tl;dr

The Story Itself

• This almost an anniversary-tier event in terms of length and quality, what the hell?
• This event is a haven of foreshadowings, as expected from a detective event.
• Love the dynamic between Nana and Arachne

Difficulty

• The event itself is easy to understand, but being a detective event, there are some shit that went over my head.
• Who was the mystery figure that Kasumi met, was it Kanon or Tsumugi?
• Kanon's "death". Was the steamed bun also poisoned?
• The way the poison works. Does it pollute the air or...?

The Story Itself

Regarding the event's length

People weren't kidding when they said this event was long. It's even longer than And I Will, and that one was supposed to be a half-anniversary event! While I'm glad we're getting events that we can really dig our teeth into, I can't help but wonder why did they choose to hyperfocus on this event? Is there an Arachnedev inside the dev team or something? And I Will could've used the extra length to flesh out the alter characters, honestly.

You might be wondering why I said "almost" instead of saying that this event being outright anniversary-tier. The biggest reason is the lack of side content, if you look at I Wish and Dive Astrum, their side contents were so big, it felt like having another event inside of an event. Everything Becomes Web is already a pretty big event, but it's "just" one event instead of feeling like two. Second, it's very small in scope, what I mean scope is the "area" the story focuses on. It "just" covered Gio Gehenna. In my opinion, anniversary events should encompass the entirerity of Princess Connect Re: Dive. There's nothing wrong with a hyperfocusing on an area, Of Cherish Bonds and Distant Hearts "just" focused on Kokkoro and it was still a fantastic event, although this could be just my Kokkoro favoritism speaking.

Honestly, I was confused on where to start when talking about this event...being a detective event, it's hard cover everything without just retelling the entire story to cover everything. As always, I'll just cover the areas that made me go "oh!". If you want to know the rest, read the story yourself!

The Foreshadowings

Boy, there are plenty here. Let's start with the earliest one I caught.

The Judge and The Ambassador

Right from the get go, the story casted doubt on the judge and ambassador.

The story portrays the judge as kind of a dick, as he refused Kasumi's handshake. While the ambassador seemed like a good guy at first, Kanon brought up that he might be just putting up a front since Gio Gehenna is on business with Landosol, and he probably wanted to butter up to Landosol people.

I myself thought "Ah, it must be one of them!", although my reason of thinking they were guilty is probably a bit surface-level. They're dicks. The judge is straight up a dick, so he's probably guilty. The cunt of the group of all people thinks that the ambassador might be a dick, so he must be also be a dick, and therefore also be guilty somehow.

In the end, both are guilty of different things!

The judge is guilty of framing Arachne. Kasumi figured this out by putting these three together; the fact that the judge tried to goad Kanon into capturing Arachne, the fact that the judge didn't investigate Kanon's "death" and finally, the fact that the judge was using the holy coliseum to execute an execution (heh) of all things.

The ambassador is guilty of poisoning the food in the party. His motive is that he wanted to protect Gio Gehenna from Landosol's influence. Kasumi thinks that Gio Gehenna's brutish culture has its own charm, so she understands him somewhat. But wait...how did he exactly poison the food? That brings me to my next point...

The Handshakes

I thought this was going to be just another piece of worldbuilding! As you may know, people, not just in Landosol, shake hands for various reasons. To show agreement, respect, sportsmanship, etc. People of Gio Gehenna don't do this, because they simply beat the shit out of each other to show respect. Okay, so the judge refused Kasumi's handshake because Gio Gehenna culture is deeply rooted in him, and the ambassador goes around shaking people's hands because of, well, he's the ambassador, so it's only natural for him to practice the culture of Landosol.

It got brought up twice...will it be brought up once more to make it odd?

Turns out, it did! The handshakes was how the ambassador poisoned the people in the party!

It had to do with the species of the chicken that got made into the yakitori the people in the party ate combined with a certain tree bark. Combined together, they become a deadly poison. This is how the poison got combined: first, the ambassador would eat the yakitori as usual. Then, he would slather the tree bark powder that has been dissolved into water onto his hand. Then he goes around shaking hands, putting the liquid onto the victim's hand. With the poison on the victim's hand now, the liquid would combine with the yakitori, creating the poison and killing them.

Also, the way Kasumi cornered the the ambassador was so fucking kino! She demonstrated how the poison would work, slathering the liquid onto her hand, and called in Joe to make the same yakitori that was served in the party...

