There seems to be something wrong with these Pokémon

"How to say?"

The man raised an eyebrow, "You choose, I'll follow you."

The boy shook his head and refused, "One for each of us."

"Time is running out, act quickly."

He took out a tube of medicine from his arms, pried open the unsuspecting man's mouth and poured half of it into him, then drank the rest himself.

"The potion is not effective enough, so we need to fight quickly and make it a quick fight."

"vomit--"

The man's face was wrinkled and he was bent over in pain.

"You can add sweetness to the potion for that Psyduck, so what's wrong with adding a little sweetness to this?!"

"No time."

Unlike the man whose face was as bitter as if he had eaten bitter herbs, the young man did not even arch his eyebrows as he pushed open the half-open door in front of him.

"You go over there."

"Bah bah bah!"

The man stuck out his tongue and swirled it around, as if that would bring his dead taste buds back to life.

"I'm going to drink again!"

----

When you walk in the door, the first thing that catches your eye is the neatly arranged plush toys.

However, unlike normal plush toys, the faces of the toys placed here are particularly vivid.

Laughing, crying, terrified...

The young man walked a few steps closer as if he saw nothing, and picked one up to examine it carefully.

The toy in my hand is covered with fine fur from head to toe. Only after I push aside the fur can I vaguely see the face of the person behind me.

He stared at it for a long time before he felt vaguely familiar with it.

It seemed to be the photo of the missing person that Cole had given them before they entered Jinhuang City.

With this in mind, the young man plucked out patches of hair from his chest without mercy.

Among the flying orange fluff, the exposed [red R] is particularly conspicuous.

"good luck."

He smiled slightly and threw the toy aside.

There are only two rare spots left, and he doesn't want to waste it on these worthless people.

Now it has not come to the point where he and Nancy have to fight to the death, so he will abide by the [deal].

The boy moved extremely quickly, repeatedly grabbing, plucking the hair, observing, and throwing away.

A few minutes later, he had a toy with fox ears in his hands.

Looking at the disgusting and arrogant face, the boy threw her at his feet with a cold face and continued searching.

The toys that fell heavily stirred up a cloud of dust, staining the beautiful long red hair with a dirty color.

Not long after, another gray toy lay at his feet.

The young man looked at his two Q-version colleagues, sneered, and a cold light flashed in his hand.

The sharp blade stabbed the immobile toy!

Ding--!

The expected scene of cotton splashing did not happen.

Instead, he felt a dull pain in the base of his palm, as if stabbing a stone, which made him frown.

"really..."

He shook his numb hands a few times and put the knife away.

The faint circles of light seen on the toy are not an illusion.

Including the puppet he stepped on not long ago.

He lowered his eyes in thought, and an answer flashed through his mind.

Perhaps in order to protect these "people" in the gym, Nancy used her superpowers to set a rule here.

[No one can harm any "person" who has left a superpower mark in the Golden Gym. ]

"It's so naive."

The young man sighed, and just as he was about to grab the two men's hair and leave, the man who went to search other rooms was standing at the door, staring at him quietly.

No one knew how long he stayed there.

The man glanced at the two toys.

"Are you really planning on taking two out?"

"Take one back, and take the other out to be dealt with."

The boy shook his head and said, "Nazi's superpowers shouldn't be removed so quickly. They will remain in this state for a certain period of time after leaving the gym."

"cruel!"

The man clicked his tongue and shook his head. Facing the boy's speechless gaze, he said, "Why not give you a suggestion and just take one away."

"why?"

"Because I found an interesting puppet."

The man raised his lips and raised his hand slowly. "What a cute doll. It's a pity to let him stay here forever. What do you think?"

The boy's pupils shrank suddenly when his eyes fell on the puppet in the man's hand.

If it weren't for his strong willpower restraining his actions, he would have pounced on it and snatched the doll away.

"It seems that I don't need to persuade you anymore."

The man looked at the boy's right fist, which was hanging at his side and trembling slightly, and threw the doll casually.

"Then, I won't care if it falls..."

Before he finished speaking, the two toys fell to the ground and the boy carefully caught them at the same time.

"There is really no camaraderie at all."

The man shook his head with a smile, "The room I went to was quite interesting."

He looked up at the dark, dusty little room, and recalled the cozy little room he had stepped into not long ago, and felt the stark contrast.

"At least it's hundreds of times better than here."

