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The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures
(aka: Dai Gyakuten Saiban Naruhodou Ryuunosuke No Bouken)

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    The Adventure of the Great Departure 

In a changing Japan, a young student finds himself on trial for murder, and in the process, seems to discover his destiny.

Trial, Part 1

The nation of Japan is experiencing all sorts of changes as the Meiji era comes into swing. At the La Carneval restaurant, a gunshot rings out, and a gentleman slumps dead in his chair. As the authorities arrive, Ryunosuke Naruhodo, Yumei University student and ancestor to the Ace Attorney Phoenix Wright, stands at the table the victim is sat at, a revolver in his hand.

Three days after the murder, Ryunosuke is waiting in a defendant's antechamber at the Supreme Court of Judicature. He is still in a state of shock over what he's gotten into, but he isn't alone: he has Kazuma Asogi, his lawyer and best friend, at his side. Kazuma advises Ryunosuke to keep calm, as he is certain of his friend's innocence. Ryunosuke thinks back to three days prior, as he and Kazuma were talking at the restaurant. Kazuma's academic and legal skills had paid off , and he had just been accepted into a program to study the law abroad, soon to travel to the city with the most advanced legal system in the world, London. With luck, he will be able to bring back what he observes and bring about change in Japan's legal system. Kazuma left to handle his business, and soon after, the murder occurred.

As Ryunosuke finishes his reflections, the two are approached by Kazuma's professor Yujin Mikotoba and a young woman at his side. The professor states he is there for personal reasons and advises Kazuma to go to the judge's chambers, as Kazuma's sudden choice for defense has brought some confusion to the procedures. The young woman says she shall join him, leaving Ryunosuke to speak to Yujin alone. Yujin explains that he is a professor of forensic medicine and has been helping push for Kazuma to study abroad. As such, Kazuma's study program is at risk if he fails to prove Ryunosuke innocent, and that the trial will have its own “peculiarities” that will become clear once proceedings begin. Yujin advises that Ryunosuke is to answer “I do” when the judge asks a certain question before anyone else can answer it. With that, the bailiffs call him to the courtroom ,as the trial is about to begin. With time cut short, Yujin summarizes what he was going to say: Kazuma must not be the lawyer in this trial.

As Ryunosuke takes his place with Kazuma in the courtroom, he notices that the public gallery seems to be filled mostly with military officers and no-one of... well, the public. Kazuma explains that this is to be a closed trial, which soon begins with the arrival of Judge Seishiro Jigoku and the prosecutor Taketsuchi Auchi, ancestor to “Rookie Killers” and Ace Attorney punching bags Winston and Gaspen Payne. Judge Gigoku starts by asking a clarifying question in regards to Ryunosuke's defense:

“Who advocates for the defendant in this trial?”

Seeing this as the question Professor Mikotoba told him to answer, and realizing just what answering it will entail, Ryunosuke responds with a timid “I do”, thus making him his own defense. This reaction naturally shocks the courtroom, Kazuma especially. Ryunosuke explains that this is a measure to ensure Kazuma will still be able to study the law abroad should the worst come to be. Kazuma isn't thrilled to have heard this since he wanted to keep Ryunosuke in the dark about it, but there's nothing he can do about it now. At the least, he spins this to Auchi as his ex-client being that sure of his own innocence (i.e., much the opposite of how confident the guy actually feels). With this new machination in mind, Judge Jigoku tests his knowledge of the case, which he is able to do when he can get his head together and Kazuma directs him to the court record.

The victim was one John H. Wilson, a visiting professor from Great Britan who had been teaching at Yumei University for the last three years. As such, England has a particular stake in the case as they are one of Japan's greatest allies at present. This trial thus puts the recently signed Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Friendship and Navigation, and finding that a Japanese man has murdered an Englishman on Japanese soil will undoubtedly have that treaty torn to pieces. Kazuma figures this means that the Japanese government will almost certainly throw Ryunosuke to the wolves in order to appease the English and are trying to resolve the case as fast as they can. The revelation brings back Ryunosuke's memories of that day, as he noticed Wilson sitting at a nearby table after Kazuma had left and decided to strike up a conversation with him.

