Pokemon Speechless

When Shinji returned to the room, he unexpectedly found that the lights were not turned on. Only the figure on the bed could be seen through the moonlight coming through the window, reminding him that someone had returned before him.

"Ling?" Shinji took the initiative, put the packing box he was carrying on the table, turned around and touched the switch, "Why don't you turn on the light?"

"Don't open!" Ling's voice suddenly sounded, stopping his next move. Inexplicably, Shinji heard a hint of pleading in his words, "I don't know what kind of expression I should use to face you now."

Shinji raised an eyebrow in the darkness. "Okay." He sat on the bed next to him, "You probably didn't have dinner. I packed ramen and tempura and came back. Do you want to eat?" Self-consciously, Shinji didn't mention what happened in the gym just now. .

"Wait a while...eat again," Ling responded slowly, as if something was stopping her from speaking, "Did Gym Challenge...Did Shinji succeed?"

"Ah, it worked. It was a very difficult fight. It is the third most difficult gym, but there are also many rewards." Shinji followed her question and continued, "And these two guys have evolved." He said As he stood, he released two elves. The body shape of one is similar to that before evolution, but the skin color becomes darker, the eyes are more lively, a horn-like protrusion grows on the top of the head, and the mouth becomes pointed, somewhat similar to a bird's beak. Its limbs and tail are longer than before evolution, its claws are slender and sharper, and the end of its tail is still burning with fire. The other one has no pre-evolution hair, has yellow skin, a red sphere on its tail and forehead, a white belly, flat hands, and only one toe, neck ears and part of its tail. All have yellow and black patterns.

Fire dinosaurs, and electric dragons.

The light source from the two elves slightly illuminated the dark room, allowing the two to see each other clearly. In Shinji's eyes, Ling's face seemed expressionless at the moment, and seemed to be mixed with countless emotions. He felt that next She'll cry in seconds.

He had never seen Ling show such an expression. In his eyes, Ling seemed to always be confident, gentle, and smiling.

"Evolved, it's really good, really..." Ling didn't realize that everything about her was invisible under this light, or maybe she subconsciously ignored it, she just tried hard to smile came out, but after tugging at the corner of her mouth a few times, she had to choose to give up.

"If you don't want to laugh, you don't have to force yourself to laugh." Shinji sighed, raised his hand and gently touched Ling's head.

Ling's body suddenly froze, and she suddenly felt as if she was not the only one in the world. There was something that she might be able to share with the person in front of her.

Something she had hidden for over ten years.

"When I was very young, I knew that I was different from others." Ling's sudden words made Shinji stunned for a moment, but soon he realized that she was telling something important to her, and he He nodded slightly to the fire dinosaur and electric dragon, took them back into the elf ball, and then the whole room fell into darkness again.

"I, from the moment I was born, used consciousness, or memory? I can't define it exactly, but what I can be sure of is that my memory can be traced back to the moment I was born, even after ten years. They’re not clear years later, but at least I’ve always remembered a few fragments of them.”

When Ling spoke, Shinji did not make a sound. Even though what she said was beyond his understanding, he listened to her seriously.

"When I was young, I didn't realize that I was special until one day I saw my mother's charming cat. Although I had never seen it before, the moment I saw it, I knew it was a little cat. The elf can be subdued by the elf ball and can learn many skills. Its name is Charming Meow. Its attribute is normal type. It is restrained by fighting type moves. It is immune to ghost type moves. When it becomes stronger, it will evolve into Dong Shi Meow."

"At that moment, it was as if a box deep in my memory was opened. This box was filled with all the knowledge about elves, including names, attribute restraints, evolution methods, and many other things. Until now, I’ve never met an elf I didn’t recognize.”

"I didn't think anything was wrong at first, until I met other people in the town who were about the same age as me. They were different from me. They saw new elves and didn't know their names. They couldn't remember the attribute restraints. , they didn’t know a lot of things that I didn’t even need to think about or learn. Only then did I realize that I was the different person. At that time, I couldn’t understand what happened to me. I subconsciously felt This kind of me is abnormal, and although this ability does help me a lot, being different itself is the biggest source of fear for me."

"It wasn't until my dad told me that this was a gift and led me to slowly connect the things in that box with reality that I slowly accepted that I was different."

"However, even if I accept it, it does not mean that I can understand it. I have been to many areas over the years, but I have never met anyone like me."

"It makes me feel like I'm out of tune with the whole world. I... don't seem to belong here."

At this point, Ling ended the topic, but his intuition told Shinji that there were many things about her that he didn't know, and those things were probably even more bizarre than what she had already revealed. But no matter what, he was sure that he knew what he knew. Ling is the most real person. She may hide it, but she will never deceive him.

Take your time, he thought, she won't tell you everything all at once, but at least it's a good start.

"What about you, Shinji?" Ling raised her head, looked at Shinji, and looked directly into his eyes. In the darkness, her eyes were particularly bright. "Do you think I am a 'monster' that is different from others?" ?”

"No!" Shinji blurted out immediately, holding her shoulders with both hands, "Mr. Beidou is right, this is indeed a talent for you, even if you have other unique things, but You still belong to this world. These things that make you unique are never strange or scary, but your own talents. If others are afraid of you, it must be because they don’t understand you. They I didn’t know that Ling is a very gentle person. In my heart, Ling has never been a ‘monster’. Even if Ling has something special and different from others, I will only think that it is Ling’s own secret.”

"I never thought that Ling was a 'monster'." Shinji looked into Ling's eyes and told Ling solemnly, word for word, the truest thoughts in his heart. "Besides, everyone has their own secrets, and that doesn't matter, because I know Ling will never lie to me, right?"

Ling looked at him blankly, opened her mouth, but lost her voice at this moment. It wasn't until her face suddenly felt wet that she realized that she was bursting into tears.

"Ling?" In the darkness, Shinji couldn't see her expression clearly, so he could only ask hesitantly.

Unable to hold on any longer, she threw herself into the other person's arms, hugged his neck tightly, and cried loudly.

Shinji was stunned for a moment and his whole body was stiff. After a while, he patted Ling's back gently with his unfamiliar hand, and then gently stroked it again and again until the crying gradually weakened and finally turned into intermittent sobs.

Although neither of them realized it, something was quietly changing between them.