Ace Attorney: Secrets beneath Secrets

The Explosive Turnabout, Part 8

 April 25

Defendant Lobby No. 5

9:15 AM

Lily Shield

The next morning, I shuffled into the defendant lobby while rubbing at my eyes. After dropping by Victoria's visiting cell, we had gotten the chance to talk about everything Prosecutor Daegana had told us about. I was able to rest soon after that since the investigation didn't exactly take over my entire day, but even if I had the ability to rest, I didn't really get the chance to. I found sleep didn't want to come to me when I finally got to lay down, and it was more than annoying, let me tell you. I just wanted the chance to be peaceful, away from the chaos that came with investigating this case.

Everything that had happened was already stressing me out hardcore, though that's probably putting it lightly. I hadn't been able to sleep through the night since the case began, and it was starting to catch up with me. The Cormous thing was not helping at all. It was ridiculous in my opinion. I knew Cormous was bad now, but that didn't do enough to calm my wild mind in its crazy state of consistent imagination. I had come to terms with it, but my subconscious clearly hadn't, and I was losing sleep and my sanity over it.

Yuri came into the defendant lobby soon after, arms crossed over her chest. The pouty expression she wore was one I knew all too well, and I could tell she was not happy with how things had gone the night before. She looked just as tired as I did, if not more so. I felt bad for her, and I told myself that after this case ended, we would have to both take some time to kick back and relax.

"Morning, Lily," Yuri finally grumbled, sitting down on the couch. Well, I say she sat down, but as far as I could tell, it was much more of a flop onto the cushions. She rubbed at her eyes and leaned back against the back area of the couch. To me, it appeared that she would fall asleep if she was left alone for too long, and I prayed that she didn't leave me to deal with this mess alone.

"I don't know what we're supposed to do about this whole situation... I still don't get what we're going to do from here about the Cormous killing Prosecutor Cruz thing. On top of that, we don't know who the culprit is on this current case. They saved so many lives, but they didn't do anything to leave behind clues that would help anybody find out the truth behind their identity," I told her, getting down to business quickly as always.

"The only clue that we've really got here is that Prosecutor Wood has been acting kind of weird lately, but we still don't know why this is... She can't really be a different person, right? Nobody would look that much like her. Even if somebody tried to replace her, would they really look so similar?" Yuri asked.

"I can't help but wonder that too... It's so odd. There's so much going on with this case, and yet, we don't know the answer to one of the most pressing issues that we need to solve if we want to figure this out," I murmured, shaking my head. "There has to be something for us to find somewhere in this case, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it could possibly all mean... I don't know where to go from here, and it's starting to annoy me."

"Well, I don't know what to do about it either, so I guess all we can do is see where the flow of the case takes us. Until then, let's just wait and pray that things go our way. We can't change what happens until we get in there, and it's not like we have any clues as to how we're going to solve it even when we do get in there. It's frustrating," Yuri sighed with a dramatic roll of her eyes. "Deirdre is good with this psychology stuff. Now that we know she's not going to stab us in the back, maybe we could ask her for help on this. She knows about what could possibly make a person change... She didn't seem to have any ideas yesterday, but she might look at things with a new lens today now that she's had some time to sit on it."