The judge then moves onto his next question: Wilson's cause of death, which Ryunosuke swiftly answers was a gunshot thanks to reading the postmortem report (a report of observation made by a police officer as opposed to a proper autopsy as is the case in Western countries). Auchi backs this with a photograph of Wilson's corpse at the scene of the crime. Satisfied that Ryunosuke knows what he's doing, Judge Jigoku lets the trial begin, and Prosecutor Auchi calls his first witness: Satoru Hosonaga, the head waiter at Le Carneval. He recounts that the killing occurred just after 2 pm, when the restaurant usually has a slump in diners. He had been putting away dishes and the like when he heard the shot ring out, seeing Ryunosuke standing over the body with a gun in hand. Ryunosuke himself says that he picked said gun off the ground and did not fire it, to predictable results. Hosonaga continues his testimony, saying that no-one else was near Wilson's table.

But this gets gears turning in Ryunosuke's head; he definitely remembers a woman sitting at Wilson's table. He interjects with what he knows, but Auchi is not having it, and Hosonaga insists on what he saw, even citing a rough map he drew on the back of his business card of the dining area on the day. Judge Jigoku opts to add the map to the evidence, but strangely, Hosonaga seems to only agree to this idea reluctantly. Auchi advises Ryunosuke that he should admit his guilt now and spare himself some of his punishment, but Kazuma advises him to stick to his guns. With that, Auchi decides to bring out two witnesses who will help prove the student's guilt. They are Imperial Army Sergeant Iyesa Nosa and antiquities trader Kyurio Korekuta, who often frequents La Carneval to sell his wares to the usually wealthy customers. Iyesa, for his part, claims to have witnessed the very moment Ryunosuke shot the professor. The two explain that they were eating while Kyurio was attempting to sell his wares to Iyesa when Ryunosuke shot Wilson from behind, the dealer not having seen the act itself as he was looking for one of his wares that had gone missing.

Things seem decisive, but Ryunosuke remembers going back to his table to finish his coffee, saw a gun on the ground as he was leaving and bent to pick it up, and that's when the shot rang out. Kazuma insists that Ryunosuke cross-examine the witnesses, and finds himself a contradiction; the photograph clearly shows Wilson shot in the chest, not the back. However, it takes Kazuma's confidence for the needed words to make it to the court. Iyesa admits that he was looking at his steak at the time (trying not to draw attention to the baby strapped to his back) and didn't see the shooting himself. But Ryunosuke was definitely pointing it at Wilson's back. Kyurio is then pressed on what he was doing at the time, and he elaborates in turn: he had brought a koban coin from the Hoei era to at least show it to Nosa if not sell it, and yet found it missing when he briefly looked away. He was so insistent on finding it that he didn't pay attention to the gunshot, not that he found it anyway.

However, Jigoku still needs the trial moving swiftly, and Auchi tells him the witnesses still have more damning testimony to go. The two get ready to testify again, with Nosa finally acknowledging the baby as his newly born son Aido. The soldier and the dealer both insist that Naruhodo was still the only one in the restaurant, and thus the only one who could be the killer. Ryunosuke still affirms Dr. Wilson was dining with a woman, but a photograph Auchi has of the table seems to contradict that. Ryunosuke presses Nosa on them being the only ones, with it being noted that 2 pm is a rather odd time to eat at a restaurant. Auchi provides some context to explain that a medical report card found in Wilson's pocket shows he had an appointment from noon to past 1, so this meal was a late lunch. Ryunosuke and Kazuma insist the card be added into evidence, and in reading it, find an out. The appointment in question was to have a tooth removed. The thing is, the photo of John's table shows a partially eaten steak, and the card clearly states that Wilson was not to eat anything or drink anything besides water for the next three hours, so who the hell was eating this steak?

Again, Ryunosuke initially stumbles over his words, but with some coaxing from Kazuma, is able to point out the blatant contradiction, gaining some new confidence in the process. Seeing as how Wilson couldn't have been eating, that means someone else must have been at the table to eat this steak, which proves there was a third party involved. Kazuma even threatens to fight the Ministry of Justice for a retrial if the court tries to push a verdict along now, forcing events to continue. After all, Iyesa and Kuriyo are almost certain to face perjury charges if they were lying, especially in a murder trial. The two crack and admit they were specifically told not to mention the presence of the woman Ryunosuke saw. And with Kyurio phrasing it as “gentlewoman”, it seems the woman in question was from overseas. Auchi insists he had nothing to do with the duo lying under oath, but with the witnesses not willing to fess up further, it seems someone in either the government, military, or police is involved with this case. Needing to name someone, Ryunosuke and Kazuma look over their evidence and take a closer look at the map Hosonaga drew on his business card. Looking at the card himself, it says Hosonaga is... Chief Inspector of the Imperial Police?! Well, if there's anyone with influence involved, it has to be him, as the two reveal to the court.

