Pokémon travel photography: Starting with riding the wave of popularity.

"..."

The skilled blacksmith looked at Xia Mu with the eyes of someone looking at an idiot.

With your IQ, how dare you call me an idiot every day?

Xia Mu also noticed the disdain in the blacksmith's eyes, and in an instant, Xia Mu's heart suffered a great blow.

The skilled blacksmith felt he was a fool, which was basically equivalent to someone saying that Snake Sister's cooking skills were not as good as A Miao's. It wasn't a question of whether the two could be compared, but rather that Snake Sister's cooking skills had already lost when compared to A Miao's.

Therefore, in order to avoid being thoroughly humiliated by the master blacksmith, Xia Mu was extremely focused at this moment.

All the knowledge about Pokémon flashed through his mind, and in just a moment, an almost impossible conjecture appeared in Xia Mu's mind.

"This is...poisoning?"

"Clang (Hmm!)"

As the skilled blacksmith nodded excitedly, Xia Mu suppressed his doubts and put on a calm and collected expression.

"Actually, I figured it out a long time ago. I was just teasing you on purpose. I didn't expect you wouldn't even notice..."

"Clang (Really?)"

"That's definitely true. What kind of relationship do we have... Besides, with your intelligence, if I lied to you, it would be like Caterpie evolving into Rayquaza, which is completely impossible!"

"Clang (That's true~)"

The skilled blacksmith nodded thoughtfully.

Seeing this, the Green Vine Snake's expression immediately turned speechless.

"..."

That's a load of rubbish. With your intelligence, let alone Xia Mu, even the newly hatched Ball Ball Sea Lion is smarter than you...

However, the skilled blacksmith didn't notice the speechless expression on the green vine snake's face, so Xia Mu managed to maintain his precarious intellectual standing in the blacksmith's eyes.

Moreover, to prevent the skilled blacksmith from continuing to ponder, Xia Mu immediately changed the subject.

"I remember you shouldn't be able to learn poison-type moves, so the reason the Sunflower Monster was poisoned just now was because..."

"Clang!"

The skilled blacksmith, disregarding the inconsistencies in Xia Mu's words, immediately pointed to his hammer and began to speak upon hearing the question.

Just as the blacksmith was explaining to Xia Mu, the Green Vine Snake took out an antidote spray from Xia Mu's backpack. After spraying the swaying Sunflower, the snake sister took out a box of energy cubes for Grass-type Pokémon and put it into Sunflower's hand.

"Let's go!"

"Towards the sun (oh!)"

As the sunflower monster left with a bewildered expression, Xia Mu had basically figured out what had happened and, through his astonishing deduction, understood everything.

In order to seal the Dark and Grass-type Ancient Snail, the sealing masters of the past used the Poison type, which is super effective against the Ancient Snail, to seal it. Over time, the iron stakes used for sealing have become highly toxic steel due to the influence of the Poison type energy.

When this steel is mixed into the blacksmith's hammer, the blacksmith's hammer becomes a poisoned hammer.

Although the toxicity is currently very weak, given enough iron stakes, Blacksmith could very well become a terrifying Pokémon with a deadly poisonous attack in the future.

"So, does that mean the other Calamity Pokémon's sealing posts are also..."

Thinking of this, Xia Mu immediately stood up.

"Damn it, sealing things is so immoral... It not only violates the Pokémon Protection Act, but it also doesn't really solve the problem. So, we must save the Gargoyle!"

"Clang!"

The blacksmith excitedly waved his hammer in agreement with Xia Mu's suggestion. As for the Snivy, she just shook her head helplessly and secretly made up her mind to protect Xia Mu from those Pokémon that sounded so ominous.

Chapter 273 Yes, it was me who betrayed you!

Just as Natsuki and his Pokémon were preparing to do something underhanded in the name of justice, May and Violet, both righteous, appeared not far from the Pokémon Center.

"Miss Officer Jenny, it's him! This man is Xia Mu!!"

???

You betrayed me?!

Under Natsuki's accusing gaze, Haruka stood with her hands on her hips, chest out and head held high.

"That's right, it was me who betrayed you! But... what did I betray you for?"

Seeing Xiaoyao's puzzled expression, Xia Mu's eyes widened in shock.

"You betrayed me without even knowing anything about me?!"

Natsuki seemed to see a man named Doron appear behind Haruka.

Faced with Xia Mu's questioning, Xiao Yao awkwardly scratched her head.

"Mainly because Miss Officer Jenny asked you so urgently where you were, that's why we..."

Originally, Xiaoyao and Ziyu were just strolling around the neighborhood, waiting for Xia Mu to pick up the blacksmith and the green vine snake so they could go find Jasmine to paint together. But when Officer Jenny suddenly came up to them, their first reaction was that Xia Mu was up to something again.

So... May immediately took Officer Jenny to the vicinity of the Pokémon Center.

Just as Xia Mu looked at Officer Jenny with a puzzled expression, she noticed that Officer Jenny's eyes lit up noticeably as she looked her up and down, and then she immediately raised the walkie-talkie in her hand.

