Divine Plan? But I'm a Pokémon trainer.

Chapter 496 Finally Arriving in Baiyang Town

It is an item, not a spirit. It cannot "take over" after self-strengthening. Carrying it will cause the Taijing energy to interfere with itself, but it can fight autonomously when "mind swapping".

Link seemed to be deep in thought, then activated his extraordinary wisdom—

"Hey, what if we made them into armor for humans? Like, initially they were card-shaped concentrated 'Taijing Substitutes,' which could be inserted into a belt and transform into armor or something?"

"Fu?"

The fox tilted its head. "Humans wouldn't need this anyway, even though it's certainly possible to do it."

Link's eyes lit up, and he came up with many strange and wonderful ways to play.

He absolutely must learn this move!

In the following period, Link learned about the "Tai Crystal Stand," Fennekin continued to develop its usage, the Pokémon working with the Rangers investigated the spacetime distortion phenomenon more smoothly, and the Pokémon with Pokédex entries also embarked on a journey to become firefighters.

Despite all efforts, the conflict between time and space intensified.

One day, more than two weeks later, Ash and Dawn came to the Pokémon Center in Ashtown to participate in the Pokémon Contest.

"Kobayashi, Fire Fox, long time no see! Are you also participating in the Grand Contest?"

"Pikachu!"

Upon meeting, Ash immediately set his sights on this potential biggest rival in the Grand Contest.

However, he soon noticed a familiar sensation coming from the other person's gloved hands, like the immense life force of a phoenix.

Marcia, who was in the shadows, also peeked out instinctively, but then quickly disappeared again.

"I won't participate this time; I'll just watch your and Xiaoguang's performance from the sidelines."

As he spoke, Link looked at the girl next to him with Prince Bo: "Hello, Dawn, the Doctor asked me to give you this Pokédex."

"Yes! No problem! No, no, I meant thank you!"

Dawn was a little nervous to see the Coordinator who had been active in the TV Contests for the first time. But then again, this person looked almost the same as Ash did three years ago. Do Kanto and Hoenn have some kind of gene that prevents them from aging?
Obviously not... probably not.

Link appears young because he hasn't actually lived that long a time, while Ash seems to have gained his youthful appearance through Ho-Oh's blessing.

With a sense of doubt, Dawn took the Pokédex, skillfully registered and logged in, and joined the Sinnoh group chat.

[Hikaru (Pogarman avatar): Hello everyone, I'm Hikari!]

[Minghui: You've finally arrived in Baiyang Town.]

[Mingyao: +1]

[Ah-Xun: If this drags on any longer, we'll soon be fined.]

As expected of you, Ah Xun, you even fined the Super Green Washer.

[Xiao Zhao: Hello Xiao Guang, this is Xiao Zhao logging in using the research institute's equipment.]

Then, at everyone's suggestion, the two of them each posted a selfie, and no matter how you looked at them, they were exactly the same.

It's just that Xiao Zhao is a bit older and looks slightly more mature?
"It really looks like it... Right, I need to go ask my mom what's going on right away."

Xiao Guang hurriedly used the video phone at the Pokémon Center to let her family know she was safe, and also inquired whether her family or relatives' ancestors had someone named Xiao Zhao.

Of course, Xiaozhao (ショウ) is not a "Xiao" (小) generation, and her name is completely different from Xiaoguang (ヒカリ), they are only slightly related when translated.

The same applies to Minghui and Mingyao; they differ by only one character when translated, but their pronunciations are completely different... In the end, Xiaozhao received a similar answer to Minghui and Shanli—it's hard to say.

It's hard to say whether her family actually had such an ancestor, just as the history of the Xicui Great Development period was deliberately covered up by later generations.

How could information have disappeared so completely in just about two hundred years?
Xiao Guang will find it hard not to mind this result.

While worrying about how Xiao Zhao will live in this era, they also worry that if she can't go back to ancient times, their family might be erased due to time paradoxes or something similar.
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However, before that, it seems that this world will collapse due to spacetime disorder.

no problem!
Just do your best!

[Xiao Guang: There are no results yet. My mom said she'll look into it.]

[Mingyao: Is it a drawback that modern people don't keep family genealogies? To my shame, I have no memory of my grandfather or any generation before him.]

[Minghui: Actually, many people don't even know their own grandfather, and some have never even seen their father after they were born.]

Ash: My dad is a really good trainer!

[Ah Xun: Me too! But it seems our previous generation and the generation before that really...]

Link didn't pay much attention to the topic, but instead looked at the sky, which had become overcast.

This feeling……

He exchanged a glance with the fire fox, and sure enough, something bad was about to happen.

"Speaking of which, Ash and Dawn, are you interested in urban legends?"

Link seemed to suddenly remember something and mentioned the most popular ghost story in Poplar Town recently.

Recently, residents of Baiyang Town have been experiencing frequent nightmares, with eerie figures appearing in their dreams to frighten them and urge them to leave the city.

It is said that even Baron Albert of the town has suffered from neurasthenia due to recurring nightmares, and has been acting strangely lately, behaving as if sleepwalking even in broad daylight.

However, some people say that this big-tongued baron originally looked like this... who knows?
"If the situation continues to worsen, even this grand competition might be canceled."

Wallace, the champion of the Hoenn region and a top Coordinator, will attend some of the grand tournaments in the Sinnoh region this year.

If the Tower of Time tournament is cancelled, Mikoli will probably go to another venue.

Hearing this, Hikaru, who greatly admired Mikuri, suddenly felt a headache coming on: "How could this be... Right, let's solve the problem of the mastermind behind the ghost stories!"

"Hikari, do you have any ideas yet?" Ash hadn't quite figured it out, but supernatural phenomena weren't under the jurisdiction of the trainers, were they?

"no problem!"

Hikari confidently analyzed, "When it comes to nightmare-related ghost stories, they are usually related to Psychic and Ghost-type Pokémon, but in the Sinnoh region, the first thing that comes to mind is naturally Darkrai, who is said to live on Crescent Island!"

She opened the Pokédex and found the information about this Pokémon.

Darkrai, a Dark-type Mythical Pokémon.

[Using the power to lure the opponent into a deep sleep, causing nightmares for humans and Pokémon, and driving them out of their territory.]

"Huh, why is this Pokémon's information and data in the Pokédex?" Ash subconsciously looked at Link.

"I once tamed one of them and asked it for some Crescent Moon Shadows, but I later released it back into the wild."

Darkrai are not elves suited to living in human society.

Xiao Guang believes that the so-called urban legend is likely influenced by Darkrai!
(End of this chapter)