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[jurisimpudent]

I'll not waste my breath pointing out the utter idiocy of your plans to join this game; such words are, to my way of thinking, trite by virtue of their inevitability. Yes, you - like nearly everyone else - have comparatively limited time. And, of course, you wish to play the martyr over this, agonize and complain, so that others will know just how busy and important you are. I'm not going to enable such self-indulgent behavior.

Rather, I'll merely tell you this: if you think you're so utterly and terribly busy, if you think that you've so little time, then don't waste it further with whining. Instead, make it count. I've no use for someone who will dither rather than be a productive member of society.

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[keepyouwaiting]

Meaning it's quite a famous name in these parts. Can't crack a legal book without seeing it at least a few times.

[jurisimpudent]

...I'm quite certain I don't know what you're talking about. Your name?

[keepyouwaiting]

Diego Armando, attorney at law. Grossberg and Co. Law Offices.

You've heard of me? [Well of course he has! Who hasn't?]

[jurisimpudent]

[At once:]

A half-competent fool hampered by sentimentality, coasting along with easy cases in a third-rate firm. I would say it's a pleasure to put a face to the dossier, but I don't wish to be called a liar.

[keepyouwaiting]

Ha...! Looks like the poodle bites back when he's in the pound with the big dogs.

[jurisimpudent]

Would that I could say the same for the toothless hound limping in the corner, but all he can do is gum pathetically at his opponents.

[keepyouwaiting]

Awfully cocky for somebody's pet on a leash to tell him when he can start his career.

Who's your mentor, anyway?

[jurisimpudent]

...Manfred von Karma. The greatest prosecutor of our generation.

[keepyouwaiting]

And you're calling me a toothless old hound? I'm surprised they don't wheel that old fogey into the courtroom every time I see him.

[jurisimpudent]

And yet he has ten times your ambition, a hundred times your intelligence, and a thousand times your skill. Some hounds lose their teeth early; he wasn't one.

[keepyouwaiting]

Along with ten times my temper, a hundred times my sadism and a thousand times my age.

[jurisimpudent]

He's an elder statesman amongst prosecutors, but that doesn't make his age one thousand times yours. And perhaps he has righteous anger, and perhaps he is zealous in his pursuit of criminals, but he is neither temperamental nor a sadist. So cease speaking from base jealousy.

[keepyouwaiting]

A zealot is more like it.

And don't you worry your pretty face, little Edgeworth. I'm not jealous of him or the rumors he drags along in his shadow.

[jurisimpudent]

...Rumors?

[keepyouwaiting]

Don't tell me you're his protege and you haven't heard the rumors.

[jurisimpudent]

It's not precisely part of my training as an attorney to be made up-to-date on every bit of idiocy his enemies throw at him to try to discredit him.

[Also, he hasn't left the house in years.]

[keepyouwaiting]

A little advice: never become so focused on the horizon you miss the bells and whistles of the oncoming train. That's a rule to live by.

[jurisimpudent]

Don't waste my time with idiotic, nonsensical metaphors. What are you going on about?

[keepyouwaiting]

That made perfect sense, thank you very much.

But my point is, it's never a bad idea to have an ear out for gossip. There's always the slightest grain of truth buried in the sludge.

[jurisimpudent]

Fine. Then start with my education in muck and sludge by speaking to me about this foolish, womanish "gossip."

[keepyouwaiting]

How probable do you think it is to have a 30-year winning streak and be completely accurate every single time?

[jurisimpudent]

That's something to take up with the police.

[keepyouwaiting]

It's not the police's job to determine who's guilty and who's innocent.

[jurisimpudent]

Then take it up with the judge! It's a prosecutor's job to make certain that not a single piece of criminal scum escapes - not that you greedy, slimy defense attorneys make it easy!

[keepyouwaiting]

The only thing standing between law and order and a totalitarian nightmare is the other side of the system-- defense.