【Chengyu】Turnabout: Bloodline

It was getting late when all the dust settled, and the two lawyers finally enjoyed the rare peace in the middle of the night.The two suitcases that Edgeworth brought were empty, replaced by a drawer specially vacated for him, and Wright's wardrobe that was brutally taken over.Miles scrubbed his body clean and put on a new set of pajamas.In addition to the dinner, there was also a mountain of case files about the commission in Cheng Butang's hands.

"Unexpectedly, you can actually coax her to sleep."

Wright looked up from the cluttered pile of papers on his bare Ikea desk, barely tucked into a corner but still taking up most of the living room area.In fact, what is even more unexpected is that Yu Jian didn't comment on his furniture decoration, probably because his common sense found that Mei Guan's idea of ​​packing up her magic props was to stuff them into the kitchen cupboard, It has already collapsed.

"You know, I'm as shocked as you are," Wright laughed, "but she knows you can't stand her chattering like that, at least after I explain it to her."

"I really don't want to be the reason for her reluctance to go to rest." Yu Jian hesitated, "but I still thank her for her understanding."

The lawyer gave a friendly smile to the chief prosecutor who was sitting in a wheelchair by his desk and flipping through the evidence.He probably hasn't seen the evidence of the affair yet, Wright thought, because his face was as pale and bloodless as ever.

[Or am I overestimating the obscenity of this evidence? 】

"Mei Guan really likes you, she is willing to do anything for her Uncle Yu Jian, even including going to sleep obediently without my coercion." Cheng Butang quickly glanced at the Chief Prosecutor beside him, looking Seeing him give Wright a small, secretive smile at Wright's tendentious remark.It was a somewhat sweet and relatable look, one that honestly showed how he felt.A happy thought made the corners of his mouth naturally lift up.It's not a common sight, Wright thought gratefully, he's probably the one who sees it the most.In second place, maybe Pess.

"I'm sorry I can't bring Pess over here," he said, following his thoughts, "We only recently found out that Meiguan is allergic to dog hair."

"I don't see any regrets about it at all, Wright. Even if she didn't have allergies, Pess is very old now, and she wouldn't want to move again in such a short time, let alone there is a Such a vibrant little girl who loves to perform magic tricks with her toys."

Wright collapsed on the seat and laughed, putting his hand over his mouth to keep his daughter from being woken by too much noise. "Pess is as big as a beauty, isn't it?"

"Hmm... It's all calculated in terms of human age, indeed." Yu Jian looked down at the documents spread out on his lap again, and adjusted his glasses with trembling hands. "She's 77 years old for a dog. She's an old lady for her breed." He traced a section he hadn't quite mastered with his fingers. "Her interaction with the missile made me feel like giving her Find a companion dog to accompany her through her old age."

The lawyer looked down from his pale cheeks to the general's emblem emblazoned on Edgeworth's pajamas.He wondered what the hell this man was brooding about, and he had his own doubts, but they were all dark and scary, not something Edgeworth should be thinking about right now.He reached out and gently pushed the plastic box of microwave pasta forward. "Hey, I chopped these up so you can eat with one hand and read with the other. Don't let All of my amazingly generous efforts went to waste."

Yu Jian closed the file and put it back on the table, replacing the dinner that had been fully cooled. "Sorry, I couldn't read the damn files just now." He sighed and put the box on his lap. "My head is still a little..."

"I know. It's not easy to fully recover from a stroke. But luckily you're young and strong enough to do it. Plus, you're on some pretty strong painkillers right now. That's the kids out there Those things that I dreamed of selling."

"What's wrong with you?" The Chief Inspector flipped through his microwave dinner and couldn't help laughing out loud.Wright is on his right, grinning like he just told the funniest joke in all of Tokyo.

"Wang Nixi asks me this every day." He joked, then leaned over the documents spread out in front of him, and focused on his case again.

He spent another hour searching the files for inconsistencies before the unexpected doorbell rang.Cheng Butang's spirit suddenly tightened, and the cruel reality finally caught up with him, and behind the door was the figure he least wanted to see.

"Shit," he cursed.

"Hey!" She instinctively reached out and covered the ears of her cousin who was a head shorter than her.Wright even noticed her just now, she was clutching Maya's purple priestly robe tightly, as if she was about to fall to her knees in a second.Does she know?Wright couldn't imagine Maya wanting to repeat the story to a second person.That's when he realized that there were no lights on in the hallway—maybe that's what Chunmei was afraid of.

