There seems to be something wrong with these Pokémon

"Looking for me...?"

Sakutani Ye pointed at herself in disbelief and frowned at Izumi Yu's confident gaze.

Sakura was actually in such a hurry to look for them everywhere. Did she encounter some difficult problem?

After thinking about this, and confirming again and again that Izumi You was not injured because of the little mistake just now, he stood up and said goodbye, intending to go and find out what happened.

Izumi Yu did not stop him. He just nodded, raised the paper umbrella and started practicing again.

"Xiaoye!"

However, before Shuoya Ye even turned around and took a step, he heard the anxious cry of a girl behind him.

The two of them lowered their eyes and looked in the direction of the voice, and saw a girl in sportswear climbing up from the bottom of the hill using her hands and feet.

"A-Are you okay?!"

No one expected that the first thing Fujino Sakura did when they met the two again was to grab Sakutani Ye and look him over carefully.

"Why would anything happen to me?"

Sakutani Ye shook his head with a smile and pointed at the Ditto lying on his shoulder.

"After saying goodbye, I went back to the hotel to rest. Nothing could possibly go wrong..."

"What nonsense are you talking about?!"

Fujino Sakura's eyes suddenly widened, "Did we say goodbye? It was you and Dr. Blatano who disappeared while walking, and I couldn't find you even when I ran to the Golden Gym!"

"Yeah?"

His memory was confused for a brief moment, and Shuo Gu Ye's eyes were slightly dazed, but they became clear again after a moment.

"Now I remember, I was planning to challenge the Golden Gym with Professor Blatano."

"But it seems the gym trainer isn't at the gym, so we left quickly."

Seeing the girl's still doubtful eyes, Sakuya Ye deliberately asked Ditto for confirmation.

"Is that so?"

Ditto nodded, stretched out his little hand and patted the girl's shoulder, as if to comfort her overly anxious mood.

Izumi Yuu couldn't get a word in, so he could only observe the two of them.

He saw the fear hidden in the girl's eyes.

"Why didn't you come to me?"

Fujino Sakura continued to ask, "Also, when I went to the police station to report the case to you this morning, several police officers told me that you collapsed on the street last night?!"

When Izumi You heard this, his expression changed.

His first glance was at the boy's exposed, straight, white calves. After a moment, he seemed to remember something and looked away, revealing a self-deprecating smile.

"And Dr. Blatano, Amaru was with you yesterday, right?"

Fujino Sakura took a deep breath, "What about them...?"

Bombarded with so many questions at once, Shuo Gu Ye was unable to react for a moment.

He looked at Ditto blankly and answered the last question subconsciously.

"...Dr. Blatano left after the gym was closed."

Sakuya Ye recalled for a few seconds and continued, "Amaru and Happiny also left, saying something like 'I can't waste time in Golden City anymore'."

It’s a very reasonable answer.

Izumi nodded darkly.

Thinking that the girl had finally put aside her inexplicable anxiety, he turned around to look, but his pupils shrank.

Fujino Sakura's whole body suddenly stiffened, and the wrist that was resting on Sakutani Ye's arm trembled slightly.

Her eyes were empty and lifeless, as if she was trapped in a vortex of fear and unable to extricate herself.

"No, it's fake...it really is..."

"what?"

Sakuya Ye asked worriedly, "Sakura, are you okay?"

Fujino Sakura did not answer.

Her head slowly lowered, and her eyes accidentally swept across Shuoya Ye's empty waist.

"Where's your Pokémon?!"

The man and his Pokémon were stunned by the question again.

Ditto blinked and pointed at himself.

I...am not?

"No, not Ditto!"

She clung to the boy tightly, her eyes fixed on him.

"Where are the other Pokémon? Where is Ditto's Poké Ball? Where are Serpentier and the others?!"

The subtle pain in his shoulders made Shuo Guye frown slightly.

He slowed down his tone and spoke softly.

"Ditto's Poké Ball was accidentally lost. I'll leave the other Pokémon to Professor Oak for the time being. Don't worry."

He looked at the girl with trembling pupils with increasing worry.

"Indeed..."

"No! You...Nazi...Golden City..."

Fujino Sakura swallowed her saliva and finally uttered a sentence while talking incoherently.

"Wait for us!"

