How does the Oracle heal people? They must be exhausted.....

[The thought that occurs to him really isn't the most encouraging thing in the world, knowing that some mystic power seems to be the only known cure for a supernatural plague.]

.....Maybe it's better you don't have any samples right now. You could probably spread the plague to a few dozen worlds, if anyone here got infected and went home. And what would happen to them, without an Oracle or any cure you discovered?

[He sympathizes, he really does! But that sounds like a terrible idea, even to someone with judgment as poor as his can be.

Judgment as poor as to actually admit to being the culprit here, albeit with a little hesitation. He doesn't want to feel ashamed of what he is, or like he has to hide it..... Thoughts and feelings like those were what had made him let The Masked Man lead him off to begin with, hazy as his memories of those days are.]

.....Right, things like that. It was me, not her--but I'm pretty sure she's at least as smart as I am. Probably smarter. That's one reason most people find Psychic types so hard to train--they just don't know how to deal with Pokémon who might be able to think more critically and strategically than they can, instead of obeying without giving it any more thought.