“Not only are the lights on, but there are also buildings like a mini city.”

"I took a look from a distance and found that there were actually quite a few little people living in it."

"It looks like the architecture of the mini city is completely modeled after that of Golden City, even the towering department store has been moved in."

"I suspect that the [friends] that Nazzi refers to are the people she placed here for protection."

He shrugged and said.

"He is strange. Logically, he should be placed in a mini city like other little people..."

He walked over and stretched out his index finger to poke the puppet's face, but the boy pushed it away rudely.

"mean."

The man made a "tsk" sound and continued.

"Perhaps something unexpected happened. His body size is not big enough to live in the mini city, so Nancy can only leave him alone on the desk."

"I guess she's curious too, so she plans to study it slowly later, right?"

The boy paused as he stroked the puppet's fingertips.

On the puppet that was turned into a flat surface, there was something hard pressing against it? !

Curiously, he pressed along the line from neck to chest, outlining the contour of the hard object in his mind.

Like... gears?

His pupils dilated slightly and he quickly thought of something.

After a while, under the man's inquiring gaze, he held the doll and put it in his chest pocket, then turned around and asked.

"Shareya or Cahill?"

The man came to his senses and casually replied, "Cahir. I don't want to see that crazy woman."

The boy nodded, pulled out one of the toys, and kicked the other one back.

"Let's go."

Just as they turned around and were about to leave, the door suddenly closed.

Looking at this scene, the man scratched his head in confusion.

"What does she mean?"

"Repented?"

"Now that we have the [goods], it's time to pay."

The boy raised his chin in understanding, "What is your final choice?"

Silence, no response.

"It seems you can't make a choice."

He withdrew his gaze from the puppet and decided to do a good deed.

"Let me give you a suggestion. In the current situation, Haunter is what you need."

His eyes were fixed on a spot in the air, as if he was talking to a girl who did not appear.

"Your superpowers are about to get out of control, and only Haunter can help you suppress it, right?"

Still no reply.

This time the boy didn't waste any more time, but directly gave out an address.

"Go find the location of Haunter yourself."

"Open the door."

----

Shuoya Ye woke up in the hotel, washed his face in a daze, and walked towards the door of the room where the noise came from, one step deep and one step shallow.

"Hello..."

"Hello, Mr. Sakuya."

The policeman at the door raised his hand and showed his ID, and immediately asked, "Please repeat what happened last night."

Last night's incident...

Shuo Gu Ye raised his hand to cover his painful forehead, piecing together his memories bit by bit.

"All I remember is that I opened my eyes and found myself in the police station...someone said I fainted at the gate of Golden City..."

"Why are you there?"

The police waited for the teenager to finish speaking before asking, "According to the records, you seemed to have arrived in Golden City the day before yesterday. Do you want to leave?"

"leave?"

Shuo Gu Ye had never thought of this before, so he quickly shook his head and said, "No, I have something else to do in Jinhuang City..."

"what's up?"

Under the police's questioning, questions that were obviously very easy to answer seemed to become a difficult problem for the teenager.

His pupils were out of focus and his brows were tightly furrowed.

"What's going on... By the way, why am I in Golden City...?"

The two policemen at the door looked at each other. Just as they were confused, two lavender tentacles stretched out from behind the boy and rubbed his forehead, which was in pain.

"This is Ditto, my Pokémon."

Shuoya Ye smiled at the two people who were facing a formidable enemy, and suddenly remembered something.

"Oh right, it's because we want to challenge the gym!"

"I see."

The police briefly understood what happened and did not bother them any further.

After all, no signs of injury were detected on the boy's body, and the results of a physical examination at the hospital were normal.

As for the inexplicable backache and some red marks on the skin under the clothes...

Before leaving, a police officer couldn't help but turn back and say, "Although the examination didn't find any problems, if you become confused or have blurred memory in the future, you must contact us."

He glanced at the red marks on the boy's face that had already faded. "It's easy to bump into things when you're staggering on the road. It's lucky that there aren't many people and cars at night. Wouldn't it be a big problem if it happened during the day?"

"Well, thank you for the reminder."

Shuoya Ye smiled and nodded obediently, "I will pay more attention."

Seeing this, the police didn't say much and hurriedly followed the other man and left.

After the two left, Shuo Gu Ye closed the door and propped up his head, muttering to himself in confusion.

"Where did I go... yesterday? What did I do?"

