Stephen Tsai wrote:

Scott Schimmel writes:

Is Kazuya reading people's minds as he "scans the crowd" or is he
relying on facial expression?  If the former, surely Kazuya would
sense all this unbridled emotion.

Good point; I overlooked that.  But I think it can be easily
explained:  If he was using telepathy, and someone noticed (remember,
the entire house is full of Espers), that would give away his game; so
he can't use it.  In fact, that helps explain why he's so nervous,
too.  He's used to relying on telepathy, and now he has to do without
it.

But he did exactly this (use telepathy) at the wedding and that
room was also full of ESPers.

Madoka will never know about Kurumi's hypnosis; once it wears off, the
victim doesn't remember anything that happened under it.

Whether she remembers Kazuya's manipulation is still an open question.
For the sake of her mental health, I'd hope not. ^_^

>From what Lawson said in his reply, Kurumi's hypnosis isn't
going to be wearing off anytime soon for Madoka's
sake.

Where's Takashi in all this?  No, he's not an ESPer, but he knows the
family and their respective personalities as good as anyone.  What's
more, at least in the anime, he (along with Manami) was always the calm
and rational influence in the family.

Takeshi has been conspicuously absent throughout.  I wondered if there
might not be an explanation early in chapter 3.

I seem to remember him with about 2 lines in Chapter 1
(he woke up Kazuya (in Kyosuke's body) and told him not
to be late to the wedding).

The only thing I'd bring up at this point is that it seems that Kazuya
(assuming he doesn't win completely) seems destined to be doomed to
die.

Sure does.  More likely than not at the hands of his own family
members. ^_-

Maybe from a Japanese point of view.  I just finished
reading a newspaper article about a guy who's been
sentenced to die for being a bad guy (murder, etc), and
his family were still begging to spare his life.

Human nature is human nature.  But were his family his victims?

It'll be tough to see just how impartial the Kasuga
family really is with regard to ESPer power abuse.

My guess is...pretty impartial, when it involves using ESPer powers to 
leave another family member to be tortured and murdered.