Pokémon: Who let him leave Pallet Town?

Chapter 303 Ghost Dragon Stone Tablet
"If you didn't dig it open, how did you know there was no one underground?" Xiao Mao asked curiously.

"It's all because Kojiro was blinded by greed and tricked by a shady merchant into buying a broken treasure-hunting device. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been working here for over half a month!"

Musashi got angry as she spoke, grabbed Kojiro, and seeing his weak appearance, finally punched him on the head.

Why did you hit me, meow!

Meow Meow held its head, staring at Musashi in disbelief.

"Isn't that because you couldn't control him?"

The trio started fighting as they were talking. Xiao Shi's lips twitched slightly, and he looked helplessly at Natsume.

Natsume used his telekinesis to separate the three of them. Musashi's fingernails were full of cat hair, and Meow Meow's mouth was full of hair.

"You just mentioned a treasure-hunting device?"

Natsume raised an eyebrow and his gaze fell directly on Kojiro.

"Uh, that's a swindler, meow, a swindler!"

"Yes, yes, apart from some bottle caps, we didn't find anything of value."

Meow and Musashi immediately shielded Kojiro behind them.

“There are indeed some strange people selling treasure-hunting devices in Yuanzhu City.”

Natsume nodded. He had seen similar warning notices when he came out of the police station.

Seeing that Natsume had accepted their explanation, both Meow Meow and Musashi breathed a sigh of relief.

However, the next second, telekinesis took effect, rendering the three unable to move.

Like pulling a stalk of green onion from dry land, the trio was suddenly thrown out of the cave by Natsume.

"Xiao Mao, keep an eye on them."

Natsume clapped his hands, preparing to enter the cave.

"Hey, hey, hey, I already said there's nothing here!"

"That's right, meow, there's only some of our belongings inside!"

The trio's persuasion seemed to have worked, and Natsume paused in his tracks.

"It's alright. Even though the treasure-hunting device is fake, I believe in your luck!"

Natsume turned around and gave the trio a thumbs up.

The trio's luck is as unpredictable as Ash's birth chart.

It's common for people to find real treasures while using fake treasure hunt devices.

"you"

The trio wanted to say something more, but then they saw Xiao Mao standing in front of them.

"Don't move!"

Gary held Sylveon's two front legs and two hind legs, as if he were holding a gun, and aimed it at the trio.

"Ibuy~"

Inside Sylveon's mouth, cubes belonging to Velociraptors continued to condense, and the three bound individuals instantly turned ashen-faced.

Meanwhile, Natsume followed the ladder provided by Team Rocket into the tomb.

The surrounding soil was newly dug, and it appears that the Rockets intentionally expanded it.

Fortunately, this is a corner of the cemetery, otherwise the "single apartment" would have been converted into a large dormitory by the Rockets.

Torches hung on the walls of the tomb, allowing a clear view of what was inside.

As they walked, the sound of some kind of machine running became increasingly clear.

The surrounding lights suddenly dimmed.

"Ok?"

Natsume looked at a table with a puzzled expression.

It was a dark, pentagonal long table with a particularly short triangular area, which looked quite strange.

Beside the table was a three-person bicycle generator connected to a light that flickered on and off.

Natsume picked up a torch and walked toward the machine.

Approaching the machine, I raised the torch, but the light from the flame did not illuminate the machine at all.

"what is this?"

Natsume picked up the RPG-like device with a puzzled look.

He brought the torch closer again, this time even pressing it against the machine. The machine still didn't emit any light, so Natsume could only use his telekinesis to figure out the whole machine.

"This is...a weapon?"

Natsume remembered what Meow Meow had let slip earlier: they were making some kind of secret weapon.

It seems to be related to the treasure they discovered.

Natsume curiously hoisted the weapon in his hand onto his shoulder and aimed it at the light bulb next to him.

"Stab~"

A black beam of light shot out from the cannon muzzle and instantly struck the light bulb.

The light bulb was not damaged at all; it was simply trapped inside by the black beam of light.

