Pokémon: Start with an Admiral Crab!

Joey sat opposite Wang Yao.

"It's not a big deal..."

Wang Yao scooped a spoonful of pudding and put it into his mouth.

"That building across the square is the train station, right? Why is it abandoned?"

Things like time travel are naturally difficult to explain... Therefore, Wang Yao plans to find out what good things that guy named Ayong did after he left.

"Eh...are you actually thinking about this?"

Qiao Yi Jingmei didn't expect Wang Yao to ask this...

She is one year younger than Shizuka and was assigned to work in Asakusa City only half a year ago, so naturally she doesn't know much about the local history.

"I don't know... but tomorrow a local couple of breeders will come to the Pokémon Center to take care of the newly hatched Pokémon..."

"Aguo's wife and her husband have lived in Qianhong City for decades. Maybe you can ask them, Ayao..."

Qiao Yi Jingmei suggested to Wang Yao.

"Yeah...I will."

Wang Yao finished the remaining pudding in one bite.

As expected of Pudding! He felt much better...

"——Please prepare ten more set meals for me!"

The giant crabs haven't eaten yet. Although keeping them in the Poké Ball can reduce their consumption, Wang Yao is more accustomed to letting them walk around more and eat three meals a day regularly.

He believed that in order to increase his strength, sufficient food and hard training were both essential.

"Ten copies!?"

(｀Д′)!!

Qiao Yi Jingmei stood up from her seat angrily...the meal time was about to end and she was clearly ready to go to the front desk to rest!

...Just as my sister said, this guy is always causing trouble!

Jingmei went back into the kitchen. Fortunately, the food she cooked with resentment did not taste worse.

At most, the seasoning becomes a little salty...

……

The next morning, the breeder couple that Jingmei mentioned came to the Pokémon Center.

"Ms. Joy, my grandma made some delicious bean paste cakes and asked me to bring them to you!"

The first person to enter the door was a little girl with short burgundy hair.

"Ah... it's Kumiko! Thank you very much - please come in!"

Jingmei took the oil paper bag containing the red bean paste cake, opened the door of the incubator room, and welcomed the visiting breeding couple.

"Ayao, these two are the breeders I mentioned to you - Mrs. Aguo and Mr. Ayong... and their granddaughter Kumiko."

Jingmei introduced Wang Yao to an elderly couple who were visiting as breeders.

Because he just passed by Kumiko and Aguosao yesterday, Wang Yao didn't remember their appearance, but he felt that they looked familiar...

However, the name of "Mr. Ayong" made Wang Yao alert.

"Ayong?"

Although it was just yesterday, it had been twenty-seven years since Wang Yao heard this sinful name again...

"Young man... do you know me?"

Mr. Ayong is a little old man in his fifties or sixties with white hair and beard. He hunches his back when he speaks and has a very kind face.

The old man looks ordinary...

...the lightning-shaped scar on the other person's forehead looks a bit eye-catching.

"No...it's just that I have a friend also named Yong..."

Wang Yao looked at the old man with some doubt and denied it.

After all, the photo was taken nearly thirty years ago, and he could hardly recognize the other person.

But that lightning scar...

"Oh... did you notice the lightning scar too?"

Ayong pointed at the scar on his head without any hesitation.

"Well, I'm a little curious."

Wang Yao smiled awkwardly.

"Mr. Yong has been blessed by the legendary divine bird - the lightning bird!"

Jingmei took the lead in explaining for Wang Yao.

"That lightning scar is the best proof... Everyone in the area knows about it~"

When Jingmei first came to Crimson City, she heard about a kind Pokémon breeder who had been blessed by a divine bird many years ago!

"what?"

Wang Yao already had a feeling that this Mr. Ayong was most likely the Ayong whom he failed to kill twenty-seven years ago!

"Hey! Those are just rumors spread by the citizens... I just had better luck!"

Mr. Ayong explained modestly with a smile.

"In fact, there were many other people who saw the lightning bird at that time. It was only because I was standing close that I was blessed by the lightning~"

"That electric current instantly enlightened my thinking... those training problems that had troubled me for a long time suddenly became clear after this! Hahahaha!"

Although Mr. Ayong said he was humble, he was actually very proud of being a breeder blessed by Zapdos.

"You old man...you're starting to brag about those nonsense again!"

Mrs. Aguo beside him rolled her eyes at her husband.

"what?!"

Wang Yao couldn't hold it anymore...

"So you guys... have you always lived in Crimson City?"

Wang Yao asked tentatively.

"Yes... But speaking of it, on the day I received the blessing from the divine bird, I was planning to take the train to Golden City for further studies..."

Mr. Ayong recalled the scene from twenty-seven years ago.

"It's a pity that the train station was destroyed by a strange guy driving Pokémon - this is what my friend told me afterwards."

"That person was still in the square, shouting that he was going to kill someone... But before I could see that person's face clearly, the lightning bird suddenly appeared and saved the citizens in the square with a huge lightning bolt!"

Ah Yong hadn't entered the platform yet, and he only saw a figure at the last second before Wang Yao teleported away...

"Because I was close...I was also contaminated by some lightning and was unconscious for three days before I woke up."

Mr. Ayong recalled the scene of that year... the huge three-meter-tall body of the Zapdos and its eye-catching orange-yellow feathers... made him remember the majesty of the divine bird at a glance.

Moreover, it was thanks to the blessing of the electric current from the Zapdos that his mind became much more flexible after he woke up from his coma, and he was able to grow into a formidable breeder without leaving his home.

"How dare you say this... You didn't even know I was pregnant! You actually wanted to run off to Golden City alone just by leaving a letter!"

Aguo's wife grabbed her husband's ears... She was pregnant at the time, but when she saw her husband's farewell letter, she ran to the train station anxiously to chase him!

"If something happens to you when you're out there alone, you'll leave us, an orphan and a widow, abandoned in the Crimson City!"

Aguo's wife still remembers how panicked she felt when she saw the farewell letter.

"Oh my! It's been almost thirty years... dear, why are you still holding on to this matter?"

Mr. Ayong knew he was in the wrong, so he could only cover his ears and beg for mercy from his wife.

"Hehe - alright, alright, grandma! Please let grandpa go!"

Kumiko saw that her grandmother was [bullying] her grandfather because of this matter again, so she smiled and squeezed in between the two of them to try to persuade them.

"..."

Wang Yao scratched his head in confusion.

So what was going on... The other party didn't seem to be the world-destroying devil he had imagined...

Did Celebi teleport herself back just to stop another cultivator version of [Bu Neng] from running away from home?

This is too hasty!

...It's amazing that you can travel through time and space! Damn Onionhead!

Trainers are not human beings! Is it worth making a trip for such a small matter?

"Don't let me catch you... Celebi!"

Wang Yao touched the brass pendant still in his pocket... and thought with gritted teeth.

"If I catch you, you'll suffer the consequences!"