There seems to be something wrong with these Pokémon

Today, the Pokémon Center in Crimson City welcomed a handsome man with hurried steps.

Unlike other trainers he met, the man did not carry any Poké Balls, but the briefcase he was carrying was marked with a red "P".

"Hello, Dr. Blatano."

Joey bowed to the man with a smile on his face.

"The Kanto Alliance has informed me to welcome your arrival..."

"Where's Sakuya Ye?"

Bratano interrupted, "The one with the Monarch snake, the one on TV, the Sunbeam..."

After hearing several key words in succession, Joey shook his head regretfully, "Mr. Shuoya left the Crimson City with Ms. Erika not long ago."

A step too late?

Bratano sighed softly and couldn't help blaming himself for not dealing with the Pokémon in the research institute in advance, which delayed some time.

But he quickly adjusted himself and continued to ask, "Did they say where they would go?"

"Even though she didn't say it in front of me, I should be able to guess it." Joey nodded, "Ms. Erica is the owner of the Rainbow Gym. If nothing unexpected happens, Mr. Sakuya, as a trainer, should have gone to Rainbow City to challenge the Rainbow Gym."

"Rainbow City..."

Bratano pulled the atlas out of his pocket and checked the map, "It doesn't look very far."

"Yes." Joey asked sympathetically, "Do you need help contacting a vehicle?"

"It's troublesome."

Bratano did not refuse Joey's kindness.

As Joey made the call, Bratano pulled out his phone and stared at the footage captured from the live stream.

Although he had seen it thousands of times, he was still shocked by the new appearance and abilities of the monarch snake.

"If we can find out the cause of the [Bond Phenomenon]..."

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Cleethorpe College

The man in the principal's office looked at the four people who had come from afar with a smile and spoke slowly.

"The great hero who saved Crimson City and the leader of the Rainbow Gym."

His eyes behind the lenses swept over Shuo Gu Ye and Erika, and he said gently, "I wonder what brings you to our school?"

"I'd like to ask you for a small favor."

Erica took a few steps forward and said with a smile, "The relatives of the Alliance Investigator are studying here. I am just visiting them on their behalf."

"Oh? Then I have to help."

The man straightened his back and said, "I don't know what you are talking about..."

"According to what the investigator said, his niece seems to have a special liking for your school's animal husbandry department."

Erica took out her cell phone from the sleeve of her wide kimono and waved it in front of the man.

"Please do me a favor and ask the head of the animal husbandry department to come and verify the child's identity with me."

"It should."

The man picked up the landline on the desk and dialed a number.

Fujino Sakura leaned close to Sakutani Ye's ear and whispered, "What a stressful conversation! Although they were all smiling, I always felt like I was watching an exciting Pokémon battle..."

Shuoya Ye's Adam's apple rolled a few times as she recalled the man's vague glances at her.

Before Gymnasium Master Erica took a few steps forward to block the man's sight, he felt uncomfortable as if he were stripped naked.

Kitazawa Reiyuu beside him put on the uniform of the Pokémon Professional Research School at the strong request of Sakutani Ye and Fujino Sakura.

The navy blue uniform highlights her tall and slender figure, and the loose hair casually draped over her forehead makes her look cute, blending perfectly with the surrounding environment.

Shuoya Ye turned his head to look at the radiant young man, lost in thought.

Maybe...Principal Walter is just paying attention to Lingyou in uniform?

I should be worrying too much.

"...Really? No information about her? Sorry to bother you."

Walter hung up the phone and shook his head at Erica, who looked surprised.

"There is no student you mentioned in the Animal Husbandry Department."

"Is that so?" Erica lowered her eyebrows and muttered to herself, "He said that it was his aunt who personally sent him to school when the term started. This shouldn't be wrong..."

"Can I take another look at her message?"

Walter stretched out his hand and explained, "I'll try to search all the students in the school, but there may be some duplicate names."

"It's okay." Erica handed over the phone, "I need to make sure she's safe."

"rest assured."

Walter's fingers tapped on the keyboard, "As long as she enters the school gate, there will be no accidents."

"Let me see, gender is female, age is sixteen..."

Sakutani Ye, who was bored, was admiring the magnificent principal's office, but the moment the man spoke, her pupils shrank, and she turned her head sharply to look at Walter who pushed up his glasses.

"From Rainbow Town, name is..."

"...Jill, right?"

"Ah."

Erica nodded and was about to continue speaking when she was interrupted by the boy who suddenly pounced on her.

"Excuse me, did you just mention Jill?"

Shuo Gu Ye rested his hands on the table, his face anxious.

Even the Poké Ball on its waist was jumping slightly.

"Ah, that's right."

Walter suddenly became interested, glanced at the screen and said to the boy, "Indeed, there was a student named Jill who enrolled three months ago."

His eyes swept across the stunned boy's face and stopped on Erica.

"She enrolled in the Animal Husbandry Department, but just a month ago she submitted an application to change her major to the college."

"She is now a student in the Patrol Department."

"Patrol Department?"

Fujino Sakura, who had never heard of this major, looked at Kitazawa Reiyuu, who was also surprised by the name "Gil".

“Students graduating from the Patrol Department will work as district rangers in the future.”

Kitazawa Reiyu suppressed the shock in his heart and explained to Sakutani Ye who also looked at him.

"Unlike the trainer role, this profession cannot capture Pokémon through Poké Balls. Instead, it uses the hunting cursor to appease Pokémon and convey its feelings."

“So it requires not only strong physical fitness, but also a sharp mind to adapt to difficult situations.”

