[Pokemon are everything, huh? This raises a bevy of questions Noel hadn't thought to ask already, but it sounds like he'll have plenty of time to ask about them. Better put a pin in that for right now.]

So I'm seeing. It's way different from the monsters back home.

[He and Serah had developed a way of working with them -- some of them, at least. But mostly, monsters in their world were adversaries. Here? The relationship is totally different.

Like, for example, the fact that he's never heard of a meteor shower full of monsters.]

A meteor shower that's not meteors? [Sounds weird, to him, but then again, a lot of this place sounds totally strange. That might not even make the list of top strange things about this world. Who knows?

He raises an eyebrow at Hope's invitation, reacting first with silence. For the last century and a half, he might have declined immediately and gone his own way. The Shadow Hunter works alone, after all. But it's his own words that come back to him. Maybe it's time I stopped living in the shadows. Maybe now's the time to start.]

What, like I'm gonna let you out of my sight, after everything that's happened? [Wow, he's actually teasing. It's strange, to feel emotions other than Crushing Guilt after decades of brooding.] Sorry, Hope. You're stuck with me.

[Translation: yes. Yes, he'd like that very much.]