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John H. Watson was an English professor who was invited by Yūjin Mikotoba to teach in Japan.

The Professor Killings

Main article: The Professor Killings

John H. Watson got caught up in forging scheme when Klimt van Zieks became a serial killer. Hart Vortex wanted protect the man's secret to keep the law running as smoothly as possible, so he roped Watson to keep his assistants, Courtney Sithe and Yūjin Mikotoba, busy during Klimt's dissection and pretend to finding Genshin Asōgi's ring in van Zieks' stomach, coming to the conclusion that van Zieks had swallowed it to provide proof for his killer. Klimt actually dueled to the death with Asōgi but this successfully pinned the crime on the Japanese man. Watson then took part in the Death Bringer curse on Klimt's younger brother, Barok. His job was to forge all the autopsy reports of the defendants who were killed. He was eventually invited by Yūjin to become a professor in Japan, Sithe took over his role.

Death

Main Article: The Adventure of the Great Departure
My Cute Ancestor Son

Meeting Ryūnosuke Naruhodō before his death.

Watson worked at Teito Yuumei University and had many students including Haori Murasame. Vortex decided that John Watson knew too much about the Professor incident, so he created a program that have Ann Sasha, the assassin who did most of the Death Bringer killings, to kill him to keep him from talking. Sasha took on the name Jezail Brett and became an exchange student of Watson's

Professor Watson was dining with Jezail Brett within the western themed Japanese restaurant, La Quantos. He could only drink carbonated water because he had a tooth pulled from the Hotti Clinic. It was there Brett saw her chance to murder him swiftly and without notice, by use of "curare" in his drink. However, her plan almost fell apart when she and Watson were approached by another patron, Ryūnosuke Naruhodō who had the intent of introducing himself to the visiting professor.

John H Watsons Crime Scene

John Watson's corpse.

When the professor had succumbed to the poison, his body began to fall so she used the chair to support the body. She dropped one of her handguns that she had hidden under her dress so that the young man would be blamed for the murder. She then fired her second handgun to make it look like Professor Watson died from blood loss. As the waiter shoved Naruhodō in to the supply closet, she made her escape.

Ryūnosuke Naruhodō successfully exposed Ann Sasha for killing Watson but she did not say anything about Vortex's program. Taketsuchi Auchi tried to establish Watson's death as a motive for Murasame killing Brett. Sherlock Holmes' assistant, Iris, initially thought her father was John H. Watson after recognizing the handwriting on Klimt van Zieks’ autopsy report as being the same as the handwritten case records she keeps in her trunk. But her real father was Klimt himself.

Name

John H. Watson is Dai Gyakuten Saiban: Naruhodō Ryūnosuke no Bōken's version of Dr. Watson from the Sherlock Holmes canon. In spite of that, his role was given to other people.

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