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O-ow, please! Someone help!

[Welp, this sure is an accidental post - in his urgency, Shindou seems to have dropped his Xtransceiver! ... And unfortunately, his Whismur is just looking on with dismay, worry, and fear.
Why? Shindou seems to have been caught!

... By an itty bitty Trapinch, that's clinging to his forearm. Seems that no matter how hard he tries, he can't get it to let go.
Even when he tries to pry it off. He doesn't want to hurt it, but...]

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Run? - No, I'm not going to run, it's only half a foot tall!
I just want it to let go; it's bite hurts, you know...!

[C-come on, little guy, time to stop biting?;;;

He'll just wiggle his finger in the thing's jaws like you'd do to a cat and - oh!!
There's an audible sigh of relief, and he finally picks the Xtransciever up.]

... Ah - Kariya. I should have guessed it was you, of course.

[... And Poco's off being kind of useless now, since the Trapinch wants to meet him next -]

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[Eyeroooooooll...if getting the thing off was that simple, couldn't he have just tried that before wailing to the entire world for help? Second-years are so unimpressive sometimes.

All the same, Kariya keeps to a painfully mock-polite smile and tone:]

'Of course.'

Well, I'm glad you didn't get eaten, Shindou-senpai...did you go off looking for Pokémon on your own?

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[He didn't think of it 'till just now, jeeez.]

More like he found me.

I've only just arrived - [Basically, anyway, he's near the end of Route 1!] - and I've already been jumped by some sort of giant bug...
Does this sort of thing happen often, Kariya? In this place?

[Pleeease be honest; he needs to know what to expect.]

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If you go into the tall grass, of course wild Pokémon are going to jump out at you. I don't think most of them will try to chomp on you, though...

[There's maybe a hint of a silent "duh" lurking in there, because it's not until Kariya's answered that he notes what Shindou said, before that -- ]

You only just arrived...where?

[Leaning towards the screen to eye you closer, senpai.]