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Phoenix has been rather quiet since he woke up in the medical wing. He wants to think everything that happened was just some horrible nightmare, but as he overhears more and more conversations, it quickly dawns on him that it is impossible to say this is the case.

A week... If I'm right, I've been gone a whole week. Trapped in that thing...

Is it true? Was there some sort of false me running around? Is that why I see so many people looking at me with contempt when they pass? What exactly did my imposter do? And... why would they pick me, of all people? I'm new. I'm nobody. It doesn't make any sense.

I told Edgeworth I'd do everything I can to help... but in the end, I just helped create more hassle. Am I really supposed to be here?

He clutches the magatama in his hand as if all sense of his reality depends on his holding it.

((ooc: Phoenix's insecurities has a side effect: any attempts to lie to him right now will manifest psyche-locks, from one for a barely kept secret to five for a deeply guarded one. Carpe diem, as they say.))

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Eh? I mean, it sucks that you got captured, but people tougher than you, like Souji, did too. And after that it was all the copy's fault!

I guess. But I haven't been here that long. Who's to say people who haven't properly met me aren't going to wonder what exactly I'm capable of? Just the fact a clone of me could do that sort of thing at all makes me sick to my stomach.

Guh... but...

That's... stupid. Especially when you look at how different all the other clones were! I mean, Shizune's lured Souji away to get kidnapped and I'm not gonna beat up Shizune for it or even get angry at her...

Well, you're a good person, I guess. I can't assume that will be the same way for everybody else, though. I'm a defense attorney; I've seen how false evidence and accusations can affect the way people look at others. Even if you're right, wouldn't it be better for me to assume otherwise, so I can work that much harder?

[Meiling sighs in resignation.]

...I guess it's... better safe than sorry.

Yeah...

...

Hey. You know my name, but I'm afraid I don't really have the mutual pleasure. I'd like to know who my allies are going to be while I work through all this.

Ah, right... I heard about you in that whole mess.

[She bows politely.]

Hong Meiling, gate guard of the Scarlet Devil Mansion in Gensokyo.

Phoenix Wright, but I guess you know that already.

Thanks. A friendly face is definitely welcome right now, especially a new one.

Aw, any time. I bet the people who really know you won't be angry at you or anything either.

I hope so. Getting used to this place is hard enough as is.

Eheh... yeah, kinda.