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Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers (TV).

Episode 5The most suspicious one of this episode has been Nachetanya, her ability of controlling blades means she could have done it. She has also shown some weird actions like her sudden "fainting" spell, and her destructive freak-out last episode. Actually makes me think she might be in some way being controlled. Either she is not fully aware she is the fake, or I am sticking with my running theory. Goldov spent some time alone with her, he might have done something to manipulate her, which could have been why she found herself losing control and fainting.

What would M. Night Shyamalan do

What would M. Night Shyamalan do

That's not what happened. He had his back to the door while fighting the guardian armor, as well as standing horrified as the "priestess" turned into a fiend and ran off. Only then did he see the fog beginning to form, turn around, and finally enter the temple. Plenty of time for someone else to enter.

Reveal that everyone was a fake set up from different contingency plans?

As the episode title suggested, Adlet failed to find a theory to convince the others he isn't the traitor they're looking for.

Facts we learnt this episode:

1. Main door or bust. Digging a hole and coming through another way is not possible so Adlet definitely was the first one to go in since the armours attacked him. It is possible for someone to have opened the door before Adlet and then closed it after him, but he couldn't confirm anyone was on the inside since guardians attacked him straight away.

2. The barrier was put up by the previous sage who died 4 years ago.

3. If one of the six braves dies, the sigils of the others will lose a petal to reflect this. Hans doesn't know about this, but that could apply to the others bar Mora.
4. Adlet's childhood makes it extremely unlikely/ virtually impossible he's the traitor.

5. Adlet's hypothesis of an 8th person cannot be proved or disproved at this time, he still has to evade the 5 other pursuers and persuade Fremy of his innocence before he can proceed with his investigation.

My bet is on Mora or Hans. The former held the key to the temple and could conceivably have unlocked the door and closed it after her before Adlet could get in while the latter is the only person skilled enough to sneak around undetected and take advantage of Adlet's fight with the guardian armours and his distraction by the disguised beast.

It *is* possible. It's possible if someone dug most of the way in and then waited until Adlet destroyed the seal, then went the rest of the way. The problem with that is what happened to the hole afterwords.

Maura seems to know more about this than I expected. Hmm...

I already had taken him off my list. That scene just reinforced my decision to do so.

I think Fremy *wants* to be persuaded, and she's rejecting his ideas because she knows they wouldn't convince the others, so that in the long run they wouldn't help Adlet. She's aware, I'm sure, that Adlet could have killed her earlier, and didn't.

They could be working in tandem. Also, what happened to the "fiend" that was outside of the temple, the one that Swamp Girl *said* she killed... the one that shouldn't have been able to be where it was and distracted Adlet, drawing him further away from the entrance of the temple?

Also, we don't know exactly how everyone's powers work. Hans isn't a Saint; he's a ninja, and while he's skilled at skulking around, he can't do magic, so we can at least ball-park what his abilities are (this is true of Goldov as well), but we haven't seen Swamp Girl or Maura use their skills yet, nor do we know if, like Fremy, they can use them in unexpectedly useful ways. I'm pretty certain that whoever is on Team Bad Guys, one of them is a Saint. Maybe Swamp Girl was the "fiend" and can somehow use her powers to change her appearance while her cohort (maybe Maura or Cat Boy) went in while Adlet's back was turned? In this scenario, I am inclined to think Maura went in and activated the seal.

Also, Maura knows both Princess and Swamp Girl because she's in charge of all (known) Saints. I also wouldn't put it past the Princess to be working with someone, though I have to say that after this episode, she's become less suspicious to me... or rather, others are becoming *more* suspicious relative to her. The only one who hasn't really moved around on my suspicion list is Cat Boy and the Princess: Goldov moved up a bit, and so did Swamp Girl, but Maura is now almost level with Princess at the top of my list.

I think we still don't have enough information about the others to work out what happened yet, but the bits of information are starting to come together, especially if there is more than one traitor in the group, which seems increasingly likely to me.