This medieval murder mystery is worth it for the nuns’ chemistry

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A couple hours into Misericorde: Volume 1, a murder mystery visual novel set in a convent in England in 1482, the nuns get into an argument about the process of slaughtering ducks for the evening’s supper.

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It’s not exactly a logical argument — at least, not for Flora, who is absolutely just fucking with her fellow nun Eustace. After Eustace assures everyone that she doesn’t find it hard to kill ducks — “They’re not much of a match for me, if I’m being honest” — Flora counters by asking, “How many ducks would it take before you think you’d lose?” And although Misericorde has no voice acting, relying only on black-and-white drawings and art, you can just hear the stubborn this-is-not-a-debate tone in Eustace’s response: “I could defeat every duck. It is simply not a problem for me.”

But it’s not a duck who’s been murdered. It’s the convent’s feistiest free thinker, Sister Catherine, who has just turned up dead. And for at least one of these characters, Catherine was no match for them.

This haunting and occasionally quite humorous (as the duck-killing debate shows) visual novel mainly unfolds through a eyes of the pious, naive Hedwig, who at the outset of Misericorde is the convent’s Anchoress. This means that, by her choice, she’s spent her formative years locked up in a cell, serving as a