Pokémon: Who let him leave Pallet Town?

Chapter 557 United Journal
The following day, a video was released by major media outlets.

It quickly spread like a virus across various platforms of Hezhong.

Its momentum was so strong that it seemed as if an invisible hand was pushing it forward.

Even Adek, who never watches the news, knows about it.

"Natsume, what's going on with these news reports?"

On the other end of the video, Adek, dressed in death row attire, with the neat rows of tall trees lining the road visible behind his head, swiftly swept across the sky.

It appears that the other party is riding on the back of a buffalo with a headshot.

Natsume glanced at his clothes and his lips twitched.
"I'm at the Pokémon Center now, come over here first."

"Oh, but I really want to know what that news article, 'I left, she cried,' meant?"

Adek's curious voice rang out, like a newborn child encountering the world for the first time.

Having not paid attention to the news for over twenty years, he found that the news had indeed evolved to a point where he couldn't understand it.

"If you want to know, just open your phone."

At the Pokémon Center in Flying Cloud City, Natsume stared at his phone listlessly, glancing casually at the green belt on the other side of the screen.

It looks like Adek will be here soon.

“I came in a hurry, and the only electronic device I had was this communicator that Officer Jenny gave me.”

Adek said matter-of-factly:
"I only caught a glimpse of those news reports when I got off the plane in the airport terminal."

"Then come over here and we'll talk."

Natsume hung up the phone.

Originally, he thought that the Aldak in this world was much more serious than the one in the original story.

Natsume realized he was wrong.

Aside from having an added obsession with finding his old buddies and not being lecherous, the Aldak of this world is almost unchanged.

After hanging up the call, Natsume scrolled through his phone, his gaze lingering for a few seconds on a few relatively normal news headlines.

"Shut Up, Then Save Lives: Miss Joey Taught Everyone a Lesson" — United Daily News
"Whose 'well-being'? The dog that fainted during the protest and the silent organizers" - Feiyun City Morning Post.

"On the Possibility of a 232.4kg Adult Female Charging Two Large, Strong Men into the Air" — United Journal of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

"Ok?"

Natsume raised an eyebrow slightly, clicked on the last article in the Unified Journal, and began reading it with great interest.

Not far away, Jiaozi walked over with a cup of coffee in her hand.

She gently placed it on the table, and as the steam rose, she stared at Natsume's earnest face.

"Is Mr. Natsume reading an academic report?"

Suddenly, Gadriya appeared behind Natsume and glanced curiously at the screen. She could only see the four large characters "United Journal" above each article.

Upon seeing this, Jiaozi's eyes lit up, and she immediately moved to Natsume's side.

As expected of Mr. Natsume, even amidst his busy schedule, he remains true to his original aspirations and manages to find time to pay attention to recent academic events!
However, when Jiaozi saw the title, he was dumbfounded.

"Twist and Twist Cookie Science: Studying the Breaking and Flowing of Sandwich Cookies"

"Fruit Fluid Filling Science: Studying the Viscosity Changes and Energy Release Rates under Compression Using Orange and Peach Fruits as Models"

What is this?

Jiaozi's head was throbbing from watching.

"Hmm? Are you taking notes?"

Natsume snapped out of his reverie, a hint of amusement in his eyes. He looked up and saw that Jiaozi was holding a small notebook.

"Don't worry about it, these are just the United States School playing around."

Natsume waved his hand.

"Are you kidding me?" Jiaozi put down her notebook, biting her pen, and looked at Natsume with a puzzled expression.

"Don't look at me, I don't know why either."

Natsume found these things quite interesting. When he saw the founder of the United Journal, he found it even more interesting.

Dr. Yew

A hint of surprise flashed in Natsume's eyes. Come to think of it, he hadn't yet visited the professor in this region.

As Natsume pondered, the doors to the Pokémon Center opened automatically.

"Moo-"

Accompanied by a series of loud stomping sounds, a buffalo with a bulging head charged in.

The strong muscles undulated like a dragon, suddenly bulging, and then came to an abrupt stop.

"what!!!"

With remarkable precision, Adek flew into the emergency room.

“Um, Mr. Adek, we are no longer accepting treatments for humans here.”

Miss Joey, who was busy at the front, was used to it and went in to pull Adek out.

"Well, didn't I already say on the way here that I'm here to talk to someone about something?"

Aldak stood up, seeing stars, intending to smash the buffalo's head, but instead slapped Natsume on the shoulder.

"Ok?"

Aldak finally came to his senses and, under Natsume's speechless gaze, put away the Buffalo Head.

"Huh? You're here too!"

Adeq noticed Cattleya behind Natsume and couldn't help but be a little surprised.

As far as he knew, Cattleya had been traveling all over the world.

After he finished his rant and his gaze returned to her, Natsume finally spoke:
"Mr. Adek, didn't you say you were investigating those followers of the War Dragons? Did you find anything?"

Natsume asked directly.

This large-scale protest must have a purpose.

However, Natsume had too little information.

The Eye of the Sky kept a close watch on the protesters, but was surprised to find that there were not a few members of terrorist organizations mixed in.

They were all ordinary people.

Faced with Natsume's puzzled expression, Adek thought for a moment and finally nodded.

Sure enough, even if it's unreliable, after more than ten years of investigation, there must have been some results.

"To be honest, I might not know much about that organization, because what I'm mainly looking for is the hiding place of that Kyurem."

At this point, Adek paused, then continued:
"But I found that those guys also seemed to care a lot about where the Kyurem was."

"In fact, most of my information about Kyurem was obtained by prying it out of the mouths of members of terrorist organizations that I defeated."

"It seems they're saying that Kyurem is involved in an experiment concerning the entire organization, and they must find him."

Adek paused here, then continued:
"It seems to be called some kind of virus, but I'm not sure. Maybe you're a Pokémon professor, so you're more suited to this kind of investigation than I am."

Adeq chose Natsume as his successor precisely because of this.

"Virus. From Kyurem?"

Natsume stroked his chin, his brows furrowing slightly.

Judging from Bangira's behavior, this Kyurem must have some kind of divine authority.

He originally thought that Rainbow N was only after the other party's priesthood.

But now it seems to be more complicated and more important.

"Forget it, let's just go back to Kyurem Cavern."

Natsume sensed something was wrong.

The current protests have attracted the attention of almost the entire United States.

In other areas, Rainbow N could easily pull off some minor tricks.

“The caves of Kyurem?” Adek thought he had misheard.

"It's right behind my mountain. I was planning to tell you when you came to my academy," Natsume said, shrugging with a helpless expression.

Who would have thought that Aldera would be taken to the Hoenn region halfway there and imprisoned for more than half a month?
(End of this chapter)