Chapter 165: What Proper Person Writes a Diary?
After the successful capture, Arthur quickly released the little Eevee again.
Staying in a Poké Ball for extended periods is not beneficial for a Pokémon's development, especially for young Pokémon.
Therefore, buying overly luxurious Poké Balls is truly unnecessary.
It really has nothing to do with him being poor...
After establishing a mental link, the little Eevee affectionately licked Arthur's fingers, then proposed it wanted to go say goodbye to its mother and younger siblings.
Arthur naturally agreed.
He took the little Eevee to see its family. The remaining two little cubs were nestled under the Flareon mother's warm belly, sleeping. Upon hearing their eldest brother was leaving, they didn't even lift their heads...
It could be said this was quite true to life.
Only the Flareon mother patiently helped Arthur's little Eevee by carefully licking its fur all over, then raised her head to scrutinize him for a good while before reluctantly nuzzling him with her head, signaling that he could go.
Having lived in the human world for many years, the Flareon mother was already prepared for the possibility of her children leaving home to venture out with humans. At this moment, she was merely a little reluctant to part, but didn't try too hard to make him stay.
Conversely, it was Arthur's little Eevee whose eyes reddened, tears glistening within them, looking exceptionally sad.
Compared to its younger brother and sisters, who were still heartlessly sleeping soundly in their mother's embrace at this moment, he was truly very precocious.
After bidding farewell to the Flareon mother, the next day, Arthur, accompanied by Monica and Raymond who had forcibly tagged along, went to the Pokémon Center in Lavender Town to register the little Eevee.
Along the way, Monica asked, "Are you leaving today?"
"Mm."
Arthur nodded.
Having been away for so long, it was also time for him to return to the youth training camp and honestly make up for missed lessons.
Moreover, by now, he had also already thought of how to resolve the identity issues for Specter and Mismagius.
There was no longer any need to linger in Lavender Town.
Monica looked somewhat reluctant to see him go.
Raymond, on the other hand, wore an expression that clearly wished Arthur would quickly scram.
This caused Arthur to once again complain internally: A real-world sister complex has no future, old bro.
"Ah, what a pity. Originally, I still wanted to tell you stories about our family's Eevee and Marshal Lyneth Everhart."
"Did you know? The earliest ancestor of this group of Eevees in our family was Marshal Lin's most pampered Leafeon from two hundred years ago!"
"I heard, ah, that Marshal Lin back then secretly developed feelings for her teacher: that Elite Four Arthur who died young. That's why, loving the house and its crow (loving everything associated with the person), she later doted on the Leafeon inherited from her teacher in every possible way. However, official histories don't dare to write about this gossip."
Arthur, who was drinking a beverage on the way, nearly choked on a mouthful of water upon hearing this.
Listening to descendants tell gossip about myself from back then... this feeling is truly quite complex...
It's a good thing the history books didn't write it.
Otherwise, he'd be itching to strike down those record-keeping officials!
Unexpectedly, Monica's next sentence was even more sensational.
"The family also has Marshal Everhart diary from back then, you know! Unfortunately, Grandpa always used to say I was too young and wouldn't let me see it. Hmph! But perhaps in a couple of years, they'll allow me to read it."
"Cough, cough, cough!"
Arthur couldn't help but burst into a fit of coughing.
He was frantically roasting in his mind: Disciple, ah! Why on earth would you write a diary for no reason?
What proper person writes a diary?!
"What's wrong with you?"
Monica curiously tilted her head and glanced at him.
How could someone choke twice consecutively just drinking some water?
"No... nothing much!"
Arthur was suffering in silence but could only feign that nothing was wrong.
Afterward, they completed the registration procedures at the Pokémon Center.
With someone from the Everhart family helping out, the little Eevee's registration went very smoothly and was quickly finished.
Monica also didn't ask for the Luxury Ball back, considering it a gift to Arthur.
In the afternoon, Arthur bought a high-speed train ticket. After bidding farewell to the Everhart family, he directly took the bullet train and left Lavender Town.
However, his destination was not directly back to skyspear city.
