02x04 - The Stolen Turnabout – 3rd Trial

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PW: The Kurain Village's sacred urn was stolen

PW: by Mask DeMasque, the phantom thief.

PW: Following the surrender of a man claiming to be Mask DeMasque,

PW: Amasugi Yusaku-kun, I felt something off about his claim,

PW: and I took up his case in court.

PW: In the trial, I proved that Yusaku-kun didn't steal the urn

Kyoko,Sign: Kyoko

PW: and unmasked Mask DeMasque.

PW: It was his rival,Ace Detective Hoshiidake Aiga.

PW: But then, things took a drastic turn...

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Sign: September , : PMNaruhodo & Co. Law Offices

Title: The Stolen Turnabout — rd Trial

Maya: We found the Kurain urn...

PW: ...but Yusaku-kun was at the scene of a m*rder as it happened.

Maya: That has to be some kind of mistake.

Pearl: But it was Naruhodo-kun who proved that he was there.

PW: "Yusaku-kun couldn't have stolen the urn,

PW: because he was somewhere else when it was stolen."

PW: That's all I wanted to prove.

Maya: Too bad that "somewhere else" was the scene of a m*rder.

Maya: Looks like you did too good of a job this time.

PW: What was I to do? I didn't know about that.

Pearls: How's Mareka-san taking this? I'm worried for her.

PW: Anyway, let's investigate the m*rder at KB Security.

PW: I find it hard to believe that Yusaku-kun would m*rder anyone.

PW: I'll continue to defend him, for Mareka-san's sake as well.

Maya: Right.

Kyoko,Sign: Kyoko

Pearl: We got the urn back in one piece,so it's time to refocus.

Maya: About that...

Maya: Did the urn always have these pink splotches?

Maya: And it's gone back to saying "Kyoko," too.

Kyoko,Sign: Kyoko

Maya: It said "child" on the poster.

Kyoko,Sign: Child

PW: The truth is, one year ago,

PW: Harumi-chan broke the urn by accident.

PW: She tried her best to put it back together,

PW: but crafts and kanji aren't her strong suits.

Maya: Do you think this could be a fake?

PW: F-Fake?

Pearl: I'll head back to the village and have Great Aunt look at it, then.

Maya: I'll go with you.

Pearl: Oh, no. You mustn't.

Pearl: I want you two to spend some quality time together, full of love like those two.

PW: Those two?

Pearl: I mean Yusaku-san and Mareka-san, of course.

Pearl: She stole the show and helped her imprisoned husband.

Kyoko,Sign: Kyoko

Pearl: Ah, how dreamy!

Pearl: Now that is true love! I hope to be like them one day!

PW: Uh, someone's excited.

Maya: Sure is.

Pearl: Now, remember...

Pearl: No fighting, okay?

PW: Harumi-chan seems to have the wrong idea about us, huh?

Maya: A bit.

Maya: There's a good reason for that.

PW: There is?

Maya: I'm sure I've told you before.

Maya: Only the women of our bloodline inherit the channeling powers.

Maya: So inevitably, we become the center of life in the village.

Maya: Maybe due to that, many married couples run into problems.

Maya: I guess they feel like outsiders, because allthe men end up leaving the village...

Maya: When they have a daughter.

PW: Harumi-chan's father, too?

Maya: She's grown up watching the star-crossed couples in the village,

Maya: so she's very sensitive to that.

Maya: Besides, in last year's incident, her mother...

PW: O-Oh...

PW: That's right.

PW: Harumi-chan's mother, Ayasato Kimiko-san,

PW: is currently rotting away in jail.

Maya: I'm the only family she has left.

PW: I see...

AA: U-Uh...

PW: Kirio-san? What's the matter?

AA: E-Er... I'm truly sorry!

Sign: September , xx:xx PMLordly Tailor — Basement Warehouse

PW: You broke the Kurain urn?

AA: Yes...

Maya: When was that?

AA: It was two weeks ago.

Authorized_Perso,Sign: Authorized Personnel Only

AA: The urn was sent to us after the sh**t for the poster.

AA: I was carrying it to the warehouse when it happened.

Kurain_Urn,Sign: Kurain Urn

AA: I'll never forget that terrible noise.

AA: I immediately tried to check inside...

AA: N-No!

AA: And blacked out in an instant.

Maya: Oh, you're right.

Maya: The paint matches perfectly.

AA: I tried my best to repair the urn.

AA: Fortunately, the shards were pretty big,

Kyoko,Sign: Kyoko

AA: so just normally putting them back together worked out.

