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The trial continues and Van Zieks naturally denies all involvement with the Reaper business. He claims there's no connection between him, Gregson and Dr. Wilson but that's not true. Klint's autopsy report and the Professor case connects everyone together. However, Van Zieks says the autopsy was in his favour. It really did uncover evidence that Genshin was the Professor. What exactly was that evidence, though?

Kazuma is now claiming that said decisive evidence may have been fabricated. Gregson and Dr. Wilson were in on it and had to be silenced to protect the secret. So Kazuma really does think his father was innocent and came to Britain to clean Genshin's name. Ryunosuke wants evidence of this fakery and Kazuma says he has it! On the SS Grouse, Gregson confessed to Kazuma that the key piece of evidence was fabricated. But, Gregson refuses to say who ordered the fabrication which causes Kazuma to lose his temper which in turn leads to Kazuma breaking Karuma. Gregson also said he really did think Genshin was guilty. I did suspect before that Gregson knew that Genshin wasn't the Professor but I guess I was wrong on that. Although, I think Genshin really did kill Klint. The key problem is assuming that Klint's killer is also the Professor. Kazuma claims only the lead prosecutor at the time could have made such orders to Gregson and that person was Van Zieks. Furthermore, based on what Jigoku said this would make Van Zieks the head to the Reapers as well.

What Kazuma said is apparently the last piece of the puzzle Van Zieks needed. He now claims to know the true identity of the Reaper. Ryunosuke seems to have caught on as well. Are we about the accuse Stronghart? Yes, we are! Ryunosuke points out that Van Zieks only took on the Professor case after Klint died so the prosecutor at the time was really Stronghart! Van Zieks confirms that it was Stronghart who gave him the evidence all those years ago and this was after the autopsy. Stronghart declines to respond to the accusations since he's the judge and he can do what he wants. He also said that since Gregson is dead there's no way to confirm that Gregson said what Kazuma claimed he did. After all, it isn't possible to summon a ghost to the stand. I got the reference there! As such, Stronghart denies Ryunosuke and Kazuma's request to accuse him of the crime. Totally no conflict of interest there. >_> But, we still have an out. Gregson and Dr. Wilson might be gone but there are still people from back then who were involved in Klint's autopsy.

Ryunosuke wants to call in Mikotoba to testify! It sounds like Stronghart had no idea that Mikotoba was involved and thought Dr. Wilson wrote the autopsy report. He also denies the request because he's the judge and can block any witnesses that might make him look bad. He just wants to trial to end at this point. What can we do about this? Suddenly Sholmes arrives! He pretty much goads the audience into putting pressure on Stronghart so the trial will continue! Sholmes even brought Mikotoba here and Mikotoba is already ready to testify! With that, Sholmes leaves but reminds us to pull on the bunny doll ears if we get into trouble.

Mikotoba takes the stand and Dr. Gorey is here as well! Van Zieks stays on the stand as well. Stronghart is continuing to veto Dr. Sithe showing up so this is what we have to work with. I'm curious what exactly happened. Since Mikotoba was there, why didn't he know about the forged evidence? It seems rather unlikely that Mikotoba would assist in framing Genshin. Mikotoba, in his testimony, says he didn't see any signs that the autopsy was fabricated. Dr. Gorey once again mentions that evidence found in Klint but still dances around what it was. Mikotoba does say there were some times when he was away from the autopsy table to fetch tools so there is a possibility the forgery happened when he stepped away. Mikotoba also reveals finally reveals with the decisive evidence was, Genshin's ring. Dr. Gorey helpfully brought over the ring as evidence. <3 Dr. Gorey

