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[Gold's in the kitchen, drumming a pen on his journal while his soup heats up]

Hey, you know what I've always wondered? What's so special about turning sixteen? When the castle changes into those modern cities, everyone's prattling on about turning sixteen, there's shows and movies about turning sixteen, but what gives? Back home, you could practically be an adult at ten since that's the legal age to go running around the wilderness with a Pokemon.

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Sixteen's the age where you get to be allowed certain things younger people wouldn't, for some parts. But what those things are varies from place to place.

Where I come from, someone's recognized as an adult on paper when he or she turns twenty. [what was she doing at ten? ...definitely not going on travels all over]

Yeah, twenty's the age where you get to do non-Pokemon related business too, like running stores and stuff.

But taking charge of another life seems more important than, y'know, settling down in one place to feed yourself. [it's kinda ironic or something]

Yeah, but it makes you wonder what happened to the parents who were trainers. Mom was one before.

She didn't keep her Pokémon around?

Oh she did! They all live with us as members of the family, but she doesn't go out and battle. I think some of them don't even know how to battle competatively anymore.

[sounds like a sad thing to happen, she refrains from saying]

I remember seeing adult trainers in the world change, though. So maybe it was a conscious choice for her to focus on other things.

Maybe. Man, I wonder what kind of man Dad was to get Mom to settle down.

You'd know better than I do. [Sayaka-speak for "this sounds like we're entering territory that goes beyond polite conversation, so I'm not going to speculate with you"]

Sadly, I know just as much as you do about him.

Uh. [this just got a little more than awkward...] I guess we'd understand when we get to their age.

[he laughs]

Not if I find a fountain of youth first.

Being here is close enough, isn't it? [that top shelf shall forever elude her ;_;]

Not where I'm from.

Yeah? Where's that exactly?

The world with all the Pokemon.

Yeah, not sure that really counts as having legal stuff to do.

Ah, so ten year olds are allowed to go on adventures all on their lonesome everywhere else? Good to know.

That's not illegal, that's just dumb.

Of course it's dumb if you don't have a Pokemon to help you.

I never even heard of a Pokemon until I came here.

Physical spiritual animals then?

Nope, that's just in books.

Similar concept then.