"Well, this Rocket guy cornered me." Claude removes his hat, setting it down on a nearby box. "I tried to bluff my way out of it, thinking he was going to lose interest, but it just wasn't cutting it with him. I told him I wasn't fighting anyone because my team was all knocked out, so he told me to go steal some Revives...and when I told him I couldn't do that because my team was all knocked out, he actually escorted me to a shop himself. Said he'd cover me.

"So," Claude continues, even as he starts stripping out of the shirt, "I didn't want to actually commit a crime, or help him commit a crime. But I didn't have a good way to break away from him, either. And I really didn't want to get in a fight. But then I remembered I still had that Potion, so..." He emerges again as he pulls the shirt off, hair tousled even more than before, grinning sunnily in Sylvain's direction. "I sprayed it in his eyes and bolted. Gave me just enough of a head start to lose him in the crowds."