And then she offers her hand for a handshake....

Obviously, the ambassador rejects, because taking her hand and eating the yakitori would kill him. Finally revealing him as the culprit.

Nana and Arachne

I've been talking about Kasumi a lot, huh? How about the new faces? They're kinda...the victims here, so they don't see as much action as her, but this doesn't mean they're shafted. For them, the story mainly focuses on Nana overcoming the trauma of backstabbing Kanon, alongside the one who puppeteered her to do said backstabbing in the first place, Arachne.

Speaking of trauma, and this may sound really cruel, but I LOVE the fact that Nana actually struggled with it. I thought it was strange that Kanon just scoffed at her and went back to buddy buddy with Nana and Nana just going along with it because well, she's Nana. Turns out, it hasn't been that simple for Nana. Right from the get go, simply hearing the name "Arachne" was enough to startle her and make her start coping "wyell, this is a different Arachne, right?"

Not only that, her nightmares start to return. Apparently, she's been reliving the moment she stabbed Kanon through her nightmares. It gradually got better...but it suddenly kicked back up when she met Arachne. Of course, she started coping again.

Her fear of Lady Arachne got so bad that when the reveal that Arachne really was Lady Arachne through Kasumi's mirror came, she tried to give Arachne a donut, dropped it, and couldn't pick it back up because she was trembling that much.

In the end, Nana outright asked Arachne to use her strings on her to beat up the judge, driving in the point that she has overcome her trauma.

Moving on to Arachne, she's the prime suspect of this story, and I'm happy that the characters (except for Nana maybe) treat her as such. I'm just glad that the characters, including Arachne herself, didn't simply forget that she was a gigantic (quite literally) cunt in her previous life.

First, Arachne herself reminds herself as Lady Arachane that well, she used to be Lady Arachne...

Second, Kasumi, being the detective, objectively can't rule out the possibility that Arachne is just straight up guilty. She still acts cordial towards Arachne, but there are some moments in the story that felt like she just threw Arachne under the bus. First, right after the reveal that Arachne was indeed Lady Arachne through Kasumi's mirror, Arachne contemplated to turn herself in. Kasumi, much to Ho-chan's surprise, agreed.

Of course, the moment Arachne left, Kasumi hollered her assistant to follow her, much to Ho-chan's relieve. However, this can be looked at two ways. Was Kasumi really concerned about Arachne's safety, or was she just curious to see the outcome?

Third, Kasumi again, this time, she uses her suspicion towards Arachne to her advantage. Through the entire event the judge has always been hellbent against Arachne, and the ambassador hellbent towards Arachne. This was brought up again when Kasumi started the argument with the ambassador, why was he so hellbent on defending Arachne? His own reasoning was to protect the reputation of Gio Gehenna, people would be scared shitless to do business with Gio Gehenna if there was a 240cm spider going around poisoning people. Kasumi eventually uncovered that the real reason was to keep the real culprit a mystery to keep attention away from him, the real culprit.

Finally, Kasumi again, after both culprits were dealt with, they of course go talk to Nephi Nera. Kasumi is once again questioning Nephi Nera's decision keeping around Arachne. Nephi Nera answered that she doesn't seem threatening NOW, so there's no reason to do things now. Second, people's nature are unchanging, but outliers happen. Nephi Nera believes that Arachne will always be evil no matter how many times she reincarnates, but also believes that outliers happen, and believe that the Arachne now is said outlier. Third, every people has a light and dark side, and everyone needs to be careful not to succumb to their own darkness. She brings up the ambassador as someone who succumbed and reminds the group to keep Arachne in check, but she believes that Nana will do most of the work because of the bond they forged.

One last thing about Arachne, her schizo side really is still in there somewhere. We first see it in the Lady Kanon's Glorious revenge event, where she went schizo because Tsumugi's strings reminded her of the fact that she used to use her own strings to control people.

Here, we see it resurface once more. After Arachne turned herself in, a Landosol merchant that defected from agreeing to execute Arachne delivered a letter to Nana. Inside the letter is your usual goodbye letter, something something she lived a short life but she was glad because she had someone she could call a friend, plus telling Nana not to come to her. Obviously, Nana can't read so the letter didn't stop her. She goes to the site where Arachne is being chained up and tried to stop the people there from beating her up. Of course, Nana is treated as a conspirator and she gets beat up as well. Arachne begs them to stop, no one listens. Arachne gets pissed, goes schizo and starts beating the shit out of everyone.

