Why is my Pokémon acting a little weird?

The long sword made an excited sound, representing Cang Xiang's own state of mind, and she also let out a long roar.

No Pokémon would make such a vow to Qiao Ran at the beginning. Even if they had such an idea, they did not have the decisive execution ability like Cang Xiang. At least, in Qiao Ran's heart at this moment, he was indeed moved by the other party.

"My sword is an indomitable sword, and also a sword of protection."

"My sword will help the master kill all enemies."

This oath is not only for Cang Xiang, but also for Qiao Ran himself.

What they exchanged was trust in each other.

Qiao Ran stretched out his free right hand, hooked it around the man's neck, and stroked his soft and warm mane.

"Thank you for your guidance, Cang Xiang."

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The night passed.

Spike Town passed another terrifying yet peaceful day.

However, when Qiao Ran woke up from his sleep and was told by Liuwei and the others what happened after he fell into a coma, he couldn't help but reveal an awkward but polite smile.

To be honest, he just wanted to drop from the sky and give Mary a dashing debut, but he ended up making things worse and ended up in bed... This is too bad.

"By the way, Master, it's actually been a few days since we left this world...about four days."

"Four days? Is this because of time travel?"

Listening to Liuwei's report, Qiao Ran was a little surprised. For him, when traveling through time, he did not feel the passage of time, but now it seems that there is something wrong with his senses.

"Four days is just four days... There's nothing we can do about it. How's Mary?"

Qiao Ran changed his clothes and used the straps in his backpack to carry Cang Xiang's sword on his back.

That's right, ever since last night's dream, Cang Xiang's sword has appeared in Qiao Ran's hand. This is the medium that connects Cang Xiang and Qiao Ran, and also the basis of "protection". If it were the current Qiao Ran, he could awaken the power of Cang Xiang in the sword, and even when alone, he would have a certain ability to protect himself.

Of course, this is also the key to unleashing Cang Xiang's true power. As long as Qiao Ran's integration with the "sword" becomes deeper, the connection between him and Cang Xiang will become closer. This is a mutually reinforcing process.

After getting everything ready, Qiao Ran planned to go out to check on the "acquaintance". However, when he knocked on the door and went outside, the first person he saw was Youli sitting on the sofa in the living room, yawning.

"Huh? You're awake?"

There were thick dark circles around Yuli's eyes, and it was obvious that she hadn't slept well.

"...Since you're awake, I'll go to bed too. Mary couldn't hold on any longer and is still resting. You can just wander around by yourself."

Youli walked to Qiao Ran's side, patted Qiao Ran on the shoulder as they passed by, and then walked into another room.

Last night, Mary insisted on taking care of Qiao Ran, and Youli had no choice but to take over Mary's guard duty, so she is in a bad mood now - not only because of the fatigue of standing guard, but also because she has been worrying about some accident happening to Mary.

As for Mary, she persisted for too long and fell asleep on the sofa. It was Yuli who came back from her guard duty and found her and put her back on the bed.

"..."

Looking at Youli who walked away with heavy steps and glanced at him, Qiao Ran remained silent without saying a word.

Wait... why are you all so weak?

"By the way, don't bother Mary or me. Wait until we wake up."

Before closing the door, Youli added that she was indeed a little tired after standing guard all night and she didn't want to be disturbed by Qiao Ran.

"..."

In response, Qiao Ran could only roll his eyes.

Why am I disturbing you? ——————————————————————————————————

"What the hell is going on? I finally found Mary and the others, but they all want to rest..."

Standing on the small hill outside Spike Town, looking at this small and shabby town that held so many memories for him, Qiao Ran finally called out Rotom.

"Since there's no way to explain to them what happened now, let's come back later."

"Rotom, let's go back to the real world first."

"Okay Loto~~~"

After receiving Qiao Ran's order, Rotom floated in the air, and the door of time and space opened in front of Qiao Ran.

He... is finally going back!

Chapter 236 232 [Real World]

In the real world, it’s a sunny morning by the Zhenze Lake.

