Heh. It was kinda silly, in hindsight, that Riku expected to be alone today. Beaches were nice. Wild and significantly more aggressive Pokemon made them more of a risk, especially without his usual overpowered team, but hey. It was a chance to get out, stretch his legs, and maybe catch one or two new Pokemon if he lucked out, but...

There's a guy just kinda lazing over there. And now that guy's on alert. And now Riku's Zoroark is also on alert and looking Doggo dead-on.

So we have this silver-haired mid-20's awkwardly wedging himself between his ghostly Zoroark and the furball.

"Hey, easy. It's just some guy." He didn't mean it as an insult, but he probably coulda worded that better.