Here we go, we begin the investigate this case and visit the Prosecutor's office.
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DM77's Ace Attorney Chapter 42
King of Prosecutors
February 22, Prosecutor's Office, Underground Parking Lot
J and Makoto arrives at the parking lot and look around as the Police Troopers were investigating and J said, "So this is the lot where it all happened?"
"Looks like they're still investigating…" Makoto said making observations.
'Funny that my first visit to the Prosecutor's Office should be like this…' J thinks on it having never been here before prior.
"Hey everyone! Keep up the good work!" Makoto calls out to the Police Troopers.
"H-hey! What are you thinking?" J said in surprise.
"Well, they are going to be my coworkers three years from now after all." Makoto said with a shrug. "No harm in saying hello…"
"Actually, there is." J said sighing "You know attorneys aren't supposed to examine crime scenes? I'm trying to not stand out too much, here, see?"
"Hey there!" A male voice said to them "You expecting to go unnoticed here, pal?"
"P-Pal?" Makoto said surprised.
The two look to see a man with brown short hair with a scar on the right side of his face and wore a brown shirt, pants, boots and gloves and a black tunic over it. He also had white trooper armor under the tunic and on his sleeves
The man asked serious "What do we have here? Looks like a Nexu got loose from its holding pen and is up to no good!" He smiles saying "Folks got to learn to keep them creatures tied down, buddy."
"M-Mr. Skywalker!" Makoto said shocked seeing him.
'Skywalker? Looks more like a Jedi to me…' J said looking at the man.
"Look here, Nexu. I know how you feel" The man said stretching "But this is my squad's mission site, you see?"
"Site…?" Makoto asked a bit confused.
"This is our hold out, our territory…with a database lode of evidence." The man told them both. "if you're fixing to mess with what's ours…" He puls out a hilt and ignites a light blade, a lightsaber "You'll regret it, pal! You know what dreams the Tuskan Raiders out in the desert dream? You want to?"
'What's this guy talking about?!' J thinks so confused
The man drinks from a bottle and said after "You head along home now. Happy journey, Nexu!" He then walks off.
J and Makoto were silent, but the drone sees the girl looking down sad. J asked, "Was that uh, Jedi, a friend of yours?"
"Uh…kind off…sort of…Yeah. He's a detective." Makoto said.
'Who thinks he is a Jedi from Corosaunt is seems.' J thinks on it. Anyway they look to the car which was a yellow sports car which was the murder scene.
"Well, no time to waste!" Makoto said smiling "Let's get hunting for clues! Hmmm…I wonder what this is?"
"Well, pal. Looks like you got no intention of going home quietly." A familiar voice said as the man from before returns.
'The Jedi!' J thinks seeing him.
"Like I said before, this here's our site." The man said "You best be moving along. Unless you're fixing to bite a lightsaber." He holds his lightsaber up.
'Gah! Scary!' J thinks nervous
"C-could you just tell us one thing…?" Makoto said nervous and points to the yellow car "Who owns that car?"
"Well, well. The little princess' got a good nose on her!" The man said smiling as he sips from his water bottle. "You want to know who rides that yellow starship with the body in her cargo hold, eh?"
"Please!" Makoto begged.
"No problem, pal. About time for rations anyway." The man said smiling and hands a note while saying "Get yourself to the cantina up on the 12th floor of the Senate's Office. Might you find you a blue milk you like."
'Senate's Office? Where does this guy think he is? And when, for that matter?!' J thinks so confused.
"Note to self: look up rations, cantina, blue milk." Makoto said writing in her notebook.
'Maybe we should check out room 1202…. the High Prosecutor's Office!' J thinks looking at the note
"In any case, stay away from the car." The man told them both taking them to the other side of the area. "You can look around here all you like, just keep your paws off our site."
'Right…great.' J thinks sweat dropping.
"Great! Maybe there are some clues around here, Miss. J! Let's check it out!" Makoto said to her. She then looks at a phone on a wall and said "Here, a phone. Let's see if it works…"
"Hey. Don't touch stuff we don't need to be touching." J said.
Makoto picks up the phone and puts it to her ear "I can't here anything! My ears! No, my ears! Maybe it's due to the barometric pressure…"
'What is she babbling about?' J thinks and mumbles
"Hey?! What did you just say?" Makoto asked looking at J.
