I'm in Conan, but I'm in Ace Attorney

"I am a staff member of the Miracle Magic Group's magic venue. I am 42 years old now."

"Fourteen years ago, Kinoshita Yoshiro gave me the key to his room before performing a magic trick."

"Let me get the magic prop for him - the magic handcuffs."

“I was also the one who handed him the magic handcuffs at the beginning of the magic show.”

As soon as these words were spoken, the whole audience was shocked, which meant that the defense really brought a key witness.

The image of a young man in Miyoshi Mako's mind finally overlapped with the vicissitudes of life of a middle-aged man today.

She pointed at the middle-aged man with disbelief and began to question.

"You are still working at the Miracle Magic Group? Why haven't I seen you before?"

The middle-aged man shook his head and sighed to himself.

"Then, I was transferred to the back of the magic group to do some logistical work. Of course, you can't see me."

"If that little girl hadn't found me today, I probably wouldn't be standing here and speaking—"

His eyes sharpened.

"That's right, I want to tell you here that the leader gave me a gag order!"

"At that time, Kinoshita Yoshiro gave me the key and asked me to go to his room to get the magic props."

"But I didn't get the magic props in the room, but in the corridor outside the room!"

"I saw with my own eyes the captain coming out of Kinoshita Yoshiro's room with the props..."

"Then, he handed the magic props to me and asked me to give it directly to Kinoshita Yoshiro!"

Suddenly, Gu Meimen's brows twitched, a little surprised.

I was about to use my ultimate move, but you ended up using it yourself?

It felt like punching cotton! I'm afraid that the girl Yueshui couldn't do this.

There must be someone helping her... Could it be that elementary school student in the blue suit... ?

"Witness, I warn you that you will be held accountable for every word you say in court!"

"If you give false testimony, you will be held criminally responsible!"

Kujo Reiko finally couldn't keep calm anymore. She slammed her hands on the table, stood up, and looked extremely serious.

However, at this moment, Xiang Yuanguang also slammed the table and stood up. "What the witness said was the truth he wanted to tell. Don't we even have a chance to tell the truth here?"

The hedgehog-headed lawyer slammed his hands on the steel table, leaving two handprints with his powerful palm force.

He suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed at Kujo Reiko in the air, and shouted angrily without any hesitation.

"He was paid hush money by Jiujiu Yuankang fourteen years ago and he dared not tell the truth."

"And now that Jiujiu Yuankang has passed away, he speaks out with integrity because of the guilt in his heart!"

"Is there any logical flaw in this? Doesn't it make sense?!"

As Xiang Yuanguang spoke, he glanced at Jiujiu Yuankang in the dock.

The leader of the Miracle Magic Group was extremely angry.

He patted the guardrail of the dock, but no one else could hear what he said——

The judge's expression became serious and he spoke slowly.

"But even so, we cannot be sure that the magic props were destroyed by Jiujiu Motoyasu."

"Unless the defense can prove that no one had entered the room before Jiujiu Yuankang."

So, is there such evidence...?

"The defense can certainly prove that no one entered the room before Jiujiu Yuankang."

"No one except him and the deceased has the key, so we can tell by looking at the door to see if it is damaged."

"And at the scene, there seemed to be a photo that could prove that Kinoshita Yoshiro's door was intact."

Xiang Yuanguang sneered, snapped his fingers, turned his hand and pointed at the photo reflected by the projector.

That’s right, it was because of the interruption of Kujo Reiko that he didn’t have time to edit the [backstage photos].

Fortunately, I was interrupted by Reiko Kujo, otherwise, this photo might not have been so effective!

"What? This piece of evidence..."

A trace of disbelief flashed in Kujo Reiko's eyes, and she looked at the photos backstage.

Sure enough, at the edge of the photo, I saw the staff member who was currently at the testimony desk.

It's just that the young face is different from the middle-aged face, and only half of the face is exposed...

Therefore, even the ace prosecutor could not find out what was wrong with the photo at the first sight.

"Yes, you can see it, this staff member can be seen in this photo."

"And he claimed that he took the key directly from Jiujiu Yuankang in the backstage——"

"That is to say, the person he was talking to was one and only one."

Xiang Yuanguang snapped his fingers again.

He was pointing at the photo of the performance that he had fabricated.

A portion of Kujuku Motoyasu's clothes hidden behind the curtain was photographed.

"Did you see it? The color of Jiujiu Motoyasu's clothes is exactly the same as the color of the clothes of the person who was talking to the staff with his back to the camera in the backstage photo. This photo..."

"It was undoubtedly filmed during the time when the staff member received a commission from Kinoshita Yoshiro and returned to get the work props, and then met and communicated with Jiujiu Motoyasu!"

"So, the locked door in this photo... is naturally Kinoshita Yoshiro's door!"

"Your Excellency, the door does not show any signs of damage, so it is impossible for an outsider to enter Kinoshita Yoshiro's room. If it is said that the lock was picked, that is even more unreasonable. Who can pick the lock of someone else's private room in public without being discovered by anyone?"

"That's right. Even if it's a lock-picking operation, only the leader of the Miracle Magic Group, Kujuku Motoyasu, has the possibility of picking the lock without being discovered!"

The hedgehog-headed lawyer slammed his hands on the table again, and at that moment a strong wind suddenly blew up.

"Therefore, the defense claims that the person who used handcuffs to disrupt Kinoshita Yoshiro's performance was Kyujuku Motoyasu! He is the real murderer of Kinoshita Yoshiro's case fourteen years ago!"

At this moment, the heart lock on Miyoshi Mako was shattered.

Looking at the [Heart Lock: Available] that lights up on the attribute panel, Xiang Yuanguang curled up the corners of his mouth.

