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Ryuunosuke Naruhodou was an ancestor of Phoenix Wright who lived in Japan during the Meiji period.

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A second year at the Imperial Yumei University. He's my best friend and, despite being a student, a qualified defence lawyer as well.

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Barok van Zieks was a legendary English prosecutor. He was known as the "Death God of the Old Bailey" due to the fact that all defendants that he had prosecuted would supposedly wind up dying in some way or another, regardless of their innocence or guilt. This "curse" eventually led to a five-year l... read more

Barok van Zieks was a legendary English prosecutor. He was known as the "Death God of the Old Bailey" due to the fact that all defendants that he had prosecuted would supposedly wind up dying in some way or another, regardless of their innocence or guilt. This "curse" eventually led to a five-year leave of absence. Upon his return, he prosecuted trials against Naruhodou Ryuunosuke. Barok was not "Death God of the Old Bailey" and was arrested as a suspect in the Tobias Gregson murder while pursuing its identity. After the case closed, it was revealed that he was Iris Watson's uncle.

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Iris Watson is a child prodigy who lives with Sherlock Holmes. She holds a medical Ph.D. at the age of 10 and wrote the novel series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. She is the daughter of Klint van Zieks and at the same time the niece of Barok van Zieks.

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A judicial assistant who was travelling with Kazuma to London for a study tour. She's the epitome of a refined Japanese lady and a huge help to me always.

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A British judge who presides over multiple trials defended by Ryunosuke Naruhodo.

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Sherlock Holmes is a legendary English detective who assists Ryūnosuke with crime investigations. His assistant is a young girl called Iris Watson.

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An apprentice milliner who witnessed the incident from his seat on the roof deck of the omnibus.

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The lead prosecutor for the trials of Ryunosuke Naruhodo and Rei Membami, who appears to be struggling to accept the changes afoot as a result of these turbulent new times in Japan - the Meiji era. Ancestor of Auchi Takefumi.

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The defendant in this case. He's an incredibly wealthy philanthropist with a wonderful reputation in London. I'm to defend him as a test of my worthiness to become a lawyer.

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A young English gentleman with an aloof and high-handed manner. He appeared at Windibank's pawnbrokery accusing Gina of stealing his redemption ticket.

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An orphaned teen living in London's slums utilizing her pickpocketing skills to get by. After being accused of murder, she became a detective-in-training studying under Tobias Gregson near the end of the Victorian Era. her Ace Attorney Wiki page.]

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Hart Vortex was the Lord Chief Justice of London. He even has the authority to appoint a person who has not gone through the formal process as a lawyer. He pictured a brighter and crime-free London. He figured out that Klint van Zieks had been The Professor. He blackmail Klint, ordering him to kil... read more

Hart Vortex was the Lord Chief Justice of London. He even has the authority to appoint a person who has not gone through the formal process as a lawyer. He pictured a brighter and crime-free London. He figured out that Klint van Zieks had been The Professor. He blackmail Klint, ordering him to kill three more targets including he Lord Chief Justice of London. He manipulated Jigoku to kill Genshin, and then established the "Death God of the Old Bailey" to kill 16 people who were found not guilty.

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The head waiter of the European-style restaurant 'La Carneval'. He was serving there on the day of the incident.

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She appeared as a witness during Ryunosuke Naruhodo's subsequent trial for the crime. Her real name is Asa Shinn. Asa Shinn was a renowned British assassin. Her only known client was London's Chief Justice Mael Stronghart. Under Stronghart's directive, she eliminated all defendants who escaped guil... read more

