It's the early morning of the second day, and the staff is frantic. There was a note about the chapel displayed in plain view somewhere (I don't exactly remember), and they found a kabalistic circle on the door of that building. There's also an inscription with "Happy Halloween, Maria", so they call Rosa.
There's only one key for the chapel door, and it's missing. Rosa remembers the envelope given to Maria by Beatrice seemed to contain a key, goes searching her (still asleep) daughter's handbag, and indeed finds the chapel's key there.
Inside the chapel... Six corpses : Krauss, Natsuhi, Eva, Hideyoshi, Rudolf and Kyrie (no surprise here). They're sitting around the altar, and someone has gouged out their stomachs, and stuffed them with sweets. This method of death means that the corpses are identifiable without any doubt. On the table, three gold ingots, which are presumably the reason why the six acknowledged the witch the night before. The kids have noticed the commotion, and come to the chapel. They're upset, of course. Jessica runs to confront the mysterious 19th guest, followed by Gohda and Kanon (ordered by Rosa to protect her).
Battler calls for a "time out", and confronts Beatrice in the astral plane or something. They debate for a while about this closed room mystery (how was the chapel's door closed if the only key was in Maria's possession ?), but it quickly ends in a deadlock. Then, Beatrice adds a new rule : everything she'll say in red is "true". Battler somehow manages to use this stipulation to corner the witch into admitting that the key could have been taken from Maria's bag at various points. So there's no need for supernatural explanations yet.
Meanwhile, Jessica finds the guest room empty. Well, of course "Beatrice" wasn't going to wait there : she's even left a letter to brag about it. Jessica's so angry she has asthma fits ; Kanon helps her go to her room to rest. He goes into the corridor to allow her some "alone" time... and meets Beatrice there. Uh oh. The witch brags that she will be targeting Jessica & Kanon instead of George & Shannon : their couple is more tragic and angsty. Just in cue, Jessica screams. Kanon dashes back into her room.
There, Kanon finds lots of golden butterflies (a sure sign of the witch), which coalesce into a goat-headed man in a servant uniform. Wha huh ? The goat-servant manifests an arc of light around his hand that looks like a blade, and prepares for assault. But wait ! Kanon does exactly the same, and goes in front of Jessica to protect her. Epic fight scene with un-moving sprites ! Thanks to the superb score and clever editing, this is actually a lot better than it sounds. In the end, Kanon slices the goat-servant in half, and he dissolves.
It's not over ! A skimpy-clothed girl enters the room like a ghost, gloats a bit, and transforms into a knife. It targets Kanon's back, but Jessica puts herself in between and is killed instead. Not that it helps Kanon much : he's killed minutes later by another girl-knife.
At this point, I more or less give up any hope that this story has a rational explanation. Not that I mind : this scene was very, very cool, and it's an intriguing direction for some of the 18 people to have genuine magical powers. It does make Battler look a bit stupid, though (or at least, in complete denial of the obvious).
Anyway, the other characters notice it was probably a bit stupid to let Jessica run alone (even if she was followed by Kanon), so they rush to her room... and discover another locked room mystery. Inside, there's only Jessica's body (Rosa makes sure to search the room). There are only six keys to the room : Jessica's (in plain sight inside the room), and the five servants' master keys. Jessica had taken Kanon's key to open the guest room, and it's still in her pocket. Shannon and Genji have an alibi (they were with Grampa) for that precise period of time. That leaves Gohda and Kumasawa.
In his timeout session with the witch, Battler is a bit nonplussed (though he does get the critical information that Kanon is dead and was killed in that room), and refuses to decide what happened yet.
Rosa is getting more and more paranoid. She decides to hole into the parlor with the children, and exiles the servants (+ Dr Nanjo) to the kitchen. Also, she collects all 5 master keys.
Time passes. Suddenly, someone knocks at the servant room's door. It looks like an heavily-injured Kanon, but something's off. (After all, he's supposed to be dead !) Shannon goes to the basement to gather something, just in case. Meanwhile, "Kanon" is gushing blood from his wounds to a ludicrous degree (Dr Nanjo has no idea how he's still alive), and tries to mount everyone there against Rosa (who does have some motivation for the killings up to now).
When Shannon puts some spiderweb on "Kanon" (it's apparently something painful to demons and the like), he goes completely berserk, and kills both Dr Nanjo and Kumasawa in one blow. Shannon is a bit dumbstruck, and survives only thanks to Genji's reflexes and l33t knife-throwing skills. Gohda and Genji manage to overpower the thing, and Shannon makes it dissolve thanks to more spiderweb application.
The servants go to the parlor to warn the others, but they're not really able to explain WTF happened (which is completely understandable). Especially to an impatient and trigger-happy Rosa (did I mention she found the same shotgun as Natsuhi in episode 1 ?). It doesn't help that when everybody comes back to the kitchen, the corpses have disappeared (and yet another closed room mystery ! Yeah !). At this point, Battler's rational reasoning is completely defeated by Beatrice's assault of "truths". He loses his spirit, and more or less acknowledges the witch.
Rosa goes back to the parlor with Maria and Battler. On the other hand, George decides to trust Shannon and the servants. He gets an explanation of what happened, and takes it in full stride. Now, the question is how to prevent being killed by those supernaturals things ? They remember about a talisman mirror kept by Natsuhi in her room. Of course, they don't have master keys anymore, so only key available is... Natsuhi's. Probably still on her corpse, back in the chapel. And they can probably break a window to enter there.
Genji decides to stay back in the servant room, in case he's needed by Grampa. Well, whatever. When the others have left, some golden butterflies appear near him... and he nails them with a carefully-thrown knife. Wow, Genji really is badass.
George, Shannon and Gohda's expedition to the chapel goes more or less well. They're pursued by golden butterflies, but at least they found the key and escaped. They run to Natsuhi's room, Gohda barricades the room with his own body, and George starts searching frenetically for the small mirror. Behind the door, some... things... are trying to enter. Then a Knife-girl manages to go through the door and kill Gohda. Oh dear. Goat-faced servants swarm the room, Beatrice herself shows up, all appears lost... and then Shannon erects magic barrier fields around herself and George. Wait, she can do that ? It works against the goat-faced servants, but even with the mirror's power it's not enough against the last two knife-girls. But this was certainly an impressively heroic scene.
Genji has somehow found Dr Nanjo and Kumasawa's bodies, with the addition of those ubiquitous knives, and warns Rosa, Battler and Maria. They're skeptical, then twig out that Genji is now alone. He tells them the others have gone into Natsuhi's room. There, they find yet another locked room mystery. Eh.
But wait, there's more ! When Rosa, Maria and Battler come back into the parlor (locked by Rosa), Battler finds a letter from the witch. How did it get there ? Well, Rosa accuses Battler, so he's thrown out of the parlor too. He drowns his sorrows with some strong liquor in the dining room. Genji invites him in Grampa's study, where he also finds the witch Beatrice. Battler submits to her, and she makes him her "furniture". The four then go down to the dinner room, where there are lots of people with goat heads/masks. (One of them is Bernkastel, who barely looks at the defeated Battler before leaving. "Sore loser", comments Beatrice.) The goat-people then start eating Battler and Grampa alive.
Outside, Rosa and Maria are running for their life, pursued by golden butterflies and goat-people. Rosa has taken one of the gold ingots in the chapel, and hopes to swim out of the island with it to start a new life from scratch. Nice try, and the shotgun does help quite a bit, but in the end they're overwhelmed and eaten alive too.
Next part : two epilogues, and my thoughts on the second episode.
