[Just as oddly resonant as before, though still apparently not carrying any of Edgeworth's temporary power.]
I find it hard to believe that anything like the choker would be deliberately designed with a flaw that's dangerous to those around the user. Furthermore, were this a common side-effect of such a choker's influence, would that not be a known factor with requisite warnings being at least rumored and ideally mandated by law? Instead, you've clearly never seen nor heard of such an effect before. Sickness or not, it strikes me as far more probable to be abnormal than not — and almost certainly so if any other human you've known has used it before without any such result.
Concerning that possibility, you've specifically referred to Detective Badd as someone who knows of merpeople, and I find it hard to believe that he would simply ignore the sorts of opportunities this would provide, even in the face of potentially dangerous side-effects. [Apparently, Edgeworth isn't even giving Kay a chance to deny others' use of transformation chokers before he establishes its likelihood.] Given the mechanics of reproduction and the limitations of the choker, it seems highly likely that your father used one of these at some point as well. Would neither of these people have warned you of any dangers associated with such an object?
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[Just as oddly resonant as before, though still apparently not carrying any of Edgeworth's temporary power.]
I find it hard to believe that anything like the choker would be deliberately designed with a flaw that's dangerous to those around the user. Furthermore, were this a common side-effect of such a choker's influence, would that not be a known factor with requisite warnings being at least rumored and ideally mandated by law? Instead, you've clearly never seen nor heard of such an effect before. Sickness or not, it strikes me as far more probable to be abnormal than not — and almost certainly so if any other human you've known has used it before without any such result.
Concerning that possibility, you've specifically referred to Detective Badd as someone who knows of merpeople, and I find it hard to believe that he would simply ignore the sorts of opportunities this would provide, even in the face of potentially dangerous side-effects. [Apparently, Edgeworth isn't even giving Kay a chance to deny others' use of transformation chokers before he establishes its likelihood.] Given the mechanics of reproduction and the limitations of the choker, it seems highly likely that your father used one of these at some point as well. Would neither of these people have warned you of any dangers associated with such an object?