Elf: Start your slow-paced life after becoming a farmer.

"what?"

"what is going on!"

"Why did that weird Poké Ball take my Pokémon away?!"

The trainers in the battle arena immediately erupted in excitement. Can a trainer who has lost his Pokémon still be called a trainer?

Amidst the commotion, Carl remained calmly standing in place, letting the Mewtwo Ball take in Urshifu and Serperior.

Mewtwo frowned at Carl: "Now that I've taken all your Pokémon, why haven't you changed your mood at all? As expected, your feelings for your Pokémon are fake too."

“No.” Carl crossed his arms and shook his head. “You don’t actually think that the Poké Balls you made can trap my Pokémon, do you?”

Before Mewtwo could refute, it was met with a series of shattering sounds.

All six Pokémon, led by Urshifu, broke through the Mewtwo Ball and returned to Carl's side.

"Just kidding," Karl said with a helpless expression. "You didn't actually take it seriously, did you?"

Upon hearing Carl's words, Mewtwo's last shred of reason vanished, and an almost inexhaustible surge of psychic power erupted from its body, instantly causing a dense network of cracks to appear on the ground around it.

"Very well, human, you have thoroughly angered me." Mewtwo's eyes shone brightly with blue light. "I'll show you why I am the strongest Pokémon in the world."

As Mewtwo unleashed its full psychic power, a gust of wind rushed towards Carl, causing his clothes to flutter wildly.

"The strongest?" Karl grinned, a hint of fanaticism in his eyes. "Martial Arts Bear Master, Dark Nether Strike!"

Carl's voice traveled with the wind to the ears of the Martial Arts Ursa Master. The Martial Arts Ursa Master looked sharply at Mewtwo, who was releasing its pressure, and lowered his shoulders and elbows, assuming the simplest starting stance.

The next second, under the watchful eyes of all the trainers, Urshifu transformed into a black streak of light and rushed towards Mewtwo.

"It's useless. I am the strongest Pokémon." Mewtwo let out a disdainful sneer and raised his hand to create a psychic barrier that most Pokémon could not break through.

At this moment, Urshifu had come to within three meters of Mewtwo. It took another step forward and delivered a simple uppercut from bottom to top.

To the trainers, Urshifu's seemingly ordinary punch was completely incapable of breaking through the barrier released by Mewtwo.

However, Shinji noticed that the martial arts master's right fist had turned completely black, an effect that only appears when evil attribute energy is compressed to the extreme.

Then, to Mewtwo's horrified gaze, Urshifu's fist pierced through the barrier it had erected without any resistance and landed on its soft belly.

The extremely compressed evil energy surged into Mewtwo's body, and this heavy punch almost made Mewtwo's eyeballs bulge out of their sockets.

In that instant, Chao dreamed of many memories it thought it had long forgotten.

When Mewtwo regained consciousness, it found itself lying on the ground, all its rage and arrogance shattered by the punch from Urshifu.

Feeling the intense pain coursing through its body, Mewtwo looked at the sky filled with dark clouds and once again recalled the first few questions it had asked when it was first born into this world.

"who am I?"

"where am I?"

What should I do?

Carl looked at Mewtwo, who seemed to be questioning his existence, and shouted at Pikachu, which had appeared at his feet at some point, "Alright, Mew, stop playing around and revert to your original form."

"dream?"

Upon hearing the name, Mewtwo immediately regained some of its energy, but when it followed Carl's gaze, it didn't see the pink figure that only existed in the data, but an ordinary Pikachu.

"You human are really strange." Mewtwo looked at Carl picking up the Pikachu and said weakly, "Those people have been chasing Mew for so many years and haven't seen it. How could it possibly be here?"

Seeing that Pikachu was still pretending, Carl casually took out an antique mirror from his backpack. After being reflected in the mirror, the "Pikachu" in his arms immediately transformed into a small pink kitten.

The dreamlike creature, now in its true form, tilted its head and looked at Karl with a puzzled expression: "Mew?"

This human actually has a revealing mirror?

But how exactly did he find out about me?

Chapter 93 Unraveling the Knot

"Dream! It really is you!"

After Mew revealed its true form, Mewtwo, who had been lying on the ground, immediately struggled to sit up.

If Mewtwo were to choose the person or Pokémon it cares about most in the world, it would definitely choose Mew.

This is because, since its birth in this world, Mewtwo's greatest obsession has been to defeat Mew, its "original form," and become a unique being.

Mewtwo didn't want Mew to see it in its current disheveled state. It struggled to stand up, straightened its back, and stared intently at Mew in Carl's arms.

"Mew?" Mew looked at the Pokémon in front of it with a puzzled expression. It didn't understand why the other Pokémon was standing up and looking at it despite being seriously injured. Wouldn't it be better to lie down and heal?

Mewtwo stared at it for a long time, then let out a deep sigh, its body relaxed, and it almost fell to the ground.