"See? You can hear just fine. The phone's broken!" J said sighing. She then looks at the door under an Emergency Exit sign.
"Look! A door!" Makoto said smiling "This must mean something!"
"I'm not sure that doors 'mean' anything." J said to Makoto as Makoto tries to open the door.
"No! It won't open! A mysterious lock!" Makoto said.
"I fail to see what's mysterious about it." J said shrugging.
"Miss. J…You need to learn to enjoy life more." Makoto said smiling.
"Let's finish our investigation first, shall we?" J asked her.
Makoto looks up to a glass wall up above the entrance to the parking lot with red sign letters saying 'Security' and said "Look! A stylish, glass-walled room! Very nice."
"You could see the whole parking lot from in there." J said thinking.
"It says 'SECURITY.' Perhaps it's a café?" Makoto said thinking.
"Huh?" J said surprised.
"'Café Security'…Yeah, that must be it." Makoto said writing in her notepad "Let's check it out later!"
"Um, I hate to break it to you, but I think that probably just a security guard office." J points out to her.
Makoto gasped shocked at her mistake and said "You know, I scored a 97 on my science test the other day!"
'Too bad they don't have a test for common sense.' J thinks rolling her eyes. She looks at some oil barrols by the wall near the emergency phone one was lying on it's side and open. "An oil drum. Looks like it's filled with water."
"I-it's heavy!" Makoto groans trying to move one "I can't even budge it!"
"The drum over here is on its side." J said looking at the knocked over one.
"Wait! I know! I'll hide in here and do a stake-out!" Makoto said getting an idea.
"I think you'll probably just get arrested." J told her and thought 'In fact, you may not even have to hide in the drum to get arrested.'
"What? I'm not suspicious!" Makoto said annoyed. She then looks at the nearby wall "This wall is in our way."
"It's got a faucet for water." J said examining it.
"Wait I know!" Makoto said getting an idea "This 'wall' is merely a façade, hiding the truth…This is no wall, but a water tank!"
'I fail to see how it makes any difference either way…' J thinks on that. She looks around and notices a wallet on the ground and picks it up "What's this? A wallet?" She looks over to the police troopers "Um, excuse me! Officer!"
"W-w-waaaait!" Makoto said stopping her "What are you doing, Miss. J?!"
"What am I doing? I just found this wallet, so I'm handing it over to the police…" J said confused.
"I don't believe it!" Makoto said looking down. "This is real basic: anything at a crime scene is evidence! Let's be scientific about this, please! Just put it in your pocket."
"H-how is that scientific?" J said surprised 'Sounds like theft to me!' However, she hastily stuffed the wallet into her picket and also adds it to her Criminal Record database. She could tell something was inside.
"I'm called to duty already, and at my tender age!" Makoto said proudly "Here, I'll teach you the trick of examining evidence in detail, okay?"
'By the way her eyes are sparkling I can tell she's been waiting for this…' J notes looking at Makoto who puts her goggles on.
"Okay, okay, now. Look at the Court Record as you take the wallet out!" Makoto tells her and J takes the wallet out "You have to be sure to examin evidence carefully on all sides! Now, let's start examining! From every angle."
"Well, the only thing is the latch holding it closed." J said and opened it and sees a Police Trooper badge but also pulls out the item inside "This…This is an ID card." J said looking at it. The picture had a young man with greenish hair wearing a black uniform, fedora and blue trench coat. "Sergent Shuichi Saihara, ID # 5842189…."
"See? Well? Isn't scientific investigation useful?" Makoto asked smiling.
"I guess…Though I don't see what 'science has to do with it." J said shrugging. She removes the wallet but adds Saihara's ID to the Court Record.
"Though not sure why they use numbers solely for IDs" Makoto said.
"What else would they use?" J asked.
"Letters, silly! They're the reason we have a written language in the first place!" Makoto points out.
"True…" J said seeing the logic.
"Sergent Shuichi Saihara, ID: YABADAB." Makoto said thinking "See? Wouldn't that be better?"
"'YABADAB'? Well, it does have a certain ring to it…" J said nodding.
"Exactly my point!" Makoto said and giggles.
'It doesn't take much to amuse her.' J thinks
"Let's be sure to examine every piece of evidence we find!" Makoto said smiling.
