he approaches fernando in casual attire, sipping on his boba when he finally finds him. while he shouldn't be surprised at his silvally, especially since a lot of trainers have shown theirs during the three day war, his eyes still gravitate towards the chimera since it looks different than a regular pokemon.

fernando gives a narrative that kyle can relate to, mostly because he has similar memory disks taken from the similar underground tour as well. he chews on a pearl, swallowing as fernando finishes his explanation.

"kinda," he answers. it was mentioned in the instructions manual that came with assembling the type:null, so he has a gist of what it was supposed to do. kyle doesn't have the specifics at the moment, however. "it's something you can let your beast killer hold. kinda like..."

with his hand that doesn't hold the boba, he weakly extends his palm towards one of the disks, hovering it on one of them. "may i?" asking for permission was necessary despite how close he assumes the two of them are. he doesn't take fernando as the type to share after all.

he takes the disk from fernando before approaching the silvally beside him. it's only when he realizes that the silvally would most likely attack if it has a similar temparament as his own, only to be reminded that fernando trains his pokemon a little bit different than kyle would.

kyle swallos, hoping for the best, and reaches for the drives where its ears should be. he taps them twice in succession, as he would for his silvally to get it to open, and watches in awe as it works for fernando's as well.

"like this."

he inserts the memory onto the silvally's drive, much like how he had seen his release a disk during the slateport blackout. as soon as it's properly in place, he pushes the drive back to its place.

"i haven't actually tried this on mine because he doesn't like me tampering with him," kyle confesses as he steps away from the silvally, "but it goes there, i think."

the silvally shifts in appearance before his eyes. it wasn't drastic, but it's noticeable enough for kyle to be able to make a distinction between its new forme and its previous one. much like fernando, he's in awe with what he's seeing despite being the one responsible for it.

"guess i know what i'm getting mine to do later when i get back home," he muses out loud.

folding his arms, he tries to look for more differences besides its color. the manual they came with did not have that much visuals and had only relied on worded descriptions.

"multi-attack," he blurts out all of a sudden. "mine used that move a lot when he evolved. did yours happen during the third day of the war too?"

there are multiple reports for each warfront that mentioned a type:null evolving, alongside names of their respective trainers. the only assumption he can make is that each of them got theirs the same method as him, besides maybe fernando. he was pretty sure that he would've read the manual if he got one.

"it should have the same typing as the memory, supposedly. want to try it?"

"...is yours defective?" he asks, cocking his head to match the silvally's confused state.

kyle scratches the back of his head as he tries to think why fernando's wouldn't be able to use his. it's another thing that clues kyle in that fernando got his from a different source. he doesn't bring it up though since he figures it's none of his business.

"i'd take mine and show how the move works, but he's all the way over to verdanturf so i can't just take him out of my pc."

it was a convenient excuse since it's actually true and kyle doesn't have to bend the truth to get out of the situation of having to teach silph's silvally the move scot-free.

"have you tried asking the people with one of them how they do it?" reports from the war had big names, surprisingly those that kyle doesn't see participating in shady dealings, with one. "Stormy Silph , Laurence Anderson , Orion Lykos ... you're close with them too, right? i've seen you actually talk to them on topics that aren't related to work. you can ask them to show it to you if you want some time, hehe."

kyle tactic number 1: shift the responsibility to someone else more capable so he doesn't have to do it.

"it kinda has a very... interesting personality." revealing that it got most of its habits from its environment wasn't optimal cause kyle doesn't want to hurt his image further. "let's just say that it's my house's guard dog."

his strat is countered by legitimate excuses. "mine turned on me as well even though i got along with it beforehand," he argues, although eventually, he figures that it wouldn't be enough to dissuade. adding more to his list of excuses would just make his future attempts more ineffective.

he sighs, deciding to give up eventually. he asks one quick inquiry though.

"where did you even get your type:null?" there should be a manual if he received his from the same source as them.

"someone did..." kyle pinches the bridge of his nose when he learns that someone can trade off a perfectly rare pokemon, especially after the trouble of getting one. "guess that's reasonable."

he supposed the actual procedure deemed to be too much for the one that made fernando's type:null and couldn't handle the guilt of doing something illegal, or something like that. at this point, kyle can only guess. there's no point worrying about something that he shouldn't waste energy on.

"not the same as you, i'm guessing." he shrugs and sighs. "i'm getting in trouble if i say my source. you understand me, right?" he crosses his arms and tries to think of a better alternative than say it himself.

"maybe you can pry one of the others for info. one of them has to owe you for something. that way, i don't have to confess to it."

he smiles, lips curving to a smirk.

"why me...?" he mutters, a hand sweeping back his hair as he eases himself to his situation.

he collects himself, wondering why the universe has decided that he has to be the snitch to fernando out of everyone that has acquired a type:null. he heaves a sigh before resigning himself to at least convincing himself that fernando owes him for this.

"alright, fine. remember the time around october of 2019? back when cotillard was caught?" he gives fernando a few moments to recall the event if he does have it at the back of his mind. "i got one of them from his lab during his arrest."

he leaves the specifics of how he got it and leaves fernando to fill in the blanks with deductive reasoning. assumptions will have to do since he can't be bothered to explain the whole process to him.

"others probably nabbed theirs too from him too, i guess." he scratches the back of his head before turning back to the councilman. "ever wonder why he developed 'beast killers' when megalopolans utilized ultra beasts as their main weapons?" he ponders, extending the question to fernando.