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[prosecutory]

Good day. This is Miles Edgeworth.

I cannot accommodate you at the moment, but please leave a message and I will respond as soon as possible. 

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voice; 9/2

[shacklebreaker]

Prosecutor Edgeworth. If you can spare an hour or two after work today, I would like to speak to you.

[Although he doesn't immediately explain why, the fact it's today, and out of the blue like this, should indicate that Blackquill is serious about it.]

[prosecutory]

Of course. [What was this all about, all of a sudden?] About what, precisely?

[shacklebreaker]

There are certain things I have not been as forthcoming to you about as I should have been. But if you would be willing to hear it, I can tell all.

[A weighty pause.]

...I speak in regards to the future. Or, from my perspective, the past.

[prosecutory]

I am willing to hear it. Do you prefer to speak here, or face to face?

[Ohhhh. The future. That strange, strange world out there.]

[shacklebreaker]

Face to face, if you would. It would not be proper to discuss such weighty matters with a screen betwixt us.

How much has Wright-dono discussed with you already? Or Athena, perhaps?

[prosecutory]

[No, it wouldn't be proper.]

Not much. Miss Cykes told me I participated in a retrial from the year 2027. Wright told me as much. And you were involved, as well.

He and Miss Blackquill have said you were a convict wrongly accused of a crime.

[shacklebreaker]

Hmph... What they've told you is correct. I do not wish to burden you with that sorry affair, but neither do I wish to withhold information from you any longer than I already have.

Meet me in the gardens a few hours hence, and you will hear the rest of it.

[The CERES gardens are likely to afford more privacy than most of the city, at least.]

[prosecutory]

[He's silent for a moment. Perhaps if he had been younger, he would have been quick to denounce Simon. But he was a different man now. And he barely knew anything about Simon Blackquill.]

Of course. I'll see you then.