'I guess I've got to be on my hypothetical toes from now on…' J thinks.
"Excuse me? Were you two all set?" A female voice said to them.
"Us?" Makoto asked looking.
The two look to see a hot, pink-skinned succubus demon with an hourglass figure. She has a long, spade-shaped barbed tail with a black tip, and two black-tipped horns on the top of her head, with a black star on each side, and the left horn slightly bigger than the other. She also has a pair of hot pink wings with black heart shapes at the top. She wore a tightly fitted white and black mini dress that features a contrasting 'X' and 'O' on the chest, as well as a star design on the abdomen. She also wears a black choker around her neck, thigh-high, high-heeled black boots with a heart motif and three X-shaped patterns down the sides, and white arm-length gloves. She accessorizes with a pale pink fur coat that matches her hair. She was also having a basket of box lunches and has a gentle smile.
'What's this? She couldn't be…' J thinks surprise.
"Y-you're selling lunches? Here? This is a crime scene!" Makoto said confused.
"Hello! Half n' Half, was it?" The succubus said holding out a lunch box that was two halves of different food with a red food stuff in the centre to Makoto.
"Oh. Uh, thanks." Makoto said taking it.
"And you, Miss?" The succubus said smiling at J.
"Y-yes?" J said nervous.
The succubus holds out a food box with some energon and battery foods "Some Crunchy Energon Goodness coming at you!"
Uh…thanks" J said taking it 'Interesting way of doing business. Especially for a succubus.'
"This area is off limits to anyone without clearance." The succubus said smiling. "Especially passers-by. Or are you Troopers?"
"Uh…no, but you…You don't exactly look like the type to have clearance." Makoto said smiling.
"Well, that's hardly a way to greet someone!" The succubus said to her. "Even if my days as the 'Cough-up Queen' are over…"
"C-cough-up? Huh?" J said confused.
"You know, I'm feeling kind of full. Maybe I'll pass on lunch…" Makoto said looking down.
"I'm quite connected to this case, you see." The succubus explained "The images are burned into my eyes, you might say. Yes, all the sordid secrets…"
"Secrets…?" Makoto said surprised.
"Dear me. You are a slow one, aren't you?" The succubus said then flicks her hair and her kind eyes had a serious look to them now as she said "I'm referring to the murder. The stabbing of that detective."
"Whaaaat?!" J said shocked.
J recalls Sae saying earlier "A witness clearly saw me committing the crime."
"You mean you're the witness my sister was talking about?" Makoto asked her.
"Please! Cough-up Queen! Tell us what happened!" J said to the succubus.
"The name is Verosika Mayday. Don't you go forgetting it." The succubus said introducing herself and returned to the kind look in her eyes but then goes back to serious "Or before you know it I'll have you whimpering at my heels."
"Y-y-yes, ma'am!" J said nervous 'Yipes! She means it!'
"Somehow…I knew." Verosika said with a kind smile. "Yesterday was a day of destiny…I knew something was going to happen…Just like I know that the Daily Special on Friday every week is salmon."
"Destiny…? Was yesterday special for some reason?" J asked confused.
"You're a defence attorney, right? You should know then." Verosika said smiling "You should know the foul misdeeds of the evil ones who haunt this den of inequity!"
"E-evil ones?" Makoto asked surprised.
"Prosecutors! They have no qualms at all about blackening the name of innocents!" Verosika explained. "And yesterday they paid homage to the most evil one of all! They gave an award for 'King of Prosecutors'…What a farce!"
"So, she's saying…There was some sort of prosecutor's convention yesterday." Makoto said thinking.
"I was almost compelled to lace their lunches with something foul…" Verosika admits.
"Do you have a personal grievance against prosecutors, or something?" Makoto asked her. "Or is there some kind of scientific evidence of this, um, 'evil'?"
"Young miss…Mock me at your own risk!" Verosika said and gets that serious look on her face "You'll soon find out why they call me the 'Cough-up Queen'!"
"Ew!" Makoto said shocked at that.
"The most heinous of all the evil ones, the one they awarded yesterday…" Verosika continued "It was in his car that they found the body! Proof that he devours the evilest lunches of all!"
"R-really?!" Makoto asked surprised.
