"So that man really was Yogi," Larry said. "I had no idea."

"Well, a lot of things can change in 15 years," Dahlia said. "Another 15 years from now and you'll be a loony old man."

"You know, we're the same age," Larry said.

"Yeah, but I'll wear it much better," Dahlia said.

Larry and Phoenix rolled their eyes.

"Can we focus on the now?" Phoenix said. "What was up with Ini?"

"Her name is Ini?" Larry said, perking his head.

"Yeah, why?" Phoenix said.

"Ini Miney?" Larry said.

"Yes wh-" Dahlia's eyes widened. "Duh!"

"I never thought I'd see her again," Larry said.

Just then, Dahlia's phone went off. The defense attorney picked it up and answered the call. "Hello?"

"Mystic Dahlia!" Pearl said.

"Pearly?" Dahlia said, instantly cheering up. "Haven't I told you to stop calling me a Mystic?"

Pearl giggled. "Maybe."

"So why are you calling me?" Dahlia said.

"Oh Dahlia I'm so excited!" Pearl said. "Mother and I are going to see you!"

"You're what?" Dahlia said, in complete shock. Pearly and… Mother?

"Isn't that great?" Pearl said. "I've never been outside the village before. Mother says we're going to take a tray-un."

"It's 'train' Pearly," Dahlia said.

"Try-in," Pearl said.

Dahlia smiled again. "Yes you are."

"Huh?" Pearl said. "Oh, Mother says I have to get off the phone now. Do you want to talk to her?"

"No thanks Pearly," Dahlia said. "See you later."

The defense attorney hung up the phone and turned back to the two men, who were now wrapped up in a discussion about Valley Girls. Looks like their bonds have been mended rather smoothly.

"When you think about it, Mimi really was a Valley Girl," Phoenix said.

"Eh," Larry said, moving his hand like an indecisive scale. "Her little pop princess of a sister was, but Mimi was a bit more down to Earth don't you think?"

"Well, comparatively sure," Phoenix said. "But she had her moments."

"True, but she also gave you a wedgie if I recall Phoenix," Edgeworth said.

"Oh, yeah," Phoenix said.

"Really Nick?" Dahlia said. "Did everybody do that?"

Phoenix grinned. "People never liked me."

"I can see that," Dahlia said. "So Edgeworth, just stopping to say hi?"

"Does that sound like something I'd do?" Edgeworth said.

"Right, Mr. No Fun Detective," Dahlia said. "So what facts of incredible importance and seriousness have you come to enlighten me of?"

"Turn off the Redd White speech pal," Edgeworth said, glaring at her.

"Seriously?" Dahlia said.

"Did you get the results for the letter?" Larry said.

Edgeworth turned to face him. "Yes."

"You're still glaring," Larry said. "I could still cut your pay you know."

"Oh, right," Edgeworth said, looking away for a moment.

"So, the letter?" Phoenix said.

"Letters, actually pal," Edgeworth said.

"Huh?" Dahlia said.

"Well, Larry," Edgeworth stuttered. "I mean Prosecutor Butz, had told me the victim had written him a letter. So I searched his office and found it."

"Smart," Dahlia said. "So who wrote the letters?"

"Well, that's the interesting part," Edgeworth said. "They were written by different people."

"They were?" Phoenix said.

"The one to the victim was Prosecutor…" Edgeworth sighed. "Prosecutor Skye."

"I knew it," Dahlia said darkly. "But what about the other letter?"

"That, we don't know yet," Edgeworth said. "There was only time to confirm one person's handwriting and see if they matched. Though it doesn't take a trained eye to see they were different."

The detective brought out the letters and gave them to Phoenix.

"He's right, these are definitely different people," Phoenix said.

"Wow, if Wright can tell the difference it must be true," Larry said.

"Thanks," Phoenix said dryly, handing the letters to Dahlia.

"Impressive work Detective," Larry said. He smirked. "Even if you're supposed to be working for the prosecution."

"I assure you I'm doing my job," Edgeworth said. "Prosecutor Butz."

With that, the detective left.

So Lana didn't ask Larry to go to Gourd Lake? Dahlia stared at the letter, waiting for inspiration to strike. Then who did? And why?

"This is one heck of a trial," Phoenix commented.

"You got that right," Dahlia said, filing the letters away into the court record.

