Heath froze for a moment, then turned his head for a closer look. In the food truck's rearview mirror, he saw that a little yellow ear really had poked out of the sewer behind his truck. The familiar cloth and somewhat dirty outer covering instantly told Heath where the little thing had come from.
Mimikyu.
What Heath hadn't expected was that Mimikyu had followed him here. Or was his luck simply so good that he could run into Mimikyu face-to-face even in a place as large as the Indigo League?
"This really is interesting... but what does this little fellow want? It's probably a stray Pokémon. Does it want something to eat?" Heath curiously watched Mimikyu's exposed ear through the food truck's rearview mirror. It clearly hadn't realized that it had already given itself away and was still sneaking around, "watching from the shadows," though with Mimikyu's obvious movements, it looked more like watching in plain sight.
Heath had seen Pokémon like this before. Back in Viridian City, his first encounter with Ekans and the others had happened in much the same way. At the time, though, he had been running his stall when he noticed the bushes behind him moving. Then, under Heath's gaze, a Raticate had emerged. Out of curiosity, Heath had fed it some Jianbing Guozi a customer hadn't finished, and after repeated encounters, they had gradually become familiar with one another.
Now, in Heath's eyes, this Mimikyu was in the same situation. However, Heath really had never served Ghost Pokémon before, so he didn't know much about what they liked to eat. Surely he couldn't just play rock-paper-scissors with it like he had with Ms. Lori's Gengar?
But then Heath remembered that he had someone here who might know more about this. With that thought, he