[He frowns and shakes his head. Then Phoenix walks around for a moment and closes the blinds, as if expecting a Von Karma to suddenly be peering through the window at their conversation.]

If that man really was his father, than things would have been really bad...

But the truth may be tough to hear in its own way. [This is a sensitive matter for Edgeworth, but it's something that's known to the public back home. I know that he wouldn't want me to withhold the truth.] That man did raise Edgeworth, after the death of his actual father. It all goes back to a case known as the DL-6 Incident.