Before Iyesa or Kyurio can answer if Hosonaga tried to get them to lie, the man himself takes to the stand. He admits to his trues profession and having been undercover on the day of the murder, though what he was investigating he doesn't say, though he's clear they aren't related to the murder. Judge Jigoku confronts the detective on having gotten the witnesses to lie, which he admits to. He saw the young lady sitting across from Wilson, but when his superiors heard she was an Englishwoman, he was given orders to get her away from the scene and not to involve her in the investigation out of fear of damaging relations with the British. Hosonaga says that they'll need proper evidence if they were to accuse her, but Kazuma gets an idea: Yumei University is hosting British exchange students, and he is certain one of them in the medical research laboratory is a young woman, and Hosonaga is able to confirm she is that student. At Judge Jigoku's orders, he names her as Jezaille Brett. The judge feels that he has no choice but to call Brett to the stand, which Hosonaga agrees to do, and the court adjourns.

Trial, Part 2

Regrouping in the antechamber, Kazuma compliments Ryunosuke on his skills in the courtroom. He says he has the natural makings of a lawyer, but Ryunosuke understandably doesn't want to ever get involved with a courtroom again if he makes it out of this. When Kazuma asks if he remembers seeing this woman escorted out, Ryunosuke says he can; he was too in shock over the gunshot to have noticed, and got locked in a pantry by Hosonaga once he saw the crime scene. Professor Mikotoba takes this opportunity to congratulate the men on their skill thus far. He remarks that he's done what he did with Ryunosuke was necessary, as he feels Kazuma studying the law in Great Britain is necessary to let the law here in Japan can grow out of its infancy. Kazuma remarks that he wouldn't want to go anyway if he couldn't help his closest friend in his darkest hour. Hearing this, the professor remarks that Ryunosuke will need to give his all and prove his innocence. At this, he directs the woman who came with him earlier to return to the university and retrieve something for him as the bailiffs call Ryunosuke and Kazuma back into the courtroom.

As everyone returns to their places, Kazuma scoffs at how the court is bending over backwards to keep England placated. With some back and forth, Auchi brings Jezaille into the courtroom, and she is a stunning beauty indeed. However, she does not appear to speak Japanese, so Hosonaga offers to be her translator, introducing her as a research student at Yumei's medical program. Brett unfortunately confirms through Hosonaga that she did see Rynosuke shoot Dr. Wilson. While such a statement seems good to hang him, the judge insists on her formally testifying. She claims that Ryunosuke and Dr. Wilson got into an argument before the shooting, but the former insists that she must have fired the gun and hid it somewhere on her person. Once Kazuma pulls him back and reminds him to keep cool, he goes over her testimony again. Ryunosuke latches onto a point of the two sitting together and toasting with glasses of carbonated water, but another look at the table photo only shows Jezaille's glass. The lady herself claims that she took the glass with her as she panicked to hide her presence there after the shooting. It sounds flimsy to the defense, but it also gives Kazuma the opening he needs, as she would have had to hide the glass somewhere to get it out of the restaurant.

Jezaille informs Hosonaga that she put it in her handbag, and Ryunosuke is able to tell the court that she could have so easily hid a gun in the bag, too. Auchi calls the inspector out on not having her open her bag at the time, but Hosonaga then says he should thank Ryunosuke and tells the court just why; as a photograph of the bag shows, it is meshwork and easily seen through, so she couldn't have hidden a gun inside it. Worse, Kazuma is certain they can't keep the trial going any further, so it looks like Ryunosuke is doomed. But Ryunosuke isn't ready to give up yet. He tells the court that he may just be able to find an issue with the photograph and prove there's more to the case, and Jigoku agrees, warning him that he will be sentenced if he can't. Luckily, the young student is able to find just what he needs, as the victim has a mysterious mark on his wrist that looks like... a bull's head. Looking back at the photograph of Dr. Wilson at his table, it is discovered that the same bull shape is on the plate holding Jezaille's steak. Kazuma reasons that the burn must have been from the day of the murder, and so severely at that. Hosonaga reasons the doctor would have to have been burnt for three seconds for the mark to match up like that, and surely the doctor would have made some kind of fuss over having gotten such a serious burn. It's just the foothold Ryunosuke needs to keep the trial going, as he realizes that the doctor must have already been dead when he was burned!

