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| title = The Witch of Truth<br \>The Detective<br \>Lady Erika<br \>Commander of the Library Fleet
| class = {{catlink|Human}}<br>{{catlink|Witch|Witches}}
| gender = Female
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| birth month = 10
| height =
| blood = B
| hair = Blue
| eye = Blue
| occupation =
| likes =
| debut = {{end}}
| seiyu = [[Wikipedia:Natsuko Kuwatani|Natsuko Kuwatani]]
| relations =
* [[Bernkastel]] (master)
* [[Dlanor A. Knox]] (furniture, friend)
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* [[Ange Ushiromiya]] (comrade)
* [[EVA-Beatrice]] (comrade)
| quote = This level of reasoning is possible for Furudo Erika. What do you think, everyone?
| quote src = Erika Furudo, {{end}}
| introduction =
{{nihongo|'''Erika Furudo'''|古戸 ヱリカ|Furudo Erika}} is a detective who washes onto [[Rokkenjima]] during the Ushiromiya family meeting of 1986. Erika serves as the primary antagonist of {{end}} and {{dawn}} as well as a secondary antagonist of {{twilight}}.
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Fell from the pleasure boat "Eternal Maid II" mid-cruise in the waters near Rokkenjima.
On October 4, 1986, she drifted to Rokkenjima, and the Ushiromiya family welcomed her as a guest.
She managed to drift to the island unharmed thanks to several miracles, including the fact that she was wearing a life jacket.
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Bernkastel's double and servant. Also a piece who has manifested in the human world.
Because she is human, she cannot use magic and the like. However, she can appeal to Bernkastel on a higher-level plane to obtain miracles and various authorities she can use, so it would probably be no exaggeration to call her a human capable of wielding the power of a witch.
Through Bernkastel, she has been given the detective's authority while on the game board.
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The Witch of Truth (provisional). Is also the detective and one who calls herself an intellectual rapist.
She participates in Battler's game as a player for the human side.
She possesses several skills that qualify her to call herself a detective. These can be acknowledged by Bernkastel and elevated to the level of red truth.
Whether she wins or loses, this will be the last game, and there will be no further use for her.
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The Witch of Truth, who has successfully revived from the depths of oblivion. She is an enigma, a witch who is also a detective and a human.
Once again, she will serve her master Bernkastel in her scheming.
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| background =
Erika claims that, some time in the past, she fell in love with and began dating an unnamed man. Over the course of the relationship however, Erika began gathering evidence that her boyfriend was cheating on her with another woman. Despite only having circumstantial evidence, Erika confronted her boyfriend and he broke up with her. The ordeal sparked an inferiority complex and strong denial of love in Erika that persists throughout ''Umineko no Naku Koro ni''.
In October 1986, Erika falls from the "Eternal Maid II" cruise ship in the storm that envelopes Rokkenjima. As a result, Erika is taken by the sea and washes up on the shore of Rokkenjima.
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Erika appears as a young girl with dark blue eyes and hair, made in [[Bernkastel]]'s image. The elaborate dress she wears actually belongs to Jessica. Despite this, the dress is not imprinted with the [[One-Winged Eagle]] in any visible location. In addition to the pink and white dress, Erika also wears a flower accessory on her head.
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While serving as Commander of the Library Fleet, Erika wears a pirate hat. This hat did not appear in the original visual novel and is only visible in updated sprite sets. The logo on the hat changes between adaptations; in the Alchemist sprite set, the logo is a cat-like jolly roger, in the Pachinko sprite set, the logo is a skull, and in the manga the logo is a combination of a cat, a rose, and a scythe.
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Erika is highly intelligent and possesses a photographic memory. While in public, she maintains a polite appearance and shows interest in little other than mysteries. In reality, however, Erika is ruthless and enjoys solving mysteries only for the pleasure of denigrating those who pose them to her. Her malicious personality is derived from an inferiority complex developed early in her life.
She is particularly attached to [[Dlanor A. Knox]] as she is one of the few people who is kind to her.
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{{plot|end|Erika first appears in {{end}} as a piece made by [[Bernkastel]] to serve as detective. She washes up on [[Rokkenjima]] after falling from a cruise ship in the typhoon surrounding the island. After the events of the first twilight, Erika [[Detective's authority|declares herself as the detective]] and attempts to determine the culprit behind the murders. Using a litany of circumstantial evidence, she determines that [[Natsuhi Ushiromiya]] is responsible, despite Natsuhi's constant protests to the contrary. In the process, she successfully denies the existence of magic altogether, resulting in Beatrice's death.
In the [[End of the Golden Witch/Tea Party|Tea Party]], Bernkastel gives Erika the temporary title of "Witch."
In the [[End of the Golden Witch/????|????]], [[BATTLER]] is given the powers of a witch by [[Lambdadelta]] and challenges Erika, claiming to have a plausible theory to the first twilight wherein Natsuhi is innocent. The two battle using the [[Red Truth]] and [[Blue Truth]], however the battle ends in a draw. Much to Erika's despair, Bernkastel considers this to be a loss.}}
{{plot|dawn|Bernkastel uses Erika again in {{dawn}}, though Erika finds that she is unable to use her previous tricks thanks to BATTLER's changes to the Game Board.