'Really what? I'm totally confused…' J thinks 'One thing's clear. This lunch lady has a thing against prosecutors.' She then asked "So, what exactly was it that you witnessed, Miss. Mayday?"
"It was a fascinating spectacle, to be sure!" Verosika said smiling "I now feel I know what they say when they talk about a 'woman's wrath.' To see Sae Niijima wield that knife so…" J was surprised at that "Her knife flashed in anger, bringing him to a sad end." She chuckles "It was truly a sight to see."
"Y-you mean you saw the very moment of the crime?!" Makoto asked her.
"The sound of his silvery ties to this world being cruelly cut still rings in my ears." Verosika said smiling "And the rhythmic beat of Sae Niijima's knife…"
"Wait a second! You know Sae Niijima?" J asked her in surprise.
"Hmph. Of course. It's quite a feat…becoming Chief Prosecutor." Verosika explained an then holds out a package of three lunchboxes tied together with string "How many lunchboxes of sin did she pack to make that journey, I wonder!"
"She…always travels light." Makoto said.
'Now why would this pretty lunch lady succubus know the Chief Prosecutor's name?' J thinks.
"Um…Could we ask you a bit about yourself, Miss. Mayday?" Makoto asked.
"I come here every day to sell lunches." Verosika said smiling "I import only the freshest and best from the Far East. For some reason, the box lunches are a hit here."
"Why not make the lunches here rather than import them?" Makoto asked.
"Did you say something?" Verosika asked looking at Makoto.
"N-no…" Makoto said nervous.
"Only true connoisseurs can understand…" Verosika explained and holds out a lunchbox with rice and a full laugh fish on it "The kind you can only tell someone who has tried General Tso's Trilobite lunch set."
"Ah…Never mind…You win." Makoto said nervous.
'I don't even want to appreciate part of a trilobite's flavour.' J thinks sweat dropping.
"Anyway, I come here every day to sell lunches." Verosika explained "My boyfriend works in the security room here at the Prosecutor's Office."
"Y-your boyfriend?" Makoto asked her.
"See the security room over there?" Verosika said pointing to the glass wall of the security room.
"The glass-walled booth?" J asked her.
"I sell my lunches and, since I'm here anyway, I drop in to see him." Verosika explained.
'Since you're here anyway…. I guess selling lunches is more important than romance.' J thinks on it.
"So, to scientifically analyze the data available so far…" Makoto said writing in her notepad "You, Miss. Mayday, are a lunch vender with an ulterior motive for coming here!"
'Useful analysis. Not.' J thinks. She then asked "Did you have a bad experience with a prosecutor, Miss. Mayday? I sense some…hostility."
"Hostility? Hah! Perhaps." Verosika said going into her serious eyes "Prosecutors are all alike. And they biggere they get, the worse they smell. Kind of like 10-day old claims in the chowder."
'I wonder if Miss. Mayday was involved in some sort of legal trouble in the past?' J thinks.
"That'd be a sure cause of food poisoning! Scientifically speaking, of course." Makoto said. "I mean, now you're talking 'Cough-up Queen'!"
'I thought she was just a lunch vender, but now I'm not so sure…' J thinks looking at Verosika
J and Makoto decide to head up to the High Prosecutor office.
February 22, High Prosecutor's Office, Room 1202
The two walk in and look around J feels like the room had an air of familiarity.
"This is the kind of room that just screams 'I can do the job.'" Makoto said looking at the room. "Quite a change from your office, really."
"Thanks." J said sarcastically.
Makoto looks at a trophy with a broken green shield with a yellow K on it, lying on the couch and said "Look, look! There's a trophy or something here!"
'A trophy? What, that shield?' J thinks looking at it.
"It takes real nerve to display stuff like this." Makoto said thinking. "Whoever's office this is, they must be a real stuck-up jerk!"
"Serial Designation J…" a familiar voice said, "You never tire of prying into other people's business, do you?"
'That voice…!' J thinks eyes widen she then looks to see Hunter who was in his full Golden Guard garb and escorted by two LawTroopers. J composes and says "Long time, no see, Hunter."
"Huh?" Makoto said and then lets out "Aaaaaaaaaah! M-M-Mr. Deamone!"
J was surprised and said "You know him from somewhere?"