"Well, what are we going to do?" Phoenix said.

"Whatever we can," Dahlia said. "We've got a few mysteries solved. And I think it's pretty clear what it is that ties everything together for this case."

"DL-6," Larry said somberly.

"It's bound to come up a few times," Dahlia said. "Just don't say anything okay? We'll sort through all this. You'll just have to trust us."

"Alright," Larry said. "I trust you, Ms. Fey."

"Holy Mew you called me Fey!" Dahlia said. This tops the shiny Axew!

A few minutes later, the trial resumed.

"Ms. Skye, I take it the witness is prepared?" the judge said.

"Yes Your Honor," Lana said, her stone-cold mask in place once again.

"Very good, bring her to the stand," the judge said.

They did just that, and Ini stood behind the witness stand doing her airy little dance.

"State your name and occupation," Lana said.

"Ini Miney, like, I'm a parapsychology student," Ini said.

"Hold on, what's parapsychology?" the judge said.

"It's like, the study of the supernatural," Ini said.

I've heard of that. Students in that department came to Kurain Village all the time. That kind of stopped though after DL-6.

"Alright then," the judge said slowly. "Now, you claim to have seen the murder correct?"

"Like, uh-huh," Ini said.

"In that case, let's hear your testimony on the matter," the judge said.

"Okay," Ini said.

Testimony

So, like, I was in the woods by the lake that night.

I come out to, like, a clearing and see a boat out in the lake. Except it was like really foggy and stuff.

Like, I had binoculars with me though so I could see then better.

So anyway that's when the, uh, defendant guy pulls out, like, a gun.

He points it right at the defense attorney! Crazy right?

Then, there's like a bang sound and a flash and the old guy slumps into the lake.

"If she says 'like' one more time I'm going to hurt someone," Dahlia grumbled.

"I don't like where this is going," Phoenix said, nudging away. He froze when he realized what he had just said.

Dahlia brought her fist down on her assistant's head.

"Feel better?" Phoenix said, rubbing his head.

"Almost," Dahlia said.

"Ms. Hawthorne, you may begin your cross-examination," the judge said.

"And it's gone," Dahlia said.

Cross-Examination

So, like, I was in the woods by the lake that night.

"Hold it!" Dahlia said. "Why were you in the woods? It's closed off to the public."

"It is?" Ini said. "Like, no one told me that."

"Right…" Dahlia said. "So why were you there?"

"Oh yeah," Ini said. "So I, like, read something about how to cleanse your soul and stuff. So I was walking around at night to be, like, purified."

"That sounds kind of crazy," Phoenix murmured.

"I know," Dahlia said. "She read something?"

"So, like, anyway," Ini said.

I come out to, like, a clearing and see a boat out in the lake. Except it was like really foggy and stuff.

Like, I had binoculars with me though so I could see them better.

"Hold it!" Dahlia said. "Why would just happen to have binoculars with you?"

"See, the point of the cleansing is, like, the moonlight," Ini said. "So I thought, like, maybe if I could see the moon closer I could get cleansed more."

Dahlia rubbed her temples. "2 things wrong with that. 1, you're supposed to look at the moon with a telescope. Not binoculars. 2, how does that make sense?"

Ini rapped her head, and Dahlia half-expected to hear a very hallow sound. "Like, I don't know I just figured maybe it would work."

"What made you look at the boat?" Dahlia said.

"Like, I noticed them and I thought it was weird," Ini said. "How could, like, your curiosity not be peeked?"

"Piqued," Dahlia said.

"Right," Ini said.

So anyway that's when the, uh, defendant guy pulls out, like, a gun.

"Hold it!" Dahlia said. "Are you sure you saw that?"

"Like, yeah," Ini said. "How could I mistake that for, like, something else?"

I don't know, but you'd be capable of it. Dahlia put her hand in her pockets. Hmm… The gun does have Larry's fingerprints, so he did hold it at some point. She decided to see where this lead. "So what happened next?"

He points it right at the defense attorney! Crazy right?

"Hold it!" Dahlia said. "Incredibly crazy, why would he do that?"

"I don't, like, know," Ini said. "But he did!"

Did anything else stand out in that statement? Dahlia mulled it over for a minute, and then it clicked. "How did you know the victim was a defense attorney?"