[Pokémon] Return to Shenao

As soon as he entered the tower, a gust of "demon wind" came to his face.

Without Ayou's command, the Dream Demon stepped forward consciously and blocked the attack with "spiritual fluctuations".

"Using 'Strange Wind' directly for the welcome ceremony—it's too generous." Ayou weighed the poke ball in his hand twice, and the opposite of the lazy words was the light in his eyes.

"...It seems that the elves in this tower really don't welcome us." Xiao Liang smiled wryly at Ayou.

"However, we only need to go to the third floor to worship, and then go up, and there is no need to disturb those wild ghost elves." Xiaoliang's words are not only to Ayou, but also to comfort himself, and even more He was comforting the elf who attacked directly without knowing why.

In the final analysis, the disasters of that year were all the fault of human beings.

They should lower their stance a bit.

With this in mind, Xiao Liang stepped up the first step leading to the second floor amidst the flickering lights inside the tower.

It was precisely because he was so preoccupied with the past, as well as the guilt towards that partner, and because the inside of the tower was dark because of the closed doors and windows and the haunting of ghost spirits, Xiao Liang did not notice that behind the stairs , there was a small figure who had been watching her since they entered the door.

Afraid, afraid, looking forward to.

Watching her so carefully.

As early as the first floor, Xiao Liang felt the difference in the atmosphere in the tower, but on the second floor, Xiao Liang really realized what desolation is.

The ground on the first floor, the ground and the turf were severely damaged due to the battle, so it was within her acceptable range to lay floor tiles or something.Coupled with the fact that it was pitch black and only the two lamps that were still on the ground were used as light sources, Xiao Liang couldn't see other details, so naturally he couldn't feel the desolation.

But the second floor is different.

Just now, when the young couple was fighting with the ghost elves in the tower, they happened to break the wooden board that sealed one of the windows.The sunlight outside came in through the mist, pale as if the warmth had been sucked away by the mist-but this did not prevent it from illuminating the inside of the tower.

Against the backdrop of the light, the air in the tower looked so filthy, fine dust was flying everywhere, Xiao Liang couldn't help but cover his nose when he looked at it.

The ground and tombstones that were illuminated by the light were covered with tiny, cracked lines, and it looked as if they would dissipate into the air like dust if touched a little.

The moss has also expanded its territory to the area inside the tower, and they are everywhere at the bottom of the tombstone, adding a touch of damp and cold atmosphere to the tower.

Everything here is clamoring.

This is the home of the dead.

This is the paradise of ghost elves.

The joyful scene and atmosphere of that year have long since disappeared.

"...It's no wonder that the girl just said that this place is a 'terrible place'." Xiao Liang's eyes dimmed, and he turned to look at the place where the sun had not yet shined.

A tombstone can be vaguely seen there.That's where that uncle's Pikachu was buried.

The scene of the uncle happily introducing his glorious achievements to her while drinking a small wine is still in front of his eyes, and the laughter of his children running and playing around seems to be still echoing in his ears.

But those are all illusions.

Uncle injured his left arm in that battle, and maybe he will never be able to use his strength again. Uncle, maybe he will never be able to personally erect a tombstone for his partner like he did when Pikachu was buried.

Stepping on the gravel all the way, Xiao Liang walked to the tombstone of that Pikachu.

The tomb that was opened to search for the electric beads hadn't been closed yet, and it was pitch black, as if something was peeping inside.

——It’s not like, there’s really something in it!

Xiaoliang took a sharp step back, dodging a "shadow ball" thrown at her by a ghost stone.

"Xiao Liang!" A You, who was watching from the sidelines, finally moved, "Dream Monster, go protect Xiao Liang!"

"Muma!"

The dream monster echoed, and stood up in front of Xiao Liang.The green "protection" light flashed past, blocking the second "shadow ball" several meters away.

After the shadow ball was stuck in the air for a while by the power of the dream monster, the ghost stone had no patience, so it withdrew its attack and let the "shadow ball" explode in the air.