"Can we go in?" Maya interrupted his thinking, she stretched out a slender hand, waving an old folder at him.The effect was immediate, and Wright stepped aside immediately, avoiding the file—in the paper wrapped tightly with leather and nylon thread, all the evidence that could prove Edgeworth's life experience was recorded.The two Miss Lingli were ushered into the living room, Edgeworth was still reading his autopsy report, he had to read it over and over until he was exhausted, but still made no progress.He raised his head, saw Chunmei's face suddenly brightened under the light of the desk lamp, and watched her bouncing towards him, only felt that the attention he had finally concentrated on the file disappeared in an instant gone.

"Good evening, Mr. Chief Prosecutor." Finding that Meiguan's bedroom door was closed tightly, she whispered.Wright knew that if Mei, who was forced to go to bed at 10 o'clock, found out that Chunmei was still awake at this time, she would be angry.

"Miss Maya, Harumi." Yu Jian returned with some surprise, he took off his glasses, first tried to hang them on the non-existent windbreaker pocket on his chest, and then put them on the table. "If it's a visit, it seems a little too late?"

Maya raised her head and glanced at Wright, both of them knew that Wright had kept his promise, and hadn't mentioned anything to Yujian until now.This promise is actually not difficult to fulfill, because in the pressing of the whole poisoning incident, Cheng Butang almost really forgot about it.So when she nodded his thanks, he just shrugged.

"I think so too," Chunmi went on, clasping her hands tightly together, "but I think it's never too late to see a friend. How are you feeling, Chief Inspector—" The little girl's words were interrupted by Maya's hand covering her shoulder suddenly, "Master Maya?" She blinked.

"Go and sit down in the living room, Harumi." Maya whispered to her cousin.Although she was very confused, she was obediently led to the sofa.With the sudden break in the conversation, confusion shifted to Edgeworth.As the defense attorney came up behind him, grabbed the armrest of the wheelchair and let off the brakes, he glanced back at Wright blankly.

"What's the matter?" He asked softly, picked up his glasses, and was pushed to the side of two sofas facing each other and the coffee table between them.He met Wright's eyes again, but the man didn't meet his peaceful gaze, but sat across from him on the couch next to Maya.Chunmei looked around and changed to the seat next to Yujian's wheelchair.

The Chief Prosecutor deduces that Chunmei should be as clueless as he is.Whatever the next news announcement, it seems at least they can share in this dazed ignorance of the situation.

Wright was convinced that the best way to tell Edgeworth was to keep silent.Words can be debated and denied - Edgeworth is a man who believes in evidence almost callously, and even the most refined language is a complete waste on this kind of topic.When Maya opened her mouth to explain, Wright put his hand on her wrist to stop her, and gestured nonchalantly to the tattered document in her hand.

She glanced up at him, thanking them for their tacit understanding that made her understand what she meant.She leaned forward and put the file on the coffee table, the middle ground between those who know the truth and those who are kept in the dark.

"Should I...should I make some tea?" Harumi interjected next to Yujian, "Mr. Wright, would you like some tea?" Maya raised her hand to stop her movement, but this seemed to have broken The last layer of ice was enough for her to make a gesture to Edgeworth, directing him to get the document.Wright could hear Harumi sinking deeper into the corner of the sofa, biting her thumbnail with increasing unease.

After a suffocatingly long time, the Attorney-General finally leaned forward carefully, picked up the document from the coffee table, and placed it gently on his lap, the spine of the book sinking into the red flannel pajama pants he was wearing. middle of the thigh.He opened it and looked at the nearly weathered old files sealed inside.

It doesn't take long, but Wright feels like spending a hundred years in another world when he goes from sweet ignorance to grim reality.Until his stern, taut lips parted, his shoulders dropped, his back straightened, and the truth washed over him like the turbulence of a waterfall.His eyes widened, their silver pupils gleaming with wonder—and Wright suddenly felt he should get out of here, and let the three of them deal with this sudden shock to the family tree on their own.But Maya grabbed his wrist—it seemed that no matter how he felt about this point, there was no room for negotiation.

Edgeworth pored over the yellowed sheets of paper for a few minutes, and the thought of "tell him now" crossed Wright's mind several times.Edgeworth looked up at Maya, then turned to Harumi who was sitting next to him (the little girl politely didn't try to peek at any of the files).Wright almost immediately understood what Edger was thinking.He still has blood relatives, and has known each other for nearly ten years, just as friends.He has a younger sister and a cousin who are sitting next to him now.When Edgeworth opened his mouth to utter a syllable, Wright had no idea what he was about to say.

"I'm sorry—!" Maya, who had been silent by his side all this time, suddenly spoke out.Cheng Butang was taken aback and almost knocked over the coffee table in the middle.Maya let go of his wrist and covered her eyes with her hands. "I'm really, really sorry, Edgeworth."

