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The orphanage in 2007.
Happy Family Home was an orphanage run by Fifi Laguarde. It was the scene of the SS-5 Incident, in which, according to the police investigation, Alf Aldown was killed while witnessing the kidnapping of President Di-Jun Wang of Zheng Fa. By 2018, the orphanage had been abandoned, and it was demolished to make way for the Bigg Building. The orphanage's gate was preserved and functioned as the entrance to the tower.
Arrival of two children[]
On Dec. 24th, 2000, the blind assassin Bodhidharma Kanis and his dog Helmut were walking along the road when Helmut happened to notice two boys who were trapped in a frozen car. Kanis saved the two boys, but the near-death experience had damaged their memories, and they did not know who they were. The assassin decided to take them to the nearby Happy Family Home orphanage. These children went by the names Bronco Knight and Simeon Saint, and they waited for any sign of their real families to show up and find them. However, Saint's father killed Knight's father, and went to Zheng Fa a year later, leaving the two boys alone with no one to look for them.
SS-5 Incident[]
Some time later, Amelie Fenn came to work for the orphanage, having previously worked at the embassy of Zheng Fa. In 2007, she gave birth to a boy, whose father was President Di-Jun Wang of Zheng Fa. Fenn sent a message to the president to meet her and their son at midnight on February 10. Fenn told a body double about this and had him cover for the real president.
Unbeknownst to the real Wang, the body double had hired Bodhidharma Kanis to assassinate him at the orphanage. The body double brought Chief Prosecutor Excelsius Winner to his cause, who in turn bribed orphanage owner Fifi Laguarde into participating in the plot. Upon encountering the assassin, the president begged him to at least let him meet his son before he should die by Kanis' hands. The assassin was utterly deaf to his plea, however, and struck. Although he missed the first time and cut off one of the horns of a Taurusaurus Plushie, the second blow was fatal, leaving a large pool of blood. Meanwhile, Winner stalked Fenn until she gave up and returned home, then joined up with Roland to help her bury the body.
It was at this time that Alf Aldown, a photojournalist who was tracking Winner's black market auction, witnessed the two conspirators carrying away the body of the president from behind a snowman. He called his girlfriend to let her in on what he believed was a kidnapping, but she could not answer the phone at the time, so he left a voicemail. The body double then arrived at the orphange, discovered Aldown recording his voicemail, and bashed his head in from behind with a brick. Realizing the implications of the voicemail, the three co-conspirators replaced Wang's body with Aldown's, and planted the body double's shoes on Aldown so that the footprints that Wang had made would be attributed to him. Winner would be able to tamper with the tests on Wang's blood to ensure that it would be mistaken as belonging to Aldown.
The three then planned to kill Kanis to cover their tracks. However, Saint was hiding inside an igloo and had witnessed everything. He warned Kanis of what his employers were planning, and started a kerosene fire to distract the co-conspirators so that Kanis could escape safely. Saint helped Detective Da-Long Lang with the ensuing investigation by drawing a picture of what he had seen. Before long, however, Laguarde subjected Saint to constant interrogation, causing him to leave eventually, leaving only the Taurusaurus horn. Meanwhile, the assassination was completely hidden, and the "president" was held for ransom. The government of Zheng Fa quickly paid the requested money, and the "president" was returned to them. Lang's investigation led him to indict Laguarde for the "kidnapping" and Aldown's murder, but due to Winner's machinations, the trial ended in a not guilty verdict, and Lang resigned.
Aftermath[]
The orphanage was eventually abandoned as Laguarde was hired as director of a prison. It remained where it was, along with several other abandoned buildings, and under the orphanage grounds was the corpse of the real president. Eleven years after SS-5, the area was demolished to start the construction of the Bigg Building. The orphanage gate was used as the entrance to the tower.
Eventually, a construction project was set to begin in the area where the real president's body had been buried. Winner went to the lot to dig up the body, leaving holes that looked like giant footprints in the concrete. The next day, the body double was found dead on one of the "footprints", sparking an investigation by Miles Edgeworth and Shi-Long Lang. The investigation eventually led them to re-investigate the SS-5 Incident using Kay Faraday's Little Thief device, and expose the truth behind Winner's manipulations once and for all. The information from this investigation led him to Saint, who had killed the body double.