Naturally, the court finds it pretty hard to believe considering Wilson was shot dead, but Kazuma points out that Jezaille must know more than she's letting on if Wilson truly died before the shot. Jigoku agrees and orders Jezaille to testify further, to her great annoyance. Or perhaps not, as she not only agrees to testify, but much to everyone's surprise, she does so in fluent Japanese. She explains that she finds the language to be revolting, but if it will allow the trial to end, she's willing to stoop to their level. The testimony doesn't seem to reveal much, and yet Ryunosuke stil finds an opening when Jezaille mocks Japan's investigating procedures and how inferior they are compared to Great Britain's. When she talks about how evidence that may have been at La Carneval is probably long gone now that it's open to the public once more, Ryunosuke notices Hosonaga get into a particularly bad coughing fit, even for a sickly man like him. When he relays this to Kazuma, the lawyer says he should press Brett on it again and clock Hosonaga's reaction properly. Sure enough, he coughs again and Kazuma sees their chance. Since Hosonaga is not properly testifying at the moment, he's being more careless in his reactions, and thus Ryunosuke can pursue his thoughts to try and get around the testimony.

Sure enough, when the detective is pressed, he admits that while the Imperial Police as a whole aren't very adept with their investigations, he is another story, and thus he has taken it upon himself to preserve evidence from the scene. To that end, he presents the bottle of carbonated water that Dr. Wilson was drinking. The water gives Ryunosuke the idea that perhaps Dr. Wilson had actually been poisoned with that same water, which explains how he could have died before the gunshot, something Jezaille was in a prime position to do. As Auchi scolds the two for putting the treaty at risk, Jezaille snaps at him to shut his mouth, and then turns to the bottle and the water still left in it. She asks if Hosonaga actually tested the water for himself, being the perfectionist he is, and he confirms he did that... and found no traces of any poison he knows of.

It looks like Ryunosuke is eight levels of screwed now, as even Kazuma can't think of a way out of this mess. Jezaille is about to make her leave when all of a sudden, another woman's voice rings out. It is the same woman who accompanied Professor Mikotoba to the courtroom and went back to the university at his request. She now introduces herself as Susato Mikotoba, judicial assistant to the defense. It seems hope isn't lost just yet.

Trial, Part 3

Not unsurprisingly, the people of the court, Auchi in particular, are not thrilled a woman has entered the courtroom outside of testifying, but she states she only needs five minutes to give the defense new evidence. Jigoku reluctantly gives her the needed time, all she needs to give Ryunosuke and Kazuma an English-written report she retrieved from Wilson's lab. The report was written by Jezaille herself, so it might give the two the edge they need to win this case. The report is on the effects of curare, which Ryunosuke has never heard of, and Susato was only briefly able to summarize. The two look over Susato's notes after she has been ejected from the courtroom and present the report. Said report indicates that the poison is only found in South American jungles, which would explain why no-one in Japan has heard of it, though it is known of in parts of Europe, like, oh say... Great Britain, where the “esteemed” Miss Brett is from.

Auchi isn't buying it. He argues that if Dr. Wilson truly was poisoned, he would have been writhing in pain, which no-one in the restaurant saw anything like. To Kazuma, however, this lack of pain is proof that he was indeed poisoned, as curare paralyzes its victims near-instantly, and that solves the whole “thrashing” issue. Ryuosuke is lost though; even if Wilson was paralyzed, how would he have died. Kazuma goes into the grim details of the poison and clarifies that the victim actually dies of suffocation, as their bodies won't get their lungs to expand while paralyzed., all of which they can feel.note 

Again, Auchi scoffs at how convenient this whole thing is for the defense until Jezaille once again orders him to shut it. She finds herself pretty peeved that they're stealing her work and claiming her discoveries as her own, and decides to show the room something. She gets the bottle from Judge Jigoku, pours herself a glass, and sips it all down.

And she's just fine. Like nothing even happened.

Oh, this is bad.

Since it looks like there was no curare to be found, Jezaille wants out of this damned courthouse now. Ryunosuke is no quitter, though, and he knows there's poison in that bottle. But if that's the case, then how the hell is she still standing? The answer lies in her own report, of course. As it states, the tribespeople where curare is found usually lace the tips of their arrows with the poison, so how have any of them survived using it to hunt animals for food since ancient times? Well, the report clarifies that the poison enters the body “through a wound”. Thus, it makes perfect sense that Jezaille is just fine after slamming that water down; it's gone to her stomach, not her bloodstream, as she damn well knew.