The strong wind from the explosion swept up the dust on the ground, which greatly affected the sight of the two of them, so when they coughed and waved away the smoke, Ghost Stone had disappeared to nowhere.

"I always feel like a group of little guys who don't listen to people's words—Xiao Liang, are you okay? Are you injured?" Ayou scratched his head helplessly, then turned to ask Xiao Liang.

"It's okay," Xiaoliang responded to Ayou's concern with a smile, and then turned to thank Meng Yaomo: "This is also thanks to Meng Yaomo's 'protection'."

The praised Dream Demon twisted his body happily, then suddenly stopped and looked in a certain direction.

"What's wrong?!" After the incident just now, Xiaoliang and Ayou also became alert, and looked in that direction together.

"Is that ghost stone just now? Or are there other ghost-type elves?" Ayou frowned and waited for a while, not idle, seeking answers directly from the dream monster.

"...Muma." Yan Zhengyi waited for a while, but the expected attack did not strike, and the dream demon was also extremely puzzled, nodding and shaking his head.Just now, it clearly felt a trace of attack energy fluctuations there?

"..." Ayou pondered for a while, thinking of a possibility.

This possibility made him relax a little bit, but he still wasn't worried about Xiao Liang's safety, so he persuaded her to take out an elf shield as well: "Xiao Liang, call an elf to come out, now you can jump out of the ghost system at any time." Where the elves attack, it is more at ease to be accompanied by the elves."

Xiao Liang thought for a while, but still rejected Ayou's kindness: "Thank you for your proposal, but... Sure enough, the flame monkey is a fire-type elf, and the light brought by the flame may stimulate the ghost-type elves in this tower even more. Neither the weight nor the size of my other elves are suitable for release in such a place... Let the dream monster take care of it? You will protect us well, dream monster?"

Xiaoliang had a face of trust, and Dream Demon responded to her trust with a face of confidence: "Mumaji!"

I will handle it.

Both Xiaoliang and Meng Yaomo said so, so Ayou stopped talking. He scanned the dark place where the sun hadn't yet reached, and paused at the place where Meng Yaomo was vigilant. , and then focused their attention on another place—there was the stairs leading to the third floor.

On the third floor, the paranoid lunatic fought and fled on the first floor, and was finally blocked in the final battlefield.

It is also the place where Xiaoliang's elf disappeared.

Ayou has always known that the elf that Xiao Liang tamed was not a so-called "Pikachu", but a ghost-type elf.

It refused to accept the shooting from Xiaoliang's illustration book and Miss Joy's inspection, but Ayou used his own illustration book to observe the other party when it was not paying attention.

There is no information about the unknown ghost-type and normal-type elves in Sinnoh's illustrated book.

Ayu wondered if it was an elf who smuggled in from other regions, such as the neighboring Kanto, or the Fengyuan region.So he went to Fengyuan when a high-level academy of the Fengyuan Alliance was communicating with the Elf Academy in Zhuqing City not long ago.But to his surprise, he didn't find the information he was looking for in the library of Larousse City, which was said to be the largest and most complete in the whole Hoen area.

But he discovered another thing.

Nearly two years ago, shortly before they met that elf, this world encountered a space-time fluctuation.

At that time, some non-native elves appeared everywhere.What kind of huge power shattered space and time, making the rules of this world disorder in an instant, and then caused many elves to stray into the space-time tunnel, leave their original homeland, and drift to other places.

As a result, many elves from the Sinnoh region and the Kalos region were discovered in the Hoenn region, and the process of communication with these two regions was also accelerated.

——According to this, the elf was also exiled to the Sinnoh area because of such a situation, and that's why it met Xiaoliang and him?

But looking at the condition of that elf, it probably wasn't the kind of existence that would be popular in the original area.

That's why it's like a drowning man grabbing the last straw, clinging tightly to Xiao Liang who exudes kindness towards it.

Want to get close, but can't believe the facts in front of you.

