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Artemis sighed, but then smiled. Why not? Even if they got in trouble, it wasn't like either of them couldn't pay - it'd be fun anyway. She walked up to the counter and quickly flashed her PCO ID - different from just her regular trainer ID.

"I'm an Environmental Health Specialist with the PCO," she replied, a stern look on her face that was easy to fake considering it was her standard expression of a frown. She rose a brow as she glanced around, looking from the floor to the ceiling and then her eyes fell back on the person at the counter. She peered at the counters where several coffee pots and other equipment rested, a few areas splotched with coffee. Artemis quickly rummaged through her bag and retrieved a small pad of paper, along with a pen, quickly scrawling something down before tapping the pen on the top of the pad.

"Yes, let's see," she stared up at the menu. "I'd like a cappuccino. And a latte for my assistant." Artemis glanced at Elizabeth and nodded her head slightly.

A Cottonee? Eunmi said some other stuff, but Salieri pretty much disregarded it after hearing that Emi had a Cottonee. "Oh oh, a Cottonee! Those are so cool, my bro had one before he evolved it into a Whimsicott. Do you know what their abilities are? They're the ultimate tricksters."

Salieri began to take off her belt, pants and shoes, revealing a scarlet red bikini bottom underneath. "Prankster makes every move that isn't a direct attack into a priority move, like Mach Punch. And Infiltrator lets them slip past defenses. So they can take people apart with speed and never really attack!"

Then the Battle Girl unbuttoned her shirt, which was already revealed a lot of her stomach, to take it off entirely. A point of mild contention in Sal's life was that she barely filled out a B-Cup, which was evident under her scarlet bikini top. "Of course, my bro doesn't really battle anymore, so I don't actually know if Blacksheep can put up a fight. But he told me about the applications of the abilities."

The last thing that she did to prepare for a swim was to take off her hair tie and put it onto her wrist. Her wavy black hair fell halfway down her back, and it's volume spread out wide. She hadn't had a haircut in a while. Now that she was in her swimsuit, it was clear that while Salieri was toned from her training she wasn't covered in muscle. She just looked like a very athletic girl.

"Anyway, we're swimming cause all that water should make it easier to manifest an Aqua Jet the first time. Kind of like training wheels." Her hand flicked some stray strands of hair over her shoulder and behind her head. "And swimming is fun, duh."

Meanwhile, Wukong was back on his feet and walking to D-Vee. [I have to fight you?] His tone was incredulous. The painting pokemon didn't seem like much of a fighter, and at the moment wasn't acting like one. [This better be worth my time.]

"Like what?" Ryan asked. "Do you have something against apples? Malusdomesticaphobia maybe?"

Ryan paused, and nodded.

"That must be it," he said. "Sorry, I didn't mean to be insensitive."

"N-no!" Henrietta said. She understood what the complicated word meant, only because of the word phobia at the end plus the context. Or so she assumed that's what it meant. She looked at Ryan. "I-i j-just don't want to talk about myself." Her eyes downcast, Darumi was running backward in-front of them, making silly faces. She stifled a giggle.

The walk had lead them into Nacrene City. The big ol' city flourishing with its warehouse buildings. Cold steel making up everything from businesses to houses.

"W-we're almost there," Henrietta said and she pointed the building out, it was at the end of the street they were on.

"H-hum," Henrietta looked at the building. Soon they'd reach the doors and Henrietta would stop outside. "I-i'll w-wait h-, I-i mean," she looked back toward the route. "I-i should get back to training."

"Yeah? Going back to do that tututaykwondo stuff?" Ryan asked. "Alright then. Try not to look too much like a Ducklett."

He walked through the glass doors and over to the counter.

"I'd like my Pokemon healed please," he said and then he waited.

"Well she was weird," he said to Axew. "I think she's faking that stutter."

Kijin soon leaves Nacrene City following the winding path that lead to the large forest where there seemed to a large opening that made up the entrance to the forest. As he moves towards the entrance he spots something out of the corner of his eyes spotting some of the tracks that ran through Nacrene City leading into some grassy areas that seemed to lead off to the side and away from the forest. Kijin would look at the path and raises a brow getting a bit curious but he never saw anything about a path on the map so he simply ignored the path and moved into the forest.