Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth/Turnabout Ablaze/Part 5-7 - End 3

We've established that Mr. Coachen was killed in the neutral area and moved to Allebahst and Babahl, but we have yet to pinpoint the exact location of the murder and prove that Mr. Alba did kill Mr, Coachen. Edgeworth will request that Mr. Alba testify about his movements before the murder. He claims that all he did was watch the Steel Samurai show.

Testimony: Quercus Alba

Mr. Alba

Mr. Alba's Testimony

- The Steel Samurai's Show -

1. I watched from the back row. The stage was well-lit, but it was dark out in the audience.
2. I swear I was there in the audience, but it's hard to prove that, I suppose.
3. I do remember the contents of the show very well, though. Is that proof enough for you?
4. Those moving scenes were seared into this old man's heart. I'll never forget them.

Rebuttal: The Steel Samurai's Show

Press statement 3 to get Mr. Alba to elaborate on one of the scenes.

• One of the scenes was the never-before-seen "Early Summer Rain Jab" move.

Present the Samurai Spear at this statement. It was needed to perform the "Early Summer Rain Jab", but since Larry bent it, the finishing move was changed to the "Steel Samurai Sushi Slash". That means that Mr. Alba did not watch the show tonight!

Mr. Alba now gives us a simple reason why he made that mistake. He needed to go to the bathroom during the show, coincidentally by the time the scene starts. Even if it is an obvious excuse, we have absolutely no way to disprove it!

Another Hold it! echoes across the hall, this time from Larry. He says that Mr. Alba is a true Steel Samurai fan, mentioning about how he knew about the "Early Summer Rain Jab" move, saying that it was decided right before the show starts. The move's name was decided 5 minutes before the show, but as Larry's spear was already bent at the time, they had to change it. This means that Mr. Alba could only have known about the move right before the show. Choose You saw it. Mr. Alba saw the name of the move on the white board in the backstage waiting room, which means he was there at some point during the show! Another piece of evidence is also related to the waiting room. Present the Pushcart. The pushcart was left in the waiting room until it was pushed on-stage at the end of the show, after which it was wheeled into the Allebahstian embassy. That means that the killer must've visited the waiting room sometime during the show.

Mr. Alba says he did visit the waiting room, but insists that it has nothing to do with the murder. He claims that he wandered into the room while going to the bathroom, and just happened to see the name of the move. We don't have any evidence to disprove that, and Agent Lang says that his men had already throroughly investigated that room but found nothing. Is this really the end?

A Hold it! is called out again, this time from Ms. Oldbag. She wants to give Edgeworth a present, which turns out to be...a box of Samurai Dogs. She said that the box had a special red dot on the fan that looked like the Japanese flag, but tasted exactly the same as the others when she sampled it.

Edgeworth recalls that a pile of Samurai Dogs were piled up in the waiting room, but he knows that a "Rising Sun Dog" doesn't exist. You will get the Rising Sun Dogs logic. The Samurai Dogs had to be piled into the pushcart to move them into the embassy. You will get the Samurai Dogs logic. As we had deduced, the killer moved the body using the pushcart. You will get the Body in the pushcart logic.

You will enter Logic Mode for the last time. It's time to connect these final pieces of logic, which will lead us to the truth! Connect Samurai Dogs with Body in the pushcart. The killer had to remove the Samurai Dogs in the pushcart to make room for the body, so a bunch of them were piled up in the waiting room. You will get the Samurai Dogs were removed logic.

Connect the Rising Sun Dogs with Samurai Dogs were removed. If the red substance on this box was filled in when the killer was removing the boxes to make room for the killer, we can prove that the murder did happen in the waiting room.

There is one spot on this box of Samurai Dogs we just obtained that will be the Coup de Grace for Mr. Alba. Examine the red spot. A rising sun package of Samurai Dogs never existed, so this red spot is actually a drop of blood. Larry had to pile up the Samurai Dogs in the pushcart so that the Iron Infant can be seen by the audience when placed on the pile. The killer had to remove the Samurai Dogs in the cart to make room for the body, and it is during this time that the blood made its way on to this box. All the other Samurai Dogs had been confisticated by staff members to hide evidence of the murder, but luckiliy for us Ms. Oldbag managed to get to one before they did.