"Jill actually..."

Thinking back to a certain girl who was covered in mud and in a miserable state, Shuo Gu Ye was stunned for a long time.

He seemed unable to connect the dots between the girl who was wiping her tears and saying goodbye to Psyduck and the profession that was fraught with dangers as mentioned by Kitazawa Reiyuu.

"Patrol Department..."

After thinking for a moment, Erica shook her head and smiled helplessly, "They are really a family. They obviously didn't influence each other, but in the end they all chose to dedicate their careers to the alliance."

But Walter's attention was on Shuoya Ye, whose expression was obviously different.

A faint smile appeared on his lips. "It just so happens that it's lunch time now and the students haven't rested yet."

"Why don't I ask the head of the patrol department to bring her here now so that you can rest assured."

Without waiting for Erica to refute, Walter quickly picked up the phone, "The student who changed majors this year... Yes, her name is Jill, you have an impression of her, right? That's perfect, someone from the alliance wants to see her, bring her to the principal's office."

After a moment, he put down the phone, stood up and spread his hands facing the sofa not far away.

"Please wait patiently. Although the school is quite large, Andy just picked up the car not long ago, so we should be here soon."

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"Principal?"

Not long after, the door of the principal's office was flung open, and the short-haired red-haired girl rushed in like a cannonball, panting and asking, "Teacher Andy said you have something to talk to me about?"

Behind the girl, a man with neatly combed hair came hurriedly.

He leaned his hands on his knees and panted, "How many times have I told you that a good Pokémon ranger can't be so impatient."

"Next time this happens, I will really deduct points from you!"

"It's time to end the get out of class now!" Jill turned around and protested unhappily, "Besides, you are the teacher and you suddenly told me that the principal has something urgent to talk to me about, otherwise I wouldn't be so anxious."

"Haha, young people just need to be energetic."

Walter's laughter drew Jill's attention back.

Only then did she see the principal sitting at one end of the sofa, and the boy opposite him who jumped up from the sofa and looked at her with surprise.

"Xiaoye?!"

"Jill!"

As the two of them screamed at the same time, a ray of light flashed from Shuo Gu Ye's waist.

Jill looked in disbelief at the short figure running towards her with arms outstretched.

"K-Kappa-Duck!"

She knelt down and hugged the Psyduck she had been thinking about day and night in her arms. Even the itchy feeling of the soft fur brushing against her nose tip became so familiar.

"I, I'm not dreaming, am I?"

Jill leaned back with trembling arms, trying to see the outline of Psyduck, but everything was blurry.

She raised her arm and wiped her eyes.

Over the past few months, her longing for Psyduck was like a river bursting its banks, sweeping her away and making her unable to extricate herself.

At this moment, all she felt was the joy of reunion.

She had clearly imagined many times during sleepless nights what she would say and do when she met Psyduck again.

But when the moment really came, her mind went blank and she could only repeat it over and over again.

"It's you...it's really you...I miss you so much, Psyduck..."

"Jill!"

Jill looked up at the boy and burst into laughter.

"Should I say...long time no see?"

"Let me do it." Kitazawa Reiyuu walked slowly over and stopped beside Sakutani Ye.

"Long time no see, Jill."

"Kitazawa...you're here too."

Jill was briefly surprised at first, but soon understood something and her eyes lingered between the two of them.

"You guys...are still traveling together?"

"Of course." Sakuyaha replied with a smile, while introducing the girl waving at him from behind, "And Sakura, the three of us are traveling together."

Jill quickly wiped his face and greeted Fujino Sakura stiffly.

Fujino Sakura nodded with a smile as a response.

"Well, it seems like you two have a very good relationship."

Walter smiled slyly under Erica's wary gaze and deliberately guided the topic.

"Andy, does the patrol department have an internship task this afternoon?"

"Uh...yeah!"

Andy, who had been in school for a long time, immediately understood what Walter meant. "Today's afternoon's Blue Sky course will go to the beach to teach students how to use hunting cursors correctly under certain circumstances."

"Isn't that just right?"

His eyes flashed, and he said to the four boys and girls who were looking at him, "Why don't you take the trouble to take three more students, Andy, and let them experience the courses of the Patrol Department."

"No problem at all."

Jill became interested immediately after hearing this.

She stood up holding Pikachu and said excitedly

"Would you like to come and take classes with me? I'm telling you, Teacher Andy's classes are very interesting. The use of the hunting cursor is the class that interests me the most!"

"Just treat it as a reunion after a long separation! Please, Xiaoye!"

"Because students in our patrol department are not allowed to possess Pokémon... If you don't go, I will be separated from Psyduck again..."

"I, I don't want to be so early..."

"Of course I'm fine."

Sakuya Ye nodded in response to the girl's expectant gaze, then looked at the two of them.

"I do not mind."

"I'll forget it."

Fujino Sakura, the only one who raised her hand to refuse, smiled awkwardly.

"I heard from Mr. Walter that there is a battle field here, so I would like to use it to challenge the owner of the Erika Gym to obtain the rainbow badge."

Erica was quite surprised and pointed at herself, then smiled helplessly at the girl's evasive gaze.

Fujino Sakura scratched her head and said embarrassedly, "I don't think I have time to tell you, I may have to go back to Jinhuang City first..."

"That's why I wanted to seize this last chance to challenge Gym Master Erica."

On the other side, Walter was whispering to Andy.

"Remember to notify the Publicity Department to film..."

"Don't miss this wave of traffic in Qianhong City..."