ミスト・ベルデューク

Newton Belduke was an alchemist living in Labyrinthia until his death three months before Hershel Layton and Phoenix Wright's arrival. Newton grew up in a small town with his friend Arthur Cantabella. One day, they stumbled across underground ruins from an ancient civilization. It was here that they found a large bell made of pure silver on an altar, which they believed would bring prosperity to the town. The two continued their studies, aiming to help the town prosper. Eventually, they both married and had daughters; Newton fathered Eve, while Arthur fathered Espella. Newton created an anesthetic from local plants, with the resulting product bringing large profits. The pair created Labrelum Inc., a company that sold many types of medicine, and later brought the bell out of the ruins and placed it in a bell tower inside the town. They designed a mechanism in the belfry that made the bell easier to ring, and created two keys to limit access. The keys were made as pendants, and given to their wives. On the night of the town's annual fire festival, Newton and Arthur returned to the ruins and found an ancient inscription saying that the bell would bring ruin and therefore must not be rung; the townsfolk had contracted a condition from the groundwater that would cause immediate loss of consciousness at the sound of pure silver being struck. They rushed back to the town, only to find it ablaze; the bell had been rung, and with nobody to contain it, the fire from the festival grew out of control. They found only two survivors, Eve and Espella, who were both in the bell tower. The men deduced that Eve had rung the bell, but she had blocked the memory due to shock. Espella, meanwhile, blamed herself for the fire and insisted that she was the Great Witch Bezella, a character from a book Arthur had read to her. In an attempt to help Espella, the Beldukes aided Arthur in acting out stories of witches being brought to justice. This led to Project Labyrinthia, with a new medieval-style town called Labyrinthia being built on the ruins of the old settlement. New residents were brought in who had signed a contract with Labrelum Inc. that resulted in their memories being wiped of their old lives. Arthur became the "Storyteller", Newton became the town's "alchemist", and Eve became "High Inquisitor Darklaw". They covered the bell tower with a material designed to be invisible to the townsfolk, as they feared that it would trigger Espella's memories of the fire. As an alchemist, Newton provided medicine for the people of the town, with his patients including Emeer Punchenbaug and Cecil. He also recommended that the orphaned Lettie Mailer begin work as a courier. After rescuing Jean Greyerl from drowning herself in the river and learning about her status as a "witch", he allowed her to stay with him, but under the guise of a male butler in order to draw attention away from her (as, according to the town's lore, only females could be witches). He also paid the rent for her parents, who agreed to let her stay with him. One stormy evening, a lightning strike destroyed the cloth that was keeping the bell tower "invisible", thereby revealing it to everyone. Newton witnessed this in the Town Square with Greyerl, and he became terrified that his past was coming back to haunt him. According to Greyerl, his personality began to change, and eventually, he felt he could no longer keep up the lies. He began writing a letter to Arthur in which he expressed his guilt, stated that he felt he had no choice but to take his own life, and asking his friend to take care of everything. Finally, after Greyerl brought him his nightly drink of tomato juice, Newton completed the letter, locked himself up in his study, and died after drinking a bottle of poison. However, Newton's letter never reached the Storyteller, as Greyerl had stolen it after mistakenly believing that Newton had intended to expose her as a witch. She also believed that she strangled him to death, as she had strangled his (unbeknownst to her) already dead body when she had stolen the letter. Newton's death would act as the catalyst to drive his daughter to begin plotting against the Storyteller as revenge. [From Ace Attorney Wiki]