Chapter 1074: Peach Blossom

"Ah! Help, help!"

The young man's courage was commendable, but his strength wouldn't skyrocket.

He went up with a wooden stick, but before long, he was bitten by Rockruff and ran away holding his head, screaming miserably. If it weren't for Porygon2's clone quietly protecting his vital points, he would have probably fallen by now.

All Baimu turned his head and said: "Is there anyone who dares to take over?"

The teenagers looked at each other, and the first one pointed out gritted his teeth and said: "I'll come!"

"Good! Exchange! Come back!"

All Baimu shouted, and the bitten teenager was relieved.

He had long wanted to come back, but there was always a force preventing him from approaching the main force.

Exchange, exchange!

The teenager was like a relay runner, gratefully handing the wooden stick to his trembling little companion.

A few seconds later.

The Wisteria Field echoed with screams again.

"Mo... Mo..."

All Baimu's shoulder-perched Pecharunt was amazed; in terms of poison, he was simply not as good as this human!

And he didn't need sticky rice cakes to make other humans willing to be bitten. What kind of magic did he instill in this group of people?

A small brain couldn't understand a big dream.

When the tragic struggle for fate reached the second half, almost every teenager had been bitten, and Rockruff was visibly exhausted.

"Awoo... awoo..."

Its throat was hoarse, and sticky saliva flowed from the corners of its mouth.

Everyone looked at Cha Pu, who hadn't played yet, and all thought that this guy was going to pick the peach, so they glared at him angrily.

However, the one who appeared was All Baimu.

He walked slowly toward the panting Rockruff, grabbed its scruff firmly, and caught this Pokémon that had bitten the teenagers until their scalps were numb without any effort.

The teenagers were amazed.

"Those who don't work don't eat, how can you know the bitterness of commanding beasts without being bitten by beasts?"

All Baimu smiled: "My only requirement for you is—rely on your own strength to gain its recognition, and you can become its partner."

Also a novice trainer.

His own process of harvesting Aron was almost a narrow escape.

He wouldn't want the lives of these teenagers, but at least he wanted them to understand the truth that "money is hard to earn and shit is hard to eat."

Letting them harvest beasts easily would undoubtedly cause them to inflate.

The struggling Rockruff was fed candy and sleep powder, then entered the bamboo basket behind Dragonite, becoming their first trophy.

"Go! Forward to the second one!"

All Baimu waved his hand and led the team forward.

He turned his head to look at the woods, sensing that there were Pokémon peeking in the dark, but didn't care.

It was very common for humans to be watched when entering the wild.

Pecharunt's expression was a bit unnatural, and it felt its three good helpers nearby.

No!

Can't get close!

This human is too vigilant!

Pecharunt trembled with nervousness.

"Hmm? What's wrong with you?" All Baimu cast a concerned look.

Pecharunt froze and chose to cover up its guilty conscience with weak whimpers.

Long Ren poked his head out and said: "Could it be hungry? I heard that newly hatched Pokémon are very prone to hunger."

"... Possibly."

All Baimu agreed a little.

Although he had never hatched a Pokémon from an egg, Deino was often hungry when he was young.

He fed Pecharunt some candy made of sweet honey and comforted it: "I'll give you milk when we go back."

The milk came from a traveling merchant who raised Miltank.

The other party exchanged large cans of milk for fried noodles, and both sides were very satisfied with this result.

"Mo..."

Pecharunt tasted the delicious honey candy.

Suddenly, its expression froze.

That's not right.

It should be the one feeding others, except for grandparents, when was it someone else's turn to feed it?

Pecharunt realized that it hadn't been able to corrupt All Baimu, but instead began to be corrupted by All Baimu.

Try harder!

"Mo mo~"

It pretended to smile and stuffed a sticky rice cake into All Baimu's mouth.

All Baimu returned a smile, turned his head and spat it on the ground, the smooth action made Long Ren complain.

"It wants you to eat so much, just eat one, it's not like there's no Pecha Berry."

"You think Pecha Berry can cure all poisons?"

"Isn't it?"

