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>>6868338

I thought Higurashi's "happy ending" was an implausible pile of ass and fail. I don't want a happy ending, unless it comes as a natural side effect of what I really want: an ending that makes some damn sense and doesn't insult my intelligence.

Some conditions:

- There are no wordplays or "gotcha!"s in the red text. Everything means exactly what it says in the dictionary.
- Imaginary friends or alternate personalities do NOT count as "people" for the purposes of red text.
- The motive does not require the culprit to be a damn lunatic on the Joker level.
- The mystery does not require people to ignore the fact that there's a fucking servant with sixteen to twenty-three alternate personalities.
- It will be, at least in theory, solvable based on the clues shown without intergalactic leaps of logic.