Not a trainer this time

After the story ended, the atmosphere in the air was extremely silent for a while, and no one spoke first.

Naoki recalled what he had seen in the Fear Cave before. In that small space were extremely smooth stone beds, tables and benches that had been polished.

He could almost imagine the original scene in his mind.

Men from other places found the cave with their ergui and planned to settle there.

Together, they found large, uneven stones on the mountain and moved them back to the cave. With the expectation of a new life, they carefully polished the surface of the stones smooth.

A bed for sleeping, a table for eating, a stool for resting...

Until the arrival of the three greedy Pokémon broke this peaceful life.

The man lost his life in this accident, leaving Egui Pun alone in the cave full of memories.

At this moment, Naoki finally knew why Ergui was so sad when he asked her if she had always lived alone here.

"well."

The old man in front of him let out a distant sigh: "The real history is completely opposite to the legends known to everyone in the village. What would happen if they knew that the three companions they buried generously were bad Pokémon? I can’t even imagine it.”

No one can guarantee whether he will be regarded as a heretic and be persecuted again.

Naoki nodded: "I understand."

The old man's eyes swept over the Pokémon around him again. He was about to say something when the door to the room was suddenly pushed open.

"boom!"

A little boy about four or five years old and an older girl walked straight in.

The two people who were eavesdropping had angry faces: "This is too much! People in the village treat ghosts like this!"

Seeing the two of them, the old man and Xuezi were shocked. They quickly stepped forward and pulled them in. Then they took a closer look outside and saw that no one else heard what they just said. They breathed a sigh of relief and closed the door again.

Xuezi covered the girl's mouth and warned: "Keep your voice down, don't tell anyone!"

The girl was furious: "But...but!"

The boy was silent and didn't speak, but judging from his expression, he must also be very angry.

The old man looked helpless: "It's not a good boy to eavesdrop on adults!"

The siblings lowered their heads guiltily.

The old man sighed: "Well, I originally planned to wait until you grow up before telling you, but now that you have heard it, keep this truth firmly in your heart and never tell it to the outside world!"

Yukiko looked at Naoki: "Sorry for making you laugh, these two children are my granddaughter Danyu and grandson Wuli."

Naoki looked at the two unknown people in front of him and nodded, which was regarded as saying hello to them.

After calming down his granddaughter and grandson, the old man looked at Naoki and said to him:

"Looking at you, you are a very powerful trainer, right? In that case, then go and use the trainer's method to subdue Ergui and take it away from this place!"

Hearing this, Naoki Shin said that it would be okay if Ergui was a wild Pokémon, but looking at it now, it is obvious that Ergui is not a wild Pokémon.

He is willing to take Egui Pun away from here to start a new life, but it is not certain whether E Kui Pun is willing to leave this place full of memories.

"I will try hard." Naoki said.

"Then it's up to you." The old man nodded: "If you need help with anything, you can come to us. It can be regarded as helping to make up for the villagers' debt to Eguifen!"

Naoki nodded, then stood up and said goodbye to the old man, turned around and left here, preparing to visit Eguifen again.

But before he could walk out the door, the two children named Dan Yu and Wu Li chased him out.

"Uncle!" Dan Yu shouted.

Naoki's face darkened. He didn't seem that old, right? !

Dan Yu turned around and looked at his younger brother who was hiding behind him, with a look of hatred on his face, and then roared loudly at him: "Wuli, you coward, tell me what you have to say!"

Wuli then stepped forward hesitantly, and then mustered up the courage to ask: "Um, are you a trainer?"

Naoki looked at him and nodded: "That's right!"

There is nothing wrong with being a rancher as his main job and a trainer as a side job.

Wuli breathed a sigh of relief, and then whispered: "I have liked Ekuei Chun very much since I was a child. After listening to what my grandfather said just now, I hope that it can live a better life, so if Ekuei Chun is willing to leave here, You must take good care of it!"

Naoki was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a smile: "I will."

After bidding farewell to his siblings, Naoki rode Gulledon directly to the Ghost Mountain and found the cave again.

However, what surprised him was that Eguifen was not here.

Zhi Shu looked around but didn't find Egui Pun's figure. It seemed that it had gone out.

In desperation, he had to return to Green Town.

*

Late at night, ghost mountain.

Erguifen sat on the stone bench holding his mask as usual, but compared with before, there was a pile of tree fruits on the stone table today.

