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Part 3 begins! When it was stated that the mystery girl was around 15 years old I briefly thought of Pavlova but she shouldn't have been in the country at the time of the incident. In any case the new girl and McGilded take the stand. It sounds like the new girl was hiding inside the storage compartment below the seat that McGilded was sitting on. At this point I went to examine the omnibus again. There's a giant blood stain on the floor of the cabin that I don't recall being there. Am I dumb? Did I just not see it before? The camera controls don't use inverted Y-axis like I'm used to so they always feel off to me. Even so, I'm sure I would have looked at the floor at some point. Also, the storage area under the seat in the omnibus? I don't think it was empty before. Weren't there tools or something inside when I checked before? I wish I wrote that down in my notes but I didn't.

The mystery girl is finally introduced as Gina Lestrade. She's guilty of being a thief but she doesn't seem to be the one to kill Mason either. She confirms she was hiding in the storage compartment. McGilded says there was no way she was guilty so he took the fall for her. Some of jurors are now changing their votes. Wait. We have SIX not guilty votes?! We won! That should be a good thing except it doesn't seem like it. >_>

Van Zieks isn't having any of this. He confirms that the storage compartment was full just after the incident just like I thought it was. What is going on? Did someone alter the scene of the crime in the middle of the recess? Van Zieks goes and says it. The evidence has been tampered with. McGilded is now being very pushy with getting Ryunosuke to say the storage area was empty at the start when it wasn't. This is bad. This is bad. This is bad. Is McGilded guilty? My faith is wavering. I had 2-4 spoiled for me back in the day so I never really had to deal with that! For the record, I'm still going to say he's innocent but beliving is kinda hard!

"It wasn't empty". I can't lie when I know it wasn't empty. Also I like how the trial can continue with 6 Not Guilty votes but it comes to a grinding halt if there are 6 Guilty votes. It's not fair. I guess Van Zieks talks 3 jurors into changing their votes to Guilty, but we had to change 4 to continue the trial. Still not fair. Ryunosuke constantly saying things are bothering him is scaring me.

Gina helps solve one more mystery. She was the person who the previous witnesses saw with blood on both of her hands. This is just looking worse and worse for McGilded. Gina says she tossed out the stuff in the storage area when she hid in it. That's a reasonable claim but then why was it filled back in when the police got there? Also, she's likely telling the truth about being in the cabin since we know there needs to be a third person to make the blood on hands thing work. Things can work out if Gina was outside of the storage area when McGilded boarded but I'm not sure that makes sense since it means she would have been a direct witness to Mason being killed. Also, she clearly gets mad at McGilded for sitting on the seat so it feels like she really was there somehow.

Gina never heard Mason enter the omnibus. What?! But, that doesn't work at all. She even saw McGilded get on the omnibus alone. This is insane. How did Mason even get in there? I'm guessing that both seats have a storage compartment but one handle is just missing so it doesn't seem like it. Save me Juror No. 5! You should know what the omnibus layout is! Now I need to say how Mason got in?

"He was in there already" - Nope
"He was put there after he died" - Another penalty
"There's another entrance" - There we go! I did consider the skylight but it wasn't clear it could be opened.

McGilded takes charge and implies that Fairplay and Furst are the culprits and dropped the body in via the skylight. I'm feeling worse and worse about McGilded being innocent but I want to believe!

Fairplay and Furst take the stand. Gina is a thief and likely the most trustworthy person on the stand right now. >_> McGilded just keeps looking more and more suspicious. I think I've finally cracked. I told myself I would believe until the bitter end but I can't do it. He's guilty, isn't he? Official prediction: Guilty. McGilded is the one to point out the contradiction in Furst never doing business with Mason. I noticed the hat in the picture ages ago and never would I have guessed that it would be McGilded presenting it. Gina says the skylight can open but only from the top. Why didn't they just ask Juror No. 5? He probably knew this from the start. >_> Furst and Fairplay really seem like they didn't know this, though.

There's a bloodstain on the open skylight! But, I can't believe that Furst and Fairplay are guilty. I just had a thought. I think the blood on the skylight was planted there during the break. Same with the blood on the flood of the cabin. McGilded knows about the blood stain in the floor of the cabin somehow. He's looking really guilty right now!

Van Zieks confirms what I thought, the blood on the skylight was planted. Ryunosuke says it could have been possible for the evidence to be tampered with and also adds the blood stain on the floor to Van Zieks's list of problems. I've been leaning guilty for a while now but I'm a lot more certain now. McGilded killed Mason. That's crazy!

The trial has reached a road block and can't continue pursuing a guilty verdict. Susato says if we let things go on, we likely cruise to a not guilty verdict. But, is that okay?

"The defendant could be guilty"

It doesn't matter, though. With no other way to proceed, we get our Not Guilty.

In the end, we still don't know what really happened. As such, Susato and Ryunosuke congratulate each other on winning but at the same time are unhappy with how it ended. We talk with McGilded and find out there's going to be another inspection of the omnibus and McGilded will be there taking part.

Just before the end we also meet a new character. A girl with pink hair shows up. I've seen her in pre-release material. I think her name was Iris Watson? Iris Wright? Something like that.

And finally there's a cutscene of the omnibus catching on fire and seemingly someone being trapped inside. Well that's not good. I wonder who it is?

Case G1-3 End

This case certainly escalated a lot by the end. I'm still thinking that McGilded killed Mason but ultimately there's no guilty verdict. I don't have an answer for how Mason got inside the cabin or why the storage compartment wasn't empty. I assume a later case will reveal the answer but I'm curious how that will work. McGilded really got me with his act from the start. Even after finding out he was a crooked money lender I still maintained faith for a very long time. But, I just couldn't hold out until the end. With that said, I'm going to look very silly if he is somehow innocent in the end. I do wonder if there are any particularly unique game over lines since McGilded had a lot of things rigged in his favour. I'm guessing they are mostly just normal "Guilty verdict" ends but maybe not.

One last thing. The victim of the first jury trial is called Mason. That's a coincidence, right? >_>
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