The Mystery Game Begins!

Sync pairs of Pasio!

I'm happy to announce that we'll be holding an interactive mystery game!

Play a role and solve the mansion's mysteries!

IF you can solve them! Hahahahaha!

And that's what's going on!

So we've been invited as playtesters?

Precisely.

I will have you all act the roles you're given and play this mystery-solving game.

Among the roles you will play, there is a culprit who will cause an incident...who is obviously hiding their identity.

You will be asked to figure out who the culprit is and what kind of incident happened.

Wow! That sounds like so much fun! ♪

Now then, draw to decide your roles!

Wow! You two get costumes? That's nice!

Heehee! Does it suit me? Apparently, I'm the detective's assistant!

And I'm the detective.

They're really putting a lot of effort into this event, preparing costumes and all.

I'll do my best to support you as detective's assistant!

Great! I'll be counting on you!

I'm the musician... Are there no costumes for us?

We don't have all the costumes yet, as we're still in the testing phase.

Awww... I would have liked to wear the artist's costume.

I can't believe I don't get to be the detective. It would have been perfect for me...

But the main idea of the game is that you can still make deductions even if you're not the detective, right?

Why don't you just guess the culprit before the detective does?

I suppose you're right... Then I'll stick with my role as the gardener!

By the way, what's your role, Agatha?

I'm the owner of the mansion. Why, am I a suspect already?

I'm the cleaner?!

There's no need for cleaning if you just smash everything to bits!

I'm the sculptor... Don't you go breaking any of my art, now.

Does everyone know what role they'll be playing?

Now, before we begin the game, let me go over some simple rules.

Each participant has been given a role, and one of those roles is the culprit!

However, the culprit has also been given an additional role to serve as a decoy.

The culprit must use their decoy role to avoid suspicion while causing "the incident."

And everyone else should play their roles and try to guess who the culprit is, right?

Indeed. To discover the culprit, it's important to figure out what happened in this mansion.

Piecing together what occurred is crucial to solving the mystery!

I have a question!

Can you get help from your partner Pokémon during the game?

That's fine. The point of this game is to enjoy it as a sync pair.

Do you understand the rules? If so, let the games begin!

It seems everyone's acting out their roles.

Now, as the detective, this says I should...

Go around the mansion and observe the other participants.

To the culprit, I'm just an annoying snoop.

Oh, hey, Mr. Detective. Are you wandering around because you're bored?

Haha! Well, this IS my job...

Agatha, you're the owner of the mansion, right?

That's right. You should show me some respect.

And I'm the gardener!

What were you two doing just now?

We were talking about the Pokémon in the garden!

He was explaining a few things to me regarding the Pokémon that live in the garden.

Could you clarify what you mean?

This mansion wasn't originally mine.

It was seized from a distinguished family to clear a debt.

So the Pokémon in the garden are from that family.

Which means you've only recently started living here?

That's right.

Hey, Steven. ♪

I'm here to help you as the detective's assistant!

I had a look around the mansion, and I memorized the rooms! ♪

That's amazing! Could you show me around?

Leave it to me. ♪

Well then, see you two later!

Here, this is the art studio!

Oh, wow! You're making a sculpture out of ice! ♪

Ahaha! Fitting for a sculptor, right?

Be careful not to slip on the leftover shards!

OK!

By the way, I heard there's treasure somewhere in this mansion.

And I might be interested in that treasure...

I see...

Next is the storage room!

Tch! Why do I have to be the one cleaning?

You don't like your role, Guzma?

Well, duh. Also, the cleaner supposedly doesn't like the owner of the mansion.

If that's the deal, then I don't need to waste my time acting. I can just keep complaining, since it fits the part.

You're right. Acting might be your calling!

Sh-shut it! I'm busy right now! Go away!

This place has a beautiful view. ♪

Is the artist duo having a chat?

Yep! We were just talking about how it would have been great if our roles were swapped!

I'm the artist...

And I'm the musician.

I'm just going around talking to everyone right now. Have you noticed anything out of the ordinary?

Umm... Oh yeah!

I was supposed to say something specific to anyone who asked a question!

Hmm... Are you supposed to tell them that?

What? Is that against the rules?

No, you're not breaking the rules.

But if you're the culprit, what you just said would be extremely disadvantageous for you...

B-but if I don't say anything now, that's even more suspicious, right?

So, in this mansion, there's an old painting of a little girl.

And as an artist, I was drawn to that painting! Errr, supposedly.

So that means it's a painting of Agatha, the owner of the mansion?

