After saying goodbye to Officer Jenny, Roy set off on his journey once again.
Soon it was noon, and Roy casually found a patch of shade to sit down and eat a pokéblock to restore his energy.
He heard movement coming from the bushes not far behind him again.
Although the sound was very faint, Roy heard it clearly.
This time, a Bug Catcher did not jump out.
However, Roy smelled a mixture of blood and a burnt odor in the air.
He sensed that something was wrong.
He stopped moving, maintaining his current posture as if his entire body had completely blended into the surrounding environment.
After a while, a voice that shifted from steady to gruff came from behind the bushes not far away.
“Damn it!
That damned Jenny, don’t let me catch her!”
“Litwick.”
Litwick, which had emerged from Roy’s shoulder, floated to the tree closest to the bushes where the sound came from, and soon drifted back.
The flame on top of Litwick’s head manifested the scene it had seen.
He saw a middle-aged man spraying Potion and other medicines from various bottles and jars onto a gruesome scar on his arm.
“Sss~~~”
The middle-aged man ripped the mask off his face, revealing a face covered in scars.
“It’s a good thing I fooled that girl, otherwise I really would’ve been done for today…
Sss~~~”
The Scar-faced Man’s emphatic tone aggravated the burn on his arm, causing him another bout of agonizing pain, but as soon as he thought about Officer Jenny still being nearby, he quickly stifled his voice.
It looked like this Scar-faced Man was indeed one of the poachers Officer Jenny had mentioned, and the scars on his body were most likely caused by an Arcanine.
However, it seemed he was alone right now.
After some thought, Roy decided he couldn’t pass up an achievement delivered to his doorstep.
He just didn’t know how strong the opponent was; being able to escape from a Gym Level Arcanine meant that while his strength might not be on par with the Arcanine, it wouldn’t be too far off either.
But this wasn’t a Pokémon battle; he didn’t need to defeat the opponent, just control the Scar-faced Man.
Thinking of this, Roy decided to take a gamble.
He was in the dark while the enemy was in the light, and even if he guessed wrong, he could still escape.
However, he hadn’t spotted the Scar-faced Man’s Pokémon, so they were likely in the Poké Balls on the man’s waist.
“It’s up to you, Duskull!”
The released Duskull looked confused.
Was it time to eat again?
Didn’t it just eat?
Eat your head!
It’s time to work!
“Duskull, use Mean Look on that Scar-faced Man later, and Litwick, you…”
After deploying the battle plan, Duskull silently floated to the tree where the man was located.
The single eye within its skull mask turned from red to black, staring straight at the Scar-faced Man.
The Scar-faced Man, who was enduring pain and cursing, suddenly found that his hands couldn’t move, followed by his entire body, except for his eyes which were still fearfully observing his surroundings.
Could it be that he had been discovered?
Just as the Scar-faced Man was thinking of a countermeasure.
A young man walked slowly out of the bushes with his head lowered.
The Scar-faced Man’s fear mainly came from the unknown.
Now that he realized this pretty boy in front of him was the one causing the trouble, the Scar-faced Man was no longer afraid.
It wasn’t that girl Jenny, and he even began to threaten the young man walking toward him:
“Kid, although I don’t know what trick you used, you’d better release me quickly, otherwise when…”
Before the Scar-faced Man could finish his threats, the young man who had been walking slowly suddenly quickened his pace and arrived in front of the Scar-faced Man.
The young man suddenly lifted his head, revealing a face where only half was skin; the other half was just bone, with wisps of flesh and tissue hanging off it, looking exceptionally terrifying.
Added to that were the Will-O-Wisp floating around the youth and a skull mask.
“Return…
return my life…”
While saying this, the youth didn’t forget to reach out and stroke the Scar-faced Man’s stunned face.
“Ghost…
ghost…
a ghost!”
The man, realizing what was happening, was startled by the sight before him.
He wanted to escape, but he couldn’t move at all, and he even forgot to call for the Poké Balls on his waist.
Just like the Bug Catcher’s reaction earlier, the Scar-faced Man had never seen such a scene.
