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Tsubasa Kagome was a defense attorney and a member of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee who was murdered in The Forgotten Turnabout.

Background
In 2007, Kagome and her boyfriend, the photojournalist Ryūji Kamei, were investigating the illegal activities of Bansai Ichiyanagi, a corrupt prosecutor. On February 10, Kamei followed one of his leads and found out that Ichiyanagi was connected to the kidnapping of Teikun Ō, the president of Zheng Fa. Kamei called Kagome, but he couldn't reach her so he left behind voice mail. However, during the recording, he was killed from behind by Ichiyanagi. The murder case was left unsolved by Kagome suspected Ichiyanagi's involvement ever since and she wanted revenge.

In 2019, she became a member of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee. She was also supposed to defend Marī Miwa in trial when she was accused of murder. She was replaced by Shigaraki since he was the only attorney able to take over on such a short notice.

Death
After receiving letters from a helpful stranger, who told her that Ichiyanagi was the killer, Kagome decided to act on April 4th. She took part in Ichiyanagi's illegal action where was selling evidence from past cases which were gathered in the hidden storage room above the Committe's deliberation room. She pretended to be one of the customers, wearing a voice-changing mask. She had hoped to kill him, to finally get her revenge. Around midnight, Kagome confronted Ichiyanagi in private, in the middle of the auction. However, she was unaware that the stranger notified Ichiyianagi too, so he was prepared for her. He tried to kill her straight away in the evidence storage area, hitting her over the head with the auction hammer. In the ensuing struggle, which was recorded by a hidden recorder in the stuffed Borumosu doll, Kagome's hand got burned by Ichiyanagi's lighter, while he himself burned his chin. Ironically, she ended up just like her boyfriend, both dying from head injuries caused by a blunt object.

Ichiyanagi then had to get rid of her corpse. He forced Tōko Mutō to be his accomplice. He had Mutō hide herself in a trunk in the evidence storage area. Ichiyanagi brought Kagome's corpse there and stashed it in the trunk. Mutō took her clothes, the voice-changing mask and a wig to disguise herself as Kagome, so that no one would notice a customer was missing. Ichiyanagi then gave her his own clothes, a white jacket and a purple flower corsage, to implicate her as the auction master. He then stabbed her with a three-pronged candlestick that was among the evidence in the room and brought her body down the elevator to the deliberation room below. There, he made sure to take out the candelabra so that most of the blood loss would occur there to make it look like she died there. He left her body lying on the Committee desk and the candlestick nearby. Later, Mutō deliberately swapped the cause of death when her grandmother was called to make an autopsy record and identify the victim.

Unbeknownst to Ichiyanagi, the stranger from before put Kay Faraday's promise notebook next to Kagome. He also left behind the letter, putting it in her left breast pocket. The letter was signed with Faraday's name. The mastermind did all this knowing that Miles Edgeworth would defend Faraday and reveal the true criminal in the process.

Name

 * "Tsubasa" (つばさ) means "wings". Her full name could be a play on "a bird in a cage", "kago no naka no tori" (籠の中の鳥), which is a reference to Kagome Kagome, a Japanese children's game. One of the lines in the rhyme is a question "who is behind the falling of the turtle and the crane" - who is about to stab her in the back. Her boyfriend represents the "turtle", she herself represents the "crane" and the man who killed him, "is behind the falling of the turtle", is the same person who murdered Tsubasa - Bansai Ichiyanagi.