Chunmei looked at Maya, then at Yu Jian, and when she saw that the Chief Prosecutor was motionless and silent, just staring blankly at the evidence spread out on her lap, she became even more flustered.

"The tradition of the Ayasato family—" Maya was wiping her face with her sleeve while sniffing her nose,"—demanded that any boy who had the blood of Lord Koko be expelled from the warehouse and sent by their father in other places. Local upbringing. But - I never thought - my mother - our mother would abandon her son for these stupid traditions! I thought she wouldn't!"

"Master Maya?" Chunmei's voice sounded as if she was not far from crying, and sure enough, when Maya covered her face and let out heavy sobs, she immediately began to cry.She clearly didn't fully understand the situation, but couldn't bear the pain of someone being unable to help them.

Wright and Edgeworth finally looked at each other for a long time, and Wright couldn't say a damn word.When Edgeworth looked at him tenderly with his firm eyes, begging him to say something, the bravado he was so good at was completely ineffective.Edgeworth probably just wanted him to pinch him out of this frighteningly real dream, but he couldn't.

Unsurprisingly, Miles held on to the armrests of the wheelchair, forcing himself to stand on his unbalanced feet.Wright stood up nervously, to give Edgeworth a hand whenever Edgeworth needed it.Until the chief prosecutor threw herself on the sofa next to Chunmei and pulled her into a big hug.His arms wrapped tightly around her body, which was trembling with sobs.He looked over Harumi's shoulder, paused briefly on Wright, then closed it again.He buried the tip of his nose into her fine hair, and pressed her against his chest.This feeling is a little strange.When Edgeworth passed out in court, none of them could have imagined that it would lead to this outcome.

But it's worth it.It has to be worth it.Wright thought so when Lan Guoxiao stroked her back.

In the end, the heart-piercing crying was reduced to occasional soft sobs, and Yu Jian raised his head from Chunmei's shoulders, his eyes were also wet, and there were faint tears on his face.He reached out to take off his crooked glasses, and Chunmei rolled over on his lap and sat beside him to calm herself down.Cheng Butang tugged on the sleeve of his T-shirt to wipe away the tears from his face.Seriously he doesn't really know why everyone's crying, he's not part of anyone's family here, as Wang Nixi might say, he may never understand how the three of them find the family tree overlapping so confusingly a feeling of.

"I can't believe she would... she would refuse to acknowledge your existence." Maya's voice was still thickly nasal, but Wright sat next to him, putting his arms around her shoulders, giving her a hug Stable support. "I can understand why your—our dad was absent from our lives because he wasn't allowed to show up, but mom she..." She shook her head, "She sent you away and never saw you again you."

"Our father told me from the time I started asking this question that my mother died when I was very young." Edgeworth's voice was equally hoarse, "I've never had a mother since then , and now I still don't, though she bore me."

Maya's eyes widened, her nose turned sour, and tears began to glisten from the corners of her eyes again.

"However," Yu Jian cleared his throat, "from these files, I got not only a mother in name only, but also...a younger sister, and a cousin." His eyes swept over Maya , Then there is the petite body in his arms, the smile at the corner of his mouth is almost wet. "I thought... I was already alone."

Maya made an unseemly sound somewhere between crying and laughing, stepped across the coffee table and grabbed Harumi and their newly acquired brother, desperately squeezing the three of them together.

Wright was grinning from ear to ear when Edgeworth involuntarily put his other arm around Maya and whispered comforting words to the two still sobbing girls.Another 10 minutes or so later, a group of mugs overflowing with luscious hot cocoa appeared on the coffee table, offering stomach relief to the sentimental group.

"I have a question," Miles said, sitting on the couch, moving his weak legs carefully, stretching each muscle slowly to avoid cramps. "What made you investigate Cangyuan's files so deeply?"

"Ugh!" Maya, who was drinking hot cocoa, suddenly choked, and Harumi patted her on the back lightly.They switched seats, with Wright sprawled out on the couch, one leg on Edgeworth's lap, his pant leg resting on Edgeworth's hip, but neither of them seemed to care much.Edgeworth seemed happy to use the weight of his legs to exercise his own muscles.

"Also—maybe it's up to you to answer this question, Butler-kun." Maya struggled while coughing.

He glanced at her and put the words "Do I really have to?" written all over his face.He had been awake for 17 hours straight and had slept a total of 3 hours before that.Whatever the girls and Edgeworth were talking about, right now he just wanted to pass out on the couch.At this time, the serious Maya-sama finally reappeared and grabbed his arm.With a sigh, he took back the leg that was on Yu Jian's leg.