During a conversation with [[Dlanor A. Knox]], Erika reveals the past behind her embittered personality; Erika had come to believe that a previous boyfriend was being unfaithful due to circumstantial evidence. Regardless of his protests, she could not be persuaded otherwise, leading to their break-up. Dlanor attempts to tell Erika that, since humans lack the ability to use something like the [[Red Truth]], she is only hurting herself by attempting to solve human issues with her cold logic. However, Erika refuses to acknowledge this.
After the first twilight, Erika attempts to claim victory for the Human Side without the use of detective's authority. She does this in order to conceal her true plan of forcing BATTLER into making a Logic Error. With the help of Bernkastel and Lambdadelta, Erika tricks BATTLER into allowing her to use three rooms worth of tape seals. Using this, she successfully tricks BATTLER into creating a Logic Error, trapping his soul inside. As a reward for her victory, Bernkastel organizes a wedding ceremony between Erika and BATTLER's soulless body so that Erika can take his [[successor ring]] and become territory lord of Beatrice's Game Boards, allowing her to humiliate BATTLER for the rest of time. During the wedding reception, a reformed [[Beatrice]] crashes the wedding and challenges Erika to a duel.
After losing to Beatrice and BATTLER, Erika is banished to the depths of oblivion, her location known only to Bernkastel.}}
{{plot|twilight|During the Halloween after-party, [[Dlanor A. Knox]] tells [[BATTLER]] of her inability to deliver Erika's invitation due her banishment in ''Dawn of the Golden Witch''. After BATTLER and Beatrice solve the [[final game]], Erika is released from the depths of oblivion. She arrives at the Halloween after-party in time to save [[Ange Ushiromiya]] from a group of [[Goats]].
Some time later, a massive number of Goats begin swarming the island and Erika returns, under Bernkastel's command, to fight BATTLER one last time. After [[ANGE-Beatrice]] defeats [[Beatrice]] in the [[chapel]], Erika leaves the fight with BATTLER. She is later made the Commander of a fleet of ships ridden by countless powerful Goats and is instructed to destroy the [[Golden Land]]. She is briefly stalled by Beatrice, however she eventually succeeds in destroying the Golden Land, defeating Beatrice, and taking her still-beating heart.
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Erika appears in the "Trick" ending after Ange murders [[Juuza Amakusa]] and [[Captain Kawabata]], congratulating her for finding her own truth.
In the [[Twilight of the Golden Witch/Tea Party|Tea Party]], she visits [[Bernkastel]] and [[Lambdadelta]] and receives a letter from [[Dlanor A. Knox]] regarding the well-being of everyone in the Great Court of Heaven. The letter includes a request for Erika to stir up trouble so that Dlanor has something to do besides paperwork.}}
{{plot|Last note of the Golden Witch|Erika makes a brief appearance in {{last note}}, wherein [[Ange Ushiromiya]] theorizes that Erika might be the true identity of [[Piece]].
At the end of the [[Last note of the Golden Witch/Tea Party|Tea Party]], she guides [[Beatrice]], Ange, [[BATTLER]], Piece, [[Bernkastel]], and [[Lambdadelta]] to a tea party being hosted by [[Featherine Augustus Aurora]].}}
If paired with [[Bernkastel/Golden Fantasia|Bernkastel]], the two begin their assault on the Golden Land per ''Twilight of the Golden Witch''. They fight against [[George Ushiromiya/Golden Fantasia|George]] and [[Rosa Ushiromiya/Golden Fantasia|Rosa Ushiromiya]] and later fight against [[Beatrice/Golden Fantasia|Beatrice]] and [[Battler Ushiromiya/Golden Fantasia|Battler Ushiromiya]] for their final stage.
If paired with [[Ange Ushiromiya/Golden Fantasia|Ange Ushiromiya]], the two vow to carve their own truth per the "Trick Ending" of ''Twilight of the Golden Witch''. They fight against [[EVA-Beatrice/Golden Fantasia|EVA-Beatrice]] and [[Chiester 410/Golden Fantasia|Chiester 410]] and later fight against [[Beatrice/Golden Fantasia|Beatrice]] and [[Battler Ushiromiya/Golden Fantasia|Battler Ushiromiya]] for their final stage.
If paired with [[Dlanor A. Knox/Golden Fantasia|Dlanor A. Knox]], Erika concludes that Natsuhi Ushiromiya is the culprit per ''End of the Golden Witch'' and attempts to prove that no other explanation is possible. They fight against [[Beatrice/Golden Fantasia|Beatrice]] and [[Battler Ushiromiya/Golden Fantasia|Battler Ushiromiya]] and later fight against [[Shannon/Golden Fantasia|Shannon]] and [[Jessica Ushiromiya/Golden Fantasia|Jessica Ushiromiya]] for their final stage, during which Jessica uses her alternate sprite set.}}
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*In {{end}}, Erika says "My little gray cells are itching to get started", likely a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Agatha Christie|Agatha Christie]] detective [[Wikipedia:Hercule Poirot|Hercule Poirot]] who frequently refers to his "little gray cells".
*Erika's name and appearance bear great similarities to [[Rika Furude]] from {{higurashi}}.
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*Erika has a photographic memory.
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| source = umineko
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