Pokémon: Who let him leave Pallet Town?

Chapter 196 Semi-Researcher Mewtwo
"Alright, if you want to wear this outfit, you'll have to finish reading the books in here first."

Inside Oak's lab, in a room filled with bookshelves, Natsume led Mewtwo in.

Mewtwo's eyes glowed with a ghostly blue light, and its telekinetic powers reached out to explore its surroundings.

From the moment he entered the Oki Research Institute, he noticed something unusual about this place.

"I remember reading some articles online that said the population density of Pokémon shouldn't be too high, and yours is seriously over the limit, but why are they living without any problems?"

Mewtwo was somewhat surprised and recounted its discoveries here.

"That must be referring to the wild. Here, there's human intervention, so of course it's different." Natsume yawned.

Mewtwo nodded seriously.

Besides that, he had just passed a room full of instruments, and the feeling it gave him was a bit eerie.

In particular, there was an old man inside muttering to himself, I don't know what he was talking about.

"These are Professor Oak's books. If you read them all, you might become the first college student in the village!"

Natsume patted Mewtwo on the shoulder.

“I have accessed your human internet, and I have seen all of the Alliance’s electronic libraries.”

Mewtwo looked directly at Natsume, the meaning of which was self-evident.

"Then why can't you explain the details of the Mewtwo Ball?" Natsume rolled his eyes.

“I can make it,” Mewtwo said, beckoning with his finger.

In an instant, two Mewtwo Ball embryos flew up in front of Professor Nishino in the laboratory.

"You're alive too!"

Nishino Mori was taken aback, only to see the silvery-white spherical embryo vanish in an instant.

The next second, two Mewtwo Ball embryos, A1 and A2, appeared in Mewtwo's hand.

The former's eyes flashed with a ghostly blue light, and the two embryos strangely merged together, splitting the space inside in two.

"Look." Mewtwo placed the complete Mewtwo Ball in front of Natsume.

So what is its underlying principle?

"do not know."

Seeing Mewtwo obediently shake its head, Natsume rubbed his temples in exasperation.

"What you've seen before, you probably memorized by rote using your powerful mental strength, right?"

Natsume countered with a question.

"Isn't that how it is?" Mewtwo looked at the other party in confusion.

"Of course not. You have to truly understand, connect all these things together, and integrate them. Otherwise, you'll only ever be on paper and never be able to develop anything new."

“But I created the Mewtwo Ball.” Mewtwo placed the ball in its hand in front of Natsume.

"What's the principle behind it?"

"I don't know." Mewtwo shook its head.

Natsume: "."

"You should read all the books here."

"Many of these are not recorded in the Alliance eBook Library."

As he spoke, Natsume pulled out a book, casually flipped to a page, and said to Mewtwo:
"For example, what did you see in this book?"

"I saw a group of perverted old men shooting arrows, and they weren't even wearing clothes," Mewtwo nodded.

Natsume was taken aback, only then realizing that he had mistakenly taken Professor Oak's travel photo book.

I also stumbled upon the performance art section, where the other person was drawing a bow and arrow, imitating Cupid's hot springs with a group of old friends.

“This is the one.” Natsume put the book back and picked up another one.

"For example, you absolutely cannot find this book, 'Master Ball Structure Explained,' in the League's eBook library."

Mewtwo took the book from Natsume and nodded slightly.

It had indeed never seen any books on Poké Ball research; the most it could find online was about Advanced Poké Balls.

Aren't you afraid these books will be stolen by criminals?

Mewtwo flipped through it a couple of times and seemed somewhat surprised.

This content is excessively detailed.

"It's okay, not many people can understand it." Natsume waved his hand.

Moreover, many of the key materials used in Baby Balls are controlled by the league.

Mewtwo nodded, and instead of frantically recording the contents of various books with its telekinesis as usual, it picked up a book, went to a seat in the study, and quietly began to read. "While you're reading, you can think about the connections between these books; it's quite interesting."

Seeing that Mewtwo was in the zone, Natsume waved his hand and left.

Back in the living room of Ooki's lab, Natsume felt incredibly bored.

I was hoping that once I brought Mewtwo back, I could start working on the predatory modifications to the Master Ball.

As a result, from the very first step, when Natsume asked about the principles behind Mewtwo's creation, Mewtwo got stuck.

There's no other way but to let Mewtwo read more books so that he can at least understand some of the connections between the principles.

Otherwise, the other person will always describe it to you as: "First do this, then do that, and then do this, and that will be fine."

"Jiaozi, please call Sonia for me!"

Natsume remembered Dr. Mulan's instructions.

“Mr. Natsume, the other party blocked us the day before yesterday.”

Jiaozi stood up from her workstation somewhat awkwardly, pointing at her phone.

"Why? It was clearly her grandmother who told me to keep in touch more often." Natsume asked, puzzled.

After a moment of silence, the proud young man slowly spoke:

"Hmm, maybe it's a bit abrupt or too frequent that we're contacting each other?"

"Is it abrupt?" Natsume was taken aback.

I simply explained the situation directly and warmly invited the other party to join Sunshine Academy.

Is it frequent?

Natsume thought back and realized it was just three phone calls a day to maintain their relationship.

He also specifically asked Dr. Mulan about Sonia's lifestyle habits.

They even took time zone issues into account, specifically calculating the time to call during the recipient's free mealtimes.

Such attention to detail and thoughtfulness, yet I still got blocked!
Natsume pondered which part of the process had gone wrong.

"Beep beep beep—Xiao Zhi is calling—Beep beep beep—Xiao Zhi is calling."

On the Rotom phone, Ash's avatar suddenly lit up.

"Sigh!" Natsume sighed.

Once Ash is released, he's like a traveling frog.

I don't know who he learned it from, but he makes three or four phone calls a day to report.

The first few days were fine, but now, more than half a month later, Natsume is getting a little annoyed.

"Alright, Ash, if you've defeated a few more trainers today, you don't need to report to me. Keep in touch with Aunt Hanako; she's still on her trip."

Natsume's expressionless face.

"You mean Mom? I just finished contacting her." Xiao Zhi paused for a moment, then said excitedly:

"Natsume-nii, guess what we found? You'll definitely be interested!"

As he spoke, Xiao Zhi's perspective began to shift, sometimes blurry, sometimes clear.

The other person picked up their phone, seemingly trying to focus.

Finally, the image freezes and gradually becomes clear.

What comes into view is a crystal cave.

It's not a cave where crystal minerals grow, but rather it's all sparkling, and the whole thing looks like a cave formed by hollowing out a huge piece of crystal!
"here it is?"

Natsume seemed to have thought of something, and his eyes lit up.

"It's like this, Natsume-nii!" Ash cleared his throat and began to explain:
"This morning, we arrived at a new island and met a really nice glass craft shop owner who treated us to breakfast. Breakfast was milk and cream tarts—ah!"

Before Xiaozhi could finish speaking, he was punched to the ground by Xiaoxia who suddenly appeared.

"Get to the point, you idiot!"

Xiaoxia angrily dragged Xiaozhi away.

Xiao Jian, who was standing at the back, immediately became the first person to be in charge.

"Uh, Mr. Natsume, hello." Ken seemed a little nervous.

"Who is this guy behind you?" Natsume noticed that there was a burly man behind Ken.

The other person was wearing a scarf, had dark skin, and muscular arms, suggesting they frequently engaged in manual labor.

(End of this chapter)