AA: After that, I realized how ugly the paint stains looked,

AA: so I hid them behind Kyoko-sama's statue.

PW: That's not where the statue was when we first came here, though.

AA: Y-Yes, that's right.

PW: Is that why you said that back then?

AA: Why is it over there?

AA: Oh, no.

Maya: What? You mean someone moved it?

PW: If I'm right, the statue was only delivered here a day before the theft.

PW: Only the detective guarding the warehouse, Hoshiidake Aiga, could've moved it.

PW: The question is why he moved it.

PW: Could this be related to our case?

AA: Um, I'm truly sorry.

Maya: It's fine. The urn looks right now.

Maya: If anything, we should be thanking you.

AA: R-Really?

Sign: September , xx:xx PMKB Security

Maya: I'm the boss!

Maya: You there. Bring me some tea and dumplings.

Gum: Uh, that's where the victim was sitting moments before his death.

Gum: Today was a real train wreck for you guys, huh?

Maya: Sure was, pal. That prosecutor with the coffee made real fools out of us.

Gum: Yeah... I feel for you.

Maya: Wow, that's not like you. Usually, you'd be more like...

Maya: "Serves you right! You got what you deserved!"

Maya: Or something to that effect.

Gum: I can tell when someone puts their heart into their job.

Gum: And I can sympathize when things don't go their way.

Gum: "Wrong" is the only way things go for detectives.

PW: I had no idea you were such a nice guy.

Maya: So, what happened to Mask DeMasque?

Gum: You mean that weird detective?

Gum: Serves him right! He got what he deserved!

Maya: Now, that's the detective we know and love.

PW: It's kinda comforting.

PW: By the way, could you tell us about the victim who died last night?

Gum: Sure thing, pal.

Gum: Busujima Kurobei, the CEO of KB Security and a big fella in his own right.

Gum: His corpse was found at this morning,

Gum: but his estimated time of death is AM on the th.

Maya: It really did happen at the same time that Mask DeMasque stole the urn, huh?

PW: Why did it take an entire day to discover the body?

Gum: Well, his body was stashed away inside that big safe.

Gum: Nobody had heard from him, and when they opened the safe this morning...

PW: ...out fell the body.

Gum: Looks like this guy was involved in some shady business.

PW: Shady business?

Gum: If a company hired his firm, they'd spy on their secrets and sell the information.

Maya: Wow, what a crook.

Gum: They were even in charge of security for a Mask DeMasque victim.

Gum: But they failed spectacularly and lost all their trust.

PW: I see...

PW: What are you doing?!

Maya: Why won't this safe open, Naruhodo-kun?

PW: Well, duh. It's a safe.

Gum: But somebody must've opened it on the night of the crime.

Gum: After all, the victim's body was hidden in there.

Gum: And apparently, Amasugi Yusaku could open it.

PW: But there are plenty of others who can, right?

Gum: Sure, but...

PW: Mayoi-chan?!

Emergency_Buzzer,Sign: Emergency Buzzer

Maya: I wanted to see what the button was for.

Gum: It's an emergency buzzer! It says right there!

Maya: Oops, you're right.

Gum: It's connected to the basement guard room and used to summon security up here.

PW: Emergency buzzer? Then it's possible that on the night of the crime...

Gum: I asked security, and they said that the buzzer never went off that night.

Gum: Also, we couldn't find any fingerprints on the button.

PW: The emergency buzzer never went off?

LB: What? You again?

PW: Yahari!

Sign: September , xx:xx PMKB Security — Security Office

LB: Must be nice to be you! And here I was working my fingers to the bone!

LB: It's a weekday! And you two are on an afternoon date?!

Maya: N-No, we're here to investigate CEO Busujima's death.

LB: Huh?

LB: Right. The big boss died, huh?

PW: Hey!

Maya: Were you here on the night of the m*rder?

LB: Huh? W-Well, yeah...

PW: Were you really?

LB: Wha... I-I-I-Isn't that obvious?!

PW: I knew it. You were playing hooky.

LB: What do you mean, you knew it?

LB: Do you have proof that I left my post that night?!

LB: Didn't you testify at the trial that you found Yusaku-kun's wallet?

LB: Oh, it was two days ago.

LB: I found it outside my workplace late at night.

PW: That means you snuck out of here on the night of the m*rder!

LB: I-Is it my fault? Is it my fault that the big boss is dead?

PW: Did you leave for the same old reason?

