Not back then, no. She got away and blended back into the underworld, and just kind of disappeared for a long time. Seven years went by after that. I went to live with my mother's family, and Mr. Edgeworth kept on with his law career. I ran into him again when he got assigned to some more cases that had to do with the same smuggling ring. He got kidnapped, and I helped break him out and catch the real killer. He didn't remember me at first, but I recognized him right away and explained who I was.
See, I decided to come back because I'd found some of my father's old notes and things when I was looking around the house. Turns out he actually was the Yatagarasu - he was the one sneaking into places to steal evidence of crimes and send it out to the media. And that's when I found that device I showed you before, Little Thief. The Yatagarasu uses it to re-create scenes in real space to plan crimes and stuff, but I used it to help Mr. Edgeworth solve crimes and get closer to the smuggling ring.
After the kidnapping case, the Yatagarasu sent a card saying they were going to infiltrate the same embassy from before. Mr. Edgeworth and I decided to go and see if we could find anything out. I knew it had to be the same woman from before. It had to be Calisto Yew, the woman who killed my father. She was the only other one who knew about it. So I really wanted to catch her in the act. She was making the Yatagarasu look like a bad guy, and I didn't want something my father had worked so hard on to get a bad name.
A... lot of things happened. There were some murders at the embassy, and I got accused of one of them because I chased the Yatagarasu into the room where one of the murders happened. It was dark and they got away, but I was found in there with the body. We figured it out later, but it was pretty scary. Anyway, it turns out I was right, and the woman who killed my father really was there - under our noses the whole time again. She'd disguised herself, and was working with the international police on the investigation. That's how she managed to hide her crime so well. Mr. Edgeworth backed her into a corner, and she got arrested.
But at the same time, we found out that we weren't totally right about the Yatagarasu. It wasn't her, and it wasn't my father. The two of them and a detective friend of my father's, Detective Badd, all worked on it together. My father had Little Thief to infiltrate places perfectly, Calisto Yew had access to witnesses and evidence as a defense attorney, and Uncle Badd, as the head detective, made sure no evidence was ever left behind when the Yatagarasu stole documents and stuff. It was a really good setup, except Calisto Yew was against them from the beginning. She was working for the ring, and she got orders to kill my dad when he got too close.
...There was a lot of other stuff, but eventually we cornered the guy who was pulling the strings behind the whole thing. The leader of the ring, and the guy who'd ordered my father killed. We couldn't arrest him at first because he had some special protections from the law, but everybody helped out and Mr. Edgeworth finally got him. So my father's death was finally avenged, and the people responsible are in jail now. I decided that I still want to try to carry on his work, though, because what he was doing is important. I want to work toward a world where the Yatagarasu isn't needed, and where criminals get what's coming to them.
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Date: 2011-02-02 01:44 am (UTC)See, I decided to come back because I'd found some of my father's old notes and things when I was looking around the house. Turns out he actually was the Yatagarasu - he was the one sneaking into places to steal evidence of crimes and send it out to the media. And that's when I found that device I showed you before, Little Thief. The Yatagarasu uses it to re-create scenes in real space to plan crimes and stuff, but I used it to help Mr. Edgeworth solve crimes and get closer to the smuggling ring.
After the kidnapping case, the Yatagarasu sent a card saying they were going to infiltrate the same embassy from before. Mr. Edgeworth and I decided to go and see if we could find anything out. I knew it had to be the same woman from before. It had to be Calisto Yew, the woman who killed my father. She was the only other one who knew about it. So I really wanted to catch her in the act. She was making the Yatagarasu look like a bad guy, and I didn't want something my father had worked so hard on to get a bad name.
A... lot of things happened. There were some murders at the embassy, and I got accused of one of them because I chased the Yatagarasu into the room where one of the murders happened. It was dark and they got away, but I was found in there with the body. We figured it out later, but it was pretty scary. Anyway, it turns out I was right, and the woman who killed my father really was there - under our noses the whole time again. She'd disguised herself, and was working with the international police on the investigation. That's how she managed to hide her crime so well. Mr. Edgeworth backed her into a corner, and she got arrested.
But at the same time, we found out that we weren't totally right about the Yatagarasu. It wasn't her, and it wasn't my father. The two of them and a detective friend of my father's, Detective Badd, all worked on it together. My father had Little Thief to infiltrate places perfectly, Calisto Yew had access to witnesses and evidence as a defense attorney, and Uncle Badd, as the head detective, made sure no evidence was ever left behind when the Yatagarasu stole documents and stuff. It was a really good setup, except Calisto Yew was against them from the beginning. She was working for the ring, and she got orders to kill my dad when he got too close.
...There was a lot of other stuff, but eventually we cornered the guy who was pulling the strings behind the whole thing. The leader of the ring, and the guy who'd ordered my father killed. We couldn't arrest him at first because he had some special protections from the law, but everybody helped out and Mr. Edgeworth finally got him. So my father's death was finally avenged, and the people responsible are in jail now. I decided that I still want to try to carry on his work, though, because what he was doing is important. I want to work toward a world where the Yatagarasu isn't needed, and where criminals get what's coming to them.