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Order In The Court: Part XXVI
Title: Order In The Court: Part XXVI
Day/Theme: 26. The distant thunder of a million unheard souls
Series: Bleach / Phoenix Wright
Character/Pairing: Most of Cast
Rating: G
"Impossible!" von Karma declared, taking the stand from Edgeworth with a body-check and a snap of the fingers. "You couldn't have Captain Aizen's fingerprints if you simply took the fingerprints of all live captains."
"I got them from his letter to Hinamori Momo," Ema said stubbornly. "Which has been verified by everyone. Ink, paper, handwriting. Right down to the little heart he signed it with."
"Which leads us to a startling possibility," Phoenix said firmly. "What if Captain Aizen isn't dead?"
"Impossible!" Isane said. "Captain Unohana checked the body. It's him. She couldn't be wrong."
"Where is she at the moment?" Phoenix asked. He was aware of Mia whispering to Apollo and Trucy behind him, sending them off on some sort of errand, but he didn't have the attention to both listen to that and glare intimidatingly at witnesses.
"Busy in Fourth Division checking the body . . ." Isane trailed off. "But how could she have been mistaken?"
"The fact that Captain Aizen may have been involved in these forgeries doesn't necessarily mean that he faked his own death!" von Karma rumbled.
"But can you explain it otherwise?" Phoenix demanded. "Why should Captain Aizen have been involved in deceiving the Academy? What are his connections to this woman who provided such convenient testimony about his apparent death? When was this forgery made and when did it get the fingerprints? Would Dahlia Hawthorne care to comment on this?"
Dahlia blinked, very rapidly. Phoenix was sure that wheels of mental calculation were whirring behind her limpid eyes. "I admit that Captain Aizen sponsored me into the Academy," she said slowly. "He said that he had a record of sponsoring promising students. And I admit that it was him I was going to meet that night. But I had no idea that he faked the records or anything of that sort."
"Why didn't you mention this earlier?" Edgeworth shouted from over von Karma's shoulder.
"I was afraid it might bias you all," Dahlia said. "I'm just a frail timid girl alone in the world --"
Yamamoto rapped on his desk. "The witness will speak to the point and without wandering from the subject!" he commanded. There was a noticeable lack of tenderness to his voice.
Dahlia twitched her shoulders. "I stand by everything I said. I don't care if you have proof that Captain Aizen forged those papers. Everything else is absolutely correct and you can't prove otherwise --"
Yamada Hanatarou burst into the court, gasping for breath. "Sir! Captains! Vice-Captain Kotetsu! Captain Unohana finished examining that body and she says it's definitely not Captain Aizen -- why is the lady in the dock looking at me like that?"
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Compilation Order in the Court post.
Day/Theme: 26. The distant thunder of a million unheard souls
Series: Bleach / Phoenix Wright
Character/Pairing: Most of Cast
Rating: G
"Impossible!" von Karma declared, taking the stand from Edgeworth with a body-check and a snap of the fingers. "You couldn't have Captain Aizen's fingerprints if you simply took the fingerprints of all live captains."
"I got them from his letter to Hinamori Momo," Ema said stubbornly. "Which has been verified by everyone. Ink, paper, handwriting. Right down to the little heart he signed it with."
"Which leads us to a startling possibility," Phoenix said firmly. "What if Captain Aizen isn't dead?"
"Impossible!" Isane said. "Captain Unohana checked the body. It's him. She couldn't be wrong."
"Where is she at the moment?" Phoenix asked. He was aware of Mia whispering to Apollo and Trucy behind him, sending them off on some sort of errand, but he didn't have the attention to both listen to that and glare intimidatingly at witnesses.
"Busy in Fourth Division checking the body . . ." Isane trailed off. "But how could she have been mistaken?"
"The fact that Captain Aizen may have been involved in these forgeries doesn't necessarily mean that he faked his own death!" von Karma rumbled.
"But can you explain it otherwise?" Phoenix demanded. "Why should Captain Aizen have been involved in deceiving the Academy? What are his connections to this woman who provided such convenient testimony about his apparent death? When was this forgery made and when did it get the fingerprints? Would Dahlia Hawthorne care to comment on this?"
Dahlia blinked, very rapidly. Phoenix was sure that wheels of mental calculation were whirring behind her limpid eyes. "I admit that Captain Aizen sponsored me into the Academy," she said slowly. "He said that he had a record of sponsoring promising students. And I admit that it was him I was going to meet that night. But I had no idea that he faked the records or anything of that sort."
"Why didn't you mention this earlier?" Edgeworth shouted from over von Karma's shoulder.
"I was afraid it might bias you all," Dahlia said. "I'm just a frail timid girl alone in the world --"
Yamamoto rapped on his desk. "The witness will speak to the point and without wandering from the subject!" he commanded. There was a noticeable lack of tenderness to his voice.
Dahlia twitched her shoulders. "I stand by everything I said. I don't care if you have proof that Captain Aizen forged those papers. Everything else is absolutely correct and you can't prove otherwise --"
Yamada Hanatarou burst into the court, gasping for breath. "Sir! Captains! Vice-Captain Kotetsu! Captain Unohana finished examining that body and she says it's definitely not Captain Aizen -- why is the lady in the dock looking at me like that?"
---
Compilation Order in the Court post.