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Part 3 begins! The gift from Susato is a copy of Jezaille's research on Curare which is a state of the art poison from Japan's perspective. As a result, it won't show up in any tests. So it turns out Auchi does not drink the water, Jezaille does instead! That bring us to yet another snag. The allegedly poisoned water had no effect on Jezaille. It looks like it's time to hit the Court Records again. The poison only works on open wounds and Dr. Wilson just had dental surgery done. Ryunosuke's first Objection! He says Take That as well now. We then hit another road block when Jezaille brazenly destroys the bottle of water.

To push on, we get back to how Dr. Wilson was shot. It was after he died but we still don't know how it happened or where the gunshot sound came from. Ryunosuke thinks there will be some clue on Jezaille's steak plate and it is Hosonaga to the rescue! He kept the plate as well but the expected blood spot isn't there. That actually makes sense since there was no blood spot in the photo either. Ryunosuke examines the steak plate anyways and finds the Koban coin?! It seems like this is the wrong steak plate somehow. Nosa and Korekuta are called back to the stand. It turns out that Nosa stole the coin, hid it under the steak then switched the plates. I was thinking it was going to be Jezaille who switched the plates because of the blood stain but it seems not. We also go through this line of reasoning with bite marks that doesn't seem necessary to me since the Koban coin already shows the plates were switched. In any case, the other steak plate is brought in and the blood stain is there! (Why did Hosonaga not notice this? He seemed to be on the ball testing other evidence.) Jezaille has seen enough and confesses to the crime. I'm still not sure where the second gun came from but Jezaille helpfully admits she hid it under her skirt. Ryunosuke gets a Not Guilty!

So Jezaille turned around the chair Dr. Wilson was in and Nosa switched the steak plates and neither noticed each other despite being the only ones in an open room. I'm not really sure that works out. Korekuta was also there but he was adamant about being focused on the missing Koban coin to the exclusion of all else. Also Hosonaga would have seen the Dr. Wilson facing one way when he went to capture Ryunosuke and facing a different way when he came back. It is possible he didn't notice, but that's not really a small change. Also I think the original bottle to curare was brought it on is just missing. It wasn't in Jezaille's bag and I don't think Hosonaga mentioned taking it but maybe he did.

After the trial Ryunosuke thinks about how Jezaille never said why she killed Dr. Wilson. Since Jezaille won't face trial in Japan, he may never find out. Kazuma is also still going to Great Britain. I really thought he was going to give up his spot to Ryunosuke somehow but I guess not. Kazuma wants to ask Ryunosuke for a favor but is interrupted since it is time to go celebrate.

Case 1-1 End

Overall I like the case but it definitely felt a bit long. It felt like we ran into a brick wall a few too many times during the case. Also, as I mentioned earlier, I'm not entirely sure the details of the case work out that well. Jezaille was a whatever culprit (water drinking scene was neat, though) but Hosonaga was a lot of fun and Kazuma's pretty cool. I don't know the track name, but there's this really cool song that plays sometimes when Kazuma shows up. I'm interested in seeing where things go from here since Ryunosuke still isn't leaving Japan at this point in the story.
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