“Stop following after me! You’re stuck in a time that no longer exists, Athena! Can’t you see that?! You can’t get your ‘uncle Simon’ back… because I am no longer the boy I once was-! I can never return to those days and neither can you!”
Athena reaches out to him, saying, “W-wait, Simon… I just wanted to save you from-”
Simon interrupts, “I didn’t ask to be saved by you! I didn’t ask you to throw out the life you could have lived to work tirelessly for my sake!”
Athena starts yelling back, “Well, neither did I! You think I asked you to protect me?!”
Second page continues with Athena’s dialogue, as she cries, “Don’t talk about sacrifices like your life wasn’t ruined by what you did 7 years ago!”
She calms down, saying much quieter, “How dare you… how dare you think for even a second that I would have just walked away and let you die?”
Simon doesn’t look back at her, and responds, “Well, perhaps you should have.”
[ID: a digital comic featuring Ace Attorney characters, done in a style with dynamic lines and coloured shading. We see the heading, “Evidence is everything.” We then see Apollo Justice as he appears after Clay Terran’s death, folding his arms smugly and speaking, the ghost of Kristoph Gavin behind him mimicking his posture and pose.
We see Klavier Gavin sitting in the gallery, shocked and shaking as he thinks, ’…I felt sick.’ We see his shaking hands on his motorcycle’s handlebars as he continues to think, ‘And I couldn’t stop shaking, even after the trial had ended.’
We see Klavier hunched over his bathroom sink, looking searchingly into the mirror, the ghost of Kristoph smiling in the mirror behind him as he thinks, 'Why won’t he just disappear?’ End ID]
