That's your Pokémon. In Johto, everyone has them. You can catch more and collect them.

If you'd want to, because people collect more than one, and train them to fight. It's a sport around here.

[Pause.] It's not making them slaves or anything.

It's more like teaching them things.

[-- O-oh snap 8(]

You don't have to if you don't want to!

A lot of them start out small, but they grow if you train them enough. But you really don't have to if you don't want to make it fight.

It sounds like it is. What kind is it?

Hmm...

I never heard of that one before. I guess it's not something we find in the wild often.

I do. I raise them too. I have five right now and... I don't think I'll be catching a new one anytime soon.

There are. There are only a few you can find once you step out of New Bark. But Johto's a big place, and I haven't seen everything yet.

I'm Hope Estheim. You?

... Heh, thanks.

Nice to meet you, Namine.

I'm at Violet. It's around thirteen days away from New Bark.

[Hope has, but not one like this.]

You'll get used to it in time.