Weedle closed its beady eyes, quietly waiting for the embrace of death.
After a while,
the expected pain did not come.
Instead, the part where its head connected to its body suddenly felt loose, and then a pair of hands gently stroked its body and applied something to it.
Weedle opened its beady eyes and discovered that the human in front of it had no intention of killing it; instead, he was applying something to its body.
Accompanied by a cool, itchy sensation coming from its wounds, Weedle finally understood that the other party was treating it.
“Iya, iya.”
Roy’s Ghost Power could only understand the language of Ghost-type Pokémon; as for what Weedle meant, that was beyond his understanding.
He assumed Weedle was hungry, so he took a packet of energy bars and berries that Yuki had given him from his space bracelet and stuffed them directly into Weedle’s mouth.
Roy: “Eat up.”
He used the energy bars and berries to plug Weedle’s “iya-iya”-ing mouth.
It turned out that after Weedle closed its eyes, Roy had picked up the key dropped by the Bug Catcher on the ground, unlocked the electric collar restraining Weedle, and applied the Potion Yuki had prepared for him onto Weedle’s body.
“Alright, that should be about it.”
Weedle, whose eyes had been numb, felt much better after Roy finished applying the Potion.
It let Roy hold it and place it on a tree branch.
“You should go.
It’s best if you return to your original group and don’t get caught by that kind of person again.”
Having said that, Roy turned and walked toward the main road, leaving behind a cool silhouette.
Watching Roy’s departing figure, Weedle was unwilling to look away for a long time, as if it wanted to remember him forever.
To be his Pokémon, it would probably be very happy…
right?
Comparing the Bug Catcher and Roy…
well, there was simply no comparison.
Weedle looked enviously at the Litwick on Roy’s shoulder.
Swallowing the energy bar and Oran Berry that Roy had stuffed into its mouth, Weedle dragged its body, which had recovered seven or eight tenths of its strength, up to the highest point of the tree trunk.
It felt a surge of energy within its body calling out to it.
Finally, after climbing to a branch near the top, a light of evolution appeared on Weedle’s body.
After the light faded, Weedle had successfully evolved into Kakuna.
Of course, Roy didn’t know this; he was currently pondering his system.
Roy was surprised to find that the ‘Hype Value’ on his system had changed from 1 to 2.
He was a bit confused; he had clearly only scared the Bug Catcher just now, could it have been provided by that Weedle?
Can Pokémon also provide Hype Value for him?
Roy had absolutely no intention of capturing that Weedle.
Although Weedle’s talent was decent, it didn’t mesh with his abilities, and how to raise it after capturing it was another issue.
Compared to other types of Pokémon, raising Ghost-type Pokémon didn’t require spending money on berries, nutritional supplements, Pokémon pokéblocks, or things like that; his Litwick and Duskull only needed to absorb his Ghost Power every day.
With his current financial resources, he had absolutely no resources to raise a Bug-type Pokémon.
Being able to afford to raise Litwick and Duskull relied entirely on his Ghost Power.
He wasn’t the type of person who liked to capture a bunch of Pokémon and then just leave them in their Poké Balls without caring for them.
Once again, bashing that jerk from the Journeys arc.
…
“Why aren’t I there yet!”
Roy swore that in the future, he would definitely capture a mount so he wouldn’t have to walk so exhaustingly.
But were there any Ghost-type Pokémon suitable as mounts?
Spectrier was nice; with a base speed of 130, it should run very fast.
But that was Calyrex’s mount, and he didn’t seem likely to be able to beat Calyrex.
Giratina wasn’t out of the question either; it was a Legendary Pokémon, at least in terms of prestige, it was stronger than Spectrier.
Which one should he choose?
It was so hard to choose…
While daydreaming, Roy continued walking toward Lilycove City.
Fortunately, thanks to the system’s improvements, his stamina was still quite abundant.
“You up ahead, stop!”
He had just sent off a Bug Catcher, and now someone else had come to cause trouble?
Roy turned around.
He saw a policewoman wearing a uniform, with wavy hair and a curvaceous figure, riding on top of an Arcanine that was burning with flames.
Is this Officer Jenny?
This was the first time Roy had seen an Officer Jenny in this world.
In that godforsaken place like Mt.
Pyre, let alone an Officer Jenny, he usually couldn’t even see a traffic cop.
Whether in the games or the anime, the Jenny Family and the Joy Family monopolized the police stations and the medical industry of the Pokémon Centers in the Pokémon world, respectively.
They were the true noble families of the Pokémon world.
In reality, although the Jenny Family was powerful, they hadn’t managed to completely monopolize the police force; there were still other people working in the police stations, though Officer Jenny’s rank and position tended to be higher.
Roy subconsciously scanned her with the system’s identification function.
System Scan
Pokémon: Arcanine
Level: 45 (Gym Level)
Gender: Female
Ability: Justified (When hit by a Dark-type move, its Attack is raised due to its sense of justice.)
Moves: Tackle, Fire Fang, Flare Blitz, Helping Hand, Crunch, Payback, Agility, Ember, Roar, Bite, Glare, Flame Wheel, Take Down
Held Item: Charcoal
Egg Moves: Double Kick, Double-Edge, Covet
IVs: 19
TM/Move Tutor: Protect, Dig, Endure
The Arcanine’s level had already reached 45; this was already a Gym Level Pokémon.
Can’t mess with that, can’t mess with that.
He, Roy, was a law-abiding good citizen.
Roy put on what he considered to be a sunny smile, obediently stopped, and sensibly handed over his ID card after Officer Jenny walked up.
Officer Jenny took the ID card, but at first glance, she was attracted by the four characters “Mt.
Pyre” in the address.
She remembered that Mt.
Pyre was clearly to the west of Lilycove City, and it was a graveyard for Pokémon after they died, a place where souls rested.
Especially since the specific address on the ID card was the summit of Mt.
Pyre, not a villager from the towns around Mt.
Pyre.
Recalling the legends in her family about that mysterious family on Mt.
Pyre, Officer Jenny concluded that the identity of the boy in front of her shouldn’t be simple.
However, as long as the other party didn’t cause trouble, it had nothing to do with her.
Mainly because Roy didn’t look like a bad person, and stopping Roy was just a routine check.
After carefully comparing the portrait on it and confirming it was indeed Roy, she returned the ID card to him and instructed:
“The poaching gangs in the forest have been very rampant recently.
You and your Pokémon should be careful.
It’s best to just follow this main road straight ahead, and that leads to Lilycove City.”
After Roy thanked her, he watched Officer Jenny ride the Arcanine and leave quickly.
The key was that the flames on the Arcanine wouldn’t burn Officer Jenny.
Having a mount really makes a difference.
Poaching gangs were those who specialized in capturing wild Pokémon in Pokémon ecological zones or engaging in other illegal activities; most of them were desperate outlaws.
It could be said that they were the predecessors of most members of hunter organizations.
Currently, in the Hoenn region, there were no villainous organizations like Team Magma and Team Aqua yet.