A magnificent Western-style mansion stands in this idyllic landscape, but few people are aware of its existence.

Many tourists who take a walk nearby in the early morning will at most feel a gust of cold wind on their backs and a chill running down their spine. They will then stride away, not forgetting to add the word "weird" before leaving.

However, even in this unpopular "feng shui treasure land", several girls in cool clothes gathered early. They stood in front of the Western-style house, gazing at the lake not far away. Looking closely, there seemed to be many shadow-like ghost Pokémon floating around, swaying up and down and left and right.

"It's useless for you to be anxious. When will you learn to be more mature like me?"

A certain old man with white hair and youthful face floated in the air, speaking earnest words. Standing before her were two younger people who had recently moved into the mansion. For some special reason, they had been staying here, waiting for a certain "someone" to appear.

Or rather, they had no way of finding the missing guy, so they could only wait here silently and pray that he would return safely.

"He'll definitely be back soon... He'll definitely be fine."

The blonde girl in the white dress spoke with great conviction, but it seemed that no one else could understand her words.

"Huh, you said the same thing a few days ago." The old man floating in the air flapped his unusual wings behind him, obviously not believing what was said.

If it happens once, it's fine, but after two or three times, or three or four times, the credibility is obviously very low, and it can even be regarded as a dream.

"Liliae... Is this true? He..."

The girl on the other side with the peculiar twin ponytails couldn't help but reveal a skeptical expression. Just as the old man in the air said, she had heard these words for many days. At the beginning, she still held a glimmer of hope, but later, even she couldn't help but become pessimistic.

——The meaning of that man to her is far more than just "opposite sex". If she wants to return to her own world and save her own world, this man must be an indispensable force.

If anything happened to him, she, who was wandering in the "other world", would really lose the meaning of her existence and would be homeless forever.

"Yeah...it's true, I really..."

The girl with long golden hair clenched her fists, wanting others to believe her. However, she stopped talking halfway and did not say what she was going to say next - after all, there were some things that only she could know, or in other words - there were some things that only she could feel.

She had no way to talk about these things, nor could she communicate with others.

That's right, there is a connection between her and "that person", and this connection is achieved in an incredible way.

——She can feel the other person's existence and vitality, and she can also use this ability to have convenient conversations with the other person. Although this ability is very convenient, most of the time, she will have an absurd feeling of being one with the other person, as if they are completely connected together.

Thanks to this ability, she was able to vaguely perceive the other party's situation. Even if she couldn't know it very specifically, she could still feel that the other party had broken through a certain "limitation", and this "limitation" was the reason why the other party could not return.

"The question is...why haven't you come back for so long..."

The blonde girl was always puzzled. According to common sense, after breaking through this restriction, she should have returned immediately. But why...

"He'll definitely be back soon."

In the end, all the words in the girl's heart were condensed into one sentence. She believed in the connection in her heart. Since the "restrictions" were no longer there, according to his personality, he would definitely come back.

"Hey, if you two want to watch from here, then go ahead. I'm going to go back and rest first...ha..."

The white-haired old senior yawned. In fact, night was her active time. Although it was early morning, she began to feel sleepy again when she saw such a bright sun.

A black shadow flashed by, and the old veteran disappeared from the spot. With her, the large number of ghost Pokémon around her also disappeared. These Pokémon came and went without a trace, and seemed to be very different from ordinary Pokémon.

"Lilia..."

"Believe me."

The blonde girl looked at the only companion left beside her. She couldn't tell others more in-depth things, but she was still able to convey her thoughts to others.

"……Um."

Looking at the blonde girl's determined eyes, the twin-tailed girl finally chose to believe her. The two sat in the mansion.

Under the nearby parasol, you can clearly see the surface of Zhenze Lake from here. The most important thing is that this large area of ​​water is right above the "ruins".

To pass the time, they all took out some books and started reading.

The girl with twin ponytails was looking at some records about "Pokémon ruins", especially in this mansion, there were many "top secret files" in this regard. After all, the senior was an absolute authority in this field, and as compensation for the last action, she was allowed to read these top secret materials. She couldn't miss this opportunity.