Arachne tried to stop herself, but couldn't. She only managed to after Nana starts begging Arachne to smile again. It's cute that Arachne went schizo because she saw her friend gets beat up, and could only stop when said friend begged her to stop.

Overall Thoughts

Whew, this event was quite something. This is one of those events that I really wanted to speedrun through because I just HAD to know what would happen next. But it was physically impossible for me because of the event length and I was busy when I was reading this event.

Something I should mention that there are some points in the story that allows you to do the arguing for Kasumi, and if you do, it's possible to pick the wrong option. No punishment for being wrong, but the game does loop you back to take the option again instead of just continuing the story while someone else corrects you. That's a new thing for this game!

Of course, being a detective event, there was some shit that I didn't quite understand, which brings me to my next topic...

Difficulty

So, the event itself was easy to understand. 100% comprehension (1220/1220). Pretty long huh? For comparison, And I Will was 1040.

Also, I should be transparent, but the way I count might inflate the numbers a little bit. Most people count how long a story is by running it in auto and then simply timing counting how long that goes for. I heard this event goes for around 3 hours and a half, that's almost like watching a fucking movie! However, I count using the game's datamined story scripts through Estertion since I need the raw text to look up words I don't know.

I simply do ctrl + F voice to see how many voiced lines are in a given episode.

This is usually 100% accurate, however, due to how the multiple options work in this story, the games stores some duplicate lines, one for letting Kasumi do the arguing, and another doing the arguing yourself. However, there's not much of them, I'd estimate the duplicate lines only inflate the count by around 20ish lines. The event is still long as hell and I'm not trying to downplay it here, just wanna be transparent.

Moving on. Here are the things that I didn't quite understand:

The mystery person Kasumi met

There are two supporting characters here that helped Kasumi convict the judge and the ambassador, Tsumugi and Kanon. Tsumugi provided Kasumi with the tree bark that was used for the poison and Kanon pretended to be dead to trap the judge. However, at some point at the story, Kasumi meets a ??? that could be either one of them.

But...I don't see the reason why the story would need to include this scene in? We already saw Tsumugi hand over the tree bark to Kasumi, and Kanon has been in the event since the beginning, so I'm not sure why the story felt the need to cover her up if this ??? was really one of them. So..I'm confused. Who could this be and what is the purpose of this scene?

Speaking of Kanon...

The steamed buns Kanon eat

Kanon was found "dead" in the hot springs, a bunch of steamed buns was found around her so that was thought to be the cause of the death. However, we also know that people could only die if they eat the yakitori and has shaken hands with the ambassador. Of course, she really wasn't dead because she was pretending, but some lines suggest that she really did die because of the steamed buns. This is mostly played for laughs, which makes me even more confused. First, right after beating Saibantula.

Second, Nephi Nera's teasing.

So...I guess the story is trying to tell me that Kanon did really pass out, indeed because of the steamed buns, but not because of the poison? Maybe the steamed buns also had the same chicken that was also used to make the yakitori? Also, if Kanon really did die...how did she get back up? Ho-chan only got back up because she's a fucking phoenix. The ambassador only pretended to be dead since we know the antidote made from Ho-chan's blood was actually her drool. Maybe it's because she's a manticore, manticores are poisonous and therefore not really affected by the poison? The story did mention that Kanon was suspected at first, but she had an alibi, she was too busy laughing with the other party goers.

But...if she wasn't poisoned in the first place, why do the characters mention that she really died? Did she stuff herself with too much steamed buns that she lost consciousness? I'm at a loss here...

How did the poison work, anyway?

We already know that it works by combining two things, the tree bark and the chicken. But...how does the tree bark liquid come into contact with the chicken? The poison is on the hand, which then is transmitted to the silverware, and then...stays there. Just as a reminder, this is how a fork looks like.

The poison should be on the right side, that's the part you hold to lift up the fork. On the spiky park should be the chicken. They're close to each other, but definitely not in contact. So...how?

Some things I thought up:

One, people of Gio Gehenna don't believe in silverware and eat like barbarians using their hands. This is the first thing I came up with...but the judge explicitly mentioned silverwares also being investigated during the autopsy.

