Boat Rental
Ace Attorney
You did it, didn't you?
Thief! Thief!
It wasn't me... It wasn't me.
I didn't do it!
Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!
Tell the truth, Phoenix.
But...
Now, apologize to the class.
Turnabout Goodbyes — 1st Trial
Christmas is here again, huh?
Christmas
I hope Santa will bring me a big case...
What are you doing?
I'm training. Isn't it obvious?
I can't say I thought of that, no.
I thought I should train beneath a waterfall for once.
Well, have a good one.
Hey, Nick...
The water pressure's kind of low in this waterfall.
Go down to the fire department and have them spray you with the hose, then.
Oh, I hadn't thought of that!
Earlier this morning, the body of a man shot dead was found in Gourd Lake.
Corpse Found in Gourdy's Lake!
Gourd Lake Relay
A large, unidentified animal was also sighted here recently.
Locals are calling it "Gourdy" in a tip of the hat to Nessie, the Loch Ness monster.
Berry Big Circus
"Gourdy," huh?
Nick...
What's wrong?
The fireman yelled at me.
I'm not surprised.
Breaking news.
Sources inside the police department have revealed that a suspect has been apprehended.
The suspect is Miles Edgeworth, twenty-four,
Miles Edgeworth (24)
a practicing prosecutor.
Edgeworth?!
December 25 Detention Center — Visitor's Room No. 1
What are you doing here?
Edgeworth, tell me what happened.
And what will you do about it?
Let me defend you.
Defend me? You?
Don't be ridiculous. You're a novice who's only been in three trials.
B-But...
Yes, you got lucky and won all three, but your luck's bound to run out some day.
You need real skill. Experience.
Why are we getting lectured here?
Regardless, I don't want you involved in this.
Leave.
No...
Let me just ask you one thing, Edgeworth.
You didn't do it, right?
Right?
Stay out of this case.
He really gets on my nerves!
Acting like he's king! Of his cell, maybe!
Well, that's just how he is.
Why are you so worried about Edgeworth, Nick?
I owe him a lot.
Owe him?
Anyway, let's go check Gourd Lake.
Sure are lots of cops loitering about...
Please call it "investigating."
There are enough of us here! Anyone find anything?
The trial's tomorrow, pal.
We need a lead on the culprit, on the double!
But we already know Edgeworth—
Shaddup!
Eek!
Hello, Detective Suedeshoes...
It's about time, pal!
About time?
You're here to investigate as the defense attorney, right?
I'm here to help with anything you need!
Uh, no, we actually...
Come on, now!
He seems different than usual. I wonder what's up?
Beats me.
I'm so relieved, pal.
No one would agree to take the case, so we were in a spot of bother.
What? Why not?
Mr. Edgeworth is a celebrity, pal.
If you defended him and lost, your reputation would surely suffer.
The case against him is that solid?
The police are convinced he's the killer.
They're not even taking the investigation seriously.
Oh...
But he's got you on his side.
That's better than having nobody, I think.
Ask me anything you want!
It happened last night, a bit after midnight...
Two men were on a boat out on Gourd Lake.
One of those men shot the other with a pistol.
Five minutes later, the police arrived at the scene
and arrested Mr. Edgeworth, whom they found nearby.
How did they get here so fast?
Well, someone called the cops as soon as they saw the murder.
What?
So there was a witness?
Did they see Edgeworth?
Er, sorry, pal...
That's confidential.
If Edgeworth really was on that boat, it doesn't look good for him.
You guys are his last hope, pal!
About that...
He refused to let you defend him?!
"Stay out of this case," he said.
It was basically a threat!
Apparently, he doesn't think I'm much good as an attorney.
That doesn't make any sense, pal!
You should have heard him talking about you after the Steel Samurai case!
Like, "That's Wright. Impressive as always."
He said that?
Please, pal...
Help Mr. Edgeworth out.
Prove that badge you wear isn't just some fancy piece of metal!
Got it.
It's so surprising to hear that he praised you.
What do you think impressed him?
Don't ask me.
Hey, Nick!
Merry Christmas.
Nick, you know Santa?
Don't be ridiculous!
Let's go. Avoid eye contact.
Dude, it's me!
Larry!
Larry?
Whoa, cute.
Who's she, Nick? She's not your...?
Not my... what?
I'm Maya Fey.
I pull the strings at the Wright & Co. Law Offices.
What the heck?
Maya, huh?
Here, have this.
A token of our meeting.
Wow, thanks!
What are you doing here?
Isn't it obvious? I'm working!
Original Samurai Buns
I sell Samurai buns over there.
Look! The Steel Samurai...
It's the real deal!
See? It's a big hit with the young.
Original Samurai Buns
A murder?!
I was here working last night, but I don't know anything...
