Pokémon: Who let him leave Pallet Town?

Chapter 295 Yuanzhu City

Yuanzhu City is bustling with activity.

Ash and his friends headed to the Pokémon Center, while Natsume went to the job interview alone.

Yuanzhu City, Government Hall.

There was a long queue here, and many people were coming and going.

"So many people signed up?"

The atmosphere of Natsume.

Upon closer inspection, it became clear that the site wasn't just for recruiting judges, but also for other staff members setting up the venue.

The vast majority of people came to apply for temporary work positions.

Natsume was very lucky; he was the only one who signed up to be a judge this time, so all he had to do was register his information.

Back in the lobby, Natsume spotted a familiar face.

"Why can't Pokémon do this kind of work, meow! What? This violates the Pokémon Protection Law?"

"Who made this law? Did you ask me, meow!"

Meow Meow was furious.

"what are you doing?"

Natsume pinned the judge's badge to his clothes and walked towards Meow Meow and Musashi.

Meowth was startled. After looking left and right and not finding Ash and the others, it breathed a sigh of relief.

"We're not getting paid, meow, so of course we're working?"

Meow waved.

"Work part-time? And then earn money to enjoy life?" Natsume thought that Meow Meow and the others had figured it out.

"I'm going to buy some snacks, of course. I'm off, meow!"

Realizing she had almost let something slip, Meow Meow dashed out the door.

Natsume marveled.

After being fired, Giovanni stopped paying his salary, so he had to work part-time to earn "criminal funds" and then steal Pokémon to give to Giovanni.

He wished he had subordinates like that.

Yuanzhu City is a city with a long history.

The streets are lined with many old buildings, including the city hall.

Stepping out of the government hall, there is a huge cherry blossom tree on each side.

Many signs, threaded with thin lines, hung from the branches of the cherry blossom trees, forming a dark, indistinct mass.

A number of job seekers gathered near the two cherry blossom trees.

Upon closer inspection, Natsume discovered that the densely packed signs were covered with job postings.

However, these are all job postings from the public, just taking advantage of the high volume of people recruiting by the government today.

Natsume wasn't interested at first, but with a casual glance, he spotted an address.

[No. 112, Street XX, Yuanzhu City]

We are hiring one customer service representative for scheduled email sending. Excellent compensation package, negotiable.

Natsume narrowed his eyes. This address was the one Sakaki had found for him—the hideout of the gang that had swindled and loaned money back then.

After removing the sign, several layers of paper were found pasted on it. Judging from the remaining adhesive residue, someone had torn off this job posting.

"You're really brave."

Natsume narrowed his eyes.

No wonder he couldn't find out how the other party recruited people; it turns out it was such a simple and unpretentious offline development.

The Pokémon beauty pageant won't start until the day after tomorrow; there's a training session tomorrow.

Today, Natsume had originally planned to go with Ash to get the badge, but it seems that she can postpone it for now.

With a turn of his footsteps, Natsume headed towards the police station.

"Mr. Natsume, are you sure?"

Officer Jenny listened to Natsume's story in shock.

"Yes, I'll go ahead and scout out the situation for you."

"Speak," Natsume said, and then disappeared.

When he reappeared, Natsume had arrived at the building marked by Sakaki on Street 112.

This is a very ordinary office building, with grilled rice cakes and oden vendors selling their wares downstairs.

No one could have imagined that this would be the largest fraud den in the entire Chengdu area of ​​Gansu.

"Stab~"

A flash of red light, and Natsume woke up the sleeping man with the middle parting.

"Pickup?"

With his hair parted in the middle, he looked left and right, scratched his head, and sat down at the nearest oden stall.

"Come back here!"

Natsume lifted the middle-parted hair up.

"Pikapi?"

Wasn't it to give him special treatment?

With a puzzled look, the perspective shifted, and he was being pulled by Natsume, facing the office building in front of them.

"The group that tricked you last time is hiding here." Natsume sensed this telepathically and his middle-parted hair froze.