Upon seeing this, Urshifu immediately stepped forward, grabbed Mewtwo who still had a tense expression, and helped it sit down on the ground.

The punch that Urshifu just threw at Mewtwo used a full 70% of its strength, and Mewtwo happens to be a single Psychic-type Pokémon that is weak to Dark.

It thought Mewtwo would use Teleport to dodge, but who would have thought that Mewtwo would be so arrogant as to withstand its Dark Strike head-on.

Doesn't it know that the first few rounds of a Pokémon battle are generally about testing each other out?

If Mewtwo knew what Urshifu was thinking at that moment, it would definitely curse him out.

Before Mewtwo was knocked out by Urshifu's punch, its mental journey can be roughly divided into three stages.

The first stage is before Martial Arts Master Xiong begins to act.

In the first phase, based on Urshifu's appearance and Carl's name for it, Mewtwo determined that Urshifu was most likely a Fighting-type Pokémon.

As a Psychic-type Pokémon, Mewtwo is least afraid of Fighting-type Pokémon, so at this stage, Mewtwo has plenty of confidence in winning.

The second stage is the period before the Martial Arts Bear Master takes action and breaks through the barrier.

After Urshifu made its move, Mewtwo keenly sensed a trace of evil energy emanating from Urshifu.

After realizing this, Mewtwo praised Urshifu's control in its heart, but also felt a slight unease. This is why Mewtwo used its psychic powers to create a barrier in front of it.

Mewtwo believes that the barrier it constructs using its psychic powers can definitely block most attacks in the world. Even if the barrier fails, it can use teleportation to dodge the attack before the barrier breaks.

The third phase is the period from when Urshifu ignores the barrier and gets close to Mewtwo until Mewtwo is knocked out by Urshifu with one punch.

When Mewtwo realized that the barrier it had built with its psychic powers was useless against Urshifu, Urshifu's fist, enveloped in extremely compressed Dark-attribute energy, came within a finger's width of Mewtwo's abdomen.

Mewtwo had considered that its barrier would be shattered, and it had also considered that Urshifu would be blocked by its barrier, but it never imagined that Urshifu could ignore its barrier.

Is this reasonable? Is this scientific?

If Mewtwo knew that Urshifu only used seven-tenths of its strength in that punch, it might feel even worse than it does now.

"Mewtwo, in your opinion, only the strong have the right to speak, right?" Carl, carrying Mew, came to Mewtwo and plopped down on the open ground in front of it. "So now, do I have the right to speak with you as an equal?"

Mewtwo looked into Carl's clear chestnut eyes and lowered its head slightly, saying, "Of course, I'm just a loser now, you can do whatever you want with me."

"Really?" Carl looked directly into Mewtwo's purple eyes. "Then if I wanted to capture you, would you be willing?"

Mewtwo's breath hitched. It instinctively wanted to refuse, but it knew very well that with the strength that Carl had shown so far, it would not be difficult to forcibly subdue it.

Seeing Mewtwo struggling like this, Carl smiled, his voice carrying a hint of mockery: "You see, according to your logic, the strong can do whatever they want to the weak, just like you did to Nurse Joy before."

"But when you are in a weak position, you are unwilling to accept the domination of the strong. Can you tell me why?"

At this point, Mewtwo had completely entered Carl's rhythm. It abandoned vague philosophical questions like "Who am I?" and "Where am I?" and began to think about the questions Carl had posed to it.

Seeing Mewtwo lost in thought, Karl immediately pressed on, saying, "I think the key to this problem is that whether it's you, Nurse Joy, or any other creature with independent thinking abilities, you are all independent individuals."

"An independently existing individual?" Mewtwo vaguely understood what Carl wanted to say, but it couldn't express it in concrete terms.

“Yes, an independent individual.” Karl paused. “Mewtwo, you must be a clone of Mew, or to be more precise, you are a product of Mew’s genes and bioengineering.”

Upon hearing Carl's words, all the Pokémon around him looked at Mewtwo in shock, while Mewtwo wore an expression that seemed to say, "How did you know this?"

Mewtwo, who was almost in heaven from being pampered by Carl's skillful cat-petting techniques, looked at Carl with a puzzled expression after hearing his words, and then cast a curious glance at Mewtwo.

“...Yes.” Mewtwo nodded with difficulty.

"So you're a clone of Mew?" Carl's voice reached Mewtwo's ears again, the question so heavy that Mewtwo lowered its head even further.

At this time, Mewtwo had not yet found its place in the world, and subconsciously believed that it was a clone of Mew.

Therefore, Mewtwo believes that as long as it defeats Mew, it can take its place in this world, but is that really the case?

As Carl's question continued to echo in his mind, Mewtwo subconsciously began to curl up, just as it had when it was first born into this world.

Just then, Carl spoke firmly to Mewtwo, saying, "No! Mewtwo, you are not some lousy clone!"

