Chapter 158: Doublade and Mew Acquainted?

In the forging room, there were many finished craft items and unique items. These items had provided Xiang Guangtai with a large amount of knowledge! But Xiang Guangtai, who was originally making various sample items, terminated his work early and turned to carving the "Sculpture of Gratitude."

It turned out that the strange customer in the doll group was...

"It's Mewtwo!"

From the moment the other party said the name "Amber," Xiang Guangtai knew the true identity of this customer. After all, there are only three "people" in the world who still know this name, but only one existing entity among the three has psychic power. So who would it be? It's so hard to guess...

Of course, it's not hard to guess!

Amber is a girl who had a significant influence on the young Mewtwo, but more specifically, the Amber that Mewtwo knows is Amber 2, not the real Amber herself.

In the first theatrical version "Mewtwo Strikes Back," the state of Mewtwo when it was young was played. Mewtwo itself was born as an experimental product of a certain project of Team Rocket. In a remote area called Guyana, Team Rocket found the fossil of Mew's eyelash and intended to use this fossil to create the strongest Pokémon.

Thus, Team Rocket found a doctor named Dr. Fuji. Dr. Fuji had a daughter who died young, named Amber. In order to find a way to resurrect his daughter, he cooperated with Team Rocket. He cloned the first partners of Kanto, namely Charmander, Squirtle, and Bulbasaur, hoping to find the truth of the tenacious life of Pokémon from technologies like "cloning" and "cloning," in order to study the super technology related to "resurrection."

Dr. Fuji's research was not without results. Long before cloning the three Pokémon and Mewtwo, he had already researched the "consciousness clone" of Amber and placed it in a special cultivation device together with other cloned Pokémon. The ultimate goal of his research was to give the cloned consciousness of his daughter true life.

Amber's cloned consciousness was connected to Mewtwo's consciousness, and she met other three cloned partners in a dream, and told Mewtwo what the world, sun, wind, sunset, stars and moon, and "life" were, so that Mewtwo was no longer lonely.

In the dream, the young Mewtwo saw the consciousness of the three initial partners gradually disappear, their bodies died one after another, and finally even Amber 2's consciousness died. Mewtwo's spirit had intense fluctuations. Finally, Dr. Fuji injected a large amount of tranquilizers into Mewtwo, making Mewtwo calm down, and finally... gradually forgot this memory.

"With the help of the Calyrex doll, the trauma in the deepest part of the heart was gradually healed, so the forgotten memories came back... It's not so easy to meet the deceased again."

Therefore, in order to calm the trauma in the deepest part of Mewtwo's heart, Xiang Guangtai made the Amulet of Courage and gave it to it. Speaking of which, this amulet was the first amulet made using the Guardian Stone, and the effect was unexpectedly powerful!

Xiang Guangtai held the sculpture in his hand and checked its information.

【Craft Item: 【Ancient Statue】 (Premium)——A mixed style of Ancient City and Shinoh Ruins.】

【Description: An ancient-style statue, the shape is the "human girl" named "Amber 2." Using the Bai Shi of Gratitude, if you express gratitude to the sculpture, you might get an incredible response.】

【Craft Item Function: Echo of Gratitude——Can make specific people and Pokémon recall important people and things in their hearts, connecting the hearts of both sides, no matter how far apart. Write words of gratitude on the statue to accurately convey the gratitude to this girl. If you cooperate with a specific sculpture and assist with items made of powerful spiritual power, you can see specific deceased people.】

【Required items——Tapu Fini sculpture, also carved using the Bai Shi of Gratitude; Reaper Cloth/Ghost Gem.】

Tapu Fini... one of the island guardians of the Alola region, guarding the Ruins of Hope, possessing extraordinary power. It has the magical power to meet people who are no longer in the world. Whenever it releases mist, it will intertwine the present world and the other world.

Xiang Guangtai stared at the sculpture and tried to express gratitude, but the effect was not good.

Is it because he doesn't have an object to express sincere gratitude to?

Xiang Guangtai pondered for a while, looked at the Pokémon around him, and smiled slightly. The doubts in his heart dissipated a lot.

If there is no object to express sincere gratitude to... then, thank these Pokémon around him!

Accompanied by such thoughts, Xiang Guangtai expressed gratitude.

In every room of the workshop, Pokémon who were working or resting generated telepathy at the same time. They heard the voice from Xiang Guangtai's inner heart, but it was hazy and blurry.

"Youwu?"

Doublade floated over from the spiritual power room next door. It blinked its eyes, very confused, not knowing what Xiang Guangtai had just done, and then saw the strange girl sculpture.

This statue was made of the Stone of Gratitude?

Who is it?

