There seems to be something wrong with these Pokémon

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Words written in the previous article

The physical contact and verbal conversations in this chapter do not contain any ambiguous elements. If there is any misunderstanding, please get rid of this unrealistic and dangerous idea as soon as possible! !

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When Shuo Gu Ye and the others returned to the beach, the scene was in chaos.

The student who was surrounded by his classmates was at a loss, "No, I don't know how to do it..."

"What's wrong?" Shuo Gu Ye grabbed someone and asked.

"Someone has completed a group capture!" the girl said excitedly, "Group capture! This technique is very difficult. I heard that in every generation of students in the school, there will be two or three students who can complete the difficult operation before everyone else. And without exception, they will become famous rangers in the alliance!"

Sakutani Ye and Kitazawa Reiyuu looked at each other.

The two of them looked through the crowd and saw Jill who was surrounded in the center.

“Xiao Ye——!”

Jill's eyes lit up, and he quickly broke away from the crowd and ran towards the two of them. He said, "Why didn't I know that everyone was so enthusiastic before..."

"Who made you achieve group capture, Jill?"

Nicole came over slowly and poked her friend's face. "Group capture, can you teach me?"

"Ah really!"

Jill shook off Nicole's disruptive finger and said angrily, "You've been watching the whole time, right? You should know that this is all just luck!"

"That's why I'm curious." Nicole nodded her lips. "Your hunting cursor went on strike just a few minutes ago because of those troublesome Squirtles."

"Who knew that after I captured a Pikachu to charge your cursor, you would become a completely different person!"

"Not only is the trajectory of the hunting disc difficult to predict, but the capture rate is also much faster than before!"

Nicole leaned in closer to the blushing Jill, "So how on earth did you do that?"

"I, I really don't know!" Jill waved his hands and took a step back, muttering as he recalled his feelings at that time.

"I couldn't even control my breathing after seeing the hunting cursor run out of power due to my mistake..."

The doubts that had been suppressed in my heart for a month broke out and entangled my already unstable heart.

Therefore, Jill didn't notice Nicole who decisively turned around and ran towards the forest after the hunting disc fell to the ground.

Scenes such as [Psyduck's expression of resistance], [Teacher Andy's scolding], and [classmates' ridicule] kept echoing in her mind.

Just when she was about to indulge in doubt, a long, mournful cry made her body stiffen, and she looked up with trembling eyes.

"...The King of Howler Whales is feeling very uncomfortable and scared. He said he wants to go home."

Jill's eyes flashed with the rough, gravelly skin of the Howler Whale King. "It's asking me for help. I think... No, I have to help it!"

"Xiao Ye still remembers Uncle Henry, right?"

Shuoya Ye nodded.

Pada Duck Rice Ball is this uncle’s masterpiece.

"Everyone in Rain Prayer Town thought I would continue to study in the Animal Husbandry Department, so they told me a lot before I left."

Jill stroked the cold hunting cursor in her hand. "Uncle Henry taught me a lot of his many years of experience in making delicious food. For example, when kneading dough, you need to be both hard and soft, and the movements must be fast and fierce..."

Nicole took a big step back and said in disbelief, "You didn't mistake the Squirtle guys for dough?!"

"Almost..." Jill's cheeks turned even redder. "Actually, Squirtle and the others were just playing around. They were not very resistant to the hunting cursor, so I just took advantage of them."

“This is also your strength.”

Shuoya Ye glanced sideways at the other patrol students who had gradually completed their capture mission and gathered together, pointing at the Howler Whale King who was still suffering on the beach.

"Let's send the Whale King home together."

"Yeah!" Jill waved behind her, and three or four Squirrels poked their heads out from the beach, laughing and following the girl's footsteps.

"go home!"

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"Thank you for your hard work, Psyduck. Leave the rest to us."

Sakuya Ye touched Panda's head and stopped it from spraying water with the water gun indiscriminately.

Although Psyduck was panting, he still puffed out his chest and patted it hard in front of many students and trainers.

Why are you tired?! Not tired at all!

"Wow, what an awesome Psyduck!"

As expected, Nico gave praise, "Is this Jill's partner Pokémon?"