She appeared as a witness during Ryunosuke Naruhodo's subsequent trial for the crime. Her real name is Asa Shinn. Asa Shinn was a renowned British assassin. Her only known client was London's Chief Justice Mael Stronghart. Under Stronghart's directive, she eliminated all defendants who escaped guilty verdicts in Barok van Zieks' trials, which resulted in dozens of deaths. These assassinations caused van Zieks to develop the fearsome reputation as the "Reaper of the Bailey". As van Zieks always had an alibi during the assassinations, people grew to believe that the fatal ends met by those prosecuted by van Zieks were the result of a curse. This curse was said to be either from Barok van Zieks, or the spirit of his deceased brother Klint van Zieks, who had also been a prosecutor. She worked alongside detective Tobias Gregson, who helped organize the assassination methods during their meetings in an old apartment on Fresno Street. In order to conceal the truth about the circumstances of a certain case, Mael Stronghart conspired with Seishiro Jigoku to eliminate two targets aware of Stronghart's secrets in an assassin exchange. By performing an assassin exchange, the assassin sent by either side would be spared of any punishment in the country they performed the assassination in, due to custodial conflict. As part of his side of the assassin exchange, Stronghart tasked Brett with going to Japan to dispatch John H. Wilson, who had been staying in Japan as a visiting professor of Yumei University. On November 19th, Brett dined with Professor Wilson in the high-class western restaurant, La Carneval. Having found out about the professor's recent tooth extraction, she intended to kill swiftly and surreptitiously, by poisoning the carbonated water they were served with curare, as the Japanese police would not be able to identify the obscure poison and she wouldn't die. She ordered a beefsteak and ate some while waiting for the waiter to give them their water. However, her plan fell apart when she and Wilson were approached by Ryunosuke Naruhodo, who wanted to introduce himself to the visiting professor, as he was a student at Yumei University. Because of this interruption, Brett was unable to leave the vicinity before the curare took effect. When the professor had succumbed to the curare, his body began to fall. To hide that the professor had died, she used his chair to support his body. No longer capable of going through with her original plan, Brett decided to frame Naruhodo for the crime. She dropped Wilson's handgun on the floor so that the young man would pick it up, and fired her own handgun, which she had concealed under her skirt, into Wilson's chest to conceal the true cause of death. As the restaurant's waiter shoved Naruhodo into the supply closet, she rotated the chair to make the man's back face the table to cover her tracks. Close to her extradition date to Shanghai, Brett asked that her last memory of Japan be at a beach; with Satoru Hosonaga assigned to her, the government allowed it. Raiten Menimemo, a journalist working under author Soseki Natsume, entered her beach hut to interview her about her crime. However, Brett simply made fun of him, calling him a caveman who failed to understand the difference between eavesdropping and genuine journalism. Unknown to her, the incensed Menimemo slipped some poison he secretly retrieved from a previous interview into her drink through his fountain pen. her Ace Attorney Wiki page.]

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A retired army man who's the landlord of the lodgings rented by the defendant, Mr Natsume. An old knee injury means he's confined to a chair most of the time.

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A maid who works at the Garrideb household. Her main duty appears to be standing at Mr Garrideb's side pouring tea.

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A real wall of a man and a senior member of the Russian crew who's in charge of security around the first-class cabins.

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Soseki Natsume was a Japanese exchange student studying English literature in London during Ryunosuke Naruhodo's time in the city.

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A young ballerina who's fled her homeland of Russia to escape the Novavich Ballet.

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A gentleman who works as a city banker. He witnessed the incident from his seat on the roof deck of the omnibus.

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The owner of 'Rasu-tei', an antiques shop situated on a street corner in the second district. He is a witness to the incident. He was hunting for a lost Hoei-era gold koban coin at the time of the incident.

