[ it takes everything for romani to stay absolutely objective during this description. he feels his heart racing again uncomfortably, and that feeling of wanting to scream and curse the entire world for what it has done.

but he doesn’t.

instead he takes a deep breath, and nods. ]

We can probably make a timeline of things, then. Battler entered the Conservatory and was shot in the left lung. He continued trying to advance forward despite it and made it close to the fern, because a shot to the lung isn’t fatal. Then, he was shot again in the other lung and, finally, a point blank shot to the heart that finally killed him. [ .... ] The chess pieces are a message, too. Something like a declaration of victory.