Pokémon: Who let him leave Pallet Town?

Chapter 410 The Middle-Part Hairstyle That Caused a Rank Surge
Pokémon Center.

"Mr. Natsume, you're back so soon!"

Jiaozi, carrying her dinner, looked in astonishment at Natsume, who was enjoying the cool breeze on the rooftop.

"Is something on your mind?" Jiaozi placed the lunchbox on the long table next to Natsume.

The gene-suppressing agents that used to fill the shelves have long since disappeared, replaced by various contraband items that the privileged can only see in textbooks.

"nothing."

Natsume yawned and collected all the reagents on the table.

In the end, only a dark-colored dragon scale with crimson veins remained on the table.

"Stab~"

A flash of red light appeared at the proud man's waist, and the giant speedhound appeared.

It was on high alert, howling madly at the dragon scales of war.

Natsume paused while eating.

Although he spent an afternoon trying to mix the dragon scale with all sorts of strange things in an attempt to figure out what characteristics it had.

Without exception, they all failed.

The only characteristic that Natsume can confirm about the War Dragon Scale is that almost all Growlithes react to it.

This is what Natsume noticed as he passed by groups of Officer Jenny carrying stretchers.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Natsume, it's usually very quiet."

Jiaozi blushed and quickly hugged the restless Growlithe.

"I know."

Natsume discreetly put away the dragon scale, and the Arcanine gradually calmed down.

"Pickup!"

A yellow figure leaped back and forth on the surrounding eaves before finally landing in front of Natsume.

"Pikachu?" Don't you want it anymore?

Without any hesitation, the man with the middle parting grabbed the lunchbox that Natsume had opened and began wolfing it down into his mouth.

Seeing how hungry the other person was, Natsume became interested.

"What have you been doing to exhaust yourself like this?"

Natsume looked at the middle-parted hairstyle with great interest.

He would stuff a day's worth of food into the other person's dream space every day.

Natsume dared not give too much; if there were too much food, who knew that the middle-ranking members might secretly recruit soldiers one day.
"Pikachu."

The man with the middle parting licked the lunchbox clean with a look of enjoyment, then turned to look at Natsume and continued to rub his stomach.

Natsume gave a signal, and Jiaozi went downstairs and brought back two more lunchboxes.

After finishing two lunchboxes, my middle-parted hair and round belly were completely gone.

Satisfied, it got up and began to tell Natsume about what it had seen and heard that day.

"You said you went to battle other Pokémon?" Natsume was slightly taken aback, then his eyes lit up.

"You mean that senior is itching for a fight and wants to challenge you?"

"Pikachu?" The man with the middle parting shook his head.

"Pika pika pika!"

"Just a lot of ordinary Pokémon?" Natsume frowned.

What do you mean?
"So you went to the top of Mt. Silver and instead of looking for that senior Pokémon, you went to fight other Pokémon?"

Natsume lifted the nape of his neck, revealing his middle-parted hair, his sharp gaze almost burning through it.

The man with the middle parting shook his head frantically.

"Your senior called you over so you could battle other Pokémon?"

Natsume frowned.

He casually swiped open the panel to check the level of the middle-part hairstyle.

[Middle parting hairstyle, LV52]

Natsume's pupils contracted slightly.

This guy was only LV50 this morning.

"Is it really just a battle?"

Natsume didn't believe it and looked at the middle-parted hair with suspicion.

"Pikachu, Pikachu." The man with the middle parting nodded repeatedly.

"Alright, in that case, what about the bottle of water I gave you?"

As if he had thought of something, Natsume asked.

"Pickup!"

"You drank it yourself to protect yourself?" Natsume was taken aback, then quickly realized what he meant:
"What self-protection?"

The man with the middle parting thought for a moment and then began to gesture.

"A bunch of Pokémon are coming to beat you up?"

Natsume understood less and less as he listened.

After thinking for a long time, he suddenly realized.

It's very likely that the cave connects to another space, where the legendary Pokémon and many other Pokémon live.

This is the only explanation that makes sense.

