No matter how big Yuuri's appetite was, I hadn't expected him to finish so quickly.
"I'm pretty sure this is going a little faster than you expected?"
Although it wouldn't disappear anytime soon, it was still dwindling rapidly. No matter how much Yuuri had, I didn't think I could finish it that quickly. That carefully considered thought flashed through my mind.
Come to think of it, had Mr. Saito given you any advice before we entered this forest? There were some mischievous Pokémon here, weren't there?
Mischievous Pokémon were nothing unusual in themselves. I thought I'd seen plenty of them in the Sinnoh Region. Mr. Saito probably knew that, and probably understood that there was no need to go out of his way to explain something so basic to adventuring. Still, I thought it bore repeating, since some Pokémon could be a little troublesome.
Marnie must have had the same thought. As we wandered around together, I scanned our surroundings with a little caution. It took only a few seconds to survey the area. Unexpectedly, the answer soon became clear.
"Hey, Floria. That Pokémon over there."
"Yeah, that little one looks like the culprit."
Where Marnie pointed, a Pokémon was carefully carrying what looked like a bowl made from the bark of some large tree, heaped with curry, as though about to make off with it. I could make out its silhouette: long black hair, a green lower body, and a pink upper body. Its ears were especially striking, so large that you might think they were as long as its face. Some might have said it looked like a devil, but seeing it carrying the curry with such a blissful expression made me smile. When I gently raised the Rotom Pokédex, it seemed the Pokémon was called Sinistea. They