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Tobias Gregson was a Scotland Yard detective working in London during Ryunosuke Naruhodo's time in England. Due to his role in a certain case, Gregson became known as a legendary detective. His favorite food was fish and chips which he was almost never seen without. Tobias Gregson helped Mael Stro... read more

Tobias Gregson was a Scotland Yard detective working in London during Ryunosuke Naruhodo's time in England. Due to his role in a certain case, Gregson became known as a legendary detective. His favorite food was fish and chips which he was almost never seen without. Tobias Gregson helped Mael Stronghart frame Genshin Asogi for being the Professor, to which he opposed at first, until Stronghart convinced him that this would be necessary to prevent Genshin from claiming any more victims, as Gregson mistakenly believed Genshin was the Professor. He hired a group of mercenaries to attack Genshin, stealing his trademark ring. Then, with Stronghart's help, Gregson would argue for Klint van Zieks' autopsy report, which would not normally be done to a noble in the House of Lords. After that, he helped Stronghart spread the "Reaper of the Bailey" conspiracy. During this time, Gregson would investigate guilty defendants prosecuted under Klint's younger brother Barok who twisted their own trials to escape justice, and come up with the best ways for Britain's notorious assassin, Asa Shinn, to eliminate them. Gregson also took interest in Daley Vigil, a former employee from Barclay Prison who was terminated following complications arising from the Professor case, and was masquerading as a street vendor named "Hugh Boone". To that end, Gregson paid Vigil to use his ID and make a public scene wherever he was directed, claiming the detective was there to investigate, in order to mask his movements around London. During that time, Gregson also grew close to Iris Wilson for helping further bolster his public reputation through her stories, to the point that he also became compliant to her own demands. Eventually, Stronghart decided that Gregson knew too much about Klint's autopsy and his own past, so to eliminate Gregson, he had Genshin's son, Kazuma, kill him. Since by that point a treaty had been made between Japan and England, Stronghart knew if Kazuma was fully exposed of killing Gregson, England would have difficulty arresting the young Japanese man. Unfortunately, Stronghart's plan went wrong as Kazuma was knocked out and presumably killed by Nikolina Pavlova, sparing Gregson for some time. While Gregson sent Vigil out to be a decoy with the "Red-Headed League", a small-time scam of Fabien de Rousseau and Peppino de Rossi, he was given a "Reaper” mission for October 31st aboard the SS Grouse as it headed for France. The target was Seishiro Jigoku, who was put on trial ten years ago when he made insulting remarks while trying to save Genshin Asogi. Since Asa Shinn was killed, the assassin that would go with him was Kazuma Asogi. Before he left his secret room to go there, he spoke fondly of Lestrade, and left her his "detective spirit". While in Seishiro Jigoku's cabin on board the Grouse, Gregson learns that Kazuma is Genshin's son. He tells him that he believes that his father was the Professor even now but didn't have enough evidence to prove it back then. He said he just worked as the mission instructed for the British Empire. But Gregson refused to say exactly what he did, even if it meant his death. This caused Kazuma to furiously draw his sword and swing, not hurting the detective but chipping Karuma on Gregson's trunk. Then Kazuma decided to leave, disembarking in Dunkirk, France to stay the night, so Gregson decided to kill Jigoku all by himself. But Jigoku didn't know Kazuma Asogi was alive and had already decided to kill Gregson on his own to complete the assassination exchange program. The "Reaper" mission assigned to Gregson was a fake asked by Jigoku himself. When Jigoku returned to his room, he found Gregson there. He choked Gregson, knocking him unconscious before the other could shoot him. As first-class cabins are surrounded by guards, Jigoku decided to wait until the emergency drill later that evening to strangle him to death. Unfortunately, just as that time arrived, Gregson woke up and started attacking Jigoku in a frenzy. In a moment of panic, Jigoku used the gun the English government had given him in the exchange program sixteen years ago and shot Tobias Gregson, killing him instantly. Ace Attorney Wiki page.]

