Leon couldn't help but practically rip his own jacket off and place it over Sumi's shoulders. He should have known she wouldn't dress for the occasion, but he did wish to give her the benefit of the doubt for once. It seemed he was proven wrong. Nonetheless, his Wartortle skipped ahead and blew a gentle water gun at the Fuecoco. Maybe this was an attempt to pick on it, or maybe even an attempt to get it to play along, but the Wartortle seemed a bit more mischievous since Sumi's new addition to her team.

Leon knew what that meant. He wasn't ready to give 'the talk' to his pokemon. Or Sumi for that matter. (Cause let's be real here. Did Sumi know how Pokemon Eggs came about?)

He inhaled and looked at the people with a stoic fashion. He'd spent moments before digging a proper area for their individual gracidea seeds. He was covered in dirt so he wasn't in the happiest of moods. As Sumi asked where they were going, he folded his arms over his chest and eyed their alotted following.

"We want somewhere heavily populated. I say we head for Slateport."

Plenty of people to influence, and plenty of people to sell varied wares too. If they wanted to be smart about his own position, they'd likely have to speak to the two resident drug lords. That meant creating allyship among fellow Velvet Room. Perhaps he could talk Sumi into an outing with Jaskier and himself with Taiga. After all, those two were so far up each other's asses that they didn't have to worry about any sort of debauchery.

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"ohmigod, slateport is like such a serve." practically visualizing the nail emoji by offering her own manicured hand, sumi nuzzled into her boyfriend's jacket and delighted in it - a wide smile on her face as she enjoyed the rugged nature of his appearance. "kinda like how dirt is appealing only when on you. otherwise people look, y'know, kinda poor. you look like you're a strong farmer ready to let me live out my smutty farmhand fantasies." batting her eyelashes, she almost forgot about the wartortle trying to play with her fuecoco. hard pause.[break]
"OH MY GOD ARE THEY TRYING TO FUCK?!"[break]
no subtlety to be had, sumi borderline despaired. no, she had no basic understand of biology - let alone pokemon biology. why the hell did all of them produce eggs? shouldn't that be for the bird pokemon only? would her little pepper be giving live birth? this was too much for the pinkette's head. she almost imploded with the idea but basically gave her baby the boot. "if you're gonna do that, don't make it weird. i don't wanna see that shit." her fuecoco gaped at its trainer but was enjoying the company of the wartortle, plodding over and popping some bubbles with finely tuned embers shooting from its mouth like a little bb gun. clapping happily, the fuecoco then patted its stomach rhythmically to show appreciation for the game. as to suggest they take their place elsewhere, the fuecoco took the lead in guiding the wartortle away, not understanding even the concept of being picked on - seeing it as a fun friendly gesture.[break]
"so anyway, i brought this sushi thing." moving right along, sumi snapped her fingers as some caterers came forward - trays upon trays of sushi and sashimi brought to line of vision. "but oh wow ... i don't seem to have a plate to eat it on." despairing theatrically, the pink-haired one found herself putting a limp wrist to her forehead. a caterer quickly offered her a plate but she slapped it away with a hiss, accentuating her last problem: "if only i had a strong back to eat it off of." it was obvious she wasn't here for business, but she sighed and rolled her eyes as one of the new servants raised a hand amongst a mouthful of sushi and asked how their base looked. amongst sipping a pomegranate tea, sumi peered at the rotom that allowed her to allot a certain amount of their cash into certain compartments of the base.[break]
"thick thighs save lives or whatever. want the base to have the biggest squatting power," sumi said more to herself than anyone else as she started putting points into what was deemed the 'HP' stat. (PENDING REQUEST: +40 POINTS INTO BASE HP).

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