There seems to be something wrong with these Pokémon

"Nazi, I want to go find her."

After Shuo Gu Ye murmured these words, the two of them had different expressions.

"Together we will!"

Fujino Sakura raised her hand and shouted without any hesitation, while turning to look at the other person who had remained silent.

"Xiaoyou, you must also--"

Fujino Sakura stared at the boy with a complicated expression, and her raised hand slowly fell.

Izumi Yu lowered his eyebrows and his lips trembled slightly.

After a few breaths, he shook his head imperceptibly.

"I... never mind."

He bent down, picked up the paper umbrella that had been placed at his feet not long ago, and turned his back to the two of them.

"sorry."

"Uh...is it because of the glamour contest?" Fujino Sakura speculated.

She still remembered the excellent cooperation between the three of them in Lavender Town when they were trying to find the truth about the Pokémon Tower.

The boy was enthusiastic and sincere at that time, and that was why she accepted the offer without hesitation.

Izumi You still had his back to the two of them and said nothing.

Fujino Sakura curled her lips, "The glamour contest should be easy for Xiaoyou, right? There's no need to feel so much pressure—"

"Feel sorry."

Under the girl's gaze, Izumi Yu took a step forward.

He slowly opened the umbrella ribs, and the thin paper umbrella completely blocked the warm sunlight. His face looked complicated under the mixture of light and shadow.

"It's not enough now..."

"Whether it's a performance or a gorgeous competition, there must be no mistakes."

Fujino Sakura stared at the boy's departing back, her outstretched hand suspended in mid-air.

"Xiaoyou is right."

Turning his head, Sakuya Ye also raised his face, still smiling, "The gorgeous competition is very important to both Sakura and Xiaoyou, right?"

"It would be my fault as a trainer to lose the Pokémon that I entrusted to me, so I will personally find them."

He opened his hands and squeezed the empty palms.

His thick eyelashes trembled slightly, and he slowly raised his head, his light blue eyes staring at her steadily.

"As a novice coordinator, you also have your own tasks, right?"

Under the boy's gaze, Fujino Sakura laughed and shook her head.

"What are you talking about?"

She tapped the boy's smooth forehead without any hesitation and pretended to complain.

"Why are you still trying to be cool at this time?"

Shuo Gu Ye covered his forehead in pain and looked at her with tears in his eyes.

Oops! I accidentally used too much force!

Fujino Sakura smiled awkwardly and quickly put her hands behind her back.

"We're friends, right?"

"Ah."

Stunned by the bullet, Shuoya Ye nodded without any hesitation.

"So, Xiaoye's Pokémon is my Pokémon, and Xiaoye's business is my business. Is this not difficult to understand?"

The golden light shone on the girl. She bent down slightly, took a step back, and smiled.

"Besides, I can't do something like the gorgeous competition by myself. I'll need your help when the time comes. You can't run away!"

"After we find the Monarch Snakes, remember to help me figure out how to show my unique cuteness at the Grand Contest!"

----

On the way to the Golden Gym, Fujino Sakura explained why she was familiar with Sakuya Ye's symptoms.

"My brother...he once tried to leave Golden City."

Fujino Sakura never doubted her brother's keenness. Fujino Natsu was definitely one of the first people to discover something unusual in Jinhuang City.

However, worried about her parents' inability to fight alongside Pokémon, Fujino Natsu took out some insurance before taking the risk.

"There's an extra note in the drawer of my room."

When Fujino Sakura returned home and was tidying up her desk, she found papers covered with flowing handwriting.

"My brother wrote a lot of speculations about various strange phenomena, as well as the verifications he made."

"At first I thought it was just another prank of his, but when I tried to ask my brother about it based on the small words at the bottom of the note, his confused expression didn't seem fake."

Fujino Sakura lowered her eyes and continued, "Moreover, the words on the paper are not continuous, and there are even many sentences that are unclear in meaning."

-This is related to [Ragdoll].

-The [castle] has changed, and the omnipresent [eyes] make it difficult for me to fall asleep.

-The enclosed [territory]?

-I'm going to go to the [border] and check it out. I hope nothing goes wrong.

“It’s a metaphor.”

Having experienced this, Sakutani Ye immediately understood what Fujino Natsu meant.

The doll is [Nanni], the castle is [Golden Gym], the eyes are [Superpowers], and the territory is [Golden City].

The border is——!

Fujino Sakura nodded, "The police said that the person who reported the case also found you lying on the ground at the [border]."

"So I was wondering, would you forget these things like your brother?"

She recalled her brother who behaved normally and brought back the strange doll he had left at home.

【Leaving Jinhuang City? 】

[Why, are you so eager for your dear brother to leave? ]

[Then I won’t leave. Why would I go out when all is well? ]

-I have to go out and find out!

Fujino Sakura was shocked by the completely opposite attitudes. Just when she was about to ask something else, she saw the button eyes of the doll emitting bursts of blue light out of the corner of her eye!

Jingle Bell--!

The shrill ring of the phone rang, and Fujino Sakura hurriedly took out her phone as if she was grabbing a life-saving straw.

