An Ideal World

[A smiling Ryner stands in front of the camera today... wait. Why is he dancing to the department store's music?

...Ooooookay. That's different.

Meanwhile, Ryner's voice can be heard from off screen, oddly enough.]

All right, Rose, since we haven't been here in a while, I'll let you pick three. How's that sound?

["Fairy!" By the sound of her voice, Rose seems to approve of this plan. After another minute or so of watching the dancing mage, Ryner's voice pipes up again.]

These three? All right then, let's see... This one looks like a good choice... Rose, if I let you get this one, you have to be good and not use it indoors.

["Clef." Of course she'll be good about it, dear partner. Burning down the inn wouldn't make anyone happy.]

...Haa, maybe I'll keep it to last, make sure I can trust you with it... Oh, I like this one! Wouldn't have thought it'd be the kind you'd pick, though.

["Clefairy~" She can be practical too. If there's one thing she's picked up from her time traveling with her dear partner, it's that offense isn't the only option.]

Maybe I'll buy a few copies, actually. Jehra might like to learn it... I made a spell that works kind of like it back in Roland, you know.

["Fairy?" Really?]

Yeah! It was really useful, too. Especially for keeping people from disturbing my slee--ow! Hey, I'm just telling the truth here! You don't need to pull my hair.

[There's about a minute or two more of just the dancing mage, presumably as Ryner and Rose are off paying for their purchase. Then...]

Elfy! We're done wi--Elfy, what are you doing.

[And now the real Ryner Lute walks into the camera's view. The dancing one stops dancing and just smiles cheerfully. "Dit!"

Well, that explains that.

The real one doesn't seem very happy about this, but then, that's typical.]

...Why are you... ...Haaaaaaa, whatever. Come on, we're done.

And would you turn back already? I've talked to you about this. Geeze.

[As Ryner reaches out to grab his Pokégear and turn it off, you might be able to catch Elfy turning back into his usual pink blob self before the feed ends.]

[The video feed is giving a nice view of the water on Route 34 today. ...And of a certain figure on the water's edge, of all things -dancing-.

It's hard to tell at first, but the video feed then slowly zooms in, revealing the dancing figure to be none other than Ryner Lute, dancing to the route's music. And he seems incredibly cheerful while doing so.

This seems incredibly odd, am I right? I mean, he's usually indifferent and sleepy at best, grumpy at worst...]

...You know, I'm not sure. Would this qualify as stranger than that horse that was on fire?

[...And here's the voice that belongs to Mr. Dancing Mage over there, except that he's not the one talking. In fact, it would seem almost as though the voice belongs to whoever's behind the camera... He also sounds rather unamused, but.]