Pokémon Detective Case Files

Chapter 526 All good things must come to an end

Having just awakened, Bictini felt that this very moment was the most pleasant moment in his life in the last hundred years.

It was like a sweet and blissful dream. In the dream, a napkin was tucked around its neck, and it sat upright at a table laden with sumptuous food. As the elegant music signaling the start of the meal began, its hands didn't even need to touch the cutlery. Simply relaxing its body and leaning back on the soft cushions of the incredibly comfortable chair, which could turn a person into a limp corpse, all the inexhaustible, delicious, and visually appealing food, each dish unique, would be automatically fed into its open mouth—

If I could, I would love to keep having this dream forever.

Its drowsy eyelids couldn't fully open yet, but past memories were slowly flowing into the mind of this mythical Pokémon as its brain recovered.

Yes, I remember that before I fell asleep, I was in the Tower of Heaven at night, and I was rescued by a human named Hugo. Then I watched him start a battle with a red old man.

Although I fell asleep during the battle, when I woke up, my back and legs were no longer sore, and I could jump three feet high. The fatigue from being imprisoned by the sage Yoggs had completely disappeared, and I felt full of energy.

That was a victory energy that used to require flying around for ages to painstakingly collect, and it was fully restored after just one night's sleep—was it arranged by Mr. Hugo? He really is a kind person.

As he was thinking about these things, the little guy suddenly twitched his tiny nose.

Why do I smell sand? Could it be that a challenger skilled in sandstorm tactics has arrived?

No, if it were merely an environmental change of this magnitude, it wouldn't have woken up at this time, given its tendency to slumber for decades or even centuries. More than the smell, the unique intuition of a Mythical Pokémon was clearly telling it that something terrible was about to happen.

There is no banquet that doesn't end. Accompanied by a cold sweat running down his back, Victini opened his eyes with trepidation.

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The reason why Dr. Yew, the elf scholar from Deer Town, was running through a dusty wasteland on the outskirts of the city was because when she was drinking coffee in her research institute and scrolling through her phone to check the latest disaster warnings from the League, the institute's door was suddenly knocked on violently.

When she opened the door, her old friend was standing outside.

This female friend is actually my junior trainer.

Although she didn't collect all the gym badges on her journey, this junior lady collected love, which was infinitely more precious.

After falling in love and ending her adventure, she chose a stable job at the Pokémon Center and officially settled in Deer Town after getting married. Naturally, she became neighbors with Yew, who had opened his research institute in the same town.

Perhaps influenced by the beautiful memories the couple had during their pre-wedding trip, their daughter still grew up to be an excellent Pokémon trainer, even though the husband later went to work in another city and was away from home for a long time.

Not only did she complete the journey her mother hadn't finished, collect all the badges, and win the League Selection Tournament that year, but she also achieved numerous victories in battle tournaments across the country. This allowed countless trainers and viewers to hear for the first time that Unova also had a place called Deer Town. As the Pokémon Professor who was stationed in this girl's hometown and guided her to receive her first starter Pokémon, Yew felt extremely honored.

However, after that, seemingly due to a slight change in mindset, this excellent trainer, like her parents, easily gave up on continuing to improve in the field of battle and is now wholeheartedly pursuing a career in the film industry.

Although both her old friends and herself were initially worried about Touko's decision, regardless of the box office performance of the girl's film, the fact that she is now able to make a profit and loss is already quite remarkable.

As the saying goes, concern leads to confusion. Seeing her old friend's obviously anxious expression, even though she wasn't a detective, Red Bean Tree had already guessed that what the other person was worried about must be related to her daughter, Douzi.

Sure enough, the old friend who came to visit brought terrible news she had heard from her neighbor.

It is said that in order to resist the terrible hurricane that appeared out of nowhere and was about to sweep across the coastal areas of the Unova region, the League was forced to urgently dispatch several elite trainers to deal with the legendary Pokémon that were at the core of the hurricane. And Douzi, who should have been working on her inexplicable business in the studio in Raven City, also inexplicably appeared on the list of trainers.

The news came from Douzi's childhood friend, Bai Lu, who had recently decided to become Dr. Yew's assistant.

Lu heard about it from their childhood friend Hei Lian through her instant messaging device.