Although we still haven't proven that Mr. Alba killed Mr. Coachen, the blood on the box proves that the murder occured in the waiting room. Mr. Alba says that even if the blood was Mr. Coachen, it will prove nothing. Even if the murder did happen in the waiting room, we have no way of proving that Mr. Alba was the killer! We have had so many moments of hope, but it looks like there really is no way to take down Quercus Alba.

One last Hold it! rings out, this time from a forensics technician. He says that the blood type on the box doesn't match the victim's! Mr. Alba states that it means this evidence is meaningless. It could've gotten on the box long before it reached the embassy.

It might seem like the end, but the Ace Attorney series were always known to turn around the most dire situations. If the blood did get on to the box in the dressing room, there is only one person it can belong to. Present Quercus Alba. If the blood was spilt in the dressing room and wasn't from Coachen, the only other person it could've came from is the killer!

Mr. Coachen probably fought back before he was killed, and might have wounded Mr. Alba, possibly causing him to bleed. We can prove that Mr. Alba was bleeding around the time of the murder. Present Amb. Alba's Wound. While he claims that he got the wound after the show, we can disprove it with a simple test.

Mr. Alba will say that his wound is a stab wound, and it isn't possible for Mr. Coachen to have carried a blade with him, especially with all the strict security. Since Mr. Alba could sneak a knife through security, Mr. Coachen must also have had some way of doing so. Present the Yatagarasu's Key. It can transform from a key into a knife, so it can easily be brought into the theater in disguise. Mr. Alba couldn't simply dispose the key after the murder, so he cleaned the blade and placed in on Coachen's body, so that when it was found in his office, it will open his private safe containing evidence of him smuggling. That's it, the finishing blow!

Mr. Alba will reveal that Manny Coachen had sought to seize control of the smuggling ring by trying to remove Mr. Alba from his position as an ambassador. He not only killed Mr. Coachen because of his betrayal, but also to shut down the whole smuggling business. Regardless of what his motive was, he will have to face the courts, either in this country or in Allebahst. Mr. Alba will finally break down, looking like the shrivelled, weak disguise he put up by the end.

What REALLY happened

Quercus Alba is the ringleader of a large multi-national smuggling ring, mainly involved in the counterfeiting of Zheng Fa bills using Cohdopian ink. His status as an ambassador grants him extraterritorial rights that let him and his secretary, Manny Coachen, counterfeit the bills using the embassy's printing press.

Around this time, Cece Yew, a witness of the smuggling ring, was killed by Mr. Coachen under the orders of Mr. Alba to silence her, setting off the first KG-8 Incident. Manny Coachen was deemed "Not Guilty" of the murder as decisive pieces of evidence have been stolen. Colin Devorae, the secretary of Ernest Amano, CEO of the Amano Group, was wrongly arrested as the ringleader.

Calisto Yew, a persona of one of the members of the smuggling ring, pretended to be the victim's sister. Together with the prosecutor and detective of the case, Byrne Faraday and Tyrell Badd respectively, they formed the Great Thief Yatagarasu, a group that steals the truth behind corrupt dealings and publicizes it. Mr. Faraday decides to use an inverted version of the ringleader's directives card as their symbol to warn the smuggling ring. The respective talents of all the three people makes the thief very elusive. Calisto Yew scouts out the location of their target, Byrne Faraday infiltrates the target with his knowledge and Little Thief, while Tyrell Badd hides away evidence they leave behind as the lead detective of the Yatagarasu case.

After several successful operations, Quercus Alba feared that he will be found out. He commanded Calisto Yew to eliminate Byrne Faraday, which she planned to do by framing Faraday as the Yatagarasu and locking him up in jail. A miscalculation forced her to kill him and a witness herself, but she was revealed as the killer by Edgeworth. Calisto Yew managed to escape with the Yatagarasu's Key, but Byrne Faraday's daughter, Kay Faraday, preserved all of his and Calisto Yew's items.

