Judge: So, this is...
Judge: The small box Mr. Megundal deposited into the pawnshop...
Naruhodou: ...And so, on that night.
Naruhodou: The only box the trespassing culprit tried to take for himself.
Iris: Quickly! Quickly! Open it up and let's see~!
Judge: T-this... This isn't just an ordinary box!
Naruhodou: (Somehow, I had something like that pictured in my head the whole time but...)
Van Zieks: ...This appears to be a portable music player.
Crogray: ..................
Judge: A music box... T-then, you mean?!
Van Zieks: A piece of equipment pre-manufactured to play this disc... Let's put it that way.
Judge: For the disc deposited two months ago into the pawnshop by Mr. Megundal... eh?
Van Zieks: Technically... This does not belong to Megundal.
Van Zieks: This is a disc... stolen from the murdered victim.
Judge: Still... Just why?
Judge: Why would a bricklayer sell off a music disc?
Naruhodou: ..................
Naruhodou: I think we might know if we listened to the music embedded into this disc!
Judge: ...Very well.
Judge: Let's have a listen to this disc played by that music box!
HOLD IT!
Gregson: Pl...Please wait a moment, Your Honor!
Judge: W...What's the matter, witness?
Gregson: The music box... has nothing to do with the case!
Gregson: There really isn't a need to... er, listen to music in such an austere courtroom, Your Honor...
Naruhodou: OBJECTION!
Naruhodou: That disc is an important motive for the murderer!
Naruhodou: There are plenty of possibilities that it's related to the case at hand!
Van Zieks: ...The prosecution has no objections either.
Gregson: However! That evidence should have been under our...
Van Zieks: ...So. It seems there is something stirring within the Scotland Yard...
Van Zieks: It is policy for the prosecution to investigate every evidence in detail much before any trial...
Van Zieks: ...You have no right to stop us.
Gregson: GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Judge: ...Well then. Let's hear that music box!
Judge: ...W-what. Is this...?
Judge: This... This doesn't sound anything like music, you know...
Naruhodou: (Indeed...)
Naruhodou: (...The same note is being played at irregular intervals...)
Judge: Hmm...
Crogray: ...Hahaha....
Judge: ...Witness...?
Crogray: ...What a masterpiece this is...
Crogray: The music box is faulty. Now, what do you suppose this means...?
Naruhodou: F-faulty...?! (But that's ridiculous...)
Crogray: ...That's right, yes it is! Perhaps...
Crogray: Our officer, busy as a bee, might have dropped it by accident on the way here.
Judge: ...This seems very unfortunate, but...
Judge: It seems this music box... can provide no leads.
Van Zieks: ..................
Judge: Anything to say, attorney?
Naruhodou: (I wonder..)
Naruhodou: (Indeed. It does sound like it has completely broken down but...)
Naruhodou: As a lead, this music box has...
> Significance
Naruhodou: I do think it has significance, of course.
Judge: What...?! B-but...
Judge: This... is nothing but noise. What significance does it possibly have?!
Naruhodou: (...True, that's what it sounds like. But there's one thing... bugging me.)
Naruhodou: (...The way that Crogray-san is proudly laughing away as if he's already won...)
Gregson: (...But the real problem is that behaviour of Inspector Gregson.)
Naruhodou: (That Inspector seems to know something about the music box...)
Naruhodou: (...And it seems like he is still on alert about something...)
Van Zieks: ...Well then. Let's have you answer a few more queries, Japanese.
Naruhodou: YES.......?!
Van Zieks: Pray tell. What sort of significant lead is there to this broken performance?
Naruhodou: ..................
Naruhodou: I think it's very likely that the noise from the music box is...
> Not Music
Naruhodou: Just because this is a music box does not necessarily mean that this is playing music.
Crogray: ......!
Naruhodou: (...Crogray's smugness vanished in an instant...)
Naruhodou: (I knew it. ...I'm going down on the right path...!)
Iris: ...Ohoh. Deducing just from your opponent's reaction...
Iris:You know, Narudy. ...You're just like Holmesies!
Van Zieks: OBJECTION!
Van Zieks: Not necessarily music... you say?
Van Zieks: In that case, what are you saying this is, Japanese man?
Naruhodou: ...! W-well...
Van Zieks: As long as you are unable to present a clear answer to us...
Van Zieks: Such a vague words will never be acknowledged as a statement!
Crogray: ...He is right.
Crogray: You ought to just quickly admit that music box is broken!
Naruhodou: (...Damn. A clear answer... huh?)
Iris: ...Hey, Narudy!
Iris: I kind of did a check of this music box...
Iris: I think this probably isn't broken anywhere at all.
Naruhodou: ...What...?!
Iris: This music box can only play one note anyway.
Naruhodou: I appreciate it, Iris-chan!
Naruhodou: (...If this music box isn't broken, then...)
Naruhodou: (Then, this sound must have some meaning other than being music... like I've suspected.)
Naruhodou: (..................)
Naruhodou: (...Ah....)
Naruhodou: (...W-what if... That sound was actually...!)
Iris: ...Say, Narudy? I just thought of this but.
Iris: Doesn't feel like we've...
Iris: Heard noises similar to this... rather recently somewhere?
Naruhodou: .................. (A similar sound... huh?)
Naruhodou: Actually, Iris-chan?
Naruhodou: I'm thinking the exact same thing you are.
Judge: ...In that case, I'd like for the defense to state their decisive answer.
Judge: If this sound playing from the music box is not music.
Judge: Then... What does it mean?
Naruhodou: (...With all the evidence and testimonies up until now...)
Naruhodou: (Maybe... There's one single answer they are all pointing to!)
Van Zieks: ...Japanese man. I demand you present your evidence.
Van Zieks: Evidence to support your claims.
Naruhodou: .................. Understood.
Naruhodou: (...This might be my best opportunity for a counterattack yet.)
Naruhodou: (With this... Everything should connect...!)
Naruhodou: The evidence that points to the true identity of this sound is this...!
Iris: The back... is featuring some pretty big article too, huh~
Iris: "Spy within Ministry of Justice? Possibility of state secret stolen!"
Naruhodou: (...Iris-chan is amazing as always.)
Naruhodou: (She reads difficult looking English words as if it was nothing...)
Iris: Telecommunications between Great Britain and her allies are being leaked to enemy countries...
Iris: Looks like something like that is going on right now~
Naruhodou: Telecommunications stolen... But how does someone go about stealing it?
Iris: Hmm~... I have three ideas to how to make it happen.
Iris: ...Wanna try, Narudy?
Naruhodou: No no! Not interested!
Naruhodou: Maybe...
Naruhodou: The incident Judicial Chief Vortex spoke of yesterday was referring to this...
Iris: Maybe~ He seemed to be bossing Greggy around to the bone too.
Today's Newspaper has been updated.// >This morning's newspaper. The back is running an article about government telecommunications being leaked to overseas.
Naruhodou: TAKETHAT
Judge: T-this is... This morning's newspaper...!
Judge: "Bloody Murder In Pawnshop By Thieving Girl!" ...Rather boldly written, too.
Naruhodou: No no no! ...Divert your attention to the article on the back, please!
Judge: The back... eh?
Judge: "Spy Within Ministry Of Justice? Possibility Of State Secret Leaked Overseas!"
Judge: This is a huge case... The Yard is currently investigating this in full force.
Van Zieks: Information is being leaked from the government's secret international relay telegraphs...
Van Zieks: Right into the hands of foreign countries... Or so the rumours goes.
Naruhodou: Telegraphs... Is that telecommunications, in other words?
Van Zieks: ...That is correct.
Naruhodou: Ms. Juror 5! ...Can I have your attention for a while?!
Juror 5: .................. Oh! Ye....Yes?!
Juror 5: H-how sudden! What is it?
Naruhodou: You work... at the same telecommunication office as Mr. Crogray, correct?
Juror 5: Ye-yes... I do.
Naruhodou: And is this office you both work at...
Naruhodou: Is situated in the city district, along with the important government offices and news companies?
Juror 5: Yes it is! Why, the telecommunication offices there is a whole other class!
Naruhodou: ...So, don't you think this sound resembles something?
Juror 5: Hum....?
Juror 5: ..................
Juror 5: I-it can't be, but is this...
Naruhodou: ...It is.
Naruhodou: It sounds similar to the sound of your telecommunication equipment you've been hitting, Juror 5...
Naruhodou: ...Was it called... Morse Code?
Juror 5: Y....
Juror 5: Whaaaaaaaat?!
Naruhodou: The Ministry of Justice's telecommunications was stolen...
Naruhodou: If it was by the hands of a outstanding telegram operator, wouldn't that be possible?!
Van Zieks: S-so then... The embedding on this disc...
Van Zieks: ...Holds information stolen from the Ministry of Justice's international telegrams?!
Judge: Order! Order! Order!! B-but... That's almost like...
Judge: A crime against the state, treason! ...An offense worth capital punishment!
Juror 6: Oh! What is that?! "Tree-son"? "Cap-pee-tal punish-munt"?
Naruhodou: (...The revolutionary is lapping all of that up in excitement, you know...)
Judge: Information from the Ministry of Justice's secret relay... Many enemy nations would leap at this.
Naruhodou: That might be the exact reason why... two months ago.
Naruhodou: The negotiations had to occur on the omnibus, perhaps?!
Van Zieks: However. Mr. Megundal perished... and that disc was deposited.
Judge: Oh...
Naruhodou: If that happened...
Naruhodou: The the culprit who leaked the information would still be at large, don't you think?
Naruhodou: Because, if, the Great British Empire were to discover that...
Judge: Then they would be facing capital punishment for committing treason against the state...
Naruhodou: ...That's why they had to steal it back no matter what it took.
Naruhodou: To that end, the culprit...
Naruhodou: Unlawfully broke into the closed pawnshop dead in the night.
Naruhodou: So they could retrieve the item... left by Mr. Megundal.
Naruhodou: Anything to say to that, Crogray-san?!
Crogray: ..................
Crogray: M-me...? S-stealing information from my motherland...?
Crogray: ...R-ridiculous...! Absolutely, utterly ridiculous!!
Judge: This new accusation put forth by the defense...
Judge: Hm, this man has no intention of acknowledging it, eh?
Crogray: O-of course that goes without saying!
Crogray: T-taking advantage of another's silence. A-and b-blabbering nonsense...!
Van Zieks: OBJECTION!
Van Zieks: ...If that's what you wish to claim, then refute, with all your heart.
Crogray: ...!
Van Zieks: I demand a testimony from you. Speak what you have in regards to the defense's accusation!
Crogray: .................. V-very well, I suppose...
Judge: This courtroom is currently holding a trial for the late Mr. Hutch, the victim's murder.
Judge: ...It goes without saying that the capital punishment awaiting the murderer is heavy...
Judge: However, treason is yet another great offence... If possibly committed.
Judge: You ought to testify with your heart laid bare.
Crogray: ..................
Judge: Now then! I hereby order the-
HOLD IT!
Nemmy: ...Hey, let us join in that testimony too... man!
Judge: Y-you two are...!
Nemmy: Me name's Nemmy Tinpiller. My occupation is... a criminal, man.
Tully: I'm Tully Tinpiller. But... we ain't so evil to sell out our motherland.
Nemmy: ...That's right. People call us...
The 3 Tinpiller Bros!
Gregson: ...This isn't the time for that!
~Witness Testimony~
~Rebuttal Against The Attorney~
Crogray: A mere telegram operator cannot possibly steal information from the government!
Crogray: The embedding in that music box isn't Morse Code anyway!
Crogray: That man who carried out the negotiations was the bricklayer. That has nothing to do with me!
Nemmy: We just snuck into that pawnshop two days ago, following what this guy planned, man!
Tully: If we knew this was 'bout sellin' out our nation, then we wouldn't've done it, man!
Naruhodou: ..................
Van Zieks: ..................
Judge: ..................
Judge: Ah... Um. Tinpiller Brothers, witnesses?
Nemmy: ...I'll answer on behalf of the Tinpiller Brothers... man.
Judge: I'd like to just affirm something.... So, you admit to it, then?
Judge: That you have trespassed into the victim's shop...
Judge: And there, you met with Mr. Crogray. ...There were of you in total present...?!
Nemmy: ..................
YESSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIR!!
Judge: ...Order, all of you. Anything to say, Mr. Crogray?
Crogray: ...Search me if you must. I don't know these people...
Nemmy: Oy! Some fine mess you got us caught up in, eh?!
Nemmy: I didn't sign up for this! What's all this complicated junk about the nation or another?!
Tully: The owner even croaked on top of that. ...You are a terrible man!
Crogray: ....Gh....
Naruhodou: (...Looks like he just got completely sold out.)
Crogray: In any case, I... will not admit it.
Judge: Hmm...
Judge: This music box... I can't believe it had such big of an significance behind it...
Judge: ...I shall accept this as evidence.
Small Music Box// Was deposited along with the black coat, and put for sale two days ago. Plays only one note.// Small Music Box has been filed in the Court Records.
~Cross-Examination~
~Rebuttal Against the Attorney~
Crogray: A mere telegram operator cannot possibly steal information from the government!
Crogray: The embedding in that music box isn't Morse Code anyway!
Naruhodou: HOLD IT!
Naruhodou: ...R-really...?
Crogray: It should be obvious just from hearing the sound of the music box.
Naruhodou: .................. Oh, that's what it was called?
Van Zieks: Oh please... You mean to say you have not heard of Morse Code...?
Naruhodou: (...His facial expression tells me he's completely given up on me...)
...Hmhmhm...
Juror 5: Shall I kindly explain it to you, if you'd like?
Naruhodou: Juror 5...!
Juror 5: Morse Code is essentially comprised of two types of sound.
Naruhodou: Two types of... sound?
Juror 5: Short and long sound signals... When combined in a way, they represent letters.
Naruhodou: Uh-huh...
Juror 5: For example, this is "A".... and this is "B".... Something like that.
Juror 5: By the way, this music box... only plays one type of sound, doesn't it now?
Naruhodou: B-but! That odd rhythm must be something very similar!
Van Zieks: ...At the very least, the arrangement of those sound does not make a lick of sense.
Van Zieks: Ergo... That is not Morse Code.
Naruhodou: NO....!!
Crogray: ...Hahahaha... But of course.
Crogray: Why? Because that music box is...
Crogray: Is just a broken piece of junk.
Crogray: How about you learn the fundamentals of Morse Code first?!
Naruhodou: (Damn... I have nothing to counter with...)
Iris: Mmm.... Kinda feels like you almost got him, doesn't it~?
Naruhodou: Iris-chan...
Iris: If you stick with the logic that this music box was used to "negosheeate" classy-fied information...
Iris: Then lots of dots will connect, like boom.
Naruhodou: (I don't know about that. This music box...)
Naruhodou: (Would it have been impossible to conduct a deal using Morse Code with this...?)
>Show it's possible
Naruhodou: It is possible this music box was used as a telegram for a negotiation...
Naruhodou: ...This, the defence believes.
Van Zieks: OBJECTION!
Van Zieks: ...Do not make me repeat myself, Japanese...
Van Zieks: A telegram must be comprised of short and long sounds!
Naruhodou: I intend to explain that part.
Van Zieks: ...You what...?
Judge: It appears the defence has something in their mind.
Crogray: ...!
Judge: In that case, you are hereby ordered to indicate for us.
Judge: ...What mechanism of this music box...
Judge: ...makes it possible for it to relay messages in morse code...?!
Naruhodou: ...Huh?
Iris: What's the matter, Narudy?
Naruhodou: Well, about this music box..
Naruhodou: It seems like... you can open it from this side too.
Iris: Oh.... You're right...
Iris: Come, come now, Narudy! Let's have this thing opened! Hurry!
Naruhodou: H-hold on just a sec.
Iris: ...Huh?! This side's a... music box too?
Naruhodou: Maybe this is...
Naruhodou: For playing... another disc that should go in here...?
Iris: It looks to me like... these two machines will move in unison.
Naruhodou: Unison...
Iris: It means that both discs will be playing at the same time if you set the 2nd one here..
Naruhodou: GOT IT!
Judge: What.... What in blazes is this?!
Judge: The bottom of the music box... has another music box in it?!
Van Zieks: What...?!
Benedict: .....!
Naruhodou: It seems these two parts of the music box moves in unison.
Naruhodou: ...In other words, if you set two discs in this music box...
Naruhodou: Then two sounds will be playing at the same time!
Judge: Oh...!
Naruhodou: Morse Code is comprised... of short and long sounds.
Naruhodou: If you have two discs, then it would be completely possible to trade information!
Crogray: ...I think that's quite enough from you.
Naruhodou: ...Crogray-san...
Crogray: That... That attorney's words are utterly baseless!!
Van Zieks: ...But of course.
Van Zieks: What if... that changes if we were to say a second disc was present?
Naruhodou: W-well... I mean, of course I'm unable to present that.
Judge: ...Hmm....
Van Zieks: Additionally... As these witnesses stated-
Van Zieks: the person who attempted to negotiate with Megundal about the disc was not this man.
Judge: But the bricklayer Mr. Mortar... correct?
Crogray: T-...That's right! I have... nothing to do with this!
Naruhodou: ...!!
Judge: ...A great interesting possibility has just been bought up...
Judge: But it seems to me, the cross-examination must still go on.
Naruhodou: (...The connection between Crogray-san and the victim 2 months ago...)
Naruhodou: (I still haven't found it yet...)
Iris: Iris: Hmmm.... We gotta find concrete proof or else...
Judge: ...Now then. Witness, resume testifying...!
Crogray: ...Well. My statement hasn't budged an inch.
Crogray: That man who carried out the negotiations was the bricklayer. That has nothing to do with me!
Nemmy: We just snuck into that pawnshop two days ago, following what this guy planned, man!
Naruhodou: HOLD IT!
Naruhodou: By this guy... I assume that'd be Crogray-san, then?
Nemmy: Yessiree! You betcha it's this Crogray-san!
Nemmy: We meet after all this time and he just pulled us into a shoddy job.
Nemmy: Ain't that right, Rubert?!
Crogray: ..................
Naruhodou: W-wait just a moment! By "all this time" you mean...
Naruhodou: You knew each other? The both of you and Crogray-san?
Nemmy: We are passionate criminals with a heart. We're all chums with a history!
Naruhodou: HANG ON!
Naruhodou: ...A moment, Tinpiller?
Nemmy: WHAT IS IT?!
Naruhodou: ...Sorry. I mean the other Tinpiller right next to you.
Tully: Mn... Ah, yes... You're referring to me?
NAruhodou: Did Nemmy-san's testimony just bring anything to mind?
Tully : ...Well, it sort of reminded me somethin' that happened a long time ago, man.
Tully: We brothers and him... y'see, used to pull lotsa pranks.
Naruhodou: This person you're talking about... is Crogray-san, correct?
Tully: Yeah! Though he looks like a perfect Mr. Fine-And-Dandy now.
