Pokémon: Who let him leave Pallet Town?

Chapter 138 Xia Bo
"So, Natsume-kun, have you successfully bred your Crystal Onix yet?"

Inside the hot spring, Ash looked at Natsume with curiosity.

As he spoke, Xiao Gang also looked over.

"How did you know?" Natsume turned around, his middle-parted hair, which was covered by a blanket and sleeping soundly, fell into the water.

"Pickup!"

The boy with the middle part struggled for a while before Xiao Zhi finally scooped him up.

"This is for people!"

An angry voice rang out, and when I turned around, it was the blond old man.

He is the owner of this struggling hot spring inn, and his name is Xia Renbai.

Inside the hot spring, a large dragon was frantically gushing blood and sweat, almost turning the entire hot spring red.

Beside the hot spring, a ground squirrel nibbled on the light red soil, while behind it, Squirtle and Bulbasaur watched intently.

"Gengga—" "Gastly—"

Not far away, a Gastly was massaging a Gengar's shoulders; they had been using the Poison Mist move the whole time!
"Cough cough cough—" Xia Renbai looked at the Gengar in surprise and walked over through the smoke.

"What you're doing will affect other customers!" Xia Renbai was wearing sunglasses, so his face couldn't be seen clearly, but you could still feel the anger in his tone.

“But Grandpa Xia Renbai, we’re the only ones here.”

Xiaozhi waved his hand.

This blond old man is really unfortunate; he insisted on building his hot spring hotel halfway up the mountain, and almost all the tourists were drawn away by the hotels at the foot of the mountain.

"Fine, whatever you want." Xia Renbai was deeply disappointed.

After a long pause, he suddenly looked up at Natsume:
"What are you doing here?" a wary voice asked.

"Looking for Uncle Xia, do you know where he is?" Natsume asked knowingly.

“Chapman is dead.” The blond old man said without hesitation.

"That's good."

As he spoke, Natsume pulled out a device that looked like a soil drill from somewhere.

The instrument was lowered, the grappling hook drilled into the nearby rock, and it began to break through the soil and drill a hole next to the hot spring.

In just a few seconds, a large amount of hot air began to billow out of the hole.

"What are you doing? There's lava underground!"

Startled, Blair removed his sunglasses, beard, and blond hair, revealing his true face.

"Here, take this badge and get out of here!"

Blaine tossed a bright red badge over, which Natsume caught steadily.

"Grandpa, so you're Uncle Xia!"

Ash exclaimed in surprise, and in response he received another badge.

"You get out too," Xia Bo said, reaching out to stop Natsume's equipment.

"What?! I want to challenge you and get the badge fair and square!" Ash's face turned red.

Xiaoxia has been laughing at him the whole way; what would happen if he got another free badge?
"Don't move, the volcano might erupt any second now."

Natsume's voice rang out softly, and Blaine's hand froze in place.

"Hmph, do you think I'm stupid? You think a little movement will cause a volcano to erupt?"

Blaine glared and bristled, but still stopped what he was doing.

"What's this thing for?"

Xia Bo looked at Natsume with concern.

“Look at my gopher.”

As Natsume spoke, he pointed to the ground squirrel that was frantically eating volcanic soil nearby.

Squirtle and Bulbasaur, standing nearby, each held a plate of berries and watched with great interest.

"Groundhogs eat dirt. What's wrong with that?" Blair didn't find anything strange about it.

"Beep—" The little groundhog noticed Blaine's gaze, and with a sweet berry on its head, it walked towards Blaine.

"Oh, thank you so much."

Blaine took the tree fruit from the little ground squirrel and thought to himself that the little ground squirrel's personality was alright, not like Natsume's.

The next second, three scratches appeared on Blaine's face. "Eek!" The little groundhog angrily snatched the fruit back.

Blaine wasn't angry; instead, he nodded as if he had expected it.

“My ground squirrel likes to eat sour, sweet, and spicy foods,” Natsume’s voice rang out.

“I know,” Blair nodded, not understanding what this had to do with the volcano.

“But it doesn’t eat sour berries.” Natsume pointed to the little ground squirrel.

The other person mixed a sweet berry and a spicy berry in the volcanic soil, then happily swallowed them in one bite.

"This means that the volcanic soil here is very acidic, extremely acidic."

“Nonsense, volcanic soil is naturally acidic.” Xia Bo disagreed, but still squatted down, scraped a little soil with his finger, and put it in his mouth.

The moment it entered his mouth, an incredibly sour and astringent sensation traveled through his taste buds, and Xia Bo shuddered.

This is so sour, something doesn't seem right.

"Dudu-"

Natsume's instrument stopped, releasing a large amount of steam.

"Let me take a look."

Natsume pulled on the joystick and yanked the screen on the device toward him.

"Yes, it's acidic magma. When it erupts, it will be quite violent, but it might only be a small exposure."

"That's all your fault!" Xia Bo grabbed Natsume's neck and shook him back and forth.

"Don't panic. Soil analysis is just a simple auxiliary method. It might not be a small eruption, but a major eruption."

Xia Bo really wanted to punch Natsume, but his years of self-cultivation told him otherwise.
"Bang!" Natsume was punched on the head.

Natsume covered his head, and before he could say anything, Uncle Xia turned around:
"I'm old. You'd better resolve this matter for me, or I won't register your badge."

Uncle Xia had an attitude of disrespect for his elders.

"What does 'not registering the badge' mean?" Ash climbed out of the hot spring.

"To prevent criminals from counterfeiting badges, all badges issued by gym trainers are registered with the League and verified during major tournaments."

Xiao Gang's voice rang out.

criminals
"Why are you looking at me?" Natsume turned Ash's head towards Natsume.

"By the way, Grandpa Xia, I want to challenge you!"

Xiao Zhi remembered his original intention and quickly spoke up.

“No, you have to resolve this matter.” Uncle Xia shook his head.

"It should just be a small eruption, not a major one," Natsume's voice rang out.

"I discovered that the volcanic geological exploration teams that the Alliance left here have all moved away."

"This means that there shouldn't be any major volcanic eruptions or anything like that happening here for the next few decades."

“If Xiao Lu is there, she should be halfway up the mountain,” Natsume said, pausing for a moment.

"It's not serious, at most it'll just burn down your hotel."

"Isn't this serious?" Blair clenched his fists, but his years of training told him otherwise.
"Bang!" A big bump appeared on Natsume's head.

He didn't use his superpowers to resist; Blaine was very kind to him.

He bombed the dojo thirteen times, and then cleaned up his mess after the volcano erupted.
"Hmph, I don't care. If my inn can't be saved, you can keep the Crimson Lotus Badge as a souvenir!"

As he was about to leave, he found himself motionless.

Looking back, he saw that it was the boy named Xiaozhi who had grabbed his arm.

"Grandpa Xia, please, fight me!"

"Pica-"

Pikachu and Ash looked at each other pitifully.

Xia Bo's expression was strange.

Strange, why do I feel like my arms don't belong to me anymore?

“Actually, this isn’t such a bad thing.” Natsume’s voice rang out.

"If a small amount of lava is exposed on the surface, the resulting volcanic mud can also make you a fortune."

(End of this chapter)