- 9:30 a.m.
"Cross-Examining Filch"[]
As Simon Blackquill summoned Phineas Filch to the stand, Apollo Justice focused on discrediting Filch's claim that Jinxie Tenma had been the Tenma Taro figure. He pointed out that Damian Tenma had hidden the Forbidden Chamber Key, which meant that Jinxie could not have accessed the Forbidden Chamber to acquire one of Tenma Taro's staves. Justice submitted for fingerprint analysis the hand cream that he had found. The analysis revealed, contrary to Justice's initial assumption, that the hand cream belonged to Filch.
Filch confessed to what he had done. Rex Kyubi had gotten him to dress up as Tenma Taro for the special event involving him and the Amazing Nine-Tails. Afterward, Filch had worn the costume and had broken into the Forbidden Chamber through an air duct between it and the foyer. Justice realized that he must have thrown the costume out the window after he was done, explaining the Tenma Taro sighting in the papers. Blackquill deduced that someone had to have opened the chamber doors, which Filch confirmed, though he could not identify who it was. Justice suggested that if Filch were the Tenma Taro, Florent L'Belle's alibi no longer added up.
"Cross-Examining L'Belle"[]
- 10:25 a.m.
A recess was called to prepare L'Belle to take the stand. Justice had a nagging feeling that he was missing something important, but he could not figure out what.
- 11:00 a.m.
The original form of the statue.
L'Belle testified that he had witnessed Mayor Tenma confessing to his daughter. He claimed that, after the mayor had released Tenma Taro, L'Belle had then fled toward the hallway phone to call the police. Justice objected to this, since Jinxie had also gone to call the police, and so the two would have seen each other. L'Belle then admitted that he had entered the Fox Chamber, but he claimed that he had entered after the murder. Justice asked him to elaborate on the weapons at the scene, and L'Belle described the fox-and-demon statue in particular as "inspiring". Justice caught him on this, as only the original, complete form of the statue would be "inspiring", which placed L'Belle inside the Fox Chamber during the murder. Blackquill disagreed with this reasoning, since Kyubi could have told L'Belle about the statue beforehand, and Jinxie's statement about no third party in the Fox Chamber still stood firm.
"Tenma Taro's Mood Matrix"[]
Suddenly, Damian Tenma, as "Tenma Taro", decided to testify. He described being in a dark room, with Tenma Taro and the Nine-Tailed Fox on either side of him. Justice used the Mood Matrix and discovered that Tenma felt joy when mentioning the Nine-Tailed Fox. Tenma replied that the joy had come from hearing a door open and seeing light, and Justice concluded that he had been in the Forbidden Chamber. Tenma then remembered that he had seen the Amazing Nine-Tails, not the Nine-Tailed Fox, but Justice noticed shock and sadness when he made this statement. Tenma replied that the red cape that the Amazing Nine-Tails was wearing had caused these emotions. However, Justice realized that the Amazing Nine-Tails did not wear a red cape, and that the "red cape" was, in fact, blood from the crime scene. Tenma then remembered that he had seen Alderman Kyubi's body behind the Amazing Nine-Tails.
"A Locked Room Laid Bare"[]
L'Belle tricking Jinxie with a false murder confession while disguised as the Amazing Nine-Tails.
Blackquill pointed out that Mayor Tenma's claims contradicted his daughter's; she had testified to seeing him, not the Amazing Nine-Tails, and everyone recognized that the Amazing Nine-Tails was Kyubi's secret identity. Justice proposed that L'Belle had disguised himself as Tenma. Thinking it through, Justice came to an earth-shattering conclusion: Damian Tenma was the Amazing Nine-Tails! Because of the blackmail letter, the mayor had created the Amazing Nine-Tails to secretly oppose the merger.
L'Belle preparing to murder the alderman.