Tully: Even he was like us too, once. Poor street urchins, y'see.
Naruhodou: I see.
Tully: He's super smart, even way back then.
Tully: He'd just go do stuff that we'd never even thought of before.
Nemmy: Yeah, I remember all that! People used to call us the "Milverton & Tinpiller bosombos".
Nemmy: Man, those were the days!
Van Zieks: ...Save your worthless reminiscing for after the trial.
Van Zieks: ...And your fruits too.
Nemmy: But, hey! That black attorney was asking us about it, you know!
Tully: That's right, man! We've done nothin' wrong whatsoever!
Judge: ...Well then. While the nostalgic past is blossoming...
Judge: Shall we return to the testimonies?
Naruhodou: (...I wonder. What should I do about that sweat filled reminiscing...?)
>Add it to the testinomy
Naruhodou: ...Your Honor!
Judge: What is it, attorney?
Naruhodou: I believe that reminiscing of the witness... No, that testimonial is very important!
Judge: Very well. ...Alright then, witness.
Judge: Add that trip down memory lane into your testinomy. ...Make it brief.
...TINPILLER!!
Nemmy: Milverton and Tinpiller bosombos... Those were the days, I tell ya.
Naruhodou: HOLD IT!
Naruhodou: Uhm... What is that, uh, title like it'd be used for some company...?
Nemmy: Oh. it's from a cute ol' prank we pulled back when we were still snotty lil' kids.
Tully: Yeah! We were a company that delivered fresh milk to the people of downtown!
Naruhodou: ...That sounds like a personal business to me, not some snot-nosed prank...
Naruhodou: (Well, here we are anyway. Which part should I ask more about...?)
> Ask about the company name
Naruhodou: About that "company name"... It was just a prank, you said?
Naruhodou: Of the Tinpillers... and Crogray-san's.
Nemmy: ...Yep, that's right.
Naruhodou: "Milverton & Tinpiller Bosombos"... was it?
Tully: ...Yep, that's right.
Naruhodou: ...What that, then? Where did "Milverton" come from?
Nemmy: Oh, good job noticing it there, mate. That's...
Crogray: HOLD IT!
Crogray: Stop right there!
Crogray: Don't blabber unnecessary things! I...
Naruhodou: OBJECTION!
Naruhodou: ...So, you don't wish to accept these witnesses' words, I take it...?
Crogray: ....!
Naruhodou: Why did you react only to the name of "Milverton"?
Crogray: ...T-that's because...
Nemmy: ...He had lotsa stuff goin' on when he was young, man.
Tully: His home was so poor his parents had to divorce, see.
Nemmy: That was when he changed his last name. To... Crogray.
Tully: Well, hey. You're forever Milverton to us!
Naruhodou: ...Milverton...
Naruhodou: So that too, was  your name...?
Crogray: ...NO!! I... I have been a Crogray from birth!
Crogray: There is nothing to be earned from believing these men's words!!
Van Zieks: ...You hold the national qualifications to be a Telegraph Operator.
Van Zieks: So long as you do, that personal little history of yours will remain no more than a distant memory.
Van Zieks: We have already investigated. Do you still wish to waste our time...?
Crogray: Gh....!!
Judge: ...It appears these two brothers' testimony can be trusted.
Judge: Once upon a time... You were Rubert Milverton.
Judge: ...Is that correct?
Crogray: .................. Yes. So I was!
Naruhodou: (Rubert Crogray was once Rubert Milverton...)
Naruhodou: (This... might be a vital piece of information which may overturn this situation.)
Rubert Crogray (27) / An engineer appointed to the city district's telecommunications. He was once a Milverton. Childhood friends with the Tinpillers.// Rubert Crogray's data has been updated.
Crogray: ..................
Naruhodou: It sorta feels as if... another huge case got warped into the middle of all this, doesn't it?
Naruhodou: Stealing the Ministry of Justice's international telegrams... huh? But it's not as if there's proof.
Iris: But. It's true there's just a lot of things left hanging that needs addressing.
Iris: The negotiations in the carriage 2 months ago... Unlawful trespassing in the pawnshop 2 days ago...
Iris: But. The one who did the negosheating wasn't that man in white, right...?
Naruhodou: Yup. It was actually a bricklayer named Mortar... but he's dead.
Iris: Hmmm.... Would be wonderful if there was some connection between the two, huh~?
Naruhodou: ...Anyway. it doesn't look as if there's an opening in Crogray-san's testimony.
Naruhodou: Just maybe, the person who holds the key to this cross-examination is...
Naruhodou: (...Actually be those two brothers...)
Crogray: A mere telegram operator cannot possibly steal information from the government!
Crogray: The embedding in that music box isn't morse code anyway!
Crogray: That man who carried out the negotiations was the bricklayer. That has nothing to do with me!
Omnibus murder//>Case summary - The victim was stabbed to death in through his abdomen on the last omnibus scheduled on the road.// >Victim's information - Name: Mortar Milverton  Male, Bricklayer, Resides in East End// >Trial summary - Defendant: Cosney Megundal / Prosecutor: Sir Barok van Zieks / Attorney: Ryuunosuke Naruhodou// It was thought to be a simple case from the testimony of 3 witnesses but due to a discovery of a 4th, insufficient evidence was deemed and thus a "not guilty" verdict was declared.
Crogray: That man who carried out the negotiations was the bricklayer. That has nothing to do with me!
Naruhodou: OBJECTION!
Naruhodou: ...Rubert Milverton-san.
Naruhodou: Tell me. Why did you not tell us about this name of yours?
Crogray: ...It's a discarded name. There was no need for me to speak of it!
Naruhodou: That's not true. You...
NAruhodou: ...have a reason to keep that name hidden!
Crogray: .........
Judge: M-might you explain?
Naruhodou: I have the materials on the case two months ago right here.
Naruhodou: This murdered victim who failed the negotiations with Megundal was...
Judge: If memory serves... He was Mr. Mortar, a bricklayer.
Naruhodou: His full name is written down here in the documents.
Naruhodou: ...His full name was Mortar Milverton.
Judge: Mi.......
Judge: Milverton... you say...? C-could it be...?!
Naruhodou: Rubert Milverton-san,
Naruhodou: Was this Bricklayer, Mortar-san... your father?
Crogray: Kh.....! T-That's....
Van Zieks: ...I spoke of this earlier.
Van Zieks: So long as you have the qualifications, that personal history of yours will forever remain a memory.
Van Zieks: Investigating is a trivial effort. Do keep this warning in mind.
Crogray: Gr.....Grrr.....!!
NAruhodou: You leaked information from Great Britain's confidential communications...
Naruhodou: And you cooperated with your father to strike a deal with Megundal!
Crogray: GR.....RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!
Naruhodou: This cross-examination reveals it all. Our positions... and the clues.
Crogray: ...T-truth... you say...?
Naruhodou: Together with your father, Mr. Mortar, the two of you tried to negotiate with Mr. Megundal.
Judge: The object being negotiated... would of course, be this music box, correct?
Naruhodou: Classified information from the Ministry of Justice's communication lines was stolen, and to be sold to Mr. Megundal.
Naruhodou: This music box has disc slots... two, at that. The reason for this strange appearance is...
Naruhodou: Most likely, in preparation for when this had to be handed to another in times of emergencies.
Judge: ...No one would normally believe this music box would have such information relayed within it afterall.
Van Zieks: However. The negotiations fell apart... and Mr. Mortar was killed.
Naruhodou: Mr. Megundal was then arrested, but he sent the targeted disc into deposit in a pawnshop.
Naruhodou: And so... Two days ago.
Naruhodou: You appeared in Hutch-san's shop in order to retrieve that disc.
Crogray: ..................
Van Zieks: ...But. That retrieval too, crumbled apart.
Naruhodou: One of the disc was in custody of the police, and the other could not be found.
Naruhodou: That's why... On that night.
Naruhodou: You joined up arms with the Tinpillers and snuck into the pawnshop.
Naruhodou: This time... making sure you retrieved that other disc.
Judge: So the disc... was in the music box...!
Nemmy: B-but we...
Tully: Didn't know any of that, man...
Naruhodou: ...On the night of the incident,
Naruhodou: Only this music box... had signs of being touched by the infiltrator.
Judge: ...Indeed. It is standing out when the two photographs are stereograph...
Naruhodou: Now, why was the music box moved? ...The reason for that must be...
Naruhodou: ...that there was an attempt made to retrieve the second music disc within.
Naruhodou: If the Yard were to get a hold of that.... Well then, someone *here* would be charged with treason.
Crogray: ..................
Naruhodou: ...So, is there anything you'd like to say, Crogray-san?
Naruhodou: Everything... was spurred into motion two months ago!
Crogray: ..................
Crogray: ...I-I...
Crogray: ...Have nary even a shred of will to play along with your imagination or admitting to anything!
Van Zieks: ..................
Judge: ..................
Naruhodou: ...Crogray-san.
Naruhodou: Your arm... it's bleeding, isn't it?
Crogray: Wh...What...?
Crogray: ...Oh. Aaaah....!!
Naruhodou: ...That night two days ago.
Naruhodou: There were... traces of three bullets fired within Hutch-san's pawnshop.
Naruhodou: ...One round robbed the life of Hutch-san.
Naruhodou: ...Another found itself embedded into the pouch of Mr. Holmes.
Naruhodou: Finally, the last round...
Naruhodou: After injuring the infiltrator's arm... it ended up stuck into the calendar on site.
Naruhodou: ...Crogray-san.
Naruhodou: I betting that arm injury... was caused by that shot, don't you think?
Crogray: ..................
Nemmy: I don't think you can run anymore, man.
Tully: I think you oughta fess up, man.
Crogray: .................. Good lord.
Crogray: "Keep my matter a secret no matter what happens until the end"...
Crogray: That was what we planned, and after you took all the money I've forked over?
Crogray: ...I should have known. Petty street criminals are not to be trusted.
Naruhodou: ...!
Crogray: ...Very well. I admit.
Crogray: On that night, I did sneak into Mr. Hutch's pawn shop-
crogray: ...After handing 10 guinea over to these two burglars.
Crogray: As you may surmise, I'd gotten this wound on my arm back then.
Crogray: ...However! I shall admit to only that.
Crogray: Your accusations of me stealing classified information from the Ministry of Justice? Selling to Mr. Megundal...?
Crogray: ...By God, I have no recollection of such actions!
Naruhodou: (As long as there isn't decisive evidence, he's not confessing... huh?)
Naruhodou: ...But. I believe that with this, we now have proof of the most crucial truth.
Van Zieks: ...Elaborate, exchange student.
Naruhodou: The two guns we have discovered up to this point have fired a bullet. One round each.
Naruhodou: The bullet the Tinpiller brothers fired... ended up striking into Mr. Holmes' pouch.
Naruhodou: And needless to say... The bullet fired from Mr.. Hutch's gun,
Naruhodou: Was fired in the direction of Crogray-san's arm. ...That's what I can only imagine.
Judge: Well... He couldn't have possibly shot himself, now.
Judge: ..................
Naruhodou: If that's the case... Then there is only one logical conclusion.
Naruhodou: The one who fired the third bullet at Hutch-san with intention to kill...
Naruhodou: Can only be this person present on site - the third trespasser!
Judge: Oh...!
Van Zieks: ...!
Naruhodou: ...That's right. That'd be you, Crogray-san.
Crogray: Gr.....
Naruhodou: There could have been no one else... would could have fired but you, Crogray-san!
Crogray: HOLD IT!
Crogray: ....Hahahaha...
Crogray: ...Oh dear attorney. What a great failure on your part... Exposing me to the court.
Naruhodou: Huh...? (What is he talking about?)
Crogray: Indeed... I was there at the time back in the pawn shop. And...
Crogray: I tried to keep that matter under secrecy. ...Of course I would.
Crogray: An outstanding telegraph operator such as I has ill need of such stain on my history.
Crogray: ...Yet. Has it ever crossed your mind?
Naruhodou: C-crossed...? What, exactly?
Crogray: The possibility of me... seeing that decisive moment.
Crogray: ...In other words, I...
Crogray: ...might possibly be a key witness who saw your client choke the last breath out of that man!
Naruhodou: What...?!
Judge: M-my word.... You mean?!
Crogray: Of course. I saw it... clear as day back then.
Crogray: The very moment that pickpocketing girl... shot the poor owner to death!
Naruhodou: Huh...
Naruhodou: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!
Judge: Order! Order! ORDER!!
Judge: ...So.
Judge: It seems it is time for the grand finale for this trial.
Van Zieks: ...Witness Rubert Crogray.
Crogray: ...What is it?
Van Zieks: I trust... that you are fully aware.
Van Zieks: This time... If, your words turns out to be a fabrication...
Van Zieks: Then that act of sin... will end up being evidence.
Crogray: ...............
Crogray: Yes. But of course.
Judge: ...Now then. I hereby order you to testify!
Judge: Speak of what scene you saw unfold... at the moment the victim was shot!
Crogray: ...As you wish.
~Witness Testimony~
~The Witnessed Moment of the Crime~
Crogray: I was present around the shop entrance while they were in the midst of a dispute with the owner.
Crogray: When the owner went off at Nemmy, a stray bullet ran past my arm!
Crogray: I went after the the owner, and the moment I looked through the window of that door.
Crogray: The defendant donned in a black coat shot the fleeing owner from the back!
Crogray: I clearly saw the blood of the owner spurting out from his back and onto the coat of the defendant.
Crogray: Once the defendant had discarded her gun through the window... she picked it up and ran.
Judge: W-what... is the meaning of this... testimony...?
Crogray: I betting that arm injury... was caused by that shot, don't you think?
Judge: You are saying... you witnessed the moment the defendant committed the murder?!!
Judge: Order! Order! Order!
Crogray: ...I hadn't think it'd be necessary to provide this testimony.
Crogray: You must not frame the crime upon one who hasn't committed a murder.
Crogray: All is... in self-defence. What must be stated is the truth.
Naruhodou: ...!
Naruhodou: ...You say it's truth...?
Van Zieks: ...This information has been repeated ad nauseam to the prosecution though...
Gregson: ...I'm deeply sorry about that.
Crogray: The owner who fired at my arm was shot in the back by that pickpocketer and died.
Crogray: ...The blood splatter, was stained at that moment, naturally.
Van Zieks: So, the blood on the defendant's coat is the victim's blood... You are sure?
Crogray: Yes. I am certain.
Crogray: That damned pickpocket wore that on the day of the murder. ...That very same black coat.
Judge: What'd you say...?!
Judge: If there truly were in fact bloodstains on it... Then it would be decisive evidence.
Van Zieks: ...If you wish an investigation be done, then yes, it's possible.
Naruhodou: Huh...?
Van Zieks: ...There is a German researcher who has invented a means of detecting blood through chemistry recently.
Van Zieks: ...It is quite different from some fishy detective's snake oil chemical.
Iris: Holmesies' hypothesis is the real thing! It's no snake oil!
Van Zieks: ...Actual science is earned through scientific theory. Hypothesis alone means nothing.
Iris: ...!
Van Zieks: This science has already been adopted as evidence in trials held in Germany.
Van Zieks: Said chemical is with our Yard. Should Your Honor give the word...
Van Zieks: ...In no time at all we shall be able to check the defendant's coat for ourselves...
Judge: Hmm...
Iris: This is bad... Narudy.
Naruhodou: Huh...?
Iris: Cause. There really is... actual blood on Ginny's coat.
Iris: If they check it now...
Naruhodou: Oh... I-I see...! (In the gaols yesterday...)
Iris: Okay. Here I go~ Ginny, don't you move a muscle!
Naruhodou: (...That wasn't Hutch-san's blood. ...That was blood from two months ago..)
Naruhodou: (That coat was worn by Megundal... the blood was from when he stabbed Mr. Mortar!)
Naruhodou: Your Honor! The defence is against carrying out the investigation!
Judge: ...Your plea is rejected.
Judge: Sir van Zieks! Please take care of that investigation right this instant!
Van Zieks: ...As you wish.
Judge: While that's taken care of... Attorney. Resume the cross-examination.
Naruhodou: .................. (If they find out there's actual blood on that coat...)
Naruhodou: (Gina-san will...)
Judge: ...Attorney!
Naruhodou: Y...Yes Sir!
Judge: ...Carry out your cross-examination.
Naruhodou: ...Understood!
Naruhodou: (If this cross-examination...)
Naruhodou: (doesn't turn up any definitive leads...)
Naruhodou: (...I have a really bad feeling something horrible will happen...)
~Cross-Examination~
~The Witnessed Moment of the Crime~
Crogray: I was present around the shop entrance while they were in the midst of a dispute with the owner.
Naruhodou: HOLD IT!
Naruhodou: Hutch-san.... emerged out from the storage vault in the back of the store, correct?
Crogray: Well, these thieves did savagely scatter the objects sitting upon the counter in a fine heap of mess.
Crogray: He had a gun in his hand. ...I'm rather thankful I wasn't in proximity.
Nemmy: ...We've never had anything more frightening than that happen to us, man...
Tully: ...We're just harmless ol' thieves and definitely no muggers, man...
Naruhodou: ...You had a gun with you. What on Earth are you talking about?
Naruhodou: When you said "around the shop entrance", you mean...?
Crogray: ...I, was gazing upon the innumerous fine wares placed upon the shelf steps away from the entrance.
Naruhodou: (...So he could search for that music box for sale...?)
Crogray: ...The good owner leapt at Nemmy.
Crogray: Tully teamed up, turning it into a 2 vs 1. Seemed like an easy victory for them, however...
Crogray: ...It didn't quite turn out that way.
Tully: I wanted to help Nemmy, but I was pinned by the objects form the counter...
Nemmy: And then I aimed my gun... but the old man, he fled.
Judge; Hmm.... Two of you men teaming up against a weak old owner. Utter monsters!
...Ooouff....
Crogray: When the owner went off at Nemmy, a stray bullet ran past my arm!
Naruhodou: HOLD IT!
Naruhodou: ...In other words, he had fired back then...?
Crogray: Quite so. I hadn't truly realized what went on at that point.
Crogray: The three of them were fighting and sent everything atop the counter flying... Making a loud ruckus.
Crogray: It was right then... That I heard a gunshot ringing through the air.
Naruhodou: So the bullet... simply struck itself into the calendar on the wall behind you.
Crogray: ...I suppose so.
Crogray: Blood emerged when I looked at my arm. Forgetting everything else, I tied a handkerchief around it...
Crogray: I did not visit the doctor... I had to wait for the wound to close.
Crogray: Two days passed and the blood stopped... Or so I thought.
Van Zieks: ...Perhaps Mr. Hutch had fired on purpose at you?
Crogray: Heavens knows... I think he probably didn't even realize I was there.
Crogray: The gun indeed fire... But the target was likely off.
Nemmy: When I pointed my gun at that old man, he launched himself into me.
