[He nods quietly, once again making a small grimace and rubbing one hand against the other, as if he can still feel the weight of the poké ball there and wants to rid himself from it.]

I thought at first that it was something like that too. But then she said that the pokémon reside inside it, and I remembered.

[He shudders.] I'm raising a pokémon right now. She thinks I'm her mother, and while admittedly wrong, it's a lot better than master. And even if it was because he was raised like that and not because of whatever those ball things do to them, it's still not right.