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We're back at Naruhodo's Legal Consultancy and Susato dumps a bunch of info on us. "The Hound of Baskervilles" was something she saw on the side of a box of papers in Mikotoba's study. Mikotoba was the one to tell her not to tell anyone else about it. She didn't even know it was a Sholmes story and just happened to mention the title when Iris brought up Baskerville. Soseki included a picture of a collar with the B on it in his report. This is what freaked out Mikotoba but once again Susato doesn't really know why. Mikotoba and Jigoku are arriving next month for the International Forensic Science Symposium. Jezaille Brett was apparently a fake name. Her real name was A. Shinn. So, we have the fourth name! Three of them are currently dead... Or not? Menimemo says that Kazuma's body disappeared and never made it to Hong Kong. Well that's that. The apprentice is Kazuma for some crazy reason. Maybe the reason is related to why many G1-2 characters didn't show up in the credits of the first game. If Kazuma is alive, Sholmes should have known since he checked Kazuma's body. So a lot of interesting stuff but none of it really seems to be related to the current case. We've got a trial tomorrow so we're off to investigate!

First up is meeting Stronghart at the Lord Chief Justice's Office. Here we meet a woman who is eventually introduced as Courtney Sithe. She's the chief coroner and I recognize her name from the autopsy report. She's also the head of Stronghart's Forensic Investigation Team. It turns out Stronghart, Mikotoba and Jigoku all know each other. Mikotoba likely knew Sithe as well. It feels like almost all of the older reoccurring characters seem to know each other one way or another. Mikotoba ultimately left London 10 years ago. I wonder if that's related to the major events from 10 years ago we keep hearing about. Not much help for the current case here either but we do finally get permission to examine the machine on the experimentation stage.

Before we go there, we catch up with Harebrayne at prison. I end up getting my answer about Van Zieks. Harebrayne is of the opinion that Van Zieks really did believe in his work and it wasn't just an angle he was using as part of prosecuting the case. He's a good friend except for the whole murder accusation thing but no one is perfect. Finally, Harebrayne mentions that Drebber has a workshop that uses special oil with a unique scent and conveniently he has Drebber's business card with a small sample of that oil. That's all for here.

We meet up with Gina and Gregson at the experiment stage. Gregson is getting transferred to France and wants to take Gina with him. That's too bad. I'll miss her. Although, she was kinda useless during the previous trial. >_> We talk with Gina and she now has a dog named Toby. As luck would have it, Toby is good at tracking scents and we have a sample of a unique smell that is associated with Drebber's workshop. I'm not really sure this should really work but Gina takes Toby and the business card to try and track down the workshop.

We head on top of the experiment stage and finally get to look around. Unexpectedly, Van Zieks is here. We bring up the suggestion that Klint was killed by the Professor and Van Zieks replies that our research skills are lacking. That's interesting. Does that mean Klint wasn't killed by the Professor? I guess we still don't know the Professor's name so there's still a lot we don't know. Van Zieks's apprentice is also here. I was wondering if he was but I didn't see him before. As the apprentice tries to leave, Susato calls out to him. "Kazuma-sama!". I guess the game is done just dropping hints! I really wonder where this is going. The thing with Pavlova in G1-2 was an accident, right? Was Kazuma always planning to fake his own death? That seems unlikely so how did things end up like this? The apprentice runs off anyways but Van Zieks gives up a bit more info. The apprentice was first assigned to him about 3 months ago and the apprentice currently has amnesia. He will also be showing up in trial tomorrow as a judicial assistant for the prosecution! That's definitely something to look forward to. The Forensic Investigation Team is arriving soon so we need to leave.

I try to go to Tusspells next but Sholmes isn't there for some reason so onward to the Forensics Laboratory! We were supposed to meet with Sithe for an update on her findings about the case. While we wait for her, we snoop around and find out that the Forensic Investigation Team is cooking their books with fake purchases for some reason. When Sithe arrives, she shoots down one of our theories from the trial. Based on fingerprint data, the Asman on stage and the Asman found dead on the Crystal Tower are the exact same person. There is no body double. That's a twist I was not expecting. Teleportation doesn't exist so we need to find another way for Asman to get from the stage to the Crystal Tower. You know, I said Gina was useless before but, she explicitly said she didn't see what was inside the bird cage at the time it came crashing down. So, maybe it fell down while empty then somehow Asman was killed and put in the bird cage. Gina also said no one went to the bird cage before the police arrived. But, this still works out if the police person who arrived wasn't the police but was someone in disguise like what happened with Graydon luring McGilded out. Suddenly another girl wearing a mask shows up. She wants to cut open Ryunosuke and that's our signal to go.

The only other place to go is back to Tusspells to see Sholmes. This time he's here and tells us the waxwork case is largely solved which means it isn't fully solved. What does that mean anyways? I want to go see it but there's no option to do that. Gotta focus on the case first. Apparently Sholmes recognizes Drebber for some reason but won't say why. We also try to ask him about Kazuma and I fell for it. I actually thought Sholmes made a mistake about Kazuma being dead but that wouldn't have really made sense. So it does seem like Sholmes lied to us but he says we'll need to find out the rest during the trial tomorrow. But, no time to ponder that, for the low cost of 5 shllings, it's time to see what the Professor looks like! They've been hyping this up a lot but I'm not really sure what to expect. I'm thinking he might look like Drebber and that's why Sholmes reacted so strongly to seeing a picture of Drebber.

Sholmes conned us! The head of the Professor is missing so we can't tell what he looks like! That's why this case was largely solved and not fully solved. We take a look around a find a shard of glass from the Crystal Tower in the Professor's jacket. So this means the waxwork was used as a fake person in the case somehow but I'm not really sure why. The other waxwork in the room looks like Drebber! So I was only a bit off. Sholmes tells us a bit more about the case from 10 years ago. The Professor used a large dog to attack his victims. Perhaps related to the collar that Selden stole? The Professor was tried in a closed court so his identity was never revealed to the public. After he was killed and buried, Drebber allegedly saw the Professor rise from the grave and that's the scene depicted by the waxwork. But the police say that the Professor's body was exactly where they buried it. Gina now rushes in and tells us Drebber's workshop has been found!

Gregson and Gina are at the workshop but Drebber is nowhere to be seen. After looking around the place, we hear noises from the locked back room. Sholmes helps us unlock the door. The room is a complete mess and there's clearly a bomb in the centre! Why is everyone ignoring the bomb in the room? Apparently everyone except Susato had no idea what a time bomb looked like. Sholmes tells us that it actually isn't a bomb and only looks like one. It's time for another Great Deduction!

Sholmes says that gravity was initially reversed in the room before being restored back to normal. Is this also making fun of a solution from a real Sherlock Holmes story? The time bomb is really an anti-gravity device. Drebber reversed gravity and used that to access the skylight to escape. Well the time bomb clearly isn't an anti-gravity device so does that mean it's a real time bomb? It's time for some corrections! The room is a mess because Drebber was looking for the safe password he wrote under a piece of furniture and he forgot which one. There are shoe prints around because Drebber was trying to pop a balloon by throwing a shoe at it and failed. There might be something in the balloon so we decide to pop it open with the crossbow. Maybe we'll find the Professor's head inside it? It could be in the safe as well. Nope, it's in the balloon! The head is wearing a locked metal helmet so we STILL can't figure out the identity of the Professor. I'm platinum mad. T