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So, most 'a you already know that a few of us did some exploring of the deeper parts of the ship last month, and found a painting that seemed dead set on stalking us through the hallways. Jaye put up pictures of the thing if you missed that somehow. If anyone with chemistry skills has some free time, I've got a bottle here with some of the paint, or whatever it is, that I flaked off of one instance of the painting, since we thought it might be helpful to know what exactly a moving mural is made of. Lemme know if you're interested.

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Well damn, aren't you a pessimist. It doesn't actually turn out that way, obviously.

"Obviously." Oh, right. Apologies. I'm sure the outcome is much sunnier. Just, what, lynch mobs?

Nah, you get small towns setting up here an' there. Cooperation's critical to surviving on some'a the border worlds. They pay me to get rid of the ones that don't cooperate, an' I keep the lawless cannibal bandit population an' the dangerous native wildlife population down while I'm out traveling, so for the people who're actually, genuinely good people, they stay safe.

[Edgeworth scoffs viciously.]

"Genuinely good people" who ask you to kill.

Gonna criminalize the entire populations of several planets, huh? Good luck puttin' that many people in your prisons.

My thanks.

[And that's sarcastic, but more directly - ]

If they call for death, or exchange money for it, they're not good. They're as culpable as you are, who pulled the trigger.

They're just looking out for their own survival. I didn't make the system the way it is today, an' I sure as hell don't have the power to change it. If for some reason you find yourself stuck in Sanctuary when all this is said an' done, an' you want to? Have at it. I might even help keep you alive. Unless all the people there decide you're too much trouble, heh.

[Sharply:]

I would never want the help of a man who thinks that killing is permissible.

Guess you wouldn't last long there, would you?

I'd at least die with honor intact.

An' I'd rather be alive than honorable.

Hmph. A life without honor is one without meaning, sir. All you're doing is existing, and to simply exist has no point.

Suit yourself.

That's all you have? Not, perhaps, a protestation that your life is not a complete waste?

Considering how I'm happy with how I've lived it so far, I know it's not a waste. But arguing that point with you sounds like it'd be just as boring an' repetitive as the rest of this conversation has been, so I'm thinking I'll talk to the bartender instead.

Fine. Simply the cowardice I expected.

Your world must be a simple one if you can paint things black and white that easily.

[Sarcastically:]

You're right. That's probably the explanation that Occam's razor would dictate. That my entire world is some magnificently simplistic construct, like nothing that's ever been seen before. That's probably more likely than "Miles Edgeworth might have a legitimate philosophy that differs from mine and which arises from having observed legitimate facts."

The point you refuse to get is that it might be 'fact' where you're at, but it isn't for us.

Murder is bad.

Not really certain what "fact" could possibly change this equation.

We're not talking about the death of an innocent puppy.

Oh, my deepest thanks. Because naturally a prosecutor would think that all victims are saints on a pedestal. I'm not illiterate, blind, deaf, and stupid to boot; thank you for assuming I am.

Murder is wrong. It doesn't matter whether you think they deserved it. It's wrong.

Try to tell me that after you've been hunted down across multiple planets.

[Frustration drives him to be more caustic than usual:]

My God. Have you had a hard life? Why didn't you say something earlier? Please, stop by the office and I'll be sure to give you your "Unique Like A Snowflake" award.

More like you've had a cushy one if you're still so naive.

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