This is really interesting to me because like…I’ve always been under the impression that the message bottles and forgeries alike never touched on any of the stuff that goes on in the meta world proper. To use EP2 as an example: stuff like the stakes and goats appearing on the game board were probably written in the bottle, but not stuff about Battler meeting Beato, starting the game, and dueling over it with red text.
And yet this tea party almost comes off as though someone is writing it down. Someone is actively disparaging Battler in the narration, deliberately drawing attention to how foolish he is for refusing the magic of the witch in favor of his baseless human arguments. One could almost believe this was part of the EP1 message bottle, just a part of the fantasy written by Yasu herself, if not for the later revelation (EP8 manga) that the stuff that happens on the higher plane, outside the game board, is happening in the afterlife as Beato tries to get the post-Prime Battler to recover his memories.
“But Esjitu”, you say, “this was probably before Ryukishi ironed out those details that came later, since there’s clearly at least some elements of Chiru that he probably hadn’t planned from the start.”
And I say, from a real-world perspective, you’re probably right.
But from an in-universe perspective, consider this: if this tea party is part of that higher world – which it must be since it directly leads into their game that begins in EP2 – then that means Beatrice can’t possibly be writing it. If it’s being written by anybody, that somebody must exist on an even higher level than Beatrice herself.
And we do know somebody like that……don’t we………
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