[Cecil was about to start nosing into the bag when Yukio starts petting him, and thankfully he's distracted by that and butts his head against his hand, purring.]

Probably, but waiting on doing the challenge like I did is probably out of the norm, right? At least that's the impression I got. Though if someone native to this world lived in Goldenrod before they started, it'd make more sense to challenge Whitney and Buggsy before starting with Falkner...