Doublade looked at the statue and heard Xiang Guangtai's voice:

"Do you have anyone you want to thank? A long time ago?"

Yo? Someone to thank?

Doublade waved its ribbon, scratched the hilt, and looked at the statue. Although it vaguely recalled some things, it felt that they were not very important things. In the ancient kingdom era, it didn't have anyone to play with at all, at most some Pokémon.

Doublade recalled the Pokémon companions of the past, swinging its ribbon, and soon remembered a companion who played well with it.

That was a Pokémon of unknown identity. At that time, it had just been brought to the ancient kingdom and given to a knight as a treasure of a foreign country, which was the former master. Every day, it repeated training, but the key was that its former master didn't know many moves. His teaching was very boring. In that era, people regarded Pokémon as demons and drove them at will.

Sometimes, Doublade felt that it envied its former "utensil companions." Although they couldn't speak, at least they wouldn't be driven by humans at will, and they didn't have to undergo high-intensity training every day.

One late night... it, who was exhausted, saw a peculiar Pokémon.

It could constantly change its appearance and even fly. It always came to find it to play in the dead of night.

It was like a beam of light, illuminating its boring and tasteless sword life... But it's a pity that they didn't play for long before the war broke out, and the later things were what Xiang Guangtai knew.

Haha, the country was destroyed.

"A Pokémon that can transform, Ditto?"

"It wouldn'

"Yo-wu (I don't know!)!" Doublade was quite scatterbrained and had no idea about the true identity of its good partner, just secretly playing together every day.

Guang Tai: "You really are scatterbrained. So, the 'artifact companions' you mentioned—do you mean the merchandise carried by that traveler who possessed many treasures? I only heard you mention it once before. Now that you bring it up, have you remembered anything about that traveler?"

Doublade waved its ribbons: "Yo-wu~"

That guy's face was quite blurry! But the personality I can recall is that he was a bit greedy, after all, he was a merchant! Besides, I wasn't familiar with him; he just captured me and treated me as a rare piece of merchandise!

But if you're talking about those artifact companions, I remember them very clearly! A giant cauldron, an exquisite sword, a magical jade, and old bamboo slips...

"Wait a second?"

Guang Tai's expression became somewhat subtle.

These four things sounded somewhat familiar!

"Cauldron, slips, sword, jade—aren't these the Treasures of Ruin?" Guang Tai said, opening the document he had previously obtained from Lei He and showing it to Doublade on the computer for a while.

"Yo-wu?" Doublade widened both its eyes!

Hey, hey, hey, wait a moment—aren't these my former "merchandise companions"! How has it been a thousand years, and now they've become legends? And they even caused something as big as the destruction of a kingdom?

And how did they all come back to life? So these guys weren't dead objects, but Pokémon! When I was first captured, I kept chatting with them in the merchant's carriage! They actually never responded to me!

"Maybe they turned evil because they were annoyed by your chatter. That's a kind of resentment, too." Guang Tai muttered to himself, then snapped his fingers:

"Speaking of which, I seem to have mentioned Wo-Chien before; you have an impression of it, right? I didn't expect you to know it, too. How strange."

For the Doublade of the past, this could count as a strange encounter.

Doublade flipped through the document several times. At first, it had a bold idea in its heart, such as releasing the four of them and using them as the kingdom's military strength, but after seeing some of the legends and the kingdom-destroying incidents associated with them, Doublade immediately abandoned this idea.

Better to let the four of them stay sealed! I might consider them "acquaintances," but they might not necessarily give me a friendly look!

A thousand years have already passed; who even remembers who anymore! And with their track record of destroying kingdoms, I'm just about to assist a new king in establishing a brand-new kingdom—I shouldn't let them turn around and destroy it!

"Is that so? But I'm actually quite interested in seeing them. And those sacred stakes that seal them—what kind of technology were they made with, I wonder?"

The Treasures of Ruin, just like the legendary giants, hold immense attraction for a craftsman. Seeing them, or scraping some material fragments off their "original artifact bodies," might allow for the creation of extraordinary items.

"Yo-wu~" Doublade was very helpless.

Forget it, since the trainer wants to see them, I shouldn't try to dissuade him anymore!

Doublade abandoned the four guys who had long since become stranger Pokémon and began to reminisce about that playmate Pokémon from the kingdom era, and this matter was just a small interlude for Guang Tai.

Guang Tai then began to carve a statue of Tapu Fini, having Doublade bring over fabric rich in spiritual power from the ghost room. With the Pixie Plate and the Spirit Cloth gifted by Dusknoir, it was much more convenient to create items possessing powerful spiritual energy.

When the statue was finished, a hazy mist vaguely began to permeate the forge.

(End of chapter)