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Despite their meetings, Touko continued to baffle N. She who loved pokemon so much refused do what was best for them and let them go into the wild where they truly belong, even with his compelling arguments!

"I don't understand why you won't listen to me, I've already stated the facts in a clear manner…you're just being stubborn."

"I already told you, N, I'm not releasing them because they don't want to go. You can hear their voices, you should already know that!" she huffed, furrowing her brow.

Truth be told, N didn't even need to hear their voices to know, anyone could see how much Touko's pokemon loved her by the way they clung to her.

"I know it'll be hard at first, but trust me, Touko, it's for their own good."

"No, N, you don't understand. I have pokemon that I LITERALLY can't release into the wild." She bent down and scooped her dewott into her arms before continuing, "Oliver here is what we call a bottle baby, Juniper found his and his sister's egg abandoned by their mother, so she had to incubate them and raise them in the lab until my brother and I could take and train them. Since they were raised by humans and bottle fed, they're entirely domesticated and don't have the aggression or survival instincts needed to survive on their own. Not to mention since they've never had exposure to their mother, they'd have no idea how to treat their offspring if they reproduced."

N bit his lip, looking down at the defenseless dewott that was cuddling into her bosom, she had put him in a pickle.

"So Oliver is a special case, what of your other pokemon?"

"They all asked to come with me. I don't know where you're getting this idea that I'm a cruel baby pokemon snatching monster."

That caught him off guard a little.

"I don't think you're a monster, Touko, I just can't understand all your reasons. Why do you insist on shoving your pokemon into a tiny ball?"

"For safe travel when they're tired or injured. I don't force them to do anything, they're all out right now, aren't they?"

"Then how do you condone battling? Isn't it unethical? What if humans were forced to do the same thing, how would you feel then?"

"Listen, these tiny creatures have a lot of very powerful energy, and if that energy doesn't have an outlet, they get destructive. Battling is a game for them, N, a friendly competition; people will step in and call off the match if the risk of injury gets too high." She paused, "oh, and humans do battle too, it's called boxing…or martial arts."

N's pulse rate raised as he began to fidget and tap his fingers. She wasn't listening, why wasn't she listening?

"Touko, you don't understand, you're not listening to me. Just because you're a good trainer doesn't mean everyone is, there are plenty of bad people out there who are hurting pokemon every day, and it's my duty to stop them! I need you to stop arguing and help me!"

"I'm trying to help you, but you're not listening to me either!" Touko snapped, startling both N and the dewott she held in her arms. "You're really, REALLY conceited, you know that? You think you're the only one who knows that there's bad people out there, huh? It's your duty to stop them? Well, I've been dealing with them every day since I started my journey!"

She inhaled sharply before calming down a bit.

"Look, the truth of the matter is there's bad, abusive trainers out there…I know that. But with the right ideals, we can work to stop that without making people and pokemon alike miserable in the process. Honestly N, get off your high horsea and stop acting like you're a king or something. You said you wanted me to be friends with you? Well I'm trying, but it's impossible until you start treating me like a friend and stop expecting me to conform to your will."

N stood, mouth agape. He wasn't able to say anything, he was in too much shock. Truth and ideals? Stop acting like a king? The fact that she didn't know the irony in her own words made it even more amazing. It was then when he knew that the legendary Hero of Ideals was standing before him, and she made it clear she wouldn't go down without a fight.