People are in Conan, but Ace Attorney

Chapter 45 The Lawyer and the Prosecutor Who Just Missed Each Other (Please Read)

————April 16, 8:40 a.m.——————

————Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Archives Office————

Xiang Yuanguang quickly flipped through the files in his hand.

He shook his head from time to time, and after flipping through it roughly, he put the document back where it was.

(As expected of a country with a very high rate of unnatural death case closures, the case files are arranged like this.)
(Where is the file on the murder and self-immolation case of Keiji Aso from twelve years ago kept?)
He sighed and looked at the archives policeman next to him.

When the policeman in charge of the archives room noticed Xiang Yuanguang looking at him, he immediately looked away embarrassedly.

Originally, a clerk policeman like him in the archives room should not only know the archives room very well, but at least he should know where the cases are classified and placed.

However, since most of the files were closed with unnatural deaths, there was no value in looking them up again, so he didn't really remember these things...

Therefore, when Xiang Yuanguang came to look through the files, the policeman could not help at all.

"Wow... where can it be, really."

Xiang Yuanguang's hand moved across the file bags on the bookshelves, and suddenly, he stopped.

Because, at this moment, a page suddenly popped up.

[Court records: Exhibit · Case records of Keiji Aso's murder and self-immolation case have been added to the court records. ]

Really talking about Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here.

Xiang Yuanguang took the file bag out from the bookshelf and looked at the mark on the surface of the file bag.

"The [SL3] incident? It brings back some bad memories."

He paused for a moment on the two words "Keiji Aso" in the columns of the deceased and the murderer on the file bag.

He walked up to the counter in the archives room and spoke to the clerk policeman in charge of the archives room.

"I will need to use this case record as evidence in my subsequent defense. Could you please register it?"

"And... I need to look through the contents. I'd like you to be a witness."

The clerical policeman was somewhat flattered.

In his opinion, Xiang Yuanguang was a fairly famous magician and lawyer.

Such a person actually used honorifics to address him...

The clerk policeman hurriedly pulled out a pen from the pen holder beside him and replied to Xiang Yuanguang.

"I understand. I'll record it now..."

"Well... on April 3th, at 3: am, the lawyer registered the case record of incident [SL] with Yuan Guang as evidence for the next case, and borrowed the contents of the case record of incident [SL]..."

"Okay, you can open the file bag and read it."

After entering the information on the paper, the clerk police looked up and said.

Xiang Yuanguang was also somewhat flattered.

He is a poor lawyer who can barely afford plain noodles, but he is unexpectedly popular in the Metropolitan Police Department.

Why? Because he sent his own defendants to jail?

"sorry to bother you."

Without thinking any more, Xiang Yuanguang placed his hand on the button of the file bag.

He was just about to unbutton the file bag when he heard hurried footsteps outside.

Turning around, Xiang Yuanguang just saw several policemen rushing out in a panic.

(What kind of incident is this? So many people are dispatched at once.)
(Well, forget it. It’s none of my business. I’d better finish reading the files here first.)
"Master Xiang Yuan, what you want to borrow is the murder case file on Moon Shadow Island twelve years ago, right?"

"We received information from Officer Takagi yesterday that Inspector Megure has led a group of people to Tsukikage Island to investigate."

"The second group is going there now. They are going to take a boat to Moon Shadow Island to check the situation. They will probably arrive at Moon Shadow Island at noon... Wow! Master Xiang Yuan, why do you suddenly look so gloomy?"

The clerk policeman looked at the criminal police passing by in a panic outside, remembered something, and said casually.

But before he finished speaking, he felt that the environment around him had become a little colder. When he raised his head, he was startled by Xiang Yuanguang's expression.

Although Xiang Yuanguang seemed a little anxious just now, he was generally kind.

Now he seems a little bit nuclear, as if he will tear his clothes to reveal the Big Dipper on his chest in the next moment, and then shout loudly and use the legendary Fist of the North Star to beat someone to death...!
"Moon Shadow Island? Has a murder occurred? Is the murderer, Asai Narimi?"

Xiang Yuanguang placed his hand on the buttons of the file bag, but he was hesitant to unbutton them.

He knew that the situation was developing in the direction he least wanted to see.

Even if Officer Takagi was sent to Tsukikage Island in advance, would it not have prevented the murders?

"Ah... yes, yes. There was a murder case that was stopped by Officer Takagi, so it was an attempted murder."

"And the murder suspect reported by Officer Takagi is indeed a man named Asai Narimi."

"...That's it."

Xiang Yuanguang sighed and put the file bag in his hand on the table.

Look at the group of detectives who have disappeared from the corridor.

Said so.

"Please keep this file record for me. I need to go to Moon Shadow Island for a field investigation."

"Please do not give this case record to anyone else until I return... only let them read it."

"Mr. Policeman, is that okay?"

Give it to someone else? Who can take the case records directly from the archives?
Doesn't that require prior application to Minister Oda?
The clerk policeman was a little confused, but nodded anyway.

"Don't worry, I won't let anyone else take the files unless Minister Oda gives the order."

Nodding to Yuan Guang, he turned and hurried away.

About half an hour later, another person walked into the archive room.

This time it was a woman who came. She showed her ID and spoke seriously.

"Recently, the Kuma prosecutor requested that the SL3 case be reopened."

"The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office has appointed me as the prosecutor for this case."

"Please bring me the case records for the SL3 incident. I need to record and review the evidence."

The visitor is the ace of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, the Madonna of the legal world, Reiko Kujo.

Her status in the legal world is comparable to that of Eri Kisaki.

Moreover, in the duel with Eri Kisaki, he achieved a good record of... losing all the games without any wins.

He specially went to the Law School of the United States for further studies. Unexpectedly, he encountered such a special case less than three days after returning to Tokyo.

But what Reiko Kujo didn't expect was that the clerical police rejected her request.

“Sorry, a lawyer has already signed the form to use the case record of the SL3 case as an exhibit.”

"Ms. Kujo Reiko, unless you have a warrant from Minister Oda, you cannot directly requisition the SL3 records."

(Has a lawyer signed the form? Is this the lawyer who will defend you in the reopened SL3 case?)
A hint of surprise flashed in Kujo Reiko's eyes.

(The only person who can take on such a difficult case is Attorney Fei.)
(It seems like this is another chance to confront Lawyer Fei.)
She nodded. There was no record of the forced requisition of SL3.

"Then please lend me the case records so I can take photos and look through them."

……

On the boat heading to Moonshadow Island.

Xiang Yuanguang, panting, sat next to a group of criminal police officers and looked at his watch.

April 16, 8:53 am.

"I hope I can still catch up with the final investigation..."

(End of this chapter)