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[bewrightback]

"If you're looking for Phoenix Wright, you've called the Wright number! Leave a message after the beep, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can!"

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[prosecutory]

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Very funny. I hope you didn't encourage her.

[bewrightback]

I only encourage her sense of humor!

[prosecutory]

There's nothing humorous about what happened to her shortly after I returned home. She lost her memories and was implicated in a murder.

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[You always know how to bring the mood down, Edgeworth...]

Ah. I'm sorry. I... I think I have heard of that incident. [To think it all happened while I was just spending quality time with Maya.]

[prosecutory]

Did Kay mention it while she was here?

[Bringing the mood down is what Edgeworth does best, and even he feels uncomfortable talking about it. He understands that the Grand Tower and much of that incident will always be bad memories for Kay.]

[bewrightback]

No, not while she was here.

[He just says with a smile.]

But back at home, well... there's a number of ways I could have found out. [He'll leave that coyly.] I don't know all the details, but the general gist?

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[prosecutory]

Heh. [Edgeworth can't help but chuckle. Knowing Phoenix, that man would try to find out what he was up to. Or word of mouth would reach him. Or...actually, Edgeworth in the future would tell him.]

[prosecutory]

[But he is quick to get back to serious business with a clearing of the throat.]

Anyway, without her memories, Kay was convinced that she did kill someone and just couldn't remember. I had to convince her to trust in me, and trust in her own innocence.

She... [A pause. Even now, he could remember her pleading with him to stop, to let her be arrested, to save himself from the wrath of the P.I.C. He could see her, with that lost expression, that helplessness in the face of the very law that was supposed to protect her...] She couldn't stand seeing me defend her at every turn, even at the cost of my badge.

[bewrightback]

[And/or through some combination of case files and news reports.

Hearing it put that way, it reminds him of the time he defended Athena. When you have to believe in your client more than the person in question does... In fact, wasn't this person in question once convinced that he was guilty of murder?]

I see. So, you had badge problems of your own...

But of course you wouldn't let that stop you. You're Edgeworth. You won't let things like that stand in your way. Not when it comes to seeking the truth... and protecting a dear friend.

...It still couldn't have been easy.

[prosecutory]

[It wasn't easy, not at all. Those were hard days, including a considerable amount of time spent in a jail cell all because he wanted to find the truth and believed in Kay.]

It wasn't. [He makes a short, dismissive sound.] I was told that if I continued to insist that Kay wasn't the killer and barge into the investigation, I would be stripped of my prosecutor's badge.

At that moment, I decided that if being a prosecutor would bar me from finding the truth, then it meant nothing to me. I resigned from the office, and was later arrested for aiding in Kay's escape and illegal investigation.

[bewrightback]

Edgeworth... That's further then even I've ever gone.

But it worked, didn't it? It was all worth it in the end...?

[prosecutory]

It was. [His voice is soft, almost reminiscing.] Kay was acquitted, and we exposed the man who wanted to frame her...to make his own truth.

...Were you in my place, and you had to save someone like Maya or Pearl, I think you would have done the same thing.

[Now that he thought about it, it was a very Phoenix Wright-esque move, to resign but to carry on investigating even on the pain of being arrested.]

[bewrightback]

I don't doubt the possibility. [He nods softly on his end.]

But either way... I'm glad that everything turned out well in the end. [Even if I know a lot of this already.]

The truth itself always prevails in the end, over the false truths that others may try to impose.

[prosecutory]

Everything turned out well...except for the criminals involved, of course. [But at least Dogen will keep Keyes company in prison.] Kay even got her memories back, shortly after she was acquitted.

[bewrightback]

That sounds like as an ideal end as we can hope for. [He says with a weak smile.]

It must have been a very memorable occasion for Kay.

[prosecutory]

Memorable...hardly in a good way. [He sighs.] The Grand Tower, the place where this all took place, will always be a reminder for her, and for the rest of us involved.

[bewrightback]

S-sorry. [The pun seems ill-placed in retrospect.]

I guess a lot of places like that around the city become like that after particularly ugly cases. ...But we have greater and more triumphant memories to turn to as well, don't we?

[prosecutory]

...

[That mollifies Edgeworth, at least. Besides, the Grand Tower was also memorable for him in ways that weren't good. That was, after all, where he had ragequit - er, resigned.]

Indeed, we do. That case, despite the memories it brings, was a victory. That was my experience, persuading someone to believe in herself, because I believed in her.

...It rings a familiar bell, don't you think?

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...It sounds just a little familiar to me, Edgeworth. [He says coyly.]

I'm running out of ways to say that you really have come a long way, Edgeworth. And you still have even further to go...

I'm proud of you.

[prosecutory]

I've come this far because...because I've had many people by my side.

[Not one to take full credit for everything, he is.]

A criminal we arrested had no one. He was a victim of the law and those who twisted it for their own ends, and turned to crime.

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I see. That's all true, Edgeworth.

And of course, while this doesn't absolve that person of the crime... It does - or did... no, still does.... It does leave us to un-twist that law at every turn.

With our efforts, with how far we've come just before I came here... Edgeworth, I have faith that we might not have to worry about the creation of more criminals like that in the future.

[prosecutory]

Indeed. We may not be perfect, but we'll do our best to ensure that people can trust the law and those behind it, because the law is not meant to be simply taken into one's own hands.