Jill was startled when asked, and when he turned around, his eyes met Sakuya Ye's.

After a moment's hesitation, she slowly opened her lips.

"No."

"Yes."

Two overlapping voices reached Nicole's ears at the same time.

She looked around and asked, "Is it true or not? How can you have two answers?"

Jill shook his head at the boy who wanted to say something, took a step forward and took Psyduck's hand.

Just like when he prayed for rain in the town, he put its hand into the boy's.

"Psyduck is Xiaoye's Pokémon. I'm just borrowing it for a while."

Jill suddenly laughed and pointed at the drone in the sky. "Since it's a short film for recruiting new students, the school must have some gimmicks, right?"

"That's what I told you!" Nicole pouted. "Humph, I was tricked into joining the school by the school's recruitment video, and now I'm helping to trick others!"

Seeing that the girl had no suspicion at all, Jill turned her head to look at the boy.

Under his puzzled gaze, she raised her index finger to her lips and winked.

"Just like we said a few months ago." Jill squatted down and rubbed Pikachu's chubby face. "Pikachu will continue to be in your care, Xiaoye."

"But today..."

"Being too willful will also cause trouble to others, right?"

Jill had an idea, and the Squirtles who had established a connection with her stood beside her and sprayed columns of water at the beach between the Howler Whale King and the sea.

"Enough of the small talk, Operation Rescue of the King of Howler Whales has officially begun!"

"Okay!"

Nicole, who was the first to agree, raised her arm, and the captured monkey monster jumped up, grabbed her arm and swung her in the air.

"Help, Monkey Monster!"

Shuoya Ye lowered his head and looked at Psyduck. When it looked back at him, he smiled slightly, threw the Poké Ball and pressed his watch.

"Psyduck, Eevee, and White Sea Lion, it's time to go."

"Freezing light!"

"You too." Kitazawa Lingyou turned around and said to the bewildered sea lions and seals, "Freezing ray."

"Bulbasaur use the vines to help!"

"Little Rattata, dig a hole!"

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Seeing the results of the joint efforts of the patrol department students, Andy nodded with satisfaction, his eyes constantly moving between the students that made him proud.

The smile on his face came to an abrupt end when he saw the boy holding a Pokémon in one hand.

"Metapoda, can you help push the Whale King?"

Metapod: ...

"Then, can you fan me a little?"

Metapod: ...

"Forget it, forget it. Why don't you use the freezing ray too?"

Metapod: ...

A flash of iron light appeared, and Metapod used [Harden]!

But it was of no use.

Andy frowned, and shouted at Sasuke with both anger and laughter, "You! Failed the exam!"

"Ah?! Why? No, Mr. Andy!!"

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With the help of many Pokémon, King Whale moved a little.

But it is still quite a distance from the sea surface.

"Isn't it enough?"

Jill looked at the panting Squirtles and said, "I'll go catch some more!"

Having said that, he turned and ran away.

But a row of figures coming towards her made her stop in her tracks.

"W-Bluse?!"

The Squirtles looked back and called out in joy.

Nicole quickly turned around and took out the hunting cursor, "Do you want to capture them?"

"should..."

"No, wait." Shuo Gu Ye raised his hand to stop the two of them.

After observing for a while, he was convinced, "They are not enemies. The Blastoises are here to help."

"Help?!"

Nicole exclaimed, looking around, "Who captured so many Blastoises? That's amazing!"

"No, that's not the case."

Jill seemed to sense something through the eyes of the Blastoises and shook her head.

"No one captured them, they came to help on their own initiative."

"No way?!"

Nicole blinked dully, "Pokémon will take the initiative to help?"

Kitazawa Lingyou sneered.

"Another student poisoned by the teaching simulation system."

“What is a teaching simulation system?”

Shuoya Ye, who had never heard of this term, was confused.

"Take trainers as an example. The system used by the Pokémon Professional Research School that is similar to the [game] is the [Trainer Teaching Simulation System]."

Kitazawa Lingyou glanced at Nicole who was confused and continued, "As for the teaching system used by the Ranger Department...if nothing unexpected happens, it is no different from the Trainer. The Pokémon in it are completely made up of a string of data and code, and they don't have their own thoughts at all. Only when the [protagonist] performs specific actions can they get their help."

