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1) Genji was murdered in the mansion. It doesn't need to be his room. Simple as that.
2) Battler's view was subjective. As he saw Krauss and Genji were returning to the dining hall, we know his viewpoint is false or the narration is totally wrong about.
3) Murdering the 5 in the guest house is easy. It's hinted Erika only heard Battler's breath in the cousins' room. After Rosa left the lounge, they prepared the room and went to sleep in another room. There, everybody without an alibi could kill the 5. The mess they've found could be done shortly before they leave to the mansion 1st time.
It's easy to assume the adults shared their ideas and planned beforehand. Without the knowledge of the seals, they wouldn't set up the "deaths" in the guest house but in the mansion.
I agree with points 1 and 2, but I believe this particular red truth poses a problem with 3 (with the exception of Battler being the killer and the first discoverer): Ushiromiya Battler returned to the cousin room at 3:00 AM and fell asleep. After that, until the discovery of the crime, absolutely nothing out of the ordinary happened in the room!
Amendment:
Seeing as how you stated in another thread that you believe red truths not stated by Beatrice don't necessarily need to be true, I also agree that you have proposed another valid possibility to the events of Ep5.
My explanation was mainly done as an attempt to try to reconcile with the red truth in a logical and coherent manner and assuming the prior red statement I provided was in fact true (and also, that the deaths were in fact genuine deaths that happened during that night).
The only time Erika 'broke' her seal was when she receive a key from Gohda, who was sealed in the servant room, and the narration says 'reset'. How you can put this is your business :).
There were no suspicious marks on any of the seals...!
What mark was pretty sus?
Well, I'm not arguing that the marks on any of the seals were sus, per se. It's just that from a strictly logical perspective, Erika tearing off the seals before opening the doors to Kumasawa, Genji, and Nanjo's rooms and letting them out would mean that the act of tearing off a seal would not necessarily in and of itself leave any questionable marks for Erika to witness. Or maybe marks deemed questionable by other people were not questionable to Erika and Eva because they thought they had a coordinated plan only the two of them knew about (but the culprit eavesdropped on them and used that to their advantage to sew discord and confusion).
Also, there's nothing in the story strictly saying that Erika witnessed all of the seals for herself (as a matter of fact, she wouldn't be able to witness Eva's seals since she wasn't in the mansion when Eva sealed Genji in the waiting room), so there could have been extraneous seals used by the culprit from Eva's duct tape if they got a hold of it somehow.
And on another note, Kanon and Kumasawa ripped up a seal to the waiting room in the mansion (in order for them to discover Genji), and that seal would be one of Eva's seals. The act of them doing such would leave marks on that seal, but those marks do not qualify as suspicious in this specific instance under that red truth you've provided to me on the status of the seals.
Carrying these two threads of logic to their full conclusion, I'm asserting that it cannot be conclusively ruled out that a mystery seal X from Eva's duct tape was not replaced with one of Erika's seals (since the detective can still be deceived by a clever culprit in any mystery).
Also, I believe the story offers some nod to this line of thinking in earlier Episodes with Ronove and Virgilia talking to Battler about the Devil's Proof. Based on their discussion, I believe the three concluded that doing such an act like disproving a negation is objectively impossible under logic. I believe their argument was something similar to the fact that one could not conclusively disprove the existence of witches/The Devil.
https://07th-expansion.fandom.com/wiki/Devil%27s_Proof
However, there are parts to this logic presented by Ryu07 that I don't necessarily agree with. Namely, I don't believe a detective like Erika would ever be truly capable of concluding under Detective's Authority that someone like Kyrie could be ruled out as the criminal without being Kyrie herself.
The act of Erika inspecting her seals is also up to scrutiny since not all of the seals are necessarily going to 100% be Erika's seals. In other words, Erika can 100% verify the authenticity of her original seals, but if those seals got swapped out for Eva's seals by the culprit and had similar marks, Erika could not possibly disprove someone like Kyrie being the culprit 100% even under her Detective's Authority in Episode 5.
Also, as for evidence that such a scenario is likely to happen, Rosa's involvement with Eva before Rosa went to the guest house should be a big red flag to Erika that something like Rosa stealing some of Eva's duct tape cannot be denied. Erika should also consider that Nanjo being with her could have been Nanjo's plan as an accomplice to give someone like Kyrie an alibi.
Also, the red truth itself can be used against the Detective's Authority as evidence in regard to Eva's seals being used as a mystery seal X. Eva at first glance appears to have only placed one seal, yet the red truth sometimes falls into weird issues where Eva's seals could be pluralized. That's a language fault with Japanese not strictly accounting for singular and plural nouns, so it's actually impossible under the red truth to completely conclude that Eva's duct tape was only used for one seal.
That's true, too. I wasn't going to delve too much into semantics on that one. I'm glad that you get the spirit of what I was trying to say, though.
It also makes for a cool thought experiment to think about how anybody in the mansion could commit the crime. Hell, technically, you could get Nanjo, Kumasawa, or Gohda to teleport out of their rooms if one took the red truth completely literally in all cases so that they could commit the crimes!