"He's in timeout," Eva says with a tap of the red-white 'ball on her belt.

"Anyway, this is about Ran-san's comments back a few days now." Best to start with that, so he knows where she's coming from - and it's very obvious she's speaking to him as Shinichi, not Conan. "And I do agree a little with her. So, I'd like get you a pokemon purely as another layer of safety on the missions. Not right a way, but certainly something to think on. You'd get to pick the pokemon of course."