"The trainer is [capture], so the corresponding ranger should be [capture]."

"Very correct."

Andy walked over slowly, clapped his hands and smiled, looking at the two students, "Don't treat Pokémon as cold statistics. This is the starting point for all Pokémon-related careers."

Andy looked at the King Whale who was moving on the ice under the bombardment of the Blastoises' water cannons, and sighed with nostalgia.

"Remember, this is the most important knowledge point in this Blue Sky Class."

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"What? Andy is still using the same routine?"

After returning to school, Nicole, who was chatting with a familiar senior student, saw her rolling her eyes.

"We used the roaring whale in that class. It seems that it has evolved, but he still pulled it in to act."

"W-what?" Nicole stuttered, "Is it an act?!"

"Nonsense." The senior student propped up her chin and sighed, "After all, Andy is an elite ranger of the alliance. If the hunting cursor is so easily destroyed, he might as well just resign."

"Last time, we used Blastoise to create a rainy day, and Charmander lay on a rock to look like a candle in the wind."

"I wanted to see what was new this year, but it turned out to be the same old same old!"

“It’s really a deception.”

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"A bit sad, huh?"

Shuoya Ye asked softly, "I'm sorry, I should have considered your feelings more."

Jill bit her lower lip until blood oozed out.

"Are you sad..."

Jill raised her head slowly. "Rather than being sad, I feel more surprised and angry."

"My parents died at the hands of the trainer of the Alliance Gym..."

"Jill..."

Shuoya Ye looked at Jill who was talking in a daze with concern, "You——"

"I'm fine." Jill shook her head and smiled slowly. "At least it proves that my goal is correct. The seemingly peaceful alliance actually has many termites eating away at it."

"The Patrol Department...is the best decision I have ever made."

Jill's fingers stroked the cold and hard hunting cursor, which was the girl's only weapon at the moment.

"At least, I can still fulfill my parents' unfulfilled wish and continue to play for the league, right?"

Her voice trembled, but she spoke word for word, "During that time, I will catch him myself and bring him to justice."

Jill smiled slightly, "To be honest, I really want to kill him to avenge my parents."

"But... Mom and Dad taught me that no matter what, I must not let myself become the next executioner with blood on my hands."

"so--"

"Jill." Shuoya Ye interrupted the chattering girl and spoke slowly in her hazy vision.

"You're crying."

Jill was stunned and raised her hand to wipe under her eyes.

The wetness of her fingertips showed her fragility. She murmured, "Why are you crying again... I clearly said I would never cry again, why..."

The girl tried desperately to hold back her tears, rubbing her hands across her face.

"No...I can't cry anymore. Mom and Dad will be sad if they see me. I...can't cry..."

A handkerchief appeared before her eyes.

The familiar white handkerchief with a Katy Poodle printed on it.

Just like in the rain-praying town.

Jill raised her head and looked at the boy through the hazy mist.

His clear, bright eyes were full of concern, and he looked into hers without blinking.

In a trance, she seemed to still be in the Rain-Praying Town, with people she could rely on everywhere, to whom she could pour out all her worries and sorrows and vent her pain at will.

"Can I...can I hug you?"

Somehow, Jill suddenly said something like this without thinking.

She came to her senses and quickly shook her hands, taking a step back, "No, no, that's not what I meant, I just thought of grandma..."

"of course can."

What she didn't expect was that the boy's expression didn't even change in the face of such an excessive request.

He just took a big step forward and slowly opened his arms.

"If a hug would make you feel better, go for it."

Jill froze in place.

After a moment, a warm embrace enveloped her.

In her grandmother's arms, she recalled her childhood. No matter how wronged she was, as long as she ran home, her grandmother's arms would always be waiting for her, giving her infinite tolerance.

Her nose felt sore and she completely let go of all her pretense of strength and burst into tears.

Tears mixed with grievance, anger, unwillingness, despair and grief wet the boy's clothes.

Shuo Gu Ye lowered his eyes to look at the girl's trembling shoulders, and after a moment he looked up at the gradually setting sun.

Rockets...

How many unforgivable mistakes have you made?