Alright, so the Answer Arc of the story will officially begin now. It took a bit longer than I would have liked, but it's done. I did say sometime this week, though. Granted it was at the end of the week but whatever.

The first major story arc will see (most) of its resolution in this chapter, but the remainder of the answer arcs will be written slightly differently from this one. Since the first chapter had many more holes within it than the rest of the main chapters, the remainder of the arcs will be focused more primarily on moving the story onward.

Also, I didn't make mention of this the first time I did this, but Umineko EP8 spoilers will be present in the coming chapter. I tried to be as light on details as I could.

So, without any further delay, the answers to the first few short stories. Are any of these predictable? Sort of, but some of the details are a tad over the top.

Bio-Study-Operation-Observation 03 : Subject ACER-2149825497

As I am submitting these relatively out of order, it goes without saying that I will not be playing the role of the satirical doctor in these reports. I have already done so, and the upper staff of the medical wards has received the material as requested. These reports, however, will be sent directly to the High Council of the SSVD.

I will now do as requested and analyze the Unreliable Narrator's tales and, with my lesser form of stating the truth that the majority of the High Council has bestowed upon me for the duration of this exercise I shall reveal the true nature of said tales. I will be as critical as I am expected to be.

We shall begin with the Double Demon Chapter.

The main source of unreliability in this story was the very end of the tale. It goes somewhat without saying that Mion's explanation for why she swapped identities with her sister was severely fabricated. The unreliable narration in this sense was that this statement was presented as fact. I am not pleased with how relatively easy it was to determine that. I must punish my rival for that.

But you have heard it here first. The meaning of their transition from one identity to the other is not a vital factor in the user defined truth, as the one who is aware of the user defined truth has essentially confirmed it herself.

In the end, Mion's lie drove Keichi to act against Shion. But surely poor Keichi would have been smart enough to not give into her lies and perhaps believe in the love he once had for Shion.

But in fact he never loved her, in all practicality. For after all someone in this story had to have the syndrome, as it was dictated. And certainly it would seem that Satoko is the one who is on the verge of obtaining the syndrome, but has yet to act upon it.

Therefore, one of the people who killed must have been the one.

It was in fact Shion.

For in her grief over Satoshi, a reason why she would be motivated to kill in many a fragment, she nearly killed Keichi himself.

And he simply loved her in Satoshi's place for the sake of keeping himself alive.

Teppei's life was lost because of this. Because Teppei needed to die in order for Shion to preserve Satoko and therefore preserve her promise with Satoshi and therefore preserve herself.

Keichi went along with it all, and went as far as making himself believe he was really in love with her.

And therefore making Mion believe the same thing. Although there isn't enough to go off of to tell me if she was aware of her sister's situation or not. But Keichi didn't seem to care all that much. It didn't matter to him in the end. He was simply more interested in being able to casually fornicate with the Sonozaki sibling whenever he wished to.

Indeed, Keichi is quite the bastard.

As for the Rika of this tale?

She isn't important. She simply sets things in motion. She can easily be represented by anything, really. Even myself, as a matter of fact.

We shall now proceed with the Jade Jealousy Chapter.

This story was rather on the short side, yet it condensed a very specific series of events into a scenario with no dialogue. I will therefore explain essentially every aspect of this tale. This will also serve to explain just how tremendously the Hinamizawa Syndrome can alter the events of these stories.

Of course, Mion Sonozaki never was pregnant to begin with. In fact, her grandmother's "outrageous" plan was in itself a fabrication, as her grandmother outright forbade her from falling in love with Keichi. Mion continued to pursue him, twisting her grandmother's orders into a completely different command. In a single night she realized that Keichi was not in love with her, but rather with the petite- and far too young- shrine maiden, Rika Furude. Realizing that she had failed herself in the worst way imaginable, she snuck into Keichi's home one evening and forced herself on him. In order to save his dear friend, who he knew was already knee deep in the so called Hinamizawa Syndrome, he had sex with her. He gave in to her demands and allowed her to spend the night with her.

The following day Mion took a pregnancy test, and instead of the negative result that the test displayed, the Syndrome twisted the result to be positive. Mion consciously knew that the result was false. She even tried to reach for help at the last second, once she realized she was under the effects of the Syndrome- she visited Rika at the shrine, but at that point the disease had overtaken her completely. Rika knew that the disease had taken over Mion, but knowing what the end result would be regardless of whether or not she tried to stop it she let Mion go.

Rena, on the other hand, was completely clueless. She took Mion's words as fact. Mion's sickened ranting drove her beyond the borderline and if Mion had not acted first, Rena would have been the one to kill. Rena went into a depression of her own and eventually it came to the point where she resorted to masturbation to satisfy herself. A fitting end to such a fool, despite a fool who fell to the deadly Syndrome.

At the point where Shion found out, she assumed that her sister had been under the impression that Keichi had wanted a child. Thus, she told her to wait a certain amount of days before telling him. But in that period of time Keichi decided to tell Shion, and only Shion about Mion's condition. The two kept it a secret until, they agreed, that Mion's condition could be more accurately described than simply "The Hinamizawa Syndrome," which may or may not have even existed in the first place. These discussions about her condition took place in Shion's room, which Mion's diseased mind translated to the two having sex.

The following day when Mion told Keichi she was pregnant, Keichi believed her. He had been dreading such a statement, but he couldn't believe that she would have become pregnant in a single night. Shion's confession? A total fabrication. Mion had driven herself to the point where even if Keichi wasn't present in their house to check on her she would still hear them in the opposite room.

But the catalyst for that was, of course, her catching them in the act. In a twist of fate, Keichi had been leaving Shion room when he accidentally tripped and fell on top of her. It was an embarrassing moment, but one that Mion witnessed and twisted into them having sex.

In the end, the Angle Mort women were speaking of an unimportant man named Daisuke Ono, who had been dating several women left and right, most of which having been working at Angel Mort. But Mion of course misinterpreted it. Why was she there in the first place? Shion had caught wind of the Yamainu plot to kill Keichi and had moved the boy into her room. Mion needed to be gone while this event took place.

As for Rena? She was simply taunting Mion out of her own disgust. But that got her killed.

Mion then killed poor innocent Keichi while he was packing his things.

And then her sister, who she mutilated out of her own sorrow.

A very dark story indeed.

So was poor Keichi completely innocent in all of this?

Absolutely not.

Because the Keichi with a single 'i' in his name never is. That is a granted fact of any and all of the Unreliable Narrator's stories.

I myself am not fully sure of the implications behind the slight spelling change and what said spelling change represents, but it certainly holds some merit. Believe me, "I" would know.

Hm…That wasn't all that funny, now was it?

We shall now move onto the last tale of this report, and far and away the most controversial of them, the Suspicious Fragrance Chapter.

This tale all on its own is a red herring. The details as presented in this story are primarily of the magic variety. Witches and demons and all the like simply can't exist, right?

But that aside, the story of Rika's rise to power through becoming drunk on Bernkastel wine made way for a tale that was all essentially falsehood.

But it's strange. This was one of the few tales that alludes to Miyo Takano as the driving force behind the disaster.

But is that even important in the end?

Well, from the perspective of the End Dreamer, it is.

After all, he should have found the solution very early on in that case.

Or perhaps he was more concerned with who he was rather than how everyone died.

There is, however, a very small detail hidden in this chapter.

It's a very small line, regarding one of the Sonozaki twins.

Now go and find it, and perhaps you can piece together the common theme in these stories.

And then you will hopefully have everything you need to determine an aspect of the true Hinamizawa of this fragment.