"In that case."

Natsume figured out a miniature camera, attached it to a small collar, and put it on the person with the middle parting.

"Spend more time inside tomorrow."

As soon as Natsume finished speaking, the man with the middle parting looked dejected.

"Pikapi"

"It's not fun at all, you don't want to go tomorrow!?"

"Ok?"

Natsume's eyes widened, and he used his trainer's authority.

The woman with her hair parted in the middle looked at the other person with a pitiful expression.

Go there and get beaten up. The fact that it doesn't want to go only proves that it's a psychologically healthy Pikachu.

Under Natsume's tyrannical influence, the man with the middle parting finally gave in.

However, it has one requirement.

"You're taking people with you?"

Natsume was stunned.

"Pikapi!"

The man with the middle parting nodded vigorously.

Seeing this, Natsume's face showed doubt, and he said:
"You don't want to get ganged up on. But, senior, are you allowed to use other Pokémon to enter?"

"Pikapi!"

The man with the middle parting nodded confidently.

"The senior specifically asked you, is it possible for a Pokémon like yours to enter?"

Natsume was slightly taken aback.

What kind of Pokémon has a middle-part hairstyle?
Natsume remained silent and released all the Pokémon.

"Hooo!"

"Beep—"

"Zzz~"

"Cannes!"

"Except for the Dream Ball Rotom, which was borrowed by Joey, the rest are all here. See who's willing to take them."

Natsume said, sitting down at the table next to him.

With his hair parted in the middle and his arms crossed, he scanned the Pokémon in front of him with his gaze, as if he were inspecting troops.

The little groundhog is fighting with itself.
Loletta stared blankly, secretly watching a TV series.

Zapdos spread its wings, its eyes fixed on the sky, ready to pounce.

"Awoo!" The big dragon rushed up happily and affectionately hugged the middle-parted dragon, but was rejected by the dragon shaking its head.

After much deliberation, the man with the middle parting walked straight toward Loletton.

"not good."

A monotonous, mechanical voice rang out, and Lollerton gave a direct and straightforward refusal.

The man with the middle parting lowered his head in disappointment.

"The Giant Dragonite is the strongest right now."

Natsume stared at the middle-parted hair strangely.

It's clearly the Dragonite that I play with the most, and it's currently the highest level.

After undergoing special training in controlling the power of the Guardian Dragonite, the opponent is the strongest and currently the most powerful member of Natsume's team.

"Awooooo"

Dejected, Daikai Ryu grabbed his middle-part hair and was about to stuff it into his mouth.

"Pickup!"

A person with a middle parting jumped out and waved at it.

"You're saying that a Giant Dragonite definitely can't get in?"

A subtle glint flashed in Natsume's eyes.

"In that case, do you think those Pokémon here might be allowed to go in?"

Natsume stood up and stared intently at the middle-parted hair.

Sure enough, that senior had selection criteria.

The man with the middle parting pointed at Lollerton without hesitation.

After hesitating for a long time, it pointed at Zapdos.

"Cannes?"

Zapdos, which had been staring intently at the sky, paused for a moment, then turned to look at the man with the middle parting, before finally turning its head away smugly.

It's impossible for him to help someone with a middle parting; it's impossible in this lifetime.

After pointing to the others, the small hand with the middle parting pointed to Natsume.

"I?"

Natsume was stunned.

"No, it's probably referring to me."

Mewtwo’s voice echoed in Natsume’s mind.

"Didn't you notice that the guy with the middle parting, as well as Loleton and Zapdos that he's pointing at, are all related to the clergy?"

Natsume's heart skipped a beat.

This is indeed the case.

But if that's the case, then what about Ash?
Even if you can't get in, the other party is still the main character, and who knows, leaving them somewhere might trigger something strange.

As soon as Xiaozhi stepped out of the preliminary round venue in the evening, he was stopped by Natsume.

"Natsume-nii, are you here to comfort Shigeru?"

Gary hid behind Ash, covered in mud and looking dead.

"What's wrong with him?" Natsume asked Shigeru curiously.

