Not everyone battles with their pokémon. If your pokémon are hungry and you can't feed them, there's plenty of people that will help.

[ He sounds very sure of that too. If not a stranger, then the pokémon centre would. No one with good intentions wants a pokémon to suffer.

The bag surprises him when it's handed to him (a bag... H-hanbei-senpai...), and he looks at it a while before looking at Hanbei. ]

N-no, this should be fine. Thanks. [ Actually, while we're having this moment- ] Oh, I keep meaning to ask you -- what's your name? We didn't introduce ourselves, did we? What should I call you?