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Iyesa Nosa was a Sergeant in the Nippon Imperial Army. He was dining at La Carneval when John Wilson was murdered, and testified as a witness in Ryunosuke Naruhodo's trial for the crime. Iyesa found his salary as a soldier lacking, especially when it came to providing for his infant son Aido. Beca... read more

Iyesa Nosa was a Sergeant in the Nippon Imperial Army. He was dining at La Carneval when John Wilson was murdered, and testified as a witness in Ryunosuke Naruhodo's trial for the crime. Iyesa found his salary as a soldier lacking, especially when it came to providing for his infant son Aido. Because of this, he resorted to stealing from the wealthy patrons of La Carneval; every three days, he would eat at the restaurant and look for something valuable to steal. On the day of Wilson's murder, Iyesa stole a Hoei-era coin from antique dealer Kyurio Korekuta, and hid the coin under the steak he had been eating. Before he could escape with the coin, the murder occurred within the restaurant, and detective Satoru Hosonaga prevented him from leaving, as he was a witness. Fearing his theft being uncovered by a police search, while Hosonaga was distracted, Iyesa swapped his plate with one at the table where Wilson had been sitting. When Iyesa was summoned to court to testify, Hosonaga instructed him to keep quiet about the presence of the British exchange student Jezaille Brett, who had been dining with Wilson, as her potentially being a murder suspect could cause diplomatic problems between Japan and Britain. Nevertheless, Naruhodo, representing himself in court, was able to find contradictions in Iyesa's testimony, leading to evidence of Brett's presence. Naruhodo was also able to deduce Iyesa's theft, itself helping to prove that Brett was Wilson's killer. Some time later, Iyesa was put on trial for his theft.

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The foreman for the trial of Magnus McGilded.

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The 2nd juror for the trials of Magnus McGilded and Gina Lestrade.

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The 2nd juror for the trials of Soseki Natsume.

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The 3rd juror for the trial of Gina Lestrade.

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The 3rd juror for the trial of Magnus McGilded.

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The 3rd juror for the trials of Soseki Natsume.

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The 4th and 5th juror for the trials of Magnus McGilded and Gina Lestrade, respectively.

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The 5th juror for the trials of Soseki Natsume.

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The 5th juror for the trial of Magnus McGilded. The guild master for London's Guild of Coachmen.

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The 6th and 4th juror for the trials of Soseki Natsume and Gina Lestrade, respectively.

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The 6th juror for the trial of Magnus McGilded.

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Vilen Borshevik is an infamous Russian revolutionary.

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Seishiro Jigoku was a Japanese judge during the Meiji period. He presided over Ryunosuke Naruhodo's trial for the murder of John Wilson. Sixteen years before the game's events, Seishiro Jigoku, along with fellow students Genshin Asogi and Yujin Mikotoba, traveled to Great Britain as part of an inte... read more

Seishiro Jigoku was a Japanese judge during the Meiji period. He presided over Ryunosuke Naruhodo's trial for the murder of John Wilson. Sixteen years before the game's events, Seishiro Jigoku, along with fellow students Genshin Asogi and Yujin Mikotoba, traveled to Great Britain as part of an international exchange program. The night of Asogi's fake execution, Stronghart and Jigoku went to Lowgate Cemetery to retrieve Asogi from his coffin. As they approached the plot where Asogi was buried, they encountered an unforeseen obstacle: Enoch Drebber, a local university student, who had been harvesting recently buried corpses from nearby cemeteries in order to sell them to hospitals for study. That night, Drebber dug up the plot in which Asogi had been buried, which caused him to witness what appeared to be Asogi rising from the dead. This terrified Stronghart: Drebber would almost certainly inform other people of what he had seen, endangering their secret operation and potentially informing all of London that Asogi had never died. With no choice but murder to conceal the secret, Stronghart coerced Jigoku into murdering his friend. Jigoku then shot Asogi in the chest, killing him and sending him falling back into his grave, which splattered blood all over Drebber and his camera. After Drebber fled in fear, Stronghart and Jigoku reburied Asogi and left the scene. Come back to the present, Seishiro Jigoku finally came up with a way to kill Tobias Gregson himself. He contacted Mael Stronghart to give Gregson a fake mission to kill Jigoku himself under the pretense that it was in line with the "Reaper's curse": after all, Jigoku was acquitted in his trial ten years ago, which had indeed been presided over by Barok van Zieks. The supposed assassination of Jigoku would take place on the last day of October aboard the SS Grouse as it headed for France, while Jigoku was aboard heading to the international scientific investigation symposium representing Japan. Kazuma Asogi was sent with Gregson as Jigoku's purported assassin, but ultimately did not carry out the deed, leaving Gregson no choice but to attempt the murder himself. When Jigoku returned to his room at 9 PM, he found Gregson there with his gun. He performed an ippon seoi nage on Gregson, which choked and knocked him unconscious. As first-class cabins are surrounded by guards, he decided to wait until the emergency drill later that evening to do the final deed via strangling. Unfortunately, just as that time arrived, Gregson woke up and started attacking Jigoku in a frenzy. In a moment of panic, Jigoku drew the gun the English government had given him in the exchange program sixteen years ago, and shot Gregson, killing him. his Ace Attorney Wiki page.]

