Pokémon, Ash's art style is off!

Xiaoxia: "......."

Xiao Gang: "......"

"No, just because of this?"

Xiaoxia looked incredulously at the huge and sophisticated machines around her, then at Zhenghui.

Why make such a big fuss just to give your own Pokémon a gift?!

"That's why."

Zheng Hui nodded, noticing Xiao Xia's "Do you have too much money to spend?" look in her eyes. He coughed lightly and added.

"I am quite wealthy."

Excellent, very powerful, and a reason that is irrefutable.

Having money means you can do whatever you want.

"Why don't you just ask directly?"

Xiao Zhi, who has always preferred to be straightforward, didn't quite understand.

"Since it's a gift, we should definitely create a surprise! What's the point of just asking directly?"

Zheng Hui answered confidently, and even felt that Xiao Zhi was a bit unromantic.

According to Xiaozhi.

He might as well just throw Pipi a couple of coins and let it choose what it likes to buy!

"Then you're pretty good to your Pokémon."

"They have a deep bond."

"Pikachu".

"Well... it's alright."

Zheng Hui's gaze unconsciously drifted to the familiar Poké Ball at his waist, and his eyes softened.

“Besides,” he added softly, “it doesn’t even know what it wants.”

“I found it on the beach a long time ago, one night.”

"It was injured and very weak at the time, and it seemed to have amnesia. It didn't even know the most basic Pokémon language and couldn't communicate with any Pokémon."

"They even... show an inexplicable fear and stress response to green and elongated objects..."

"I know this place well. I guess it was attacked by a caterpillar."

Xiao Zhi nodded knowingly, looking like he was speaking from experience.

Its Pidgey was the same way back then!

They exhibit a stress response to green and elongated shapes!

"I think it's possible that he ate something he shouldn't have."

Xiao Gang stroked his chin and suggested another possibility.

“Oh, Teacher Gang, what you said makes sense,” Xiao Zhi readily accepted the advice and immediately changed his tune, “Now I also think I ate something I shouldn’t have.”

Zheng Hui: "???"

What is all this about? Is this the point?

"and after?"

"Later..." Zheng Hui looked out the window at the deep night sky, as if he could see the past through the glass. "It was quiet most of the time, without making a fuss. The only thing it would do was to look up at the stars all day long, persistently."

"Not that kind of appreciation, but..."

"Seven parts infatuation and three parts hatred in his eyes?" Ash suddenly interjected.

"Yes! That's it! How did you know? It's that feeling!"

Zheng Hui found Xiao Zhi more agreeable.

"Although I took it in and treated it."

"But as a researcher and as a trainer, I want to understand it, to know what it is looking at and what it is thinking."

"I want to know everything I don't know."

"So... I had a thought: if I could become it, or make it become me, would I be able to truly understand? So I..."

“Stop, stop, so,” Xiaoxia cut to the chase and asked the most practical question, “Do you actually know what it wants?”

"cough!"

Zheng Hui's expression froze, then collapsed, revealing embarrassment and frustration.

"No..."

"The technology is not yet perfect. After the integration, I felt completely dazed and unable to think clearly."

Aside from a vague feeling of wanting to fuck me, I don't remember anything else.

"I really want to know what it's looking at..."

Zhenghui gazed at the starry sky, his tone filled with an indescribable sense of melancholy.

"Oh, you mean this?" Ash chimed in. "I know!"

"Um?!"

Zheng Hui suddenly turned his head, his eyes widening instantly.

real or fake?

How could you know that?!

Even the Pokémon involved probably can't explain the source of that obsession.

After all, he has amnesia!

"Yes, he really knows."

"Yes."

"Pikachu".

Xiaoxia, Xiaogang, and Pikachu all nodded, their tone calm and their movements synchronized, as if stating a perfectly natural fact.

Not only did Xiaozhi know this, but they all knew it too.

"It's like this," Ash said, looking at the bewildered George, after organizing his thoughts. "You know Mt. Tsukimi, right?"

"I know."

Zheng Hui nodded.

As a researcher based in the Kanto region, he has an intimate knowledge of these famous locations and their ecosystems.

"There's a bunch of Pikachu over there..."

"But didn't we stop seeing Pipi there years ago?"

Zheng Hui looked confused.

“I have consulted a lot of information and asked people to visit the site, but there have been no eyewitness reports for a long time.”

It's not that he didn't try this approach, it's just that he really couldn't find any clues.

"Oh, that's because they have to work overtime repairing the spaceship and don't have time to come out for some fresh air."

Xiao Zhi said matter-of-factly.

Zheng Hui: "???"

work overtime?

Repair... repair the spaceship?

The amount of information was too much for his researchers to process immediately.

"Well, in short..."

Xiaoxia couldn't stand it anymore and chimed in.

“Pipi and Picoshi are not native to this planet. They come from the depths of space and arrived here with the spaceship.”

"So your Pipi's obsession with gazing at the stars is not just a post-traumatic amnesia-induced dazedness, but is actually related to the stars."

"what?!"

Zheng Hui was suddenly jolted.

"But...but aren't those just unverified folk tales?"

"Huh? Don't you go online?" Ash tilted his head. "The reason Mt. Moon flew away was because of Clefairy and the others."

"what?!"

"Isn't it said that... Professor Oak used his connections to get the dragon... cough cough, to retaliate against his peers!"

As if recalling some unpleasant memory, he abruptly stopped talking, coughed awkwardly twice, and lowered his voice.

"I mean, isn't it rumored that he moved Mount Tsukimi?"

Ash and his friends: "..."

How did this rumor go so far as to become such a ridiculous mess?!

"How could Professor Oak, such a kind person, do such a thing?"

Xiaoxia couldn't help but retort.

"Kind? Him?"

Zhenghui seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world, and his tone became wistful.

"I think you young people of this generation are completely clueless..."

"Back in the day, when Professor Oak was young and a trainer, he was a notorious ruthless character in the underworld."

"The battle environment back then was relatively... well, realistic."