Pokémon: Who let him leave Pallet Town?

Chapter 271 Little Sawtooth Joins the Team

On an unknown road, Ash and Misty are arguing as usual.

"Hey, hey, hey, why should I let you have your way? This is the last dorayaki."

Xiaoxia and Xiaozhi were holding a plate and were fighting over it.

"Don't forget, who keeps watch for you every time you go to the bathroom!"

Xiao Zhi was not to be outdone.

"How dare you say that!"

Xiaoxia blushed, but she tightened her grip even more.

The plate trembled precariously as the two struggled over it, seemingly on the verge of cracking.

"Pica-"

With a yawn, the boy with the middle parting slowly climbed the tree stump, bypassed the dazzling array of snacks, and went straight to the middle of Xiaozhi and Xiaoxia.

"I bought this, so who do you think should eat it?" Xiaoxia looked at the man with the middle parting with a disgruntled expression.

"What? You clearly said you didn't like it!" Xiao Zhi was even more unconvinced.

"Pica-"

The man with the middle parting glanced at Xiaozhi, then looked at Xiaoxia.

After thinking for a moment, it ate some food to fill its belly.

"Aww~" With one bite, the man with the middle parting swallowed the dorayaki.

"what?"

Xiaoxia and Xiaozhi stared at it blankly.

"Hiccup~"

After eating a little something extra, the middle-parted hairstyle made her feel much more at ease.

*Splat!*

After eating his fill, the man with the middle parting didn't want to stand for a moment, so he just lay down on the tree stump and fell asleep.

"Sigh, this is really a headache. After waking up this time, the man with the middle parting has returned to a normal appetite."

Wearing an apron, Xiao Gang looked at the various pastries displayed on the tree stump and felt a bit of a headache.

Clearly, he cooked too much for today's meal.

"I bought this one too!"

"You said you didn't like this either, and you even questioned my taste!"

Turning around, Xiaoxia and Xiaozhi started arguing again.

"Hey, there's still plenty of food here that we can't finish."

Xiao Gang was carrying a large plate of pastries, his lips twitching slightly.

"Natsume, why don't you try to persuade them, or how about you have some delicious rice cakes?"

Xiao Gang glanced over and spotted Natsume fishing by the river.

The fishing rod is made up of black rods.

They would soon arrive at Dr. Snowton's residence, and Natsume planned to spend some time studying the Black Rod.

At least under the questioning of the senior brother, he should be able to give a reasonable explanation.

Jiaozi sat quietly beside Natsume, holding a plate that looked like fish bait.

Wow, what a waste!

Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the bait Natsume used for fishing was actually a variety of small snacks.

"Eating wild Pokémon is not a waste."

Natsume yawned.

At the same time, the fishing rod in his hand suddenly sank.

"Whoosh!"

Natsume jerked the rod up, and a blue Pokémon was flung into the air.

"Vanivani!"

With a "thud," the Pokémon fell onto the plate that Ash and Misty were fighting over.

"Little Alligator?"

Xiao Zhi and Xiao Xia spoke at the same time.

"Vanivani!"

The little alligator licked its lips, seemingly savoring the taste of the pastry.

Suddenly, it discovered that it was lying on top of another piece of pastry.

"Vani!"

The little alligator excitedly tossed the pastry into its mouth.

As it chewed, the little saw-alligator began to stare blankly. It tilted its head, drool dripping from its mouth, and stood motionless on the plate, seemingly amazed by the taste of the pastry.

"Wow, garlic flavored, Ash, your taste is really bad."

Xia glanced at it and noticed the packaging on the pastry.

"Then why are you still fighting me for it? Never mind, taming the little tortoise is the most important thing!"

While Totodile was distracted by the food, Ash pulled out a Quick Ball.

"Hmph, who said this little Totodile is going to be caught by you? Water-type Pokémon are destined to be the world's number one Water-type Pokémon trainer in the future!"

As Xiaoxia spoke, she also pulled out a fastball.

Two fastballs struck the little saw-allergy simultaneously, enveloping it in red light.

The plate, under the strain of the two pulling on it, finally shattered with a crash.

"what!"

Xiaoxia and Xiaozhi cried out in surprise and fell backward together.

When I stood up again, a Quickball on the table was flashing red, indicating that the little totomato had been captured.

"Yay! I caught the little saw-totolis!"

Both hands simultaneously reach for the fast ball.

"Ok?"

Xiao Zhi and Xiao Xia made eye contact.

"That's definitely my fastball!"

"Nonsense, it's clearly mine!"

As they argued, the two looked toward the three people by the river.

"I don't know, I didn't see anything."

Xiao Gang looked up at the sky.

"Why don't you two have a fight?"

Natsume pulled out the method he used to resolve conflicts with Tomohiro when he was a child.

"Let's fight, okay!"

Xiao Zhi rolled up his sleeves, showing no mercy whatsoever.

