[BUT THE TL;DR AND HIS SARCASM...!! Sigh. This is why he isn't a fan of mysterious types: they make shounen hero dickwaving so much more difficult. Anyway, Yusuke's a little irritated that Itachi's giving him the blow-off, but even so, he manages to stay relatively calm; after all, getting mad at this jerk would probably just make him act all smug, and if there's anything worse than a mysterious jerk, it's a smug mysterious jerk, especially ones who aren't close enough for him to wring their necks. Ugh.]

What I'm saying, dirtbag, is that it's none of your damn business what anyone does with their animals, and unless you wanna get your ass handed to you by giant rats, you'd better hang up the superiority complex and learn how to order these things around. I'm not sayin' it ain't fuckin' stupid that we have to rely on animals for protection in the first place, but nobody has a choice.

What the hell do you mean by asking if we'd be able to take our enemies out without Pokemon, anyway? You planning on doing something?

[Sussing Out Ulterior Motives: The Thread. It's been quite some time since he'd last interrogated someone who looks like a bad guy! He's just never had to do it through video, which is pretty darn inconvenient, especially given that his usual method of getting information out of people involves knocking their teeth in. Dammit, Johto.]