Phoenix: Your Honor!
Judge: Y-yes, Mr. Wright?
Phoenix: The testimony just now has cleared up this entire case!
Judge: What do you mean, Mr. Wright!?
Karma: Tsk tsk tsk… So, you’ve finally realized the truth? There can be no other murderer here than Miles Edgeworth himself.
Phoenix: Wrong, von Karma! A man was shot that night, but it wasn’t Edgeworth who did the shooting!
Karma: Listen, rookie. Take a deep breath, and consider the facts. At the time of the murder, one boat was on that lake. This was shown by the witness’s photograph. The defendant, Edgeworth, and the victim, Robert Hammond were on the boat. There was a gunshot fired on that boat, and Robert Hammond fell into the lake. The distance of the shooting was one meter. It couldn’t have been suicide! Well? The guilty party has to be the other man on that boat!
Judge: I admit, it is hard to imagine any other possibility.
Phoenix: Yes… But this assumes that the victim was shot at 15 minutes after midnight.
Judge: … What do you mean by that, Mr. Wright? We have photographic evidence of the time of the shooting. The timestamp on the photo says 00:15.
Phoenix: But Larry heard a gunshot 25 minutes before that! Robert Hammond was killed then! 25 minutes before the shot on the lake! ‘That’s the only way that Edgeworth could be innocent!’
Judge: …
Karma: … Mr. Wright. Are you quite mad? Explain who the two men on the boat are!
Phoenix: Of course, it was Edgeworth and the murderer! After the murderer killed Robert Hammond at 11:50… He assumed the guise of Mr. Hammond and met Edgeworth!
Judge: Wh… What!? Are you serious?
Phoenix: Yes. Edgeworth won’t tell us why he went to the lake that night. However, I have a hunch. That night, Robert Hammond called Edgeworth to the lake. Now, Edgeworth didn’t know Robert Hammond’s face that well. That’s why he didn’t suspect anything when the murderer took Robert Hammond’s place!
Judge: … I’m not sure what to make of all this.
Karma: L-Ludicrous!
Judge: Mr. Wright. Tell us the name of the murderer then!
Phoenix: The murderer's name…? Right! … Actually, I don’t know the murderer’s name.
Judge: Y-you don’t know!?
Karma: Bah! Again, you waste my time!
Phoenix: I don’t know because he never told us!
Karma: …!
Phoenix: The murderer is the caretaker of the boat shop, that old man! At 11:50, he was the one who killed Robert Hammond.
Judge: The caretaker of the boat shop!? Wh-where did he do this!? There weren’t any boats on the lake then!
Phoenix: Why would he have to go all the way out on the lake just to shoot someone? May I suggest… That the real scene of this crime was not on a boat!
Judge: What!? W-well then, where did the murder take place!?
Phoenix: Here, of course! The boat shop, where he lives. That way he could meet with the victim without anyone seeing!
Karma: Objection! Do you have proof that the boat shop was the scene of the crime!?
Phoenix: Recall Larry’s testimony if you will. That night he was out on the lake in a boat, searching for something. He finds it, and returns the boat. Then, just as he’s starting to head for home, he hears a gunshot! He heard a gunshot, Your Honor! Even though he was wearing headphones at the time! In other words, the gunshot was very, very close by! And where would that be if he had just returned a boat?
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Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney X Male Oc Book 1
FanficThis is the story of Ryan Kagura, a brand new defense attorney who joins Wright & Co. Law Offices during a case. And right after that he learns how to fight for his innocent clients in a court of law. Games included: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney ...
