[i]"So Professor not to... uh doubt you. But what exactly do you need all of us for. I mean, not that I'm saying I won't do it. I'll gladly help you out. It just doesn't seem like a five man job is all."[/i]

Birek lowered his eyes to the ground for a brief moment and took a deep breath before speaking and looked back up at the group. "The truth is is that each of you have one personality trait that many trainers in Orre seem to lack: You each genuinely care for your Pokemon. I'm not trying to make all trainers in the Orre region seem...careless but the truth is many of them don't care about their Pokemon unless their Pokemon win battles on a consistent basis. And I can't count out the remote possibility that someone may try to steal the scales and find some way to use them to corrupt Pokemon or worse yet, somehow use them to create Shadow Pokemon."

He raised his hands up in front of him. "And I realize that I said that there isn't a connection between the scales and Shadow Pokemon but that's just based off of mine and Leta's study. Someone else may develop a way to create new Shadow Pokemon."

"Truth be told, you are some of the few trainers I can trust to carry this out."