A copy of The Lion's Pride was evidence in the trial of Soseki Natsume for the stabbing of Olive Green. It was the book the victim picked up prior to being stabbed.
Clues of a miracle[]
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During a marital dispute between Joan Garrideb and her husband John, a candle was knocked over, causing a fire that burned John's bookshelf and irreparably damaged his books. John opened the window to let the smoke out while Joan started throwing various objects at him, including his books. One such book, John's favourite titled The Lion's Pride, sailed out of the window and landed on the road below, where Olive Green and Soseki Natsume were walking by. Joan then threw one of their folding knives, which also exited the window and struck Green while she was reaching down to pick up the book that had just fallen.
Nearby were Scotland Yard officer Roly Beate and his wife Patricia. The latter dropped a flower that she was carrying in shock, while the former realised that the incident had occurred on his beat, meaning that he would have to cancel their anniversary plans for the sake of the investigation. In order to avoid this, Roly had Patricia call the officer in charge of the beat on the other side of the road, and then moved the crime scene across the road, including the book in question, which he kept in Green's hand because that was how they had found it. However, he missed the flower in the darkness, and it was not found until the following morning.
During Natsume's trial, the book was presented by Prosecutor Barok van Zieks alongside a photograph of the crime scene after a previously presented photograph showing the knife in her back raised questions about how many books had been found at the scene. The print showed the victim's hand gripping the book. It was initially assumed that Green owned the book, which was why she was holding it, but Natsume's lawyer, Ryunosuke Naruhodo, questioned why Green would be holding a book that had been burnt to the point of being unreadable, especially when she had a bag to carry it in. Having found out about the Garridebs' dispute during his investigation, he proposed that the book actually belonged to John and that it had been thrown from the Garridebs' window. Due to Roly's actions, Naruhodo's argument was seemingly defeated immediately, but the presence of the flower at the real site of the crime exposed the truth.
Naruhodo used this information to present his theory that Joan had thrown the book, followed by the knife. Joan, who happened to be serving as juror number four, internally feared that Naruhodo was right, but counted on him being unable to produce evidence, as the knife was just one of many that they owned, and neither Garrideb could remember such exact details of their fight. Nonetheless, Naruhodo was able to piece everything together.
In other languages[]
- In the Japanese version, the book is titled "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane", a Sherlock Holmes story published decades after The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures would have taken place.