Tully: And then... he ran into the door far back, man.
Judge: And so... What happened next, witness?
Crogray: I went after the the owner, and the moment I looked through the window of that door.
Naruhodou: HOLD IT!
Naruhodou: You gave chase to the Hutch-san, the owner?!
Crogray: Even I know not the reason myself. But I did head towards the back of the store.
Naruhodou: ...What about this door window?
Gregson: The door to the storage vault is made of a strong, heavy piece of wood, but...
Gregson: ...There really indeed is a small window one could use to look into the room.
Naruhodou: (Speaking of which...)
Naruhodou: (...I saw it back then too, right through there...)
Van Zieks: ...And you, incongruous brothers? Did you see that window?
A-a. A-absolutely not, sir!!   D-d. Didn't see it, sir!!
Crogray: They wouldn't even know of that peeking window at any rate.
Naruhodou: (...True. Those brothers ultimately didn't see the crime being committed...)
Judge: Hmm...
Crogray: Within the storage vault... stood the late owner who had ran tails, and that young lass.
Judge: ...The defendant... eh?
Crogray: Without both of them realizing that I was stealthily watching...
Crogray: The young lass pointed her gun at the owner.
Judge: ...And what did you see after that...?
Crogray: The defendant donned in a black coat shot the fleeing owner from the back!
Naruhodou: HOLD IT!
Naruhodou: Indeed... When the crime was discovered, the defendant was holding a gun.
Naruhodou: Said gun belonged to Mr. Hutch, and it had only fired one bullet.
Naruhodou: The person who Mr. Hutch had fired his gun at was you... Crogray-san!
Crogray: ...At that point in time, the gun held and fired by that pickpocketer was not the owner's.
Crogray: The late owner's gun was the one which fired at me. Tinpillers' gun was fired at the detective.
Crogray: With those two accounted for... There's the existence of a third handgun, simply put.
Van Zieks: As long as it was not the owner's own gun used as the murder weapon... Then yes, a third must exist.
Van Zieks: Ergo, the defendant must have had her own handgun prepared in advance.
Naruhodou: OBJECTION!
Naruhodou: But! A third handgun had not been discovered from the site!
Crogray: ...Hahaha....
Crogray: You ought to keep calm... My dear attorney.
Naruhodou: W-what did you say...?
Crogray: All things unfolded in sequences. ...Allow me to explain in detail.
Naruhodou: ..!
Crogray: Both the owner and the young lass appeared to be glaring down at each other, but then...
Crogray: The late owner suddenly tried to flee.
Crogray: In that moment... The lass shot the owner through his back!
Judge: ...I-I don't know what to even say...
Crogray: ..................
Crogray: I clearly saw the blood of the owner spurting out from his back and onto the coat of the defendant.
Naruhodou: HOLD IT!
Naruhodou: The blood... spurted...?
Crogray: I saw that very moment through that peeking window.
Crogray: It's almost invisible since the coat is black, however...
Crogray: That coat... is drenched in the blood of the owner!
Naruhodou: (Yes, true... There ARE bloodstains on that coat but...)
Iris: But. That blood... isn't Uncle Hutch's!
Naruhodou: ...Right. It's blood from Mr. Mortar, the man who Megundal had stabbed to death two months ago.
Iris: Holmesies' drug could have just easily proven that without a doubt...
Naruhodou: But, so long as the law does not acknowledge that, it can't be treated as evidence.
Iris: Oooh...
Crogray: Once the defendant had discarded her gun through the window... she picked it up and ran.
Naruhodou: HOLD IT!
Naruhodou: W-what...? She discarded her gun through the peeking window...?
Crogray: ...When the owner fell, that pickpocketer ran over here.
Judge: Could you... explain "here"?
Crogray: ...The direction of the storage door. I saw it happening through the peeking window, afterall.
Crogray: I hastily got away from the door. And then...
Crogray: Through the peeking window, that girl... dropped her gun into my side of the door.
Judge: B-but why would she commit such an act...?
Crogray: ...Heavens knows. She had to discard the murder weapon to somewhere, I suppose?
Crogray: Without hesitation... I picked up that gun into my own pocket.
Crogray: I had thought... that if I had just left that gun, something might happen again.
Van Zieks: ..................
Van Zieks: So. The third handgun was carried out of the site by you...?
Crogray: ...Yes. That would be correct.
Judge: Hmm...
Crogray: And so, I left everything afterwards to these two, and left the pawnshop ahead of them.
Naruhodou: "Afterwards"...?
Nemmy: The area around the counter was a mess, so we left behind to clean it up...
Tully: S what Mummy always used to tell us. We just did it, like following an order.
Crogray: ...I did pay you two at least that much worth.
Nemmy: Urgkk.
Naruhodou:Crogray-san. When you exited that store, was there...
Naruhodou: A second disc within your pocket?
Crogray: .................. Rather the persistent one, aren't you.
Naruhodou: HANG ON!
Naruhodou: The two of you! ...Can I get your attention?
Nemmy: *Huff* *huff* *huff*... *Heave* *heave* *heave* *heave*....
Gregson: Oh criminey. Was something the matter?
Naruhodou: Nonono!
Naruhodou: You just... staged a great kerfuffle right in front of us!
Nemmy: Oooogh... This Inspector's cruel, man...
Naruhodou: Something happen?
Nemmy: He grabbed the front of my clothes and shook me, man.
Nemmy: ...Demanding to know why we didn't tell the police bout the third gun.
Naruhodou: So why didn't you tell us about it?
Nemmy : But I mean! I didn't even know about that, that peeking window!
Gregson: ...Apologies.
Gregson: I lost myself there for a second. ...Are you hurt anywhere?
Nemmy: Oooof... His eyes looks unremorseful. This Inspector... is scary.
Naruhodou: (It's so strange... This really bugs me.)
Naruhodou: (It's so unusual for the Inspector to be so emotional about some matter like this.)
Iris: You've got a point there. The usual Greggy would be...
Gregson: Always gleefully smiling away no matter what he says to me.
Naruhodou: Well... There might be some reason why he feels the need to do that.
Iris: Anyway. It's kind of... unnatural.
Gregson: ..................
...Your Honor!...
Bailiff: I request that you suspend this cross-examination for the time being!
Judge: ...For what reason, bailiff?
Bailiff: I have received the results of the investigations you ordered scant moments ago!
Van Zieks: ...The matter of the bloodstains on the defendant's coat... eh?
Judge: ...Understood. The cross-examination shall be temporarily suspended.
Judge: Is that agreeable, attorney?
Naruhodou: Y...Yes, I understand.
Gregson: .................. T-this... I knew it!
Van Zieks: Inspector Gregson. ...Report.
Gregson: ...Yes Sir!!
Gregson: "Traces of human blood has been detected on the defendant, Gina Lestrade's black coat."
Gregson: "Judging from the way the coat was worn, it is believed that this was from a blood spurt."
Gregson: ...That ends the report!
Judge: Wha..... What in Heavens above...?!
Crogray: ...See? All is as I had stated.
Naruhodou: OBJECTION!
Naruhodou: The blood seeped into that coat is not of Hutch-san's!
Judge: W-what do you mean by that...?!
Naruhodou: That coat... originally belonged to Cosney Megundal.
Naruhodou: Cosney Megundal... stabbed the bricklayer, Mr. Mortar to death on that night.
Naruhodou: What's stained on that coat... is Mr. Mortar's blood from back then!
Van Zieks: OBJECTION!
Van Zieks: So... "The dead cannot speak", then? ...Listen well, Japanese.
Naruhodou: Yes...
Van Zieks: Two months ago today.
Van Zieks: You had, in this very courtroom, claimed Megundal innocent. Am I wrong?
Van Zieks: That man has since perished, and now, you go about calling him a murderer.
Van Zieks: ...That's unbefitting of a proper attorney!
Naruhodou: Gh....! T-that's... because.
Juror 1: He's right!! You are not being fair!!
Juror 3: First off. For the blood on that coat to be from two months ago...
Juror 3: It doesn't make sense stereographically no matter how you look at it!
Naruhodou: W-what I mean is, that's cause...
Naruhodou: Sherlock Holmes-san's newly invented chemical drug had...
Juror 4: Mr. Holmes is a detective, boy. He's not a chemist!
Juror 5: I say, you. Would you trust a drug a telegraph operator invents?
Juror 6: There was a hungry young man. But he ran away crying when I gave him piroshkis.
Van Zieks: ...Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of a serialized novel...
Van Zieks: He has no credibility in a courtroom in reality! ...That's all there is to it.
Naruhodou: B-but no....!
Crogray: ...So. It appears this makes it clear then.
Crogray: What I have testified... is all the truth...!
Judge: ...What do you mean by that?
Van Zieks: The blood on the defendant's coat... Is, as per his testimony, left from a spurt of the victim's blood.
Van Zieks: If he truly did not witness such an event... then that testimony would not exist.
Van Zieks: ...Ergo, this man's testimony verifies one... single conclusion.
Van Zieks: The one who had shot the victim is the defendant. That's... the absolute truth!
Naruhodou: UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!
...Your Honor!...
Juror 1: ...I, a humble retired soldier, have a request to make of you, Your Honor!
Judge: Juror...
Juror 1: Now... We have finally arrived at the final conclusion...
Juror 1: So how about it?! What say you, my fellow tiny platoon comrades?!
...YEEEEEEEEEEAH!!...
Juror 1: Guilty!
Juror 2: Guilty!
Juror 3: Guilty!
Juror 4: Guilty!
Juror 5: Guilty!
Juror 6: Guilty!
Judge: ...It appears our jurors' verdict are once again in alignment.
Van Zieks: The defense was not able to crumble this witness' testimony.
Van Zieks: ...This time, it should be impossible to return a rebuttal these six people's verdict.
Naruhodou: G....
Naruhodou: GWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!
Naruhodou: (...After coming all this way...)
Naruhodou: (And the tables have gone and done a great turnabout against me...)
Naruhodou: .......................
???: ...Oh deary me...
???: ...How incredibly sad this is. Rather unbelievable, is the word...
???: Would you not agree? ...My dear attorney?
Judge: Y-you are...
Judge: Are you not the court bailiff... who had just passed this document moments ago?!
Bailiff: ...You know, I, think of this from time to time, Mister Naruhodou.
Bailiff: What determines the scientificity of reality is not science itself.
Bailiff: But instead, are beings none other than humans... Do you see?
Naruhodou: (...T-this voice...)
Naruhodou: D-don't tell me...
Naruhodou: Ah. AAAAAAAAAH!!
Naruhodou: Holmes-san!
Judge: Wh....
Judge: WHAT THE HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECK?!
Judge: Order! Order! ORDEEEEEEEEER!!
Van Zieks: ...What have you come for, Great Detective...? I was told you were still asleep in the ward?
Holmes: Oh, that was my intention. But I'm tasked with a little errand to run.
Van Zieks: "Errand", you say?
Iris: Holmesies! Finally... Finally, you've awoken?!
Holmes: Yes I have, Iris. Although, I might have overslept a tad.
Holmes: ...Your Honor. Might you lend an ear?
Judge: W-what is it...?
Holmes: Actually... There is something I'd like to hand over to that attorney over there.
Holmes: ...Oh come. It shall be no more than 5 minutes. Could you not spare at least that much...?
Judge: Hmm... What say you, Sir van Zieks?
Van Zieks: ..................
Van Zieks: We have already been standing in this trial for a long time. Asking for that now...
Gregson: T-that's right, I say! Asking to waste any further time is...
Van Zieks: ...Asking for a mere 5 minutes will not hinder us in the least.
Gregson: BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH?!
Judge: ...In that case, I shall hereby grant 5 minutes of thinking time to the defense!
Holmes: Hullo! Sorry to keep you waiting, friend!
Holmes: Holmes-san! Are you alright?
Holmes: AHAHAHAHAHAH! Like hell I'm alright.
Naruhodou: Eh?
Holmes: I'm finally able to stand upright. I did demand 5, but...
Holmes: I'm afraid anymore than that, and the game will be over with me out cold on the floor.
Naruhodou: Anyway... Let's settle your business as quickly as we can.
Iris: Geez! I swear, everyone's a blockhead here!
Iris: No one appresheates the beauty of Holmesies' science!
Iris: Come now... It's simply something like a hobby for my investigations.
Holmes: It's my fault for not spending the effort to have society recognize it until now.
Naruhodou: Right... (Spoken like a true big shot...)
Holmes: ...More importantly.
Holmes: I came... To hand this over to you.
Naruhodou: And this is...? (A peach colored furoshiki tied in a bag...?)
Holmes: A parting gift. ...From Ms. Susato.
Naruhodou: S-Susato-san's...?
Holmes: If at all possible, it'd be best for everything to finish without handing this over.
Holmes: ...That was the wish of Ms. Susato, you see.
Naruhodou: Huh...? So what does this mean?
Holmes: Ms. Susato foresaw everything.
Holmes: She knew what methods the true culprit of this case will use to escape from his crime.
Holmes: She knew that you might meet with a desperate crisis while you fought with your fair methods.
Holmes: ...So, in that final hour, she wished for you to receive this...
Holmes: That was her message to you.
Naruhodou: (Susato-san's visiting souveniour... What's in there, I wonder?)
Naruhodou: ...This is...
Iris: OOOOH!!
Iris: T-this! I made this...
Naruhodou: Ah......!
Wagahai: Meow.
Iris: Here! This! Look! It's my invention!
Naruhodou: A-and that is...?
Iris: I call it the "Cat Door Maker"!
Iris: Uh-huh! It can create a entrance for the cat in an instant on a door!
Iris: Oh, Sussie. Why would she have this...?
Holmes: Ms. Susato... spoke of this to me.
Holmes: She claimed she... ought to be disqualified as a legal assistant.
NAruhodou: Huh....? (If I remember right, those words were...)
Naruhodou: Susato-san... I really think you are the best legal assistant in this world.
Susato: I am most happy to hear those words of praise.
Susato: But, I am sure...
Susato: I ought to be disqualified from being a legal assistant.
Naruhodou: Say, Holmes-san. What do you think... she meant when she said those words?
Holmes: ..................
Holmes: On that night, when you were pursuing that duo out of the store...
Holmes: Ms. Susato... Used this, with some sort of purpose in mind.
Holmes: ...That's your answer, Mr. Naruhodou.
NAruhodou: (W-...What's going on...)
Naruhodou: (Susato-san had used this that night...?)
Cat Door Maker// A small piece of equipment used to create a small door for cats to freely pass through on a door of the owner's room or choosing.// Cat Door Maker has been filed in the Court Records.
Van Zieks: ...5 minutes are over.
Naruhodou: ...! (Time's up, huh...?)
Holmes: ...Thank you for granting me the time, dear Reaper.
Van Zieks: ...There's no need for thanks, detective. Since well...
Van Zieks: It already seems too late for anything.
Holmes: ...Ohoh? Is that so, now?
Van Zieks: The jurors' response are all aligned. Holding a closing argument may be possible...
Van Zieks: But this time, the verdict will not crumble.
Holmes: .................. I wonder about that.
Holmes: Mr. Naruhodou!
NAruhodou: ...Yes!
Holmes: The rest is up to you. What shall you do.. in this upset?
Naruhodou: (The rest is up to me...)
Naruhodou: (I have to make the correct moves, or this trial's over...)
Naruhodou: ...Your Honor. The defense requests for...!
> A Cross-Examination
Naruhodou: A cross-examination... sir.
Van Zieks: OBJECTION!
Van Zieks: ...The jurors have cast their verdicts. You cannot call for a new cross-examination to hold!
Naruhodou: OBJECTION!
Naruhodou: The defense is not requesting for a new cross-examination.
Naruhodou: But for it to resume.
Van Zieks: ...What...?!
Holmes: ...Seems like you've forgotten something very important...
...Your Honor!...
Bailiff: I request that you suspend this cross-examination for the time being!
Judge: ...Understood. The cross-examination shall be temporarily suspended.
Judge: Is that agreeable, attorney?
Naruhodou: Y...Yes, I understand.
Iris: Which means, as far as our current situation goes... no one here has an option available to them.
Iris: As long as Narudy says for the cross-examination to resume...
Holmes: The court would be forced to restart the cross-examination!
Van Zieks: I...Impossible...!
Judge: .................. The court shall hereby state its opinion.
Judge: True. The defense's request is a valid one... But.
Judge: When the trial has gone past a certain point, the one who decides the the conclusion... is the law.
Judge: As such...
Judge: I would like to grant... one chance for the defense to think.
Naruhodou: ...!
Judge: To this witness' earlier testimony. I require one...
Judge: Just one piece of evidence... to be presented against his testimony.
Naruhodou: (...Evidence...)
Judge: If after the situation remains ever the same... Then we shall conclude the trial.
Judge: ...Is that agreeable?
Van Zieks: ...As you wish.
Naruhodou: ...Yes!!
Holmes: One piece of evidence for one testimony? ...On the contrary, that seems too generous.
Holmes: Well then, Mr. Naruhodou. I think... it's time for me to pass out.
Holmes: I leave... the rest to you...
*Thud*
Naruhodou: Ho......
Naruhodou: ...HOLMES-SAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!...
Judge: ...Such a high fever, and he still stood in front of us with such a nonchalant face...
Judge: What astonishingly terrifying focus he has... Or perhaps, astonishingly terrifying thickheaded-ness...
Van Zieks: He is currently recuperating in the infirmary.
Naruhodou: (They're saying pretty mean stuff about you, Holmes-san...)
Judge: Now then... Attorney. Are your preparations complete?
Naruhodou: ...Yes, Your Honor.
Naruhodou: (One piece of evidence against one testimomy...)
Naruhodou: (...This is Holmes-san and Iris-chan...)
Naruhodou: (And even Susato-san's final chance they have given to me...)
Naruhodou: (...This is where I guide the direction of the trial...!)
Judge: ...Without further ado, the cross-examination shall restart once more!
~Cross-Examination~
~The Witnessed Moment of the Crime - Once More~
Crogray: I was present around the shop entrance while they were in the midst of a dispute with the owner.
Crogray: When the owner went off at Nemmy, a stray bullet ran past my arm!
Crogray: I went after the the owner, and the moment I looked through the window of that door.
> Cat Door Maker
Naruhodou: OBJECTION!
Judge: ...W-what is this curious thing? Such a queer looking piece of machinery..
Iris: It's a piece of equipment which can create entrances for kitties in a snap.
Iris: Direct it at any door and it'll make a small door for you!
Naruhodou: It's sort of like making another small door on your existing door to the room.
Naruhodou: Without even the need for a person to hold open the door, a cat may freely pass...
Crogray: ...That much is obvious without any explanation!
Iris: ...Kyah!
Crogray: However. That toy has no relevance to anything going on currently!
Naruhodou: ...Does it really?
Crogray: After all. That door has no opening for a cat at all.
Judge: Hmm...
Judge: I own no felines in my home... So I'm afraid you've lost me.
Naruhodou: ...In that case. I'll at least say this much.
