【Chengyu】Turnabout: Bloodline

As soon as Wright got home, he was bombarded by all the other members of Magnum.Meiguan almost put her whole body on him, begging her father to pick her up from school early tomorrow so that they can go to see Uncle Yujian together (if she leaves school normally, the hospital's opening time for visiting has ended).Wright declined her politely, explaining that she would only put too much pressure on him if she dropped her studies just to see Edgeworth—and thankfully, she agreed.

And Wang Nixi was the one who brought up the painful questions.Will he be the same as before the stroke?Will the strength of his legs come back?What if his brilliant deduction and logic skills became less deadly?What if there were holes in his memory that he wasn't even aware of?Can he own Mr Edgeworth's car?Wright laughed and avoided answering his question.

Heart Sound didn't ask a damn question like that, but that was what worried Wright the most.While he was softly explaining to everyone what had happened to Chief Inspector Edgeworth and how much he needed him by his side right now, she just sat there quietly, listening to his uneasiness and worries in silence.While Wright apologized generously for his absence at the office these days, he was careful not to look her directly in the eye.

Fortunately, not long after, Wang Nixi and Xinyin left his apartment on the first floor, and Meiguan stood with him on the doorstep and waved goodbye to them until they were no longer in sight.Meiguan complained that she was hungry, like most teenagers in their late stages of development.Wright took her home and ordered pizza delivery with whatever toppings she wanted.

He didn't realize how much he missed the bed until he buried himself under the covers and let the rigid body sink into the indentations he'd made in the mattress over the years.After coaxing Mitsuki to bed and watching a movie, he stayed awake for a few more hours and filed documents related to the case that took place during Edgeworth's bout with death.

This meant that he repeatedly postponed the sacred moment of falling asleep until he could no longer escape the clutches of sleepiness.He was finally able to satisfy his most basic desire.

The desire to sleep.

He slid his arms under the pillow and draped his legs over the springs that popped awkwardly out of the mattress, letting the soft comforter swallow him whole.

[Boom boom boom boom boom boom——]

"God." Wright yawned, sliding his arm out of its warm abode.This is hilarious - as he fumbles blindly for his phone on the bedside table, he's thinking it better not be Edgeworth in order to make good on his promise to call him anytime - or I'll fucking press rubbing his head and making him suck my balls.

"Wright Wright," he groans into the phone as he holds it up to his face and unlocks it.

"Mr. Cheng Butang."

Wright immediately sat up, feeling his heart pounding. "What's the matter?" he said immediately.Her tone of voice, her breathing, her trembling, was not at all nice, not at all like her usual self.Something happened, something must have happened.Wright suddenly felt like he could jump up and sprint straight to the warehouse yard.

"I'm... looking at the files."

Also suddenly, the fresh adrenaline was drained from his body with a weary groan. "Don't you need to sleep? It's almost one o'clock in the morning, Maya."

"Please, Wright, shorten your lecture by one minute, and listen to me first." Maya took a deep breath, Wright felt as if she was holding back from crying, or suppressing something else Feelings, no matter what, she must have been horrified by what she found.

"Okay, I'm listening. Just bring it on." Wright nodded to himself, casually resting his heels on the bedstead, elbows on his knees.He felt like a taut spring, ready to bounce against the wall at the shocking truth that Maya was about to reveal.

"Kurain-no-sato will record the files of all those who were born, married, and died here. It's like some kind of family registration system that belongs only to this place, but it's hopelessly vague." Maya said angrily, It sounded like she was frustratingly slapping several sheets together. "However, I found something...I honestly don't know what to think about it."

"What? More dirty tricks from your Aunt Kimiko?" Wright resisted the urge to yawn.

"No. I found a daily event file from 1993. It's kind of like a diary kept by the librarian of the village of warehouses, used to keep historical events in our daily life. So anything worth noting It will all be recorded here." The young patriarch paused again, and Wright turned his head to the phone, waiting patiently for her to sort out her mood. "The exact date has been erased, but... this says..."

"On a certain day in 1993 - Maiko Ayari gave birth to her second child. A boy, weighing 9 pounds 7 ounces and 70 days old, she refused to continue to raise him and let his father take him away , to be fed by a wet nurse.

But...the log doesn't mention the baby's death, or anything else.A few days later, the father took the child away.There is no record of his name or other information. There was deep anxiety in Maya's voice, and Wright Wright himself couldn't help but empathize with him—what kind of mother would be willing to abandon his own flesh and blood? Even his own mother who was deprived of custody due to drug abuse It wouldn't be so cruel.