His crotch grew warm, and a foul-smelling yellow liquid flowed out.
Seeing that the operation had gone exceptionally smoothly, Roy sighed in disappointment.
He still had many tricks up his sleeve that he hadn’t used, and the Scar-faced Man had already been scared like this.
The half-faced ghost mask and the Will-O-Wisp were just the result of Litwick manifesting them with the flame on its head.
Roy covered his nose, looking at the man kneeling on the ground in terror with a look of disdain.
Was it that scary?
He was scared into peeing himself already?
If it had been the style Phoebe used to wake him up the morning before last, the man might have been scared to death right here.
Roy directly took the Poké Balls from the man, pressed the locking button in the center, and completely locked them.
Afterward, Duskull tied up the Scar-faced Man.
The Scar-faced Man dared not make a single move the entire time; in his eyes, Roy was completely the incarnation of a vengeful spirit, and Duskull was more like a little ghost following by Roy’s side.
Not feeling assured, Roy took out the Stun Spore he had just gotten from the Bug Catcher and sprinkled it on the Scar-faced Man.
Now the Scar-faced Man couldn’t even speak, and his whole body even began to twitch.
Roy looked in surprise at the bag of yellow powder in his hand.
This was definitely Stun Spore, right?
Ignoring the twitching Scar-faced Man on the ground, Roy picked up the human-face mask that the other had thrown on the ground and examined it carefully.
The texture of the mask was cold and really felt a lot like human skin.
No wonder it could fool Officer Jenny; it turned out there was such technology.
Roy silently put the mask into his space bracelet.
The Scar-faced Man also had a space bracelet on his hand, but it was an old model with fingerprint unlocking, and there weren’t many valuable things inside.
Killing the Scar-faced Man on the ground directly would certainly be possible, but then he thought of his popularity point mission…
After weighing the pros and cons, Roy still decided to leave the Scar-faced Man for Officer Jenny.
Mainly because the Scar-faced Man didn’t really have anything valuable on him, so it was better to exchange him for credit and popularity points.
Now the question was how to notify Officer Jenny.
Should he wait here for her to come back?
As if hearing Roy’s call, Officer Jenny arrived once again, riding her Arcanine.
The scream that had just come from here sounded familiar, and she remembered Roy, whom she had met just a moment ago.
Worried, she had turned back.
She had expected Roy to have fallen into the hands of a criminal, but instead, she saw the bound but still trembling Scar-faced Man and Roy standing far away, covering his nose and waiting for praise.
Officer Jenny could see at a glance what had happened.
The young man in front of her had actually captured the vicious poacher all by himself.
“Officer Jenny, this guy was secretly cursing you in the bushes just now, and he didn’t look like a good person, so I caught him.”
Roy’s reason was very simple:
Officer Jenny, he cursed you!
Officer Jenny gave Roy an approving look, signaling that she would handle the rest.
Afterward, Officer Jenny turned her gaze toward the Scar-faced Man, before she could even sternly reprimand him.
The Scar-faced Man acted as if Officer Jenny was a life-saving straw; his previously twitching body even stopped shaking.
At this moment, the effect of Duskull’s Mean Look ended.
The Scar-faced Man regained his mobility, but because his body was tied up, he struggled to straighten his body and wiggled to kneel in front of Officer Jenny, tearfully confessing his crimes:
“Officer Jenny, those cases at the ranch and the hunting grounds were all done by me, and the cases in Lilycove City were all done by me too.
Please, hurry up and take me away!
I stole the old lady’s panties, I stole the cat’s mung beans…”
In short, all the bad things in the world were done by him; he only begged Officer Jenny to take him away immediately.
At this moment, he only hoped to be as far away from Roy and the skeleton ghost by his side as possible.
It would be best if they threw him into prison and locked him up for a hundred years to let him calm down.
Officer Jenny looked at Roy, confused.
Roy waved his hand, saying, maybe the Scar-faced Man had already realized his mistakes and wanted to become a law-abiding citizen?
Officer Jenny believed this explanation…
as if.