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...I can't believe I didn't notice that. Even after they ate some fruit >_>

In the hour long recess, Gina trusts us enough to tell us what really happened that night from her perspective. We don't learn anything of note for the trial here, but I see she fainted after events transpired. I guess the prosecution's theory would be that she fainted after committing the murder or something. Afterwards, Ryunosuke gives a nice speech about putting your faith in someone and the burden of having someone put all their faith in you, and we get another ode to his partner Kazuma featuring both of his theme songs (woo!). They're laying on the Kazuma stuff thick this trial! I suppose it's not surprising to replay the hits of the game in the finale case, and I'm not complaining, I like him and his relationship with Ryunosuke a lot. Poor Kazuma :(

We reunite with Mr Eggert Benedict, now going by the much more boring name Ashley Graydon. He wants to get this over with quickly so he can go off to afternoon tea, much like Jesaille Brett did before him. I'm noting an afternoon tea appointment as damning evidence in any future case. Graydon tosses his hat at Ryunosuke, but sadly we do not put it on. There's still time!

Graydon is a coy witness, careful not to reveal much and refusing to cooperate with anything he isn't legally obligated to. ...Until he isn't. After refusing to have his arm examined for a bullet wound, he quickly accepts our assertion that his thumb was scratched by the music disk. I feel like it would've been very easy for him to get out of that by continuing to stonewall us, but whatever.

I'm also surprised that nobody challenges the second ticket being McGilded's, despite his name not being anywhere on it. I thought we'd have to connect the tickets to each other through the cat photo on the front. After another stereoscope advertisment, I guess Graydon then sort of accepts the coat and disk are McGilded's? He still claims ownership of the disk, but our conundrum is having to prove that the disk and box are valuable and worth stealing. But we already know that Graydon tried to take the disk? Did I miss something here or is this a silly development? The blood on the first ticket doesn't come up, either.

This is all to get us in a position where we have to reveal the truth of the omnibus case, putting Gina at risk. I assume in the real world there'd be some real defence for her perjuring herself under fear of being killed. But this is Ace Attorney, where even Ryunosuke is now in hot water for... defending a client who turned out to be guilty. Maybe the accusation is more that he could've helped in rigging the case, but it's framed like him defending McGilded is the awful crime here. We get a nice testimony from Gina that takes up just enough time for McGilded's box to arrive at court, and the game pauses here so that's where I'm stopping. I'd like to continue but I imagine the final sequence to this will last some time, so I want to give myself plenty of time to enjoy it.

Easily the most interesting part of this whole section is Gregson's shadiness. There's him refusing to acknowledge seeing Graydon in the shop (which isn't brought up again after he admits to being there), his words with van Zieks, and best of all during Gina's testimony he and Graydon are whispering to each other in the background. This is the first time I get a good result out of 'pursue' without a big audio cue, neat. I know he'll just be following orders but this is dodgy stuff from Gregsy. It's only a matter of time before the bigwigs start getting implicated, now.

Random note that I've been meaning to mention since the first case: when the music drops out it's very clear how dated the sound effects are in this game. They should update them!