Hey, Larry...
What's with the scary face?
The suspect in this case is Miles Edgeworth.
Um, Nick?
Why would Larry know Edgeworth?
What? Old Edgey?!
You know him?
Of course.
We were classmates in grade school.
Butz, Wright, and Edgeworth...
The Three Signal Samurai of Class 4-3!
He used to study all the time, trying to "be like Father."
Yeah, his father was evidently pretty famous back then.
Oh, so his father was a prosecutor, too?
Nah, Edgey's pop was a defense attorney.
Huh? That's the total opposite!
Opposite?
He's a prosecuting attorney right now!
Edgey? A prosecutor?
What's up with that, Nick?
Nick?
300 Yen
W-Well, I leave Edgey in your hands...
Did the victim and culprit rent a boat here?
Boat Rental
Larry said we'd find the caretaker here...
Adults: 500 yen Children: 200 yen
Hello?
Looks like nobody's home.
They're supposed to be raking it in now!
What with Gourdy and all, right?
Gourdy? What?
You don't know, Nick?!
A huge, unidentified, mysterious monster!
The last adventure left in the modern age!
It probably doesn't exist.
It totally does!
Look.
There's even a photo.
It's true.
Right?
First Gourdy, now a murder.
Gourd Lake is all the rage right now!
Don't put them in the same boat.
"Gourdy," huh?
The photo in the magazine was taken here, right?
I wish Gourdy would pop out for a sec.
Wow, check out this camera.
This must be a high-sensitivity mic.
It looks like an automatic system for taking a photo when a noise is heard.
Let's see if it works...
Hi, I'm Nick.
Yo, I'm Nick!
Will you stop that? It's embarrassing!
Oh, I know!
Here we go.
Merry Christmas!
Hey, you! Git yer hands offa' that!
What were y'all thinkin', settin' off a party-popper?
Y'all know how much film costs these days?!
Let me tell ya, not every southerner's a cheapskate!
Just 'cause I might be don't mean we all are!
Uh...
What?
That's quite a camera you have.
Y'all know it!
I've programmed it so that it only reacts to bangs like earlier.
Bangs?
Wait, this article says...
"When I took this photo, with the camera set to auto, I heard a bang far away."
Huh...
Experts speculate that it might've been Gourdy's cry.
So you're here for Gourdy?
Ayup.
That dumb couple just happened to take a blurry picture.
They didn't actually see ol' Gourdy.
That's why I've been stakin' out 'ere for three days straight, Christmas or not!
I'll git my hands on this scoop and make a hella lotta dolla!
Make a hella...
...lotta dolla?
Self-Proclaimed Journalist — Lotta Hart
I'm Lotta Hart.
Pleased to meet ya.
Oh, the murder?
I heard a practicin' prosecutor did it?
We don't know for sure that he did it.
Did you see or hear anything last night?
Well, I've been 'ere three days.
I ain't too sure anymore.
Your camera triggers on the sound of loud explosions, right?
Maybe it got a shot of the murder?
I see what yer sayin'...
Let me take a look-see.
That was quick!
The camera took two pictures last night.
The first was a bust, but we hit bingo with the second!
Show us!
Hell, naw.
This is a genuine, big-time scoop!
L-Lotta!
Oh, I reckon I should tell the cops.
The cops?
This photo reminded me...
I saw the murder happen.
When you see a murder, you'd best tell the cops!
It's a civic duty.
Smell y'all later.
Wait, Lotta!
What did you see?
It's a civic duty!
We should visit the police department too.
Detective Suedeshoes might've learned something.
This is the victim's autopsy report, pal.
He was shot at point-blank range and died instantly.
Thank you.
We still haven't identified the victim.
Anyway, we won't get anywhere until he asks us to defend him.
He's hiding something.
It really is him!
Who?
I met him once before, at the office where my sister worked.
The office Mia worked at?
Grossberg's office?
You wanted to ask me something?
Feel free.
I'll help you out however I can.
Thank you.
So, what is it?
Do you know this man?
He was a lawyer in my firm.
But he quit a long time ago.
What was his name?
Robert Hammond.
What about him?
He was found dead in Gourd Lake this morning.
What?
So he's the victim in Miles Edgeworth's case?
Yes.
He killed Hammond?
He didn't do it.
How did it come to this?
Wait, is there a link between Edgeworth and Hammond?
The DL-6 Incident.
DL-6...
I knew it.
"DL-6" is the sorting code the police gave the case.
It was a strange murder case that happened fifteen years ago.
Hammond was the defense attorney for that case.
What does such an old case have to do with Edgeworth?
The murder victim in the DL-6 Incident
was Edgeworth's father.
Gregory Edgeworth. He was a top-class attorney.
Someone shot him to death.