Facing the "innocent" Long Ren, All Baimu put his hand in front of Pecharunt, "Good, give me one."

"Mo?"

Pecharunt was stunned, and carefully pinched out a sticky rice cake and put it in his hand.

Actually, it was willing to eat it so easily?

It looked expectantly at All Baimu picking up the sticky rice cake, but didn't see him stuff it into his mouth, and the sticky rice cake had already disappeared.

In its place was Long Ren's sudden coughing sound.

"Cough cough cough! Are you trying to choke me to death?"

"Don't worry, you won't choke to death, Porygon2's Psychic will fish the sticky rice cake out before you choke to death."

All Baimu naturally wouldn't joke with his friend's life.

Long Ren was speechless, and tasted the flavor in his mouth again, "You don't say, it tastes good... huh? This feeling?"

He clenched his fist, inexplicably feeling a surge of power in his body.

Immediately.

Long Ren's eyes flashed with the purple color familiar to All Baimu.

Remember the old woman he sold it to, it seems her eyes were also this color? Did she also eat sticky rice cake?

At the same time.

Pecharunt resisted the urge to control Long Ren.

It never expected that All Baimu would feed his friend the sticky rice cake knowing it was poisonous.

What a vicious heart!

But Pecharunt understood that it couldn't startle the snake, everything had room for recovery.

All Baimu looked at Long Ren and asked: "Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"

"No, the state is very good, I feel like I've become healthier. It's just... I really want to tame Pokémon!"

Long Ren shook his arms, as if a beast choosing people to devour.

The teenagers were scared by this situation.

"Big brother!"

"Long Ren brother he——"

"It's okay."

All Baimu took a Pecha Berry out of his pocket, forcibly pinched Long Ren's chin, and squeezed the juice into his mouth with the other hand.

Not long after.

The purple in Long Ren's eyes faded, he wiped the juice from the corner of his mouth, and was slightly puzzled, "Seems... no difference."

"The difference is huge, you don't know how scary you were just now." All Baimu pointed to the terrified teenagers.

But it was also unexpected that Pecha Berry could really detoxify.

Because it was poison caused by Pokémon?

He turned his head to look at Pecharunt, and found that it was shocked beyond measure, its heart-shaped little hands were clenched, and its white eyes were constantly trembling.

"... Hmm?"

All Baimu showed a bit of suspicion, and suddenly asked: "Pecharunt, do you know an old woman, she seems to have also eaten——

All Baimu showed a hint of suspicion and suddenly asked, "Momotaro, do you know an old woman? She seems to have also eaten—"

Before he could finish his sentence.

Pecharunt's body trembled, and it suddenly transformed into a shadow and darted into the woods, as if running away.

The sudden turn of events was something no one had expected.

"Wait!"

All Baimu reacted immediately, reaching out to try and grab its braid, but who would have thought Pecharunt would shrink into its pre-"hatched" shell form.

The Poryphone immediately flew out of his pocket and angrily scolded, "You wicked beast! I knew you weren't acting like a person!"

It fired a bolt of lightning.

Boom!

Gunsmoke exploded on Pecharunt's shell, but it only caused the guy to freeze for a moment.

It rushed into the shadows and disappeared without a trace in an instant.

"Tsk! A Ghost-type, huh? Consider it lucky it ran fast!"

The Poryphone only regretted that its tracking ability was too poor; if it had mental power on the level of Calyrex, even if the opponent were Ghost-type, it still wouldn't have been able to escape its sharp eyes.

The surrounding atmosphere was somewhat quiet.

The unexpected situation left the youths at a loss.

Long Zhi broke the silence and asked in surprise, "What's the situation? Did it just turn into an egg?"

"No, this is most likely its normal form."

All Baimu sighed, helplessly supporting his forehead, and said, "I spend all year hunting geese only to be pecked by one; I should have asked you for a Poké Ball."

He had thought this guy was well-behaved and cute, like a little baby, so he hadn't immediately asked Long Zhi for a Poké Ball to capture it.

His previous experiences encountering many legendary Pokémon had also fostered a habit of not being in a rush.

