【Chengyu】Turnabout: Bloodline

When Wright walked into the ward lightly, Edgeworth seemed a little surprised.

"Have you been out?" asked the Attorney-General.Cheng Butang tilted his head and blinked.

"Yes."

"I thought that voice was you." Yu Jian wiped his nose vigorously with a tissue, "Can you close the window for me? The pollen is very bad today."

"Oh, damn it. Of course." Although he accidentally caught his tie on the window latch twice, he managed to do it—with as little damage as possible.Edgeworth is trying to hold back his own laughter when he finally succeeds - Wright almost forgot to ask him where he heard his voice.

"You're talking about rigor...?" Edgeworth mentioned.

Wright blinked and glanced out the window.The rear of the patrol cars around the suicide scene could be seen, but the body was almost directly below him, and he couldn't actually see anything of the scene itself, the angle was too vertical.

"Yes... a nurse committed suicide in front of the hospital building. Jumped from the sixth floor."

"It's appalling." Yu Jian lowered his voice, "When did it happen?"

"Six o'clock this morning."

Wright turned around and Edgeworth was looking at the clock on the wall opposite the bed. "About an hour ago? Think it happened outside this window."

"This is the second floor. You can't see anything from this angle, but I bet if you opened the window and poked your head out, you would." Wright curiously pictured Edgeworth doing this. The way he moved, he couldn't help but let out a laugh because of his boring imagination.

"Just use my useless legs now? Ah—you said I'm on the second floor? It seems that your voice is indeed very penetrating." Yu Jian raised the corners of his mouth, crossed his arms in front of his chest, and paid attention Observe those intravenous drips and blood transfusion pipelines. "No wonder you're a poor defense attorney. Unlike me, if you're not loud enough, you might not be heard in court at all."

"Ha—" Wright leaned back on the window sill, folded his arms and childishly retorted to Edgeworth's sarcasm, "Now that a dead woman is lying on the sidewalk below, you're in the mood for a joke."

For some reason, Yu Jian's face suddenly became paler, he turned his head away, and the remaining half of his bangs fell down to cover his right eye.Suddenly, Wright could see the extent of his hair being shaved off.From his hairline to the back of his head, there was a large piece of gauze.Wright speculates that once the rest of his hair is combed to the side, this might evolve into some sort of new "Emperor Sword" hairstyle.There was definitely going to be some tidying up when it came time to undo those bandages and gauze, but Wright thought it would be pretty cool in the end.Whether Edgeworth would agree with that view is another matter.

"Sorry, that might have really hit me a little bit."

"Even as a defense attorney?"

"Okay, okay, you won." Wright smiled wryly, "Just this once."

Yu Jian didn't refute this time, just smiled triumphantly and moved his body under the quilt to find a more comfortable position.Wright suddenly realizes that he must have a catheter in him, he doesn't know why he thinks about it, it's just that it must be uncomfortable and hopefully it will be removed as soon as possible.

[Or if he manages to rip it out, soon I won't have to put it back on.That tube was probably the main reason he didn't get out of bed or try to escape from the hospital.Did those nurses know what they were doing to a man like Edgeworth? 】

"How was the trial yesterday?" Yu Jian asked suddenly.

"Trial? Oh! You mean Mrs. Henson's case? That was done by the victim's wife. I think Ms. Hammers... beat her husband with a hammer because he wanted her to stop her peddling act, and she killed him for it." Shrugging, Wright walked over to the chair beside the bed, running his fingers along the railing at the end of the bed.

"What do you think?" Edgeworth bit the word angrily.

"Well, at the time, my attention was preoccupied with a certain Chief Prosecutor who had suffered a stroke in the prosecution's bench. So you'll have to forgive me for my blurry recollection of the above incident."

"I..." The man looked away again, and whispered in disbelief, "I passed out in court?"

"You don't remember?" Cheng Butang bit his lip and sat down heavily on the chair. "You'd better not. As soon as Ms. Hamers began to confess her crime, you collapsed on the ground like a puddle of mud."

"Sounds good," Edgeworth grunted, "so you're saying that Ms. Hammers knocked her own husband, Mr. Hammers, and blamed it all on Mrs. Hanson and her On the prosthetic hand."

*(Original text is "MsHammershammeredherhusband,MrHammers")

"I... have nothing to add." The cold wind from the air conditioner blows over his warm body, Cheng Butang covered his mouth with his hands, kicked Yu Jian's bed legs twice, and slid tiredly against the chair down.Yet he couldn't hide his laughter. "What the hell are these people's names all about! Like the nurse who killed herself today, her name was Polly Ward*, she worked in a hospital ward, caring for the sick. Good luck—what a fool! ’ he sighed in a drawn out voice.

* (PollyWard, ward also means ward)

"Ward?" the Attorney General sat up straight suddenly. "Where did I hear that!" he said to himself.

"You're in the hospital right now, Edgeworth."

"No, I've...I've definitely heard that name before. A name." Yujian put his hand over his head, obviously hating his damaged brain for losing information. "Someone's name."

