I would argue if that was the message that the author was trying to present, then they showed it in a really bad way.įirst off, Rudolf and Kyrie flat out murder their relatives one by one. So it's my bad if you got that my point was that the story was trying to say that truth is supreme. I made a mistake with my wording, I should have said first half of the story rather than most. After all, the truth is always there in the end regardless, and there is nothing stopping the reader from looking at both endings. Its about Ange's understanding of her family and what happened, and how this shapes and defines her as a person from then on. The ending isn't about whether the reader gets to learn the truth of what happened or not. This allows her to move on with her life. By contrast, the more Fantastical option to me always read as Ange accepting that she can never fully know what really happened, but should be allowed to accept the fond memories she does have, rather than bogging them down with the possibility that any one of them could have been a murderer. Do those past act mean that Ange should overlook fond memories she had of him? Focusing on a singular bitter truth and allowing that to dominate and define who you are as a person, which Ange does in the Truth ending, is not a healthy way to live. But he did come to deeply regret these things later in life and tried to make at least some amends of Sayo from what we see, which is the best he could do. The point of Episode 8 to my mind is that if you focus on specific events in someone's life, you will never come to fully understand and appreciate them as a person.

Erika's introduction also highlights how unhealthy it is to be so entirely focused on finding truth without consideration of the emotional health of those involved. The introduction of Ange as a main character also highlights in the importance of the after effects of any 'truth'. The point is that whilst that is the initial position Battler holds, by the end of Episode 3 there is clearly more going on and this is pretty much spelled out when Episode 4 really draws attention to Beatrice's motive for playing the game with Battler.

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