"O-of course! I'm his biggest fan!" Makoto said happily "My sister introduced us once, and…"
'Right…her sister is the Chief Prosecutor, after all.' J thinks
"Well? What brings you here?" Hunter said removing his mask and places it on the desk where J notes a golden Toa Rangers Key Ring. She smiles happy he still kept it like her and Joey kept theirs. Hunter then said "I'll warn you….I've been known to be a real stuck-up jerk…"
"N-no! Did I…? No!" Makoto said getting nervous at the fact she insulted Hunter's office "It was just, Miss. J here, she…"
"Hey! Don't blame me!" J yelled at her.
"W-we're just here to investigate a murder case!" Makoto told Hunter.
"Murder…?" Hunter asked her.
"A body was found in this nasty yellow sports car in the parking lot…" Makoto explained smiling.
"Hmmm?" Hunter thinks and says with a grin "That would be my car. What of it?" The two Lawtroopers stifle their laughter.
"Whaaaaaaaat?! Y-y-y-your car?!" Makoto asked shocked.
'I'll say one think, she certainly can scream.' J thinks rubbing her audio receptors. She then looks to Hunter who got some tea and asked "So, the body was found in your car?"
"Go ahead, say, J." Hunter said sighing. "You think I did it, don't you?" He grins "After you went through all that trouble to help me last year, no less."
"N-no, we don't think you did it!" Makoto said to him. "I mean, it was my sister who stabbed him…" She realizes what she said "Uh, wait, no, she didn't do that! I mean…"
"Wait…" Hunter said looking at Makoto "So you're the Chief Prosecutor's little sister, then?"
"Y-yes, sir! Makoto Niijima! It, uh…" Makoto said and thinks what to say, "It's nice to meet you again!"
'Now that didn't sound forced at all…' J thinks.
"Ah, now I remember. You've…really grown." Hunter said nodding. "I'll admit, it was a surprise for me, too. To think that my own car would become the scene of a murder. More surprising still…I'm being forced to prove my superior's guilt."
"I can understand…. W-wait! ...What did you say?!" J said surprised
"Sae Niijima is Chief Prosecutor…the top prosecutor in the district." Hunter said looking away in guilt "She can't prosecute herself, so I'll be the prosecutor at the trial tomorrow."
"You?! Mr. Deamonne…" Makoto said looking down.
"To be honest…" Hunter said thinking and sighing "It's a bit of a miracle I'm still here at all."
"What do you mean?" J asked him.
"Rumors." Hunter just said. "You've heard the rumors about me, haven't you?"
'Hunter Deamonne…' J thinks recalling them 'It's hard to remember a time when there WEREN'T rumors about this guy…Forging evidence, arranging false testimony, illegal searches, you name it…'
"Thanks to you, my innocence was established in the trial at the end of last year." Hunter explained and sighs "However, there are some who say I'm the one responsible for the current incident."
"Wh-what? That's crazy!" J said surprised.
"Hmph." Hunter just lets out. "Some people need very little excuse to think ill of others. It's a fact of like. Impossible to stop.
"But..." Makoto said sadly.
"Some of them even go as far as to present me with toys like this…" Hunter said motioning to the trophy. "They think it's funny."
'Toys? That bronze shield? There's got to be a story behind that one…' J thinks. "So you know t Sae?"
"Chief Prosecutor Niijima? Yes…We first worked together on a case years ago." Hunter said with a nod. "It was my first big case."
"That's right, I remember." Makoto said looking down.
'Two years ago…I wasn't even a lawyer yet.' J thinks.
"Since then, I always felt that she was looking out for me…" Hunter added on and looks away. "It appears I was mistaken."
"M-mistaken?! Why?" Makoto asked surprised. "I mean, I know she's not the warmest person…But I'm sure she felt some responsibility for you!"
"Then…why?" Hunter said shaking his head. "Why did she stab someone in the trunk of my car? Not only that…She stabbed him with my knife" He holds up an evidence with a bloodied knife with a yellow handle.
"Wha…Whaaaaaaat?!" Makoto lets out shocked "Mr. Deamonne! Your knife was the murder weapon?!"
"To be specific, it was the knife I keep in the toolbox in the trunk of my car." Hunter explains.
J nods and adds Hunter's Knife to her Court Record and askes "Um…Hunter?"
