Ace Attorney: Secrets beneath Secrets

The Explosive Turnabout, Part 6

April 24

Prosecutor's Office

12:10 PM

Yuri Rinko 

When we got back to the Prosecutor's Office, I immediately learned that the body we had spent so much time looking into the day before was now gone, though I couldn't really tell you where it had gone... However, when I realized that nobody at the scene of the crime was panicking, it became clear to me that the forensics team had probably taken it to do their next step of investigating. It felt odd to see so much blood on the floor with no source in sight, but that was probably for the best since I didn't think I wanted to see a body that was starting to decompose... In fact, that just sounded straight up terrifying, so it's definitely best that they took the corpse away.

Lily didn't seem to know what we wanted to do after we arrived either. We had to investigate to see if we could find out more about the unconsciousness situation involving Prosecutor Wood, but I don't think either one of us really knew where to start. I knew for sure that I was as good as clueless on the matter. Unless she had some sort of miraculous idea, then all we could do was wander around and pray that we found something that would wind up being helpful to us in the long run, which was nowhere near being an effective way to carry out a murder investigation, as I'm sure you would imagine.

"Maybe we should try and find Prosecutor Wood again," Lily finally suggested. "I can't think of much else for us to do... If she's going to be the main person we're cross-examining tomorrow, we might as well see if she's remembered anything since we first met up with her, even if I highly doubt that'll be the case."

"Prosecutor Daegana might have something to help us out with finding the truth. After all, he was at the scene of the crime... He saw Victoria with the body. Besides, with how fishy he's been behaving, he has to be hiding something, and the sooner we can figure out what that something is, the better. It will help us out for sure," I said.

"Speaking of Prosecutor Daegana, there he is," Lily told me, suddenly much quieter. She pointed over my shoulder to a figure walking silently through the area.

"He was so quiet that I didn't even realize he was there," I admitted, shaking my head. "Let's go and talk to him. He's not going to be getting away with this when he's hiding something from us."

Lily and I walked slowly over to Prosecutor Daegana, and he stopped when we got near him. "What is it that you want?" he asked, not even bothering to turn and face us. It seemed that he was much better at staying quiet than we would ever be, which didn't surprise me. He had much more to hide than us, so of course he would need to know how to go unnoticed.

"We want to talk to you about what happened at the time of the crime," I replied, frowning deeply. "We aren't going to let you get away this time, you know. You may have gotten away with not telling us much last time we talked, but that's not going to be happening again. We want to know everything that you know."

Prosecutor Daegana paused, thinking about something, before speaking again. He was much softer than I originally anticipated. "Do you really think the victim is the one who planted the bomb?" he asked. I could hear the frown in his voice, even if his mask was in the way of me seeing his actual face.

I looked to Lily, and we met eyes for a moment. As much as we hated to admit it, the possibility that Cormous had planted the bomb was seeming much more plausible than we had expected in the beginning. We looked back to Prosecutor Daegana and nodded in sync.

Prosecutor Daegana hesitated for a moment, looking downwards, before gesturing for us to follow him. He took us to the elevator, and we went up a few floors until we were on the same level as his office. He led us into his office, and he opened the door easily before gesturing for us to enter once again.