Two, the poison simply flowed to the chicken. Kasumi did mention the liquid being indistinguishable to sweat, and sweat can definitely dribble down. This is the explanation that makes most sense.

Three, he poison travels through air. There's no mention of this at all, this is just something I pulled out of my ass. If the poison really did travel through air, then the whole handshake thing would've been unnecessary. Everyone in the party would also be dead.

If 2 turns out to be wrong...then this is probably a plothole. Hah, I'm such a genius, figuring out a plothole in a detective story. Who's the real detective now, huh?

Phew. That is all for this blogpost. See ya on the next one.

Big...huge...strong lady. K-kind to me...

Notes

Prologue:

• story opens with kasumi giving you a proverb
• spider shows up at night, bad omen. spider shows up in the morning, doing god's work
• which one arachne will be? that's for her to choose...
• story cuts to arachne and nana being judged
• arachne is to be executed for mass murder through poison, and nana for being her conspirator
• story cuts again to kasumi to visiting gio gehenna, not the first time she's here because she solved lou's case back in one of the sub stories
• wanted to look around at first, some banter with nana and kanon, nana also wanting to be a detective, kanon telling her that she's too dumb, kasumi telling her she needs to cover up because she'd distract kskn
• was called by nephi nera because nana told her that she's an amazing detective, and nephi nera so happened also wanted to take in cultures of other worlds
• greeted by the judge, given the nun outfit
• huh??? i guess nuns carried out justice back then
• who is that man anyway?
• judge picked by nephi nera after the whole arachne ordeal. represents her when she's busy. popular because he's a just man
• nana likes him because fights happen all the time in gio gehenna and he's there to break it up. kanon doesn't, would rather just fight
• what's with this cane? it has a mirror
• legend says that if a someone with a virtuous heart holds it, it will shine the way to the truth
• lol who's this new detective? doesn't look to bright
• hmmm i guess that's gio gehenna culture for you, need to prove yourself to be respected
• the cane shines
• dammn, i guess this detective is something else
• kasumi wanted to shake the judge's hand, your usual yoroshiku
• nah we don't shake hands in gio gehenna
• some party manager greets them, tells them to go to party venue
• meanwhile, arachne, just wandering around sees them. recognizes kanon because they fought when arachne was enslaved by tsumugi
• some kids bump into her
• kids notice she's a spider monstress, run away. arachne is saddened no one would even look at her
• thus starts arachne's the tale of judgement and atonement

Episode 1:

• in the party, usual party banter
• kasumi is amazed by the architecture, apparently the building is made out of bedrock
• the building site used to be kanon's residence, apparently. of course kanon shows that off
• there's a lot of people from landosol here huh guess we're not the only ones from landosol here
• party manager comes, yes that's right
• party manager offers a handshake
• but i thought we didn't do that here?
• yeah but i'm the ambassador, i kinda need to learn different cultures here
• party manager leaves, need to see other guests
• i guess the judge was just kinda a dick huh
• huh...kinda a nice guy i guess
• oh but is he really? he's only doing it so the business back in landosol's forest goes smoothly
• everyone decides to split up in the party
• nana goes to the toilet
• kasumi goes to talk to ho-chan, gets the privilege to call her ho-chan
• kanon apparently has many fans from landosol, even though it's because everyone thinks she's a comedian
• nana comes back
• huh? why does that woman have webs on her, is it a decoration?
• not everyone has webs...
• hey kanon-chan, do you see the webs?
• even i can't see the webs in your head dumbass
• oh...well i guess i'll go outside to get some fresh air
• nana finds a fainted arachne
• feeds her donuts because she fainted from starvation
• hey, what's your name?
• kskn comes, knows it arachne
• that is your name?
• yes...probably. probably because i don't remember shit
• the...lady arachne? it's a different arachne, right?
• i'll just call you a-chan until you remember your real name!
• let's go to the party, plenty of meat in there!
• arachne goes inside, gets glared by everyone
• the two trie to hide her, obviously it doesn't work on the account that she's 240cm tall
• nana eventually gets tired of being called sama, arachne tries to find a nickname and calls her na-chan
• she likes it
• suddenly, the landosol guys are dying
• ho-chan is too
• she's dead

Episode 2:

