[The first thing Kaito had noticed when he returned to the bright, bustling city of Goldenrod was that it surprisingly calm for what had supposedly transpired at the Radio Tower... but then again maybe that fact wasn't surprising at all. The Rockets were keeping things very quiet after all, and from the looks of things, they were doing a very good job of it. There wasn't much he could do to expel the criminal organization from the tower right now except attempt to gather as much information about the take over as he could. Only when he was well-informed of exactly what the situation was could he act, and he knew very well that he might be in Goldenrod for a long while before he was in a position to do so. He knew from heist experience that reconnaissance, information gathering, and research often took a very long time... his heists were oftentimes no different.
It was a good thing he was patient. Well... as patient as he needed to be.
For now, the magician sat cross-legged on the edge of his bed in the Goldenrod inn, bits and pieces of the card gun he was trying to recreate strewn across the comforter as he tinkered with his invention. He had a few things to accomplish during his second stay in Goldenrod, and most of them would probably require his most trusted heist tool.
But it seemed like a certain bird had a different idea of what she wanted her trainer to be doing right now.
As Kaito fiddled with a loose screw with a screwdriver he had picked up at the department store, Komi the Pidgeotto fluttered onto the mattress next to him, leaned in, and nipped at a few strands of his tousled hair. Kaito yelped in both surprise an pain as he scooted away from her, giving the Pipdgeotto an incredulous look]
The heck-- [Komi merely glared back at him disapprovingly, and Kaito scowled] Geez, Komi, are you hungry? 'M kinda busy. Gimme a few minutes and I'll get you something to eat.
[But just as the magician turned back to his work, the Pidgeotto leaped forward to pluck even more hairs from the top of his head, and this time Kaito couldn't suppress a mild surprised curse]
Komi! What are you doing? [By now, the Pidgeotto had lifted a wing to gesture to the mirror hanging on the wall of his inn room. Kaito frowned and followed her gesture, gaze falling upon his reflection and lingering contemplatively for a few moments.
Was it just him, or was his hair getting kind of long...]
[The video clicks on to Kaito, who is obviously in his inn room in Goldenrod with a very insistent Pidgeotto behind him. Said Pidgeotto is nipping at his hair with her beak, plucking out a few strands at a time and causing her trainer to yelp and push her away sternly]
All right, all right! Geez, I get it! What are you, my mother? You sound just like her! Girls...
[With that out of the way, he addresses the camera with a flat expression]
I think Komi's trying to tell me something. [He lifts his free hand and brushes it through his hair while his Pidgeotto looks on disapprovingly]
Anyone know where you can get a good haircut around Goldenrod?