Naruhodou: This equipment...
Naruhodou: Is able... to create a peeking window in a snap.
Judge: Wo.... Would you repeat that? ...A peeking window...?
Naruhodou: ...Two nights ago.
Naruhodou: Right after the incident occurred, we went to that pawnshop.
Gregson: Do you refer to yourself, Mr. Holmes and the Legal Assistant, as the records states?
Naruhodou: That's correct. And so, my Legal Assistant...
Naruhodou: Used this at the site itself.
Judge: W...What did you say...?!
Naruhodou: Yes, true. There indeed was a peeking window on that door.
Naruhodou: ...In fact, I saw the scene through that peeking window too.
Crogray: T-that's rubbish... What are you trying to get at?!
Crogray: That peeking window... has been on that door since the beginning!
Crogray: After all... I witnessed the crime unfold through there...!
Naruhodou: ..................
Naruhodou: Is that really true?
Crogray: W-what was that...?!
Judeg: What do you mean by that, attorney?
Naruhodou: (I'm going to... push through this at full force...!)
Naruhodou: ...In other words,
Naruhodou: Until my Legal Assistant was able to create that peeking window...
Naruhodou: ...There was no such thing as a peeking window on that door!
Crogray: Huh...
Crogray: Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!
Van Zieks: OBJECTION!
Van Zieks: That's absurd... Then?! That peeking window on the door...?
Naruhodou: Was made by my Legal Assistant, with the help of this equipment.
Judge: Tampering with the scene without notice with her standing as a Legal Assistant...
Judge: What a barbaric act worthy of only the heaviest of crime!
Naruhodou: I'm very sorry!!
Judge: I think several minutes had passed when I had to leave the scene to call for the police.
Naruhodou: ...But! If that was really how it was,
Naruhodou: Then Crogray-san's testimony given earlier...
Naruhodou: would be a huge contradiction in itself!
Crogray: ...!
Judge: Hm. contradiction... What sort of contradiction...?!
Naruhodou: Crogray-san's decisive sounding witness testimony...
Naruhodou: Is that he saw everything from the peeking window.
Crogray: ....T-that's...
Naruhodou: ...But. When the murder actually took place...
Naruhodou: The peeking window on that door still did not exist.
Naruhodou: For you to witness everything from there... is absolutely impossible!
Crogray: Gh....Grr....
Naruhodou: ...Therefore.
Naruhodou: Your testimony... is all a lie!
Crogray: ...What...?
Judge: Order! Order! ORDER! ...W-what on Earth...
Van Zieks: OBJECTION!
Van Zieks: That claim will not pass! ...You should know this as well.
Crogray: Right... That's right! As if that childish claim would ever be accepted!
Naruhodou: ...Which part of it are you saying was childish?
Crogray: I mean! Making a door in a snap with such a toy...?
Iris: Yup! I'm super proud of the power it has to cut apart any door there is!
Crogray: Poppycock! There's no way that is possible!!
Iris: Hehe~ ...Thought you might say that.
Crogray: Huh....?
Iris: Heey~ Wagahai, it's meal time!
... Meow.
Iris: See?
Crogray: Oh.
Judge: Oi! Don't make any cat doors in the Supreme Court!
Crogray: T...That's not all! I have more to say!
Crogray: Was that peeking door truly made by that toy?
Crogray: ...You cannot prove it!
Iris: Oh, that's a easy thing to do.
Crogray: What....?
Iris: The size of the cat doors made by this equipment is set in stone.
Iris: I think the size of that cat door in the site is the exact same as what this makes.
Crogray: Gh.....!
Crogray: ..................
Iris: Hahaha. I shut that man in white's mouth.
Naruhodou: Nice work, Iris-chan. ...That was a great help.
Van Zieks: Well then. It's time to shut your mouth next... Exchange student.
Naruhodou: ...!
Van Zieks: I believe that Legal Assistant of yours is already on her way back to your Orient nation.
Naruhodou: Y-yes but...
Van Zieks: If so, your claim... is still lacking.
Van Zieks: Let's say, for argument's sake that the size made by that equipment was the exact same...
Van Zieks: But when was it made...? The prosecution demands evidence!
Naruhodou: Gh....!
Judge: W-what do you mean? ...Sir van Zieks!
Van Zieks: ...It's not complicated.
Van Zieks: Did this equipment create that peeking window after the murder, or before it?
Van Zieks: So long as your Legal Assistant is en route back home, you cannot possibly prove or testify that.
Naruhodou: Ugh......
Van Zieks: Precisely when this peeking window on site was made...
Van Zieks: ...can only be proven through the use of evidence. Just claims will not be sufficient!
Naruhodou: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!
Judge: He is right indeed! ...Attorney, what will you do about this?!
Naruhodou: W-well...
Iris: Geez... This isn't where you get the jitters and retreat, Narudy!
Iris: This is where you make your own door and bust it wide open!
Naruhodou: (Frankly, I can't believe this but... I know.)
Naruhodou: (I know for a fact that... Susato-san is the number one most outstanding Legal Assistant in this world!)
Judge: ...Now then. Will the defense please present evidence?
Judge: Show us the proof that the peeking door on the storage door was made after the murder!
Naruhodou: TAKE THAT!
Van Zieks: ...This is...
Van Zieks: ...from the camera machine put together by that detective and set into the shop...!
Naruhohodou: My Legal Assistant... Susato Mikotoba, is nothing but excellent.
Naruhodou: And so, even at the times when I don't notice it...
Naruhodou: She would tell me of all the necessary evidence... without fail.
Judge: Necessary evidence... You speak of that photograph...?!
Crogray: ...!
Naruhodou: This is...  a photograph taken when the defendant broke into the pawn shop.
Van Zieks: ...Indeed.
Van Zieks: A photograph of that scoundrel of a defendant who murderously pointed her gun at the defenseless victim.
Naruhodou: M-more importantly than that! The important point of interest is...
Naruhodou: The door depicted behind the both of them!
Judge: ...Let me see that again!
...T-this is...!
Judge: Un-...Unbelievable! The door to the storage vault is...
Judge: Lacking the peeking window!
Crogray: Wha....
Naruhodou: ...Crogray-san.
Crogray: ...!!
Naruhodou: ...You couldn't have witnessed the events through a peeking window back then.
Naruhodou: That's because a peeking window... still did not exist.
Crogray: Ug..... Uuuuuugh....
Naruhodou:...Hence, your testimony... must be...
Naruhodou: All a lie!
Crogray: Ugh.... Ughhhh... Gaaah.....
Crogray: DAMN IT AAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!
Judge: Order! Order! ORDER IN THE COURT!!
Judge: It seems... with this, the defense's claims have all been proven true!
Judge: This witness before us.... has gave us an elaborate but false testimony!
Crogray: ..................
Van Zieks: ...Exactly. The claims have all been proven true.
Van Zieks: As well as your Legal Assistant's unforgivable act of forging false evidence!
Naruhodou: ...!
Van Zieks: ...However, that's just all it amounts to.
Judge: W-what do you mean by that, Sir van Zieks?
Van Zieks: ...Let's say that even if this man has committed the grave crime of perjury,
Van Zieks: Then this man cannot possibly be a murderer.
Crogray: ...That is... right...
Naruhodou: What did you say...?
Crogray: I was really... present on site back then.
Crogray: And... my arm was shot. ...That's all that happened...
Crogray: ...That's right. I am actually... The victim here!
NAruhodou: What....
Naruhodou: WHAT THE HEEEEEECK?!
Naruhodou: (....How could this be...)
Naruhodou: (....But, yes... Right now.)
Naruhodou: (There isn't any decisive evidence tying to the murderer...)
Iris: ...But hey. I think we're pretty close.
Naruhodou: ...I-Iris-chan...?
Iris: Cause. The door that only opened once...
Iris: ....Can't return those that passed through it.
Iris: ...Right? Don't cha think so too, Narudy?
Naruhodou: ...!
Iris: Holmesies says this often.
Iris: "One lie exposed will lead to another, without fail."
Iris: Hm? Huh, maybe this is a line I wrote for Holmesies instead.
Naruhodou: ..................
Naruhodou: Yes... You're right, Iris-chan.
Naruhodou: ...Crogray-san.
Naruhodou: You... did not only lie about your testimony.
Naruhodou: That lie could never be plausible anyway.
Crogray: Can't be plausible...? Whatever do you mean?
Naruhodou: With the lie you just said...
Naruhodou: You have unwittingly admitted to something you shouldn't possibly know in the first place.
Naruhodou: ...Ergo, your statements are fundamentally contradicting themselves!
Crogray: What...?
Van Zieks: OBJECTION!
Van Zieks: ...Fascinating, attorney.
Van Zieks: Well then... What contradiction is that? Have at you!
Naruhodou: (...Just as Iris-chan said...)
Naruhodou: (One lie exposed... will definitely lead to another.)
Naruhodou: The fatal contradiction underlying his false testimony..
Naruhodou: The knowledge Crogray-san cannot ever possibly know of is...!
> The Peeking Window
Naruhodou: ...The most important point of this testimony was not a lie.
Naruhodou: What I mean is... "How are you able to construct such a lie"?
Crogray: ...I'm afraid I still don't understand what you mean...
Crogray: Well then. Allow me to ask you one question.
Naruhodou: Crogray-san. How... did you know?
Naruhodou: ...How did you know there was a peeking window on the door?
Crogray: Hah.... As if it's necessary for me to spell it out to you!
Crogray: ..................
Crogray: Oh.... Oooh....
Judge: I-is there something wrong...? Why have you gone quiet...?
Naruhodou: That peeking window was created *after* the murder.
Naruhodou: From the time frame when I chased after the two, and then returned to the store...
Naruhodou: ...Until the investigation squad of Scotland Yard soon arrived...
Naruhodou: That shop... Was then under an investigation sweep by the police, as it would normally be.
Naruhodou: ...Isn't that right, Inspector Gregson?
Gregson: T-that's... Indeed, well...
Gregson: There is an article of great importance in that pawnshop. Thus, in order to examine everything...
Gregson: We had our officers be ordered to work on shifts...
Naruhodou: So... This means Crogray-san would obviously have no access to the scene.
Crogray: ...!
Naruhodou: That's why there would be know way you would know of that peeking window.
Naruhodou: Ergo, it is absolutely impossible for you to have spoken that testimonial!
Crogray: Grrr.....!!
Van Zieks: OBJECTION!
Van Zieks: ...And yet! This man has evidently spoke of the testimonial!
Van Zieks: We heard him saying he witnessed the murder through the peeking window... Very clearly!
Judge: I say... What on Earth is going on here?!
???: ...Uhm....
Hear me out please? ...Sir van Zieks?Gregson:
Van Zieks: ..What. Inspector Gregson?
Gregson: I think it's about time I ought to report to the Yard.
Gregson: Any further testimony at this point seems nigh unlikely. So, if it alright with you...
Van Zieks: ...I cannot approve, Inspector Gregson.
Gregson: Huh....?
Van Zieks: I'm saying it's not alright... Inspector.
Van Zieks: ...Until this trial draws to a close, I will not allow you to leave.
Gregson: .................. U-understood, Sir...
Naruhodou: Crogray-san. How... did you know?
Crogray: ..................
Naruhodou: You could not possibly have known about the existence of that peeking window.
Naruhodou: ...Which would mean...
Naruhodou: You heard that information from someone.
Crogray: Ugh......
Van Zieks: OBJECTION!
Van Zieks: ...Attorney.
Van Zieks: That accusation you have just uttered... carries a significant weight in its meaning.
Naruhodou: ...I am aware.
Naruhodou: The claim of the witnessed events given to us by Crogray-san....
Naruhodou: Could be constructed based on the information fed to him by someone, is what I believe.
Naruhodou: (And, that'd be...)
Naruhodou: (If I consider a certain clue I have... Then it's gotta be that person for sure...!)
Judge: So who... is this person, pray tell?!
Judge: Who is this person who fed him the information needed of the crime scene to fabricate the testimony...?!
> Tobias Gregson (44)
Naruhodou: TAKE THAT!
Naruhodou: That would be... Inspector Gregson! Wouldn't it be you?
Gregson: M....M-me....?!
Van Zieks: OBJECTION!
Van Zieks: ...On what grounds do you base that nonsense...?
Naruhodou: This time, in this case...
Naruhodou: In the split second we knew the name of "Rubert Crogray",
Naruhodou: today's trial... was soon suspended.
Judge: It was in great hurry... that an hour of recess and the procedure for cross-examination of the witness was complete.
Judge: A officer headed to the telecommunications office in the city, and summoned this man for us.
Naruhodou: ...It's a moment Crogray-san could not have fathomed until it passed.
Naruhodou: ...Being called to the witness stand in the courtroom out of the blue...
Crogray: ..................
Judge: So then... Until that moment, the knowledge of the peeking window...
Naruhodou: ...Yes Sir. I believe it's highly likely he could not have known about it.
Naruhodou: And so. When he stood up there in the witness stand, Crogray-san knew it himself.
Naruhodou: ...That he would be confessing to being the third infiltrator to that shop.
Van Zieks: So there... was where this man received his information...?
Van Zieks: To save his own skin... He committed perjury and provided a false witness testimony!
Naruhodou: ...Yes.
Naruhodou: There could have been only one person related to investigating the case Crogray-san could have contacted.
Naruhodou: ...And that's Inspector Gregson!
Gregson: Wh.... What are you-?! Rubbish!
Gregson: There's no way.... I could have given this man any information... None at all!
Judge: Hm....
Gregson: ...And come now! I was summoned into His Honor's chambers during the recess!
Judge: It is as he says. I was given a briefing on the events regarding the pawnshop.
Van Zieks: ...Which means,
van Zieks: These two had only met each other after the the trial had resumed.
Van Zieks: Holding a conversation whilst in the witness stand is impossible!
Naruhodou: Gah....!
Iris: Oh~. Now that you mention it, something just came right into mind!
Naruhodou: What did, Iris-chan?
Iris: Earlier... Just once.
Iris: Ginny gave testimony, didn't she?
Naruhodou: ...Yeah, come to speak of it. It was...
Naruhodou: When the court bailiff headed to the crime scene to retrieve Mengundal's music box...
Naruhodou: Oh... (That's right! The testimony back then...)
Naruhodou: (...Thinking back now, I sort of noticed it, very barely.)
Naruhodou: (Inspector Gregson and Crogray... They were both discussing about something...)
Naruhodou: ...If we consider the information was given that time, then it'd be possible...
Gregson: Wh... What a load of bull! That's just... just claims!
Gregson: First off, why don't you tell me?! Why would an esteemed Inspector of Scotland Yard, me!
Gregson: Would be disclosing important state information to such a man?!
Naruhodou: True... There isn't a reason why you would provide such a one sided information exchange.
Naruhodou: But... What if.
Naruhodou: That was a negotiation? ...Will that line of thought not change things?
Van Zieks: ...! You say it's a negotiation...?
Naruhodou: ...In other words, Mr. Rubert Crogray...
Naruhodou: Gave a certain something over to the Inspector in exchange for the information of the window...
Gregson: ....!!
Crogray: ........
Judge: An inspector of the yard... Striking a deal with a witness...
Judge: If, such is the truth.... Would be quite the breach of trust!
Gregson: ...T-that's...
Van Zieks: OBJECTION!
Van zieks: ...It appears.
Van Zieks: Firing accusations at will, then observe the results. This is how the people of Japanese blood does things.
Naruhodou: N-no... I never meant to...
Van Zieks: I shall not tolerate a vague statement, not after coming this far in.
Van Zieks: The prosecution demands evidence to be presented...!
Naruhodou: E-evidence...
Van Zieks: What did our Inspector demand from that witness over there...?
Van Zieks: Show me proof of the negotiation!
Naruhodou: (If Inspector Gregson and Crogray struck a deal...)
Naruhodou: (Then in all likelihood, Inspector Gregson... must have demanded that.)
Iris: ...Narudy. You think, perhaps, that'd be...
Naruhodou: ...Yup.
Naruhodou: This just might link everything together...!
Judge: ...Now then. I hereby order for the attorney to present!
Judge: Show us the evidence that indicates the Inspector had traded the information!
> Music Disc
Naruhodou: TAKE THAT!
Naruhodou: ...Inspector Gregson.
Naruhodou: On top of this murder case, you were pursuing another important case, weren't you?
Gregson: ...W-what's that all of the sudden?!
Naruhodou: Could this state secret you're on the lookout for, good Inspector, be...
Naruhodou: About this case that's headlined on the newspaper?
Naruhodou: Information of the Great British Empire's classified telecommunications are being leaked to her enemies...
Gregson: H-how did you...
Naruhodou: Just earlier. The music box Megundal had deposited two months ago was discovered.
Naruhodou: It's a specially made music box which plays two discs at the same time.
Naruhodou: ...And. In these two discs lies...
Naruhodou: The leaked classified information from the Ministry of Justice's telecommunications, possibly embedded into it.
Gregson: ...........
Naruhodou: Which means, in order for you to retrieve the two discs with state secrets...
Naruhodou: You negotiated with Mr. Crogray and struck a deal in exchange for intel of the investigation!
Gregson: St........
Gregson: STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!
Judge: Order! Order! Order!
Naruhodou: ...Didn't you, on the day of the murder,
Naruhodou: Say this when we met each other at the pawnshop?
Gregson: The Scotland Yard will  be taking the late Cosney Megundal's item!
Gregson: ...Hand it over.
Gina: You can't give it over, Naruhodou! Cause that's my...
Gregson: Aah, sorry, little miss.
Gregson: All of Megundal's possessions are being retrieved as evidence.
Naruhodou: Shouldn't the police have knowledge of this back then?
Naruhodou: They should know Mr. Megundal was related to the burglary case!
Gregson: .................. The mission entrusted to me was,
Gregson: To retrieve information leaked from government's telecommunications in the form of an object discreetly.
Gregson: The information is related to our state secrets, so no one must come to know of it...
Van Zieks: Thus the reason... when I had presented this as evidence...
Van Zieks: ...Your reaction was to object to it strongly?
Van Zieks: You knew this disc had significant information embedded into it all along.
Gregson: N-no Sir! There really wasn't proof implying any of that but...
Gregson: The possibility of such important information being hidden in it did cross my mind.
Judge: S-so... Then this means?!
Judge: In order to retrieve that second disc...
Gregson: You had leaked secret information known to investigators about the crime site to this witness?!
Judge: In order to ... assist this man in fabricating his testimony...?!
Naruhodou: So long as Crogray-san knew about the peeking window.
Naruhodou: Then logic would dictate that these two had struck a deal!
DAMN YOU TO HEEEEEEEEEEELL!!!!!    GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!