"Hey, it's okay, don't get too into the air. I did mention her name when I was outside, it was written on the pill bottle. Maybe you heard me mention her then?" Wright tilted his head in concern, Tried to catch Edgeworth's eye, and relieve some of his stress.

"No, Wright, I heard it somewhere else. From...someone here. In this ward."

Wright realized that Edgeworth wouldn't let it go without solving the mystery.Given the abnormal state of his mind, his usual logical reasoning was of little use.When it was time for Wright to play, he gave a smug smile and sat down in front of the bed.

"Okay, so let's get this out of the way. Polly Ward is a nurse at this hospital. As far as I know, she usually works on the sixth floor. She also jumped from the sixth floor. You are now on the second floor , is far from the ward where she works. Is it?"

"That's right," Edgeworth agreed, putting his hands on his knees with a sudden, almost shy expression.

"She has no reason to be here, which means you should never have seen her. Another unmistakable proof that you didn't even regain consciousness before she committed suicide. Because of brain surgery, you Just woke up, right? At that moment, she just jumped out of the window, and she should have died soon after. Is that so?"

The Chief Prosecutor just nodded uneasily and tapped his index finger habitually.

"So, when you woke up, did any medical staff come here?" Wright asked.

The other party nodded thoughtfully.

"What did they talk about?"

"They...changed my urine bag. And...notified me—" Edgeworth's breath came out suddenly, and he tossed the hair covering his eyes aside, "My doctor will be here soon—my doctor ! Mr. Ward!"

"That's right! Your doctor—wait, what?" Wright's eyes widened.

"My doctor's name is Mr. Ward, Wright... oh." Edgeworth looked down at his knees, his silver bangs covering his right eye again. "I think that's why he didn't show up. He must have some kind of connection with Nurse Ward. Speaking of which, I'm still annoyed why he kept me waiting."

Wright scratched his neck and sighed, "I saw Dr. Ward before six o'clock this morning. He asked me to stay in the ward until you woke up. He insisted that he didn't have to stay because it might scare you." You. I remember him saying that I was there when you passed out, I was in your last memory, and that might have calmed you down a bit." Explaining these feels pretty stupid, and maybe they don't work at all , especially Edgeworth's sudden split personality attack when he woke up-maybe he was hallucinating, but Wright knew Edgeworth liked honest answers best.

"I... know." Yu Jian said.He sighed, lay back on the bed, and stared at the clock opposite. "I should be assigned a new doctor. Dr. Ward is clearly in trouble."

"I feel the same way..." Wright stood up from his seat, took off his coat, and threw it on the chair along with his tie. "How about I go to the nurse's station and check? You should be closely monitored at all times, especially after a brain haemorrhage." He unbuttoned a few more buttons to allow his neck and collar to breathe.He grinned, that smile was too bright, Yu Jian gave him a suspicious look. "And I can even follow your example and make some flashy tea."

Edgeworth's Adam's apple twitched, and he pressed his fingertips to his lips.But soon his frown suddenly eased, "I can't deny how tempting that sounds," he put his hand down and looked up at Wright. "But please make finding the doctor your priority. I don't want my last cup of tea to be a self-serve iced tea in the hospital cafeteria - just because you forgot to call in the new doctor."

"You're such a lady." Wright walked out of the room laughing, and Edgeworth could still hear him retorting loudly.

When Butang walked towards the nurse's station in the center of the second floor, he saw the conspicuous figure of Gumshoe.He didn't have time to think about it, so he walked straight over and patted him on the shoulder.

"Oh!" exclaimed the big police officer happily, "I was going to talk to you!"

"Well, great, I also want to talk to you about...about this suicide."

"what happened?"

Wright cleared his throat, and without a tightly strangled tie around his neck, he suddenly felt very unprofessional. "I just... I mean—suicide. I'm not entirely sure about that yet."

"I understand what you mean," Gumshoe picked up the pen clipped to his ear and scratched the back of his head. "What you said about the rigor really made me dizzy! When the nurse jumped off the building this morning , the temperature is neither cold nor hot, and it has not reached the standard of accelerating stiffness at all."

"So, you agree that there is something wrong here. Also, the corpse's posture is very strange. Her whole body is tense...the muscles seem to twitch rather than snap and rupture like normal suicides."

"And there is no suicide note!"

"I think you should request an autopsy. There are too many doubts about this suicide." Wright looked up at Gumshoe's face and shrugged. "If it was Yu Jian, he would definitely do the same, wouldn't he?"

"That's right! Thank you for your words! It was a great help! I'll call the medical examiner's office right away and let them get the results as soon as possible!" After speaking, the big man in a trench coat hurried down the stairs and left.

Wright was baffled that he was still wearing this battered trench coat, given the man's rank in the police force.However, just like Wright's evaluation of him in the past, compared with his appearance, he must care more about the responsibilities on his shoulders at this moment.This would probably annoy the handsome Inspector Yu Jian, Wright thought.

TBC