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Mikiko Hayami is a reporter who was present at Gourd Lake during Teikun Ō's discourse and attempted assassination.
The president's speech
- Main article: Turnabout Target
Involvement with the fake assassination
A few days prior to the speech at Gourd Lake given by Teikun Ō, president of Zheng Fa, Hayami got into contact with Manosuke Naitō, one of the president's bodyguards. Hoping that her cooperation would give her access to Ō and give her the big scoop she was looking for, Hayami agreed to help Naitō with a staged assassination attempt on Ō, although she herself wasn't told anything of the plan. Hayami's role was simple; all she had to do was stand in the crowd that came to hear the speech and point a laser pointer at the president.
Turning her yellow and aqua parka inside out so that it was now red, Hayami turned on her sound recording device and listened to Ō's speech. While she was pointing the laser pointer at Ō, gunshots rang out and chaos ensued. Once things had calmed down, the president and his bodyguards had disappeared, having retreated into the plane they had arrived in. Hayami, along with the rest of the crowd, were made to stay where they were while law enforcement investigated the scene.
The investigation
Miles Edgeworth, having been specifically requested for by the Chief Prosecutor, soon arrived on the scene with detective Dick Gumshoe. Seeing the prosecutor and hoping for information she could use for her scoop, Hayami began jumping in the air and shouting to try to attract his attention. She tried to ask Edgeworth as many questions as she could, but was ignored. She then stated that she had information about what had happened, which caught Edgeworth's attention. However, Hayami refused to tell him anything until he had told her what he knew. Edgeworth, using his clever deductive skills soon figured out that she was a reporter and had a recording of the gunshots. Impressed, Hayami asked Edgeworth if he would be her second mentor, which Edgeworth politely refused.
Later, during Edgeworth's questioning of a strange ice-cream salesman calling himself "John Doe", the prosecutor confronted Hayami about being the red-hooded figure in the crowd that was the source of the "laser sight". Although she tried to argue that she was constantly moving during the president's speech and that Kay Faraday had merely taken the picture of the person wearing red at a different time, Edgeworth managed to prove that she was lying. Her commentary on her own tape contained her remark on Ō raising his fist, matching up with Faraday's picture and thus proving Hayami to be the person in red.
Shortly after this deduction, Naitō emerged from the plane to reveal that one of the president's bodyguards had been killed and demanded that Hayami be arrested and taken into Zheng Fa custody. Luckily for Hayami, Edgeworth was soon able to figure out that the assassination had been staged by Naitō in an attempt to boost his president's waning popularity and that Hayami had been recruited to act as a scapegoat. Edgeworth proved that it had been Naitō who had committed the murder, clearing Hayami's name.
A monster scoop
- Main article: The Grand Turnabout
Personality
Hayami's mugshot.
Hayami is brash, loud, and determined; personality traits she shares with her mentor Lotta Hart. She also has a similar style of speech to Hart.
Name
- Her full Japanese name is a play on "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". This is likely a reference to either her recording the gunshots during the "assassination", or simply to her occupation.
- Hayami's full English name in the fan translation of Gyakuten Kenji 2 is "Nicole Swift". "Nicole" is a French name that roughly means "victory of the people" (possibly referencing her eventual clearance of suspicion), while "Swift" may be a reference to her impulsive personality.
Development
- The writing on her parka contains numerous references:
- The "KB[KB]" on the left sleeve - "KB Keibi" (KB警備); the Japanese equivalent of KB Security.
- "GO!YOU" on the left shoulder - "GoYou airlines" (ゴーユー); equivalent of iFly Airlines.
- "[EI]TO [SA]TSUEIJO" on the right sleeve - "Eito Satsueijo" (英都撮影所); equivalent of Global Studios.
- "TaTo" on the front of the hood - "Tatsurōtoizu" (ﾀﾂﾛｰﾄｲｽﾞ), lit. "Tatsuro Toys", a fictitious toy company created by Tatsuro Iwamoto, a freelance illustrator who worked as the art director for the Ace Attorney series, along with providing the Japanese in-game interjection voices of Miles Edgeworth and Manosuke Naitō.
- "PIPE" written below the neck, along with the illustration of a smoking pipe - a subtle reference to the tracksuit Will Powers wore during Turnabout Samurai, implying that both are from the same fictional clothing brand. Her shoes also have the pipe symbol on their sides.
- "BANDO" across her chest - "Hoteru Bandō" (ﾎﾃﾙ･ﾊﾞﾝﾄﾞｰ); equivalent of the Gatewater Hotel.
Sprite gallery
Standard sprites
Cut-in sprites
