radicalducati Chapter 171 Koharu, the City of Fallen Leaves
Chapter 171 Koharu, the City of Fallen Leaves
Chapter 171 Koharu, the City of Fallen Leaves
The outline of Vermilion City gradually appeared in the distance; Ash and his friends had finally returned to the Kanto region.
"It's really the same as always." Xiaoxia recalled how she and Xiaozhi got lost the first time they came here.
"Yes, back then, the wolf and fox were so excited that they hugged each other and cried when they saw the city gate."
Xiao Zhi had a feeling that there might be another opportunity like this in the future, which was a really annoying premonition.
"Gah, gah!"
Because they were back in familiar surroundings, even Gengar, who usually stayed in Ash's shadow, came out to bask in the sun, a rare occurrence.
The thought of possibly meeting its trainer brightened its smile.
Seeing Gengar making faces at Togepi and playing around, Misty walked over to Ash with concern.
"Ash, we came here to help Gengar find its trainer who abandoned it, but how do we find them?"
"After all, Konoha City is so big."
Ash had also considered Misty's question. He asked Gengar if it remembered what its previous trainer looked like.
But Gengar described him as male, blond-haired—and that was it.
How am I supposed to find it?!
Gengar wanted to show Ash what a trainer looked like with its face, but no matter what it did, it still had that scary big, round face.
In the end, Ash decided to let Gengar lead the way.
They were going to go together to the house where Gengar had spent a long time before, to see if there were any clues.
However, when they followed the little purple fat boy, turning left and right, and arrived at the opposite side of a house, it still surprised Ash a little.
"Sakuragi Lab." This is actually a Pokémon lab.
"Did Gengar stay in this place before?"
"Kou Jie?"
The purple chubby guy who popped his face out of Ash's shadow said that he didn't understand what a research institute was, but he had indeed always lived there.
Just as Xiaozhi and his friends were about to run to the research institute to ask for clues, they accidentally bumped into a blond young man who was on a date with his girlfriend.
"Feel sorry."
Be careful!
Wait a minute, blond-haired youth, and his face looks a bit like the expression Gengar made before.
Xiao Zhi asked tentatively.
"Did you have a Gengar before?"
"Gengar, why are you talking about such an unlucky thing? No, no!"
The young man was furious when he heard Gengar and wanted to leave with his girlfriend, but at that moment Gengar in the shadows suddenly became agitated.
"Ash—" Misty tugged at Ash's sleeve.
"Yes, there's definitely something wrong!"
It was such a coincidence that they ran into each other. Ash calmed Gengar down and told it to wait.
Xiao Zhi quickly stepped forward to stop the young man and asked him with a cold expression.
"You tricked Gengar, making it wait for you in an empty house, didn't you!"
"How do you know—what's it to you!" The blond-haired youth's face instantly turned extremely ugly.
"You bastard, do you even know it's been waiting for you because of our promise? Why did you do this?"
Faced with Ash's stern questioning, the young man's first reaction was to turn around and run away.
But Xiaozhi held the young man's hand tightly, preventing him from leaving.
"Let go!" After struggling for a while, the young man found that Ash's hand was like an iron clamp, and he could only speak helplessly.
"It's all because that guy caused me a lot of trouble when he was around."
"I can't win battles, and I always fail when trying to catch Pokémon."
"Every day I either fall down the stairs or lose something. I'm so incredibly unlucky!"
The young man still sounded indignant when he recalled the incident.
But there was not a trace of remorse on his face for deceiving Gengar; on the contrary, he seemed rather smug.
"I'm doing incredibly well now that I've gotten rid of it."
[Ding! Congratulations on completing the side quest "Finding the Heartless Man": Please take Gengar to its former trainer and help Gengar understand why it was abandoned.]
[Rewards: Alliance Coins +3000; Free Attribute Points +3; Dyed Fruit (White) Unlocked]
The reason was pretty much what Xiao Zhi had guessed. He glanced worriedly at the location of his shadow.
"Kou Jie~"
Hearing the trainer talk about these things, Gengar recalled the long time it had spent waiting for him in the empty house, and all those little moments.
It endured such a long period of loneliness, all for the promise to meet its trainer again.
Now every word the other party says seems to mock its persistence.
Upon learning the truth, Gengar could no longer contain itself and emerged from Ash's shadow, angrily attacking its former trainer with a giant Shadow Ball.
"Oh, what are you doing here!"
The Gengar had been staying in the research lab and hadn't come out.
The young man was so frightened that his legs went weak and he collapsed to the ground. Ash quickly had Pikachu use Iron Tail to deflect Gengar's Shadow Ball. A ball that big would be a nightmare to hit an ordinary person.
