In a private room on the cat café's second floor, Jia Qiong's fondness for Pokémon had flared up again, and he was checking a young Skitty's development.
The Skitty clearly wasn't used to this. It swatted Jia Qiong's face with its tail, then ran off to one side.
The cat café was also a Pokémon Day Care registered with the League. Much like Mania's Cat House, it raised young Pokémon.
Running a cat café open to the public was a way of supplementing its funds.
Most of the Pokémon raised at the Pokémon Day Care would be entrusted to rookie trainers, so this also helped them get used to interacting with human partners early.
Since the café doubled as a Pokémon Day Care, most of the Pokémon here were unevolved-little ones, every last one of them.
As Meownei walked in, an invisible aura set off warnings in these Pokémon's instincts, nearly throwing them into a panic. But the aura lasted less than a second before fading without a trace.
Just as Meowstic had said, someone who brought their own cat to a cat café might be a little strange, but someone who invited a person inseparable from their cat to a cat café wasn't exactly normal either.
After all, nobody brought their girlfriend to a brothel. But a kindergarten was a different matter. They were just a bunch of little kids, so no harm done.
Besides, the ratio of males to females among these little ones was pretty balanced, though humans generally couldn't tell them apart anyway.
Male and female Meowstic looked vastly different, and Eevee had differences in the pattern of their fur too, but most Pokémon couldn't be distinguished by appearance alone.
Only someone sufficiently familiar with that kind of Pokémon could make a rough judgment.
Meownei was