[this actually does tug at her heartstrings, but she's a very awkward and terrible person who can't tell what she should do in this situation. she just looks at him with an expression somewhere between sympathy and badly wanting to leave.]
There, there...
[thanks, harrow.]
You aren't a worthless idiot. There are people who don't bother to put any effort in, and simply vote for whoever seems likely to get the most votes. You ought not to be ashamed that you are trying but have come to incorrect conclusions.
[ he looks genuinely surprised to hear this, turning back to her with wide red-rimmed eyes. he'd been sure she was going to say she regretted standing up for him back then, and he wouldn't have blamed her; he figures at least a few of them are probably questioning her judgment for wanting to let him talk. ]
...Thanks.
[ tears are still welling up, if for at least a slightly different reason now, and he pulls his handkerchief out of his pocket to try to wipe them away. ]
I-I'm sorry, though... for being wrong after you spoke up for me like that. I... it meant a lot.
[ i have a whole collage of screenshots like this it's tragic ]
Thanks. I'll...
[ he pauses and frowns, because really, the biggest problem is their limited time, and he can't change that. ]
I can't do anything to speed up investigations here like back home, but... I guess maybe if I start questioning little things sooner...
[ the irony being that edgeworth and everyone kept getting on his case for being too quick to point fingers based on minimal evidence before (which he was, admittedly, never right about), and he'd been trying to work on not doing that so much... this whole thing really makes his head spin. ]
I don't want to keep running out of time like that.
Your accusation of Claude was tinged with emotion, because you wanted to trust in Kazunari. That is a lapse in judgment, albeit an understandable one. Pointing out that he excluded himself from the list of suspects was not a lapse, however.
People here will hide things where they think it suits them. Perhaps not even because he was involved, but because he did not want to be accused. It is correct to point those discrepancies out, even if you don't yet know why they exist.
That was something that happened in the first trial last time. This guy was managing some checks for footprints and handwriting and stuff... and he didn't ever turn in his own handwriting sample or include himself in the comparisons. A-and even after we realized that, nobody else was really pressing him that hard about it, or they let him off the hook because some other piece of evidence didn't match even though he was still being all squirrely and weird.
And we were running out of time then too, so I went after him, and— he cut my face and it was a whole thing, but we got it right at the very last minute that time! So. I think I felt like maybe this would be like that. ...I hoped it would.
[ though he still feels weird framing it that way, like he's a defense attorney. he always kind of thought most of them were sleazy people representing guilty criminals for money and trying to get in the way of justice.
he guesses appreciates them more now. ]
It would... probably feel really bad to go out knowing no one believed you.
[she doesn't even know what a defense attorney is, but she sighs.]
On the station, our first trial, we got it very wrong. We blamed Mollymauk's friend from home, and we were all so sure, but she hadn't done it. She died anyway.
I often do think about it. It was an important moment for me. I didn't think I cared what happened at trial, so long as I was not endangered. But I didn't like seeing Mollymauk and Beauregard suffering for something they hadn't done.
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There, there...
[thanks, harrow.]
You aren't a worthless idiot. There are people who don't bother to put any effort in, and simply vote for whoever seems likely to get the most votes. You ought not to be ashamed that you are trying but have come to incorrect conclusions.
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...Thanks.
[ tears are still welling up, if for at least a slightly different reason now, and he pulls his handkerchief out of his pocket to try to wipe them away. ]
I-I'm sorry, though... for being wrong after you spoke up for me like that. I... it meant a lot.
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[she crosses her arms, slightly awkward.]
It isn't as though any one of us is correct all the time.
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...You'll still try to get them to listen to what I have to say next week? Even if everybody takes me even less seriously than they already did?
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I won't let anyone demand you don't speak, so long as you continue to explain your reasoning and allow argument about it.
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Thanks. I'll...
[ he pauses and frowns, because really, the biggest problem is their limited time, and he can't change that. ]
I can't do anything to speed up investigations here like back home, but... I guess maybe if I start questioning little things sooner...
[ the irony being that edgeworth and everyone kept getting on his case for being too quick to point fingers based on minimal evidence before (which he was, admittedly, never right about), and he'd been trying to work on not doing that so much... this whole thing really makes his head spin. ]
I don't want to keep running out of time like that.
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Your accusation of Claude was tinged with emotion, because you wanted to trust in Kazunari. That is a lapse in judgment, albeit an understandable one. Pointing out that he excluded himself from the list of suspects was not a lapse, however.
People here will hide things where they think it suits them. Perhaps not even because he was involved, but because he did not want to be accused. It is correct to point those discrepancies out, even if you don't yet know why they exist.
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That was something that happened in the first trial last time. This guy was managing some checks for footprints and handwriting and stuff... and he didn't ever turn in his own handwriting sample or include himself in the comparisons. A-and even after we realized that, nobody else was really pressing him that hard about it, or they let him off the hook because some other piece of evidence didn't match even though he was still being all squirrely and weird.
And we were running out of time then too, so I went after him, and— he cut my face and it was a whole thing, but we got it right at the very last minute that time! So. I think I felt like maybe this would be like that. ...I hoped it would.
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And it would have been dreadful, if Kazunari was telling the truth and there was no one to defend him.
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[ though he still feels weird framing it that way, like he's a defense attorney. he always kind of thought most of them were sleazy people representing guilty criminals for money and trying to get in the way of justice.
he guesses appreciates them more now. ]
It would... probably feel really bad to go out knowing no one believed you.
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[she doesn't even know what a defense attorney is, but she sighs.]
On the station, our first trial, we got it very wrong. We blamed Mollymauk's friend from home, and we were all so sure, but she hadn't done it. She died anyway.
It's hard to forget how that felt.
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[ and that was the one edgeworth was there for, wasn't it...? ]
Were you thinking about that during this trial too?
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