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Okay, so I'm trying to write a fanfic with Godot's POV during case 3-5, and ran into a problem when trying to get the timeline straight.
On the protagonists' side at Hazakura Temple, we have the timeline going like this:
February 6th: The day of the murder and when Phoenix falls off the bridge.
February 7th: The day that Edgeworth investigates at the temple.
February 8th: The day that Edgeworth has his trial and then, in the afternoon, the bridge is fixed.
On the other hand, at the Inner Temple, February 7th seems to be entirely missing. February 6th was the night of the murder, which is also when Godot left Maya in the Sacred Cavern and doctored the crime scene. We know that Pearls fell asleep that night and that she covered the hanging scroll with gravy when she woke up, but that's all we hear of her activities. All we know of Godot's activities after he leaves Maya there is that he 'cheers Pearl up', but from the sound of everything we know about this event, he only did this when he could plausibly have come over the fixed bridge, i.e. on February 8th. And if this is true, then Pearls was completely alone for more than thirty-six hours... ouch. Can that really be it?
So okay, this can all work out if we just assume that Godot hung around drinking coffee on February 7th, or if the thing about Godot cheering Pearl up after he could plausibly have come there over the bridge was a lie to protect him and in fact this happened on the morning of the seventh, which would leave Godot and Pearl at least with each other's company until the police came. (Admittedly, unlike Maya, Pearl had only a very vague idea of what was going on, and I'm not sure I can really see her keeping it all quiet very easily.) However, the major problem we have is the channeled Dahlia in the Sacred Cavern. According to the timeline we know from the protagonists' side, she had from the morning of February 7th at the very latest (Maya must have woken up and channeled her before this time, since we know that Pearl tried to channel Dahlia on the morning of the seventh) until the afternoon of February 8th to try to solve Maya's trick lock; sounds like it would be plenty of time, what with the later claim that solving
five of them could be done in less than a day. The only thing we have to explain how long it took her to solve the lock is the part where she says she kept being interrupted and having to hide at the back of the cavern again, but this would require Godot and/or Pearls to be more or less constantly exiting and entering the Training Hall throughout the whole of that twenty-four hour period, which they would have no reason to do seeing as they don't know that Dahlia is there and needs to solve the trick lock. (Considering they think Maya must have gone somewhere, they ought to be out looking for her, in fact.)
Everything makes perfect sense if only
two days are involved at the Inner Temple side - the first day has the murder, Pearl falling asleep and Godot fixing the crime scene, and the second has Maya channeling Dahlia, Pearl waking up and failing to channel her, Godot cheering Pearl up, and Dahlia having limited time to try to solve the trick lock before the bridge is fixed. But this would require some sort of a temporal paradox.
Am I missing something here?