Van Zieks: OBJECTION!
Van Zieks: ...If. Your weightless claims are to be believed for even a second,
Van Zieks: Then those two discs you speak of... must be present within the court at this moment.
Naruhodou: H-hold on just a minute there! ...T-they're in this courtroom...?
Naruhodou: How are you so confident of that...?!
Van Zieks: Because Gregson is an Inspector... of the Scotland Yard.
Naruhodou: Huh....?
Gregson: S-Sir van Zieks...
Van Zieks: An excellent Inspector would operate calmly no matter what come may.
Van Zieks: Hence... He would never go through with a deal with mere verbal agreements.
Van Zieks: ...Should he not obtain his target in actuality, then...
Judge: Oh...!! S-so... You can't mean?!
Judge: This man... has already obtained what he needs now?!
Judge: He has... the second disc?!
Naruhodou: SIR!
Naruhodou: We'll know for certain if you give Inspector Gregson a check!
Iris: Yeah! Cause...
Iris: The only time when they could have struck a deal was when Ginny was testifying.
Iris: Plus... Remember, Greggy hasn't stepped a foot off that witness stand yet back then!
Naruhodou: Please... I request for you to search through his personal belongings!
Judge; ...Hmm... What do you say to that, Inspector?!
Gregson: ..................
Gregson: I think this person's one-sided claim is utterly disrespectful to the police.
Naruhodou: ...!
Gregson: ...However.
Gregson: If those baseless suspicions may be able to shed some light on the truth...
Gregson: Then I'd happily oblige to a body search right here, Your Honor!
Naruhodou: W-....What did you say...? (He's... agreeing to be searched...?)
Van Zieks: ...Exchange student. You are aware of this, no doubt, but...
Van Zieks: I hope you do understand that this is a dire challenge you are posing to the Scotland Yard.
Van Zieks: ...Should a disc not be discovered after searching through his personal belongings.
Van Zieks: Not only will you be deemed unfit to be a lawyer, this trial will also be suspended due to the interruption.
Van Zieks: Then I'd imagine there would be a great protest made formally from the Great British Empire to your nation.
Naruhodou: W-what did you say...?
Judge: For a mere exchange student to wound the dignity of the our peerless Scotland Yard,
Judge: It this would be an intolerable act for our nation, and it would be a dire issue.
Iris: ...But that's just plain bullying...
Van Zieks: It's simply a matter of if you have the resolution... needed to commit to your accusation, naturally.
Naruhodou: .................. (Indeed...)
Naruhodou: (I can't imagine how plain verbal agreements alone will be sufficient in a trade it for the Inspector.)
Naruhodou: (The Inspector should have gotten the disc from Crogray)
Naruhodou: (But... I still feel like I'm missing something...)
Judge: ...Now then. I'd like to hear the attorney's final answer.
Naruhodou: Ye... Yes, Your Honor!
Judge: Will you officially request for a search through Inspector's Gregson's possession?
Naruhodou: ...The defense requests for a body search!
Judge: W-what in the name of...
Van Zieks: ..Do as you please.
Van Zieks: What bigoted narrow mindedness is that thinking of yours. So Japanese-like.
Van Zieks: The consequences of that... will be carved into your body.
Gregson: ...Very well then. I will neither run nor hide.
Judge: ...I suppose it's fine.
Judge: Now then, bailiff! Have a search be conducted on the Inspec...
Naruhodou: OBJECTION!
Naruhodou: The individual the defense would ask to be search is not Inspector Gregson.
Van Zieks: ...What...?
Gregson: I-Impossible!
Gregson: Aren't your accusations... directed at me?!
Naruhodou: The one I'd like to be searched is... another person.
Gregson: What rubbish are you speaking?! Your words are making no sense!
Gregson: Such an illogical search doesn't need to be allowed!!
...Just stop that already!...
Iris: ...Narudy is speaking to everyone with resolution to make that request.
Iris; First honor that resolution, then return an answer with sincerity...
Iris: That's the Great British Empire I know, not this!
Judge: ....!
Van Zieks: ....
Judge: ...Indeed. You are right.
Judge: Let's have the courtroom answer to the attorney's resolution.
Gregson: No...! Please wait, Your Honor...!
Naruhodou: (If what I have seen up to this point wasn't wrong...)
Naruhodou: (Then it's highly likely that disc... must be with that person!)
Judge: Who is this person you wish to have a search done on their personal belongings...?!
Naruhodou: TAKE THAT!
Naruhodou: That person would be... Nemmy Tinpiller.
Judge: Whu....?
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?     YOOOOOOOOOOOOOU?
Judge: ...Now then, bailiff!
Judge: On top of restraining him, waste no time in searching every single item he possesses!
Gregson: HOLD IT!
Gregson: ...Your Honor!! Please, please wait!
Judge: I-Inpsector Gregson...?
Gregson: The Scotland Yard... objects to this search!
Van Zieks: OBJECTION!
Van Zieks: Unfortunately for you... Inspector. Your objection will go ignored.
Gregson: Huh...?
Van Zieks: The only ones who has the right to object in court... are the prosecutor and the attorney.
Gregson: H-However, Sir van Zieks...!
Van Zieks: While I know not what pressure presses down on your shoulders...
Van Zieks: I. Personally, have no intention to be against this search.
Gregson: ...Grr...!
Judge: ...Guards! Have this man be searched now!
Nemmy: ...H-hold on, man... I really know nothing.
Nemmy: What... disc are we talking about...?!
Nemmy: ...PLEASE DOOOOOOOOON'T!!
...AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHhhh...
...I-in the witness' outerwear pocket...
...W-we found this...
Judge: T-that's...!
Van Zieks: ...The other disc for the music box.. huh?
Nemmy: I-I know nothin'....
Gregson: ..................
Crogray: ..................
Naruhodou: That's... The second disc left behind by Mr. Megundal.
Naruhodou: Am I wrong? ...Inspector Gregson?!
Gregson: Gu.......
Gregson: GUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!
Judge: Order! Order! Order!! W-what on Earth...
Nemmy: W-what is this?! No really, what is this...
Nemmy: I... I don't know a thing... I REALLY DON'T, MAAAAAAAAAN!!
Judge: Hold it... Just a moment there! What does this mean, then?!
Judge: ...Was the one who had a deal with the witness...
Judge: ...not this Inspector over yonder?
Naruhodou: ...That's absolutely correct.
Judge: If so... then why?!
Judge: Why was the disc in the possession to that man and not the Inspector?!
Naruhodou: ...Indeed. Gregson-san is always calm, and never does anything unnecessary.
Naruhodou: But... Earlier, for just once, he did something out of character.
Judge: Out of...?
Gregson: Ah...!
Naruhodou: That... was during the cross-examination of Crogray-san.
NAruhodou: Crogray-san. When you exited that store, was there...
Naruhodou: A second disc within your pocket?
Crogray: I... have no intention of admitting to anything.
Naruhodou: ...Back then, Inspector Gregson was...
Naruhodou: ...grabbing Nemmy-san next to him and was shaking him really hard.
Nemmy: Y-yeah, man! I really thought... my neck was gonna snap!
Nemmy: I thought, "aw, darn, if only I've been born as Tully"... I really did in that moment, man!
Naruhodou: ...What exactly happened back then?
Nemmy: Don't ask me! He grabbed me an' just pulled real hard without warning!
Nemmy: "Why didn't you tell us anything about the third gun?!" ...He said.
Nemmy: This Inspector yelled right into my ear. My head's still throbbing from that shout!
Judge: Hmmm...
Naruhodou: ...Inspector Gregson was behaving like a different person back then, unlike his usual calm self.
Naruhodou: And... Come to think of it now, that was the only time it happened.
Naruhodou: The only time when Inspector Gregson... could have hid the disc he had.
Judge: What...?! He hid... the disc...
Gregson: ...Gnnmmrrrrg....
Judge: However... I am still unable to comprehend.
Judge: If, Inspector Gregson was able to retrieve his objective, the disc,
Judge: Then why... would he need to conceal it in someone else's pocket?!
Judge: This is the courtroom. If evidence needs presenting, then it should be...
Van Zieks: Apparently... The inspector was unable to do so.
Judge: But why...?!
Van Zieks: Inspector Gregson had just stated his mission himself scant moments ago.
Gregson: .................. The mission entrusted to me was,
Gregson: to retrieve information leaked from government's telecommunications in the form of an object discreetly.
Gregson: The information is related to our state secrets, so no one must come to know of it...
Judge: ...St-. State secrets... is it now?
Van Zieks: The leaked information from The Great British Empire's government, the classified state telecommunication.
Van Zieks: And it also seems there is some reason troubling him to present that as evidence in the court of law...
Van Zieks: ...Is that not true, Inspector Gregson?
Gregson: .................. I work under the orders of the British Government.
Gregson: I cannot answer your question.
Van Zieks: If you should... by some chance, be found out during the search of your belongings...
Van Zieks: Then you would attempt to find an opportunity to hide that disc from the witness somewhere.
Judge: Oh...! S-so, then perhaps...?!
Naruhodou: Inspector Gregson... attempted to fool us into thinking he was simply grabbing Nemmy-san.
Naruhodou: ...Just so he could hide the second disc into his pocket.
Judge: F-fool us... by grabbing...?
Gregson: ..................
Crogray: ..................
Judge: What is the meaning of this, Inspector Gregson? And, to you too I ask, witness Crogray?
Judge: Will you two admit to the truly have struck a deal with each other?
Crogray: ..................
Crogray: ...Admit...? Are you perhaps, asking me...?
Naruhodou: C-Crogray-san...?
Crogray: This Orient man is free to think whatever he wishes. ...However.
Crogray: To insinuate that I have handed that disc to him? You have no proof.
Naruhodou: OBJECTION!
Naruhodou: But! Then tell me...
Naruhodou: How did you know about that peeking window? You can't explain the reason you knew!
Crogray: ...Such a trivial thing... Needn't be spared the effort to explain.
Naruhodou: What...?!
Crogray: I had lied about my testimony. I shall admit to that, and accept the punishment.
Crogray: However... That will be all.
Crogray: Murderer.... Information from the government... You said that I had even traded... no?
Crogray: All of that, is merely nothing more than speculation conjured by a happy Asian.
Crogray: ... I have absolutely no will to play along to any of that!
Naruhodou: Wha.....
Naruhodou: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!
Naruhodou: T-then... Inspector Gregson! What about you?!
Naruhodou: Will you not admit to the fact that you had struck a deal with Crogray-san?!
Gregson: ...Dear Jurors.
Gregson: As an Inspector of the Scotland Yard... I am able to only say this.
Juror 1: ...!
Gregson: I am working for the pride of our Great British Empire. For justice.
Juror 2: ...!
Juror 3: ...!
Gregson: Therefore. Everyone. As the representative of the British populace...
Gregson: Please elect a verdict we can be proud of.
Juror 4: ...!
Juror 5: ...!
Juror 6: ...!
Judge: Hmm... I am just bamboozled.
Judge: To think that we would be in such a strange dead end before the conclusion...
Judge: If any more evidence cannot be presented at this time, then surely...
Judge: ...the rest would be left up for the six jurors to decide the final verdict.
Juror 1: ...Yes, the words spoken from a man who dedicates his life to the country is heavy indeed...
Juror 2: ...That good Inspector is credible. It is reliable to an employee...
Juror 3: ...I could cross my eyes all I want... But I can no longer see the stereoscopy...
Juror 4: ...I'd like to believe in his words as a fellow professional as well...
Juror: 5 ...Mr. Crogray is simply excellent. Aah, the apple of my eye...
Juror 6: ...The eyes of the Inspector is good, can be trusted. I don't know anything other than that....
Naruhodou: (...Crap! These six jurors are going to...)
Naruhodou: (They trust Inspector Gregson. If we proceed into casting the verdict...)
Iris: Is Ginny... going to be guilty?
Naruhodou: Something... If some definitive evidence isn't presented... We'll lose!
Naruhodou: Evidence that can force Crogray-san to admit he's both the murderer and the thief...
Naruhodou: And can force Inspector Gregson to admit he had struck a deal...
Judge: ...Now. How about it, attorney?
Judge: Shall we proceed to have the jurors cast their final verdict?
Judge: Or... will you preparedefinitive evidence for us to see?
Naruhodou: (If we have the jurors cast their verdict, then Gina-san will wind up guilty...)
Iris: Then... We'll just have to pull some evidence out for them!
Naruhodou: (...This is it. This decision will set the course for everything...!)
Naruhodou: (Between Crogray and Inspector Gregson... Who should I pin the evidence on?!)
> Crogray
Naruhodou: ...Crogray-san.
Naruhodou: There is one final piece of evidence I'd like for you to take a look at.
Crogray: ...Hmph...
Crogray: While I know not what you wish to have me see, I no longer have anything to lose.
Crogray: Allow me to say that you will not be able to have me admit to anything.
Naruhodou: (...This will be the last. I will present this evidence... to the person before my eyes.)
Naruhodou: (The evidence that will force this man to admit to a trade is...!)
Naruhodou: TAKE THAT!
Judge: Is this not... the disc Mr. Megundal owned?
Naruhodou: That's the first disc in the music box.
Naruhodou: Can we... check the sound produced by that once more, Your Honor?
Naruhodou: Only... This time.
Naruhodou: ...We set the second disc we found earlier as well!
Judge: T-this disc...?!
Gregson: HOLD IT!
Gregson: No... No, stop!! I must not allow that to happen!!
Naruhodou: ...And why is that?
Gregson: W-why, well... Right!
Gregson: It is wholly irrelevant... to the case at hand!
Naruhodou: OBJECTION!
Naruhodou: You are wrong!
Gregson: W-what'd you say...?!
Naruhodou: The defense.... had stated this earlier.
Naruhodou: We claimed that the sound made by the music box... was a part of Morse code.
Crogray: ....!
NAruhodou: Morse code is comprised of two types of sound.
NAruhodou: The disc... might possibly the second set of sound embedded into it!
Naruhodou: We have... we NEED to see if that's for certain!
Gregson: But! The state secret leaked from the Great British Empire is in there!
Gregson: Revealing that here... would be treason against the Great British Empire!!
Naruhodou: So... Do you admit to it, then?
NAruhodou: To protect that state secret, you had to trade, illegally!
Gregson: ...Y-you... little...
Gregson: If you end up spilling the state secrets...
Gregson: Then you would be an enemy of our nation, do you understand?!
Naruhodou: OBJECTION!
Naruhodou: Despite being an Inspector yourself, you told the witness the secretive investigation!
Naruhodou: You disregarded other fairer methods you could use... So you could carry out your mission, and told a lie.
Naruhodou: If that's how you want to do it... Then I'll disregard my fairer methods as well!
Gregson: ...What...?
Naruhodou: ...I have every resolve to go toe-to-toe with any opponent to protect the client I'm tasked with!
Van Zieks: .........
Naruhodou: Your Honor! Please!
Naruhodou: Allow us to make certain of the sound... produced by that music box now!
Gregson: Sir van Zieks! Please! ...Have him be stopped!
Van Zieks: OBJECTION!
Van Zieks: ..Inspector. You ought to know my methods by now.
Van Zieksa: I am a prosecutor. ...Not an underling of the police force.
Gregson: What...?
Van Zieks: ...As a person standing here,
Van Zieks: I will choose no other methods... but one which will allow me to pursue the truth.
Gregson: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
Naruhodou: ...!
Judge: ...I understand the positions you are each in.
Judge: ...In that case, as per the defense's suggestion...
Judge: Let's have the sound produced by this music box be checked again!
Judge: What will happen when the two of these discs are set, and played...?
...T-this is...
...Surely, without a doubt now...
...It's morse code!....
Gregson: HOLD IT!
Gregson: ...Alright! I concede! I shall admit to everything, so...
Gregson: STOP THAT MUSIC BOX RIGHT NOOOOOOOOOOW!!
Naruhodou: ...Inspector Gregson. Please confirm one last issue for us.
Gregson: Did you... strike a deal with this witness, Crogray, or not?
Judge: In exchange for the disc, you told him the information you had on the crime scene.
Judge: You told him the existence of the peeking window on the door to the storage room...
Gregson: ..................
Gregson: That's absolutely right.
Crogray: ...!
Crogray: H-hey... Wait a moment! What are you talking about?!
Gregson: ..................
Gregson: Everything is exactly as that Asian attorney says.
Gregson: After the trial came back into session... I was standing next to this man in the witness stand.
Gregson: ...That's when I approached him. For the trade.
Crogray: S...-silence.
Crogray: SILENCE, YOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!
...Excuse me...
...Correct me if I'm mistaken... But are you the Inspector I met the day before...?
...You see, I have something you are looking for in my possession here...
...How about it? Interested in having a trade with me...?
...Refuse, and I'd imagine it'll wound up public information right here...
Gregson: ...I was not to have the the leaked information be known, no matter how slim the possibility was.
Gregson: Therefore, I decided to accept this man's proposal, and told him information I thought was definitive to the trial.
Gregson: All the information on the peeking window, and the bloodstain on the coat worn...
Naruhodou: ...This witness intended to frame the crime on the defendant with a false testimony.
Naruhodou: ...Inspector Gregson! You knew, and despite that...
Naruhodou: You told him about the window, didn't you?!
Gregson: .................. That's absolutely correct.
Gregson: It never crossed my mind. For that peeking window to be made after the crime...
Gregson: I am an Inspector, but I only came to know of this moments ago...
Naruhodou: Well. What do say to that, Crogray-san?!
Crogray: Ugh....Uuuuuugh....
Naruhodou: There is no longer anything... left for you to protect.
Naruhodou: In order to escape from your crimes, you struck a deal with the Inspector.
Naruhodou: There is only one proof... to that truth.
Naruhodou: ...On that night, you were the third trespasser in that crime scene, the pawnshop...
Naruhodou: Which means you were the real culprit who murdered Mr. Hutch!
Crogray: ........Gah.........
Crogray: YOOOOOOOOU TRAITOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!!
Judge: ...Guards! Restrain that man!
Judge: ...Quickly!
(...With this...)
(...Everything's over...)
...I'd rather die than live out my life in the ghettos...
...I cursed that I was born in the lowest depths of the ghettos...
...My parents worked to the bones to make ends meet. I never saw a single coin...
Crogray: So... I worked to the death. To escape from that sort of life.
Judge: And so, you became a Telegraph Operator. ...It's an awe-inspiring effort.