Ayou felt sorry for the elf, but he would not relax his vigilance towards it until he knew why the elf was not welcomed in the original area.

So, it depends on its performance when it comes back this time.

When Ayou was thinking this way, Xiaoliang also found the stairs leading to the third floor.

Compared with the many facts that Ayou knows, Xiao Liang, who is the true trainer of the elf, knows very little about it.

What kind of elf is it?Why are you so afraid of being abandoned?What kind of life did it lead in the past?Why is it always trembling?

Xiao Liang didn't know anything.

But she knew that the child liked to eat sweet and greasy muffins, that child always liked to stay in her arms, and that child was always colder than ordinary elves.

The child was always smiling at her, expressing its kindness.

The kid likes her.

She loves it too.

Even though they only traveled together for a short month, Xiao Liang has already admitted that it is her partner, even if they are weak, they are not willing to abandon it easily.

Because they are partners and friends.

Xiao Liang comforted the elf with a smile.

So even if it is to commemorate the deceased comrades——

Xiao Liang took a deep breath, and the strong musty smell in the air also calmed her impetuous mood.

"Let's go."

Xiao Liang took the lead.

"Go and meet it."

Ayou's eyes swept across a certain corner again, and then raised his heels: "Okay."

The Dream Demon was at the end, and when its figure also disappeared around the corner, two black lacquered things rolled out of the corner that Ayou had been watching just now.

"Gosuto!"

Ghost Stone threatened the guy who pulled it aside with his teeth and claws, complaining why it didn't let it attack the two humans.

But the elf wrapped in a piece of cloth that hadn't been scrubbed for many years and was about to turn black didn't pay attention to it, and a black paw was released from Ghost Stone's body and retracted under the cloth.

Ghost Stone saw that the guy who was always silent and strayed away ignored him again, and floated up cursing, letting his figure disappear into the air.

No wonder that guy always has no friends!

It will never play with it again!

It will be bad!

Ghost Stone hurried to the bottom of the stairs, only to find that Xiaoliang and Ayou had already reached the third floor.It was in charge of guarding the second floor, but it didn't want to go upstairs to provoke a big guy, so it could only squat angrily in front of a tombstone next to the stairs leading to the third floor, watching the dirty guy jump up and down the stairs. move sideways.

"Gosuto!"

Hey you don't want to die!

Ghost stone terrorizes the guy.

"Gosugosu!"

It's okay with me on the second floor, but that guy on the third floor won't play with you and let you go!

Ghost Stone bared his teeth and claws, trying to scare the elf away.

But its efforts were in vain. The elf didn't even look at it, but stubbornly jumped all the way from the original hiding place, and then stepped on the road to the third floor step by step.

Ghost Stone turned pale, and his whole body swelled and floated up!

In the end, it exhaled all its breath angrily, and ran to the stairs coming up from the first floor, ready to attack and intimidate the next unlucky one who didn't know when it would come up.

snort!No return on a good deed!It will never take care of that guy's business again!

Xiao Liang and A You who had already reached the third floor did not know what happened behind them.Even though it was making noise, that Ghost Stone carefully controlled the volume, so as not to let his voice affect the existence on the third floor.

So it's not even a question of being heard by Xiaoliang and Ayou.

The battlefield that year was the most severely damaged place.

The third floor of the Lost Tower is neither the highest nor the lowest, it is just on the first floor in the middle.

Since that incident, it seems that no one has been here again.

At least on the first floor, there are lights that the Alliance sent people to install after that, and the second floor also has sunlight that happens to come in through the windows, but the third floor...

There is only darkness here.

Stirring people's nerves on behalf of fear.

The only source of light is the faint light emanating from the "wild fire" in the hands of the dream monster.

But Xiao Liang's point of fear is not the darkness, but the scattered stones on the ground.

There is not a complete tombstone here, but only stones that were scattered on the ground during the battle two years ago.

Also, what exploded in front of her was her elf body.

It's not just blood or something, the feeling of warm liquid dripping on his face.

and the ensuing darkness.