• nana is freaking out
• but kanon isn't because ho-chan is a phoenix and therefore can just reincarnate
• 7 people are dead
• kasumi notices all those 7 people are foaming from their mouth
• correct choice: they're poisoned
• head chef hears the commotion and objects, he's not gonna let people call his food shit
• it's not food poisoning though, but someone put poison
• kasumi wonders what could be the motive and goal
• people start noticing arachne (she's big)
• spiders have poison, so people start accusing her
• kanon, being a manticore, has poison too, but she was too busy laughing to poison anyone
• nana and kskn defend arachne
• the two get accused of being controlled by her strings
• kanon gets asked to help detain arachne
• why the fuck would i help
• you two are enemies, right? not helping means you've covering her for some reason
• chaos starts to swirl
• kasumi thinks that that's the goal, to create chaos and distrupt the collab between landosol and gio gehenna
• ho-chan wakes up
• kasumi thinks it's because she's a phoenix and has anti-toxin properties
• mirror shines, it's true
• the investigation continues the following day
• kasumi pep talk, nana and kskn help, kanon help too
• before they leave, nana tells about seeing webs
• only nana can see it, kanon still thinks nana is retared
• arachne asks to come too, need someone to watch over her. because she has no idea what she might do
• they go outside and see the chef freaking out over a literal spider
• nana sees there's a web on him
• chef accuses arachne of controlling him
• argument time!
• can either let kasumi do the arguing or let arachne do it herself
• kasumi argues, arachne was outside. chef argues, she went inside in the end anyway. nana argues, they were talking all night. joe argues, bias from assosication
• arachne just asks where is the nearest gallow if you let her. kskn takes over
• kskn argument right choices: she was out cold outside last night and she was talking with us. wrong choices loops you back
• so...when did arachne put in the poison?
• she didn't!
• chef snaps, he was suspicious of arachne because of the web's influence
• now can finally testify properly
• in the kitchen, there are 3 cooks including himself, and 7 waiters
• cooks don't go in and out, waiters do, but none of them were suspicious
• chef doesn't usually bother double checking the food, because he'd know since people would complain
• why did the judge enter?
• he wanted to take a look at the super deluxe yakitori
• judge comes, tells result of autopsy
• poison is unknown in gio gehenna, suspect it's a mixture
• so...this mixture is the killer?
• no, all food and drinks were tested, no poison reaction
• it's as if the poison was put directly into the victim's stomache!
• no such magic in gio gehenna, no such magic in landosol
• but...someone with the rank six calamity should be able to do that magic, no?
• arachne explains while she can do magic, all she can do is using web control at best
• not a reassuring answer.
• ho-chan comes in and explains that none of the calamities can do such thing
• and if she could, arachne would've taken over gio gehenna already (she did as lady arachne though lmao)
• also, new news.
• the ambassador is dead

Episode 3:

• nana is apparently still traumatized by stabbing kanon in the back
• the dreams subsided, but came back after meeting arachne
• keeps telling herself that arachne is different from lady arachne
• next day
• kasumi is questioning the ambassador's secretary
• kasumi asked what food he ate
• confidential
• this casts doubt on the judge, cook and the victim himself
• can pick victim, but kskn gets cut off
• also, kasumi is trying out an antidote, from ho-chan's blood
• kanon took it when she was sleeping, surprised she could do it without waking ho-chan up
• suddenly, ruckus outside
• rioters wanting to take arachne down
• arachne almost volunteers to turn herself in, keeps getting dragged back in by the others
• the ambassador suddenly shows up, the antidote worked. shows the group a hidden exit
• they run and hide in some tent
• arrive, arachne asks kasumi to use her mirror on her
• nana objects, she doesn't want to see the arachne that made her stab kanon in the back
• arachne looks at the mirror anyway
• in there, lady arachne
• lady arachne reminds arachne that she's the real one, she reminds her that she's spilled so much blood, that she sorrounds herself with gold. wonders how many more she will kill
• arachne tells the truth to nana
• nana wants to give arachne a donut, drops it, wants to pick it up but can't because she's trembling so much from fear
• arachne decided to turn herself in, kasumi agrees much to nana's surprise
• the moment arachne left, kasumi tells kskn to follow her, much to nana's relief
• with the two gone, the remaining discuss the web nana keeps seeing
• lady arachne usually controlled those who were weak mentally and physically
• so...i guess i was weak
• well, idk if you're weak or not, but you can see the webs because you care so much about arachne
• kasumi relates it to how she was weak too, but decided to get her shit together
• she believes that weak people are strong people whose strength are overlooked
• nana resolves to help arachne
• meanwhile, kskn has found arachne
• arachne asks if kskn isn;t afraid of her
• lol i'm used to it
• she's scared that she'll go full schizo again like when she fought kanon
• kskn convinces that arachne and lady arachne are different people
• kskn brings arachne back to the group
• they decide to sleep for the day...until kanon comes in knocking
• there's a web on her, and she's trying to bring arachne in
• tsumugi comes in and smacks kanon
• she's there to give kasumi some ingredients to look at, also looking for clothes ingredient
• the web is gone, really confirming that it will disappear when their argument is refuted
• kanon decided to fuck off
• kasumi tried to get her back, but failed
• they finally sleep
• next day, kasumi wakes up to new news
• kanon is dead

