Water of Rejuvenation
"OBJECTION!"
"The victim could have been killed with any of those vials! Until we can prove what the murder weapon was exactly, my client Connie Cockton cannot be declared guilty! We need to get those mysterious chemicals tested.", said the loud and familiar voice of the famous defense attorney Phoenix Wright.
"It appears that you are right, Wright. The prosecution requests further investigation of the contents of those vials." Edgeworth was calm and collected; wanting a fair trial in pursuit of the truth.
"It looks to me like we need to extend this trial by another day."
"Hey Boss, how did the trial go? I'm sorry that I couldn't make it to the trial, but with Apollo gone, someone has to do all that paperwork. He used to do all that boring stuff..."
"Great work, Athena. I got it extended for a day, I hope that will buy us some time.", replied Phoenix.
"So how did the victim die anyway?" Athena has read up on the case, but was puzzled, since there was no cause of death on the autopsy report.
"I have no idea. The coroner couldn't find a thing at first. Then they, no Edgeworth, decided to update it and hypothesized that the victim fell unconscious before dying from asphyxiation presumably. You can see that he has a bruise on his head, but he definitely wasn't bludgeoned to death. Everyone thinks that he was poisoned by some weird substance in one of those little vials we found at the crime scene, I honestly have no idea, so I just went along", explained Phoenix with a sheepish grin at the end.
"Whoa, that sounds complicated! But I knew that you could bluff your way through that one, Boss!"
"Uh, Athena, that's not what I was going for." She was still right, he had no idea what was up with the victim, the usual lack of investigation time didn't help either.
Phoenix's phone started buzzing, then came the familiar Steel Samurai ringtone. Athena chuckled slightly at the sight of the old Nokia, it was 2028, not 2008. She thought about whether phones looked like that back then, she couldn't even remember people using anything but a smartphone.
"Just where did I put that thing again?", Phoenix hastily searched for his phone, until he found it in his suit pocket, which he left hanging on the chair.
"Phoenix Wright of the Wright Anything Agency speaking."
"Wright, you have to help me", said the ever-so-familiar voice of Miles Edgeworth.
"What is it, Edgeworth, did you get those vials tested? I bet Ema would have a blast doing that."
"Wright, this is no time for any of your jokes. The chemists have no idea what these concoctions are anyways and Kurain Village does not have any chemists, well besides the victim, of course. This isn't chemistry, this is alchemy.", explained Edgeworth, without getting to the point.
"So what's your emergency? My client is related to the victim, we could just ask him."
"I...I drank, or I think, inhaled, some of it.", said Edgeworth with hesitation.
"You WHAT? Why didn't you tell me at the beginning?" Phoenix remembered that one time he ate that bottle necklace, he was extremely lucky to not be harmed by the remaining poison, but the bowel movement process wasn't exactly pleasant.
"I-I don't know, it was just an accident, a pretty foolish one if I must say", admitted Edgeworth with a remaining tinge of hesitation and embarrassment.
"Are you feeling OK? What can I do for you? Where are you right now?" Phoenix bombarded the man on the other line with worries.
"I'm not sure, I feel a little… funny", he paused.
"And? Come on? Tell me more!"
"I'm at the crime scene. You know, that basement in Kurain Village that they investigated yesterday. There is no one here right know and I think-"
Coughing was heard on the other end of the line followed by the sound of vomiting. Phoenix became increasingly worried about his friend and rival, this sounded serious.
"I'll be right there", said Phoenix with determination to help his friend.
"Please...help..", were the last words that could be heard from Wright's phone.
This made him realize how serious this was, what if Edgeworth was irreversibly injured from this? What if he died just like the victim did?
"Athena, we need to drive to Kurain Village right now." He was glad that his subordinate had a car, this was the only way to get there fast.
"Got it, Boss."