At this, the Englishwoman loses whatever cool she had left, but not enough to keep her from pointing out a contradiction in Ryunosuke's logic. The fact that she didn't die from drinking the curare just goes to show that Wilson shouldn't have died from it either. As she smugly preens over the court looking in her favor, a new sort of anger and drive builds up in Ryunosuke. Determined to expose the truth and take Jezaille down, Ryunosuke lets out a cry of that one beautiful word:

OBJECTION!

He lays out just why Dr. Wilson is dead: the poison enters through a wound, just like the hole in the mouth left by a missing tooth! From a dental appointment she's made clear she knew about! And all Jezaille can do in the face of this is... laugh, grab the water bottle from Hosonaga, and let it drop to the floor. And with the carpet beneath her soaking up the water, they can't recollect it to test it for curare. So now the court is just left with the evidence that points in Ryunosuke's direction, like the photo of Wilson shot in the front whereas she was behind the professor. Well... クソ.Translation:

Kazuma insists that the murder happened just as he and Ryunosuke said it with her turning Wilson around in his chair, but with no evidence, the two aren't convincing anyone. Kazuma tells his friend that if they have any hope left of winning the trial, they'll need him to remember everything he can about that day. Flashing back to the scene, he finally remembers something new: that steak that was in the picture with Wilson's body had a bloodstain on the plate's base. The bullet didn't punch through Wilson's body, so it only could have come from when he was shot in the chest and turned around after. To that end, Hosonoga responds that he did save that plate as well Sgt. Iyesa's, bringing Jezaille's to the court posthaste. But alas, when Ryunosuke looks for himself, he finds it doesn't have a bloodstain. In a last desperate act, Ryunosuke insists he examine the steak they've been presented with. Lifting it up, he and Kazuma find a gold coin underneath it. In fact, it is a koban coin from the Hoei period. And wait... didn't Kyurio Korekuta lose such a coin while meeting with Iyesa Nosa? It seems the two of them have some explaining to do.

Bringing the two back into the courtroom, Kyurio instantly recognizes the coin. It's painfully clear that someone hid the coin under that steak, and Hosonoga thinks it's tied into the spate of thefts that lead him to going undercover there in the first place. Ryunosuke, for his own part, realizes that the thief Hosonaga has been looking for is in reality... Sergeant Iyesa Nosa. Shockingly, Iyesa claims that the thief is actually Aido, an act of cowardice that naturally appalls Ryunosuke, who rightly calls him out. As Iyesa breaks down over the strain, he says that his pathetic salary from the army as well as the taxes that were raised for the previous war the country fought have made it nearly impossible for him to care for his son. To that end, he resorted to stealing from the wealthy patrons in order to ensure that Aido would have a full belly. He had a pattern of coming in every three days to scope out a mark, and Kyurio became the mark on that fateful day. He pocketed the koban when the old man wasn't looking, but the gunshot rang out before he could leave. Panicking over someone finding it on him, he hid it under his partially-eaten steak hoping he could get it back later.

Jezaille isn't too phased by this revelation, since it has nothing to do with her. Judge Jigoku agrees and finally dismisses her, she scoffs at Iyesa eating his steak without a knife and fork like a savage. It's through this one comment, however, that Ryunosuke finds a staggering contradiction. If the steak with the hidden coin was eaten by the knife-and-fork user Jezaille, then it shouldn't have the teeth marks that this steak clearly does. Ryunosuke finally puts everything together, and asks the sergeant to confirm if he hid the koban under his own steak, which the man confirms, thus the steak they currently have must be his. Auchi derides Ryunosuke for thinking that Iyesa switched the two steak plates for his steak to appear at Jezaille's table and vice-versa, only to realize through the man's reactions that yes, he did just that, having panicked when Hosonaga announced who he really was and not wanting his theft to be found out. With this in mind, Ryunosuke asks that Hosonaga bring out the other steak he collected from the scene so it can be submitted into evidence. The inspector brings the second plate, and sure enough, on it is the blood stain. With that, Jezaille Brett has nowhere left to run, letting the swan in her hat go absolutely mad.