Episode 4:

• kanon was killed by the same poison, ate poisoned steam buns
• reported by the ambassador, but he didn't do a thorough investigation because it was already handled by nephi's troops
• a spat almost started because of this, kasumi stops it
• judge: not that simple, give me arachne so i can confine her
• ambassador: no way! there are worse crimes we need to take care of
• meanwhile, ksksn, ho-chan, nana and arachne are running away from the mob
• mob catching up, they decide to split up and meet back in town
• nana first to arrive in town, then ho-chan, then kskn
• arachne never arrives
• the group assumes arachne turned herself in
• correct, a landosol merchant that was in the mob but rebelled delivered a letter from arachne to nana
• the merchant tells her she's up in the mountains, nana immediately takes off
• on the way, keeps convincing herself that arachne and lady arachne are different
• nana arrives, arachne is being beat up by the mobs
• nana defends arachne, tells everyone that they have strings on them
• obviously no one belives this and nana gets beat up as well
• arachne keeps begging to just beat her up and not nana, no one listens as well
• arachne gets pissed and her old self surfaces, starts beating up everyone
• arachne tries to stop herself, but can't. only stopped when nana begged for it
• judge comes in, gets pissed because his lackeys can't even detain someone injured
• kskn comes, but too late. arachne and nana are taken in for the trial
• meanwhile, kasumi is alone. knows the situation is bad, but is meeting someone unknown that is assumed can turn the situation around

Episode 5:

• arachne is to be executed for mass murder through poison, and nana for being her conspirator
• gio gehenna is democratic! that's what the people want!
• is it democracy if it's because everyone is controlled by the webs?
• nana chastises gio gehenna, and arachne chastises whatever nana is chastising as well
• judge gives the two a chance to say their final words
• nana hopes to be still friends with arachne even in heaven
• arachne is sure she's going to hell though
• don't worry, i'm going to pull you up from heaven
• but you'd fall to hell with me...
• i don't care! as long as i'm with you, i'm okay with hell!
• arachne is glad to have lived this short life because she managed to get someone she can call a friend.
• IGIARI
• kskn comes in and frees the two
• the judge approaches the two...
• nana tells arachne to use her strings on her
• nana beats up the judge
• kasumi comes in and accuses the judge: for trying to goad kanon to catch arachne, for not investigating kanon's death, and the hipocrisy of using a holy site to execute someone
• kasumi presents a living kanon as proof
• first, the judge wasn't expecting kanon to die because he wanted to use her to catch arachne
• this unexpected death sowed confusion
• this also baits out his reaction when kanon was shown to still live
• kasumi decides to use the mirror on him
• arachne was brave enough to face the old her and try to make amends, can he do the same?
• the judge reveals his true form, saibantula
• it's the treasure spider that lady arachne used, they fused and became big
• the spider is pissed at arachne for not continuing her invasion on gio gehenna
• they fight and beat up saibantula
• saibantua asked why
• arachne didn't want to invade gio gehenna
• all she wanted was to get out of the hellish purgatory
• now that she has friends, she's no longer in purgatory
• well, technically still in there, but her friends are there, so she doesn't mind being there
• kasumi shows the mirror to saibantula
• it shows his brethens that he ate for power, he wonders why he still lost
• it's because only his body became big, his heart stayed small
• fight is finally over, some banter
• turns out kanon really did die because she ate the poisoned steam bun
• nana asks ho-chan to heal them, but she can't because she just used her power to heal herself
• they were about to close the case...until kasumi brings up the possibility of the judge being controlled from behind the scenes
• who could it be? hint: ho-chan's drool

