Haruki thanked Almond politely for holding the door open, before she walked out. She looked around to see how the people seemed really tired all of a sudden. She nodded and mumbled in response to his comment about them, "I know..." She thought to herself silently, her mind wandering back to the psychic Pokemon hypothesis and trying to figure everything out. Her mind was now mainly focused on why such a Pokemon would interfere. At first she was thinking that said Psychic Pokemon was trying to get them to intercept the shadows before they struck, (in short: they were helping), but now she wondered how putting the townspeople of Pewter City to sleep would help them. If they were asleep, and the shadows ran from her and Almond and attacked Pewter City, they would be left defenseless! Then a horrifying thought came to mind: [i]What if the shadows were mimicking psychic pokemon?![/i] Her complexion had paled at the thought.

She snapped out her thoughts when Almond spoke up about the stubble, and she couldn't help but face palm and groaned. She calmed down a bit when he brought up Spitfire. She answered him, "Oh yeah! He would!" After he mentioned the time, she answered him, "It's not just you. I thought the exact time was a weird thing to mention as well," She blinked at the noise coming from Almond and she noticed how Walnut seemed to expect something. She sighed at the mention of money for a meal, and she answered with a sigh, "I highly doubt it, unfortunately..." She took out her wallet from her jacket pocket and looked through to see the currency from their world, dollars and cents, and she sighed "All I have are the money from our world, and I don't think Pewter City would accept dollars and cents,"