(May 12th) (Bleach / Phoenix Wright) Order In The Court: Part XII
Title: Order In The Court: Part XII
Day/Theme: 12. He was running out of road, he was running out of breath
Series: Bleach / Phoenix Wright
Character/Pairing: Various
Rating: G
"Name and occupation," Edgeworth demanded.
"Ishida Uryuu," the young man in the dock stated. "Quincy."
Edgeworth checked his documents. No, it didn't say anywhere what a 'Quincy' was. He was going to have some very stern words with Gumshoe later. "So, Ishida. We're here to discuss what happened on the night of Captain Aizen's murder . . . why are you looking at me like that?"
Ishida adjusted his glasses. They glinted. "Excuse me. I couldn't help noticing your cravat."
Edgeworth's fingers twitched. "What about my cravat?"
"Well," Ishida said blandly, "I am an expert in these matters, and --"
"And?!"
"And I couldn't help noticing that your cravat was sewn into position. Not tied."
Edgeworth flinched back against the wall, face drawn in a skull-like rictus of horror.
"Not tied?" Von Karma's voice achieved the low vibration of a great white whale. Glassware shook and cracked. Kyouraku Shunsui had to save the contents of his bottle of wine by drinking it on the spot. "My protege, my student, wears a ready-sewn cravat? Franziska! Your whip!"
"There will be a brief recess while the prosecution arranges its neckwear," Yamamoto hastily declared.
---
"So, you didn't see anything?" Godot asked.
"No," Chad said. "But --"
"But?"
Everyone leaned forward.
"Could I have some of that coffee, please?"
---
"Yeah," Ganju said. "I would like it put on record that I was brutally assaulted outside the Tower of Penitence by the pansy-ass shinigami captain sitting over there. The one with the curlers in his hair and the fluffy cherry blossom thing. I was just taking a nice healthy walk for the sake of my health --"
"Hold it!" Klavier pointed out. "We have depositions from the shinigami guards that you drugged them or knocked them unconscious."
"Hey," Ganju said, "I'm not responsible for what they get up to in their spare time. It's like my big sister always said, Seireitai's full of drug abusers. And guys who wear curlers in their hair," he said, with another glare at Byakuya.
"So why were you near the Tower of Penitence?" Apollo asked.
Ganju shifted his weight. "Well, see, Sis had told me how there was this person there who had something to do with our family."
"And are you trying to deny that you were attempting to rescue this person?" Klavier pounced.
Ganju snorted. "Look. That 'person' was the shinigami who killed my brother. You really figure that I'd be involved in a rescue mission with Kurosaki Ichigo and his friends, getting ourselves fired into Seireitai in a cannonball, fighting our way to the Tower of Penitence and all that, just in order to rescue Kuchiki Rukia?"
Apollo slumped forward and settled his head in his hands.
"The prosecution thinks there's very little that they need to add to that," Klavier said.
"Oh shit," Ganju said.
---
"But where," Apollo said, making a defiant comeback, "is this mysterious and sinister Kurosaki Ichigo? After confronting Captain Kuchiki in front of the Tower of Penitence," he made a mental note to find out why the Captain had the same family name as that prisoner, "he apparently fled the scene. He has no alibi for the night in question. He is armed and dangerous. He has a grudge against the authorities. We have sketches of him, supplied by Captain Kuchiki and Captain Ukitake . . ." He paused, and held up the one that didn't look like a rabbit with orange hair. "We have a motive. But we don't have the culprit."
"Herr Forehead," Klavier said patronisingly, "your attempts to incriminate this Kurosaki are useless. Merely because he was carried off by an expert ninja who has apparently sworn to heal him and train him does not necessarily mean that he is responsible for Captain Aizen's murder! Can you provide any evidence -- any genuine evidence -- which links the two of them?"
Apollo folded his arms. "I can. The execution of Kuchiki Rukia. In that letter which you have been showing to the court, Captain Aizen says that he believes that her execution is all a trick to gain control of the, the --"
"Soukyokou," Trucy prompted him.
"The execution scaffold thing!" Apollo said triumphantly. "Kurosaki Ichigo breaks in to stop it. Captain Aizen was investigating it." He pointed a trembling finger. "That letter makes it clear that the two of them are indeed linked! And since the letter says that Captain Aizen intended to meet Captain Hitsugaya in front of the East Wall, where his body was found, but since we have already established that he was killed elsewhere and his body was moved there -- this, again, suggests that it was someone else who killed him, and who was attempting to frame Captain Hitsugaya!"
He panted for breath.
"You need to do something about your sentence construction," Phoenix muttered. "Pause more and hammer on the desk."
Yamamoto nodded solemnly. "The court agrees that Kurosaki Ichigo must be found. There will be a pause for further investigation. The trial resumes tomorrow!"