"...It's here." Xiao Liang sighed in a low voice.

I couldn't tell the direction in the darkness, but the scene in my memory became clearer and clearer.

Xiao Liang knew clearly that a few steps forward was the place where the tragedy happened that year.

Just like the ghost stone guarding the second floor, there must be wild elves on the third floor who don't want them to disturb.

Xiao Liang thought so, so he just took two steps forward, walked to the place in his memory, and stopped moving forward.

Then she fell to her knees.

Towards an unknown direction, and an unknown darkness.

Xiao Liang clasped his hands together, silently put them in front of his eyes, and closed his eyes.

I prayed quietly in my heart for the rest of the elf back then.

And Ayou, who knew the truth behind her, was indeed a little impatient. Until now, the elf has not appeared. Is it really necessary to be so timid?

If he wants to go on here, he will really struggle to tell Xiaoliang the truth!

Ah ah ah, if that's the case, I'll be in trouble!

The irritability in A You's heart was conveyed to his dream demon, making it twist its body involuntarily, alleviating the inexplicable uneasiness in its heart.

But at this time, a mutation suddenly occurred!

While thinking about the plan in his heart, Ayou looked at Xiaoliang's back, but suddenly found something wrong.

wrong!Even though the light source is on their side, why is there a shadow behind Xiao Liang!

Ayou immediately gave the order to the dream monster, but still couldn't make it in time.

A claw suddenly stretched out from the shadow behind Xiao Liang, grabbing Xiao Liang's back fiercely!

It's "Shadow Attack"!

"Xiao Liang, be careful!" Ayou yelled out to remind Xiao Liang, ignoring other matters.

Xiao Liang was also startled by A You's shout, subconsciously leaned forward and rolled to the left, trying to avoid the attack from behind.

Xiaoliang's clothes, which had been rubbed off by the attack, fell to the ground, breaking open the ground that had already become tattered in the battle that year, and had already reached the critical point after such a long time of erosion!

The ground collapsed.

"!"

Following the original cracks, the collapsed ground quickly spread to the surrounding area, covering the area where Xiao Liang was lying—this time, Xiao Liang had no way of escaping.

She followed the trajectory of the falling stones and fell downwards.

"Xiao Liang!" Ayou ran over there nervously, throwing another elf ball: "Snow Demon, Dream Demon, go and catch Xiao Liang!"

But the forward steps of the two elves were blocked by the shadow rising from the ground, and they were forced to stop halfway.

The "strange wind" howled and swept across the hole, making it impossible for people to go to rescue.

——However, there was still a figure rushing there without hesitation.

That figure flashed from behind Ah You, without any precautions, rushed straight to the area surrounded by the "strange wind", and then broke through it.

It said to protect her!

I could do it two years ago, and I will definitely do it this time!

In the eyes of the small figure, there is only the girl who is falling.

Xiao Liang, who suddenly fell from the collapsed ground, hadn't fully realized what happened. She even just grabbed the flame monkey's elf ball, and before she could open it, she saw the sharp ball under her body. Stone.

The half-destroyed tombstone was still standing there, exuding a chill, which made Xiao Liang's movements stiff.

It was this stiffness that made her miss the best time to open the poke ball.

Finished!

Sure enough, is this retribution?

Xiaoliang tightly closed his eyes.

Obviously he hasn't set up a tombstone for that elf, he hasn't become a top coordination trainer yet, he obviously...

Silver Lord!

Subconsciously, she remembered the figure who would always stand in front of her and protect her, and Xiao Liang drew a white mark on her hand holding the poke ball.

The sudden evil wind enveloped her body.

Immediately afterwards, a pair of cold hands—no, they should be called claws.

Those claws held her up, taking care not to hurt her at the sharp points.

Feeling his butt sitting on a solid and flat place, Xiao Liang tentatively opened his eyes and saw the elf who rescued him on the opposite side——

Small, cute, big ears hang down there for some reason, the whole body is pitch black, but a pair of darker spots on the stomach are particularly conspicuous.