Instead, he first went to the neighboring Gravellon city, then entered the mountains at the border, communicated with the local rangers, and subsequently hiked into the Mt. Moon Nature Reserve.
Speaking of which, it was also quite magical. After transmigrating, he had always falsely claimed in various situations that he had grown up in this reserve. But in reality, this was the first time Arthur, two hundred years later, had walked into these vast mountains.
Before entering the mountains, Arthur had already made considerable preparations. He bought a large hiking backpack, prepared some food and supplies, and even specially checked the weather forecast, confirming there would be no rain in the mountains for these few days.
Afterward, he entered the mountains, climbing and rock-climbing all the way. Passing through forests when he encountered them, crossing waters when he encountered them, he spent a full four days' time, finally arriving at the upstream area of Juntian Peak Waterfall on the afternoon of the fifth day.
"Are you sure this is the place?"
After arriving here, Arthur asked Celebi on his back.
Speaking of which, this place was also an important location in the backstory he had previously fabricated.
Because Suicune was here.
Celebi floated up and nodded earnestly.
Previously, she had observed the past once and had also confirmed that Suicune indeed had always lived here.
Immediately, Celebi floated up and began to wander around nearby while calling out.
"Suicune? Suicune, are you there? It's Celebi! I've come to play with you!"
Mythical Pokémon were born even before the appearance of human civilization; they were basically all old acquaintances with each other.
Although Celebi had left few records or eyewitness accounts in the human world, appearing very mysterious, in the circle of Mythical Pokémon, this little one was never mysterious at all; everyone knew her.
Of course, all these things were proactively told to Arthur by Celebi.
This time, if it weren't for her being here, Arthur, in fact, would absolutely not have proactively come looking.
Sure enough, not long after she called out, the lake upstream lit up with a halo. Immediately following, a sacred beast resembling a Qilin, with purplish-red long mane and white ribbons on its back, appeared from the water, stepping gracefully through the air as it approached.
Subsequently, upon seeing Arthur, Suicune very bluntly shot him a contemptuous side-eye, and with a lazy, enchanting female voice, teasingly said, "Yo, isn't this the Great Elite Four Arthur? What's wrong? Traveled thousands of miles to come into the mountains? You must be very idle, huh?"
This was precisely the reason Arthur hadn't wanted to come in the first place.
Although the outside world all rumored him to be the Son of Suicune...
In reality, his relationship with Suicune could hardly be considered harmonious.
Whose fault was it that back then, it was he who personally defeated and captured her alive, and even drove her into these mountains?
"Cough, cough."
Arthur coughed twice to alleviate the atmosphere, then, bracing himself, spoke dryly.
"I came to ask you... for a favor."
At this moment, the little Eevee being held in Arthur's arms had eyes full of little stars.
This was the first time in its little life that it had ever seen a Mythical Pokémon—
(That onion head, Celebi, who had already lost almost all her abilities and in whom one couldn't feel any Mythical Pokémon majesty at all, that game otaku, didn't count.)
Whether it was Suicune's divinely handsome physique or the surging energy emanating from its body, both left the little one incomparably captivated.
This adoration of ordinary Pokémon towards Mythical Pokémon is an instinct carved into their DNA!
Even if the little one had never known Suicune before, nor heard the legends of the Mythical Pokémon, in the instant it sensed this clear energy, it couldn't help but feel an irrepressible surge of childlike affection and adoration.
This kind of phenomenon is similar to a natural law.
At this moment, it was also more or less reflected in Frogadier and Little Lapras.
Only Specter, who had fought countless battles against Mythical Pokémon back then, was completely immune to this.
Moreover, he clearly remembered: there was once a Pokémon that was not only completely immune but had even, at one point, inversely utilized this law.
The next moment, when Suicune saw the little Eevee in Arthur's arms, she immediately jumped back three steps in alarm!
"You! How do you have an Eevee again?! It couldn't possibly be that one, could it? No, impossible! He can't still be alive! But... anyway, keep him away from me!"
In that moment, Specter couldn't help but cover his mouth and snicker.
This scene inexplicably gave him a feeling of "as expected."
(End of Chapter)
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