Although that man was her hope for saving her hometown, she still hoped to help in her own way. As a native of the Pokémon world, she had discovered some subtle things by reading these materials over the past few days...

However—now that the man had disappeared, she couldn't talk about these things with anyone else. The blonde girl next to her was an option, but...

"..."

The girl with twin ponytails glanced at the blonde girl sitting on the other side, who was also concentrating on looking at the information in her hand.

That knowledge was even more obscure than what she held in her hands. Even she, after listening to the other party's oral explanation of some basic knowledge, felt an immense headache. However, if the other party could truly master all this information... perhaps they could find a completely different path. Even if the man couldn't return, they could still find him.

So, what is going on with that guy now?

——If you can come back, please come back as soon as possible! You actually made them so worried!

Chapter 237233【You you you! 】

Inside the Western-style building.

—A room on the top floor.

It is not an easy thing to come here. The terrain inside the mansion is extremely complicated, and it can be called a maze with extremely ingenious design. However, this "difficulty" is only for ordinary people.

A petite little girl with white hair floated in the air and actually passed through the floor-to-ceiling window of the room and entered the room from outside the window.

——Her name is "Phoebe". She is the owner of this room, or rather, this mansion. Her age far exceeds the history of this mansion, but no one can find any trace of time in her appearance, as if the passage of time has stopped on her.

"Ha... I'm so tired."

As soon as Phoebe entered the room, she fell on the bed with a tired look on her face. What had happened recently had really made her a little uneasy, so much so that her day and night were a little reversed.

"All of you, get out! All of you, get out!"

Phoebe chased away some of the ghostly Pokémon that were lingering nearby; she just wanted to be left alone.

Generally speaking, she would not wake up on a clear morning like this one, and her active time is usually after sunset. Her habits are more suitable for night than day.

However, her originally peaceful life was disrupted due to the ruins exploration operation about half a month ago.

"What on earth is that...?"

Phoebe, after yelling at her pillow, stood up from the bed and walked to a huge cupboard.

She had no idea how many Pokémon ruins she had been to, and with her own powerful abilities, she had never made many mistakes. For safety reasons, she would usually bring some helpers who could provide assistance and carry objects, but something like what happened that day had never happened before.

A living human being just disappeared right in front of her.

“That power…”

The power that caused that guy to disappear did not exist in Phoebe's cognition. Water, fire, fairy, psychic... there was no such tendency in that pure power.

That is a more "original" and "primitive" existence.

"Damn it, why did it have to be that guy..."

Phoebe, who was confused, fell into annoyance again. Although she had not shown much anxiety in front of the two juniors before, and even disdained their stubborn behavior, in her heart, she was more angry than anyone else.

With her ability, she should have prevented this from happening. Moreover, that man was also a "key figure". She didn't even know why, but she had an unprecedented attention to this man - she only slowly discovered this after the man disappeared.

There was actually a feeling of regret and self-blame in her heart.

She had never felt this way before. The meaning of her existence, since she could remember, was to try to find the trace of a certain Pokémon for a purpose she herself did not know.

As for "excavating relics", that is just a byproduct of this behavior.

"The domestic alliance has never reported intelligence on that guy, nor has the foreign alliance... As expected, this isn't a transfer within the same world, but could it be another world?"

Phoebe put her hand on the cupboard and unlocked the combination lock on the door, and the objects inside appeared in front of her.

——It was a huge stone platform with a strange mark in the center, which looked like it was penetrated by something.

"..."

This thing is not something else

It was the pedestal where the sword was inserted in the ruins at the bottom of the lake. Phoebe took a lot of effort to get her assistants to get it back.

She thought that she might be able to find some useful clues on this thing, but after so many days of hard work, she felt more and more that this thing was just an ordinary stone platform and there was nothing special about it.

"Ah uh..."

Phoebe observed for a long time, and finally yawned and lay back on the bed.