Justice laid out his hypothesis of L'Belle's plan. L'Belle gave Kyubi and Mayor Tenma coffee laced with a sleeping drug, allowing him to kill the incapacitated Kyubi. He then put on the Amazing Nine-Tails Mask, hid the Mayor in the Forbidden Chamber, then let out a scream to get Jinxie's attention before "confessing" to her while disguised as the Amazing Nine-Tails. Jinxie would not have unmasked him due to the wrestler's code forbidding the removal of a wrestler's mask. After Jinxie went to call the police, L'Belle reopened the chamber to place the mayor back on his seat, inadvertently releasing Filch, who ran out in his Tenma Taro costume, leaving the footprints and feathers behind. L'Belle finally threw the Amazing Nine-Tails mask out the window.
"The Final Cross-Examination"[]
L'Belle threatened Mayor Tenma again. He said that he would reveal the secret behind Tenma Taro if the mayor admitted to being the Amazing Nine-Tails, and that this would bring ruin upon Nine-Tails Vale. Justice wondered about this, and realized that Tenma Taro was actually a secret treasure kept inside the Forbidden Chamber. He then told L'Belle and Mayor Tenma that Tenma Taro could no longer inspire the greed that would ruin the village, for Azuki Kozo had stolen it long ago. Mayor Tenma revealed that Kyubi had hinted as much during their meeting, telling him that the gold ingot was gone.
The scroll kept in the Forbidden Chamber, depicting the origin of the yokai Tenma Taro.
With the threat no longer valid, Damian Tenma told the real story of Tenma Taro that was actually depicted on the scroll that was in the Forbidden Chamber. His ancestors had used a gold ingot to purchase land from the ancestors of Nine-Tails Vale to form Tenma Town. However, the ingot had inspired so much greed and conflict within the village that a mythical creature had been invented to scare people away from the treasure. Prompted by Justice, Tenma confirmed his true identity as the Amazing Nine-Tails. Jinxie admitted that the person who "confessed" to her had been wearing the Amazing Nine-Tails mask; the mayor also revealed that L'Belle had suggested to Mayor Tenma that he should reveal that he was the Amazing Nine-Tails.
"Conclusive Evidence"[]
Despite all of these revelations, Blackquill pointed out that Justice had not presented any conclusive evidence for his claims. Justice thought about this carefully, and then he showed his decisive evidence: the Amazing Nine-Tails mask that was found outside had white hair inside belonging to the last person to wear it. He then revealed that L'Belle's hair was artificially colored with his personal "Couleur Me L'Belle!" brand of hair dye, which had washed out from the hair when the mask had fallen into the river. A DNA test was all that would be needed to prove that the white hair belonged to L'Belle.
A defeated L'Belle deprived of his makeup.
Florent L'Belle went out of control, threatening Justice while spraying perfume on himself. This removed all of his makeup, revealing his pale face and hair as they really were. The calls came in. The sponsors were pulling out, the party was canceled, L'Belle was fired from his position as Mayor Tenma's aide, and there was a stratospheric damages claim of $100 million against him. After he was taken away, Blackquill learned that L'Belle's habit of promoting products that he would never sell placed him in great debt, and this had spurred him on toward his convoluted plot to steal the gold ingot known as Tenma Taro. With all of the facts of the case finally brought to light, the judge declared a not guilty verdict for Damian Tenma.
"Post-Trial Wrap-Up"[]
- 1:23 p.m.
Damian meeting his fans as the Amazing Nine-Tails.
As the defense team celebrated, Athena Cykes wondered why Florent L'Belle had only killed Rex Kyubi. Phoenix Wright believed that L'Belle had intentionally left Damian Tenma alive so that he could reveal him as the Amazing Nine-Tails after the conviction, thus destroying the symbol of the anti-merger movement. Jinxie Tenma told them that she was not afraid of yokai anymore after seeing what the lawyers had accomplished for her father. Damian believed that he should retire the Amazing Nine-Tails - the role had served its original purpose, and given his own unpopularity, he expected his fans to desert him. Cykes told him to listen to the crowd that had gathered right outside to meet the man behind the mask, and Jinxie likewise encouraged her father. Apollo Justice returned Damian's mask to him so that he could go outside to greet his fans.
Wright assured Justice and Cykes that Nine-Tails Vale and Tenma Town should do just fine, now that the wedges driving the two apart had been removed and the Amazing Nine-Tails was as popular as ever. They went out to Eldoon's Noodles to celebrate.