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Trial Part 2 begins with Seishiro Jigoku being called to the stand. Apparently Kazuma was the one behind Jigoku being subpoenaed and Kazuma would have had to have known to do this from even before the second day of the trial began. Just how much does Kazuma know? At first Jigoku doesn't want to testify since he claims to be unrelated to the case. To show a connection, we present the secret telegram sent to Jigoku that we got from his office. Kazuma doesn't seem to understand what the names are about despite being part of the assassin exchange. I suspect he really doesn't know. I don't think he would have been okay with Shinn killing Dr. Wilson so likely Kazuma thought the whole thing was one sided. Ryunosuke claims an assassin exchange took place where Gregson was one of the targets and Jigoku was involved in planning the Japan side of the exchange. Furthermore, there are signs that Gregson may have been killed in Jigoku's cabin on the SS Grouse. As such, Jigoku isn't necessarily unconnected to Gregson's death.

Jigoku confirms that he sent Kazuma as an assassin to target Gregson but claims the plan fell through. He also said that it was impossible for him to shoot Gregson because there was always a crewman on guard outside his cabin that would have heard the gunshot. The plan fell through because of the events of G1-2 and Sholmes interfering and having Ryunosuke sent in Kazuma's place. Ryunosuke tries to claim there was a bullet hole in Jigoku's cabin which shows a gun was fired. Apparently Kazuma didn't know about this which shows it was made after Kazuma left the room. Jigoku claims that it wasn't a bullet hole and no bullet could be found. I mean there's no bullet in the Fresno room either but that doesn't stop Kazuma from saying a gun was fired there! In any case, Ryunosuke follows up by showing the evacuation drill notice to show there was a 20 minute gap where the room was unguarded. The drill was after the ship left port so Kazuma wouldn't have been on the ship anymore. Does it actually make sense to do the drill after leaving port? That feels like something that makes more sense to do just before leaving port. Now's the moment that I've been waiting for for a long time now. Ryunosuke accuses Jigoku of killing Gregson! Ryunosuke also presents a broken part of Gregson's pocket watch. He claims it broke when Jigoku killed Gregson during the 20 min gap.

Jigoku gives more testimony to counter Ryunosuke's hypothesis. Jigoku claims Gregson tried to attack him first and Jigoku used jujutsu to subdue Gregson which caused him to run off and also broke the watch. Just because the watch broke inside the cabin doesn't mean Gregson was killed there. Jigoku further said that there would be no way to move Gregson's body from the cabin room to the Fresno room. Stronghart brings up how luggage is inspected when it is unloaded from the ship but this wouldn't have applied to Jigoku. Kazuma does bring up a good point regarding how it doesn't make sense that Gregson's body would be brought to London rather than thrown into the sea. But, Susato comes in with the save! First class passengers were carefully watched so Jigoku might not have had a chance to throw the body overboard. With that said, I don't know why Jigoku brought the body to the Fresno room or how he even knew about it. Here's another thing I've been waiting for for a while. I finally get to present Jigoku's trunk! Ryunosuke said it could be used to transport the body since Jigoku was not subject to inspections. After Jigoku arrived in London, he was then free to set up the scene in the Fresno room. He also shows how the time of death could have been manipulated via the fridge on the SS Grouse.

Even that isn't quite enough to show that Gregson was killed on the ship and not in the Fresno room. As such, Kazuma is still pushing for the latter. But that's okay, Ryunosuke says he has evidence that directly contradicts Gregson being killed in the Fresno room. He does? I just completely hit a wall here and can't figure this out at all. Many, many guesses later I present that victim photo but even then I stare at it for minutes and can't figure out why this is the one. It turns out that the answer was because Gregson was curled up as a ball. This was brought up as an issue but I had long since forgotten and was nowhere near figuring it out. Ryunosuke claims Gregson's body would not have ended up like that if he was shot in the Fresno room but it is consistent with Gregson being transported in a trunk. Ryunosuke wants Jigoku's trunk checked for traces of blood! Now even Kazuma is starting to believe! I guess he wasn't faking it when he said he thought Gregson was killed in the Fresno room.

Jigoku finally admits that he did bring Gregson's body into the country via his trunk! So does that mean we win? With that admission, it is now impossible for Van Zieks to have been the one to kill Gregson. But, that doesn't stop Jigoku from trying to pin the crime on Kazuma! Jigoku claims Gregson was already dead when he entered the room. Stronghart wants to know what Ryunosuke thinks. If you say "possible" here, it is still possible for Van Zieks to be found guilty. >_> Anyways, it's impossible! The gun could only have been shot during the 20 minute window when the room was unguarded and Kazuma already left the ship at that point. He even had the foresight to leave a paper trail to confirm he did this. With that Jigoku is finally out of answers. I'm not really sure where things are going. We've just shown that Van Zieks must be innocent but there's still all that Professor case stuff that needs to be dealt with.

Jigoku goes over what happened from his point of view and at this point we've already figured out most of it. He was mostly forced into the assassin exchange by his British counterpart. This person is also the one who helped lure Gregson to Dunkirk where Jigoku would kill him. The trap worked based on giving Gregson a fake Reaper mission which means the British counterpart is allegedly the head of the Reapers! Despite all this, Jigoku still says he can't reveal the identity of his British counterpart. Jigoku went to the Fresno room based on what Gregson planned to do before he died. The idea was to frame Hugh Boone for the murder when he showed up at 5pm to meet Gregson. Van Zieks showing up was a coincidence. While doing the Fresno street crime scene set up, Jigoku wore the red wig so that's the person with red hair that Vigil, Venus and Sandwich saw. Jigoku also said the one mistake he made was giving Gregson back his fish and chips that had fallen out of his pocket. This was the key that tipped off Dr. Gorey that something was wrong with the time of death of the body.

That's all Jigoku can share. Something I was wondering, does Jigoku have diplomatic immunity? It doesn't sound like he did. Now that I think about it, even as a transfer student 10 years ago he didn't have diplomatic immunity and had to stand trial. Unsurprisingly, it was only Shinn going to Japan who would really benefit from immunity and not the assassin going from Japan to Britain. Before Jigoku leaves, Ryunosuke asks him one more time to reveal the identity of the British counterpart but Jigoku still refuses. I wonder what he is being threatened with such that he still won't say anything.

With that Stronghart hands down a Guilty verdict for Jigoku. He said Van Zieks is innocent, though. So what's next? The trial is over and we still haven't done the Professor stuff. Stronghart is about to give a Not Guilty verdict when Kazuma objects! Looks like we aren't done yet. Kazuma claims that Van Zieks was the one giving orders to Gregson and the British counterpart to Jigoku. He claims he's going to prove it! Well, that's one way to keep things going. Kazuma wants Van Zieks to testify again about his involvement with the Reapers and the assassin exchange. Ryunosuke says he'll allow it!

That's where I'm up to now. So I was mostly right regarding who killed Gregson. I didn't figure out the assassin exchange so I wasn't able to figure out the motive and also the whole curled up Gregson thing went completely over my head. But, almost everything else was how I thought it would be. Oddly enough, we are moving on from the Gregson case but Kazuma still hasn't said how a piece of Karuma ended up in Gregson's trunk. My assumption is he pretended to attack Gregson for some reason but I don't know why. Also if he was pretending, why swing the sword so hard he breaks it?
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