Ace Attorney: Secrets beneath Secrets

The Explosive Turnabout, Part 3

April 23

Detention Center

2:45 PM

Yuri Rinko

When Lily and I arrived at the detention center, we were met by the rest of our law agency, or at least what was left of it. Deirdre was sitting in the chair facing Victoria, who was on the other side of the glass. Mr. Morix was standing up against the wall with his arms crossed, and Chrysalis was at his side. They all stared at Victoria, who was rubbing tearfully at her eyes. None of them were saying anything, but Victoria looked up with a small yet weary smile upon realizing that Lily and I had arrived.

"So, how did it go?" Chrysalis asked. She had noticed we were present without looking away from Victoria.

"We found quite a bit," Lily said with a small smile. "I'm happy to say that our investigation went rather well. I hope that you all had just as much luck as we did, if not more."

"I'm afraid not," Mr. Morix sighed, shaking his head. "We searched every inch of the Prosecutor's Office we thought would help us out, and we didn't find anything that would lead us to the one that killed Prosecutor Cruz. The case is as good as dropped at this point in favor of figuring out the truth behind the newer murder."

"The details on that case were scarce to begin with, so it doesn't surprise me that everybody decided to give up. I know that sounds rather pessimistic, but it's true... I'm just glad that you guys at least had some form of success," Chrysalis murmured, shaking her head. I could tell that she was holding back more than a few foul words dedicated at the universe as a whole. "But enough about our investigation. We didn't find anything, so we're relying entirely on what you three found out."

"Well, we wound up talking to a few people that I'm sure you'll find interesting. We found Prosecutor Daegana, first of all. He told us that one Prosecutor Wood was where we'd find answers regarding the case, and we went to her next. She told us that she doesn't remember anything from the time of the murder despite being there. She was meant to be at the trial, but she wasn't, and she fell unconscious at some point around the time the murder took place. Later in the day, she woke up, and she was in a completely different part of the office. That was about the time that the murder was discovered," Lily explained.

"You'll have to start from the beginning there. If I was taking any mental notes, they just imploded from how fast you were going," Chrysalis said dryly, though I could tell the tension in her voice came from thinking about the potential traitor in our little group. After all, she had the most to lose if the traitor decided to mess around and harm people in the agency. It came with the territory of being a spy.

"Okay. So, we started off by talking to Prosecutor Daegana. If you ask me, we probably weren't much more successful than you were. We heard quite a bit about your progress during your trial while we were sitting in, and we got the feeling that he was always a mysterious character who didn't say much of anything unless somebody tried to force it out of him. Even then, that isn't a guarantee of success," I started off. "He really didn't give us much information to go off, but he said that we should go and talk to Prosecutor Wood."

"So, we did. We found her pacing around in a hallway on one of the upper floors of the Prosecutor's Office. She told us what had happened around the time of the murder. She was on her way out to go and visit the trial that you two were taking care of earlier in the day, but she was running a little bit behind. On the way out, she ran into the crime taking place, and she passed out as a result. When she came to, she was on a different floor of the office, her jacket was gone, and the body had been discovered. She has no idea what happened in the time that she was unconscious," Lily kept saying.