After saying that, she dragged Izumi Yuu beside her to a farther place and talked with her head leaning against his.

Shuo Gu Ye looked at the backs of the two men with some confusion.

But out of trust in Fujino Sakura, he didn't say much and just sat down where he was, taking out some fruit candy from his pocket and feeding it to Ditto.

----

After a while, Izumi Yu and Fujino Sakura walked slowly towards them with serious faces.

Shuo Gu Ye felt a little nervous for some reason, but he didn't show it on his face and continued to smile.

"Want to share it with me?"

Izumi You quietly looked at the boy who looked no different from usual, and slowly opened his lips.

"Your memory has been tampered with."

Sakutani Ye was stunned and read Izumi Yu's words again in his mind.

What does memory tampering mean?

He looked at the boss with his mouth open, and the Ditto who didn't react at all when the fruit candy fell to the ground.

This kind of thing... is it really possible?

"The signal tower affects communications, transmission, network and other equipment."

Izumi Yu raised his eyes, "So, with the signal tower out of order, how did you send Pokémon to Professor Oak?"

Sakuya Ye's mind went blank when asked this question.

But soon, pictures appeared in my mind.

He narrated these fragments of memory to the two of them.

"Dr. Bratano said he could help contact Dr. Oak after he left Golden City..."

"very good."

A gleam of light flashed in Izumi You's eyes, and he immediately interrupted.

"Secondly, after failing to find you yesterday, Sakura chose to report the incident to the police this morning and checked the surveillance footage at the entrance of the Golden Gym yesterday afternoon."

"Why did I see you guys go in but not come out?"

As always, pictures appeared in my blank mind again.

"We stepped on the teleportation block in the gym..."

The problem is very obvious.

Izumi's heart sank, and he raised the girl's speculation from 40% to 90%.

This kind of memory that can only be associated with the words of others...

If they didn't speak, Shuo Gu Ye would probably have no way of piecing together the complete story, and could only tell some fragmentary memories that were a mixture of true and false.

"Dream demon."

This time, it was Fujino Sakura who interrupted the boy.

She looked back at the Pokémon floating in the air, and when it nodded slowly, it took a deep breath and spoke slowly.

"third..."

"It's impossible for anyone to get out of Jinhuang City now..."

Before he finished speaking, the dream demon's eyes suddenly flashed blue, and a piercing sound struck the fragile eardrums of the three people.

"Magic Space!"

At the dream demon's warning scream, Izumi You gave the order.

As the super power field unfolded, the dream demon finally stopped its dizzying scream.

"quick!"

Izumi You said sternly as he looked at the cracks that appeared in the surrounding space.

"Five seconds at most!"

"All the people in Golden City who were covered by Nancy's superpowers will have their memories erased and be teleported back to the city. Even the failure of the signal tower is just an illusion instilled by Nancy. The truth is that the superpowers have cut off the means of communication between Golden City and the outside world—"

Bang-!

The sudden shattering of space caused Fujino Sakura to close her lips tightly, and her chest heaved violently.

The three of them fell silent for a moment.

Izumi Yuu is on guard against strange phenomena, Fujino Sakura is worried about whether the dream demon's interception will work, and as for Sakutani Ye...

The "truth" that the girl forced into him made him speechless for a moment, and he was immersed in shock.

After a few seconds, there was still no movement.

Fujino Sakura was about to breathe a sigh of relief when she saw the young man sitting on the lawn suddenly frown.

Her heart skipped a beat as she watched the boy raise his hands to hold his head and bury it in his knees.

The red marks on the white fingertips were particularly conspicuous, and blue veins appeared on the white forehead.

At that moment, Shuo Gu Ye felt as if thousands of steel needles were piercing him, and even breathing was painful!

"Xiaoye?!"

Fujino Sakura rushed over and grabbed his hand that was hurting her with both hands.

The force from his hand made his face change. He gritted his teeth and used his hands and feet to restrict his movements.

"Incubus!"

After calling out "Dream Monster", Izumi Yu immediately looked at the anxious Ditto on the trainer's shoulder.

"You too! Use your super powers to isolate him!"

Fujino Sakura was breathing rapidly.

"He must have seen Naz!"

"Only those who are marked by superpowers will have their memories searched and changed at all times!"