But Ash didn't give the young man a friendly look. "Gengar is so angry because you deceived it."
"It's not my fault, it's all Gengar's fault!"
"Misfortune always seems to follow you around. It's not my fault, it's the world's fault, it's yours!"
The young man's words angered Gengar again, and it responded with several more Shadow Balls, but Ash managed to block most of them.
A few bombs left the young man covered in dust and dirt.
When Gengar prepared to attack him again, the young man was so frightened that he scrambled away.
"Gengar—"
Ash looked at Gengar, who was panting heavily from angrily throwing Shadow Balls, and was about to go over and comfort it.
Unexpectedly, Gengar, looking dejected and exhausted, quickly vanished as a black shadow.
Ash handed the luggage to Misty to take to the Pokémon Center, and then quickly followed with Pikachu.
However, there was no rush to stop Gengar immediately; Ash knew that it needed some time to be alone.
I simply followed behind it at a leisurely pace.
They chased after it until they arrived in the forest next to the city of Kurenai.
Suddenly, Suicune rushed out of its Poké Ball in a panic, then tripped and fell on a tree trunk.
It suddenly knocked Ash and Pikachu down, and they fell together into the nearby forest swamp.
"There's black fog, there's black fog!" Suicune poked its head out of the mud and kept muttering nonsense.
"What's wrong with you, you lazy dog? Where's the black mist?!"
"Pikachu, Pikachu!"
The surrounding forest was quiet, but there was no trace of mist at all.
Now look what happened, not only is he covered in mud, but he also lost Gengar.
Xiaochun's college entrance examination results were not ideal.
Oh dear, there's no such thing as a college entrance exam in the Pokémon world.
The reason why our Miss Xiaochun is walking in the forest with a dejected expression is because she has been a little troubled lately.
She was always a well-behaved girl and an excellent student at school.
But when the teacher asked everyone what they wanted to do in the future, Xiaochun hesitated.
Because her father, Professor Sakuragi, is a famous Pokémon researcher in Vermilion City.
Her classmates all thought she would follow in her father's footsteps and become a Pokémon researcher or focus on Pokémon battles, but in fact, Haru didn't know what kind of person she wanted to become in the future.
She even developed a slight aversion to Pokémon because of her father.
Why must a professor's daughter's future be related to Pokémon?
Wearing a white school uniform and a short skirt, Xiaochun wandered aimlessly through the forest, her fair legs swaying.
Until I saw a cat that seemed to be trapped in a tree, meowing incessantly.
Although I don't really want to interact with Pokémon, it seems to have been there for a long time.
"It's somewhat pitiful."
In the end, the kind-hearted Xiaochun decided to go and save it.
Just as she carefully climbed up the tree branch, almost hooking the cat, it nimbly spun 180 degrees in the air and landed smoothly.
"Wow, that's amazing!"
But she soon realized something was wrong; she was trapped in the tree and couldn't get down. It was at least eight meters from the ground.
"Waaaah, it's so high up here, I'm such an idiot."
Although the trees are tall, the scenery is also very beautiful.
She's been feeling very upset lately because she's been thinking about the future.
Breathing in the fresh forest air and gazing at the distant scenery, I feel completely at peace.
"It's so beautiful—but how am I supposed to get down?"
Today is a self-directed study tour activity for students outside the school campus.
It seems her parents won't realize she's missing until school lets out in the afternoon and come to rescue her.
The thought of possibly being trapped in the tree for so long made Xiaochun feel disappointed again.
Suddenly she noticed that someone seemed to be taking a bath by the lake in the distance.
"Why take a bath here?"
However, Xiaochun didn't have time to think too much; this might be her only lifeline.
Just as I was about to stand up and shout for help, my eyes were involuntarily drawn to the other person's body.
"What an amazing figure!"
"Ah!" Just as Xiaochun was in a daze, she didn't notice her foot slipped and fell straight down from the tree.
At that moment, Ash, who was angrily washing the mud off himself by the lake, suddenly sensed this scene.
"Use the Eight Treasure Porridge in that direction with lightning speed!"
"Okay!"
The Suicune, who had been lying next to him looking aggrieved, immediately stood up.
The only thing Ash can trust is its speed.
Suikun immediately transformed into a blue breeze and swiftly drifted towards Koharu, successfully landing safely beneath her before she could touch the ground.
When Xiaochun opened her eyes, she saw the ethereal and otherworldly Suijun, who caught her with a gentle breeze and shimmering mane.
A handsome, muscular man slowly approached in the sunlight and gently stroked her forehead.
Am I dreaming?
"Has this girl lost her mind after the fall?"