[Edgeworth shakes his head.] Between the graciousness you have shown me since my arrival, what you have already volunteered today, and the insight that it may provide on the subject in question, I have every reason to make the effort.

[The prosecutor takes a breath and puts some effort into putting his emotions back in check. (This is testimony. I am merely providing the expert testimony necessary to allow Diarmuid to understand his own case.)]

...It began when I was nine. Father... Gregory Edgeworth... brought me to the courthouse to observe his work as a defense attorney, as he had promised me days before. My recollection of the trial itself is vague, overshadowed as it is by the events later that day, but only a few details are vital to the sweep of my life. The prosecutor was Manfred von Karma, a man heralded and feared as undefeated -- Father stood no chance against him. However, while Father lost the case, he managed to prove that the autopsy report presented was a forgery, causing von Karma to suffer the first penalty ever to appear on his record.