Worried, he watched nervously to see if she was injured.

Her former partner.

"... Pikachu?"

Xiao Liang called the other party tentatively.

As if awakened by this call, the elf suddenly raised its head, and quickly backed away, trying to retreat and hide in the darkness.

"Wait a minute!" Xiaoliang immediately threw the elf ball in his hand after realizing it: "Flame monkey, stop it!"

As soon as the elf, covered in flames, came out, it lit up quite a small area. Together with the sunlight coming in from that window, it almost illuminated the entire second floor.

That elf has nowhere to hide.

But it wanted to run away, and even waved its paw at the flame monkey, giving him a slap in the face.

The Flame Monkey, who was ordered to stop the other party as soon as he came out, and was counterattacked by the other party, did not recognize it at all at this time. The other party turned out to be his former partner, so he was almost slapped in the face, and it subconsciously punched the other party in anger—— It thought it was hit on the head.

"Flame monkey!" Xiao Liang panicked to stop the flame monkey's behavior, but it was too late, and he could only watch as the flame monkey's fist hit the head that was so dirty that he couldn't see his expression clearly——

Then, it wiped over the suddenly hollow head.

"Hey?!"

Not only did Flame Monkey have a look of astonishment on his face, but even Xiao Liang was surprised.

Under the firelight above the flame monkey's head, Xiao Liang could clearly see the elf.What was thought to be the head is now deflated, leaving only the cloth-like skin dangling in the air.The "tail" on the other side disappeared again, and I don't know where it fell.

Even now, even she has noticed that something is wrong.

"...Isn't... Pikachu?"

This sentence was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the elf.

It was discovered!

How to do!

Are you about to be abandoned again?Are you going to be left behind again?

How to do!

Terrified, it even forgot to run away, and hid in place trembling—until Xiao Liang hugged it.

"Really, even if I keep mistaking you and get angry, you still have to tell me! Stand in front of me without saying a word and then disappear, which will make me very sad all the time!" Xiao Liang shook it Holding her in her arms, she choked up and complained.

She had never experienced such a joyful thing when it was lost and found.

But the elf in her arms couldn't believe the current situation.

It raised its head stiffly, feeling the touch of Xiaoliang's tears dripping on itself.

...I'm not Pikachu, huh?Isn't that everyone's welcome, everyone's favorite Pikachu?

Its eyes seemed to be telling Xiao Liang so.

Even if I am like this, do you still have to accept it?

In the eyes that were originally thought to be spots on the stomach, there are such complex and strong emotions of longing, anticipation, and fear.

Why didn't she find out at the beginning?

"Ah," Xiaoliang wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and smiled at it, "Of course, even if it's not Pikachu, you're still my partner!"

Tears poured out of the opponent's eyes unstoppably, as if wanting to cry out all the grievances he had experienced, the elf wailed loudly in Xiao Liang's arms like a child.

The flame monkey next to him was frightened by the cry and flipped backwards, just hitting Ghost Stone who was angry that they came to disturb him again.

Xiao Liang looked at the howling elf quietly, and then asked when it stopped for a while: "So, can you tell me your real name?"

"Mi..." the elf choked, and finally spoke in front of Xiao Liang for the first time.

"Mystery?" Xiao Liang repeated the other party's words, waiting for the other party to fully open his heart to her.

"Mimikyu!" The Pikachu-like elf finally told Xiao Liang his real name.

It is not an illusion created in order to live in harmony with human beings.

That's what it really looks like.

"Really, it's Mimi Q!" Xiao Liang held up Mimi Q, completely ignoring the dirty appearance of the opponent, and stuck his face to the opponent's real face.

"Then, please give me more advice in the future."

"Mimikyu!"

It was the first time I heard my real name being uttered in such a gentle voice, Mimi Q also laughed.

She is its trainer.

is its home.

The author has something to say:

MimiQ is finally back home!

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All those who dislike MimiQ because it is not Pikachu are enemies!enemy!