"What?" Hunter said looking at her.
"Are you sure you didn't do it?" J asked him with a grin but Hunter glares at her 'Come on, can't he take a joke?'
"You have a strange sense of humour, Miss. J!" Makoto said glaring as well.
"I've been wondering…what the heck is this?" J asked looking at the trophy.
"It has a big 'K' on it." Makoto said looking at it.
Hunter mumbles and all J got was "…of Prosecutors…"
"Huh? What's that?" J asked him.
"It's the 'King of Prosecutors' trophy." Hunter told her.
"K-K-K…'King of Prosecutors'?!" Makoto said amazed.
"It's a great honor." Hunter explained sighing "They sent that shield to the best prosecutor each year." He then looks at them "What! So?"
"So that 'K'…that's…" J said deducing.
"'K' stands for 'King'?" Makoto said amazed.
"Yeah, you got a problem with that?" Hunter asked them arms folded. "I didn't design the thing!"
"'King of Prosecutors'…Kind of like 'Employee of the Month,' only better!" Makoto said amazed.
J adds King of Prosecutors Trophy to the Court Record. She then looks at a portrait on the wall displaying and old looking Golden Guard cloak and outfit.
"Wow! That cloak is even lacier than his usual ones!" Makoto said amazed. "This must be his lucky trial cloak!"
"Lucky cloak, right…I've never seen him wear it." J said shaking her head.
"I'm sure there's a story behind why it's in a frame!" Makoto said thinking. "Maybe I'll be naughty…and take a picture!"
'She's getting way too excited about this.' J thinks, she then looks at some flowers on the windowsill poorply arranged.
"My, my, my! What an amazing bouquet! Just right for Mr. Deamonne." Makoto said smiling
"No kidding. Hey, there's a card on it…" J said looking at it. "'Back from the Dead Sport - Stan.'" She thinks '"Stan"…? I've heard that name someone before.'
"And beside it…A giant White Ranger!" Makoto points out to the statue of the White Ranger next to the bouquet "Wow, I want one!"
"Huh? There's someone written on the bottom of his foot." J said and read it "'Between a rock and a hard place – Stan'"
"Stan? Is he Mr. Deamonne's best friend?" Makoto asked thinking
J then remembers who Stan was as in Stan Pines the security guard from Vox Studios and said "Um…I don't think so." She then looks at the shelves of case files.
"Whoa! These are all case files?!" Makoto said amazed. "They're stacked up to the ceiling! There's even a ladder…"
"Odd…" J said thinking "I thought Hunter wasn't good with heights."
"He must have someone get them for him." Makoto suggested smiling.
Suddenly in J's head she pictures of N and thinks 'Strange…Why did I just picture Detective N?'
"He must study these case reports so closely…He's so cool!" Makoto said amazed.
"You wouldn't say that if you saw him sweating bullets up on that ladder." J points out. She then looks at a small Chess board with four yellow knight pieces surrounding a lone black pawn piece.
"Hey, a chessboard!" Makoto said smiling.
"I'm not too up on my chess but it looks like Black's in a bit of a tight spot." J said looking at it.
"The Yellow Knights have surrounded the Black Pawn…" Makoto notes looking at the board.
"Huh?" J said confused.
"Those horses are mounted knights. Their swords look like 'hunters' blades!" Makoto said smiling "And check out that poor pawn, her head has pigtails…Kind of reminds me of you. Mr. Deamonne must be an avid chess player!" She then looks at J who's eyes were widen and nervous "What's wrong, Miss. J?"
'Hunters…surrounding a pawn with pigtails…Nah…It's nothing.' J thinks on it. She then looks to Hunter and Presents the King of Prosecutor's trophy to him and said grinning "So, basically, this says you were the best of the best last year, huh?"
"You can take that foolish grin elsewhere, J." Hunter said annoyed. "I lost a day of work to receive that travesty."
"Huh? What's that?" Makoto asked him confused.
"I had to go to the Police Trooper Department to receive that broken shield." Hunter explained.
"The Police Trooper Department?" J asked.
"Yes. Right next to the Police Trooper Station downtown. You've been THERE, haven't you?" Hunter asked her.
"Where Detective N works? Yeah." J said nodding.
"Um, I was wondering something about your shield…Why is it broken?" Makoto asked Hunter.