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An exchanged professor at Yumei University. He was a member of "Death God of the Old Bailey". He falsified the autopsy on the body of Klint. Then, he became a victim of an exchange murder by Vortex's planning. He is not the father of Iris Watson.

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Yujin Mikotoba was a forensic pathology professor at Imperial Yumei University, Susato Mikotoba's father, and Kazuma Asogi's mentor. Shortly before Ryunosuke Naruhodo's trial for the murder of John Wilson, he instructed Naruhodo to take over the defense from Asogi so not to jeopardize the latter's s... read more

Yujin Mikotoba was a forensic pathology professor at Imperial Yumei University, Susato Mikotoba's father, and Kazuma Asogi's mentor. Shortly before Ryunosuke Naruhodo's trial for the murder of John Wilson, he instructed Naruhodo to take over the defense from Asogi so not to jeopardize the latter's study abroad. Yujin shared a flat with London's soon-to-be legendary detective, Herlock Sholmes, eventually becoming his investigative partner. When the secret trial for the Professor was held, Mikotoba took part in the autopsy of Klint van Zieks as first assistant and was responsible for writing the autopsy report. Though Mikotoba had qualms about the findings of the autopsy, he wrote down John Wilson's findings dutifully - such as the discovery of Genshin Asogi's ring in the stomach of Klint van Zieks by Wilson. The findings in this autopsy were later used to convict Genshin Asogi as the Professor. Nine months after John Wilson's death, Mikotoba received a letter from Sholmes about the "Case of the Haunted Lodging", describing how at the end of the case the bloodied dog collar worn by Klint van Zieks' bloodhound Balmung was found in a thief's stash. Mikotoba also read the reports penned by returning student Soseki Natsume of his times in Great Britain, which also covered the case. This prompted Mikotoba to visit Natsume and directly speak to him about what he had seen. Remembering that Susato saw the box containing the manuscript of the Hound of Baskerville, Iris' unpublished novel which almost completely described the truth behind the Professor Killings, Mikotoba grew worried that his daughter would uncover the truth before it was ready to come out. In order to postpone the discovery of the truth, Mikotoba sent a telegram to Susato, which claimed that he had suddenly fallen ill with a grave illness and needed Susato to immediately return to Japan. Ace Attorney Wiki page.]

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Olive Green was an aspiring artist studying at the Thorndyke Academy of Fine Arts. She was the victim of a nonfatal attack in Ryunosuke Naruhodo's second case during his time in London. Prior to Soseki Natsume moving into the Garridebs' complex, Olive Green was enrolled in the Thorndyke Academy of... read more