"So, you have an older brother somewhere in this world." The defense lawyer frowned and rubbed his ears. "Didn't you say that Cangyuan has files that record everyone's births, marriages, and deaths, just like the household registration system. If you look around, you may be able to find some birth certificates with real names. I feel that what you are looking at now More like a diary than an official record."

"Yes, yes." Maya began to shuffle to another part of the room, the sound of papers bouncing and pages slapping filled the silent air. "Well...the cabinet is full of old scraps of paper...I just need to find the right year..."

"Year 1993?"

"That's right! When my sister was studying to become a lawyer, she once told me that although we have our own household registration in Cangyuan, all the documents used to handle birth, death and marriage in the future must be within the law. , can only use Tokyo's official household registration documents. Our household registration in Kurin is just a copy." There was a bang on the other side of the phone, followed by Maya's cough that seemed to be distanced, obviously in order to avoid those people Tons of dust and looked away.

"So, anything you find here, we should be able to find in Tokyo's birth records. So why are you bothering to make another copy?"

"Well... it's all due to Ayari Koko-sama's bloodline. We had to take extra care to record everything that happened to make sure that inbreeding didn't happen. Although this has been purposefully used in the past to create the most Pure blood, but I'm glad those horrible guys are going extinct soon." Maya murmured as if distracted.

"Mayori sauce." Cheng Butang reminded.

"Well, I found 1993... ah. There's only one file here for that year. That seems like a really long year, hope you get what I mean." There was a long silence.

Wright guessed that she was busy flipping through the documents she found, so he waited patiently for her next utterance.Finally, a light gasp caught his eardrums, and he felt his heart sinking.If she can't even speak, then she must have discovered some big secrets.

"are you still there?"

"Successful success Chengbutang!!!"

It was too late when Wright took the phone away from his ear, and he felt as if he had been deafened for a few seconds. "What's wrong, Maya? Maya!"

"This—" she choked up, "I—I have to send you a picture—I—I can't!"

Wright heard the sound of Maya fiddling with her phone, and she took a picture of the documents she found.He's no longer able to put on an air of patience, but thanks to the shitty Internet situation in Kurinori, he's sure he'll have to wait a little longer to get the news.

"Alright, I'll send you..." Maya said as calmly as possible.Her tone was exactly the same as that of Yujian who was trying to calm down in front of the aunt, Wright thought. "Wright Wright, you might not believe it, but..."

【嗡—嗡——】

Wright put the phone away from his ear and turned on the speaker before receiving the multimedia message—he was even a little surprised at how quickly it arrived.While waiting for the picture to load, he continued to carefully monitor Maya's movements to ensure that she did not fall into an uncontrollable panic due to the sudden news.

As soon as the image loaded, he could clearly see the document taking up almost the entire screen.It was a yellowish document, similar in structure to birth certificates printed in cities, but overall very hand-drawn.The date was also erased, and given Maiko Ayari's behavior at the time of the child's birth, this may have been her own request...

His mouth fell silent when he finally saw the name of the child born on this fateful day.

"Reishi... Lingli Reishi."

"Look at his father's name." Maya said softly.

Cheng Butang moved the enlarged image to the column for registering his father's name... and then exclaimed: "Yu Jianxin?!"

"His name is also on my sister's and my birth certificate! Wright!" Maya almost screamed and put down the phone, and then there was more rustling of papers over there, "Wright, my sister and I Never knew who our dad was - he was Edgeworth's dad! Didn't he raise him in the city? Then you met like that!"

Cheng Butang couldn't help being stunned, and slowly put the phone aside, covering his face with his hands.

"Director Yu Jian is my biological brother..."

"That...seems to be true," he muttered meaninglessly.

"Yu Jianxin took Yu Jian Rei away from Kurinosato because my—our mother didn't want him, because he was a boy and couldn't be a psychic." She paused, "You Do you think Edgeworth knows about this?"

"No," Wright nodded to himself, "he doesn't know. He was told from a young age that his mother died not long after he was born. This lie by Mr. Shin must be to protect him from the truth ...his mother abandoned him because he couldn't continue the psychic line."

There was silence on the phone.

"Maya...try to get some sleep. I know it might be hard, your whole world is turned upside down like this. But you have to accept it."

"We have to tell him, Wright."

"I know. But not now."

"We have to show him these documents. And Chunmei, let her know too."

"Maya, you need to rest first."

Maya sighed softly, judging from the sound coming from her, she closed the file.

"Okay. I'll be back tomorrow night. Then we can tell Edgeworth about this and explain to him what happened to him."

"Perfect."

They said goodbye to each other and hung up the phone quickly.Wright lay on his back on the bed, still feeling his heart beating nervously in his chest beneath his phone.

"Fuck..." He sighed, pulling the pillow over his head.

TBC