a natu flies nearby, perching on one of the gravestones to stare at kyle and his horse.

"then, do you want to join me visit the comrades?"

as soon as the carrot disintegrates within the spectrier's gastro acid, it gets up and nods its head. it postures to let kyle take a ride on its back, but the champion motions for a no.

"nah, let's just walk there." he turns to the natu. "you can come too."

the wild natu flies away instead.

"tch."

an espurr appears on their walk. the urge to kick it like the gif comes to him, but he's not a fighting-type so he stops himself.

"this is it." he turns to his spectrier. "do you want to stay?"

despite not answering, it remains in the vicinity. kyle smiles as he takes the horse's answer.

the espurr, on the other hand, chooses to cling to kyle. the urge gets stronger, before he realizes there's a collar on the pokemon. he lowers himself to the ground and checks the tag. a name on one of the grave markers fits the returnee name on the back.

"um, you don't really fit my team..." it continues to bury itself by hugging kyle's leg. "ugh, fine."

he pats the espurr, who seemed unsurprisingly tame. not surprising from a pokemon that was most likely a pet. it wouldn't be one if it stays with kyle, but he supposed he can give it away as a gift or something.

"i can't really leave you behind here when ghost-types will eat you alive, huh?"

a pokeball is offered, and it is taken.