Ash's Paldea Story

Chapter 46 Kanto Fair Part 1

(Monday)

The Biology Class from Professor Jacq today is teaching about Shiny Pokemon, I have a few of them in my team, but to me, I don't think their strengths are different, just that some people want them for their colors.

And after class, we decide to do another Tera Raid, and this time we manage to find a Pokemon that I have never caught before, but it is a Psychic Type, so I don't mind it.

Flittle: The Frill Pokemon: Psychic Type. It spends its time running around wastelands. If anyone steals its beloved berries, it will chase them down and exact its revenge.

And we decide to train with this Pokemon, and eventually, it evolves into a Pokemon called Espathra.

Espathra: The Ostrich Pokemon: Psychic Type. Evolve from Flittle at LV:35. It immobilizes opponents by bathing them in psychic power from its large eyes. Despite its appearance, it has a vicious temperament.

Lillie says, "Espathra has the ability Opportunist, if an opponent's stat is boosted, the Pokémon seizes the opportunity to boost the same stat for itself. Not only that, it has the move Lumina Crash, iattacks by unleashing a peculiar light that even affects the mind. This also harshly lowers the target's Sp. Def stat."

"That is crazy." I say. "Both the ability and the move are so powerful..."

And Nemona is now hanging with us a lot, maybe because she is bored continuing to train her Pokemon. And that's also a good thing. Though she still asks us to help with the next Kanto Fair.

(Tuesday)

Professor Tyme is teaching us about Probability & Move Accuracy in math class, and it is also interesting because move accuracy is also a gamble that I take all the time. If my Pokemon can dodge it, that's better.

And Professor Raifort is teaching us about the history of the Area Zero Expedition, and she also tells us that they are all recorded in the Scarvio Book, the book that Arven showed us about the Titan Pokemon, and there is also one copy at the library. After class, she asks Lillie and me to the library.

"Ash! Lillie! The time has come! The cursed treasures... The four Pokemon of ruin...They exist! And I stumbled upon the truth in the newspaper, of all places! Hah! In an interview piece with a carpenter, no less! The Pokemon wielders apparently used sacred stakes to seal these treasures of ruin in shrines. There is a separate shrine for each of the four Pokemon, and eight stakes driven into the ground in the areas surrounding each shrine keep the power of ruin at bay."

"Really?" Lillie says. And I think we have seen some of them in dangerous places.

"In other words, if all of the stakes for a given shrine were to be removed...it will release the Pokemon held inside!" We gulp a little. "Don't you think it would be nice to free those Pokemon from the confines of their tiny little shrines?"

"Well... I was concerned about the disaster they bring out once they are free..." I say. "But I want to free them as they shouldn't suffer because of it."

"Heh. A kind soul, I see. You are proving truly useful! According to a descendant of the Pokemon wielders in the story, you must have a bond with Pokemon in order to remove the stakes. I'm sure someone as Pokemon-savvy as you would have no trouble at all with that. You can choose for yourself whether to believe me or not, but I will mark the locations of these shrines on your map."

And while she does that to us, she says, "I'd rather go myself, of course, but skipping out on my classes to go adventuring seems to have made the director a little suspicious of me... Heh. You can think of it as part of your Treasure Hunt. Treasures of ruin are still treasures, after all. I hope you will investigate these crimes if you are at all inclined to do so."