Pokémon: Sinnoh, the beginning of a dream

(Everyone is so enthusiastic... I'm embarrassed... I won't apologize for your enthusiasm if I don't add a few more chapters today...)

(I really appreciate everyone’s willingness to support me!)

Ps: The timeline of this chapter is before rebirth, that is, when Zhi started traveling in Hezhong after losing to Dakdo~

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Unova area.

"Hey~ all the cotton babies are teaming up for a blind date. It feels so youthful!"

Alice took a bite of the green apple handed to her by Tooth, and her eyes were full of surprise as she watched the groups of cotton babies flying in the air.

Sunny Days in Unova is different from Sinnoh.

This is the experience Xiaozhi gained after traveling in Hezhong for so long.

The sunny days in Sinnoh are warm but also have a sweet and pleasant taste, while the sunny days in Hezhong are warm but lack a hint of the familiar sweetness.

This is something that the young man cannot adapt to when he first comes here.

Perhaps just as Pikachu was targeted by Zekrom when he first arrived, he doesn't know why...

I always feel like something is missing...

Missing that positive feeling of having someone encourage me every day...

This also gave Xiaozhi a headache.

Therefore, even if the weather in Hezhong is very good today, Xiaozhi still cannot feel the taste of youth that Alice and Tiantong said.

In his heart…

Instead, there is more of a sense of longing and melancholy...

"Alas...what is the reason..." Unable to understand his inner emotions, he could only attribute it to his inability to adapt to the environment.

So under Pikachu's persuasion, he walked forward and watched the cotton babies' blind date with Alice and the others.

"Yes~ This is the taste of love!"

Tiantong agreed with Alice's words, "Soon, there will be more couples on the grassland~"

"Love...couple...?"

These two words did not seem to exist in the young man's mind.

But he was able to deduce the meaning of these two words through the situation of Cotton Baby.

"They have a very good relationship..."

Xiaozhi looked thoughtfully at the pairs of cotton babies who cooperated tacitly and behaved intimately, "It's like..."

"Just like the tacit understanding between Xiaoguang and I..."

"So...is this what lovers mean...?" He didn't understand what love was. At this moment, he could only compare the behavior of Cotton Baby to his relationship with Xiaoguang.

Because, it is really too similar.

Whether it’s the happy smiles of the Cotton Babies or their tacit understanding when they get along.

He really looks so much like him and that girl...

Out of curiosity, he still suppressed his inner emotions and thoughts, turned around and walked towards Alice and Tiantong with a bright smile...

"Hey! When you talk about lovers, do you mean like-minded friends?"

Under the shocked looks of Alice and Tiantong, Xiaozhi expressed his conclusion, "Is this the so-called love?"

"a ha ha ha…"

Alice could only smile helplessly at the young boy's words.

"?Is not it?"

Seeing the two of them laughing, Xiaozhi could only lower his head in thought again...

"But...this kind of congeniality and tacit understanding is so great that just one action can affect the emotions of another person..."

Xiaozhi frowned tightly, as if trying to grasp some key words, "Does it really look like me and Xiaoguang...?"

Then...

Could he also refer to her as a couple...?

But at this moment, there is no room for the young man to realize the meaning of true love, because Tiantong and Alice are already urging him to go see the Cotton Baby.

"Pikapi, Pika?"

The Pikachu on the shoulder had already felt the boy's complicated emotions. It patted Xiaozhi's hat and then patted its own chest, indicating that it would always accompany the boy.

"Well...actually, I miss her a little bit..."

The boy's amber pupils reflected the cloudless blue sky, "A little less is no problem, a little more is a problem~"

"It's okay, we will see you again in the future! Let's go, Pikachu~"

"Pickup!"

Hezhong's trip was far less relaxing and enjoyable than the young man thought.

His strength and experience always seem to be declining uncontrollably. Not only that, Pikachu's strength is also extremely unstable.

Return fist protective shield, spin dodge skills.

These tips that he and the girl jointly created were gradually forgotten in his mind due to his worries and unwillingness to retreat day after day...

Even though I have already won eight gym badges from Hezhong, it seems to be going well.

But only the young man himself knows how outrageous his regression has been.

Not only has he never defeated a new trainer who just debuted, but even in the last poison-type gym, his six Pokémon were almost wiped out by three of his opponents...

"There is no gorgeous competition in Hezhong. Maybe the speed of playing in the league will be faster... This is the best. I can continue to challenge for the championship as soon as possible!"

These words were the words he kept comforting himself to suppress the memories of Xiao Guang that were constantly being evoked.

But when it came time to get the eighth badge...

It was only belatedly that he discovered...

Without Xiao Guang's progress together with him, he would really have become more childish and regressed compared to Sinnoh...

Every night since then, Xiaozhi stayed up all night reviewing the game as if tirelessly.

He wrote down every mistake and every problem in his notebook...

It seems that only through this method can he feel at ease and calm his heart that can't sleep...

This sleepless night continued until that day...

The day she came back.

In fact, he didn't expect to see Sirona again in Hezhong.

At that moment, he was extremely happy because he finally met an acquaintance again in this strange place.

"Huh? Someone I know well?"

After hearing what Sirona said to him on the helicopter, Xiaozhi's mind was completely stagnant.

"Is...is it her?"

These words echoed in the young man's heart like he was asking himself, tickling his heart.

So as soon as they arrived at Sirona's villa, Xiaozhi rushed in, trying to find out who the acquaintance Sirona mentioned was.

Even if we have personal contact every day, it is not as dreamy and real as meeting in person.

"Long time no see~Xiaozhi~"

Playing tricks on him as always, smiling cutely as always, when the face that he missed so much appeared in front of him, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise.

"Well! Long time no see!"

The high fives between the two seemed like an agreement they had not seen for a long time, and they both had exceptionally bright smiles on their faces.

It's great to see you again~