Naruhodou: Despite that... You stole critical information from the Great British Empire, and tried to sell it.
Naruhodou: What... had driven you to do that?
Crogray: ..................
Crogray: That much is obvious, isn't it? I wanted money.
Crogray: Even now when I sleep. ...The nightmares of the ghettos ensnares me.
Crogray: To have those dreams disappear... I wanted money. An extravagant amount of it.
Crogray: And... it was then that I met him.
Crogray: I met that man... Cosney Megundal.
Megundal: ...You have the skill. Allow me to grant you a great deal of wealth for it...
Megundal: ...I have a plan... Please, do consider cooperating with me...
Crogray: I was to steal records of the government's telecommunication, and hand it to Megundal for great amount of money.
Crogray: ...Since I am in charge of the periodical inspections in the Legal Affairs Bureau's telegram rooms, I could do it.
Van Zieks: ...You struck a deal with the devil...
Judge: Stealing state secrets from the government... Is a serious offence, without doubt.
Crogray: Which is why... I gave incredible thought and caution to plan the way the deal was to be carried out.
Van Zieks: The result... is this music box, is it not?
Crogray: ..................
Crogray: ...Father was a bricklayer. A man who had divorced when I was still young.
Naruhodou: Mr. Mortar Milverton.
Crogray: Father's hands were deft... Once upon a time, he was an apprentice to a music box craftsman.
Crogray: With morse code, there is no need for such a precise machine...
Crogray: Thinking that... I visited the craftsmen's street to seek out my Father.
Crogray: And so... I met with my Father for the first time in 10 years, since I left the ghettos.
"Look at you, Rubert. You've become so proper, I almost didn't recognize you..."
Crogray: ...I saw an elderly, emaciated man, completely different from the Father I remember.
Crogray: My Father, who would not once haunch his back no matter how poor he was...
Crogray: I thought for sure that if I had told him everything, he would help me...
Crogray: And so, with that belief in my heart... I told my Father.
"I have a job I wish to ask of you, Father. Will you please make a music box record for me?"
"...Music box...?"
"Apparently, a composer friend I have wishes to sell his work to public bars."
"He has prepared the scores for it. There's two, however..."
"Yes, I'll do it ...It's been nearly 20 years..."
"The tools I need to make them are in the attic... Wait for me."
Crogray: ...And so, the two discs carrying state secrets in Morse code were created.
Van Zieks: So you split the information apart... I can see how much precaution you have took.
Crogray: ...It was also a means to protect myself too.
Crogray: The negotiation with Megundal was to be done by meeting up with him twice.
Crogray: First, I had to prepare one music disc and a music box which would play it.
Crogray: In exchange for 10 guinea, I passed them to Megundal.
Crogray: Next the second disc would go, and in turn I would receive 1000 guinea.
Naruhodou: ...So then the murder in the omnibus two months ago...
Naruhodou: Took place in the middle of the second trade... Correct?
Crogray: ...Yes.
Crogray: Doing this would mean selling him the information numerous times...
Crogray: But it seems he was unwilling to part ways with his money...
Judge: ...But does this not seem odd? The one killed in the carriage two months ago was...
Judge: Not you... but your father, Mr. Mortar Milverton.
Crogray: ...When the 1000 guinea first came into my hands upon the trade,
Crogray: I gave my Father 200 guinea to show him my appreciation, but...
Crogray: Somehow... My Father knew.
Crogray: He knew... that the deal I had struck was not an ordinary one.
"Let me... help you in that deal next time."
"... Then you will not be seen as the one receiving the money."
Crogray: ...It was as if that was Father's last will.
Crogray: "I shall board the carriage and hand Megundal the second disc to receive the money."
Crogray: In the end, Father never knew... what was embedded into those discs.
Crogray: ...While I might never know what happened that night for the rest of eternity...
Crogray: Father... Had the disc stolen from him... And he never returned.
Naruhodou: ..................
Van Zieks: ..................
Judge: ..................
Crogray: ...It was then that I knew of Megundal's true nature.
Crogray: I discarded the name of my Father I had for 10 years, and then...
Crogray: ...I decided to exact my revenge.
Naruhodou: ...Revenge...
Van Zieks: ...It's certainly unfathomable for anyone who isn't remotely acquainted with Megundal.
Van Zieks: That man immersed himself in his vast fourtunes and used all sort of illegal methods...
Van Zieks: ...Destroying that trial.
Naruhodou: ...!
Van Zieks: On top of the misleading evidence he had planted in the scene, he recruited witnesses into fabricating testimonies...
Van Zieks: That was the bulk of everything in the trial two months ago.
Naruhodou: (...I had only just arrived in this Empire that day. And I...)
Naruhodou: (...was caught up in that trial, oblivious to everything...)
Crogray: ...I had the money needed to carry out the trade.
Crogray: Two months ago I had used all of that money. I hired countless, countless people.
Crogray: In this city, money will do anything you want...
Crogray: Megundal himself taught me that.
Naruhodou: T-then. Crogray-san, you mean you...?
Crogray: ...Yes. You are quite right.
Crogray: When that underhanded man had used illegal methods to win his not-guilty verdict,
Crogray: I decided with my own hands... to cut off the fate of that accursed devil!
...In that disaster two months ago...
...I was the one who planned, and followed through with it...
Naruhodou: (...The one who murdered Megundal two months ago...)
Naruhodou: (...was this man...)
Bailiff: The preparations are complete, so if you would kindly head to the Supreme Court...
Megundal: Oh. You are much quicker than you said.
Bailiff: My apologies. The plans have changed slightly.
Megundal: With that, I'll excuse myself here.
Megundal: I have to inspect the crime scene for a bit, now.
Megundal: It seems that omnibus... Will undergo investigation once again.
Megundal: So, they said they would like for me to be present if possible.
Naruhodou: ...So then, the bailiff back then was...
Crogray: ...Yes. That was the fake I had recruited.
Crogray: With his money, Megundal had that trial... completely in th palm of his hands.
Crogray: Using that man, he had him plant false evidence in that carriage...
Crogray: And with the cooperation of the witness, a fabricated testimony was created.
Crogray: ...There you have it. I simply repeated what I did before.
Crogray: I doused that omnibus in kerosene...
Crogray: And then I had that fake bailiff to help send Megundal into the depths of Hell.
Crogray: ...The end.
Crogray: ...That was how I avenged my Father's death.
Judge: ...How terrifying...
Crogray: ...However. There was still one issue bothering me.
Naruhodou: Bothering you...?
Crogray: Yes. Of course... It was none other than the second disc in my Father's possession.
Judge: Indeed...
Judge: In the trial two months ago... The existence of this object was not bought up even once.
Judge: Which means this disc had disappeared from the scene.
Crogray: ...It was then that I had unexpectedly remembered.
Crogray: ...About the the trade I had with Megundal.
Crogray: "...Here you are. This is the first disc, and the music box needed to play it."
Megundal: "Ah... Quite the precaution you have took, I see..."
Megundal: "Well then... Here are 10 guineas, as promised."
Crogray: "W-what might this be? ...'Hutch's Pawnshop'...?"
Megundal: "An exchange proof for a pawnshop. It's a rather convenient shop, this one."
Megundal: "A name isn't needed. You simply show the proof, and give the password."
Megundal: "Withdraw a jewel from that shop. It's worth 10 guineas should you sell it."
Crogray: "...It's the first I've heard of a pawnshop that operates in such a manner..."
Megundal: "...So you didn't know, Mr. Crogray?"
Crogray: "...It's the first I've heard of a pawnshop that operates in such a manner..."
Megundal: "...So you didn't know, Mr. Crogray?"
Megundal: "To the citizens... London's pawnshops are the most trustworthy of banks."
Crogray: That man deposited the disc he had stolen from my Father...
Crogray: I thought... It must be in that pawnshop.
Crogray: That man deposited the disc he had stolen from my Father...
Crogray: I thought... It must be in that pawnshop.
Crogray: And that night... Megundal must have passed the exchange proof to someone.
Naruhodou: (That'd be... Gina Lestrade.)
Naruhodou: Come to think of it, when we first met two days ago in the pawnshop, you...
Naruhodou: ...had a description of Gina-san, no the defendant, didn't you?
Naruhodou: How did you know about her?
Crogray:  ...It was obvious that she had given an unnatural testimony in the trial two months ago.
Crogray: It was also obvious that she had been cooperating with Megundal, working under his orders.
Crogray: Which was why... The chances of her having that exchange proof were high...
Crogray: In that case, I thought I ought to investigate all I should about her.
Crogray: I also thought she might appear on the deadline of the withdrawal in that pawnshop.
Naruhodou: (And then as he predicted, Gina-san really did appear...)
Crogray: ...That was how it was.
Crogray: It was good for me that the pickpocket was withdrawing those items.
Crogray: However, what was withdrawn was only a coat and a disc within its pocket...
Crogray: Not that crucial box and the disc inside of it.
Van Zieks: ...Due to that small box being transferred out for sale two days ago.
Crogray: ...Had I known that, I would not bothered to have sneak into the shop at night...
Gregson: Even if you didn't, there would still be investigations for stolen information from the government...
Gregson: We had already known of Megundal's involvement.
Naruhodou: Inspector Gregson...! (...So he came back from the brink of death...)
Gregson: So long as the information remained stolen... We had to retrieve it no matter what the means.
Gregson: We checked the whereabouts of his personal belongings, and to make sure we retrieve it ASAP...
Gregson: We deployed for many investigations in desperation.
Crogray: When the Inspector took the disc from me that day in the pawnshop... I felt fear.
Crogray: Two discs and one music box was deposited into that pawnshop.
Crogray:  ...I must obtain them before the police could...
Crogray: ...Was what I had thought.
Naruhodou: Which is why on that night... You decided to sneak into Hutch-san's pawn shop.
Naruhodou: ...Together with the help of you friends from the past, the Tinpiller brothers.
Crogray: ..................
Crogray: What had went on in that pawnshop that night... can only be described as my worst nightmare.
Crogray: While Nemmy and Tully were searching the counter...
Crogray: I searched the sale shelf for the music box Megundal left, and found it.
Van Zieks: In that... was the second disc you sought.
Crogray: I played that into my pocket... and felt great relief from the deepest part of my heart.
Crogray: However, that was when... the unimaginable happened.
"...You bloody bastards. Who are you?!"
...*BANG!*...
Crogray: ...A gunshot rang out in the shop, and a sharp pain ran through my arm.
Van Zieks: That was the bullet Mr. Hutch, the owner, had fired at your arm...
Crogray: Yes... That's right. And unfortunately, I...
Crogray: ...pulled out my own handgun I had with me, which I had prepared for caution.
Naruhodou: .....!
...*BANG!*...
Crogray: ...When I had realized it... I had fired one round out of reflex...
Crogray: I had no intention to pursue the fleeing owner... And of course, I didn't intend to kill him either.
Crogray: But unfortunately... That bullet was fatal.
Crogray: It went through the back of the owner who had ran past the door...
Judge: ...I am at a loss for words...
Crogray: Everything happened... in a flash.
Crogray: The Tinpillers... They probably knew nothing about what had truly happened.
Crogray: I was so afraid... I ran out of that shop.
Crogray: That... was the truth of... everything that happened in that shop.
Naruhodou: ............
Van Zieks: ............
Judge: ............
Van Zieks: ...You called Megundal a devil.
Van Zieks: Using his wealth, he twisted reality to his will... and escaped from his punishment of murder.
Van Zieks: ...Yet.
Van Zieks: What you had done... Is the exact same.
Crogray: ......................
Van Zieks: You yourself... had turned into the very same devil as Megundal.
Crogray: ..................
Crogray: It is... all as you say.
Judge: ...It appears through this prolonged trial...
Judge: We now know of the whole truth clearly.
Judge: Inspector Gregson. What of Rubert Crogray...?
Gregson: He is currently being taken into custody, and on his way to the Yard.
Gregson: He faces the charges of murdering the pawnshop owner, Mr. Hutch, as well as...
Gregson: Being an accomplice to stealing government information, Your Honor.
Judge: ...Very well.
Judge: Also... Inspector Gregson.
Judge: Naturally... You would be facing punishment yourself, correct?
Gregson: ...Yes. Of course.
Van Zieks: Technically speaking... You assisted the true culprit in an attempt to escape his crime.
Van Zieks: Even if that was for the sake of your mission, Inspector.
Van Zieks: ...It is outright unforgivable.
Gregson: ...........
Judge: Defendant. Gina Lestrade.
Gina: Uh... Uh, yes?
Judge: It is time for your final verdict.
Judge: Is that alright with you, jurors?
Juror 1: Yes! ...The Garrideb platoon will... No, without a doubt!
Juror 1: Have finally arrived at a single verdict we know to be true!
Judge: ...Understood.
Judge: Well then... Good jurors.
Judge: ...Now is the time to state each of your verdicts!
Juror 1: Not Guilty!
Juror 2: Not Guilty!
Juror 3: Not Guilty!
Juror 4: Not Guilty!
Juror 5: Not Guilty!
Juror 6: Not Guilty!
Gina: AW HELL YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH! Here it is! My time has come!!
Iris: Finally! We have finally done it... Narudy!
Naruhodou: Ooof... I had my doubts there for a second.
Iris: Narudy is... the number one attorney in the whole wide world!
Judge: Defendant. There is something I must tell you.
Gina: ...W-what? Your face is fierce...
Judge: Before you are free... There are still charges against you.
Gina: Huh?
Judge: You had fabricated your testimony in the trial two months ago.
Judge: And... On top of unlawfully entering Mr. Hutch's pawnshop during this incident...
Judge: You attempted to pass off Mr. Megundal's articles as your own.
Gina: HUUUUUUUUUUUUH?!
Gina: I'm telling you. I didn't do those things!
Naruhodou: (...What did the girl who happily wore that coat said again said again?)
Iris: Tch. There goes my plans to celebrate for Ginny tonight~.
Judge: ....That said.
Judge: Embedding morse code into a music disc...
Judge: My God. I would have never imagined an information trade like this.
Van Zieks: ...Indeed. It's an idea we would never come up with.
Van Zieks: Ah yes. Come to think of it... Even if it was brief...
Van Zieks: Did this Japanese man not leak our nation's classified information within the walls of this courtroom?
Naruhodou: ....Eh?!
Naruhodou: I-I'm so sorry about that!
Naruhodou: I absolutely had to nail Inspector Gregson down, so, uh...
...May I speak... In regards to that matter?
Naruhodou:(...This voice this...)
Juror 5: ...About the sound from this music box...
Juror 5: I wonder... Was this truly Morse code...?
Naruhodou: W-what do you mean, Juror 5?!
Juror 5: ...Well. I do love Morse code so, so much.
Juror 5: To the point that everything in this world looks like a beep and beeeep to me.
Judge: Well that's... Quite the obsession.
Juror 5: As far as I can tell. The sound of those two discs...
Juror 5: Was a string of two noises, but nonsensical.
Naruhodou: Wha............
Naruhodou: What did you say.......?! (But that can't be...)
Naruhodou: (Those sounds weren't... Morse code...?)
Iris: .......
Naruhodou: S-sorry! Let me hear it again for a while!!
Gregson: FORGET IT!! This is state secret, you know, state secret!!
Van Zieks: ....This courtroom isn't a place to discuss to contents of a code constructed by the government.
Van Zieks: Those men schemed to trade that code off to enemy nations.
Van Zieks: ...Since the schemer in question admitted to it, this is as far as we shall go.
Naruhodou: ...! (Uuugh... I really want to know...)
Iris: ..................
Judge: ...Defendant Gina Lestrade.
Gina: Uh.... Y-yes?
Judge: The treatment given to you during this journey was harsh.
Van Zieks: Fabrications, intimidation, perjury... Needless to say, they are all one side of the darkness.
Judge: ...It was a side a child could go on without seeing.
Gina: I already see that everyday in the alleyways though.
Judge: What...?
Gina: The weak will always be picked on... Isn't it always like that?
Naruhodou: ...Gina-san...
Gina: ..................
Gina: But hey. I think I sorta understand it now, being here today.
Gina: If I wanna change that sort of crappy world...
Gina: ...I'll have to change myself first... Right?
Naruhodou: .........
Judge: ... I see. That is a splendid realization.
Judge: ...I look forward to the day you turn a new leaf in the near future.
Gina: ...................
Judge: ...Now then. In regards to the murder of Mr. Hutch, the pawnshop owner...
Judge: I shall now hand down the final verdict for the defendant, Gina Lestrade!
NOT GUILTY
Judge: With that... Today's trial is now over!
Van Zieks: I personally find this... surprising. ...Japanese attorney.
Naruhodou: Y...Yes!
Van Zieks: You may be a Japanese, but you were still able to see through an Englishman's malice...
Van Zieks: While at the same time, you believed in an English defendant to the end.... Protecting her.
Van Zieks: ...It's quite a strange feeling.
Naruhodou: ..................
Naruhodou: I don't think it's strange at all!
Van Zieks: ..................
Naruhodou: Be it a human from the Great British Empire, or a human from the Empire of Japan...
Naruhodou: They are all human. There is nothing different at all.
Van Zieks: ..................
Van Zieks: There was.... one honest reason why I had chose to return to the courtroom.
Van Zieks: I wished to wage verbal war with you once more.
Naruhodou: Huh...?
Van Zieks: When I first met you in the trial two months ago... It made me recall.
Van Zieks: ...That once, there was someone I placed complete trust in, and then, was betrayed by... A Japanese person.
Van Zieks: I wished to see their true character through you. To see it with my own two eyes.
Naruhodou: ..................
Naruhodou: You said that before too, right? You were betrayed by a Japanese...
Naruhodou: What... had happened, once upon a time?
Van Zieks: .................. It's you.
Van Zieks: Should that time come, you will eventually know.
Naruhodou: .................. I understand.
Van Zieks: It has been five years since I was called a Reaper and left the courtroom.
Van Zieks: I shall think about... the meaning to why I've met you.
Van Zieks: We shall meet again someday, Japanese attorney.
Same day  5:24 PM  Old Bailey  Defendant Lobby
 