Seven years later, Abbey Hicks, an Interpol agent tracking down the smuggling ring, was killed by Cammy Meele, another member of the ring. Calisto Yew, now posing as Shih-na, is also part of the Interpol, trying to thwart another agent, Shi-Long Lang's attempts at tracking down the ringleader. She meets Kay by accident and realizes that she still has Byrne Faraday's Little Thief, so she planned to obtain it for the smuggling ring. Jacques Portsman, another member of the ring, was ordered to infiltrate Edgeworth's office, where the KG-8 Incident files are stored, to steal some incriminating evidence. Portsman failed to find anything before being discovered by his partner and killing him, but Detective Badd managed to get to it. He bumped into Edgeworth just as he was about to leave, but left behind a trump card that Edgeworth can use to bring down the ringleader.

Having been informed about the Little Thief by Shih-na, Quercus Alba planned to murder Manny Coachen, who has betrayed him, and pin the crime on Kay so that he can obtain the Little Thief for smuggling operations. He announced that the embassy had received a calling card from the Yatagarasu stating that it will infiltrate the embassy during the goodwill jubilee event, and had the police department on guard duty.

That day, Ambassador Palaeno and Manny Coachen are cleaning up Coachen's office for the event, as Palaeno's office is under renovation. Coachen also requests DeMasque II to steal the Allebahstian Primidux Statue, which is the real artifact. The fake Primidux Statue, which also happens to contain the plates used for Coachen's counterfeit activities, had to be moved to the third floor from the fifth. The director for the arranged Steel Samurai show decided to name the final move as the "Early Summer Rain Jab", and wrote it down on the dressing room whiteboard. Larry bends his Samurai Spear by accident, so they were forced to scrap the name at the last minute. Larry also leaves the pushcart, stuffed with Samurai Dogs, in the dressing room.

Ambassador Alba begins his plan. He meets Manny Coachen in the dressing room backstage and killed him with a ceremonial knife snuck in with his bouquet. Before he can do that, Manny Coachen fought back, and stabbed him with the Yatagarasu's Key. Having killed Coachen, Alba emptied the cart of Samurai Dogs and loaded the dead body into the cart. A drip of his blood lands on one of the Samurai Dogs, right in the middle of the flag on the package. During this time, Shih-na starts a fire at the fourth and fifth floors of the Babahlese embassy so that the reservoirs connecting both embassies will be emptied. She also sets up piles of counterfeit bills in Coachen's office to prepare for the second fire.

After the show, the Steel Samurai pushed the cart, along with the dead body, into Allebahst. There, Ambassador Alba dumped the cart into the pool in Rose Garden. The fire-fighting efforts had drained both reservoirs which Shih-na and the cart is in. Shih-na moves the body, and the murder weapon, into Babahl. She waits for the pools to refill, then carries the body to the office using the elevator.

Ambassador Alba starts preparing for his "speech" in his office. He launches a crossbow arrow to the secretariat's office along with a line of wire to the opposite side where Shih-na is waiting. They switched both Primidux Statues using the ceiling fans as pulleys. Ambassador Alba fires off the second arrow to send the remainder of the wire to Babahl, where Shih-na hides it in a grandfather's clock. DeMasque II runs into Ambassador Alba while trying to steal the statue, and was killed with it.

The speech begins. The lights, which have been elaborately set up, create a shadow that looks like the Yatagarasu, causing mass panic. At the same time, the second fire begins, and Kay witnesses Shih-na in a coat. Shih-na lures her into Coachen's office, then accuses her of being the killer. Kay is found innocent, but the Yatagarasu's Key Alba put on Coachen's body helped the police to open the safe, which misled them into thinking that Coachen was the ringleader. And that's where we start off from...

Epilogue

Edgeworth is now in the courthouse, preparing his trial on Quercus Alba. Mr. Alba is scheduled to be in another trial in Allebahst, and the prosecutor will be Franziska. All of the cases we solved were connected to the smuggling ring. Cammy Meele supported smuggling operations using her job as a flight attendant, while Jacques Portsman manipulated trials involving the ring. Ernest Amano also used the connections of the Amano Group to assist the smuggling ring.

Both Allebahst and Babahl have been reunified as Cohdopia, and Ambassador Palaeno has been selected as the official ambassador of Cohdopia. Kay and Agent Lang have made it to the courthouse to see the trial, with Agent Lang having newfound respect for Edgeworth. The trial ends, and Quercus Alba was given the guilty verdict.

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