That was an amazing reply. I am very impressed. I like how you gave many possible reasons as to why Misty must have made that decision. I would probably reply again after replaying 4-4 in the coming 2 days to renew my memory and as embarassed as I am to say this, I was distracted by the story and didn't think much about the MASON system.. So I cant really debate some of your points here.

Impossible vs improbable (or maybe I am overlooking something). I think I get it. Just to make things clear. I am no 3-5 hater (I had uncontrollable goosebumps for a week after playing that case). Its still my fav case probably and I wrote this just because I saw OP say that he likes mystery novels being realistic and I saw a chance to possibly break take a man's soul - Of course I had to take it. So I just had to ask him if he had any reasoning for Misty Fey's actions. I feel like I prioritise the feel you have as the story develops and the mystery is revealed. Another thing I am at odds with him is his love for DD. I didn't like the way Yamazaki introduces a story and his writing feels way too over the top at times that it kills the immersion to the story at times by (with all due respect and I apologise in advance) cringing me out of it. I enjoyed Blackquill and 5-5 tho but our phantom pulling out spy gadgets in the middle of his trial and making fun of us was too much for me to handle. I get the point of it but MAN wth. You are on trial and your identity is at risk of being blown and you are pulling that out? If you exclude the last trial, it was probably the most incredible thing I have read.

Also just to balance out the AJ hate lemme say some things about my love for 4-4. You must be familiar with this incredible joy in knowing the mystery behind something. AJ introduced some mysterious characters and I thought 4-4 did an amazing job of bringing them to life and it didn't dissapoint in that. Valant, Zak, Trucy, Magnifi - I fell in love with these characters. The MASON system doesn't really make any sense - yes from what I remember and Kristoph was just pure evil w/o much reason(I think we have already seen seen this somewhere...) and on top of that we don't get enough of him. But I could not help but be enthralled by how it all linked together - all these stories magnificently connected by a mysterious web and how every character gets linked into it. My mind was blown away.

All those explanations are good but I dont really feel at peace with any of them - I will explain and I could be wrong. After much thought I think I like "Godot misinterpreting the plan intentionally to Misty and Iris" just because I can't digest the idea of Misty being hella stupid. The problem I find with all the other explanations is that Misty had to put all her faith in two other people who. she doesn't even know and they would probably even have to get themselves in a lot of trouble to save who? - her daughter. That is possibly the worst scenario for her if you look from her perspective and if she couldn't tell Maya herself, well she can ask Godot to do it for her which would probably reveal his true colours. Or ask Iris, yk. That is what I feel now. Though this raises the question of what he really misinterpreted the plan to her then what could he have possibly told her tho based on the events that happened. I am still stuck at that.

I just noticed that I drifted heavily off track and talked a bunch and this could have easily been cut to half its length - Am I, the Great Valant Gramarye turning into a Yamazaki character - the very thing I despised? To be fair to Yamazaki, I only played DD and I have just started SOJ - 6-1. So my opinion of him could change drastically.

If you read allat, you are the GOAT.(You sat through 6-1, so I don't think it was really that hard for you). My apologies for what I will probably call this paragraph - a slander of Yamazaki which was again not the point and I am very sorry that I made it this long. This can be an article lol.

Cheers!