I still do not really understand the "pet" practice...a Pokemon is a part of your family, if it lives with you!

[Is that what a pet is? People in his world use that word, but Ingo feels like the intent is different when he uses it - something that one can feel a little more clearly, perhaps, with these pearls. That's a bit unnerving.]

But, yes...Emmet and I have arrived here from entirely different time periods, or so it seems! So he is the one to ask about human-Pokemon relations in the future! Or the modern day, perhaps? I suppose it depends on your perspective.