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* [[Gambit Pileup]] - Most non-magical explanations for the murders in any given arc require multiple murderers, often working at cross-purposes, and different ones for each arc.
* [[Game Between Heirs]]: The successor to the Ushiromiya family's headship and fortune (which includes ten tons of solid gold) seemed to be locked and set in stone and then a letter from the [[Magnificent Bastard|resident witch]] arrived, announcing that the spoils have been made fair game to anyone who can solve the Witch's Epitaph, a long riddle which incidentally, details a ritual requiring human sacrifice. Mind games (and [[Anyone Can Die|lots and]] [[Kill'Em All|lots of murder]]) ensue.
* [[Generational Trauma]]: The Ushiromiya clan all suffer one way or another the consequences of the traumas of current patriarch Kinzo. The man was emotionally abused while growing up, forced to become the head of the family after practically every other male adult died in the 1928 Tokyo earthquake, and roped into an arranged marriage he disliked and only consummated to get heirs, but none of the children he had with his legitimate wife was good enough to him. It's implied that the man joined the Imperial army during WWII less of a patriotic feeling and more to get away from his wife and children. Abroad he met his true love, but because of the times, he couldn't divorce his wife and had to keep her as his mistress until she died in childbirth. His legitimate children were raised under various levels of parental abuse on his side, having to bear western names, and developed several unhealthy coping mechanisms themselves: Krauss tends to go towards risky business to the point of getting frequently conned, Eva is a perfectionist that tried to compensate not being taken in account due to [[Heir Club for Men]], Rudolph is a womanizer, and Rosa, the most abused child, gets herself involved with unattainable men and abuses her own kid in turn. His grandchildren are slightly better adjusted due to most of them not being outright abused (and the one who actually ''is'' has developed quite creepy coping mechanisms), but they still feel under the heavy eye of their grandfather and their parents' neuroses. {{Spoiler|And let's not talk about how he raised his illegitimate daughter in such a way she never knew Kinzo was her father, so he could sexually abuse her due to her strong resemblance to her mother, and how the child born from that relationship has to be raised hidden from him to avoid getting the same fate...}}
* [[Genre Busting]] - Fantasy? Mystery? One with elements of the other? {{spoiler|Nope! Try "romance with fantastical mystery Jungian-psychological elements".}}
* [[Genre Shift]] - Or so Beatrice would ''like'' you to think as she piles more and more fantastic elements into the murder mystery.
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