Because he had already passed the gym leader test, Black Lian was currently working with the league's disaster relief command to travel around.

Just this morning, he received a mission in Tangcao Town, which involved guiding the orderly evacuation of local residents and setting up supply boxes in the outskirts of the town where residents had already evacuated, to assist the trainers who were responsible for blocking the legendary Pokémon on the front lines.

At first, Hei Lian didn't know who the trainer who had taken on such a difficult task was. After arranging the supplies, he immediately began the evacuation. It wasn't until all the tasks were finally completed, and as time went on, Landorus was getting closer and closer to the city, that he went to the outskirts of the city to observe the situation out of curiosity. Only then did he finally discover that the so-called elite trainer who was dealing with the legendary Pokémon was actually Douzi.

"Given Kuroren's personality, he wouldn't remain indifferent in this situation, would he?"

Professor Juniper, who also lives in Deer Town, is familiar with the personality of this young man, Clown. Although he has grown a lot after his travel adventures, not only did he obtain the qualification of Gym Leader, but his original image as a cold and data-driven trainer was also completely changed. However, according to Professor Juniper's observation, Clown's essence has not changed.

He remains the boy next door who skillfully hides his passionate emotions beneath a veneer of rationality—someone like him would never stand idly by when his friend is in danger.

"Hei Lian did try that, and that's why he and Bai Lu told us about it." The old friend paced anxiously in the entrance hall of the research institute, stamping his feet. "The child tried to help Dou Zi, but despite his best efforts, he couldn't even get into the sandstorm's area!"

An ominous premonition flashed through the yew tree's mind—

In fact, the reason why Blacklink failed to enter the sandstorm's range was largely because it spent too much time carrying out the previous task.

The sandstorm whipped up by the land cloud gradually expanded as the erosion area widened. Douzi, having arrived in front of the land cloud when the tornado was still in its nascent stage, was thus less affected by the storm's impact. Under Victini's unwitting protection, Douzi and the spirits beneath her gradually adapted to the increasing intensity of the sandstorm—a perfect storm of favorable conditions.

However, the two people at the research institute in Luzi Town were unaware of this inside story.

But their assessment of the danger Douzi was facing at that moment was correct.

Then, Professor Yew's friend raised his voice emphatically: "Blackie is practically a Gym Leader now, but even he can't get close to that hurricane! That guy! Right in front of that terrifying legendary Pokémon!"

"Wait, let's calm down first." Yew supported her junior's shoulder. "Touko isn't the kind of child who would fight even if she had no chance of winning. Since she made this decision, there must be a reason that gives her confidence."

Professor Pokémon then analyzed the situation observed from Blacklink's side, noting that Douzi had been fighting the legendary Pokémon for at least a while and was prepared to retreat further and use the supply boxes hidden in the city for a protracted battle.

This shows that the girl was at least in a state of composure in this seemingly hopeless battle.

However, Douzi's mother's worries did not disappear. She knew her daughter was certainly a smart child, but—

She sighed. "Douzi, that child, although she's quick-witted and learns things very fast, is particularly prone to getting carried away by things that seem meaningless to others—that's why she went to make movies, and later, in a moment of impulsiveness, she bought Yuxi Mansion for a similar reason. Although these things eventually turned out to be good things, to put it bluntly, it was mostly just luck. If no one hadn't helped that child at those crucial moments when she made impulsive choices, she probably would have suffered a terrible setback."

If it were just a matter of falling down and suffering a loss, that would be fine, but what happened in Tangcao Town was on a completely different level from those leisurely situations.

Before that powerful legendary spirit—if she made one wrong step, she might never see her daughter again.

"Douzi definitely needs help right now."

Yewwood had no objection to her old friend's judgment. In terms of judging people, this younger person, who was already married and had children, was far more mature than herself, not to mention that the person being evaluated was her daughter.

"But ultimately, setting aside our respective identities and positions, we're just two ordinary people in a neighboring town. Although Tangcao Town isn't far from here, and we could probably get there quickly, if even Hei Lian, who's already there, can't help, I..."

They couldn't even get into the disaster site where the sandstorm was, so what help could they possibly give Douzi?

Dr. Yew suddenly looked behind the office, as if he had really thought of something.