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== Story ==
''Umineko no Naku Koro ni'' takes place primarily in the year 1986, during the time frame of October 4 and October 5 on a small, secluded island named {{nihongo|[[Rokkenjima]]|六軒島}} 10 km around owned and lived on by [[Kinzo Ushiromiya|Kinzo]], the head of the wealthy Ushiromiya family. Kinzo is near death, and eight of his family members arrive on the island for the annual family conference, where the adults plan to discuss how Kinzo's assets will be divided once he is dead. Also on the island are three family members who live there, five of Kinzo's servants, and his personal physician. After the eight family members arrive, a typhoon traps them on the island, and shortly after, strange things start to happen and people start dying.
The main character of the story is [[Battler Ushiromiya]], son of Kinzo's second son [[Rudolf Ushiromiya|Rudolf]]. Battler has not been to the annual Ushiromiya conference in six years due to living with his maternal grandparents ever since his mother [[Asumu Ushiromiya|Asumu]] died, and even took his mother's maiden name instead of Ushiromiya. When his grandparents died, he went back to living with his father, his second wife [[Kyrie Ushiromiya|Kyrie]], and their daughter [[Ange Ushiromiya|Ange]], his half-sister. Once on the island, Battler once again becomes acquainted with the legend of the golden witch [[Beatrice]] who supposedly lives in the naturally dense forest on Rokkenjima. A portrait of her lies in the entrance hall of the Ushiromiya family mansion, and a puzzling [[epitaph]] is written below the portrait. Rumor has it on the island that Beatrice gave [[Kinzo's gold|ten tons of gold]] to Kinzo in the past to restart the Ushiromiya family after being crippled in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. It is said that whoever solves the riddle of the witch's epitaph will receive the gold and be the next successor to the Ushiromiya family.
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