No.
Ruins.
Yes.
18: Chapter 18 Dormitory?
No.
Ruins.
Yes.
Teacher Linna left the teaching office and took Roy toward his dormitory, but as they walked, Roy began to feel that something was off.
He remembered Teacher Linna had told him the student dormitories were in a building not far from the teaching block, but now, the two were walking in the exact opposite direction of the dorms.
“Teacher Linna, isn’t the academy dormitory where we just passed by?”
“It is indeed there, but…”
Teacher Linna’s tone was somewhat embarrassed.
Because the academy was worried about Roy being a Ghost-type Pokémon Trainer, and also out of consideration for the other students in the academy, they hadn’t arranged for Roy to stay in the academy’s dormitory area.
Instead, they had arranged Roy’s dormitory in the area next to the academy’s back mountain.
Fine, he was being treated differently after all.
From the journey from Mt.
Pyre to here, whether it was the reaction of the Bug Catcher and the Scar-faced Man being scared out of their wits, or Officer Jenny Liya warning him not to release his Ghost-type Pokémon in the city, and now even being unable to live with other students—all of this made Roy feel that people’s misunderstanding of Ghost-type Pokémon was truly too deep, and it was really hard to gain popularity points.
After walking for about another twenty minutes, the outline of a mountain appeared before Roy.
If he hadn’t been told, Roy would have thought they had already walked out of the academy.
“We’re here.
This is the academy’s back mountain.”
Roy’s dormitory was the somewhat dilapidated house in front of him; it was a warehouse from the old campus of Rustboro Academy.
It was hard to imagine such a battle-damaged building inside the European-style academy, and Roy’s expression suddenly turned solemn.
Standing beside him, Teacher Linna spoke up, introducing his accommodation to Roy with embarrassment.
Mainly, Roy was a normal person, whether based on his behavior just now or his attitude toward her, and he shouldn’t be treated differently.
Finally, Teacher Linna clenched her fists, made up her mind, and said to Roy: “I will report your dormitory situation to the principal and have him move you to our class’s male dormitory.”
“No need, Teacher Linna.
I’m a person who prefers quiet.
This place is actually quite good, and it’s a single room.
I’ll just stay here.”
Roy didn’t care.
A single dormitory was good—a single room—even if it was a bit dilapidated.
But as someone who had lived in a coffin, would he care about such things?
Seeing that Roy really didn’t mind, Teacher Linna let out a long sigh of relief.
She couldn’t guarantee what the condition inside the warehouse was like, after all, it had been abandoned for a long time.
What Roy didn’t say was that his solemn expression just now wasn’t because he was dissatisfied with the dilapidated state of the dormitory, but because he had unexpectedly sensed that the Ghost Power here was surprisingly dense.
It was not even worse than Mt.
Pyre?
What on earth was going on?
Roy walked to the room and pushed open the dilapidated and heavy wooden door that looked like it could fall off at any moment.
Inside, there were still many miscellaneous items that were no longer needed.
By comparison, the dilapidated wooden door was actually the only decent piece of furniture in the room.
If you walked a little further past the warehouse, you could reach the back mountain area, but it had now been sealed off with barbed wire.
Had some accident happened?
To be sealed off like this?
Teacher Linna explained to Roy that this place used to be a small logistics warehouse for the academy’s back mountain, but ever since that incident, this entire area of the back mountain had been sealed off, and the small warehouse had been abandoned.
“That incident?” Roy asked, puzzled.
Teacher Linna suddenly lowered her voice and said: “Legend has it that a girl at the academy once committed suicide because of unrequited love, which causes sounds to come from the back mountain every late night.”
“Previously, the academy specifically hired several Gym Leader Level Trainers and a Quasi-Elite Dark-type Trainer to help investigate, but they never returned.
To this day, they have neither been seen alive nor dead.”
Roy scoffed at such urban legends, believing it was mostly made up by the academy to scare students from running to the back mountain.
But when he heard that several Dark-type Pokémon Trainers had gone in and never come out, he keenly sensed the suspicious point: even Gym Level Trainers couldn’t make it out alive?
Could it be that the urban legend Teacher Linna just told was true?
And what was going on with the dense Ghost Power here?
A host of questions swirled in Roy’s mind.
Duskull jumped out of the Poké Ball, looked at the surrounding environment, and excitedly passed through the walls.
Teacher Linna was startled by Roy’s Duskull, but seeing that it had no intention of hurting anyone, it was likely just out of curiosity about the new environment.
“Roy, you should pay attention usually and don’t let it go around scaring people.”
“Mhm, don’t worry, Teacher.
They are all good children and are very obedient.”
Teacher Linna thought: ‘Good children?
I don’t believe a word of it.’
Duskull had its hands behind its back, hunched over, passing through the walls back and forth, playing to its heart’s content.
“Then, Student Roy, I will help you tidy up the dormitory.
In a while, we still need to go and collect your school uniform and textbooks.”
Teacher Linna rolled up her sleeves and helped Roy tidy up the storage room; she looked like a domestic type who often did housework.
Roy carried out the large items by himself, filtering out the useful ones to keep, and even pulled out a dilapidated mountain bike from the deepest part of the storage room.
Whether it was the pedals or the frame, they didn’t look like they had any problems from the outside, only the chain was a bit rusty, but it seemed like it could still be ridden.
Inside the rim of the wheel, there was a stamped steel mark; the production date was five years ago, and it was engraved with the four large characters “Miracle Bike Shop.”
Wasn’t this the bicycle shop from the game?
It had traveled across the entire map in the game with Roy.
To pass various traps, Roy had practiced his techniques and hand speed hard, but he had transmigrated here before he could clear the game.
“This should be the first-generation mountain bike produced by Miracle Bike Shop.
In terms of age, it might even be older than you.”
Teacher Linna said, looking at the bike Roy had moved out.
“Teacher, does anyone still want this mountain bike?
If not, I’ll take it to ride.”
“Uh…
If you want to take it, go ahead.
Anyway, I don’t think anyone would want it…
right?”
Teacher Linna looked at the creaking old bicycle and said, lacking confidence.
Roy: Obtained a 99% new bicycle from a beauty + 1
Duskull stopped passing through the walls and consciously sat in the front basket; from now on, this would be its spot.
Roy wiped the bike frame until it was shiny, and the bike soul was instantly overjoyed.
However, it felt harder to ride than the “Twenty-Eight” heavy-duty bikes from his previous life, but usually, these bikes were very durable, and the quality of the first generation was at least top-notch.
After simply tidying up the dormitory and throwing out all the useless things, Roy set up a hammock for himself.
Duskull floated from the bike basket to the hammock, fully committed to lying flat.
Watching Roy getting along so well with the two Pokémon.
While Teacher Linna was cleaning the room, Litwick helped her light up the places she couldn’t see, which made Teacher Linna feel a bit at a loss.
“Th…
Thank you.”
Hearing Teacher Linna’s thanks, the flame on Litwick’s head turned into a heart shape.
At this moment, Teacher Linna felt that Ghost-type Pokémon didn’t seem so scary after all.
Roy followed Teacher Linna to collect a set of academy uniforms and the textbooks needed for his courses.