The Soldier has been watching from another table at the outside eatery, without making it obvious he's watching. What even is all that? He hasn't actually had ice cream, either, that he can remember, and that is a lot of it.

Going over and asking isn't going to happen.

Thankfully, there are pokemon for that.

Stevie, the little baby Absol who hasn't managed to grow more than a couple inches in the couple weeks since his hatching, stumbles right over on his little stilt legs and asks plaintively of the Ponyta, "Absol?" Are you sharing, big colorful friend? That's a lot of good-smelling stuff.