Outside the Pokemon Lab - Beryllium City

[@1Charak2][@ZachChase][@Alexfangtalon]

"Hm?" Leo looked at the evidently older girl and simply nodded his head in acknowledgment. It felt weird being praised for winning battles. His father was hard to truly impress and most of the neighborhood kids knew him well as the "Cheater" for using Nado's Dragon Rage attack to quickly finish almost any battle. Did he take immense satisfaction from all the victories? Definitely. Did he enjoy the great loss of friends he had after battling them. Nope. Nado seemed much happier at the praise, as was usually the case. "Uh, thanks. Name's Leo."

Nado stared blankly as Luna pet his face with her paw. He stayed silent for a second, as if considering its options. Slowly it extended out its hand to the Rockruff and attempted to pet it in a similar fashion. Unfortunately, its stumpy arms were much too short to even consider touching the other creature without a boost in height. And so it tipped on its toes, tripping on its face before it could get even one pet in. Leo put the little creature up to its feet, briefly avoiding the gaze of the other trainers. He loved Nado to death, but the little guy could be a ditz sometimes. 

He couldn't help but feel a bit out of place when people started discussing traveling options. He felt like he was intruding on something. Did they mean to tie him along, too? Mm. Well, he supposed it couldn't hurt anyone if they did go together, as long as they had similar plans. 

"Mind if I take a look?" He crouched right next to the boy, leaving Nado to his own devices as he observed all the possible locations they had to explore. He had read up on the locations quite a bit and the ones that interested him the most were the Temple and the University. Both for personal reasons. Part of him wanted to check out the temple first, but he doubted he would find what he wanted there. "I think heading to the Amalgam university would be a good place to start. I've been meaning to look for some good bug pokemon for awhile now."

He pointed towards his place of interest. It was kind of taking everything in his power to avoid suggesting they go to Brittanium. The gym leader there, Estella, would mop the floor with Nado, realistically. But he wasn't interested in a battle with her just yet. Let's just say that his "siblings" really wanted an autograph from Estella, as she was a very popular idol even as far away as Sinnoh. His "siblings" would be incredibly disappointed if he--they, couldn't manage to get a few autographs from her. Good and kind brother that he was, what choice did he have?