Pokémon: I, Xiaozhi, return to the beginning

"Can't you touch something now?"

Xiaozhi didn't feel surprised about the old man's current state, but just asked.

"Well, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't... Now that weird feeling isn't there, so I can't touch anything."

The old man just smiled calmly, not feeling sad or sad because of this fact.

Xiaozhi looked around the surrounding environment, but didn't see any traces, so he could only take the initiative to say:

"Do you want to continue hiding?"

The old man has long since passed away. Although there are ghosts in the world, at least the old man's existence is not like the few ghosts he met during his travels.

The ghost has no body, but the old man could touch things before.

The old man was blind, but she could see them too before.

The old man has amnesia and can't remember anything about the past, so she has no reason to stay here.

Something is helping her, and something is restricting her. Although it is out of good intentions, is this good intention really good for the old man?

"There is no need to hide, 'Mr. Ghost' in the diary, do you know what you are doing now?"

Xiaozhi's tone rarely became serious, and then a gust of wind blew by, and under the faint blue light of the fire, a shadow finally appeared in the basement.

Its body is a bit smaller than the ones Xiaozhi has ever seen. It has a hunched body like an old man, and under the skull-like mask, red light that looks like pupils is bursting out.

"Night watchman."

Xiaozhi called out Mr. Ghost's name.

The old man was simply puzzled by this, after all, she couldn't see or remember anything.

Even if the name Xiaozhi called out was Mr. Ghost, the old man only felt vaguely familiar with it.

"You left her soul in this world, didn't you?"

"..."

The night watchman didn't answer, but its attitude said everything.

"Why are you doing this..."

After reading the diary, Xiaozhi has already guessed many things, but he still needs to ask about some things.

The night watchman looked at the old man, and then floated to Xiaozhi's side. After a black mist filled Xiaozhi, he came to another space, where he saw the scene of that year with his own eyes——

Ye Xun Ling was taken in and rescued by the old man and her husband, and his dead heart gradually returned to normal.

It wanted to repay, but the elderly family didn't have what it wanted, and it was confused and hesitant.

After a prank, it stumbles upon them with the biggest smiles on their faces that they never had before, and maybe that's the payoff?

The old man and her husband decided to turn the Mori Mansion into a world-famous and sometimes haunted haunted house. Is this their wish?

The night watchman doesn't understand these things, but since this is their wish, then it is obliged to help them realize this wish...after all, that's all it can do.

Later, the host passed away, and it was hard for a smile to appear on their faces... The hostess was depressed every day, and the mood of the night watchman was no longer cheerful. It could only paralyze itself through repeated pranks, Push yourself to make an effort by constantly recalling their wishes.

In the end, she went blind, and she could no longer see herself.

Her memory also got worse, until eventually she couldn't remember herself anymore.

Its touch terrifies her, and it doesn't reappear.

It can't do anything except help prepare simple berries and food every day.

There are no guests in the hotel because she has lost the ability to work.

A kind passenger wanted to take her away, but she refused. She said that she had no memory, but she was unwilling to leave this familiar place.

Without passengers, it can no longer play pranks, but can only guard her and take care of her every day.

And one day, even she left...he was the only one left here.

It was crying and sad, and it refused to accept this fact... So it tried to keep the old man's soul.

The soul has no body, so it becomes her body, allowing her to touch everything around her.

She has no eyesight, so it uses its illusion to act as her eyes, allowing her to see the world.

Even though it has done everything it can, it still suffers and regrets, if only it could be stronger... to be able to do this while she is alive.

But this is impossible, because everything it can do must rely on the medium of the soul, it cannot enter the bodies of living people, nor can it see the world for them.

.......

The old man's soul also has no memory, but probably has a few impressions from his life.

The night watchman did not appear in front of the old man, because if it left the old man's body, the old man would still lose his eyesight and not be able to see it.

And even if it did appear, the old man would only be afraid.

After all, it is not a human being, but an existence that human beings fear.

But it can't let go of its memories. Although the old man's memories have dissipated, their memories are deeply engraved in his mind and heart.Still with the passage of time, its memory will not experience wear and tear.

This is its privilege as a ghost-type Pokémon, but also its curse as a sentient creature.

In this way, it seems to act as the ferryman between the old man's life and after death, constantly urging and helping the old man to fulfill her unfulfilled dream during her lifetime.

But thousands of years have passed, and batch after batch of tourists have come here, but this mansion has still not become a haunted house passed down by the world.

But this is natural, right?After all, the old man and her husband had no such plan from the beginning. Every time after scaring people, they would ask the night watchman to hypnotize passers-by, make them fall asleep, and let them regard all this as just a dream.

The old man understood the consequences of what they did, but the night watchman didn't understand...or it didn't want to understand.

If it understands, if it admits...

What is it doing all this for?

Thousands of years of hard work, what is the result?

An impossible goal is like a carrot hanging high on a stick that tempts a horse to keep running forward. It is nothing more than an immediate motivation, a hope.

"So she didn't tell you, and you didn't know, did you?"

"..."

The night patrolling spirit appeared, and after hearing Xiaozhi's words, it raised its head slightly, a little puzzled.

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