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Hakuba watched as Kuroba looked over the egg. He seemed interested, and he allowed him to pull it closer. He was actually a bit nervous. Eggs were fragile, and what if Kuroba still didn’t believe him? Hakuba could have made all of this, though his artistic skills weren’t that great. It would still be possible, at least the egg. The container itself was a bit more difficult.

“Not very often. It’s normally special occasions.” Hakuba finally reached into his pocket and pulled out the pokeball there and placed it on the table. “Rangers are only allowed one partner, but when I went there, I was at the lab. That’s where I met foxy.” He smiled down at the pokeball. “She was a Fennekin. Fire fox pokemon. She liked to snack on twigs.” He shook his head to clear his thoughts.

“I helped out a ranger who was trying to save a sick pokemon. The owner gave him the egg as a gift, but because a ranger can only ever have one partner, he couldn’t accept it; so he gave it to me. After I touched the egg, I returned home.”

Kaito hummed as he listened, glancing over at the ball the detective put on the table, then at Hakuba. While all of this sounded strange… The other wasn’t exactly the type to lie. Or go to such lengths as to make something believable. At least not out of the blue like this. And…

…He’d rarely ever seen the detective look at something with so much love. More than any of the physical evidence the other teen was showing, the expressions and how he spoke about this Pokemon world were far more telling…

The magician turned his attention back to the egg. Because it was probably the biggest thing pulling at his curiosity right now. If he believed Hakuba, which is was, for the most part, then this contained the most mysteries, barring how the other had gone to another world in the first place. This egg brought him back to this one. And everything about it was unknown, aside from how it came to be in the detective’s hands in the first place.

Not that there was much he could do with it, other than look. And other than how large it was and the spots, there didn’t seem to be anything noteworthy about it… Though, a part of him wanted to touch the egg itself, hold it. Kaito wasn’t entirely sure why. Maybe because contact with heat might help it hatch, if it could  even do that in this world?

…Or maybe he just wanted to see if anything would happen if he did touch it. If the egg brought Hakuba back here, maybe it could also go back to the world he’d visited?

Regardless of his thoughts and desires, the brunet just turned the container around one last time before carefully pushing it back towards Hakuba some, ignoring the fact that his fingers twitched slightly. It was an egg, it possibly had something in it, and it had been put under Hakuba’s care. Wasn’t something he should interfere with.

“…Sounds like a nice place, honestly. Having Pokemon to help out and stay with you.” Like super pets, actually. The type that were as close as family. But that world also seemed a lot more friendly. Sure, people were people everywhere, but a world that has some willing to go out of the way to help not just humans, but the creatures that lived there…

…Sounded a lot better than here.

“So,” he continued with a grin as he tilted his head back up to look at the other, “Any plans on how to try and help it hatch?”