Machi Tobaye

Machi Tobaye is the Borginian piano accompaniment for Lamiroir. He was involved in a cocoon smuggling case that resulted in an accusation against him for the murder of Romein LeTouse. However, he admitted to his involvement in the smuggling, which proved his innocence.

Early life
Prior to his career with Lamiroir, Tobaye was an orphan. One day, he met Lamiroir and they began to perform together, Tobaye using his skills with a piano to accompany Lamiroir. Lamiroir was blind, so Tobaye pretended to be blind in order to preserve her image as a singer of "sight-seeing music".

Cocoon smuggling
Tobaye was involved in the smuggling of a Borginian cocoon to Los Angeles at the request of the Chief Justice, who wanted them to cure his son, who was inflicted with Incuritis. The plan failed; during the second segment of a Gavinners concert, Interpol agent Romein LeTouse confronted Daryan Crescend, causing Cresend to steal LeTouse's .45-caliber pistol and shoot LeTouse in the shoulder. Cresend then told Tobaye (by headset) to press a switch to burn Klavier Gavin's guitar, in which the cocoon was situated. During the third segment of the concert, Apollo Justice and Ema Skye heard what they believed were gunshots, though they were actually firecrackers, and found LeTouse, who died of blood loss soon after. Tobaye was accused of the murder.

To prove that Tobaye was not the killer, Justice convinced Tobaye to admit to his involvement in the smuggling. In Borginia, his crime would result in the death penalty, but in the U.S., that was not the case, so Tobaye would have to admit his crime in the U.S. to escape the death penalty.

Trivia

 * His English name sounds like "Much to buy" and Kashkash comes from cache-cache, a French term for "hide and seek". His Japanese name, Maki, can mean "volume", or occasionally "Chinese black pine".
 * In terms of the timeline and characters' years of birth, Machi Tobaye is chronologically the youngest character in the Ace Attorney series to date.
 * His pendant is meant to be the shape of a hiragana "ma" (ま).