"I've found the Pokémon codenamed 'Calamity'! It's at the Pokémon Center in Deeppool Town!"

"Great!"

"yeah!"

"As expected of Officer Jenny!"

Hearing the cheers coming from the walkie-talkie, Xia Mu's eyes widened, and she retorted angrily:

"No? Who did you just call a jinx?! I didn't do anything when I came to Shenbo Town!!"

Despite Xia Mu's questioning, Miss Officer Jenny nodded in satisfaction.

"You're right not to have done anything! Officer Jenny from Unova is saying... Natsuki's been quiet all this time, she must be up to something! The fact that you came to Deepboil Town and did nothing proves that Principal Claver's prediction was correct, you're up to something big!"

"..."

Thinking about what he had just been about to do, Xia Mu froze for a moment.

She's not some pretty girl, so why would Clavel, a mere mortal, guess what I'm going to do?!

Officer Jenny didn't keep them in suspense; at that moment, she enthusiastically explained things to Natsuki, Haruka, and Ziyu.

Through Officer Jenny's narration, Natsuki and the others also understood what had happened.

It all started with a precognitive dream that Lip, the Gym Leader of the Psychic Gym in Brocktown, had. Lip was having a nightmare and contacted her childhood friend, Obi, partly to let Obi know that she could come to her gym to lead the exercises, and partly to complain to Obi about her strange dream.

As a result, their conversation was overheard by Leihe, the history teacher who was preparing lessons next to Huangbo.

As a teacher in a school that gathers all kinds of talents, including superstars and PhDs, Leihe is naturally no ordinary woman.

Leiho is a woman with a fervent curiosity about the legends passed down through history, and has even publicly stated that if she were not a teacher, she might stop at nothing to unravel the mysteries of those legends.

This teacher, who firmly believed in the legends of the treasure and the treasure of calamity in the deepest part of Zone Zero, immediately thought of the legend of the treasure of calamity after hearing about the simultaneous occurrence of four disasters: avalanche, withering, fire, and earthquake.

But just as Leiho was happily explaining the legend of the Treasure of Calamity to Lip and Huangbo, Principal Claver, who was passing by the teachers' office, overheard Lip saying, "There's also a man who's like a jinx; wherever he goes, disaster strikes..."

In an instant, Claver's mind flashed back to the green tornado that had recently appeared over Roundmoor and to a certain always-smiling guy.

"It's definitely Xia Mu!"

Claver immediately and arbitrarily made a conclusion.

After hearing Lip's dream and Teacher Leiho's detailed account of the legend of the Treasure of Calamity, Clavel became even more certain of his guess.

Especially when she learned from Teacher Leihe that the archaeological community in Padiya believed that the Four Calamities were sealed in the southeast, northwest and northeast regions of Padiya, and that there was one in each region.

Claver immediately realized Xia Mu's current location.

“Xia Mu is currently in Shenbo Town, and Shenbo Town is located in the southern part of Padiya…”

In order to prevent the school's funds from becoming Natsuki's special compensation fund, Clavel, in a moment of panic, did not hesitate to contact Officer Jenny in Tabletop City, who in turn immediately notified Officer Jenny, who was in charge of the arts festival security in Fukabochi Town.

In the end, Xia Mu was caught!

Upon hearing these things, Xiaoyao and Ziyu gaped and stared wide-eyed.

Seeing Officer Jenny's hurried appearance, they thought Xia Mu had secretly caused some big trouble again.

but……

"These are all just people's speculations. Xia Mu clearly didn't do anything!"

"that……"

It was Haruka who first betrayed Natsuki, and it was Haruka who was the first to speak up for Natsuki.

As Xiaoyao initiated the team fight, Ziyu immediately followed suit and shut down Officer Jenny's words.

"Yeah, Xia Mu is just a little mischievous, and sometimes his luck is just weird, but you can't blame him for that!"

"no……"

Touched by Xiaoyao and Ziyu's actions in speaking up for him, Xia Mu sniffed and swallowed back his honest words.

"That's right! What Xiaoyao and Ziyu said is absolutely correct! Hurry up and apologize for showing off your breasts!"

"..."

"..."

"Forehead……"

Xiaoyao and Ziyu gave Xiamu a speechless look.

Even if you're not going to help, at least don't cause trouble, okay?!

Under the threatening gazes of Xiaoyao and Ziyu, Xia Mu suddenly realized that he had accidentally blurted out his true feelings.

To prevent the two girls from standing next to Officer Jenny because of his careless remarks, Natsuki immediately changed the subject.

"In the end, I haven't done anything yet... You can't think of me as a jinx just because of my past experiences, and then impose the things I'll do in the future on me. I was just thinking about it. Even the master blacksmith didn't pull out the sealing stake on purpose. What right do you have to arrest me!"

"That's right... eh?!"

"A sealing stake?!"

Xiaoyao and Ziyu, who were about to agree with Xia Mu, suddenly paused.