Erguichen blankly recalled what had happened in the past two days.

That day, it met the strange human being on the ghost mountain.

In Eguifen's impression, no one has dared to come to this place for a long, long time.

So it hid and quietly observed the other party's actions.

As a result, the other party was very keen and discovered it at once, and followed it to find its home.

At first, Erguifen was very panicked. It originally thought that the human would drive it away and attack it.

But instead of doing this, the other party greeted it friendly and gave it a few fruits.

Erguifen was very surprised, but it was too scared, and it had never encountered such a thing before, so it rushed out of the door and ran away.

When it returned to the cave, it saw a mountain of tree fruits on the stone table.

Eguifen originally thought that the other person would never come back after leaving, but the next day, the person came here again, talked to it friendly and cordially, and gave it some food before leaving.

But there are so many tree fruits that it can’t finish them all!

Will he come again tomorrow? A trace of expectation emerged in Erguifen's heart.

Erguifen looked at the table full of tree fruits in front of him, and suddenly thought of what happened a long, long time ago.

When it was still an infant, a tall human adopted it.

The man brought it here and took care of it like a child.

He would also find tree fruits from outside and put them on the table for it to eat.

In Erguifen's heart, the other person is like its father.

However... the man left.

That day, it went to the town angrily and killed the four greedy Pokémon in order to avenge the man.

But the person who adopted it never came back.

"Crack!"

A teardrop fell on the damaged green grass mask, and then another drop fell.

Missing her silently, Ergui buried his face in his mask, sobbing repressedly with the sudden heavy rain outside.

*

Early the next morning.

A sudden heavy rain enveloped the entire Green Town.

The agricultural exchange meeting was forced to be suspended, and Zhi Shu could only stay in the public hall and listen to the rain.

Several Pokémon stayed in the room listlessly.

Naoki watched for a while, then stood up immediately, put them back into the Poké Ball, put on his raincoat, and flew to the Ghost Mountain on Guluton.

It wasn't until he saw the figure of Ergui holding the mask in the fear cave that Naoki breathed a sigh of relief.

He took Gulledon into the hole.

After learning the story of Erguifen, Naoki no longer feels right about Erguifen.

Because this Pokémon is so pitiful.

Being hated by the people of Emerald Town, I could only hide alone in this cave full of memories holding that mask all day long.

Overflowing with sympathy, Naoki walked in with a backpack of food.

He didn't know how to comfort Ergui, so he could only pour the food on the stone table and give it to it, completely ignoring that Ergui had not finished eating the fruit from yesterday.

Ergui stared blankly at the busy humans in front of him.

It originally thought that the other party would not come today...

"Here!" Zhi Shu grinned, and then handed over a bottle of goat milk that had been heated at the public hall. In order to prevent the goat milk from getting cold, he put it in his pocket and covered it: "It's cold in rainy days, drink some. It’s warm and warm.”

He stuffed the goat's milk into Ergui's hand, then turned around and took out a towel from his backpack to help Gulerton wipe the cold rain on his body to prevent him from catching a cold.

Seeing Ergui looking this way, Zhi Shu consoled him: "Don't be afraid of it. It's called Gulledon. It looks a bit fierce, but it's actually very docile!"

"Ah, hiss!" Gu Lerton shook the rainwater from his body vigorously, and it covered Zhishu's body.

After wiping Gu Ledun's body clean, Naoki opened his backpack again, took out the blanket that the carefree siblings had stuffed for him and spread it on the stone bed.

Then, the lava bug was released from the elf ball.

With the help of the warm lava worms, the cold cave quickly became warm.

It was raining heavily outside the cave, but there was a beautiful and warm scene inside the cave.

Even the dusty walls were illuminated a warm orange color by the firelight of the lava bugs.

In just a few minutes, earth-shaking changes took place in this cave.

It was so close that Ergui didn't even react.

"Bonnie..."

Naoki directly took out a pan from his backpack, placed it on the lava bug, and started making breakfast for Ergui.

"I'm sorry to bother you, lava worm." As he said that, Naoki fed two berries to the lava worm. When the lava worm ate all the berries, its body heat surged up to Lao Gao.

The oil in the pan quickly heated up and made a crackling sound.

Naoki quickly cracked in the eggs and added sliced ​​tomatoes. After the process was completed, he baked two pieces of fragrant bread with the help of lava bugs.

