Sixth Tempest

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Ah -- If anyone is a friend of Enforcer Raidou's, I was given permission to speak with him, and he's doing . . . as well as can be expected.  Please don't be too anxious.  Everything . . . It'll all turn out right in the end, I'm sure of it.

[filtered to Sergeant Morrison and Councilor Edgeworth]
[Ivan wasn't quite sure how best to go about making his report.  Ought it to be given to all Councilors?  All Enforcers?  After a bit of thought, he decided to be cautious about things and directed it only to the two people who had explicitly requested to be informed of what he had discovered.  They could tell anyone else who needed to know.  Ivan, however, addressed himself directly to Enforcer Morrison, attempting to sound as . . . professional as he could.]

I've got a report to make, sir!  I've been able to question Sir Raidou, and from what I've seen and felt of his memories of that night, I'd say that there's no possibility he committed this crime alone.  I'd even go so far as to say that there's no possibility that he was involved in the murder at all.  There are at least three things that don't match up with the theory.

What I think to be the most important point probably won't hold much weight at all.  But Enforcer Raidou genuinely has no recollection of the time after he was arrested, and his expressions of shock and surprise and horror -- They're all real, as far as I can tell.  I won't say that it's impossible for him to lie so well that he's managed to convince even himself, but that wouldn't explain why his mind registered nothing at all for such a long period of time.  I think it's likely that he was given some sort of drug to block his memories and keep him out of the way.  And his cat, Gouto, has a memory of being pricked.  The second thing is that, though it hasn't got much to do with my psychic powers, I don't think it's possible for the cell door to be blasted apart the way it was.  After poking around in his mind, I'll say for certain that Raidou can't perform any magic without his demons, and they were all confiscated during his first arrest.  It might be possible that he was able to hide one, but then it would have been found after the murder, wouldn't it?

But the best I have to offer for his innocence is the only thing Raidou does remember before waking up: the feelings of being pulled and of falling freely.  I was able to enter his mind deeply enough to experience these sensations nearly first hand, and after a bit of thought, I'm convinced that what he experienced was a type of teleportation or summoning magic.  I've been subject to Teleport Psynergy fairly often, and the tug and the pulling sensations are nearly identical.  And the falling can be explained if he was teleported a few feet off the ground.

S-So . . .  if he was teleported, then there's someone else we've got to start looking for.  It'd be a mage powerful enough to teleport a person from a great distance and to melt the bars of a prison.  And since there's almost certainly a second person involved, isn't the extent of Raidou's guilt too vague to determine?  I'm convinced he's completely innocent -- An execution at this point wouldn't be any sort of justice at all.  There were a few other strange things about the evidence, but I'm sure there are people investigating that already.

That's all, sir.  Thank you.