And the young Miles was with him at the time.
What?
Gregory Edgeworth was an excellent lawyer.
He was butting heads with Manfred von Karma, the so-called god of prosecutors.
The murder happened right in the middle of that trial.
He must have died with regrets,
because he was the only one who could go toe-to-toe with Manfred von Karma at the time.
Manfred von Karma...
Edgeworth's death must've come as a shock to von Karma, too.
He even took the next day off.
Really...
That's the only day off Manfred von Karma has taken in his 40-year career.
He must have respected Edgeworth a great deal.
After the murder, he adopted Miles, who had nowhere else to go.
Edgeworth...
Gregory Edgeworth's murder investigation hit a dead end,
but the suspect was later arrested and put on trial.
And Hammond was the one who defended him in court.
His magnificent defense proved his client's innocence,
after which the case went cold.
And it remains unsolved to this day, fifteen years later.
Okay, I get all that.
But I don't see why Edgeworth would kill Hammond.
Hammond ensured that the man who murdered Miles' father walked away scot-free.
It's understandable that he'd hold a grudge against him.
But...
It wasn't only Miles.
That case ruined the lives of many other people.
Including you, Maya, and your sister Mia.
Maya and Mia?
Like I said, the investigation hit a dead end.
In a bid to identify the culprit, the police secretly turned to a spirit medium.
A-A spirit medium? Don't tell me...
Misty Fey. Their mother.
The police channeled Gregory Edgeworth's spirit.
And he identified the man trapped in the elevator with him as the culprit.
In court, Hammond exposed this,
accusing the police of using a fraudulent spirit medium.
Though Misty Fey's channeling was only used as a reference,
and not as evidence in court.
But afterward, society repeatedly labeled her a fraud,
and she disappeared.
That channeling was meant to be secret,
but someone leaked it to the defense.
My sister wanted to learn who it was. That's why she left home and became an attorney.
Forgive me.
I was the one who leaked the information...
To the information-gathering company Bluecorp's CEO, Redd White!
Wait, Redd White?!
He sold the information to Hammond.
And the police were disgraced in a manner that would go down in history.
When White threatened to destroy my firm, I had to obey him!
So Mia came to you, fully aware of all that?
That's right.
She staked all she had to save me...
No, everyone who'd suffered at White's hands.
She did everything she could.
And finally created a list that would expose White's wrongdoing?
Yes, a perfect list.
But due to that, she was killed by White!
Forgive me, Maya!
The women of the Fey family have always been very sensitive to the spirit world.
My mother and sister were no different.
And now, it's up to me alone.
But lately, my powers have grown weaker.
What?
Yes.
I can't even reach my sister anymore.
Is that why you were training this morning?
Maya...
Let's go see Edgeworth again, Nick!
Miles Edgeworth,
you have visitors.
You two are back?
The DL-6 Incident...
Is it related to this case?
You got that far in a matter of hours?
You always were single-minded.
Once you start something, you see it through.
That night, Hammond asked to see me for the first time in fifteen years.
He said he had something to tell me about the case.
Then you really were at the crime scene?
We set out by boat.
But before he told me anything, I heard gunfire.
And next thing I knew, I was alone on the boat.
Who shot him?
I do not know.
I picked up the pistol without thinking.
I really don't want you involved in this case.
It's my problem, and mine alone.
I also want to know the truth behind the DL-6 Incident.
No, I have to know.
Who are you?
My mother's name is Misty Fey.
F-Fey?
Then you're that spirit medium's...
I understand why you don't want anyone touching upon that case.
I felt the same.
But things have changed now.
We have to face the truth, no matter how painful it may be!
Maya...
Nick and Gumtree believe in you from the bottom of their hearts!
So please place your faith in us, too!
Let Nick defend you!
Very well.
It pains me to ask this now,
but would you please defend me?
You can count on me.
Who could have guessed this day would come?
This is my chance to finally repay you.
Repay me? For what?
Never mind. It's okay if you've forgotten.
This will be an uphill battle.
I know.
No, you don't.
You don't know how terrifying the god of prosecutors, Manfred von Karma, is.
Manfred von Karma?!
Wait, your mentor?
In his forty-year career, he has not lost a single case.
He is truly a miracle prosecutor.
Manfred van Karma...
A frightening man who will do anything and everything it takes to win.
Ace Attorney
Objection!
The trial for the Gourd Lake murder begins.
In the defendant's chair is Edgeworth.
I believe in your innocence.
And the prosecutor on this case is Manfred von Karma,
Edgeworth's mentor!
This amazing prosecutor, undefeated for forty years,
drives Edgeworth and me into a corner!
Find the contradictions!
Reach out to the truth!
Next time: Turnabout Goodbyes — 2nd Trial!
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