Naruhodou: (...With this... Everything is over...)
Naruhodou: (..................)
Naruhodou: (Come to think of it.)
 
Naruhodou: (...I don't see Iris-chan anywhere at all...)
 
Naruhodou: Oh...
Naruhodou: Congratulations, Gina-san! ...See, it's just like I thought.
Naruhodou: Gina-san is really... really innocent.
 
Gina: ..................
Gina: You really... did.
Gina: Believe me up till... the very end.
Gina : ...Weirdo.
Naruhodou: Well... I think I'll say that no matter how many times it needs to be said.
Gina: ..................
 
Gina: This is the first time.
Gina: ...That someone kept their promise till the very end.
Naruhodou: Gina-san...
 
Gina: ...You know, I think I finally understand now.
Gina: ...Up till now, I lived a life in the back alleys without trusting anyone.
Gina: But, that was only cause... I was scared of being betrayed by someone I trusted...
Gina: You believe, and the more you believe... The more painful it'll ever be.
Naruhodou: ..................
Naruhodou: I think... I understand that too.
Naruhodou: (...I had a taste of that in the trial two months ago too.)
Naruhodou: (It's as if your body was actually sliced... by that pain from someone you thought you could trust.)
Naruhodou: ...But. I understood something else too.
Naruhodou: To believe in someone can also mean... to believe in yourself as well.
Naruhodou: (And. When you are right about what you believe...)
Naruhodou: (There is nothing that can make you happier.)
Naruhodou: ...Thanks to Gina-san, I was able to remember that.
 
Gina: R-really? I don't really get it.
Naruhodou: I believed in Gina-san. ...I'm really happy that I did.
 
Gina; S-stop that!
Gina: .................. But.
Gina: I might have thought of something too, a little.
 
Gina: It might be... okay to believe in someone else too.
Naruhodou: ...Gina-san...
Asougi: "...This is what I think, Naruhodou."
Asougi: "'An attorney's worth lies in how much they are able to believe in the client..."
Asougi: "And... How much they are able to believe in themselves."
Naruhodou: I think. I can now understand a little of what you mean by those words.
Naruhodou: ...Asougi.
Naruhodou: Do you think I... I've become a little closer to your ideal attorney?
Asougi: ..................
 
...By the way.
 
???: ...Just when are you ever going to notice?
Naruhodou: Ah...! T-t-that voice is...
???: Don't "t-t-that voice is..." me now, Mr. Naruhodou.
 
???: I've been holding in my breath ever since a little while ago in here.
 
???: "WAHAHA! It's me, my friends!" I even prepared that line in my heart for you.
 
Holmes: AND YET! THE BOTH OF YOU...!!
Gina: Oh... H-Holmes!
 
Holmes: "WAHAHA! It's me, my friends!"
 
Naruhodou: Uh, weren't you supposed to be back in the infirmary...?
Holmes: Oh, I did. ...But! I slipped out again, friend.
Naruhodou: What.
 
Holmes: After all, I do have two or three weaknesses on the head doctor.
Holmes: All I had to do was dangle that a little in their face to let me go with permission.
Naruhodou: ...You're incorrigible.
 
Holmes: Now now. More importantly anyway...
Holmes: Nicely done, Mr. Naruhodou. You pulled through... to the end.
 
Holmes: ...Allow me to congratulate you as a friend.
Naruhodou: Oh... Thank you.
 
Gina; ...Humph!
Gina: Great Detectives are so cold!
 
Holmes: Mn? What about?
Gina: Someone's in a real pinch, and you happily nap away on a infirmary bed!
 
Holmes: Hmmm... True, that one bullet did cause quite a lot of blood loss.
Holmes: I might have been colder than usual. Especially my fingertips. ...See, cold, isn't it?
Naruhodou: ...Please stop touching my neck, Holmes-san.
 
Holmes: Well... I ought to congratulate you as well, for one.
 
Gina: What? What's with the way you're phrasing that?
Holmes: I mean... Look. I really didn't mean to abandon you.
 
Holmes: I was only perplexed by what would happen if that prosecutor found you not guilty.
Naruhodou: (...He straight up abandoned her, huh.)
Gina: Ooh... The Reaper issue, right?
Gina: Those who are declared not guilty are said to all die... or something.
 
Holmes: Right! That's the thing.
Holmes: Even that Megundal guy got hit by the curse, after all.
 
Holmes: Oh, no. But I wasn't worried about that, of course.
Gina: ..................
 
Gina: I'm not even worried about that at all!
Holmes: Oh...?
 
Gina: I mean. A Reaper is... a God, right?
Naruhodou: W-well, I suppose so. It's supposed to be one.
 
Gina: If they're a God, then they should be watching real close.
 
Gina: I'm betcha they're watching us even now.
Gina: There are people like Megundal... Who run away from the crimes they commit.
Gina: God'll take care of those bums.
Naruhodou: True... You might be right.
Naruhodou: That said... Taking someone's life is still an unforgivable act, no matter who you are.
 
Gina: I'm different. I'm going to live... fair and square.
 
Holmes: ..................
 
Holmes: That's good. That's more like you, Ms. Gina.
 
Gina: W-what?!
Holmes: ...Right. I haven't said this yet.
Holmes: I am happy that you were proven innocent as well.
 
Holmes: ...I mean it. Congratulations, Ms. Gina.
 
Gina: .................. You don't really...
Oh, Holmesies! How long have you been here?!
 
Iris: Gee! And there I was waiting for you at the entrance!
 
Holmes: Hey Iris. Sorry, sorry.
Holmes: But listen to this! These two are just an incredible piece of work!
Iris: Mn? What happened?
Holmes: I disguised myself as a bailiff and waited in this lobby.
Holmes: But wouldn't you know it?! They didn't even notice I was ever there!
Holmes: What do you think of that, Iris?!
 
Iris: Hmmm... Well, I don't suppose it could have been helped.
Holmes: Uh?
 
Iris: Holmesies. You don't' have that huge of an presence as you think you have.
 
Iris: I would be really careful if I were you. Real careful.
 
Holmes: ...Okay. I'll be careful.
Naruhodou: (Cold.)
 
Iris: All that said... It's sad.
Iris: I really wanted to celebrate for Ginny.
Iris: ...Are you really not coming?
 
Gina: Nope... Don't think I can go back for the time being.
Gina: I mean. I committed lotsa that sin, you know? I gotta make up for them.
Gina: Er, unlawful entering, trying to impersonate someone else to retrieve their items, stuff like that.
Naruhodou: ...Anyway. What about your pickpocketing...?
 
Gina: Oh. That's not a hobby, it's my job. No problemo.
Naruhodou: (...That's gotta be a lie...!)
 
Gina: But you know. I... thought about it in the trial today.
Gina: I can't keep going on as a pickpocket.
Gina: I'm sure it's gotta be the same for you, Naruhodou. That's why you became an attorney, right?
Naruhodou: ...Well. I wasn't a pickpocket to begin with though.
 
Gina: I will show you I can change. And then...
 
Gina: I'll make a proper place together with my friends from the alleys where we can live!
 
Iris: Yup! I know you can do it, Ginny!
 
Gina: ...Hehe...
 
Iris: What's the matter, Ginny?
 
Gina: Nope. Nothing at all.
 
...Gina Lestrade!
 
Bailiff: An escort as arrived for you in the back gate. ...Be prepared. Let's go.
 
Gina: Oh... Well. I'm gonna go.
Naruhodou: ...Alright. Take care, Gina-san.
 
Gina: ..................
Gina: H-hey. Naruhodou...?
Naruhodou: What is it, Gina-san?
Gina: ..................
 
Naruhodou: WOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Naruhodou: W-what are you doing?!
 
Gina: Mmmng... I don't know. At times like these... I.
Gina: ...Don't really know what I should say...
 
Holmes: Ah... Perhaps,
Holmes: There is nothing you need to say.
Gina: W...What?
Holmes: In times like these.
 
Holmes: I would recommend saying "thank you". That alone is enough.
Gina: Huh...?
Iris: Yup! I think the same too!
 
Gina: Oh, I see...
Gina: .............
Gina: ..................
 
Gina: Th.....
Gina: ...Thank you, Naruhodou.
 
Gina: ...I'm happy you believed in me... till the very end.
 
Naruhodou: ..................
Naruhodou: No. The one who should be saying "thank you" is me.
Naruhodou: ...Thank you, Gina-san.
Naruhodou: (...There goes Gina-san...)
 
Holmes: ...Oh deary me. She's a sunshine of a pickpocket up until the very end, eh?
 
Iris: ...Ah! That's right. I bought this newspaper in the stand outside.
 
Iris: It's extra! There's all the details on today's trial!
Iris: "Turnabout Not-Guilty For Pickpocket Girl!" ...Right? See it?!
Naruhodou: It'd be great if we showed this to Gina-san earlier.
 
Iris: Uuuum... I was careless.
 
Iris: Oh! And there's something else! I have good news and bad news.
Naruhodou: Huh...?
 
Iris: Which do you want to hear first, Narudy, Holmsies?!
Naruhodou: Ah... I'll go with the bad news first...
 
Holmes: I only want to hear nothing but the good news!
 
Iris: Hmmm... I thought your personalities might clash after all~
Naruhodou: ...I'd rather you not talk about it.
 
Iris: Um, well. I'll start first with the good news this time, okay?
Iris: The rain finally let up just now. They say it's the heaviest rain on record!
 
Naruhodou: Oh deary me, that's great. ...Our return trip is easier now.
 
Naruhodou: ...Then what about the bad news?
 
Iris: The sea was quite rough due to day's heavy rain.
 
Iris: Port Dover is one of the badly hit places, so it'll take more than half a day later for ships to depart.
Naruhodou: Huh....? (Isn't Port Dover...)
 
Iris: ...Yup. So if we head to London Station.
 
Iris: We might be able to send her off! ...Sussie, I mean.
 
Naruhodou: ..................
Naruhodou: B-but...
Naruhodou: I wonder if there's a convenient train ready for us...
 
Holmes: Who do you think I am, Mr. Naruhodou?
Naruhodou: H-Holmes-san...?
 
Holmes: I had a special train be prepared at London Station earlier!
Holmes: If we rush there with all our might right now, I imagine we would even make it in time for supper.
 
Holmes: I know of an inn that serves delicious pan-fried flounder.
Naruhodou: A-as... I should have expected from a Great Detective.
Holmes: Yes. Naturally!
 
Holmes: After all, I do have three or four weaknesses on the railway company.
Naruhodou: Eh?
Holmes: All I had to do was dangle that a little in their face to let me have my way.
Naruhodou: ..................
Naruhodou: I think you might want to stop letting people work for you like that for your own good...
 
Iris: Alriight. Let's head to London Station right now!
18th April  5:23AM Port Dover Pier
 
Holmes: ...That took longer than I expected.
 
Iris: I wonder if Sussie's ship's about to depart soon.
 
Naruhodou: Susato-san is...
 
Naruhodou: ...Found her! There she is.. (Looks like she's reading a book.)
 
Naruhodou: HOLD IT!
Naruhodou: W-...Wait, Susato-san! What are you doing?!
 
Susato: Na...Naruhodou-sama... Why are you here?
Naruhodou: I came right over after the trial. Um...
Naruhodou: I heard that the downpour had caused the departure to be delayed.
 
Susato: Oh, um... I-I see.
Susato: Oh... So?! Whatever of Gina-sama...?!
Naruhodou: ...Yes. She's been deemed not guilty.
Susato: ..................
 
Susato: That's wonderful... Really wonderful...
 
Naruhodou: ...That book you almost threw into the ocean...
Naruhodou: Was The Great British Empire's Code of Law, isn't it?
 
Susato: Ah... S-so you caught a glimpse of it?
Susato: ..................
Susato: I have no qualifications to touch the laws.
Susato: Which is why I must part with it forever... I thought.
Naruhodou: Discarding the law...? (Susato, of all people...?)
 
Holmes: ...Perhaps.
 
Holmes: It's due to that peeking window? Ms. Susato?
 
Susato: ..................
Susato: I proceeded to add that onto the site on my own, and kept it as a secret...
 