Mikotoba continues on and say he never actually say the exact moment the ring was pulled from Genshin's body. Dr. Wilson had sent him away from the table for a moment just before the ring was found. Ryunosuke said that swallowing the ring would have caused internal damage yet none was found and Mikotoba agrees. Mikotoba asked Dr. Wilson about it 10 years ago but Dr. Wilson just handwaved it. Stronghart claims Dr. Wilson can be trusted so this isn't a contradiction. This gets Van Zieks to recall a detail about the time Genshin saved his life. He recalls Genshin sustaining in injury to his ring finger at the time. It sounds like this event was when the ring was stolen. Stronghart wants to know why Genshin never brought any of this up. Genshin never denied the charges against him nor claimed evidence was forged. Ryunosuke thinks it was because Genshin already cut a deal at that point. Intentionally getting sentenced to death was in fact part of the plan to escape the prison! Kazuma now wants Caidin and Vigil to testify about the jailbreak and Sholmes conveniently already sent them a notice to come to the courtroom. Just how far ahead does Sholmes see?

Caidin and Vigil now join Van Zieks on the stand while Mikotoba and Dr. Gorey step off. Woah, Caidin just outright spills the beans on the jailbreak plot but says he was just following orders and doesn't know who masterminded the plan. Caidin said Vigil was not in on the plan and just happened to be selected to take the fall for it. Caidin's role mostly ended with getting Genshin out of the prison so he doesn't know why Genshin was shot afterward. Caidin also says that the jailbreak plot didn't make much sense since Genshin shouldn't have had any leverage to negotiate with. Ryunosuke brings up Genshin's will. But, the problem is that the will doesn't really have anything incriminating in it so I'm not sure how that would help. Ryunosuke brings up the possibiliity that the current will is a forgery.

The problem with that is Kazuma is able to confirm that the brushwork on the will really does look like Genshin's so this will appears to be the real deal. Caidin said that he was with Genshin when Genshin wrote it at the Prosecutor's Office before going to prison. This ends up triggering another memory for Vigil. Vigil recalls that the document Genshin was holding was written in scarlet coloured ink while the will we are looking at has black ink. Klint's autopsy report also mentions scarlet ink so what does this mean? The ink colour throws Stronghart into a panic so he seems to think it is important somehow. It sounds like Genshin was really holding a document written by Klint? Ryunosuke uses Klint's autopsy report to suggest that Klint was writing something in scarlet ink just before he died. So when Genshin claimed to be holding a will he wasn't lying. Genshin was holding Klint's will!

So now the issue is what was on the will? Stronghart is once again trying to shut things down so it must be important. But, Ryunosuke thinks he has it figured out. Ryunosuke suggests that Klint's will must be a confession related to the Professor case, specifically regarding the identity of the Professor. Van Zieks is not happy about where this is going but Ryunosuke has to go for it anyways. The true identity of the Professor is Klint van Zieks! Unsurprisingly, Stronghart already knew this!

To tie up a loose end, Van Zieks confirms that Klint owned a giant hunting dog called Balmung. Balmung had a jewel studded collar that was stolen and no one bothered to tell him it was found again even though Gregson knew. Susato described the collar to Van Zieks and Van Zieks said it sounds like the same one. The "B" on it really does stand for Baskerville. Klint's wife was from the Baskerville family and the collar was acquired when they got married. The collar is known to have blood on it but at this point it isn't possible to confirm if it is human blood or not.

Getting back on topic, Ryunosuke believes that Klint's will was the leverage Genshin had to negotiate a deal to escape from jail. This gets Stronghart to reveal the truth of the situation. But, does he really need to so this if we can't find the will? It turns out that 10 years ago, Genshin went to Stronghart and said he was certain that Klint was the Professor. But, Stronghart didn't believe him or at least pretended not to. As a result, Genshin confronted Klint himself and the end result was Klint died. So it sounds like Genshin really did kill Klint. Since Stronghart was the only other person to know who the Professor really was, he tried to keep it a secret. Stronghart admits to ordering Gregson to forge the evidence and Gregson never knew that Stronghart was lying about who the Professor was. Gregson was the one who organized the attack on Genshin and Van Zieks to