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Just outside the Southern Temple, a few Pokemon are around in need of your help. These side quests don’t come with any direct reward inDetective Pikachu Returns, but they’re important for helping you discover every Pokemon in the game, and it’s also the right thing to do, which is enough motivation for Tim.
One of these Pokemon inThe Fabled Aurorais the small and loveable Cleffa, and it can be tough to figure out exactly how to help them - but that’s because you don’t have all the tools to do it yet. It wants your help to be reunited with its friends, and that meansfinding the three other Cleffascattered around the surrounding area.
Where To Find The First Cleffas
You will need toenter the temple itself for the first time for the Cleffa to appear, and then speak to it on the path leading away from the temple. It will tell you that it’s playing hide and seek, and that it needs to get back soon for an appointment - who knows what business dealings it has? It also tells you there are three other Cleffa you need to find.
The first one is by the Shuca treethat the Passimian fell out ofbefore the temple was open, and the second isby the Yache tree over on the far right of the path by the lake. These two shouldn’t be too hard to find - they’reboth next to the berry trees you need to open the temple doors, and neither of them is actually hiding at all. Our impatient Cleffa seems to be rather lazy.
However, we can cut it a bit of slack when it comes to the third and final Cleffa.Right now, this Cleffa is impossible to find, so you should ignore this quest andcontinue onwards through the temple. There are other quests you will discover in the temple itself, such asthe missing Ursaring, but for Cleffa you need to clear the temple completely and then head back outside.
How To Reach The Third Cleffa
At this point, you can head back to Ryme City and wrap the case up, but before that, you shouldtalk to Darmanitan and ask for a ride. As Pikachu clambers up onto its back, you can now wander around the map andbreak all of the rock columns with cracks in them.
Most of them are empty, butyou will need to do this both for the fossil hunting quest, and for Cleffa itself - don’t break them yet though oryou won’t be able to do the fossil quest.Head down away from the temple, back down the path you originally walked.
You will seethe fossil hunter standing by a small ring of breakable rocks. Break two of these - Darmanitan can’t fit through a gap of just one - andyou’ll see Cleffa standing inside, easily the best hide and seek player of the gang.
Talk to it, and that will wrap the quest up. It’s also fine to wait until you’ve done the cave before talking to the first Cleffa and kicking off the quest, butjust finding them alone will not begin the quest- you need to speak to the one by the temple.
Quite how Cleffa got in here in the first place is a mystery when Zigzagoon was struggling to even damage the rocks a little, but I suppose it’s small enough to squeeze through without needing much force.
Once you’ve found it, and the other two, the game of hide and seek will be over, and the Cleffa will thank you (or Pikachu, at least) and be on their way back to Ryme City. Once you’re done,talk to Racheland head back to the bustling Pokemon metropolis too.