No matter how hard he tried to dig out his memory, he could only find vague fragments.

What made him even more terrified was that although it was such an unusual experience, there seemed to be an inexplicable force preventing him from delving further into it, forcing him to accept reality!

Ditto poked his head out from behind and shook his head in the same confusion.

"Is that so? Ditto doesn't remember either?"

He sighed and decided not to pursue the matter further.

After rubbing Ditto's rumbling belly, he decided to take Ditto to eat and drink first.

"Let's go and have some delicious food!"

Ditto's eyes lit up, and he stretched out his arm and waved it on the empty bedside table.

Ditto was stunned.

Strange, what did it want to get for the trainer?

Gulu~

Ditto, who was about to faint from hunger, shook his head and happily lay on the trainer's shoulder and went out together.

The biggest food in the world!

----

After eating and drinking their fill, Sakuya Ye and Ditto, lying sated in her arms, wandered freely on the streets of Golden City.

Once again avoiding the girl in the puffy skirt, he looked at the crowded street and rubbed Ditto's soft belly.

"How about we go somewhere else?"

It seems that due to the call of Kanto's first grand contest, many boys and girls who dream of becoming [Pokémon Coordinators] have gathered here.

In order to win the only championship among hundreds of people, many novice coordinators simply performed on the side of the road, attracting passers-by to stop and admire.

Of course, this also caused the entire sidewalk to be blocked.

Somehow, a route suddenly popped up in Shuoya Ye's mind.

His intuition told him that there probably wouldn't be so many people there.

Driven by curiosity, he turned and walked another way.

----

Until he stepped into the abandoned park, Shuoya Ye didn't know why he had an impression of this long-abandoned place.

He walked slowly forward on the overgrown road.

"Ao Gu Yan, shadow clone."

The familiar voice beside his ear made him turn his feet unconsciously and walk towards the hill.

In the middle of the lawn, a young man was dancing surrounded by flower petals and swallows.

The paper umbrella in his hand flew up and down and danced left and right with his movements.

Shuoya Ye couldn't help but stop here, holding his breath, afraid of disturbing the boy's performance.

The light from the umbrella is like water, flowing endlessly.

As the Pokémons constantly changed their moves, the boy's figure was looming in the paper umbrella, and his green-edged embroidered robe kept flashing among the several musical notes.

Shuoya Ye's gaze kept changing with the boy's movements, until a certain turning point, when the rhythm of the dance gradually slowed down.

In the last move, he raised the paper umbrella over his head and around his neck, stepped back with his left foot and slightly bent his back, and let his right hand fall in front of his chest.

He used the momentum to throw the paper umbrella out while thanking the audience.

The paper umbrella that escaped the boy's control did not fly far as expected. Instead, it flew out from the left shoulder and fell back to the right shoulder with his clever strength, and then fell back into the boy's hands.

The perfect curtain call!

Just as Shuoya Ye was about to applaud for this wonderful performance, the boy's body trembled slightly.

Shuoya Ye's raised hand stopped in mid-air, and he watched in disbelief as the young man staggered and fell heavily to the ground!

"Xiao Yu!"

Izumi You, who had struggled to get up with the help of the dream demon, stiffened his body and slowly raised his eyes to look at the young man who was running towards him anxiously.

"Are you okay?"

Sakutani Ye raised his hand to wipe away the dirt on Izumi Yuu's pale cheek, and smiled awkwardly under his surprised gaze, "I... was just passing by."

"It doesn't matter."

Izumi You took a deep breath and shook his head, then raised his hand to signal the dream demon to use his superpowers to pull him up.

“There are not many people here, so I often practice here.”

Izumi Yu gave a brief explanation.

He looked at the boy who came alone and couldn't help but ask, "Where's Sakura?"

"Sakura...?"

Shuo Gu Ye was stunned for a moment, but soon related memories emerged before his eyes.

"Oh, she...should go home?"

He looked at the very familiar scene and finally remembered that he and Fujino Natsu had been here yesterday.

It seemed that something happened here, but he couldn't remember it clearly.

"What happened yesterday?"

"Why do you ask about this?"

Shuoya Ye replied with some confusion.

Izumi Yu lowered his eyes, and after a while he calmly dropped a bombshell.

"I saw her last night. She looked flustered and seemed to be looking for someone."

"She ran away before I could say hello, repeating three names over and over again."

"You are one of them."