They began to walk around the city of Goldenrod. It was huge. Mucai flew into the air just to get a better look. People walked and ran to and from various buildings and it was so much noisier than anywhere they'd been before. A building to the south was filled with chiming noises. He flew back down and pointed Kanade in that direction.
As it was only a block away Kanade headed to the building with the purple roof. "Game Corner?" She asked her Tropius, wondering what his interest was in the place. She found several slot machines inside. He gestured at it with his nose and stomped his feet. He wanted to know what the strange thing did. She placed a few coins inside and pulled the lever. The reels spun and nothing matched. "See, nothing exciting..."
Another trainer with a Sneasel cheered as the machine he stood at spit out multiple coins at him. Mucai gasped in awe and butted Kanade again. Surely, she could make it do that. His trainer shook her head, when she saw what Mucai was looking at. "Not that lucky." He began to flap his wings in a powerful Gust attack.
"Hey, not in here..." Some guys in suits with strong fighting types gestured to the door. Mucai held tough but Kanade shook her head.
"Let's go Mucai, no need to fight and get ourselves in trouble." Mucai lowered his head and followed Kanade out the door, disappointed. "There's plenty of other things to see in a city as big as Goldenrod!"
Next she met a man who claimed to rate the nicknames of pokemon. Some sort of fortune teller, Mucai guessed. A psychic type human, perhaps. She brought out all three of her pokemon. Ares, the man claimed had the perfect name but he and Baku did not. They were just 'decent.' He offered to rename them and Mucai groaned in protest. Kanade got the hint and thanked him for his time. "Do you two like your names?" Both he and Baku nodded. "So do I, and that's all that matters." Mucai nodded his approval. His trainer always had the right answer. Baku and Ares hid in their pokeballs again.
Then she headed for a tall building. "This is the famous Goldenrod department store mom talked about." The Tropius remembered Kanade's mother was born in Johto. They found vendors hocking their goods on each of the five floors. Kanade just bought a few pokeballs and potions. She tended to be a minimalist trainer. He disliked having to use an elevator to ascend the floors. Finally she pushed the button labeled "6." They arrived at the 'rooftop atrium,' as his trainer called it.
He liked this place! There were potted plants and fresh air, and vending machines. Kanade bought each of her pokemon and herself a soda, offering Mucai his now. He drank the sweet liquid happily. It tasted very interesting, he chirped for more but Kanade told him no. 'It's an okay treat but will make you sick if you get too much.' He sighed and settled for watching different Flying types pass by overhead.
She rested for a bit on the bench, then gazed through the 'binoculars' mounted on the edges of the roof. She let her Tropius get a look. He had never seen so far with his own eyes. Mucai looked at her with an amazed look then to the binoculars with a look of sheer wonder... Humans did make interesting things sometimes. They decided to head to the Pokecenter for the night as the sun was beginning to set. Tomorrow they planned on headed south down Route Thirty-four.