LB: N-N-No! There's no way I went to meet a girl or anything!

PW: I knew it.

LB: I'm... I'm such a fool!

Maya: Yappari-san...

LB: How can I ever make up for it, Naruhodo?

PW: Tell me...

PW: Did the emergency buzzer really not go off that night?

Gum: I asked security, and they said that the buzzer never went off that night.

LB: Yeah, it didn't.

LB: There aren't any logs, either.

Maya: Can you recheck, just in case?

LB: Fine. I can't say no to you, Mayoi-chan.

Maya: What do you think, Naruhodo-kun?

PW: Well, not even Yahari could make a mistake like that.

LB: Crap!

LB: I made a mistake.

LB: It can't be!

LB: That night, it went off just once...At around AM.

Maya: AM?

PW: That's when the m*rder happened.

LB: It can't be... I don't believe it!

PW: And I don't believe you!

PW: Let's go ask Yusaku-kun about that night.

Maya: Yeah.

Sign: September , xx:xx PMDetention Center — Visitor's Room

Ama: Naruhodo-san! Please... Please don't abandon me!

PW: Yusaku-kun, promise that you won't lie to us anymore.

PW: Where were you that night, and what were you doing? Tell us the truth this time.

Ama: Okay...

PW: At AM on September th,

PW: you weren't at Lordly Tailor, but at KB Security?

Ama: Yes...

Ama: I used to work there, so I knew where the CEO's office was.

Ama: I knocked, but there was no answer.

Ama: So then I used the key card to unlock the door.

Ama: When I went into the CEO's office, someone was in there.

Ama: Then suddenly they bashed me over the head! Bam!

Maya: Was it the CEO that hit you?

Ama: I don't know. The person ran away while I was still stunned.

Ama: When I came to my senses, I saw the CEO lying dead in front of me!

Ama: I thought I had to do something about the body.

Maya: And what did you do after that?

Ama: Well, I got out of there!

Ama: Sure, I did hide the body in the safe,

Ama: but that's all I did, really!

Ama: I surrendered because I was afraid the police would find out.

Ama: If I was found guilty as Mask DeMasque, that could've been my alibi.

PW: One more thing.

PW: When did you receive this blackmail letter?

Ama: Er... When was it, again?

Ama: There have been so many, I can't tell them apart.

Maya: What? This wasn't the first one?

Ama: No.

Ama: But this is the first one that ever called me out to a specific location.

PW: When did you receive the first one?

Ama: I could never forget that moment.

Ama: It was a few days after my debut as Mask DeMasque.

PW: Oh, come on.

PW: You weren't the phantom thief.

PW: It was Ace Detective Hoshiidake Aiga.

Ama: You're wrong!

Ama: True, I wasn't the one who broke into Lordly Tailor,

Ama: but it really was me on all the previous heists!

Ama: Anyway, someone seemingly spotted me on my first adventure.

Ama: And I received a blackmail letter at home,

Ama: saying, "I know you did it."

Maya: You got busted right away?

Ama: After that, I started getting the plans in the mail.

PW: Plans?

The_Great_Albatr,Sign: The Great Albatross Strategy

Ama: They'd tell me what to steal and how to do it.

Ama: They detailed security blind spots,escape routes, and even training methods.

PW: You mean your heists were planned by...

Ama: By someone else after the first one, yes.

Ama: They threatened to tell the cops if I didn't comply.

Ama: Talk about thrilling, right?

Maya: Why does he sound so happy about it?

PW: So Yusaku-kun was Mask DeMasque after all.

PW: But someone else is behind the thefts. Someone who planned it all out in detail.

Ama: All I had to do was deposit the treasures I stole into the safe-deposit box.

Ama: Then I just waited for the cash to come in the mail.

PW: That was your reward, huh?

Maya: Is that why you went after the Kurain urn, too?

Ama: I've never even actually seen the urn.

Ama: All I do is follow instructions and steal what I'm told to steal.

PW: Yusaku-kun, is everything you've just told us the truth?

Ama: Yes... But I'm done for now.

Ama: The one thing Mareka-chan won't stand for is ill*gal activity.

Ama: A thief? She'd never forgive me.

Maya: Knowing that, why did you become a thief?

Ama: Because she spends money like it's water!

Ama: I love her, spending included,

Ama: but there's no job that could bring in enough money...

Ama: Except being a thief, I thought.

Ama: I casually mentioned to her that I was Mask DeMasque,

Ama: but she laughed it off.

