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The List is finally addressed for the first time this game. The four names were part of an assassination exchange program (?!) orchestrated by the British government, in which Shin kills Wilson and Kazuma kills Gregson and both assassins use diplomatic immunity to escape judgement. Well I hadn't figured that one out, I didn't think Kazuma would have been recruited for any shady dealings before even leaving Japan. It's certainly a risky manouevre on the Japanese side, but Jigoku was unable to deny the demand. Still, hiring a student instead of a professional killer was a choice!

So Wilson and Gregson were the targets all along, but we still don't know exactly why. It's surely tied to the Professor, but... why? 10 years later, why kill the Reaper's loyal henchman? Why Wilson and not Mikotoba or Sithe? Assuming Stronghart is the mastermind behind everything, I'm curious what his full plan is here.

Sholmes found out about Wilson's death and then took off to stop Kazuma from reaching Britain. So Ryunosuke's trial was on the 22nd November, Sholmes then immediately boarded a ship to Asia, and swapped ships onto the Burya heading back from Japan sometime before Kazuma is 'killed' on 9th January. There's just under 50 days between the two incidents, and the full journey from England to Japan takes 50 days, so that tracks. Another mystery solved!

At the trial, Seishiro is a great antagonistic witness to behold. I have a real hard time finding some of these contradictions, I did not remember Jigoku's line about not having to go through luggage checks! At one point he and Kazuma accuse each other of the murder, and I genuinely don't know which one did it. But Kazuma's name is cleared, for this incident at least (I haven't forgotten the gash in Gregson's trunk!), and Jigoku confesses. Well, there was a good reason they made him a character in this game after all. A great decision to make a judge such a major character, and even a culprit.

Of course things don't end here. Kazuma appears hellbent on taking van Zieks down, and I don't know if this is all misplaced emotion, if he knows something about Barok that we don't yet, or if this is all a performance from him in order to flush out the true culprit behind his father's death. Quite likely a combination. Stronghart allows the trial to continue, he must be eager to be rid of van Zieks to risk things carrying on at this stage. This isn't a stopping point but I'm stopping here anyway, please don't 'hmmmm' me if Kazuma promptly slices Barok in two on the (quickly reconstructed) witness stand.