Erin went to train the three of his pokemon an the next route, so content on making them stronger, he hardly noticed that rosia had been at a pond near by, and after beating a few trainers and quite a few pokemon he decided to meet with her before going to the next gym, surprised that no pokemon had evolved yet, they took out many trainers with ease and nothing really seemed wrong with his pokemon and him as partners, except mankey but they were growing on each other. As he noticed the new pokemon with cottonee and azurill he smiled at how cute her team was, maybe that was all she wanted, cute pokemon that could be here pets. Erin tried his best not to but couldn't resist from smiling at the pokemon playing, especially cottonee. "so are you training or just fooling around?" he said seeing her with out shoes on.