Susato: It is something I must never be forgiven for!
 
Iris: ...That reminds me...
 
Iris: ...Why were you holding this, Sussie?
 
Susato: ...On the night of that incident,
Susato: You had summoned for Gina-sama, and treated everyone to a meal, did you not?
 
Iris: Yup! That sure was fun huh~?
 
Susato: After that meal, Gina-sama had introduced herself to me.
Susato: ...After displaying her pickpocketing skills to us.
 
Iris: Ooh! For me? I took Naruhodou's armband as prize!
Naruhodou: ...Please spare me that. This is important to me.
 
Iris: Like you ever noticed it was gone.
 
Susato: It was then that I had put this into my sleeve... To play around.
Iris: Oh...!
Susato: And... I had ended up going to Hutch-sama's shop carrying this.
Naruhodou: S-so that's what happened...
Susato: ...And so.
 
...*BANG*!
 
Susato: KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!
Susato: H-...Holmes-sama... HOLMES-SAMAAAA!!
Holmes: ...Leave me! Mr. Naruhodou!
Naruhodou: Y-...Yes!
 
Susato: ...After Naruhodou-sama had left... I noticed the presence of that door.
Naruhodou: The door to the storage... huh?
 
Susato: If Gina-sama was there, she might be beyond that door...
Susato: When I thought of that, I recalled this machine I had carried with me.
 
Susato: ...I was just so worried about Gina-sama. I wished to make certain of it myself no matter what.
Naruhodou: That's why... You used that to create a peeking window.
 
Iris: That peeking window... was then completely recorded by the photograph, right?
 
Iris: In that photograph taken by the Automatic Surveillance Recorder Device Holmesies made...
 
Holmes: ...Ah yes. That turned out to be a crucial piece to the puzzle.
 
Holmes: The answer to "when was that peeking window was made?" turned into a weapon.
Holmes: It was a great necessity for that records to be practically documented.
 
Susato: ...And beyond that door was...
 
...A scene far more terrifying than I would ever be able to imagine...
 
Susato: ...Back then... I stumbled upon a memory.
 
Susato: About the trial two months ago...
Naruhodou: ...Cosney Megundal... You mean.
Susato: ...The culprit tampered with the crime scene, and had the witnesses lie in their testimonial...
Susato: It was much like I had seen one side of the Great British Empire's darkest trial.
 
Susato: And... I had imagined frightening things.
Susato: Maybe even...
Susato: Another individual with naught but evil might be plotting another same plan...
Naruhodou: ...!
Susato: Judging from the appearance of the site, it seemed Gina-sama had shot Hutch-sama.
 
Susato: However. Gina-sama never would do such a thing.
Naruhodou: But. The culprit might have tried to frame the crime on Gina-san...
Susato: Yes. When I thought of that... I stumbled upon a realization.
 
Susato: "It might be difficult under such circumstances to fabricate a witness testimony"...
Naruhodou: Huh...?
 
Susato: After all, the murder had happened behind a locked door.
Susato: To construct a false witness testimony, some sort of peeking window must be required.
Naruhodou: Ah....!
 
Holmes: It certainly was perfect to have created a peeking window on that door then!
 
Susato: But of course, that door had only been made after the incident.
Susato: There might be no meaning if the culprit had noticed that but...
Holmes: There was possibility they would fall into that trap... Correct?
Naruhodou: T-trap...
 
Iris: That's why... Sussie kept that a secret?
Iris: About that peeking window to us... And even the people from the police force.
 
Susato: ...Of course, I am well aware that is a crime.
Susato: That is why... I had entrusted that to Holmes-sama.
 
Susato: If. Should Naruhodou-sama find himself cornered at the very... very end.
Susato: Then this might be the turnabout weapon needed! ...I had believed so.
Naruhodou: (Susato-san... You thought that far...)
Naruhodou: B-but! If so, then...
Naruhodou: Wouldn't it be alright for you to tell me about it as well...?!
Holmes: What in the Hell are you talking about. If you knew that...
 
Holmes: You would have wound up as an accomplice as well.
Naruhodou: Huh...?
 
Holmes: If it is found that they had willfully altered the crime scene in any way, the attorney would be dismissed.
Holmes: Which is why Ms. Susato decided to do it herself.
Holmes: Mr. Naruhodou. ...This was done for both your sake. Yours and Ms. Gina.
 
Naruhodou: ...Susato-san...
Susato: ..................
Susato: It was... only for a brief moment, but I...
Susato: had doubted the law.
Naruhodou: Huh...?
 
Susato: The people in the right might not use the right methods...
Susato: Such a thought had sprung into mind, and at that was when...
 
Susato: I should, there and then... be disqualified as a Legal Assistant.
Susato: ..................
Naruhodou: ..................
Naruhodou: ...What Susato-san had done is completely different from him.
Naruhodou: The one who took advantage of the peeking window to construct a lie... was Crogray!
 
Susato: ...!
Naruhodou: And...
Naruhodou: If, at the very end that window was not a contradiction...
Naruhodou: Then Gina-san might have been deemed guilty at the end of that trial.
Naruhodou: Susato-san... You saved Gina-san!
Susato: ..................
 
Susato: Such words... I think you might have saved me with them.
 
Holmes: In any event, I think it is wonderful that Ms. Gina has be deemed not guilty.
Naruhodou: Yes. But that said...
Naruhodou: There were things we still didn't clear up in the end.
Susato: ...Still! For that music box to have morse corde recorded unto it...
 
Susato: That's Naruhodou-sama! I admire you!
Naruhodou: Oh, no... Even so, we didn't clear it up in the end.
Susato: ...Is that so?
Naruhodou: There was a telegram operator in those six jurors who said...
Naruhodou: "This is Morse code where pretty much nothing made sense"...
 
Holmes: ...And despite that, this is classified as secret information.
Holmes: To steal it, the information might have been coded.
Naruhodou: C-coded... This?
Naruhodou: ...I guess that can't be deciphered all that easily, huh...
 
Holmes: Well. We could simply have some bloke who's free decipher it for us!
 
.................  ......A.....
 
....SO.... U..... GI......?
Naruhodou: ...! (...What...?)
 
Iris: ...Or something like that~ That's no such word~
Susato: Iris-sama! W-whatever did you just speak?!
Iris: Uh... Um. I said... A-SO-U-GI.
Iris: ... I don't really believe it but. Is there some meaning to it?
Naruhodou: ...Meaning? That's...
Naruhodou: Asougi... That's the name of my best friend!
Iris; Whaaaaaaaat?!
Susato: Why in Heavens?! However did you come to know that name, Iris-sama...?
 
Iris: Oh... From here. I wrote down the Morse code that was playing in the courtroom earlier!
Naruhodou: (...She only heard it once... She's an amazing girl, just like I thought.)
 
Iris: I thought it might be coded too, so I threw lots of stuff against it...
Iris: But I just couldn't get out any words that made sense~.
 
Iris: ...At least not in English.
 
Susato: Ah......
 
Iris: And then. I remembered.
Iris: Morse code isn't limited only to the English language... So.
Iris: ...I combined every single Country's in the world to see what I'd get!
Naruhodou: C-come again...?! So then, that's...?
 
Iris: Mmn~ I've seen it once... The Empire of Japan's morse code instructions.
Iris: From what I remember... It was called "iroha", right?
Naruhodou: So... In that message, it wrote "Asougi"...?
 
Iris: Yup... Probably. Even I can't remember all of it.
 
Susato: I...Iris-sama! Might I see that for a moment?!
Naruhodou: S-Susato-san... Do you know Japanese Morse code...?
 
Susato: Yes! I have indeed studied it.
 
Susato: I believe it is essential to be able to communicate with the world in the era to come!
 
Holmes: ...I'm of the opinion that it'd be better to study English if you desire to communicate with the world.
 
Susato: I-In any event, Iris-sama. Please allow me to see that code!
 
Iris: Kay!
 
Susato: ..................
Susato: T-this...? Whatever do I make of this...?
Naruhodou: (...As her eyes scan through each of the seemingly meaningless Morse code...)
Naruhodou: (Susato-san's face slowly grew ever paler...)
Susato: ....................................
 
Susato: Indeed. This telegram records seems... to be coded in the Japanese way.
Naruhodou: The Great British Empire... sent a Japanese telegram...?
Susato: ...While I am not certain of that...
Susato: There what I believe are strings of names recorded... Four individuals' worth.
Naruhodou: Four names...
 
Susato: The first of which... is K. Asougi.
Naruhodou: Kazuma Asougi... huh? (Why is his name here...?)
Susato: And, the second is... A. Satsushiyaa.
Naruhodou: Sasha... maybe? I've never heard of a name like that, though.
Susato: The third is... T. Gureguson.
Naruhodou: G-Gregson...?
 
Holmes:Tobias Gregson... Seems like him... alright.
Naruhodou: (...It's the Inspector's name. What is it doing on a state secret telegram...?)
 
Susato: And the last...
Susato: ..................
Naruhodou: Wh... What's wrong, Susato-san?
 
Susato: N-No... It's just, this is a very much an unexpected name...
 
Iris: Huh?! What? What? Hurry up and tell us already, Sussie!
 
Susato: ..................
Susato: The final name... Is J. Watoson.
Iris: Huh.....?
Naruhodou: W-Watson...?
Iris: John H. Watson... That's my papa's name...
Holmes: ..................
 
Susato: J. Watson... is all that is given, so I cannot speak for certain but...
 
Susato: And following the four names is... "THE ABOVE FOUR".
Susato: The Morse code written by Iris-sama cuts off here.
 
Iris: ..................
Naruhodou: Who would have thought the contents embedded unto that disc...
NAruhodou: was Japanese Morse Code...
Naruhodou: (...And the overly mysterious names of those four individuals recorded down...)
 
Holmes: It seems this classified telegram was...
Holmes: Sent by The Great British Empire to the Empire of Japan, judging from everything we have.
Iris: Then. My papa might... be in Sussie's nation!
 
Susato: T-that's...
 
Iris: ...But then~ I suppose... such a sweet sounding tale might not be true.
 
Iris: After all, "J" and "Watson" are both names you can find just about anywhere.
Naruhodou: ...........................
Naruhodou: (...The professor in the medical block of Yuumei University. Doctor John H. Watson...)
Naruhodou: (...I just. Can't bring myself to talk about it here...)
 
Naruhodou: ...In today's trial, the case might have ended up being solved but...
Naruhodou: It's as if I'm standing at the mouth of some great darkness... At least, that's how I feel.
 
Susato: ..................
Susato: ...Perhaps.
Susato: That... is a darkness we must peer into.
Naruhodou: ..................
 
...BOOOOOOOOOOOO...
 
Susato: ...It seems the ship is about to depart.
Naruhodou: ...Seems like it...
 
Susato: That steamship will be bound for Port Dunkerque in France.
Susato: There I shall be transferring to a larger passenger ship, and be on my way to Japan.
 
Iris: Sussie... You're gonna go?
 
Holmes: ...I pray that you have a safe journey, Ms. Susato.
 
Susato: ...Thank you very much. Take care of yourselves, everyone.
 
Naruhodou: Susato-san...!
Naruhodou: ...I wanted you... to always be close to my side, to aid me.
Susato: N-Naruhodou-sama...
Naruhodou: ...Please come back.
Naruhodou: Susato-san... To me, you're the best Legal Assistant in this world!
Susato: ...!
Susato: ..................
Susato: Yes... Yes. I promise shall surely return!
 
Iris: Really... Sussie?
Susato: Because... I have not fulfilled the promise I made to you, Iris-sama.
Iris: Promise...
 
Susato: ...It is about the matter of that manuscript.
Iris: Oh...
Naruhodou: (...The Hound of the Baskervilles... Huh?)
Iris: ..................
 
Iris: I'll be waiting, Sussie... It's a promise!
 
Susato: ...Yes, Iris-sama.
 
Susato: ..................
 
Susato: Say, Naruhodou-sama...?
Naruhodou: Yes?
Susato: Do you still remember when we had first met?
Naruhodou: ...Yes. Of course I do.
Naruhodou: I was dragged out of the closet in the cabin onboard SS. Alaclaire...
Naruhodou: And you sent me flying with your Susato Toss, flipping the whole cabin upside down.
 
Susato: G-...Gee! I meant the matter afterwards!
 
Susato: ...When we were together during that case, I was strangely convinced.
Susato: That the one who shall inherit Kazuma-sama's will... would be this individual.
Naruhodou: ...Susato-san...
 
Susato: My intuition... was not wrong.
Susato: That, I'm cer... No, it is absolute.
 
Susato: I shall be back again. Please... take care!
 
Thus... The first chapter of The Adventure of Ryuunosuke Naruhodou drew to a close.
 
When I think about it, I feel like I was guided by a strange fate and arrived at this point.
 
I became an attorney... And met a detective in a foreign city.
 
From this point onwards... There will surely be many difficulties lying ahead in wait for me.
 
...But, no matter what crisis it may be,
I can bring forth a great turnabout... I feel that way.
 
Because I have...
The best allies in this world by my side.
 
Holmes: ...Ah, that's right, Mr. Naruhodou.
Naruhodou: W-...What is it?
Holmes: Actually... There is something quite dire.
 
Holmes: Due to how we arrived here on that special train, we're going to get sued by the railway company.
Naruhodou: Wha.
 
Iris: He's so unreasonable~ He had the other trains gather at the station.
 
Iris: Well. They can't couple them together otherwise.
 
Holmes: That being the case, I've told them every bit of it was your fault.
Naruhodou: Wha. Wh-
 
Holmes: Come tomorrow, I think a complaint from the railway company ought to reach you.
Holmes: But you should be fine. After all, according to Ms. Susato...
 
Iris: Narudy simply loves to defend himself!
Naruhodou: Wha. Wh. W-.
Iris: You're fine! I'll properly testify for you too!
 
Iris: "He didn't seem the person to have caused such a huge mess...", yup!
Naruhodou: ..................
Naruhodou: Uhm. Holmes-san.
 
Holmes: Yup. What is it?
Naruhodou: May I... Say just one word to you?
 
Holmes: Yes, but of course! You may even yell it out from the belly if you wish.
 
Iris: I love it too~ Whenever Narudy says that word.
 
Naruhodou: ...Now then, excuse me...
OBJECTION!
 
Holmes: ...Ever since that, a mountain worth of music box has been pouring in from all over Europe.
Holmes: I thought it was some conspiracy, but it turned out that I had ordered them myself.
Holmes: "Mr. Holmes Utilizes Them To Solve Cases!" or, that's what appeared on the papers...
 
Holmes: Then they started selling like hot cakes. It has become silly to deduce to diligently!
 
Iris: Ooooh... The deadline is tomorrow, so I haven't had any sleep.
Iris: So that's when Holmesies decided to make breakfast for me...
Iris: But I'm definitely going to get sandy toast and muddy coffee.
 
Iris: I miss the Japanese breakfast Sussie makes for me!
Auchi: Witness! Your testimony... Is a complete contradiction!
 
Sonohigurashi: Well then! You say the koban stole itself by letting itself grabbed?!
 
Uzukumaru: Say what you may, but this Kuroumaru knows my innocence!!
 
Judge: ...If at all possible. I would like for the Supreme Court to be uninvolved in this fight.
 
Hosonaga: After I had sent off that Russian dancer to Shanghai, I infiltrated the steamship for the time being.
 
Hosonaga: Then, I had picked up a downright suspicious Japanese man, and am sending him back to his country.
 
Souseki: I hadst sneakily hid the kitten Wagahai birthed into my own pocket!
Souseki: But merely holding an animal is a heavy offense, how could this be?!
Vortex: ...Scientific investigations will be the symbol of the police in the new era.
 
Vortex: Law and order shall have dominion over the world. That is my ideal.
Vortex: Indeed. Like the 100 components of a colossal clock that moves together without an inch of deviation.
 
Vortex: Ah... Excuse me. It seems there are 2 minutes 37 seconds until my next meeting.
 
Gregson: Today's the new issue of the Strand Magazine! Looks like I'm making an appearance!
Gregson: I can hear the cheers when I head to the pub and speak that line already.
 
Gregson: "...Harumph. Rather good, for an amateur." ...Yes!
 
Gregson: Glug... Glug... Glug... Glug.... I must look ever upwards to the Young Lady.
Garrideb: Yes. I meet with Joan nearly everyday lately.
Garrideb: After heading up and down three stories worth of stairs, my legs have started to return to what they once were.
Garrideb: I have been trying out the art of being a maid myself recently.
Garrideb: Can't believe it. Seems no one nearby ever noticed the man of the house and the maid was the same person.
 
Rola: My Pat has returned to me. It's all thanks to that Reaper!
Pat: I've recently found myself enjoying picking up small changes on patrols more than anything.
Pat: It is my duty to protect the small changes of the London citizens, and to make my wife happy!
 
Oh, Rola...     My, Pat...
 
Gina: ...In the end, I've to stay here for a while.
Gina: Well, it's no big deal since Iris comes over everyday to play.
Gina: Geez, that Iris. She's always full of stories about Holmes' achievements.
 
Gina: ...It kinda makes me think investigating crimes might be fun... You know?
 
Crogray: I... discarded my past to walk down a path of evil. I have no regrets on my choice... Absolutely none.
 
Nemmy: You don't hafta act so cool, Bro! Take it easy, Rubert!
 
Tully: Milverton & Tinpiller Co ...Let's bring it back, why don't we?!
 
Together, like back then now! ...Tinpiller!!
 
Susato: ...Susato shall never forget about these 6 months so long as she breathes.
Susato: Fateful farewells and meetings... I understand now that is life.
Susato: Naruhodou-sama. Susato shall one day... For sure, return here.
Susato: So. Place me in your memories. Until that day arrives... Please, be well.