"You know you've been having 'disrupted consciousness', right?" Wright began, leaning back cautiously on the couch.His back hadn't been what it used to be since he was hit by that car shortly before he was cleared.He didn't want to be in a wheelchair with Miles just yet, even if it was only temporarily.

Yujian nodded.

"Well, uh, how do you put it - during the interruption of consciousness, you may...become another person. At first, I thought it was just a necessary way to recover after surgery - like - your brain... …Well, it was an amazing 5 minutes. We didn't know you were actually channeling until Maya witnessed it once. It was a very hysterical soul."

"When you were 'sick' in front of me," Maya continued, "I felt a spirit controlling your body. Your voice changed, your eyes became lifeless—this is the same as Kurin flow. There is only one difference between the psychic way." Even this experienced psychic teacher couldn't look directly at Yujian's terrified eyes, and Wright couldn't blame her for anything.

Saying anything is like adding fuel to the fire.

"That's impossible," Edgeworth snapped, "You don't really think—"

"I don't know how to feel, Yu Jian." Maya stood up from the sofa and began to pace the room.Her footsteps were well absorbed by the carpet. "However, I can confirm what I saw. You did summon a soul, whether you intended it or not."

"How come?" Chunmei screamed softly.

"Maybe it's brain surgery." Cheng Butang slapped his head, "I'm not a brain surgeon, but when Dr. Ward was performing an emergency operation, would he happen to remove some kind of gene that can only be passed down to males in the Ayori family that can prevent Psychic stuff? Like... flipped some sort of switch?"

"How could I know." Maya shrugged lazily and let out a big yawn. "But judging from the appearance of that soul, no matter who that guy is, she won't just let Yu Jian go."

"I can't even talk about my own body?" Yu Jian said angrily.

Wright tilted his head, and the Ayari sisters nodded quickly at him, praying that the logical person would find some clue as to why their new brother was psychic. "The reason why you went to check the warehouse files is because shortly after I underwent brain surgery due to a stroke, you suspected that I was psychic." It seems stupid for Yu Jian to recount this incident for some reason, Wright wrote Face pinched his lips with his fingers. "It turns out you and I have the same parents who never told us the truth about their respective missing parents."

The Attorney General let out only a few shuddering breaths as he swallowed the messages and digested them.

"Those drug interactions must have had something to do with me."

"I admit, this sounds completely insane. But the evidence is solid, and you know Phoenix Wright and I will never lie to you. So do you, and so does Harumi." Maya looked down tenderly at Harumi, who was hanging down Looking at her mug of hot cocoa, her upper and lower eyelids are fighting.

It's approaching midnight, and Wright doesn't really feel the night is coming until everyone's glasses are empty.Edgeworth seemed to accept somewhat that he had become a vessel for an angry spirit.It all happened in just one day, and he's worked really hard.

As soon as Maya and Chunmei entered Meiguan's room, he immediately closed the door as quietly as possible. There is no doubt that the two of them would definitely wake Meiguan up, and then they chatted excitedly all night——God knows why they talk so much can be said.Edgeworth was still on the couch, flipping through the records from the weeks leading up to his birth.The defense lawyer sat on the arm of the sofa, looking down at the flimsy paper held lightly between Yujian's pale fingers.

"It's the first time I've seen it, you know?" the prosecutor sighed, putting the file on his lap.

"See what?"

"My mother. Her name—and everything about her." Edgeworth looked up at Wright, who was sitting next to him. "When I was old enough to investigate her identity with my own curiosity, I was taught by Karmaho."

"Why haven't you been able to discover this yourself? Your birth certificate must have Maiko Ayari's name on it."

"I..." The silver-haired man tilted his head, with a puzzled expression on his face, as if he had discovered something very strange while recalling. "I remember going to the Registry where my birth was recorded. At the time Karmaho needed some government-restricted information for his case, so... I wanted to steal it for him... from the local archives in order to get a guilty verdict evidence."

"It's like being bewitched by a demon," Wright moaned.

"Indeed. As a 12-year-old child, I was of course full of curiosity about what was in there. I was immersed in a large number of paper files of local births, deaths and marriages, and I forgot Karmahao's request. I wanted to find my My own birth certificate but, but... I don't remember if I found it in the end."

Cheng Butang put his arm around the Chief Prosecutor's shoulder. "If you don't remember, then you didn't find anything. Otherwise, you would at least know that Maiko Ayari is your mother, wouldn't you?"

"Yes... yes." Edgeworth didn't seem convinced by such an explanation.But when he leaned over to Wright, the tiredness on his face became very clear. "Maybe tomorrow morning we'll need a more in-depth investigation."

"Ready for bed?" Wright smiled.

TBC

In the ear of the cat who was scared away by the cucumber: You are also a cucumber (the devil whispers)