At the climax of Requiem of the Golden Witch, Clair and Willard have one final battle against each other after she finishes her story. Though Will was not the person she wanted to understand her, she accepts him to be the one that finally kills her. The battle consists of Will solving all four of Beatrice's games and her final question of "Who am I?". Willard's answers are all extremely vague and are mainly just extra hints for the reader to solve the murders on their own. The manga goes more in-depth however and shows Will's thoughts as he solves each murder which reveals the true way the murders were carried out.
This page documents the exact words from the games, the manga, and the light novel when applicable. For elaborations, please check the Solution page of each of the first four episodes.
Legend of the Golden Witch[]
Mystery: First game, first twilight, six corpses in the garden shed.
Illusions to illusions. ...The corpse that cannot return to earth returns to illusions.
Manga answer: Eva and Hideyoshi were bought off by the true culprit. The sixth body was a lie.
First game, second twilight. Two corpses are close in a closed room protected by a chain.
Illusions to illusions. ...A chain of illusions can only trap illusions.
Manga answer: To provide a concocted story, the servants conspired from the start. The chain was never in place.
First game, fourth twilight. The old Head from the closed room study, confined in a scorching furnace.
Illusions to illusions. ...Let the man of illusions go to where he belongs.
Manga answer: Before the game started, Kinzo was already dead.
First game, fifth twilight. The last moments of the sacrificed boy with a stake in his chest.
Illusions to illusions. ...The witch and stake of illusions can pierce naught but illusions.
Manga answer: Nanjo checked the body, but he was a conspirator. Kanon's death was all an act.
First game, sixth, seventh, and eighth twilights. Three corpses lying in the closed room of the singing girl.
Illusions to illusions. ...Illusions are the blind girl's song. Illusion of a closed room.
Manga answer: Maria's testimony matched what the culprit told her. The culprit had the key.
The light novel adds an additional section regarding Natsuhi's death. (Translated by Pteryon.)
First game, ninth twilight. Death of the noble woman who faced a duel with a gun in hand.
Earth to earth. ......A melody of overlapping murderous intent. Only a single deadly bullet was fired.
Turn of the Golden Witch[]
Second game, first twilight. The six with their stomachs split in the closed room chapel.
Illusions to illusions. ...The gold truth locks the lock of illusions.
Manga answer: Rosa was bought off. All the servants and Nanjo are co-conspirators. The lock on the door was an agreed-upon story.
Second game, second twilight. The two who are close cannot even be close as corpses.
Illusions to illusions. ...Illusions who have fulfilled their role do not even leave a corpse behind.
Manga answer: Kanon's body does not exist.
Second game, fourth, fifth, and sixth twilights. In Natsuhi's closed room, none are left alive.
Earth to earth. ...No one would dispute that a coffin is a closed room.
Manga answer: Shannon killed Gohda, then George, and then committed suicide.
Second game, seventh and eighth twilights. The two sliced to death by the red-eyed illusion.
Earth to earth. Illusions to illusions. ...No illusion can create a corpse.
Manga answer: The one who killed them was Genji.
Banquet of the Golden Witch[]
Third game, first twilight. Six corpses connected by the linked closed rooms.
Illusions to illusions. ...In the closed room ring, the end and the beginning overlap.
Manga answer: Shannon orchestrated a string of murders and locked rooms. The first body found in the string was false. When the coast was clear, Shannon became Kanon to falsify another death in the chapel.
Third game, second twilight. The corpses of mother and child lay together in the rose garden.
Earth to earth. ...No falsehoods in their final moments as told.
Manga answer: Eva murdered Rosa. When Maria raised a fuss, she was strangled.
Third game, fourth, fifth, and sixth twilights. Three corpses lying in the mansion.
Earth to earth. ...No falsehoods in their final moments as told.
Manga answer: Eva and Hideyoshi were bought off. They suspected Hideyoshi. In the mansion, he killed Rudolf and Kyrie. Kyrie did not die instantly. She killed Hideyoshi.
Third game, seventh and eighth twilights. The corpses of husband and wife lay exposed under the arbor.
Earth to earth. ...The obvious culprit wields a mutable blade.
Manga answer: They were killed by Eva.
The light novel adds an additional section regarding Nanjo's death. (Translated by Pteryon.)
Third game, ninth twilight. The Golden Witch who attacked the pleading old doctor.
Earth to earth. ......The true culprit who started moving again. It was impossible for the injured girl to observe their appearance.
Alliance of the Golden Witch[]
Fourth game, first twilight. A massacring storm sweeps through the dining hall.
Illusions to illusions. ...Tales woven by the gold truth return to illusions.
Manga answer: Every person apart from Battler was bought off. The "otherworldly beings" were a fiction agreed upon by the conspirators.
Fourth game, second twilight. The two youths face their trials and pass away together.
Illusions to illusions. ...Tales woven by the gold truth return to illusions.
Manga answer: They were merely acting in accordance with the script.
Fourth game, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth twilights. None of the runaways are left alive.
Earth to earth. Illusions to illusions. ...Silent corpses, adorned by fiction.
Manga answer: The demons and witches are all false testimony. The bodies say nothing.
Fourth game, ninth twilight. And none shall be left alive.
Earth to earth. Illusions to illusions. ...When fiction is shut up inside a cat box, it becomes truth.
Manga answer: There are no survivors left to deny the witch's fantasy.
Final Question[]
Who am I?
Illusions...to illusions. ...The promised reaper lowers the curtains on the tale regardless of the witch's will.
Manga answer: That specter of death is me.