Talk:Shoji Kubodera/@comment-72.35.103.60-20141119060120/@comment-397235-20141121014105

I hadn't thought of that, but you're right...at least in the anime. The novel does things differently:

All the people who died at the Inn, with the exception of Izumi, died alone, and even then, Kouichi wasn't really with her so much as he happened to witness her demise from a distance.

Manabu Maejima was mortally stabbed while he was alone, though he died with Kouichi.

It's not clear where Shigeki Yunemora was killed; all the novel says is he was found in the front yard with Izumi and Manabu, which suggests he either tried to crawl away or someone dragged his body outside (since Izumi was blown out the window by the explosion, we know how she got there).

Takako Sugiura is specifically stated to have been killed in her room (which is, on some level really sad; I've always assumed she was the first person Keiko offed, since she seems to have claimed the rest of her young victims as they were trying to flee the Inn).

Junta Nakao was killed on the second floor, the same place where Izumi and Takako were staying. Given his infatuation with the former he may have been going to see her, or he just as easily may have heard Keiko killing Takako and tried to intervene; however, since he was killed in the hallway the two weren't together when they died.

Considering the anime killed the students together, it kind of fits back into my theory the Calamity is doing this all on purpose. I mean, it sent both Takako and Yumi over the edge by killing people they loved in front of them (and Tomohiko at least paid lip service to Yukari as he murdered his way through the Inn), so the odds are it may have been trying to see who else it could drive into homicidal despair. Death is kind of a greedy bastard.