[ This conversation just keeps getting worse and worse. Eichi-kun brings up animals and Keito looks uncomfortable, and even more so when Eichi explains in a little more detail. Still, he suspects that isn't quite enough information. He hesitates, then speaks. The two of them are being a little catty, aren't they? Heading them off is hopeless, but Keito can at least try. ]

Pets doesn't mean animals, it means people.

[ This is really strange to explain. How could Eichi-kun not know? ]

Yumenosaki trains people who want to be pets, then sells them later - or if someone already knows a pet, they can send them there for extra lessons. But they only would have accepted- [ He falters. ] -someone like you a few months ago.