Counterpoint: That is demonstrably not how Ryukishi uses red. “Dead” doesn’t mean dead, so “corpse” might just mean “body,” which is a perfectly valid definition that just happens to not speak to the biological life-or-death status. It’s cheesy to twist things this way but it’s inescapably how it was used in several cases. The whole house of cards never stood up in the first place. The whole point of Red vs. Blue was to mislead you. At no point were either actually helping Battler (or you).