"Meow? (What's this?)"
"A Pokémon Egg. It's a prize from the competition. There's prize money too, besides this egg. Coach Jia didn't say what kind of Pokémon it is, though. He left us to guess.
Looks like we'll have to spend some time hatching it when we get back."
"Meow! (H-hatching an egg?!)"
Meowscarada was prone to jealousy, but she didn't get jealous over nothing. She had no intention of interfering with Xin Mu's plans to expand his team, though naturally, she wouldn't suggest that he catch another Pokémon unless it was another Meowscarada.
Right now, this was only an egg, yet Meownei seemed to have read something rather different into the phrase "hatching an egg together."
"Can you tell what kind of Pokémon it is?"
"Meow... (No idea...)"
Xin Mu waved a hand in front of Meownei's face, bringing her back to her senses. But even though she was a Pokémon herself, identifying its species was beyond her.
Countless mysteries still surrounded Pokémon, and Pokémon Eggs were shrouded in even more uncertainty.
The widely recognized authority on Pokémon Eggs was Professor Oak's student, Professor Cerise, but even he couldn't reliably identify what kind of Pokémon an egg contained.
A few Pokémon Eggs had distinctive features, but far more were difficult to tell apart by appearance.
So far, no method had been able to record or observe the moment a Pokémon Egg appeared. As a result, there was even another theory: Pokémon Eggs weren't actually laid by Pokémon at all.
Instead, some special power caused them to appear randomly around the world, and nearby Pokémon simply picked them up to raise them.
The Pokémon that picked up an egg would determine what species hatched from it. Of course, this school of thought had very few supporters. Most people still believed