Regaining her composure, Jezaille admits that she did plan to kill Dr. Wilson, but she didn't plan to stick around like she did, having gotten stuck there by Ryunosuke's arrival and subsequent conversation with the professor. Seeing as he had drunk from the poisoned water, she had to improvise and opted to frame Ryunosuke for the death. Luckily, Wilson carried his own gun, and she had one hidden in her skirt, so she took Wilson's gun, left it where Ryunosuke was sure to see it on the ground, and fired her gun while he was picking it up. While Hosonaga was locking him in the pantry for the police, she turned Dr. Wilson's chair around and made her way out. She accepts her defeat, though she does ask to speak with Judge Jigoku later. Prosecutor Auchi doesn't take kindly to losing to a rookie like Ryunosuke, but Kazuma leaves further humiliation by unsheathing his katana and cutting the hair off of the prosecutor's forehead. The judge congratulates Ryunosuke on his skill in unraveling the truth and implores Kazuma to use everything he may learn in Great Britain to improve the justice system of Japan and fulfill the mission he is meant to. The comment oddly seems to lower Kazuma's mood, but he is quick to brush it off to Ryunosuke. For now, Ryunosuke Naruhodo is found Not Guilty and set free.

Back in the defendant's antechamber, Kazuma himself congratulates his friend on a job well done. Susato approaches the two, and Ryunosuke takes the chance to thank her for her efforts in getting the curare report. She humbly brushes it off as being her father's request, allowing Ryunosuke to realize that she is Professor Mikotoba's daughter. Speaking of which, the man himself approaches and thanks him for exposing his friend's true killer. He had actually met Wilson when he had studied abroad himself, which Kazuma can do himself now that his study program is assured through his victory today. Unfortunately, the professor comes bearing some news that puts a damper on the victory today: if Jezaille's going to be facing a trial, it won't be in Japan, but rather the British territory of Shanghai, China. As Inspector Hosonaga explains, Brett will be seeing her trial in a British consular courtroom, even though that shouldn't be a thing given the treaty Japan and Great Britain have signed or the fact that the murder isn't so politically serious as to warrant a consular court. But alas, it's now out of the hands of the Japanese government. If nothing else, this is a sign that Kazuma must study abroad and bring the ways of the law to Japan, to be certain nothing of this sort can happen again.

Still, Ryunosuke has been found Not Guilty, so the group can still go out to celebrate. Kazuma even plays down his role in the trial, since Ryunosuke was the one to put everything together. In fact... Kazuma is starting to think that Ryunosuke is the one that should be studying in Great Britain. The latter isn't planning to go back into any courtroom again if he can help it, but Kazuma knows Ryunosuke's sense of belief is what makes being a defense attorney such a good fit for him. He almost asks Ryunosuke for a favor before the inspector interrupts to transport them to La Carneval to celebrate. Little does Ryunosuke know just how much his life is about to change.

Behind the Adventure

Medical student Jezaille Brett, for whatever reason, wanted to murder her professor, John H. Wilson. Knowing that he was soon to have a tooth extracted, she planned to use her own research on the South American poison curare, which the Japanese people had no knowledge of and could not test for, to get away with her crime scot-free. She made plans to meet with Wilson at the restaurant La Carneval, knowing that the professor wouldn't be able to eat anything, but could drink water. She arrived at the restaurant and ordered a bottle of carbonated water, lacing it with the poison. When the professor arrived and her steak soon after, they cheered each other and drank, the curare entering Wilson's system from the hole in his mouth left from the extraction. Before she could leave, however, Ryunosuke Naruhodo, another student at Yumei University, noticed the professor and struck up a conversation with him. The curare was soon to take effect, so since she had now been seen, she adjusted her plan and decided to frame the student for her crime.

When Ryunosuke went back to his table, Jezaille took Wilson's gun from his now dead body and placed it on the floor in a spot she knew Ryunosuke would see it as he left the restaurant. At the same time, Nippon Imperial Army Sergeant Iyesa Nosa was meeting with antiques dealer Kyurio Korekuta. The sergeant had been struggling to keep his infant son Aido fed with his low salary being slashed to ribbons by taxes leftover from the last war, and had taken to stealing valuables from La Carneval's wealthier patrons, to the extent that Satoru Hosonaga, Chief Inspector of the Imperial Police, had gone undercover at the restaurant to try and catch the thief. Kyurio had brought a Hoei-era koban coin to the restaurant hoping to sell it, but Iyesa slipped the coin into his pocket while the older man wasn't looking.