Maybe...

... ... ...

C'est une catastrophe!

The mansion's treasure has been stolen!

A treasure was stolen from the locked treasure vault!

The participants shared the information they had and organized their thoughts on the situation...

Looker and Agatha have been together since the beginning of the game. So have Lyra and Burgh.

Since there's only one culprit, those four have alibis.

What's an alibi?

It means you can prove that you weren't at the crime scene when the incident occurred.

Right, so the four of them can vouch for each other!

Which means there're two suspects, Guzma and Melony?!

There're four if you include me and Shauna.

We met up at one point, but before that, we were working separately.

Oh, that's right!

So, who's the most suspicious out of the four right now?

A-are you saying I'm the culprit?! I haven't been in no treasure vault!

I have the keys to some of the rooms so I can clean, but I don't have the key to the treasure vault!

Guzma's telling the truth. I have the key. See? Here it is.

As the owner of the mansion, I have all the keys.

Are those really all of your keys, Agatha?

They should be. Why?

I see...

If Agatha had the keys, no one else can get into the room, right?

I think we need to investigate a bit more...

This is the treasure vault!

We've got to look for a clue...

Stoutland?

Looks like he found something.

Oh? Is that for me?

A shard of ice? How...

It may have confused it with a pretty rock!

There are times when Stoutland does bring me rocks, but...

Mistaking ice for a rock?

So there was a shard of ice at the scene of the crime...

Hah, I've got it!

Melony! You're the culprit, aren't you?!

What?! You're accusing me just because there was ice at the scene?

Here's my reasoning!

You worked together with Lapras and made a key to the door out of ice!

Then you used the ice key to get into the room and steal the treasure, and made it look locked by locking the door again!

The motive could be that you wanted the treasure for a sculpture...

Hold on a minute! That's all just speculation!

But the only ones who can freely manipulate ice are you and Lapras!

That's true, but...

Wait!

Melony isn't the culprit!

Wh-whaaat?!

Light has been shone on the darkness of this case...

The real culprit is...

You!

The real culprit is...you!

Shauna!

Whaaat?!

You suspect me, Steven?

Yes, I'm sure of it. If you want to prove your innocence...

I want you to show us that none of Klefki's keys can open the treasure vault.

If you can't do that...

What do you mean?

Klefki has this mansion's master key.

If my deduction is correct, this mansion should have a master key.

Whaaat?! How did you guess that? Tell me, Steven!

Of course.

To start, the aim of this game isn't just to guess the culprit.

We also have to figure out what happened in this mansion, right?

Lyra.

You said there's an old painting of a little girl in this mansion, correct?

Burgh said it must be a painting of Agatha, the owner of the mansion, but...

This mansion was seized from a prestigious family, and Agatha has only recently started living here.

So it would be weird to have an "old" painting of Agatha.

Then the girl in the painting is...

Yes. She's the girl from the prestigious family who used to live in this mansion.

What if that girl was looking for a chance to steal the treasure back?

And you're saying that's Shauna?

Yes. It wouldn't be strange for the culprit... and by culprit, I mean the original owner of the mansion...

to, like Agatha, have special items to help them play their role in this game.

I suspect Agatha doesn't have the master key to this mansion...

because when she showed me what keys she had, Klefki didn't express any interest in them.

The fact that Klefki have a tendency to like master keys is just further proof.

But you could just hide the keys...and Melony could be the girl from the painting, right?

Aww, a "girl"?

And the painting could have been brought in by Agatha!

And there was a shard of ice at the crime scene...

Yes, and that was the conclusive proof.

What?

My Stoutland gave the shard of ice to you.

It knew from the smell left on the ice that you dropped it, Shauna.

That's the proof that you left the ice there, so Melony would look suspicious.

The ice shard...from when you were talking to me?

That's another suspicious thing.

Even if you did search the mansion, you're still far too knowledgeable about it.

So knowledgeable that your role could only be someone who's lived here previously!

Now, Shauna. Hand over Klefki's keys.

One of Klefki's keys opened the door to the treasure vault...

Aw, man. You got me! ♪

Amazing, Steven. Everything is as you explained.

Shauna was the culprit, and she was given a map of the mansion and the master key along with her outfit.

Aww, I couldn't fool Steven!

No, you were a very good culprit, Shauna.

You completely fooled me!

You got me with that cute face of yours!

Heehee... ♪

He, he's not here?!

Wh-what happened?!

My partner Pokémon...

was stolen!

Yes...

A real case that wasn't part of the game has begun!