[ Should it be a compliment, that last part? But it doesn't feel like it. Ever since coming to this place, even for the small matches that he has won, they didn't make him feel particularly good, and those defeats have been even more crushing for him.

Everyone is just that much farther than him. Not just the pokémon trainers. Why pit him against someone like this? ]

I'm not going to win. [ It's bittering to say. Losing shouldn't matter so much, but it does. And not only that- ] You didn't even think I knew the difference between training my pokémon against wild pokémon and trainers.

[ So what does Gold know about his training? Why's he even trying to sound like he's holding him in some -- high regard? ]