Episode 6:

• suspects are the cook, ho-chan and the ambassador
• correct choice is the ambassador
• confrontation day
• there are three things that kasumi is suspicious of
• 1: there are a lot of weapons strewn around in the dining hall
• but that's normal, that's just gio gehenna culture
• 2: but...you're the one insisting that you take on landosol culture by doing handshakes
• shouldn't you decorate the dining hall accordingly to landosol culture then?
• 3: you said yourself that you also ate the yakitori and the soup
• why were you so calm, then? you were also digging into the poison
• we already established that there wasn't poison in the food, though
• weird. because you ate the them BEFORE we knew that there wasn't poison
• he only wanted to act like the party manager, of course he also ate
• next point: ambassador is overly defensive of arachne
• something something innocent until proven otherwise
• you weren't suspicous of arachne at ALL? she's a spider monstress, it'd have been understanable to be a lil suspicious even if you were the ambassador
• two reasons for this: 1, defending arachne drags away focus from him. 2, if arachne is convicted, it's also trouble for him
• also two reasons: he didn't like the judge and he wants to keep the real culprit forever covered
• so? still no motive!
• about the forest exploitation business
• if arachne is convicted, that means the business would be over because landosol would be scared shitless
• and? that's the point, i want the business to continue. you were expecting me to monopolize things?
• possible, but still no
• proof?
• yes, ho-chan's drool
• remember the time you died because you ate the yakitori?
• yes, ho-chan's antidote revived me
• sike, that was ho-chan's drool
• we used that so you would show up to help arachne escape
• tch...so? proof me that i actually put in the poison!
• handshake
• remember: the poison is made from 2 substances
• substance a is from the ambassador's hand, and substance b is from the yakitori
• wow how convenient such a thing is available in gio gehenna
• yeah tsumugi told us. apparently, it's rare even here, so yours must be home grown
• damn that meddling tailor!
• finally your real self comes out
• tsumugi dissolved the flaming tree bark onto her hand for demonstatrion
• it's not sticky, so people can't tell it apart from sweat
• first, you eat the yakitori. second, spread it on your hand. third, shake hands
• after that, the victim, with posion in their hand, eats the yakitori and the soup. and that becomes the posion
• cook suddenly comes in bringing in the same yakitori
• kasumi offers her hand...
• guh...was there no one else?
• no, only you insisted shaking hand with everyone
• ambassador finally confesses
• the flaming tree bark + gravy from the flaming bird = poison
• when he saw those two things available, he thought it was destiny
• real motive: wanted to protect gio gehenna
• magic advancement come from landosol -> afraid it will overtake gio gehenna customs
• sure he wanted to monopolize, but mostly wanted to protect gio gehenna
• kasumi somewhat understands, since gio gehenna's bullshit is a part of its charm
• ho-chan objects, if gio gehenna could withstand her almost burning the entire world, it can withstand anything
• ambassador apologizes, and surrenders himself to be taken to nephi nera

Epilogue:

• the group is talking to nephi
• nephi apologizes for all the bullshit the ambassador put kasumi through
• kasumi is just glad to be able to live up to expectations
• hm, whose expectations?
• the mirror.
• kanon: you really are getting cushy wushy with nephi huh
• shut the fuck up you fainted because you ate too much steamed buns
• anyway...someone here wants to say something
• nana: arachne =! lady arachne!!
• sure, but i have some people that want to say something too
• the guys that accused arachne come in
• apologize
• wow gio gehenna sure is getting soft with all these apologize
• you get the option to put kanon back in her slate, i took it
• so, does nephi forgive arachne?
• yes, something something nature is unchanging, she can reincarnate hundreds of time and she will still be evil
• however, outliers happen, and nephi believes the arachne now is that outlier
• kasumi: you are not suspicious of her at all?
• a bit, but she doesn't seem to be threatening rn
• what if her evil surfaces?
• kskn: everyone has their light and dark side
• yes, like that president. he's favored by everyone in gio gehenna, but he succumbed to darkness in the end
• we'll need to watch over arachne so she doesn't succumb.
• i bet nana will do the carrying here...
• well! now that thinks are over, nana and arachne plan to eat together
• also want to invite kskn
• the end