Key of Stars
Elementary
"Sure as can be!" William answered, a bit of his usual less polite personality shining through. "After all, I would be a rather lousy detective if I couldn't remember at least that much." Watson made a small noise in agreement. "Though I guess that doesn't mean much when the average police officer can't even remember the address of the criminal I gave them not even five minutes ago." He added in a bit of a mumble before quickly shaking his head. "Sorry about that, I went on a bit of a tangent. My point is, I'm sure you can have the brochure."
William waved his hand dismissively. "Don't mention it, really. I did cause you some trouble and some more than likely unwanted attention from the crowd by walking into your table, did I not? This is the least I can do."
He nodded slowly before smiling. "I'm glad to hear that, I would have felt even worse had I ruined your schedule on top of causing you trouble. Efficiency, huh? Another thing the police seem to not possess in the slightest and don't even get me started on Interpol." William himself hardly noticed he made the remark, disparaging the police had become a habit that was difficult to shake over the years.
William might have gone off on another rant specifically about Interpol if the employee hadn't chosen that moment to return with both the order for his table and the table next to his. He thanked the employee with a warm smile before pushing one of the lemon cakes and the plate of poffins over to Watson who made a happy noise and immediately stuffed an entire poffin in its mouth. "Don't choke, that would truly be a tragic way to describe the death of my partner if they ever write a novel about us." William said with a laugh before pushing a small fork over to the other side of the table as well. "Make sure to use the fork to eat the cake, I remember the mess you made that one time."
Watson made an angry noise and threw a poffin at William which he caught with a laugh and put back on the plate. "I know that was 4 years ago but I distinctly remember spending the better half of my time on cleaning up instead of the case we were working on at the time." Sure, it had been thirty minutes at most but William didn't think mentioning the exact time was necessary.
"Holton, William Holton. The pleasure is all mine. And well, if you phrase it like that I find myself unable to refuse." He responded with a grin of his own. "You seem to have gotten a wrong impression somewhere though," He said with an amused smile. "I'm not waiting for anyone, that order was all mine." He took a small bite out of one of the cakes as a matter of demonstration.
"So," He started with a wide grin. "What events were you planning on attending? Even a detective needs the bare minimum of information to solve a puzzle. Unless... you want me to wager a guess and make some assumptions, no promises on accuracy."
He paused briefly before continuing. "Given the shopping bags at your feet and casual attire, I'm willing to guess you're here on vacation much like myself as opposed to being here to challenge the gym leaders, participate in the tournament yourself or participate in the contests. Moving on, you're asking for assistance with your schedule so I will assume you intend to get the most out of this vacation and attend as many events as possible."
He paused, shoving another bite of cake into his mouth before continuing. "Starting with the pokemon championship, it lasts a full 24 hours. 24 hours of non-stop pokemon battles is something only the most hardcore of trainers would sit through in its entirety and it's obvious that one would rather attend the end of the championship than the start given the nature of a championship that uses brackets. The contests, on the other hand, are spread out a lot better, with quite a few breaks in between. As for how big a fan of pokemon battles and contests you are, I would really only be able to take a guess based on blind luck. I can, however, based on your last name, make the wild assumption that you are a medical professional of sorts which could lead to a greater love for contests, in which pokemon are performing at their best health, compared to battles where pokemon are getting hurt."
William pointed to Watson with his fork. "With me so far partner?" The Espurr nodded briefly, chewing on a poffin. "Good. So we've established the events, aside from the music festival. The music festival is the final event of the entire festival so I will simply assume you plan to go even if not all of the music might be entirely to your taste. Given that you want to make a schedule I will assume you think just lazing around for a day is a waste of time so I will add some of the more popular activities I saw in the brochure to the schedule I made up."
He paused for a moment to sort his thoughts, having gone through a cake and a half during his analysis. "So, to recap, I'm guessing you'd want to attend around 4-6 hours of the end of the pokemon championship, an entire day of contests with breaks in between, the music festival, visit the garden of harmony, go on a sightseeing boat trip and I will throw in a beach day, we are on a tropical island, after all." He stated with a serious expression before smiling widely. "Of course, I could be completely wrong."
