“I believe I had made my stance very clear during my last trial, Ms. Von Karma.” Godot fiddled with his visor on the other side of the bullet proof glass as the two conversed in the detention center visiting room.
“Wright was Mia’s understudy, her apprentice, he should have been privy to certain information, especially to anything pertaining to cases Mia was investigating.”
“The man she was investigating, Mr. Redd White of the now defunct Blue Corp., was onto her from the start it seemed, I had based a lot of my aggression on the assumption that Phoenix Wright was aware of her investigation, and therefore, should have done his duty as her partner to keep her out of harm’s way.”
“Simply put, I was wrong, Wright was not made aware of the circumstances until it was too late.” He folded his arms together.”I had been in a coma for five years, can you imagine waking up and finding the one you love had been taken from this world? Can you imagine finding out that some clown was now running her practice? That that clown was part of the reason Dahlia Hawthorne was never caught the day she poisoned me?”
“I thought I had plenty of reasons to hate Phoenix Wright, in fact I was sure Phoenix Wright was to blame for a lot of my misfortune… but in the end, the person I was really angry at, was myself.”
She didn’t say anything in response to his first comment; the only thing that had really stood out as any kind of a reason was him saying that Phoenix Wright should have protected her. And even that, to her, seemed quite vague.
Franziska closed her eyes as she listened to him speak, arms crossed over her chest. Redd White was not a name she had heard, and she made a mental note to look into that case herself, for curiosity’s sake at the very least.
The man’s explanation made more sense to her, now. Perhaps his slight elaborations cleared up enough for the rest to fall into place, or perhaps she just needed to listen to it a second time, but she understood, at least partially.
“ Phoenix Wright is a foolish man, ” Franziska began. She wasn’t sure where she was going with this, not completely. But she had a vague idea of where it would end. Was this how Phoenix Wright came up with his outrageous theories? The thought certainly made her a little uncomfortable. “ He has made a lot of mistakes. He bluffs his way through trials. You can see when he’s writhing in desperation. ” She was certainly doing a magnificent job of talking him up.
“ I’m not sure if you heard about the note Miles Edgeworth left two years ago, upon leaving the prosecutor’s office, because of your coma. The rest of the world did. You see, in late February, he prosecuted a case against Lana Skye. Her lawyer, of course, was Phoenix Wright. During that trial, because of him, it was revealed that Ms. Skye and Chief Gant had forged evidence and given it to Miles Edgeworth to use in court. Miles, of course, had no idea that any of the evidence he used was forged, but it stirred up negative attention either way. It wasn’t long before they found the aforementioned note. All it said was that ‘ Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth chooses death ’.
“ I blamed Phoenix Wright. He was the one that revealed the use of forged evidence, and he was supposed to be Miles’ friend. I believed that he should have been able to stop him. Of course, Miles didn’t end up killing himself. He visited me once, after he left that note. I’ve since realised that Miles was never Phoenix Wright’s responsibility.
“ Either way, he has redeeming qualities and actions, as long as it may have taken me to realise it myself. Miles had been involved in a different case. He was a suspect in a murder trial, and Phoenix Wright defended him when nobody else would. When it seemed impossible. Miles ended up innocent, and Phoenix Wright had also managed to solve one of the only unsolved cases left, the day before it closed permanently. Another murder, one which Miles himself had believed he had committed. Despite knowing that, Phoenix Wright fought for another not guilty verdict, because he believed in Miles even more than Miles believed in himself. I think that’s admirable.
“ His court tactics are pathetic and laughable, but his heart and intentions are both good. Even if he’s among the most foolish people I know. ” And she was tempted to call Godot foolish, too; for blaming Phoenix Wright, only to say he was angry with himself. But she’d done the same thing.