Geiru Toneido

"Thank you for calling this disciple of the Toneido School of rakugo back for an encore! It's me! The balloon artist you all know and love, Geeeiru Toneidooo! Onnne, twooo... BLOOOON!" Geiru Toneido (Real name in unknown) is an antagonist in the video game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice. Specifically, she's the main antagonist of the game's fourth case, Turnabout Storyteller. She's a balloon artist and former student of Taifu Toneido. She hopes to become an famous rakugo peformer, just like her late father.

Prior to the case.
Geiru was the daughter of a famous rakugo performer, and was childhood friends with Uendo Toneido. She Dedicated herself to follow her father's footsteps and become a famous rakugo performer herself. At one point, she became a student of Taifu Toneido, but unfortunately was not skilled in rakugo. Instead, her teacher suggested doing balloon art. Geiru disliked the job, but took it anyways, hoping her determination would eventually have Taifu pass her father's stage name to her.

That hope would be crushed, however, when Taifu passed the name on to Uendo instead, despite having less experience than her. Ever since, she secretly hold a grudge against her teacher and her friend.

Day of the revenge.
Geiru decided to have her revenge on the same day of Uendo's naming ceremony. After her performance. She visited her teacher, as it is common courtesy for rakugo performer to visit their teacher after performance, and finds Taifu and Uendo (who at the time was under the persona of Owen). She also finds soba making equipment, which lead her to believe her teacher was making soba, which she is allergic to (she would even be at risk of having stroke, or even death.). In reality, however. He was making udon noodles for her, hoping this would be a sign to move on and discover her own talent.

Taking this opportunity, she grabbed an uncut udon dough, pinned her teacher on the floor, and suffocates hims. In retaliation, however, Taifu grabbed the knife he was using to cut the noodles, and cut her on the forehead. This caused her to bleed on the dough.

After the deed was done, she set up the crime scene to made it appear that Taifu drowned face-first in a bowl of soba noodles. First, she cooked up some prepared soba noodles from her teacher's refrigerator. In the process, however, she accidentally touched it, causing an allergic reaction on her left arm, which she hid under her gloves.

Next, she sets up Taifu's body to made it seem that he drowned in the bowl. Then she rearranged the karuta cards on the table to spell out "OWEN 4TH", indicating Uendo as the murderer. When Uendo came to, he noticed the cards, and realized what it meant. He quickly rearranged the card to spell out "WHET NO 4" to blame the murder on Bucky Whet, the case defendant, instead.

Finally, she turns the dough she bleed on into dumplings, then feed it to her dog Jugemu, an act Simon Blackquill witnessed. The dog was unable to finish all of the dumpling due to the quantity, so he buried his leftovers in the yard.

In court
Geiru was the second witness to be called on the witness stand. Upon entrance, she immediately captivates the judge with her balloon talent. She first testify that she was in the hallway in front of the dressing room along with Simon, and that during the time before Taifu's bod was found, Bucky was the only one entered the dressing room. She also stated that Jugemu was barking before Bucky showed up. When questioned who Jugemu was, she reveals that he's her dog that she keeps at the theater (and made a balloon art of him). When questioned why he was barking, Geiru states that it was his feeding time, so she went to the yard to feed him.

Athena asked if someone could possibly sneak in the dressing room while she was doing do, which Geiru denied, saying the yard's door was wide open, putting the dressing room in sight. Athena proved this false by showing the map diagram of the theater, showing that if the door was indeed wide open, it would of blocked her view of the dressing room. When being pressing on however, Nahyuta intervenes, and allows Geiru to leave the stand.

When Owen testify about the killer wearing perfume, however, she was called back to the witness stand (much to the dismay of Nahyuta), as Geiru herself was wearing perfume. She admits that she knew of Owen, having played with him under Taifu's request. Athena insisted on the possibility of Geiru being the murderer, but Nahyuta argued that the defense doesn't have proof of her guilt, and allowed Geiru to leave the stand.

Before she was able to leave the stand, Simon cuts the balloon she was holding, causing it to deflate and push her bangs up, revealing the cut on her forehead. With her characteristics consistent to Owen's testimony, Athena indicted the murder on Geiru.

Upon being accused of the deed, Geiru personality changed to be more abrasive, and made a balloon sword, which she swings around threatening. She testified that she did went to her teacher's room after he performance, but found her teacher and Owen asleep. Upon seeing the note, she left as to not disturbed, and insisted that Owen smelled her perfume after she left.

When questioned if she saw anything else strange or out of place, she said that besides the sake and half-eated manju on the table, there was none. She was then questioned if she moved anything while she was in there, which she denied. Athena counterclaims that Geiru switched around the card to leave the "dying message", as Geiru, Taifu, and Uendo himself were the only ones aware of Uendo's multiple personalities.

At this point, she takes off her glove, showing her left hand all red and swollen. This is when she reveals that she is allergic to buckwheat. Under these circumstances, it would make it impossible for Geiru to be the murderer as she could not of even stayed in the room for very long.

Athena then claims that Taifu was not making soba noodles, but instead was making udon noodles, to prove this, she insist the Taifu's note did not mean "I am resting, do not disturb" as assumed, but instead meant "This dough is resting. Do not disturb", which would of made no sense, as you can't let soba dough rest.

After some thinking, Athena concluded that the murder weapon was the udon dough made by the victim. She demands a search for the dough. Nahyuta questioned how it would prove Geiru's guilt, which Athena reminded that Geiru was cut on the forehead, bleeding on the dough. When questioned where the dough is, she states the dough was in the yard, feed to him earlier by Geiru. She asks for a search party to find the leftovers.

Realizing her defeat, her balloon arts begin to pop one by on. She pulls up her suspenders, screams, then snap them down on her breasts (which was then revealed to be balloon as they popped upon contact.). She removes her costume, revealing that she was wearing a wig all this time, and confess to the deed. The guilt of her actions caused her to to break down crying. Shortly after the trial, Athena asked Bucky to deliver an udon meal to Geiru.