Finally, put the fried eggs and other ingredients into the soft bread, and a warm sandwich is completed.

Naoki handed the sandwich to Ergui, "Eat it quickly!"

Ergui's face was at a loss.

Only then did Naoki realize that his actions might seem a little too abrupt for Ergui.

So he thought for a moment and told Eguifen: "Don't worry, Eguifen."

As soon as he heard the human in front of him calling out his name, Eguipun showed a very obvious expression of surprise on his face.

"Bonnie...?"

"A villager at the foot of the mountain has told me everything about you."

"Bonnie..."

"That man is a descendant of the craftsman who once made your mask. He is very sorry for everything you have gone through."

"Bonnie..."

"I'm very sad, but I knew from the first moment I saw you that you are not the cruel ghost that the rumors said."

Hearing this, Ergui looked up and its eyes were like bright stars.

Naoki grinned: "So, believe me, we have no ill intentions, and we will not hurt you, let alone hate you, because you have never done anything wrong."

Ergui was stunned. It looked at the human in front of it, and then a happy expression appeared on its face.

"Boni Bonnie~"

"Eat it!"

Erguifen finally started to eat the sandwich, but as he was eating, big tears suddenly fell from his eyes.

The years of loneliness, the rejection, the grievance of having the mask taken away, the pain of my father being hurt by bad guys...

All kinds of emotions were intertwined, making Eguifen so sad that she burst into tears uncontrollably.

Naoki was a little confused, why did he cry suddenly?

Naoki didn't know what to do. He stood up in a hurry, but he never thought that a few pokeballs in his pocket would accidentally fall out.

The Poke Ball that fell to the ground automatically opened upon impact, and the figures of the two Pokémon emerged from the white light.

One is a flutter and the other is a motorcycle lizard.

Biker saw that Pokémon crying so sadly, and couldn't help but be confused.

The fluttering eyes turned to the Pokémon.

As a ghost-type Pokémon, it keenly felt a strong obsession there.

I saw a tall and majestic figure standing next to Egui Chun and looking at it.

As if realizing that he had been discovered, the ghost turned his head and looked at Zhan Yifa.

When Ergui stopped crying, Naoki wiped its tears, and then asked, "Do you want to leave here with us?"

Ergui was stunned for a moment.

Naoki said truthfully: "I am a trainer who came here from other places. In a few days, I will leave here."

"So, I want to take you away from this place and go to my hometown. No one there will be afraid of you or exclude you. They are all good people who like Pokémon very much."

"There are also many Pokémon living together in my home. You can also meet many new friends there. Do you want to come with us?"

Saying that, Naoki stretched out his hand towards Ergui.

Ergui listened to these words in a daze.

It lowered its head and looked at the mask in its hand, and then at the human in front of it, thinking that after the other person left, they would never see each other again...

Thinking of this, Ergui couldn't help but feel very sad.

But……

Looking at the hand that invited it, Ergui looked around again and took a look at this warm cave.

It suddenly felt very scared, and it didn't want to go back to that cold and lonely atmosphere.

As a result, Eguifen mustered up his courage, carefully stretched out his hand, and placed his hand on the human hand in front of him.

Zhi Shu felt relieved in his heart, and then held Egui Pun's slightly cold hand with his backhand.

"Then, come home with me!" Naoki said softly.

"Bonnie!"

The rain outside stopped at some point, and Naoki led a few Pokémon out of the Fear Cave.

After the rain, the sky cleared up, and there was a cloudless blue sky overhead.

Just looking up at the sky will make people feel relaxed.

Naoki did not leave immediately. He turned around and looked at the cave where Ergui once lived, and silently promised in his heart:

"Don't worry, I will definitely take good care of Erguifen, and I will never let it fall into the same situation again!"

At the same time, Zhanyifa was also looking back in the direction of the cave entrance.

It saw the ghost coming out, standing in front of the cave entrance, looking at them, and waving goodbye to them.

Zhan Yifa felt that the strong obsession was dissipating, and eventually, the ghost disappeared into the world.

"Flapping hair?"

At this time, Naoki's voice came from behind.

Fluttering hair turned his head.

Naoki took out the elf ball and said to it: "We should go back!"

"Dream."

Fei Yi responded, turned around and got into the elf ball.

Recommended book: Fox Ju’s book, The Beginning of Ergui Pun, is very good and worth reading!