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Compilation Order in the Court post.
Day/Theme: 12. He was running out of road, he was running out of breath
Series: Bleach / Phoenix Wright
Character/Pairing: Various
Rating: G
"Name and occupation," Edgeworth demanded.
"Ishida Uryuu," the young man in the dock stated. "Quincy."
Edgeworth checked his documents. No, it didn't say anywhere what a 'Quincy' was. He was going to have some very stern words with Gumshoe later. "So, Ishida. We're here to discuss what happened on the night of Captain Aizen's murder . . . why are you looking at me like that?"
Ishida adjusted his glasses. They glinted. "Excuse me. I couldn't help noticing your cravat."
Edgeworth's fingers twitched. "What about my cravat?"
"Well," Ishida said blandly, "I am an expert in these matters, and --"
"And?!"
"And I couldn't help noticing that your cravat was sewn into position. Not tied."
Edgeworth flinched back against the wall, face drawn in a skull-like rictus of horror.
"Not tied?" Von Karma's voice achieved the low vibration of a great white whale. Glassware shook and cracked. Kyouraku Shunsui had to save the contents of his bottle of wine by drinking it on the spot. "My protege, my student, wears a ready-sewn cravat? Franziska! Your whip!"
"There will be a brief recess while the prosecution arranges its neckwear," Yamamoto hastily declared.
---
"So, you didn't see anything?" Godot asked.
"No," Chad said. "But --"
"But?"
Everyone leaned forward.
"Could I have some of that coffee, please?"
---
"Yeah," Ganju said. "I would like it put on record that I was brutally assaulted outside the Tower of Penitence by the pansy-ass shinigami captain sitting over there. The one with the curlers in his hair and the fluffy cherry blossom thing. I was just taking a nice healthy walk for the sake of my health --"
"Hold it!" Klavier pointed out. "We have depositions from the shinigami guards that you drugged them or knocked them unconscious."
"Hey," Ganju said, "I'm not responsible for what they get up to in their spare time. It's like my big sister always said, Seireitai's full of drug abusers. And guys who wear curlers in their hair," he said, with another glare at Byakuya.
"So why were you near the Tower of Penitence?" Apollo asked.
Ganju shifted his weight. "Well, see, Sis had told me how there was this person there who had something to do with our family."
"And are you trying to deny that you were attempting to rescue this person?" Klavier pounced.
Ganju snorted. "Look. That 'person' was the shinigami who killed my brother. You really figure that I'd be involved in a rescue mission with Kurosaki Ichigo and his friends, getting ourselves fired into Seireitai in a cannonball, fighting our way to the Tower of Penitence and all that, just in order to rescue Kuchiki Rukia?"
Apollo slumped forward and settled his head in his hands.
"The prosecution thinks there's very little that they need to add to that," Klavier said.
"Oh shit," Ganju said.
---
"But where," Apollo said, making a defiant comeback, "is this mysterious and sinister Kurosaki Ichigo? After confronting Captain Kuchiki in front of the Tower of Penitence," he made a mental note to find out why the Captain had the same family name as that prisoner, "he apparently fled the scene. He has no alibi for the night in question. He is armed and dangerous. He has a grudge against the authorities. We have sketches of him, supplied by Captain Kuchiki and Captain Ukitake . . ." He paused, and held up the one that didn't look like a rabbit with orange hair. "We have a motive. But we don't have the culprit."
"Herr Forehead," Klavier said patronisingly, "your attempts to incriminate this Kurosaki are useless. Merely because he was carried off by an expert ninja who has apparently sworn to heal him and train him does not necessarily mean that he is responsible for Captain Aizen's murder! Can you provide any evidence -- any genuine evidence -- which links the two of them?"
Apollo folded his arms. "I can. The execution of Kuchiki Rukia. In that letter which you have been showing to the court, Captain Aizen says that he believes that her execution is all a trick to gain control of the, the --"
"Soukyokou," Trucy prompted him.
"The execution scaffold thing!" Apollo said triumphantly. "Kurosaki Ichigo breaks in to stop it. Captain Aizen was investigating it." He pointed a trembling finger. "That letter makes it clear that the two of them are indeed linked! And since the letter says that Captain Aizen intended to meet Captain Hitsugaya in front of the East Wall, where his body was found, but since we have already established that he was killed elsewhere and his body was moved there -- this, again, suggests that it was someone else who killed him, and who was attempting to frame Captain Hitsugaya!"
He panted for breath.
"You need to do something about your sentence construction," Phoenix muttered. "Pause more and hammer on the desk."
Yamamoto nodded solemnly. "The court agrees that Kurosaki Ichigo must be found. There will be a pause for further investigation. The trial resumes tomorrow!"
---
Compilation Order in the Court post.