Olive Green was an aspiring artist studying at the Thorndyke Academy of Fine Arts. She was the victim of a nonfatal attack in Ryunosuke Naruhodo's second case during his time in London. Prior to Soseki Natsume moving into the Garridebs' complex, Olive Green was enrolled in the Thorndyke Academy of Fine Arts. She was also engaged to the previous owner of that flat, a fellow student named Duncan Ross. After a series of gas leaks began occurring in his flat, Green begged him to move out. Ross assured her that he would, but ended up dying due to gasoline asphyxiation before he could, leaving Green overcome with grief. She regretted not trying to persuade him hard, and she dropped out of the school and would walk by Briar Road, where Ross had died, many times. One day, she saw Natsume come out of the complex and followed him to the borscht shop. He told her he had complained to the owner about how he often woke up the with the gas stove turned off and the room filled with gas, leaving him feeling like he was being strangled. Although she initially thought of Ross' death as an accident, she became suspicious of the other tenant, William Shamspeare, as she had heard that blowing with considerable force into a gas pipe would extinguish all flames in another room, resulting in a gas leak. She formulated a plan to confirm her suspicions. After purchasing a bottle of strychnine off the black market, she anonymously sent Shamspeare a note that read: "I have information regarding the death of Duncan Ross. Come to The Slug and Salad, on Briar Road at 5 p.m. on 17th. Don't tell anybody else about this letter or the meeting. It is a matter of utmost importance." On that day and after Shamspeare had left his bedroom, she picked his lock using a wire and some turpentine (a trick her late lover had shown her), and coated the lamp line with the strychnine. That way, if Shamspeare tried blowing into the pipe again, he would poison himself as punishment and would prove he had been blowing into the pipe. If he was really innocent, nothing would happen, but she prayed that he would be poisoned. She also found a hiding place under a set of loose floorboards, which contained a tin box with a key and a newspaper. Thinking the key was valuable, she put it on like a necklace. Naruhodo interrogated her for a few minutes before he was called away, as Shamspeare had finally fallen victim to the strychnine. However, it soon transpired that he had actually survived, and had accused Natsume of the crime. After the first day of the ensuing trial, Green was to be discharged by her doctor. Shamspeare stumbled into her room and commented on her painting, making her feel worse. With her mind racing, she attempted suicide by drinking the remaining strychnine from her bottle, but was interrupted by Naruhodo, Mikotoba, and Sholmes, who were all visiting her again. She was especially shocked to hear that the three had learned of her connection to Ross, causing the bottle to fall over and spill the strychnine. A foraging mouse then consumed the strychnine and died instead, thus causing Sholmes to deduce her suicide attempt and confiscate the bottle from her. Later, Naruhodo called her as a witness in the trial's second day. Though the true extent of Green's crimes were exposed, it was also thanks to Green's help that Naruhodo was able to also expose the true extent of Shamspeare's crimes. Green would have to face charges for her attempted murder, but she nonetheless thanked Naruhodo for finally revealing the truth behind the "cursed lodgings" mystery, thus properly avenging her fiancé's death.

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William Shamspeare is a fancily-dressed man who, despite his appearance, is actually unemployed and very poor. Following the conclusion of the trial regarding the stabbing on Briar Road, Shamspeare had another literary debate with Natsume. The two then had a jujitsu battle with Shamspeare dressed ... read more

William Shamspeare is a fancily-dressed man who, despite his appearance, is actually unemployed and very poor. Following the conclusion of the trial regarding the stabbing on Briar Road, Shamspeare had another literary debate with Natsume. The two then had a jujitsu battle with Shamspeare dressed as Romeo and Natsume dressed as Juliet, which Natsume won. After Natsume returned to his flat, Shamspeare attempted to once again blow into the gas pipe to oust Natsume, using the tea Natsume had given him to produce his counterfeit coins for his gas meter. However, he soon fell victim to the strychnine Green had applied to the pipe's mouth four days earlier, falling into a coma. He was later found in his comatose state when Natsume broke his door open, and though initially believed to be dead, after it was learned that he survived his poisoning, he was taken to St. Bartholomew Hospital for further treatment. Thinking Natsume responsible for his poisoning by way of his tea, while also plotting to get the treasure in his room, Shamspeare accused Natsume of attempted murder. However, Naruhodo soon exposed his fraudulent activities on the first day, and later exposed his culpability in Ross's death during the second day. After Shamspeare was forced to confess to everything he had done, Green reminded him that he still deserved punishment for his crimes, and he was soon arrested.