
Was that meta world a dream? Or a fear that just manifested itself in her thoughts? I think it’s more than a dream, but I’m skeptical that the incident actually occurred. Coupled with my thoughts from last episode that Maria has always been optimistic about her situation in the notes she left in the grimoire and in the conversations she had with Ange, it’s hard for me to reconcile that with the scenes above. I suppose it’s possible that she had Beatrice resurrect Rosa, and made her forget the details, but that seems a little too convenient. The Maria torture scene would have taken place before the game began. Clearly, Rosa was alive when she entered the island.

And this is interesting, because the transition between the last meta world and the game world was Maria waking up from her sleep. Yep, he’s staying true to Beatrice and her revival. The second reason for his appearance is to get the killing started. Regardless, Kinzo buys the argument and decides to possibly leave it up to his grandchildren, if they can prove themselves. Plus, Jessica has poor physical health and an unhealthy fetish towards well-dressed furniture. Jessica, Krauss and Natsuhi may be the most traditionally nuclear family… but Krauss has already screwed things up with Kinzo. And George is a good child but continually makes his momma not very happy by shacking up with the maid. Rudolf is a philanderer and has two kids with two different wives (who knows how many other kids he may have in hiding). Which may be true and heartwarming in a Disney sort of way, but even that’s a bit shaky.

At first he plans to not leave a successor and have the Ushiromiya legacy die with him, but Nanjo gets Kinzo to consider otherwise, explaining that his kids have been able to create things beyond material wealth… like families.

Firstly, he berates his kids, completely disgusted that none of them have been able to solve the riddle of the Epitaph and that all of them have failed at building their own miniature empires of wealth. So Kinzo has two reasons for coming of hiding – and it’s not to make Krauss seem like an upstanding guy.
