Pokémon: Who let him leave Pallet Town?

Chapter 459 Xiaoyao
"I'll use the deconstruction machine first," Natsume said, heading towards the equipment next to him.

However, as soon as he took a step, his body was as if bound by invisible ropes, and he was frozen in place.

Natsume turned around and found that Mewtwo had used telekinesis to immobilize him.

"You?" For the first time, Mewtwo's eyes revealed undisguised horror.

Its powerful spiritual perception detected a fundamental, earth-shattering change in Natsume.

"You've broken through to the 'Beyond the Inner World' realm?" Mewtwo's voice was filled with disbelief and confirmation.

"I think so." Natsume nodded, then shook his head slightly, as if he wasn't quite sure himself.

What is the state after the Inner World? How is the power manifested?

Mewtwo couldn't wait to ask more questions.

"Disable the telekinesis first," Natsume said calmly.

Mewtwo immediately obeyed and released itself from its restraints.

It thought Natsume was going to demonstrate a new level of power.

Unexpectedly, Natsume simply stretched his arms and legs before heading straight for the deconstruction machine.

Mewtwo cast an inquiring glance your way.

Natsume shrugged, his tone tinged with helplessness:
"I can't feel the presence of telekinesis; that's my most direct feeling right now."

"Impossible!" Mewtwo denied categorically, his brow furrowed.

When Natsume gently placed his palm on Mewtwo's forehead, a strange wave swept across it.

Mewtwo had no choice but to believe this unbelievable fact—Natsume's body was indeed empty, with no trace of psychic energy detectable!

"Wait a moment!"

Before Mewtwo could recover from its shock, Natsume seemed to have noticed something and opened his eyes first.

Immediately afterwards, Mewtwo clearly felt that the vast psychic power within him had become incredibly docile, even submissive, as if it had encountered a supreme monarch!

A wisp of pure psychic energy overflowed from his body uncontrollably, swirling joyfully around Natsume like birds returning to their nests.

“That’s strange,” Natsume said thoughtfully, looking at the blue psychic threads originating from Mewtwo swirling around his fingertips. “Although I can’t feel my own psychic power, I can actually freely call upon and control the psychic power within you?”

With a slight thought, the wisp of blue mental energy obediently picked up several tools on the workbench and began to manipulate them skillfully.

Mewtwo: "."

The laboratory fell into a deathly silence.

Mewtwo remained silent for a long time, too shocked to find the words to express itself.

“If our bodies represent the material realm, then telekinesis represents the spiritual realm.” Mewtwo’s voice carried an unprecedented solemnity.

"So, when these two levels are completely integrated and unified, at least in theory, a more advanced ability, almost 'creative' in nature, should be born."

Its sharp gaze was fixed on Natsume, filled with inquiry and a hint of resentment.

"Didn't you really sense anything unusual?"

Mewtwo couldn't believe that Natsume hadn't felt anything at all after breaking through to the highest level in its theoretical deduction.

"The ability to create?" Natsume repeated the word, a hint of interest flashing in his eyes. "I don't have any clue yet. I need to focus on Rotom design for the next ten days, maybe I'll have a burst of inspiration and figure something out."

As he spoke, he "borrowed" a wisp of telekinetic energy from Mewtwo's body and manipulated the materials to fly towards the control panel, ready to begin work.

"Jingle Bell--"

Just then, Natsume's phone rang again, at an inopportune moment.

The image flashing on the screen was still Ash's avatar.

"What is it now?" Natsume answered the phone, his tone tinged with helplessness.

"Natsume-nii! Something terrible has happened! A girl says she's going to punish me in the name of justice!" Ash's panicked voice came from behind him, accompanied by the sound of wind.

“Oh, I forgot to remind you,” Natsume slapped his forehead, “you shouldn’t wear that Fire Rock Red uniform around everywhere.”

"Uh, I already put the clothes away!" Ash's voice became even more urgent. "She said someone attacked Professor Birch—wait! This has nothing to do with me!" Ash's hurried explanation came from the other end of the phone, followed by a muffled "boom," the shouts of Pokémon, and Ash and Pikachu's exclamations.

The sound of intense fighting instantly filled the receiver, and the video image shook violently before finally going completely black.

Natsume and Mewtwo beside him exchanged a glance, their faces filled with strange expressions as they stared silently at the black screen of their phones.

It took quite a while for the screen to light up again.

What came into view was a girl's face covered in dust and bruised.

She looked quite disheveled, with a small bump on her forehead and obvious abrasions on her cheeks.

The girl had long, slightly wavy brown hair that looked a little messy at the moment, and her signature red headscarf, which was originally tied on top of her head, was now askew to one side.

A large-tailed raccoon dog was leisurely munching on a blue orange berry perched on her head.

"Xiao Yao?" Natsume was slightly taken aback when he saw the girl's face clearly.

This is the daughter of Senri, the Gym Leader of Petalburg City.

"Natsume-nii, do you know her?" Satoshi's bewildered voice came from off-camera, though he wasn't actually in the frame.

"Well, you two could be said to have become friends after a fight."

Natsume gave a vague reply, saying that in the original story, it was also Pikachu that damaged Xiaoyao's bicycle, which led to their feud, so the two stories ended up in the same place.

"I didn't hit it!" Ash quickly poked half his head out from the edge of the screen to defend himself.

He pointed to Xiao Yao, who was lying unconscious on the ground with her face covered in bruises, and said, "This girl suddenly jumped out and said she was going to punish me, and then she summoned her big-tailed raccoon!"

"But somehow, that big-tailed raccoon turned around and beat herself up!"

His tone was full of disbelief.

"She's passed out now, Pikachu, watch out for this big-tailed raccoon."

"It seems a bit fierce." Ash and Pikachu cautiously approached the unconscious Yao, warily staring at the seemingly docile but actually "ferocious" tanuki.

When did Xiao Yao tame the Big-Tailed Tanuki?
Before encountering Torchic, the opponent didn't even know the basics of Pokémon.

Natsume squinted, carefully observing the scene on the screen.

It seems that Xiao Yao in this world is much more mature than the one in the original drama.

Just then, the tanuki that was munching on a blue-orange tangerine seemed to sense the attention it was receiving. It slowly raised its head and stared straight at the camera—or rather, at Ash behind the camera, who was manipulating the Pokédex.

"Satoshi, be careful," Natsume reminded him instinctively.

However, the anticipated attack did not occur.

The raccoon stared at Ash for a few seconds, then suddenly grinned, revealing an extremely human-like smile.
Then, it raised one of its front paws and made a begging gesture in Ash's direction.

That expression and gesture...it shows a very high level of socialization!

Natsume's sharp eyes instantly caught sight of a small, inconspicuous metal tag hanging on the thick neck of the tanuki.

There seems to be something engraved on it.

"These are... the group of raccoon dogs we encountered on the new island that day?" Mewtwo's observation skills were equally sharp, and it immediately recognized the key.

“That’s right!” Natsume immediately understood.

This tanuki was one of the tanuki they rented from a company in Petalburg City on their way to the new island in search of Mewtwo.

"Hey, it's you!"

Ash happily picked up the big-tailed tanuki.

"Pickup!"

Pikachu recognized the other party as well.

This is the same Tanuki that Ash accidentally gifted with a million blueberries that day!

It turns out that excessive socialization can sometimes be a bad thing for the trainer.

(End of this chapter)