Dean just strolled looking at the busy street. He went to the nearby bakery and bought a cup of coffee, he resumed his walking while drinking and didn't care for the direction. He roamed as he liked the atmosphere in the city, even though he liked it he wouldn't even consider settling down in the city in future.

Dean: 'Why did I even think about settling? My journey has just started, I want to roam all around the world meet different people, experience new cultures, catch new pokemon perhaps unravel few mysteries ' while thinking he even passed by the pewter gym he wasn't planning on going inside to look but he saw few guys coming from the gym with a dissatisfied look.

Dean: 'Either Brock isn't here or they lost their gym battle. Speaking of the gym I need to buy machop some weights so that he could start weighted training along with polishing his moves' he walked around from street to street, ignoring the stares and finally entered some training gym asking for weights. With the money he had, he could only buy two ankle weights but he already thought of how to make money

Dean: "Battling," he said in a deep voice with a smile on his face. 'I just battled once and the taste of victory is still sweet in my mouth, machop should also be excited about battling. I shouldn't also go overboard with the challenges as I don't have much experience and machop is also not invincible'

He was returning to the pokemon centre suddenly he heard someone sobbing. After following the crying voice he entered the nearby alley to see a little girl crouching down hiding her face and an old man wearing a long brown coat was trying to calm her down

Oldman: "You have to calm down kelly, we can search together and we will definitely find him," he said softly.

Kelly: " Its no use grandpa, I searched everywhere I didn't find him " after that she started to weep even more

Oldman: "Did you really searched everywhere?" asked the old man without losing patience. Kelly hearing this became angry and was about to yell at the old man.

Dean who was listening to the conversation got some idea what that was about and decided to intervene at that point. He came out of hiding questioning

Dean: "What's going on here? Is there any problem?" he looked at the old man directing his question. The old man was slightly startled but regained his bearing quickly and said

Old man: "Ahh young man, she is upset because she lost something" he was a little surprised ' Wait. Isn't he the one who battled that kid in the pokemon centre a few hours ago'

Dean: "Why didn't you report it to officer jenny?"

Old man: "No no we will find him ourselves. No need to trouble Officer Jenny" Old-man with a thick white beard was a bit too quick in his refusal to get help from jenny.

Kelly: " Big brother can you help me?" kelly chose at this moment to interrupt and asked with her big tearful eyes blinking.

Dean: "Of course" he intended to help her in the first place. "What your name girl?" she answered immediately

Kelly: "Kelly"

Dean: "Well Kelly, my name is Dean. Why don't you tell me what was it that you lost? " she became sad after hearing this and said in low voice.

Kelly: "My pokemon, Please help me?" she was about to start her waterworks, seeing this Dean hurriedly said

Dean: "Of course I will help you" Kelly became a bit happy hearing that "What sort of pokemon are you searching for?"

Kelly: "Sandshrew" hearing this he asked a follow-up question.

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Dean: " How did you lose your pokemon? "

Kelly: "I was walking down the street with my sanshrew in my hand. It was in the afternoon when I was about to enter the candy store suddenly few older girls came running out of the store squealing something about handsome guy battling in the pokemon centre" she became angry thinking about it " Those girls even bumped into me, scaring my pokemon, they didn't stop or even say sorry they just walked away hurriedly. I guess they didn't even notice that they bumped into me " she was angry at them but she was angrier and somewhat annoyed at the unknown handsome guy those girls rushed to see as he indirectly caused her pokemon to run away due to fear. She suddenly looked at him at said

Kelly: "I don't even know the guy but I already dislike him.No matter how handsome that guy is, he can't be more handsome than you, right brother? As you are the most handsome guy I've ever met"

Dean: 'Wow Does she realize how straightforward she is' dean was little surprised ' Wait a minute! Handsome Guy, Pokemon centre and battle. Isn't she talking about me?' Dean inwardly sighed knowing that she was talking about him, he saw the old man shaking suppressing his laughter, he wanted to just smack that old man ' I guess he also watched my match' sighing he looked at the girl waiting for the answer

Dean: "I'm not that handsome as there are people who are much more handsome than me. Your father might be more handsome than me" Dean thought 'I'm sure she finds her father attractive than me as he is her parent who was with her from the start showering her with love' but her next line made him sweat drop and take back his earlier reasoning

Kelly: "No way! He is not handsome, he has even become a little bit fat recently even mother complains about it when he is not at home"

Dean: 'Stop it girl, just stop. I don't know who her father is, but I suddenly feel sorry for him. poor guy has to endure her bluntness'. He shook his head, Oldman who was silent for some time spoke suddenly but seriously

Old man: "Enough talk about the stranger and who is handsome or not. Now tell us where did you lose your sandshrew"

Kelly: "Big brother we have to hurry. we need to find sandshrew" she panicked as she realized that she had wasted some time simply talking.

Dean: "Show me the way" he simply said. Kelly ran outside the alley into the streets, he and the old man followed her. She took 3 turns and finally arrived in front of the shop.

Kelly: "I lost him here," she said while started to search that area again calling for sandshrew "SANDSHREW" "SANDSHREW"

Dean: " Calm down kelly just tell me what sort of personality does your sandshrew have" kelly was surprised hearing this but answered. Oldman just raised an eyebrow at this but stayed silent and decided to let Dean help her.

Kelly: " He is a gentle.. soft...and Oh he is shy around strangers and gets scared easily" she remembered as much as she could and told him.

Dean: "Shy huh?" he remembered this area as he came a few hours ago to train in the playground. In fact, that playground was empty for hours even when he trained there. " If what you said is correct then follow me, he might be in the playground I came earlier"

He jogged towards the direction of the playground and a few seconds later both girl and old man came running.

Dean: "Is that your sandshrew?" asked pointing towards two pokemon playing on a children sand playground. He also felt another small presence nearby but decided to stay quiet and keep a watchful eye for now.