These were admittedly somewhat new habits. He'd been very earnest back then! Things just... changed, sometimes.

He just shook his head in turn. He really didn't want to actually take her money for just doing whatever the hell he wanted to do. That seemed weird, but that was an argument for later. Kai was more than content to keep up this light going for now. "How sneaky of you," Kai chuckled, putting the helmets away.

All ready to go, Kai beckoned towards her to follow him to the entrance with some pep in his step. "Let's see what we can find."

"Hmm... maybe! I didn't get a chance to explore much when I was here either." Too much labor to worry about and babies to look after in the downtime. Who knew what secrets were in store.

"Guess we'll find out!" Let him just sneakily pay for two whole entries with his phone there, gently ushering Kyoko along. "Even if not, it'll be nice to see how all the kids are doing."

Wow, what a truly mysterious phenomenon. Pay it no attention.

"Ha. Well, maybe they're not all mine. That'd be a whole lot of mouths to feed."

There was a quick wrinkle of his nose. Of course that's where it would have been going. "Yeah, I'll take cool uncle any day. Works out better for all of us."

That was a one way ticket to ruining their lives though. Let's not.

"Absolutely," Kai confessed without a single moment of hesitation. He was in fact extremely biased. "We're gonna go find Gojira first."

This way, giggles, in the general direction of very large lizards.

Kai laughed at that, waving a hand in front of his face. "Nah. Not all of 'em. Gojira hung out at our place when the renovating was goin' on, so I'm biased."

"Pretty much," Kai chuckled. He'd been slipping his hand in his pocket, pulling out that familiar little pouch of dragon snacks. "Ready to spoil on the fly and everything."

Here it was, all the proof that she was hanging out with a terrible, no-good, bad boy. A rebel! A rascal!

Kai pocketed the contraband with a shrug, amused at all the hush hush of it. "Guess we'll find out, huh."

Kai on the otherhand wasn't too fussed about zoo jail. He figured probably the worst thing that would happen was that Kai would get a gentle reprimand to please don't do that again.

Truly a dangerous lad, so unafraid of the Law.

"Devoted to my cool uncle status," he corrected. Lizard town was just ahead of them now-- you could tell, because all of those heat loving lizards were piled up on the sunniest spot they could find.

Look at them all. Majestic creatures, every last one of them. Kai echoed Kyoko's motions, squinting a little as he did so.

"Yeah, well, you're gonna demote me in a second, 'cuz they all look like Gojira."

Well, not all of them. They did come in different colors and all that, but a lot of them looked fairly similar to each other. Not being able to recognize your kid was probably a surefire way to end up in the Bad Parent club maybe.

Oh, but, there was one with [definitely pre-established colors] that had (slowly) turned its head towards them as if Kai's mop of hair was a beacon. It (slowly) flickered its tongue. Its majestic down on its back swayed gently in the breeze faster than any of those latter motions. Kai pointed at that one.

"Think that's him."

It was true, Kai had probably caught sight of her cooing at the baby dragons much like this before. Truly it had been some good progress. Please appreciate all of their majesty.

"Mhmm. Real handsome fella." Kai was engaging in an intense bout of staring with the lizard. It was as if they were sizing each other up, or more likely just searching for a sign that actually yes, they knew each other. Luckily, Kai knew that Kyoko wasn't the only one that had come to learn what the pouch in his pocket meant.

Cupping a hand around his mouth, Kai called out, "Heeyyyyy~ Gojiiii~!" This effort was met with another (slow) flicker of a tongue. That was until Kai held that little pouch up for the lizard in question to see and then

suddenly

it was scampering

at TOP SPEED.

"--Ah, yeah, that's definitely him."

That's extremely kind of you, Kyoko! Even if, maybe, this frantic behavior was even more attention-grabbing. Maybe.

"Mmmhm." Geez, what a nonchalant response that was. Kai was hoisting himself up on the railing, crossing his arms just over the edge so he could get a good look at this big, beautiful boy (?).

"Hey there, bud." Flick flick went that long tongue. "You gettin' enough to eat in there?" Flick flick flick. "I know, s'gotta be rough if all your friends are as gluttonous as you." Look at that impatient stamp of feet. "Yeah, yeah."

Fishing out a generous piece of mystery jerky, Kai kinda just... let it drop. Oh no. An accident. "Oh no," he echoed, softly. "Oops." He said. "Oh dear."