"Pickup!"

The man with the middle parting suddenly became serious.

The apology letter that Natsume made it write last time included a plan to deal with this group of people.

Natsume loosened his grip and placed the middle-parted hair on the ground.

He silently watched as the man with the middle parting took out his phone.

After a series of actions, the man with the middle parting waved and led Natsume into a teahouse next door.

"Pickup!"

The man with the middle parting slapped down the bill, and two steaming cups of green tea were placed in front of Natsume and the man with the middle parting.

Natsume looked at the person with the middle parting strangely, while the other person lowered their head again and started fiddling with their phone seriously.

Natsume's ultimate laissez-faire policy is to let him deal with the problems he creates himself.

He is only responsible for providing a safety net and some necessary assistance.

"Pikachu, Pikachu." I want to book a VIP room, meow.

The man with the middle parting was quite proficient in using his translation software and went straight to the front desk to book a private room.

"Wow, sir, is this your Pikachu?"

The young lady in front covered her mouth, looking at the middle-parted hair in surprise.

"That software," someone nearby asked.

"The alliance will add the illustration and reward content to the game in a while."

Natsume said casually, his gaze fixed on the middle-parted hair.

The other party walked aggressively outside.

"What are you going to do?" Natsume grabbed the man with the middle parting and lifted him up.

"Pikachu, Pikachu, Pikachu—" You go to the private room for some tea, I'll be right back.

The man with the middle-parted hair had an extremely serious expression.

Wow? I didn't expect him to be so imposing when he gets serious.

Natsume accidentally placed his middle-parted hair on the ground, and he took off running.

However, instead of running towards the office building, the other party turned a corner and disappeared.

"Did they go to scout out the surrounding roads?"

Natsume muttered to himself, thinking that the middle-part hairstyle had finally improved, and he even knew to scout the location in advance.

Instead of going to the private room that the man with the middle parting had booked for himself, he took a cup of tea and strolled around the streets.

Natsume passed by office buildings, alleyways, manhole covers, and ventilation ducts, intentionally or unintentionally.
The middle-parted hair had disappeared somewhere, and Natsume thought he would run into the other person when he was scouting the place.

But instead of the one with the middle parting, Natsume bumped into the cat.

"Sigh, why can't we get in touch with Kojiro?"

"I don't know, maybe they've made money and forgotten about us, meow—ah!"

As Meow Meow and Musashi were talking, they bumped into Natsume.

"Can you please stop appearing and disappearing so mysteriously, meow!"

The cat was so frightened that it clung to Musashi's leg.

"What were you saying about Kojiro?"

Natsume didn't find Kojiro around, so he asked curiously.

"Oh, forget it."

Musashi suddenly felt lost.

"We came to Yuanzhu City a while ago, thinking that now that our status is normal, we don't need to find temporary workers anymore. We thought we'd work a little longer and prepare a big surprise—hmm!"

Before Musashi could finish speaking, Meow Meow covered his mouth.

"Meow meow, let go!"

Musashi glared angrily at the other person.

"In short, the three of us have been working for almost half a month, but we can't get in touch with Kojiro."

"Yeah, meow, Kojiro found the highest-paying job, meow, he's definitely going to be corrupted by this bland and wonderful life, meow!"

Meow said with a hint of disappointment.

"That damn Kojiro! Even if he wants to go back to a normal life, he should at least tell us!"

"Yeah, meow, we just lost contact without a word, meow!"

Musashi and Meow Meow became more and more excited as they talked.

"Wait a minute, is the job Kojiro found in this office building?"

Natsume looked at Nyanko with a strange expression.

"Yeah, meow, the wages here are really high, meow."

"Yes, I heard that there are also relaxing massages, electrical therapy, and private dorm rooms every day!"

Musashi yearns for the Way.

Natsume remained silent.

He didn't know if massage, therapy, or private dormitories were available.

Severe beatings, electric shocks, and imprisonment were definitely involved.
(End of this chapter)