慈獄 政士郎

Seishiro Jigoku was a Japanese judge during the Meiji period. He presided over Ryunosuke Naruhodo's trial for the murder of John Wilson. Sixteen years before the game's events, Seishiro Jigoku, along with fellow students Genshin Asogi and Yujin Mikotoba, traveled to Great Britain as part of an international exchange program. The night of Asogi's fake execution, Stronghart and Jigoku went to Lowgate Cemetery to retrieve Asogi from his coffin. As they approached the plot where Asogi was buried, they encountered an unforeseen obstacle: Enoch Drebber, a local university student, who had been harvesting recently buried corpses from nearby cemeteries in order to sell them to hospitals for study. That night, Drebber dug up the plot in which Asogi had been buried, which caused him to witness what appeared to be Asogi rising from the dead. This terrified Stronghart: Drebber would almost certainly inform other people of what he had seen, endangering their secret operation and potentially informing all of London that Asogi had never died. With no choice but murder to conceal the secret, Stronghart coerced Jigoku into murdering his friend. Jigoku then shot Asogi in the chest, killing him and sending him falling back into his grave, which splattered blood all over Drebber and his camera. After Drebber fled in fear, Stronghart and Jigoku reburied Asogi and left the scene. Come back to the present, Seishiro Jigoku finally came up with a way to kill Tobias Gregson himself. He contacted Mael Stronghart to give Gregson a fake mission to kill Jigoku himself under the pretense that it was in line with the "Reaper's curse": after all, Jigoku was acquitted in his trial ten years ago, which had indeed been presided over by Barok van Zieks. The supposed assassination of Jigoku would take place on the last day of October aboard the SS Grouse as it headed for France, while Jigoku was aboard heading to the international scientific investigation symposium representing Japan. Kazuma Asogi was sent with Gregson as Jigoku's purported assassin, but ultimately did not carry out the deed, leaving Gregson no choice but to attempt the murder himself. When Jigoku returned to his room at 9 PM, he found Gregson there with his gun. He performed an ippon seoi nage on Gregson, which choked and knocked him unconscious. As first-class cabins are surrounded by guards, he decided to wait until the emergency drill later that evening to do the final deed via strangling. Unfortunately, just as that time arrived, Gregson woke up and started attacking Jigoku in a frenzy. In a moment of panic, Jigoku drew the gun the English government had given him in the exchange program sixteen years ago, and shot Gregson, killing him. [Taken from his Ace Attorney Wiki page.]