Mewtwo suddenly raised its head and looked at Carl, its purple eyes, which had been shrouded in some kind of mist, had never been so bright.

Carl looked into Mewtwo's moist purple eyes: "Even if a thousand or even ten thousand people have told you that you are a clone of Mew, you will always be you, an individual existing independently in this world, a Pokémon named Mewtwo!"

"I can only be myself?" Mewtwo frowned instinctively. "But I'm a product of genetic engineering, I..."

“Man-made Pokémon have always existed in this world. You’re not the first, and you probably won’t be the last.” Karl thought for a moment and then added, “In a sense, the world we live in is actually just a product created by some alpaca. Humans and Pokémon are essentially no different from soil and air.”

"Mwah!!!"

Dream was shocked. This audacious human actually called that person an alpaca! What blasphemy!

"Sorry, I just blurted it out." Karl raised his hand to cover Dream's mouth. "So, Dream, you know about that person's existence too."

"Whether human or Pokémon, we were all children born into this world at the beginning." Carl summarized this "talk therapy": "What determines who we are is not our genes, but the things we experience and the choices we make that make up who you and I are today."

“…I understand.” Mewtwo remained silent for a long time, then said with relief, “Thank you, Carl.”

"As for the rest," Karl turned to look at the trainers who were leading their Pokémon and watching him and Mewtwo from afar, then looked at the cloned Pokémon that had recovered, "handle it according to your plan."

"it is good."

Chapter 94 Dreamlike: How come he carries that man's aura?!

“I will erase those humans’ memories of the new island and send them back to that dock,” Mewtwo said, glancing at Carl.

Seeing that Carl seemed to have no objections, Mewtwo continued, "As for me, and those Pokémon I created..."

Mewtwo hesitated before saying, "I will ask for their opinions, and if they are willing, I will help them settle down somewhere in this world."

In fact, after resolving its inner conflict, Mewtwo realized just how wrong it had been to clone Pokémon.

But since it has already happened, it will also take responsibility for the Pokémon it created.

Before anyone knew it, the leaden clouds that had covered the sky had completely dissipated, and the warm sunlight spread across the new island. Mewtwo felt the warmth of the sunlight on its body, and as if waking from a dream, it looked up at the sky. Its rebirth as "Mewtwo" quietly began from this moment.

The next moment, Mewtwo closed its eyes, and its invisible and intangible psychic power began to spread across the entire new island like ripples.

The invited trainers, including Shinji and Ash, and their Pokémon all felt a bit dizzy, and their memories of New Island quietly faded from their minds.

After erasing the memories of all trainers and Pokémon, Mewtwo continued to increase the intensity of its psychic power, and one trainer after another, along with their Pokémon, disappeared from the spot.

Carl knew that Mewtwo was using teleportation to send them back to where they belonged.

"Mew?" Dreamy broke free from Karl's "clutches" and looked at him with a puzzled expression.

"Mew is asking you how you figured out that Pikachu was its own," Mewtwo translated for Carl while maintaining a steady output of its psychic powers.

“Mew, as a legendary mythical Pokémon, you shouldn’t have a gender, right?” Karl then explained, “But Pikachu does have genders. Magnetic Pikachu has a heart-shaped tail, while male Pikachu has a flat tail, and yours is round.”

Dream then showed a look of sudden realization, then frowned and pointed at Karl's backpack with its little paw.

"You want to ask me why I have the Revealing Mirror?" Karl spread his hands and said, "I bought it from an auction house."

Upon hearing this, a sly glint flashed in Dream's little blue eyes, and she called out to Karl, "Mew?"

"Mew said, 'Could you borrow this mirror to play with for a while? It will return it to you later,'" Mewtwo translated.

Carl looked at Dream with suspicion. It wasn't that Carl was stingy, but rather that although the pink kitten in front of him looked adorable, only it probably knew how long it had actually lived.

Carl didn't know exactly how long "a period of time" meant by Dream. What if Dream meant decades or even centuries? What would be the difference between that and simply giving Dream the Mirror of Revealing.

Carl also wanted to try using the Revealing Mirror to bring the Land Cloud, which could bless the land, back to the farm.

But then Carl thought, "Hey, if Dream becomes a land cloud, could it bless the land?"

“Dream, you took this mirror because you want to go play with the Three Cloud Gods, right?” Karl asked bluntly. “I want to know, after you transform into Earth Cloud, can you bless the land?”

"Moo?" Dream circled around him curiously a few times, as if trying to find something special about Karl.

As a true veteran Pokémon, Mew has observed many humans up close, but the last time it saw a human like Carl, who was well-versed in all sorts of secret information, was more than three hundred years ago in the Greenland region.

Huh?

After observing for a moment, Dream suddenly sensed a very faint but very familiar aura emanating from Karl.

This aura is exactly the same as that guy from over three hundred years ago. Could it be that this human is a descendant of that guy?

Realizing this, Dream focused her gaze on Carl's face, as if trying to discern something.