[Perl curiously sniffs her hand. Atsuro, himself, noticeably brightens at Chie's question.]

Yep, that's right! I'm a freelancing programmer here, but I'm doing tech support while I'm in Goldenrod. [At least until he's on the road again.] You know about programming? Since not a lot of people here knows about Perl.

[A lot of the time, they seem to think he named his Furfrou "Pearl"...]