Maya: She didn't believe it at all, yeah.

Ama: Anyway, I heard something.

Ama: That detective's trial is at the same time as mine, in the very next courtroom.

PW: Really?

Maya: Huh? But that pompous detective isn't actually Mask DeMasque, right?

Ama: He's not. That's me.

PW: But Hoshiidake Aiga claims that he's the phantom thief.

PW: Yusaku-kun, before we go, there's one more thing I want to ask you.

Ama: Yes? What is it?

PW: You weren't the one who k*lled CEO Busujima, were you?

Ama: No!

Ama: Please believe me!

Sign: September , xx:xx PMAmasugi Residence

Des: I was trying to help Yusaku-kun, you know.

Maya: But it backfired, huh?

PW: Don't say that.

Mar: Ryuichi-kun, we need your help.

Mar: Yusaku-kun's not a k*ller, I swear.

PW: I know.

Des: Thank you.

Des: I don't know what to do anymore.

Des: That detective is the kind of person I hate more than anything.

PW: But I didn't expect you to go barging into his office.

Des: Yusaku-kun was in trouble.

Des: I couldn't just sit around.

PW: Um, Yusaku-kun is still saying that he's Mask DeMasque.

Des: I know everything there is to know about him.

Des: He always looks before he leaps.

Des: Hell, he looks and then doesn't leap. That's how fainthearted he is.

Ama: Mareka-chan!

Des: Him, a thief? Impossible.

Maya: R-Right...

PW: I guess I just don't get it.

Maya: Huh?

PW: I just can't understand how such different people ended up marrying.

Des: Come on, now. It's not that mysterious, is it?

Des: It was love at first sight.

Des: For me.

Maya: What? For you?

Des: Yusaku-kun saved my life.

Des: Back when I was working in a bank,

Des: two robbers suddenly rushed in one day.

Des: I can't stand people like that, so I gave them a piece of my mind.

PW: Y-You talked down to armed robbers?

Des: Yes, and they took me hostage. I was so frightened.

Des: But help arrived,

Des: in the form of Yusaku-kun.

Ama: Stop... Stop that!

Des: Crying and swinging his arms like crazy, he attacked the two robbers.

Des: I realized right then and there

Des: that he's the kind of guy who has the courage to risk his life when it matters.

Des: Yusaku-kun...

Maya: Let's teach that coffee prosecutor a lesson in tomorrow's trial!

Pearl: Mayoi-sama!

Pearl: Naruhodo-kun!

Maya: Hami-chan!

Pearl: It's the real thing, apparently.

Kyoko,Sign: Kyoko

Maya: Oh!

Maya: So it really is our urn. Thanks, Hami-chan.

PW: Right. This urn was the start of everything.

PW: At AM on the night it was stolen,

PW: Yusaku-kun was at KB Security.

PW: Why was there another Mask DeMasque in the Lordly Tailor's basement warehouse?

PW: Why'd Detective Aiga show up there dressed that way?

PW: Why did Aiga pick that time to steal the urn?

PW: Also, why was the statue moved?

PW: There had to have been a reason.

PW: There are plenty more questions.

PW: Who attacked Yusaku-kun in KB Security's CEO office?

PW: And that emergency buzzer...

PW: Why did the k*ller press that button?

PW: He should've known security would rush there.

PW: Wait, did he do it because he knew security would come?

PW: I see! So that's how it is!

Pearl: Naruhodo-kun?

Pearl: You just figured something out, didn't you?

PW: Tomorrow's trial will be a battle of speed.

Maya: What? Let's take it easy like always.

PW: Sadly, that won't cut it tomorrow.

Sign: September , : AMDistrict Courthouse — Courtroom No.

J: Court is now in session for the trial of Amasugi Yusaku.

PW: Another trial is set to begin in the very next courtroom.

Sign: September , : AMDistrict Courthouse — Courtroom No.

J: Court is now in session for the trial of Hoshiidake Aiga.

PW: Two fateful trials...

PW: I must find the truth and drag him to the stand...

PW: Before the verdict is handed down!

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Sign: Season

PW: Objection!

PW: The two fateful trials begin.

PW: To prove Yusaku-kun's innocence,

PW: I must unveil the crimes of Detective Aiga, the accused in the other trial.

PW: It's a battle against time!

PW: Find the contradictions!

PW: Reach out to the truth!

PW: Next time: "The Stolen Turnabout — Last Trial"!

PW: Take that!

Ama: You're wrong!

LB: Naruhodo!

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