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[Claire has been working on her investigation into Twister's murder. She's complied a list of notes about what she has discovered so far. It reads as follows:

- After being cleaned up, the body was found to have several gash marks on it's chest. Some kind of animal?
- Luke seems to think that it might have been a person trying to convince us it was an animal by fabricating the extent of the wounds.
- Regardless, he definitely died by being stabbed through the heart.
- Ms. Layton has laid a claim to taking over as Prime Minister soon after the death. She is a suspect.
~~- Talking to Clive has shown that Prime Minister Twister killed him before all this happened.~~ This isn't relevant to the case? Unless it pins Clive as a suspect.
- Don Paolo claims to be the last person to have seen Twister before he died. He says he witnessed him talking to a Clive he was unfamiliar with in the lobby.
- Talk to the Clives to find out if any of them were with Twister on the day of the murder?
- Don't bother with that one annoying Clive until it becomes unavoidable.

She's frowning. Talking to all of the Clives would take ages... Feel free to give her some advice, whether you fall into the Clive category or not.]

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It's her choice, not mine.

[...Banette immediately shoots back to her Pokeball.]

...I'll take that as a refusal.

Well then, I'll have to say that this makes you both look pretty suspicious. If you are innocent then cooperating would only prove that.

Like I said, it's her choice, not mine. If Banette doesn't want to, it's up to her.

...she doesn't like bodies, so it's hardly a surprise.

I'm sorry that you feel that way. But so far Banette is the only creature here who comes close to having the claws to have committed the murder.

Look, she's frightened of bodies and she's the biggest softy of any battle-trained Pokemon that I've ever met.

If there were ever a risk of any of my Pokemon attacking someone, the most likely one would be Vaporeon, and even he's not that stupid.

What is a Vaporeon? I'd need to see what it looks like.

[He lets it out, and it promptly gives Claire a look of disdain.

GET YOUR POKEMON OUT GINGER HE'S READY TO BATTLE.]

He certainly looks... hostile.

He's a battler.

[He tugs Vaporeon's tail lightly.]

She's not got Pokemon, boy, no battle today.

So he's accustomed to attacking others?

Other Pokemon, and most Pokemon are. Trainers travel around, and their Pokemon battle one another to get stronger.

I've never heard of anything like that. Those sorts of fights are illegal where I come from.

Where I'm from, everyone battles their Pokemon.

That's just cruel to these creatures. I suppose you bet money on it too.

Even without us, they'd battle. We help them get stronger.

Animals killing each other for food is far different to people like you making them fight for your own entertainment.

...

[He lets the rest of his team out. Banette immediately hides behind him, while Froslass and Metagross look at Claire before turning to Clive.]

Why don't you ask them yourself whether they want to do it?

Because they don't speak English and can't understand me.

They can understand you, so they can answer a yes or no question. If you're concerned I'll have taught them to respond to a question like that, ask them a totally random thing first.

...Very well.

Have any of you ever encountered a dimension such as the Dressing Room before?