After turning their attention off of each other, Keaton and Shade notice that the mysterious Gardevoir is staring daggers at Swindle, who is not showing an inch of backing down in response.
Keaton gives a small wave to the Gardevoir with his free hand.
"See Swindle? This is the kinda thing we're trying to avoid right now, get me?"
Shade also proceeds to shoot him an angry glance before looking back at the Gardevoir with a look of slight embarrassment.
Noticing the Nikkit, "Swindle" as his trainer calls him, only smirks in return, Gracidea decides to make another point before dropping the matter. She starts glowing as if about to use a Dazzling Gleam move, its eventual target obvious as she still glares down at Swindle, ignoring the man's small wave to her.
"And who might you be?"
Keaton's question reaches the Pokémon standing before him in an attempt to shift focus, despite his voice being slightly muffled by his mask.
The Gardevoir drops her glow and peers at Keaton with a calm but accusing look.
"I am Gracidea, private detective. Your Nikkit should be more careful who to pick a fight with."
Keaton shrugs.
"Yeah, try telling that to him. Maybe you'll have better luck in making it stick."
"Yeah, right. Good luck with that.", Shade chimes in under her breath.
"I meant nothing by my comment, I assure you.", he says with a look of apology on his face, yet never removing his smile. "I sometimes forget that the things I say can bother more than the ones I intend them to."
Gracidea nods, accepting the Nikkit's apology.
While the Gardevoir and Nikkit were settling their differences, Christina, the woman in black turns and watches the Gardevoir and Nickit for a moment. occasionally depending on the angle she was seen at, her eyes looked almost golden.
"Come now, Shade, I'm sure 'Master' would like some alone time with his 'new best friend'.", Swindle says in an obvious attempt to further mock Shade's earlier slip-up. "Also, this is a great chance for us to do a little 'sightseeing' of our own, no?"
Shade's face turns unsure. "I suppose..."
But Keaton interjects. "Swindle, the only 'sights' you're going to see are the sights inside your Pokéball if you even think about leaving this building. Are we clear?", Keaton commands without even a hint of humor in the tone of his voice. "Now go check out the other side of the room and report back if you see anyone else come in from over there, I don't want you too far away from me in the event there's trouble."
Both of his Pokémon respond with a nod, then he lets go of Swindle and Shade leaps off his shoulder to hurry off to the other side of the room, oblivious to the strange woman watching them.
"Are you sure letting those two run off without supervision is a wise idea friend?" Christina asks to the one the Nickit referred to as 'master'. "Considering what I can only guess is that we're guests here, I'd rather not be a suspect in mysterious thefts of products."
Taken aback by his own lack of awareness at not spotting her sooner, Keaton takes a reactionary step away from the stranger. Then, after a moment, he collects himself and responds. "I can assure you that, despite having a playful sense of humor, my family is quite well behaved. But, in the event there is any trouble with them, I will take complete responsibility."
Just then, a receptionist approaches the group and says, "Welcome to the Damon building. You are all here by request, yes? Please enter the elevator and head down to the lowest floor to get started."
Gracidea nods at the receptionist, then quietly walks towards the elevator, hoping to quickly meet this building's owner and get things started.
With the single spoken word "Return!" Keaton summons his Pokémon to his side once again, picking up Swindle and letting Shade climb back onto his shoulder. He gives a friendly nod to the receptionist, then starts to head to the elevator with the rest of the group.
Christina turns her attention to the receptionist and nods as well, following the receptionist and heads over to the elevator with the trainer and the Gardevoir.
It's then they notice the mysterious new Pokémon isn't following, but instead heading out the main entrance to leave, just as another new person enters the building to follow them down.
