Six Nine Kiba turns to Cecil to defend Shibuki from a charge of the murder of a bowling alley manager named Takuma Kiritani, and law firm coworker Tobirou Kamakiri is assigned to work on the case with Cecil. Tasked to find the real killer before Shibuki is indicted within a few days, Cecil and Tobirou fail to find any physical evidence. Cecil struggles to cooperate with Tobirou since he always slows her down, but is called out by both Seseri and Natsuna for not giving Tobirou a chance despite his old age. Tobirou later shows Cecil a schedule roster, in which an employee named Hiroyuki Suzui shared an identical schedule with Takuma. When Hiroyuki drives to the woods at night, Tobirou uses his illusion magic to appear as Takuma, a ruse to prove that Hiroyuki used a knife to murder Takuma, while Cecil manages to tape a recording of the confession. During the trial, Cecil and Tobirou use the physical evidence in order to clear the charge of murder against Shibuki, but Tobirou faints in the middle of the courthouse and is sent to the hospital. However, Cecil returns to the law firm and learns from Koromo that Tobirou was faking his collapse.