It's 11 AM, and now that things have settled down a bit, everyone remember it's high time to have breakfast. Erika is looking more than a little unhinged, still in denial that Battler could jump three stories down. Nobody really saw him jump ! Maybe he used the gutter to control his descent ? Which, as Battler immediately notes, is besides the point : he did prove that Grampa could have escaped the room. (He does admits in petto that he used the gutter, though.) Erika is close to a Villainous Breakdown, openly invoking her "master" to give her a sign... and then lightning strikes.
Erika resumes eating calmly, as if none of this scene had happened, which makes the relatives wonder if they just dreamed it. So, she apparently did receive a sign from Bernkastel...
(There's then a completely uneventful scene of Virgilia — who's been going off to somewhere for most of the game — being brought up to speed by Beato and her accomplices. We don't learn anything new.)
Jump to later, as Erika has been reconstructing everyone's alibi and checked various other things. Suspicion falls massively on Natsuhi, who left the meeting early and has absolutely nobody to confirm her whereabouts. (Nice job framing her, mysterious caller !) She's obviously upset by this, and appears in clear need for a rest. Actually, everybody could use one.
Natsuhi has actually been carefully calculating her outbursts, so that she could pretend to return to her room (and instead go to a specified guest room) just before 1 PM. This is obviously a trap, but it's not as if she has any choice in the matter. She has to wait there for one hour, hidden in a closet, in order for Krauss to be released ? So she will. And she won't lock the room's door, so as not to raise any suspicion.
Among her various thoughts while sitting there in the dark, the important one is that she remembers that the only person she ever told about liking fall was Shannon (yep, it's in red). She's shocked to be betrayed by a servant who's been working there for 10 years (wait, how old is Shannon exactly ?), but then reconsiders that this information might be a powerful tool in the upcoming police investigation. (Er, yeah, you might be fooling yourself a bit about the chances of anyone surviving the night...)
Then Hideyoshi enters the room (where did he find a key ?), apparently to find a place to rest alone. He bolts both the door and the windows, and then falls on the bed and starts to weep. Oh yeah, he just lost his son. Oh gods, they're wheeling out a brand new One-Woman Wail for this scene. Natsuhi resumes her wangsting... and then Hideyoshi notices there's someone else in the room.
No, not Natsuhi. He's struggling with someone else ! The murderer ? But before Natsuhi can gather he wits and jump out of the closet, Eva starts trying to open the door, while Hideyoshi makes his last gurgle. And then, silence.
Eva makes Gohda cut through the chain, and soon nearly everyone is inside, finding Hideyoshi's body. They make sure that the windows and door were impenetrable, but are interrupted by Eva being adamant about transporting her husband's corpse to the lobby so that it won't "disappear". Just as everyone leaves, Erika examines the whole guestroom one more time, makes a move towards the closet... and is scolded by Battler, as everyone is going down and they mustn't get separated.
Wow, that was close. Natsuhi exits the room discreetly, and it's obvious that this was another trap to frame her. She almost escapes scot-free, but Erika spots her while she's climbing up the stairs to her room. Natsuhi bluffs her way out of the conversation, playing dumb about the murder... but now, everyone must reunite to the parlor. Summation time !
So the trap unfolds... and surprisingly doesn't work (well, mostly — again, Natsuhi has no alibi). Most of us would have guessed its goal right when the caller gave his orders to Natsuhi, of course.
The only new information of any value is that Shannon has a link to the mysterious caller (if he indeed exists). Apart from that, nothing of much interest, though it's nice that we're finally getting to The Summation.
