Turnabout Chessboard: Chapter 3

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...The witch's side withdraws from the scene of the Second Twilight. That was a clever trick, but it won't work twice, you see?

I must now prepare for our next skirmish, so there will be another brief recess before the trial resumes.

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[wright_idea]

[Without anybody else... knowing? ...

Wait... could it be? There's a red truth that covers one sort of contingency, but not another...]

Mr. Ushiromiya, I need to confirm: Did you actually see Kyrie physically enter the room?

[old_bastard]

Yes, I'm positive. I was looking right at her as she entered the room.

[wright_idea]

[At least that rules out "Device X" stuff, I guess. Doesn't exactly help, though. Maybe if I go back through his testimony...

...?]

Mr. Ushiromiya, can you tell me the exact moment when you heard the gunshot?

[old_bastard]

It was almost immediately after she went into the room.

[wright_idea]

[Hmm... perhaps I'm looking at this from the wrong perspective. Maybe it's not "how," it's "why."]

Doesn't Kyrie's actions seem sort of... odd to anybody else? She knows where she's predicted to die, yet she charges straight there. Then immediately upon entering, she shoots. But if she recognized what she needed to fire at that quickly, then why bother closing the door at all?

[old_bastard]

...What are you getting at?

[wright_idea]

[Hmm... It's bizarre, and yet...]

What I'm getting at is that the easiest way to derail the witch's prophecy would have been simply to not bother going in the room. But she charged straight there. Her actions are too precise, too contradictory. Either she was just that confident that she was going to resolve the issue herself...

[Deskslam. Point.]

Or she was following a precise set of movements to convince people that she was!

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[Rudolf opens his mouth to reply--]

That's enough, Rudolf!

[And Rudolf is banished back to the game board before he can say any more.]

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That's a very interesting theory, Phoenix Wright. If you want to push it any further, you'll face me, not some lowly human!

[young_bastard]

Are you suggesting that wasn't Kyrie...?

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[wright_idea]

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I can't say solidly yet one way or another. But let's review a few things:

At a certain point, right before the time where she was slated to die, she notices when nobody else did that Kanon hasn't returned to the area. She had forty minutes where she could have made this observation, and yet not once during these forty minutes did she say a thing. Why wait until right near the appointed hour?

Second. She runs straight to the VIP room. Logically, if she were just looking for Kanon, then there are any number of given places she could have gone, and yet she made a beeline for the room she was predicted to die in. I suppose Beatrice could just argue that she was trying to confront her head on, but if she went straight there instead of confirming what happened to Kanon, then that could mean one of two things: either she already assumed he was dead, or she had some other agenda which Kanon's disappearance made more convenient.

Finally, she makes a very illogical set of moves. She steps inside, immediately closes the door, and fires. Now here's the thing: If the gunshot was heard almost immediately after she went into the room, isn't that odd? Especially considering that Rudolph found the door locked. Already there are a lot of things that don't make sense: 1.) She locked the door behind her when strategically it would have made more sense, if she saw what she needed to attack, to fire from the open door itself. And 2.) unless I'm misunderstanding, it means that Kyrie locked the door after she fired.

Now doesn't all this seem strange? None of her actions make any sense as someone who was trying to keep herself alive. However, it does make sense if she...

Was suicidal
>Wanted to ensure that everybody would pay attention to the VIP room
Actually saw Beatrice

...Let's put it this way. Kyrie didn't just go to the VIP room, she did it in the most theatrical way possible. That leads me to only one conclusion:

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[wright_idea]

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((BGM: Confess the Truth 2012))

Kyrie was making all the survivors pay attention to the VIP room on PURPOSE!

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[In her irritation, Beatrice's grip snaps her pipe in half. The pieces disintegrate into a small cloud of golden butterflies.]

First Kanon, and now Kyrie! It doesn't matter how many people you sacrifice, you won't be able to break open my closed room!

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[ As she listens to those words, Gretel finally finds the implication of them. ]

... What exactly are you suggesting?

[ She has a good idea, and even she's worried about it, but the worry in her face pales in comparison to the slight shock she has. He can't possibly be saying that the reason Kyrie Ushiromiya was making everyone pay attention to the VIP room on purpose because of that ]

[young_bastard]

So... whether it was Kyrie or not, the person who went into the VIP room at that time was definitely an accomplice?

[itwasfeyt]

An accomplice...? But, then that means that....

[Boy, just what they needed, more twists and turns.]

[wright_idea]

Exactly. If the whole point of the accomplice is to draw attention to the VIP room, then there's no reason for the murder to actually take place there at all. All that's important is setting up the illusion. As long as people THINK the murder happened in the room, it looks like an impossible case.

But if the murder never happened in the room at ALL... then there's no locked room to speak of! That murder could have happened anywhere!

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[DRAMATIC PAUSE...]

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Well done, inheritors of Mia Fey's will. Your theory is effective.

The witch's side will now convene to prepare our next strategy. This will be the trial's final break.