"Xiao Shi was unlucky. His opponent was unscrupulous and afraid that Xiao Shi would be ambushed and eliminated. So Blastoise and Eevee discussed it and dug a hole to bury him in."

"I forgot where I buried it afterwards, and I searched for it for a long time."

As Ash spoke, he pointed to the lifeless-looking Gary behind him.

Natsume: "."

"A very unique method of protection."

Natsume used his telekinesis to brush the dust off Shigeru's body.

"Come with me on a food delivery trip tomorrow."

A brick-sized satellite phone was tossed to Xiao Zhi.
The next day.

We arrived at the cave again.

The raging little sweet water inside was drunk clean, and Natsume continued to replenish it.

After the petal cakes had burned out, Natsume gave a wink to the outside of the cave.

Soon, Ash appeared, sporting a middle parting hairstyle, Mewtwo, Zapdos, and himself.

"Is Natsume-nii here?"

Ash was holding a platinum-gold hair in his hand.

This hair was preserved in the amber that Natsume obtained.

Comparing the hair from the divine beast with the middle-parted hair, Natsume discovered that the two were exactly the same, both being tokens that allowed him to freely enter the summit of Mt. Silver and could be recognized by Officer Jenny.

"Shhh."

Natsume made a shushing gesture.

"Senior, I heard it say that you welcome Pokémon like itself to come over. Let me introduce you."

Regardless of whether the other party could hear him or not, Natsume began his introduction:
"This is a Zapdos, but it has been recognized by the divine Moltres."

"This is Mewtwo, an artificial Pokémon, related to Mew."

"This is Ash, a one-of-a-kind humanoid Pokémon."

"Stab~"

After three slight sounds, the figures of the middle-parted hair, Zapdos, and Mewtwo disappeared.

"Uh, where did they go?"

Xiao Zhi was curious and looked around.

Disappointed, Natsume had no choice but to leave with Satoshi.

It seems that Ash's protagonist aura has no effect here.

Riding a giant dragon, he flew towards the mountainside. Halfway there, a purple streak of light swiftly entered Natsume's mind.

"Mewtwo, what brings you back!?"

Natsume was stunned.

"That guy excluded me." Mewtwo's tone was filled with resentment.

"You hit it?" Natsume raised an eyebrow.

"I didn't even see a glimpse of it before I was thrown out," Mewtwo frowned.

"Oh, you can tolerate this? When did you become so good-tempered?"

This time, Mewtwo remained silent for a long time.

Mewtwo only spoke after Natsume returned to the Pokémon Center:
"You don't understand that feeling; you can't even muster the will to resist."

Natsume paused, his steps halting in mid-air as he entered the Pokémon Center.

"If that's the case, why did it exclude you?"

Natsume asked.

This time, Mewtwo remained silent for even longer.

It wasn't until Natsume had spent the entire afternoon practicing Dynamax with Ash and Gary that the other party finally spoke:
It said I was a thief.

Mewtwo's voice carried a hint of annoyance:
"It also said that when I make a mistake, sanctions will be imposed on me."

"A thief?" Natsume thought for a moment, somewhat puzzled.

But he quickly realized that the other person was probably referring to the half of Mew's divine authority within Mewtwo's body.

"Hearing you say that makes it seem even more like a super ancient relic."

Natsume helped Ash and Gary adjust the Dynamax Well, chatting idly in his mind.

"By the way, I might have been marked, so I probably can't help you with this competition. You'll have to win the championship on your own."

Mewtwo said, showing Natsume a mark on its forehead.

It was a three-color engraving, with yellow, red and blue colors interwoven, exactly the same as the amulet that Natsume saw in the Lake of Life area, which was a combination of the three sacred beast stone tablets!
"okay, I get it."

Without any backup plan, Natsume felt somewhat heavy-hearted.

Although he was confident that he could definitely defeat Du if the level difference was not significant.

But yesterday, Natsume did some statistics and found that Lance's Pokémon average level was a full 38 levels higher than his!
(End of this chapter)