"It is, isn't It? Anyway, I gotta get going, I told Darla I'd battle after we ate. Bye!" Off she scampers.

"Bye!"

And to food. Does anyone seem friendly enough to sit with?

He could talk to the two boys talking animatedly about egg-hatching techniques, or the girl who's sitting on the end of a bench to better snuggle her very huggable-looking Pokémon. 

He knows nothing about egg-hatching so he'll bounce up to the snuggly girl (Ink trailing behind him like an exasperated cat) and say, "Hi! Your Pokemon looks very fluffy."

"He is! His name's Sparky. You can try to pet him if you want, but if he backs away don't push it or he might zap you."

"Thanks!" Gentle pat, and to Sparky: "You have a very handsome coat!"

Sparky permits petting and says, "Mareep!" 

The kid says, "My name's Christina, what's yours?"

"I'm Nereus, this's my friend Ink."

"Hi Nereus! Hi Ink! Those are cool names. How long have you been on your Pokémon journey?"

"We're actually new to the continent! What's a Pokemon journey?"

"Do they not have Pokémon journeys where you're from? It's when you get your first Pokémon and travel around for a year, seeing the world and bonding with your Pokémon and catching more if you want more. I started at 14, some people start earlier or later."

"Not really, yeah. Sounds like a lot of fun!"

"It's pretty great! Seeing new towns, meeting new people, training and battling and doing odd jobs."

"Sounds it." He'll keep up the conversation a bit longer, try to find out some more cultural assumption stuff, and then focus on eating.

Cultural stuff: everybody except the extremely introverted or responsibility-averse has at least one Pokémon! Pokémon can be stored as information in Pokéballs, which are those red and white balls everyone is carrying! Pokémon are basically like animals, except they're all as intelligent and personable as dogs, and extremely hardy, and love to fight. Pokémon will fight pretty much anything with a strength and enthusiasm thoroughly unrelated to their size, so it's advisable to have one or two strong ones whenever you're somewhere remote. Pokémon are also excellent companions and good at helping the disabled. And of course, Christina says joyfully, if you take good care of your Pokémon, and your friendship with them is strong enough, together you can achieve anything you set out to do! 

Neat! He's really appreciative of the information, and a good listener who nods at all the right parts. (Ink is a terrible listener who ignores the world in favor of eating).

Eventually, conversation seems exhausted, and his food's finished, so he says a cheery goodbye to his conversation partner. Some discussion with Ink, and they have a bit before sleep becomes a good idea, so they decide to explore the town a bit more. Maybe look for work seriously...

The ads from before are still available. They can also get paid to run a package up north to the Lake of Rage, or mow someone's lawn (they have a mower he can use), or help deep-clean the Pokémon Center dorm room, or help the little library inspect and sort its collection (this one pays in both money and first dibs on any damaged books they decide to get rid of).

Then something huge flies past him, so fast it's just a blur and a thunderclap.

The hell?

That seems concerning.

He glances around, sees if people seem alarmed - maybe it's normal here?

People seem very alarmed! Also, someone's shop window exploded, and people are separately alarmed about that! Though fortunately nobody seems to have been hurt.

He exchanges a very meaningful glance with Ink -

And she bursts back into her Ideal Form, and if this'll end up using a lot of magic, she's better at telekinesis than Nereus is at flight so she takes off into the air, pulling him with her.

She can move at supersonic speeds herself, Nereus is worse at it and that's not entirely safe with telekinesis - maybe if she pins down whatever so he can come yell at it -

(She tries to examine the area, drifting close enough to Nereus that he can tap her and enhance her reflexes, perception, and speed. Can she see the creature still?)

If she gets high enough up to see a good chunk of the continent, she will see that there are actually three blurs, going all over the place in an apparently random manner. They mostly stick to the lakes and the wilderness between cities, but occasionally one will blast through a populated area.

- Ugh. Nereus will be the one talking to whatever - but Ink's a better fighter, and faster in the air.

She informs him of what's going on, lets his flight take over for her telekinesis, and rockets to intercept the next one aiming for a population center.

It's hard to argue they're aiming at anything, given how often they change direction, but she can manage to get ahead of one. She is promptly dodged. 

How big is it? (She'll try to grab it with telekinesis, but if it's 'approximately a small elephant' or larger, she's not going to get very far.)