"Hey, yes, it's...Pokémon Center?"

"Dandan's superpower indicators are abnormal again?!"

After hanging up the phone, Fujino Sakura didn't dare look back at the rag doll and hurried out of the house.

After calming down on the park bench for a long time, she finally decided to pretend nothing had happened.

I washed my face, forced a smile and walked slowly home.

----

A slender figure flashed past at high speed in the maze-like passage.

The invisible waves followed closely behind the monarch snake like a shadow.

The monarch snake narrowed its red eyes slightly, and when its super power was about to spread, its figure disappeared again.

The figure sitting on the throne was stunned for a moment, and the overwhelming super power enveloped the entire gym again.

In an instant, the structure of the entire Golden Gym appeared in Nancy's mind.

Her eyes were fixed on a certain room through the wall.

"found it."

Although it was beyond her expectation that the Monarch Snake could make flexibly use the [Teleportation Tile] without a trainer's command, it was only a matter of time before she caught it.

The [Teleportation Tile] is a sophisticated device made by her father.

The fluctuations of super powers are complex and irregular, and even Nancy cannot predict where the creature she steps on will be teleported to the gym.

It would be easy to destroy the entire gym's [Teleportation Tiles] with her super powers, but Nancy would never do that.

why?

"This is Dad's stuff."

Nancy stroked the doll's long hair, her tone intimate but her expression cold.

"No one can destroy it except Dad himself."

The doll nodded as if it understood, then sat obediently on the girl's knees holding the ball.

Just when the monarch snake was about to be caught up by the super power again!

An energy beam that was hard to ignore shot straight towards Nancy!

"Nazi, be careful!"

The puppet lying on the armrest stood up, and in a hurry jumped high to block in front of Nancy!

boom--!

Smoke and dust rose up, and Cat Boss slowly jumped down from the pipes that were scattered above his head.

When the dust settled, Nancy's eyes flashed blue as she raised her hands to protect the puppet and the rag doll behind her, staring coldly at this unique cat boss.

Both because it is impossible to capture its fluctuations and because of the horrifying scar on its eye.

Nancy had only experienced this with two people, a situation where super powers were completely ineffective.

So she quickly connected the two.

"Are you his Pokémon?"

The cat boss raised his hand and licked his paw, with a cold light flashing in his eyes.

A dark figure slowly emerged behind him!

Haunter's sneak attack did not work. At the same time that the Shadow Ball was avoided by the Cat Boss, a bolt of lightning also hit it in the face.

Nancy narrowed her eyes slightly, and the golden electric light seemed to be controlled by something and twisted its path, flying high up.

She still has enough energy to spare, and can even use teleportation to bring Haunter back to her side!

“Why help them?”

Puzzled, Nancy expressed her doubts frankly, "They are not his Pokémon, they belong to someone else."

The cat boss paused with his tail raised high, and did not give any response.

Instead, it makes its attitude clear through actions!

The burgundy beam of light hit the superpower barrier, and Nancy frowned slightly.

"The potion has an expiration date. You can't beat me."

The cat boss' pupils erected and his whiskers trembled slightly.

The figure disappeared like a ghost and reappeared behind the girl in the blink of an eye.

Shadows entangled between claws!

----

"Where's the Jin-Jin Gym?!"

Standing in the empty square, the two looked at each other.

"No way, I can't remember it wrong!"

Fujino Sakura scratched her head. "No matter what, I can't possibly go wrong, right? This is Jinhuang City!"

"Look! That tree! And that bench! And those uncles and aunts setting up stalls!"

Everything was exactly the same as he remembered, except that the gym that once stood here was gone.

Fujino Sakura held her head in despair, "Where did the Golden Gym go?! Did it grow wings and fly away?!"

Sakuya Ye, who had already begun to doubt his own memory, naturally could not answer the girl's questions.

He took several tentative steps forward until he stopped at the original location of the Golden Gym.

"Gone...really."

The panic-stricken Fujino Sakura hurriedly grabbed a passerby.

"Beauty, the Golden Gym is here, right?"

"Well, it seems so?"

The woman who was caught was startled, and after she recovered, she answered hesitantly.

Fujino Sakura's eyebrows jumped and she turned to look at the man who was looking at her curiously.

"Remember handsome guy?"

"If that's the case..."

The man frowned and thought for a long time, then shook his head, "I can't remember clearly, it should be in this area, right?"

After asking many people and even the aunts and uncles who had set up stalls here for half their lives gave ambiguous answers, Fujino Sakura ran back to Sakutani Ye.

"Everyone's memory——!"

"I'm sure the Golden Gym is here, why are we okay?"

Sakutani Ye lowered his head in thought, and after a while he suddenly raised his head and met Fujino Sakura's gaze.

The two shouted in unison, "The superpower fluctuations at that time!"

Fujino Sakura took a breath, "Could it be that the superpowers at that time were not directed at you?!"

Shuoya Ye took a deep breath and spoke slowly.

"At that time, Naz was modifying the memories of the people in the entire city!"