On the way back, Roy threw the berries he had promised to the Caterpie to the one in the tree.
His movements were much smoother than before, and he noticed that his strength seemed to have increased significantly.
On the way up the mountain, Hana felt Roy’s aura, a glimmer of light in her eyes as if she had seen some treasure.
Roy felt that the way she was looking at him was like looking at prey, as if she wanted to eat him in one bite.
He didn’t look back and quickly climbed up the mountain.
Along the way, many Ghost-type Pokémon followed Roy due to the aura he was emitting.
A Shuppet even rubbed directly against Roy.
Was this the charm of the Extreme Ghost Force after the system modification?
Roy suddenly realized that the Extreme Ghost Force in his hands was still spreading outward, and he hurriedly restrained his aura and Ghost Power, which finally allowed the Shuppet to regain its senses.
Shuppet: “Who am I?
Where am I?”
…
“Old woman, do we really have to let that brat leave Mt.
Pyre?
Is there no other way?”
Inside the hut at the summit of Mt.
Pyre, the elderly man looked at his wife with disappointment.
“Mt.
Pyre cannot accommodate two inheritors, can it?”
“If we force Roy to stay, the Ghost Power on Mt.
Pyre will be diluted, which will definitely delay Phoebe’s inheritance.
You know that as well as I do.”
“But…
sigh!”
The old man opened his mouth several times as if to say something, but seemed to remember, and closed it again, finally turning into a long sigh.
He did not refute his wife again; reason told him that his wife’s decision was the correct one.
“Then…
let’s tell him later.”
“Hmm.”
The Elderly Woman was no more willing to make such a decision.
When they first saved Roy, it was partly because she saw that Roy’s own soul power was very strong—in short, he had a tough life.
This was something they had never expected; how could an ordinary person possess such powerful soul power, and soul power happened to be a necessary condition for training Ghost Power.
Plus, at that time, Phoebe’s parents had just been sent to Mt.
Pyre by his parents because of the Spirit World, and Phoebe also lacked a playmate.
They kept Roy, and neither of them ever used Roy as some kind of manual laborer; at that time, they only let Roy watch over and clean the tombstones on Mt.
Pyre.
And upon learning that a Litwick was following Roy, they even taught him Ghost Power.
What neither of them expected was that Roy grasped the Ghost Power on the first day and could control the Ghost Power to feed the Litwick that was following behind him.
After two years of getting along, the two elderly people also treated Roy as their own grandson.
Now, proposing that Roy leave was a last resort.
“Old man, look what I brought back for you!”
Roy’s voice came from outside.
Roy pushed open the door, sat down on his own, took out the tobacco he had bought from the market, and wore an expression that said, “Praise me!”
But the old man’s face seemed to have become a bit heavier.
This confused Roy, who had just entered the door.
Theoretically, the old man usually patted him on the shoulder and praised him for finally having a conscience.
But tonight seemed a bit different; the old man stopped mid-sentence, and finally, the Elderly Woman said, “Eat first.”
After the Elderly Woman said this, she suddenly noticed that the Ghost Power on Roy’s body was thicker, and at the same time, it emitted an indescribable feeling.
Had Roy’s Ghost Power improved again?
She looked at her husband; the old man was also frowning, obviously, he also saw that the aura on Roy’s body was not right.
The Ghost Power condensed in Roy’s hands was slightly different from the Ghost Power their family cultivated; it seemed to be more solid.
“Roy, did you train Ghost Power today?”
“Today?
No?”
Roy chose to temporarily hide the matter of the system; it wasn’t that he didn’t trust the two, but such things were really too outrageous to say out loud.
The two did not continue to ask.
“Where is Phoebe?”
“She has already finished eating and went to play with Haunter; don’t worry about her.”
After dinner
“Roy, there are some things we want to tell you.”
After dinner, the elderly man kept Roy behind, looking serious but not knowing how to speak.
Roy looked confused.
Usually, the old man would call him a brat; why was he using his name now?
Plus, the strange reactions of the two old people when he returned, and it was so formal.
Something was wrong!
Something fishy!
The old man hesitated for a long time, finally…
still looking at his wife.
The Elderly Woman rolled her eyes at the old man.
She took out a well-packaged card from the room and handed it to Roy.
An admission letter?
Roy took the hard card handed over by the Elderly Woman.
Printed on it was a picture of a European-style academy building and a gate made of huge marble, which looked very imposing.
Academy: Rustboro Academy
Student: Roy
Rustboro Academy awaits your arrival.
Isn’t this academy in Rustboro City?
Roy remembered that when he played Emerald, there was a teacher at Rustboro Academy.
If you won a battle against him, you could get a Quick Claw item.
The name in the admission welcome column was his own.
Wasn’t he doing just fine at Mt.
Pyre?
Why did they suddenly want him to go to school?
“Roy, do you know the history of Mt.
Pyre?”
Roy looked at the Elderly Woman in confusion, not understanding why she was talking about this.
The Elderly Woman took a sip of hot tea and told Roy the story of Mt.
Pyre and their family unhurriedly.
In the Pokémon world, there exists another different world, which is the Spirit World.
Every region has an entrance connected to the Spirit World.
And Mt.
Pyre is the entrance connecting the Hoenn region and the Spirit World, which is also the reason why the Ghost-type energy on Mt.
Pyre is abundant.
Their family has guarded the entrance of Mt.
Pyre for generations.
Two years ago, Phoebe’s parents discovered that the gate to the Spirit World would open from time to time, often releasing some wronged spirits to harm the human world.
To find out the truth, the two left Phoebe to them and entered the Spirit World on their own, never to come out again.
The Elderly Woman knew that Roy was mature, so she directly stated the truth: the inheritor of Mt.
Pyre is Phoebe, and she is the successor of their family.
At first, it was also strange that Roy could train Ghost Power.
At that time, Phoebe was only 5 years old and could not train Ghost Power, so Roy was able to rely on the rich Ghost-type energy of Mt.
Pyre to train Ghost Power.
But now, the Ghost Power on Mt.
Pyre can no longer meet the needs of the two.
After hearing the Elderly Woman’s explanation, Roy also understood the problem.
If he left Mt.
Pyre, Phoebe would awaken her Ghost Power faster, which is also the reason for the future Ghost-type Elite of Hoenn, Phoebe.
Was that all it was?
He was just thinking about how to tell the two old people that he wanted to go out and wander around to earn some popularity points.
He didn’t expect that he wouldn’t even need to find an excuse now.