At the time, Dodo had said nothing, indifferent to his own life or death, only watching to see whether Shen Qi could back up his grand claims.
Dodo's [Memory Image] had contained a wealth of information and led straight to clues about Team Rocket, allowing Shen Qi to follow the trail and guess that the blue-haired man was Apollo.
Florges's clues were far vaguer. Aside from the Eternal Flower's brief appearance, the other Flabébé being unable to evolve had nothing to do with the games.
The current breakthrough should lie in the petal Florges had been missing in her childhood form as a white Flabébé, with a transparent petal replacing the missing one.
After she evolved into a white Floette, the transparent petal remained on her flower;
Florges's final form did not involve holding a flower to fly, but there were tiny crystals on her floral ruff, which were probably the transparent petal's ultimate form.
Shen Qi certainly could not act omniscient and directly announce that Florges had had a transparent petal as a child.
"Madam."
"Yes?"
"Those tiny transparent crystals on your ruff seem rather unusual."
[Emotional Script "Madam, Please Behave Yourself," completion 12%]
This was so difficult. Shen Qi really had to work his way into Florges's heart step by step, reasonably unraveling his questions and her secrets before he could advance the completion percentage.
And once he reached the latter half of the script, he would probably have to produce a real answer... or at least offer a preliminary solution.
"You really are impressive, sir."
Florges did not conceal much, explaining that she had been born underdeveloped, with a petal missing from the white flower she used to fly.
These flowers were not external tools, but parts of Flabébé's and Floette's bodies. It was comparable