"Uh, I suggest we stick with Pokémon battles."

"I'm so proud of myself," the proud son said weakly.

"Alright, I'll be the referee!"

Xiao Gang quickly spoke up, and casually shoved the pastries in his hand into Jiao Zi's "bait plate," then walked lightly toward the open space to the side.

"Come on, Pikachu!"

Xiaozhi took the lead.

"Pikachu!" Pikachu stood in front of Misty.

"Hmph, you've made a big mistake by sending out Pikachu."

Xiaoxia was determined to win.

"What do you mean by 'completely wrong'? Back then, at the Cerulean Gym, it was just that Pikachu didn't want to battle you. Otherwise, Misty, you wouldn't have had a single chance of winning!"

Xiao Zhi will stick to the facts.

"Really?"

Xiaoxia grinned mischievously.

"Go, Togepi!"

"Add ki add ki~"

Xiaoxia put Togepi down from her arms, and the latter happily hugged Pikachu.

"You are too mean!"

Ash was taken aback, but then encouraged Pikachu.

"Pikachu, can you use Thunderbolt?"

"Pikachu!"

Looking at Togepi hugging him, Pikachu shook his head in embarrassment.

It suddenly fled the battlefield.

"Oh hahaha~" Xiaoxia laughed like a villain.

However, Pikachu, who had escaped the battlefield, did not give up.

For Ash's sake, it thought for a moment and ran towards the middle-parted hair.

"Pika, Pika Pika, Pika Pika".

Pikachu nudged the sleeping man with the middle parting until he woke up.

"Pickup?"

The man with the middle part looked at Pikachu with a blank expression.

After a while, it understood.

The man with the middle parting turned over and pulled a bottle of hairspray, a small comb, and a lollipop from Natsume's backpack.

"Sssss—" A spray, a comb.

Pikachu now has a middle parting hairstyle.

"Kacha kacha~"

With his center-parted hair styled straight, he swaggered towards the battlefield, while Pikachu nervously lay down on a tree stump and started to sleep.

"Hey, hey, hey, I saw it all."

Xiaoxia complained.

"Ahem, Pikachu is out of the game, so Ash sends out his second Pokémon—the Middle-Haired Pokémon."

Xiao Gang chose a compromise.

"Never mind, Togepi, charm it!"

Xiaoxia hesitated for a moment, but still gave the order.

Togepi is practically a baby Pokémon that everyone raised together, so the guy with the middle parting should be more lenient, right?
"Middle parting, 100,000... uh, 10,000 volts!"

Fearing that Ash might also feel the same way as Pikachu, he changed his mind.

However, they all overestimated the moral standards of the man with the center parting.

It did nothing and walked straight toward Togepi.

"Add ki plus ki?"

Togepi stared wide-eyed at it with curiosity.

The man with the middle parting took out the lollipop and handed it to Togepi.

"Add ki add ki~"

Pokopf happily sucked on his lollipop.

But the next second.

"Yeah!"

The lollipop in her mouth was snatched away by the man with the middle parting.

Togepi looked on in bewilderment—"Awoo!"

The man with the middle parting swallowed the lollipop whole in one gulp with a vicious glare.

"Add ki plus ki——"

Pokobi, with tears streaming down her face, rushed into Misty's arms.

"Pica-"

The man with the middle parting chewed the lollipop and turned around to pat Pikachu, who was pretending to be asleep.

Get it!

"Go, starfish!"

"Go, chrysanthemum leaf!"

Without a doubt, Ash won the final victory.

"Okay, I've tamed the little saw-tooth!"

Ash happily raised the red and white ball in his hand.

"Little Sawtooth, come out and say hello to everyone!"

A red light flashed, but the little saw-alligator was nowhere to be seen.

"Ok?"

While Ash was puzzled, he noticed out of the corner of his eye that next to Natsume, his Pikachu and the guy with the middle parting were tied up to the Totodile.

"From this moment on, remember that you are a deep-sea torpedo."

Natsume patted the little saw-tortoise's head solemnly.

"Vani!"

The little saw-alligator nodded solemnly.

"Mr. Natsume, if we... if we can't catch any fish, we can add more bait!"

Jiaozi's breathless voice rang out; the pastries were long gone, and she was coming over with a large bag of fish bait.

Nearby, there were empty bait bags scattered about, labeled 100kg.

"I've made up my mind!"

Natsume stood up.

Aside from Totodile, he didn't catch any other Water-type Pokémon.

It's like they're doing charity work!

Scratch-off lottery tickets guarantee a minimum return every day, but fishing games also guarantee a minimum return?
"First-class suicide bomber, Little Sawk Alligator!"

"Vani!"

The little saw-alligator was on high alert.

"on!"

At Natsume's command, the little saw-tooth darted into the river before it.

Immediately afterwards, a burst of lightning erupted.

"Wait a minute, Mr. Natsume, electrofishing is illegal!!!"

(End of this chapter)