"What does it matter? I've got more important things to worry about." Hunter told her.
"Oh. Right…" Makoto said nodding.
'He doesn't seem too concerned about his award, for better or for worse.' J thinks.
"Yesterday was a very busy day for the Prosecutor's Office." Hunter said sipping his tea.
"Maybe…we should ask him more about yesrerday?" Makoto whispered to J.
J nods and asked Hunter "Could you tell me more about yesterday…the day of the murder?"
"Yesterday was the annual cleaning day at the Prosecutor's Office." Hunter said.
"Cleaning day?" Makoto asked.
"Working with the Police Trooper Department, we sort and file all evidence for solved cases." Hunter explained to her. "We call it 'evidence transferal.'"
"Wiping your hands of old cases, in other words." Makoto said writing it on the notepad.
"Oh, and another thing…A ceremony was held at the Police Trooper Department." Hunter added. "There's an annual review and awards for outstanding police troopers and prosecutors."
"And that's when you got the shield?" J asked him.
"I weas at the police trooper department yesterday afternoon…I got back her at 5:12." Hunter added.
"That's…very precise." J said amazed
"People like myself and Mr. Deamonne pride ourselves on our precision, Miss. J." Makoto said smiling.
"No, I place little faith in my memory." Hunter said and holds up a parking stub "The only thing I trust is solid evidence." J nods and adds Parking stub into the Court Record and nods the time of entry into the lot was 5:12 PM. "This is the parking stub from the underground lot."
'The murder took place around 5:15…' J thinks on it.
"So, the murder happened right after you got back." Makoto said thinking.
"What, J?" Hunter said seeing the thinking look on J's face and added annoyed "I'd appreciate it if you'd direct that suspicious glare elsewhere."
"Um…!" A voice said and in the room was a small figure with a mushroom hat hair in Scout Trooper armor minus the helmet, holding a loudspeaker and his right arm was bandaged. He salutes and says "Excuse me! But is Mr. Deamonne, uh…anywhere on the premises?"
"I'm Hunter. What is it?" Hunter said to this person.
"I'm here, sir, at the request of the Chief, sir! I've got your report, sir!" The mushroom trooper said saluting.
"Report?" Hunter asked confused. "What? Did you find new evidence in the case against Chief Prosecutor Niijima?!"
'I don't like the way this conversation is going at all...' J thinks concerned.
"Er…Niijima, sir? No, sir!" The mushroom trooper said thinking and shakes his head. "No name of that kind, sir! Not in this report, sir!" Hunter looks at that with an annoyed look.
'I think I just heard Hunter's lid blow.' J thinks concerned.
"Mr. Deamonne's lid isn't on very tight, is it?" Makoto asked J.
"I made a clear request to the Police Department, did I not?" Hunter said in annoyance "I need to focus on the trial tomorrow, so don't bring me anything unrelated!"
"Sir! But, but sir!" The mushroom trooper said saluting and hands the envelope "I'm just following orders, sir! They told me to bring this to you! I wasn't aware of the particulars of your expectations with us…"
"Give me your name!" Hunter demands.
"U-uh, yes…yes, Sir! T-T-Toad, sir. Officer Toad!" The mushroom trooper told him.
"Right. Officer Toad? Take your report and leave." Hunter said rubbing his head. "And good luck with that raise next month."
Toad looks down sad and whimpers "B-but, sir, I d-didn't know!"
'Poor guy. Looks like he was absent on the day they gave out brains and good luck.' J thinks looking at Toad leave.
"J." Hunter said looking at the drone
"Y-yes, sir?!" J said jumping 'Pension plans! He caught me off guard!'
"As you can see, I'm busy." Hunter told her. "You may leave now." The two Lawtroopers moves to the side of J and Hunter and motion them to the exit of the office.
"L-let's do what he says, Miss. J!" Makoto said to J.
As they were leaving Hunter said "The victim was a detective from the same department as that Scout trooper just now. Go down to the Police Trooper Department. You can ask more there."
"U-uh…Thanks." J said and thought 'He seems to have finally calmed down at least.'
J and Makoto leave and head for that Police Trooper Department.
Well interesting collection of characters so far and Hunter is caught up in this while not only the Prosecutor for this case. Intersting.
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