Erika Furudo

Erika Furudo 古戸 ヱリカ
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Character Information
Classification	Human Witch
Title	Witch of Truth
Also Known As	Lady Erika
Gender	Female
Hair Color	Blue
Eye Color	Blue
First Appearance	End of the Golden Witch
Portrayed By	Natsuko Kuwatani
Relationships	Bernkastel (master) Dlanor A. Knox (furniture, friend) Cornelia (furniture) Gertrude (furniture) Battler Ushiromiya (ex-husband, friend, enemy) Beatrice (friend, enemy)

This level of reasoning is possible for Furudo Erika

—Erika Furudo, End of the Golden Witch

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 of the Golden Witch and Dawn of the Golden Witch.

Profile

Background

Erika claims to have gone through college in Japan, during which she fell in love and began dating an anonymous 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.

Appearance

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.

When Erika marries Battler she wears a traditional white bridal gown and white gloves though the One-Winged Eagle is visible on the headdress and on the waist of the dress.

Personality

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.

Plot

End of the Golden Witch

Erika first appears in End of the Golden Witch 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.

Dawn of the Golden Witch

Bernkastel uses Erika again in Dawn of the Golden Witch, 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 for Erika and BATTLER's soulless body so that Erika can take his successor ring and become territory lord of Beatrice's Game Boards and 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.

Twilight of the Golden Witch

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 solving the final game, Erika is released from the depths of oblivion. After the Goats begin swarming the island, she appears to fight BATTLER one last time.

Trivia

• In End of the Golden Witch, Erika says "My little gray cells are itching to get started", likely a reference to the Agatha Christie detective Hercule Poirot who frequently refers to his "little gray cells".
• Erika's name and appearance bear great similarities to Rika Furude from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni.
• Though unseen, Erika has a family as mentioned in End of the Golden Witch.
• Erika was originally supposed to appear in Land of the Golden Witch as a man named Virgilius. Once Land of the Golden Witch was scrapped, the name was given to Virgilia and his personality was given to Erika. This is further revealed in Last note of the Golden Witch.
• Erika's outfit was taken from a Gothic & Lolita Bible fashion magazine.
• Erika is fluent in English.
• Erika has a photographic memory.