Neighbor.

"Kid, you want to play with them?" Joseph suddenly asked the kid whose happily looking inside the store.

"Ca-can I?" The shy kid replied.

"Yeah but you need to get permission from your mom or dad first." Joseph smiled at the kid.

"Okay!" The kid can't hide his excitement anymore then he ran and entered the house just 10 or 12 meters far from Joseph's store.

Soon the kid went out from the house with a lady that looks like in her early 20's and they went to Joseph.

"Hello, I'm sorry that my brother is bothering you." The woman lightly bowed.

"Not at all, there's no problem." Joseph gestured his hand.

"Sis those are the cute pokemons." The kid pointed at the playing pokemons inside the store.

"They are all indeed cute little ones." The kid's sister turned her head towards the direction her brother pointing at and nodded then she looked at Joseph. "Mr. Shopkeeper, My name is Tammy and this is my brother, Ronny. Our parents aren't home so I'm the one whose taking care of him."

"Hello Ms. Tammy and Ronny, my name is Joseph the owner of this shop." Joseph politely said then he offered a handshake, Joseph is having a lot of thought about this brother and sister duo. If he can remember there are two notable NPC in the game series that have the same name with this two.

"May I ask if Ms. Tammy is from Unova?" Joseph suddenly asked.

"Oh my, how did you know?!" Tammy was slightly shocked.

"Maybe because of your accent haha." Joseph scratched his nose.

"I'm actually native here in Kanto and worked in Unova as a family maid of a certain rich family for almost 5 years then I went back here because of some matters." Tammy's expression briefly changed when she said the her last line.

"Oh I see." Joseph nodded. "I also went to Unova when I'm younger and trained a Tepig now he's a mighty Emboar and relaxing at my parent's home(Pokemon Home lol)."

"Emboar huh, you got a rare pokemon. When I was younger I also have a lot of pokemon on my side, *Sigh* I suddenly missed my Skarmory, Steelix, Ferrothorn, Bisharp and Escavalier." Tammy's eyes are filled with nostalgia and hint of sadness.

"What happened?" Joseph cant help but to be curious, he remembered now who is Tammy. There small quest in Black 2 White 2 where the player must defeat four former acquaintances of the bridegroom in order to climb the Celestial Tower and ring its bell, Tammy is one of those acquaintances. Joseph remembered her because she the one of the toughest NPC in that game with her line up and the side quest's story is slightly funny it's about a broken hearted maid who gathered all of the ex-girlfriends of the groom to block the path to ring the bell and the reward is just a bullshit revive after battling those tough girls. Well, her story actually happens in Joseph's old world.

Joseph was sure that the Tammy from the Celestial Tower is also the Tammy in front of him.

"I released some of them after I resigned being a maid, all of my pokemons except for my Metagross are already on their journey in the wilds since I retired being a trainer and want to live in a quiet life they wont be strong with me anymore and I don't want them to stay in the pokeball like a prisoner forever you know?" Tammy smiled but there is still a bit of sadness in it.

'Too rash, I know you have been dumped in exchange for a rich girl and experiencing heartbreak but suddenly retiring so early and releasing your strong pokemons is quite... idiotic but that groom is impressive to hook up with four strong trainers as his girlfriend.' Joseph looked at Tammy without saying anything he just nodded.

"Um... the pokemons are cute." The forgotten little kid, Ronny suddenly said.

"Oh that's right, Ms. Tammy and Ronny let's go inside." Joseph lightly laughed, Tammy also had a smile on her face.

Tammy and Ronny are greeted by bunch of small cute pokemons.

"Guys, this is Ronny and his sister Tammy." Joseph took the pokemon's attention.

"Uwaaa!" Ronny's eyes are full of stars while looking at the pokemons up close.

"Do you own all of this little cuties?" Tammy asked she also bent down to get a close up look at the curious Happiny.

"Yes." Joseph nodded.

"Mr. Joseph can I touch them?" Ronny stared at Joseph with full excitement.

"You can ask them." Joseph smiled at the kid then he went to his seat nearby the counter.

Few minutes passed, Ronny managed to convince some pokemons to pet them. The kid was so happy because this is the first time he touched other pokemon, besides his Rattata that his father gifted him.

"Eevee's fur is so soft and fluffy! I want to hug you forever!" Ronny's face was rubbing on Eevee's neck fur.

Eevee felt she picked the wrong choice to let Ronny touch her, she looked at Joseph with pleading eyes that asking to save her from the fur maniac that violating her soft fur.

Joseph didn't noticed it and just talked with Tammy since they are neighbors.

Soon another visitor came, it was the man who discovered a lot of mega stones.

"Hello Mr. Johnson, I came here again to sell these marbles." The man said with smile on his face, he was happy that he can make some money because of the glowing marbles.

Joseph already known that the informations about mega evolution is still undiscovered untill today. He took this opportunity to find lots of mega stones around the Kanto region to monopolize it the sell it when the time comes. As of now he bought 43 different mega stones from this man.

"10,000 Pokedollars for 15 pieces again?" Joseph asked.

"Today I got 30 pieces of marbles from Mount Moon." The man happily said.

Joseph nodded and inspected it after he confirmed that the marbles ar indeed mega stones he transfered 20,000 pokedollars to the man the the man happily left.

"What are these stones?" Tammy curiously asked then she went to see the stones closer.

"These are just marbles for collection, don't you think that these stones are beautiful?" Joseph looked at Tammy then he smiled.

The two were so close and Tammy was bit embarrassed on her actions, she just met Joseph and now she was so comfortable talking with him and forgot that they just known eachother less than an hour.

"Ye-yeah I think too." Tammy took a step back to distance herself and trying to hide her blushing face.

Joseph placed the mega stones and separated 3 key stones from the bunch.