The next instant, the light bulb strangely reversed, its original display was twisted off, and the surroundings immediately went dark. Natsume brought the torch closer and discovered that the black beam of light had formed a circular cage, imprisoning the light bulb within it.

It's obviously a Rockets team tactic to counter Pikachu.

Natsume casually picked up the design drawings scattered to the side, looked at them for a few minutes, and then disassembled the weapon in his hand into parts without any hindrance.

In a small black box, Natsume pulled out a stone slab.

The stone slabs are square and neat, depicting the sky, the earth, the trees, and everything else Natsume can imagine.

However, all of these things are reversed: upside-down mountains, sinking clouds.
"You took it upside down?"

Natsume curiously rotated the stone slab 180 degrees, but to his surprise, the image carved on the slab also rotated 180 degrees, still maintaining the appearance of the inverted world.

At the very center of the stone slab, there is a huge circular gap, which was probably where the priests used to be kept.

"Reverse the world, Giratina".

Natsume squinted and examined the stone slab repeatedly in his hand.

Shouldn't this be related to Ho-Oh?

And why would a stone tablet that once housed clergy be found here in Giratina?
Natsume found it strange and began to search the underground space carefully.

Although the Rockets' trio is lucky, they are careless and may make many mistakes.

Sure enough, Natsume found a coffin in the place where Team Rocket had stored their junk.

"How come they're even using someone else's coffin lid as a table?"

Natsume finally understood why that pentagonal table looked familiar.

Without the protection of the coffin lid, the burial items inside the coffin were buried among miscellaneous items.

Natsume spent some time clearing out all the burial items.

"There really are no remains in this coffin."

Natsume picked up a piece of parchment with a puzzled look. This was also one of the burial items, and it might have some records or something similar on it.
“Sun Heiyu used a crow's bone as a brush, dipped it in ink of regret, and knelt before his grandfather's decaying coffin:”

After reading the first line, Natsume realized that this was not a record, but a letter of repentance.

Even this letter of repentance was written by the descendants of the person who should have been buried hundreds of years ago.

“Unfilial grandson Heiyu, today I have disturbed my grandfather’s eternal rest with an act against the heavens. This is not to fulfill my filial duty, but to atone for my sins—to atone for your heinous crimes in the past.”

After reading the second line, Natsume's lips twitched slightly.

Oh, so this grave was opened once hundreds of years ago, and the person who dug it up was even the other party's own grandson.

Was the body moved out at that time?
Natsume subconsciously thought that there was some secret on the corpse.

He continued reading with great interest.

Judging from the contents of the confession, the person buried in this grave is none other than the priest who was blinded by greed and rebelled to capture the Phoenix King alive.

After reading it, Natsume silently closed the confession from thousands of years ago.

He now knew why there was no body—it had been burned to ashes by Ho-Oh.

The ashes were still in the grave when the grandson opened it and stuffed in a letter of repentance when the wind blew them away.

"Actually, you're pretty miserable."

Natsume turned around and looked at the coffin lid that Team Rocket had turned into a table.

After thinking for a moment, Natsume took out a piece of paper money.

"Kacha!"

The lighter did not respond.

"Ok?"

Thinking it was out of fuel, Natsume switched to a different lighter and pressed the button several times.

"Click~ Click~"

I tried more than a dozen lighters, but the paper money just wouldn't light.

"Ok?"

Natsume, refusing to believe it, pulled out the black powder that was left over from his middle-parted hair last time.

a little.

"boom!"

Flames shot into the sky, blasting open the entire burial mound, and the surrounding Gastly scattered in fright.

"Natsume-san!"

"Our secret weapon!"

Xiao Mao and the trio lay on the ground, all watching the huge wooden plank soar into the sky.

Natsume sat inside the coffin lid, flying in mid-air.

"Hiss? That's strange."

A cold wind blew by, and Natsume stroked his chin, contemplating life.

How could such a small amount of gunpowder explode?

(End of this chapter)