"Seto Kaiba. Welcome, Esteban," he says with a slight incline of his head and a handshake for a greeting. What a weird hello. But he's sticking too it, watching the two Pokémon curiously. They seem to be having fun. But that Pancham...he wants to protect him.

"I wondered about that...what it means to take Pokémon from their families and train them. My main partner comes from hundreds of years in the past, so he'll never see his family again. But...he seems happy to be with me anyway."

He rolls a rustic-looking Poké Ball in his hand. "I think...Pokémon want trainers to bring out their potential. We owe that to them."