A very familiar tune rang in his ears!

(Current BGM: Pursuit~Chasingいつめられて／バリエーション)

"Let the final act of reversal begin, and give thunderous applause!"

Chapter 356: Magic, leading to the reversal of cheers and finale (1)

At this moment, the rhythm completely returned to Xiang Yuanguang's hands.

The strong presence impacted everyone's perspective, prompting everyone to look at the person in the defense seat.

At this moment, the door of the Grand Court was pushed open again, and the young prosecutor nodded slightly.

The evidence, the final evidence——————is here.

“This is prosecutorial evidence that was not presented in the four previous Magician cases.”

"I think they are inextricably linked to this case."

"Therefore, please allow the prosecutor to present these evidences at this moment."

Gui Yueying took the evidence from the bailiff, and the evidence was shocking.

It turned out to be posters and seven photos of four magic shows at that time.

Four photos taken during the magic show and three photos taken backstage at the magic show.

At this time, Nanatsuki Koshimizu also took out a small component from her pocket.

She casually threw it to Xiang Yuanguang, who caught it and his eyes suddenly fixed.

This was the prop he used when he was in the Honchidai area and couldn't bring Conan to court.

(It seems that he is ready to work with me to solve this case thoroughly?)

(Then let’s do it together… It’s time to turn the situation around!)

Xiang Yuanguang directly hung a single earphone on his left ear, and the earphone instantly lit up with a faint red startup light.

Conan sat down in a corner outside the Grand Court and picked up his badge of the Boy Detective League.

[Xiang Yuan, listen to me, the last and most important clue of this case has arrived in the courtroom.]

[Piece together the last remaining fragmented evidence and find out the secrets hidden by the witness. ]

[This is your only chance and way to reverse the situation and win! ]

At the same time as the voice of the Elementary School Student of the Shinigami sounded, the voice of Kizuki Hotaru also rang out.

"I believe everyone has noticed that these three photos are taken backstage at the magic venue."

"They correspond to the case of Yokoyama Hiroki twelve years ago, the case of Takezawa Teruo eight years ago, and the case of Itagaki Asaichi five years ago. The photos corresponding to the case of Tsuruoka Keisuke three years ago have been submitted by Prosecutor Kujo."

"These photos were taken by an anonymous person after the crime and submitted to the police as evidence through a secret mailbox. This anonymous photographer... I guess, is now in court."

There was a hint of confidence in the young prosecutor's voice.

After a long silence and repeated review, she found out who took the photo.

"Ms. Miyoshi Mako, the real photographer of these backstage photos must be you!"

Gui Yueying directly revealed the true identity of the person who took the photo.

This was also within Xiang Yuanguang's expectations. When he heard about the photo from twelve years ago, he had already connected it with Miyoshi Mako's testimony that he had worshipped Kyujuku Motoyasu as his master twelve years ago.

"I guess that Miyoshi Asako eventually chose to take revenge on Kyujuku Motoyasu in an extreme way for this reason - the photos she sent were treated lightly by the police and did not pose a threat to Kyujuku Motoyasu."

"But what Miss Sanhao didn't know was that it was precisely because she submitted the photos anonymously that the police doubted the authenticity of the photos and regarded them as unreliable evidence..."

"This is all part of the vicious cycle, Miss Miyoshi."

Because he was worried that the police would not be able to catch Jiujiu Yuankang and would expose himself instead, he chose to submit evidence anonymously. However, the police considered the anonymous evidence to be unreliable and did not trust it.

The distrusted evidence naturally had no influence on the reasoning of the case, which led to Kyuju Motoyasu going unpunished, which made Asako Miyoshi even more disappointed with the police. After this vicious cycle occurred four times, Asako Miyoshi shot and killed Kyuju Motoyasu, and the final curtain fell.

"...I really can't hide anything from you. That's right."

Miyoshi Mazi smiled bitterly and shook his head, then simply agreed to the matter.

"When I realized that Jiujiu Yuankang might be leaving to commit the crime, I followed him, but I was always a step slow, so I could only take these photos that cannot be used as direct evidence."

"How to find evidence to prove that Jiujiu Yuankang committed murder based on these photos... I can only leave it to you. I have no other way."

I would do that even if you didn't tell me.

Xiang Yuanguang looked at Jiujiu Yuankang who was staring at him in the dock on the other side.

He sneered, responded with a cold look, and simply snapped his fingers.

"First, there was the murder of Keisuke Tsuruoka three years ago. They escaped from the water tank. Motoyasu Kyujuu tampered with the shackles. The two magic girls did not know magic and were not allowed to get close to magic props."

"Therefore, if we want to confirm that it was Jiujiu Motoyasu who killed people, then we must start from how Jiujiu Motoyasu [came into contact with] the magic props."

[Therefore, it is necessary to conduct a second interrogation of the owner of magic venue D and the two magic assistants to determine the specific situation. In addition, the evidence brought by Prosecutor Guiyue is very interesting. ]

[Xiang Yuan, have you noticed? Every magic venue takes photos or videos of their main performers during their performances, and then you look at the promotional posters.]

Conan's voice rang in his ears, and Yuan Guang's gaze turned to the magic posters on the evidence table.

Those magic posters are naturally posters promoting one's own magic venue.

The main seat is the pillar that he wants to support, and behind the pillar are the members of the Miracle Magic Troupe.

The most eye-catching one among them is Jiujiu Yuankang, who is a little fat and wears a unique colored magic costume.

(Photos from the scene... posters... Kyujuku Motoyasu...)

The two photos that proved the murderer of Kinoshita Yoshiro case suddenly flashed through the Hedgehog-head's mind.