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This will be a bit of a tangent, but I want to post this so I can see if my prediction comes true for Saku. I finished reading Carl Jung's Undiscovered Self and Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams when a particular set of paragraphs drew my eye. Before I talk about why the passages drew my eye, I think it would be important to discuss the book itself.

The Undiscovered Self is about the disconnect that mankind has created between the subconscious and the conscious mind and how that disconnect manifested itself into various neuroses and psychological disorders. This manifested itself into WWII because mankind, in general, had become more industrious and dangerous while not coming any closer to understanding the way the psyche works and learning how communicate with it. Society developed a mass neurosis and that lead to the death of millions of people. Carl Jung's fix for this is to bridge the gap between the subconscious mind with it's irrational aspects and the conscious mind with its fixation on rationality.

How does this relate to Umineko and my prediction for Saku? To put it simply it is the collective neuroses (Krauss' delusions of grandeur, Natsuhi's abusive tendencies, Eva's controlling personality, Rudolf's general sliminess) of the Urishomiya family that lead to the ultimate split in personality that is the Witch Beatrice who performs the murders in 1986. Now the money issues that contribute to the tragedy are certainly important, but even when the problems of the inheritance are solved, it Bern's word on Lion's miracle kakera can be trusted, the tragedy still occurs. Now I can't say for certain what causes that tragedy to occur, but I can say that it shows that money will not fix the tragedy of 1986. I do have a prediction on what will fix the tragedy and that is Battler mending the split between Beatrice, Shannon, and Kanon. Not solely because it will stop Beatrice from committing the murders, but because it will allow Battler and Beato to foil any plot the family may have to seize the fortune for his or herself. They must be able to rationally understand the plots, but also irrationally forgive any attempts at murder or plotting to seize the fortune to avoid the tragedy of the family falling apart.