Eventually, Naruhodo finished the coffee he had been drinking and headed out to leave, but noticed the professor's gun lying on the ground. As he bent down to pick it up, Jezaille pulled her own gun out from her skirt and fired a shot into Wilson's dead body, which caused a small amount of blood to spatter onto her plate. The shot caused Hosonaga to run out of the kitchen, where he and Iyesa saw Ryunosuke holding a revolver, and jumped to the conclusion that he had shot Dr. Wilson. As he dragged Ryunosuke into the pantry to lock him in until the police arrived, Jezaille turned Wilson's chair with his dead body around to more easily sell the idea of Ryunosuke being the shooter. She then set Wilson's table up to make it look like he was eating alone, taking her glass into her handbag and making her leave. The presence of the police put Iyesa into a panic, as he did not want to risk them searching him and finding the stolen koban. As such, he hid the coin under his steak (which he had eaten without utensils), and swapped his plate with Jezaille's on the chance they searched it, planning to retrieve the coin later.

As Hosonaga entered the dining area, he noticed Iyesa and Kyurio. Having seen Jezaille and recognizing her as an Englishwoman, realized that her presence could create a scandal and risk Japan and Britain's fragile alliance. As such, he instructed both men to say they only saw Ryunosuke in the restaurant. Jezaille thought she could easily get away with her crime, but her bigotry caused her to greatly underestimate the Japanese court system, especially the combined efforts of Naruhodo, his lawyer friend Kazuma Asogi, and the efforts of professor Yujin Mikotoba and his daughter Susato.

    The Adventure of the Unbreakable Speckled Band 

On board a ship bound for England, a lawyer falls, a great detective investigates, and Ryunosuke finds himself facing murder charges yet again.

Investigation, Part 1

It's early in the morning aboard the steamship Burya, and a man in a deerstalker cap and goggles tells the people in the room that he is to unravel the mystery before them. Surprisingly, one of those people is Susato. The mystery in question relates to a man lying dead on the floor, while the door to this cabin had been bolted from the inside, requiring the crew to break it down to get it open. He quickly concludes that the victim wrote a message on the floor using some nearby spilled ink before he died, and as the word is written in Russian, the obvious conclusion is that he is a Russian man. Then his sights turn to the wardrobe, which has a seal of paper with Japanese writing written on it. Using a spray pump, he finds it covered in handprints and concludes the victim put the seal on it. His goggles allow him to see that someone is inside the wardrobe at this very moment. The Burya's crewmen argue that this man shouldn't be touching anything until the maritime police arrive, but the capped man says they need not worry: he will reveal the killer to everyone in mere moments. A... familiar looking sailor asks this strange man who he is, and in turn, the man reveals he is a famous British consulting detective, just before he opens the wardrobe.

For you see, the man who is about to solve this case is in fact the famed detective himself, Sherlock Hol — erm, uh, Herlock Sholmes. Yes, "Herlock", that's what his name is. Yup. "Herlock"... well, anyway:

Investigation, Part 2

Investigation, Part 3

Behind the Adventure

    The Adventure of the Runaway Room 

Investigation - Trial, Part 1 - Trial, Part 2

Trial, Part 3

Behind the Adventure

    The Adventure of the Clouded Kokoro 

Investigation, Part 1

Investigation, Part 2

Trial, Part 1

Trial, Part 2 - Investigation, Part 3

Behind the Adventure

    The Adventure of the Unspeakable Story 

Investigation, Part 1

Investigation, Part 2

Investigation, Part 3

Investigation, Part 4

Trial, Part 1

Trial, Part 2

Trial, Part 3

Trial, Part 4

Ryunosuke asks the court to perform a search on Nash instead, to Gregson's protest. Sure enough, they find the disk on him. Everyone is baffled, but Ryunosuke points out how Gregson was shaking Nash earlier for no apparent reason. He suggests the inspector must've used it as an opportunity to hide the disk on him.

Despite the reveal, Gregson refuses to budge. So that's when Ryunosuke has a proposal: with both music disks found they would play it together for the court. Gregson protested, saying Ryuosuke would become an enemy of the state for leaking government secrets. The lawyer tells him to shut up: he'll go to any length to prove his client innocent. Any more pleas fall on deaf ears, leaving Gregson no choice but to watch the music disks playing together, revealing Morse code. Within a few notes, the inspector finally caves in and he agreed to admit everything as long as they shut that box up.

Behind the Adventure

Alternative Title(s): Dai Gyakuten Saiban Naruhodou Ryuunosuke No Bouken

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