[Honestly, he's never actually played the videogames, just heard of it because he's a 90s kid and Pokémon is freakin' everywhere and he isn't entirely sure how to explain this buuuuuuut thankfully, she's provided him with quite the distraction.

...quite the...relevant-to-his-interests distraction.

Oh god, Gyarados, he loves those things.]

Ah, so you have a Gyarados as well! I received one soon after I arrived; their evolutions are highly rewarding, aren't they?!

[...he would totally be that dude with six Magikarp if that were at all practical.]

Though - you have monsters where you're from?