Nicole Swift

"Mikiko Hayami"

- You got it! Snatching up the scoop, that's my job!

Mikiko Hayami is a reporter who was present at Gourd Lake during Teikun Ō's discourse and attempted murder.

Involvement with the fake assassination
Hayami had went to the president's speech to hopefully pick up her big scoop. A few days prior, she got involved with Manosuke Naitō's fake assassination plan. She was supposed to wear a red hood (which was actually her parka turned inside out) and point her laser pointer at Teikun Ō so that it would resemble a rifle's laser scope. This was so that the president's people could hide a gun with a laser sight in the trash and frame her for the whole thing. This ended her involvement.

The investigation
When Miles Edgeworth arrived at the scene, Hayami started jumping out of the crowd and proceeded to ask Edgeworth a busload of questions. Since Edgeworth wouldn't collaborate, she told him she knew more about the "murder". This caught Edgeworth's interest but Hayami decided not to tell him. Edgeworth was forced to initiate Logic Chess with her. During Logic Chess, Edgeworth destroyed her Pawn when he figures out that she is a reporter and destroys her Queen when he deduced that since she was always fully prepared, her tape should have recorded the sound of the gunshot.

During the questioning of John Doe, Doe confessed that he spotted another person wearing a red raincoat and quickly removed his. The other person was close to Winston Payne, who was present during the speech and according to Hayami's tape, Payne was nearby her, therefore making her the one wearing the red raincoat. However, she argued that the photo of her in the red raincoat was taken at a different time so it could still be Doe. Edgeworth quickly destroyed that possibility due to the fact her own tape was taken around the time the president raised his fist into the air, as seen in the photo. When the question of who the raincoat belonged to arose, Edgeworth states that it belonged to Doe in the very beginning and that Hayami was merely wearing her parka inside out to make it look like she was wearing a raincoat.

When one of the president's bodyguards was found murdered, Naitō betrayed her and accused her of the murder of his partner. Edgeworth then figured out that Naitō committed the murder.

Personality
Hayami is a hot blooded, energetic girl. She is extremely exuberant about her job and is always asking question, though sometimes temper gets the better of her. She's always going for the big scoop.

Name

 * The name pun in Japanese is hayamimi kikou (早耳聞こう), which literally translates as "listen insider". Hayamimi means "keen on hearing" and kiko means "to hear", "to listen" or "to ask". It is a reference to how she recorded the gunshots during the assassination.

Trivia

 * She is an apprentice of Lotta Hart.
 * Her parka is red when turned inside out.
 * The writings on her parka contain numerous references:
 * "KB[KB]" on the sleeve refers to KB Keibi (KB警備) - KB Security.
 * Right above it, "GO!YOU" refers to the GoYou (ゴーユー) airlines - IFly Airlines.
 * "[EI]TO [SA]TSUEIJO" on the right sleeve refers to Eito Satsueijo (英都撮影所) - Global Studios.
 * "TaTo" on the neck area refers to Tatsurōtoizu (ﾀﾂﾛｰﾄｲｽﾞ) - lit. "Tatsuro Toys", the fictitious toy company of Tatsuro Iwamoto, Capcom's art director who also provides the in-game voice of Miles Edgeworth.
 * "PIPE" underneath it along with pipe mark itself is a reference to the shirt Will Powers was wearing when he appeared in Turnabout Samurai, implying it is the same clothing brand.
 * "BANDO" across her chest refers to Hoteru Bandō (ﾎﾃﾙ･ﾊﾞﾝﾄﾞｰ) - the Gatewater Hotel.
 * Below it is "INTER[IOR] YAMAZA[KI]", or in Japanese, Interia Yamazaki ([有限会社]ｲﾝﾃﾘｱﾔﾏｻﾞｷ) - Yamazaki Interiors [Ltd.], a reference to an actual furniture company which decorated the family home of Tsuyoshi Yamazaki, the director of Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth and Gyakuten Kenji 2, as revealed in an interview in the March 2011 Nintendo Dream issue.