he believes one should enter into Umineko from the type of media they are most comfortable with and then look at the different formats to see the information in a new light.

Trivia

• Piece originated as fanart submitted to a Rozen Maiden character contest in 2013. This design may have later been modified for Alice from TRianThology.

• The words "piece" and "peace" are written with the same katakana in Japanese and share a similar pronunciation.

• The name Asumu carries the meanings "tomorrow" (明日, asu) and "dream, vision" (夢, mu).

• According to one of Ryukishi07's Twitter posts, he suggests that Asumu's maiden name was Akinaka. Akinaka (八月十五日) can be read as "August 15th."

Profiles

📁 Official Character Profiles
Piece Piece Clad in a little whirlwind, the new Game Master appears before Battler. A piece sent by Featherine Augustus Aurora, she proudly describes herself as an "assassin". With a vulgar laugh, she announces the start of a new game... ピース CV：東山奈央 小さなつむじ風をまとう、戦人たちの前に現れた新しいゲームマスター。フェザリー・アウグストゥス・アウローラによって差し向けられた駒で、自らを「刺客」であると豪語する。下品な笑い声と共に新たなゲームの開幕を告げる…。 Entergram's Umineko page

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Misconceptions

Witches lose their powers as soon as one does not believe in them/One can simply debate a witches existence away

Throughout most of Umineko, Battler and Beatrice are debating over her existence, and Beatrice's strength slowly comes back with each game due in part to the hesitation within Battler's heart. Battler even establishes that simply refusing to believe in Beatrice is not enough to beat her and instead will turn him more and more into the defensive until he's simply overpowered and loses.

It should be noted too during majority of the first episode, none of the characters left alive believe in Beatrice asides from Maria Ushiromiya, yet she was still able to manifest in the end as she killed everyone.

On top of this, simply not believing would not be enough to work; Beatrice makes direct note that Battler has a strong resistance to magic thus her magic cannot reach him.

Of extra note, Battler directly has Bernkastel helping him, Lambdadelta slightly raising the chances of Battler winning, and Beatrice's own teacher explaining to Battler how to counter Beatrice's arguments. Beatrice's teacher mainly being the reason for why Battler was able to argue against Beatrice's points. It was even further noted by Lambdadelta and Bernkastel that Battler couldn't win Beatrice's game even with all of the sloppy loose ends it had and the amount of help he received. Battler himself realizes while Beatrice faces against Bernkastel that she was going easy on him in all their games so that it would be a fair fight between them, constantly giving Battler hints until he got used to the game.

Beatrice explains to EVA-Beatrice that contemporary humans like Battler have a fundamental denial of all magic, being made of anti-magic toxins, which can be spread and weaken a witch.

It's further noted too that people who've lost their sight also lose all anti-magic power and magical resistance.

Even while Battler was battling against Eva-Beatrice, he couldn't truly deny her witch form for good and required Beatrice to use a red truth to kill off all magic there.

Kinzou further reaffirms that Battler was born with more of his anti-magical blood than anyone else.

It's noted by Maria during her status as the Witch of Origins that all humans are born with toxins that block magic.

It's noted by Greed that humans are walking blobs of anti-magic though she can manifest as long as a witch like Ange concentrates.

Despite all the anti-magic toxins, due to Ange fully believing in magic and her determination being strong she was able to have her familiars interact with the human world to kill all the guards that were after her.

Eva even tries to argue that there's no way for Ange to call the seven sisters of purgatory due to her anti-magic toxins, yet she still does.

Thus simply denying the existence of a witch is not enough to defeat them, as Battler himself with a narrative strong resistance to magic needs a lot of help to truly even counter Beatrice. On top of this, it's specifically noted in-universe that humans built up a strong anti-magic toxin overtime that became strong enough to deny a witch's existence, thus this is not a weakness that applies out of universe unless a series has a similar mechanic.

Magic Isn't Real

This comes from the arguments of debates over whether or not it's truly just characters having mental issues as a way to cope with scenarios.

For example, Maria believes she is the daughter of the Holy Ghost as a way to cope with the fact that her mom abused her whenever she asked about her dad.

However, it is proven that the Meta-World is an actual place that witches reside in and there are many scenes throughout the series that can't truly be explained through characters hallucinations.

Such as Ange having her familiars directly interact with the human world and kill all of its people.

The truth of "magic isn't real"/"magic is real" debate is also answered multiple times in the Umineko franchise.

Using the final talk between Beatrice and Ange, Beatrice does a magic trick and asks Ange if it is magic of a sleight of hand with Ange noting it's a cheap trick but it is also magic as Beatrice has taught her this magic to spread to others to give them happiness. No matter the magic one cannot use it properly and cannot see it without love.

It is also repeated multiple times throughout the series how there is no one true truth, it is everyone's point of view as to what their truth is.

Effectively magic is real but also isn't, it is in the situation of a catbox.

It should also be noted that the manga adaptation is directly noted to be an official answer from Ryukishi07 and is essentially the primary canon as it deals with extra info and more concise answers he did not add in the original Visual Novel, giving all the answers for the reader to conclude.

Witches can easily die to guns

This statement is noted by Ronove noting that witches are weak to weapons such as guns and require anti-bullet barriers in order to be made.

The issue is within the scan itself, within the context of Umineko, bullets specifically contain anti-magical power that cuts right through witches and demons.

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• Piece Beatrice, Piece Kinzo, Piece Shanon, Piece Kanon, & Piece Genji - Fight
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  • Location: Rokkenjima Island

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