No, the mood is wrong now

You decide against it, you're not really aroused anymore after that conversation. Instead, you got back to your feet and let Ace climb onto your shoulder again.

You passed back through Oldale Town, and onto Route 102. A trainer challenged you to a battle, but you had little difficulty defeating his single zigzagoon that looked like it was more interested in playing than fighting. He gave you eighty pokedollars for winning.

Getting to Petalburg City would mean going through some tall grass and almost certainly battling a wild pokemon. There were a few berry bushes along the side of the trail, and a girl who was probably just barely eighteen and old enough to get a licence was battling a bug catcher further up the route, just on this side of the tall grass.