Yukoku Roberu Reaches the Trial’s End in Episode 3 of Mahou Shoujo no Majo Saiban

HOLOLIVE — Holostars talent Yukoku Roberu guessed that the signs on two guesthouses in the game had been swapped more than 30 minutes before the story confirmed it, during the third session of his blind playthrough of Mahou Shoujo no Majo Saiban (a mystery adventure whose title translates roughly as Magical Girl Witch Trial) on Wednesday. The stream ran 4 hours 17 minutes and was tagged as containing spoilers.

He opened by warning viewers that his stomach was upset and that he might have to step away during the in-game trial. Episode 3 followed protagonist Emma after a picnic with her friends. In the story, Hanna was found hanged inside a burning guesthouse that had been locked overnight, and security footage showed the room empty when it was locked.

“Episode 3 was hard in a different way.” — Yukoku Roberu, in his closing remarks

Roberu worked through the case alongside the game. Around the 2:50 mark he suggested that the nameplates of two rooms had been exchanged, and at 3:18 he said he had just barely caught up with Emma’s reasoning. At 3:24 the story reached the same conclusion: the two guesthouses, temporary structures, had been swapped as whole buildings. The trial named Sherry as the culprit. She was executed, and the story revealed that she was not a witch and that she had acted on a promise to Hanna.

Chat followed the deduction closely. One viewer wrote “The great detective Roberu has arrived lol” as he floated the idea of a moving house, and another wrote “He passed Emma!” as his theory matched the game’s. After the execution, a viewer asked “Where’s the happy ending...”. Chat peaked at 168 messages in a single minute as the stream closed, mostly thanks for the stream. Two Super Chats came in.

Before the trial began, Roberu took a short break, and chat filled the gap by listing what they were eating. At the close he said episode 2 had been tough and episode 3 hard in a different way, and that he would take episode 4 slowly. He said he would stream again the next afternoon and appear on another talent’s stream that night.