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Would love to hear other people's thoughts, but really think about how bad Edgeworth's first defeat was to him retrospectively

Edgeworth would have (at the time) considered this the biggest failure of his entire career. Knowing how long he was taught under Von Karma, perfection was the thing he was taught to be over everything else. Perfect testimonies, perfect evidence, perfect win-streak. Failure wasn't anything Edgeworth was ever exposed to in his career, and he just lost to an amateur in a basically airtight case. Don't forget to mention that the amateur was his childhood best friend that he wasn't planning on ever speaking to again.

Basically, he's been systematically taught that loss is equivalent to failure, and thinking about how Gregory would have taught him instead of Von Karma makes this even more heartbreaking. Knowing that to him, having an innocent person proven guilty would have been the best outcome for him is also what probably helped reflect on his understanding of what it means to be a prosecutor.

He also knows that he would never have had to confront those feelings if it weren't for Wright. Going into prosecution also made sense in terms of getting justice for his father and allowed him to escape the events of DL-6 instead of confronting them. Suddenly, a person who once knew him is forced to confront those feelings without a chance to hide from them.

Due to the outcomes of Maya channelling Mia that saved the entire case towards the end, that was the last push that allowed Redd White to be declared guilty, so in that case specifically, Wright was probably the only person that could have declared Maya innocent. Added bonus of external factors such as public appearances in things such as the press and the fact that this case had heavy connections with DL-6, and overall this loss was horrible for him, although very necessary.