Pokémon the Movie: The Journey of a Slate

Chapter 296 It’s night

When the mountain ridge swallowed the last rust-colored sunset light, the lake water had solidified into a whole piece of inky silk. The orange tent set up by Aislo and Mary rolled like a fallen berry on the gravel beach where the black pine forest and the huge lake meet.

The branches of the Metasequoia formed a dense web in the twilight, letting through a few stars. Suddenly, there was a rustling sound from the cliff on the opposite bank, startling a few cuckoos that flew over the center of the lake, their wing tips sweeping up and shattering the reflected crescent moon.

A few orange-red lights burst out from the firewood pile, and the crackling sound awakened the sleeping insect elves. The gentle chirping of insects drifted through the woods and echoed in the mountains.

The peaceful sound like a lullaby made Umbreon's eyelids start to droop, and he eventually fell into a deep sleep. However, Absol stood by the fire as usual, adding a few firewoods into it from time to time.

The thermos cup handed to me by Eslo overflowed with the fragrance of pine needle tea. The hot steam entangled with the night mist rising from the lake, and the dark blue sky was dotted with stars.

In front of the tent with a gap in the zipper, Mary sipped tea and counted stars with the boy.

The lake in front of the two was called Lake Aspiration, and it was the sleeping place of Akonum, the god of will who maintained the balance of the world in the legend.

"Cuckoo..."

The cry of a nightowl broke the silence of the night, and along with it came a meteor that suddenly streaked across the night sky, its tail flame seeming to fall to the bottom of the lake and transform into swimming phosphorescence.

Mary's eyes suddenly lit up when she saw this scene. She pointed in the direction where the meteor fell and asked the boy beside her, "A Luo, did you come into this world like this?"

"Yes..." Eslo and Absol looked at each other and then nodded. It was the other party who took him away from where he fell. Thinking about it now, he felt quite emotional.

"This world is really amazing." Mary couldn't help but sigh, and then suddenly changed the subject, "By the way, your 'father' should have been looking for you and your brothers and sisters, right?"

The "father" the girl referred to was naturally Arceus, and the "brothers and sisters" were the other stone tablets lost by the great creator... He didn't know whether they would be able to give birth to souls of their own like Eslo, and a sense of anticipation suddenly arose in the boy's heart.

[Don't let your imagination run wild. Your existence is most likely unique.] Yveltal poured cold water on Eslo. Not to mention whether those stone tablets could leave the universe like Eslo or withstand the explosion of the universe, just talking about the conflict between the soul and the body, if there was no existence of Yveltal's level, they would not be able to survive the next day.

[Okay...] Aislo accepted the fact that he was an "only child" and then began to respond to Mary, "Theoretically, yes... Who knows, my good father might kill you all after finding me, and then forcefully swallow me back... Are you afraid?"

The boy suddenly played a joke on the girl.

"Afraid? Why should I be afraid?" Mary suddenly laughed for the first time in a long time and put the tea aside. "According to what you told me before, Arceus is a madman. Sooner or later he will come to this universe and wreak havoc. Since it is a known future, there is no need to be afraid, right?"

All human fears come from the unknown. When the unknown is broken, fear will lose its effect on most people.

"That's right..." Aislo threw a candy into his mouth.

"Arlo..."

"Ok?"

"I chose to like you, and I will always like you. No matter what happens in your life from now on, I will face it with you." Mary paused and said seriously, "Forget it, let's not talk about this. Just don't let your imagination run wild."

"It was just a joke." Aislo smiled helplessly. He really didn't think much about it just now. "But... Mary, is what you said just now a confession?"

The girl responded to the boy with a speechless eye roll. Why did she say it out loud if she knew the answer?

"Whatever you think! Give me a candy." Mary moved towards Eslo, and Absol who saw this scene seemed to realize something. He turned around and blocked the eyes of Magna who was preparing to keep watch... There was no need to worry about the Moon Eevee because she was sleeping.

"Oh, what flavor do you want... woof!" Before Eslo could finish his words, the boy felt something soft blocking his lips, and then the girl's smooth little tongue pried open his teeth and rolled the candy out of his mouth.

Aislo's eyes widened in shock as he looked at the girl in front of him who was stroking her lips with her fingers.

The night and the mountains are quiet, and the moonlight is gentle, but in Eslo's eyes, they are not as beautiful as the person in front of him with his eyes slightly closed.

The boy did not resist, but just gently hugged the girl's thin body and responded awkwardly.

After a long time, their lips parted, and a thin silver thread hung between their lips.

The boy and the girl stared at each other quietly. The moonlight cast a silver gauze over them. This inexplicable silence continued until Mary silently looked away and said, "I'm going back to sleep. Good night."

There was no expression on the girl's face, and even her words were calm, as if everything that had just happened had nothing to do with her.

Mary lightly escaped from the boy's arms and then went straight back into the tent behind her.

"..." Aislo did not say anything, but turned around quietly, looking at the campfire in front of him and listening to the crackling sound of the flames burning beside his ears.

After a moment of silence, Eslo and the calm Absol looked at each other, and then the boy covered the Umbreon with a small blanket, and then he unzipped the tent and got into it...

Then the girl's shocked voice was heard in the tent.

"!!!What are you doing here?"

"Have you forgotten? We only pitched one tent."

"? Wait a minute, I'm going out."

"Bala..."

(The tent is zipped up again)

"Mahuo?"

Outside the tent, Absol was speechless in the face of Mamaura's questions.

"Soooooo..."

After signaling the other party not to ask any more questions and keeping watch quietly, Absol ran back into the Poké Ball.

……

The next morning, Mary, who had already packed her luggage, looked at the sun rising in the sky, and then began to plan their next route.

After saying "good morning" softly to Lizhi Lake, Aislo trotted to the girl's side, and by the way, he also called out to Rogue Crocodile and Mamaula who were doing morning exercises in the distance.

"Let's go?" Mary tilted her head. They were not far from Veil City now.

"Let's go." Aislo responded.

After the two walked away, a petite blue figure suddenly appeared above the water in the center of Lizhi Lake. He was the last of the gods of the lake - Akonum.

【Good morning……】

The sound, like the gentle breeze, disappeared into the woods.