Never would he have thought that something the size of a palm could be so cunning!

Constantly feeding him mochi might not necessarily be out of closeness...

"I've always been the one relying on information gaps to mess with others, but today I was almost tricked by a Pokémon using an information gap."

All Baimu shook his head.

Fortunately, he hadn't suffered any losses; the fried noodle recipe was useless, a point he had already mentioned to that old woman.

What was even more fortunate was that he hadn't rashly used the Heart of the God on it.

According to the warning Regice had given him earlier.

If the Pokémon being linked harbored malice toward oneself, it might lead to unpleasant results.

Long Zhi laughed at his misfortune and then pretended to be magnanimous, comforting him, "Hey! If you walk by the river often, how can you not get your shoes wet? Relax!"

"Momotaro... I was counting on it to help you defeat those three guys."

All Baimu mused.

The reason he named Pecharunt Momotaro was partly because of its appearance, and partly because he hoped it could help him defeat the Loyal Three.

After all, in Japanese fairy tales, there is the story of "Momotaro driving away demons," the content of which includes the monkey, dog, and pheasant being captured by Momotaro and becoming his partners...

Hmm?

What if this guy really is that "Momotaro"?

And the monkey, dog, and pheasant becoming the Loyal Three was something it orchestrated itself?

All Baimu hadn't felt there was any problem before, but now that he had almost been tricked by Pecharunt, he immediately made the connection.

But if that were really the case, why is there no existence of Momotaro in the future stories of Kitakami?

All Baimu's expression shifted, and he asked Porygon2, "Is there any situation on Boro's side?"

"No, I'm monitoring it at all times."

Although Porygon2's clone came from the Substitute move, after being patched, it wouldn't disappear so easily.

All Baimu rubbed his chin and said, "It seems... I have to use my trump card!"

"Trump card? What trump card?"

Long Zhi looked at him curiously.

All Baimu said, "Watch my tracking technique."

He led everyone into the jungle, appearing to crouch on the ground to investigate, but in reality, he very naturally opened the simulator.

Among the optional rewards from the Tamer earlier, he had been given a 【Obtainable Mythical Pokémon Clue (Fully Random)】.

Although it was fully random, he figured that the Mythical Pokémon near Kitakami was most likely just that guy...

No.

What if Ogerpon is also one?

He couldn't be sure, but then he thought, if the clue pointed to Ogerpon, wouldn't that mean Boro was about to be in trouble!

That made it even more necessary to choose; only by choosing would there be a chance to save Boro!

All Baimu no longer hesitated and quietly clicked to confirm its use.

【Please go to the cave where the masks are stored in the back mountain tomorrow night】

Holy crap!

It really is Ogerpon!

His breathing suddenly hitched, and Long Zhi beside him looked around but didn't find any traces, "Did the tracking technique track it?"

"What's the rush."

All Baimu exhaled a turbid breath and chased in the direction Pecharunt had fled, and using the tracking techniques he had learned from the Bad Boys, he once again discovered the familiar monkey paw prints and dog paw prints.

The scent permeating the air confirmed one thing for him.

"So they really are in cahoots."

All Baimu clicked his tongue.

But if that's the case, if he keeps an eye on Ogerpon, he'll be able to encounter them again, right?

Long Zhi was somewhat confused, and after All Baimu quietly explained, he exclaimed, "There's such a thing!?"

"As you can see."

All Baimu looked at the youths who were somewhat fearful of the woods and said, "Alright, let's put this matter aside for now, the trail is broken. They probably realized we were chasing them."

The main purpose of coming out this time was to help people catch Pokémon.

As for that guy's business...

We'll talk about it tomorrow night!

——

Under the roots of a tree in the far distance.

Pecharunt breathed a sigh of relief.

"Mo mo~"

It actually didn't want to run so quickly, but that "vicious" human All Baimu had put too much pressure on it.

Pecharunt was terrified that the other party would see through its intentions to plot against him and kill it.

This could be seen from how All Baimu had released lightning without hesitation when the Poryphone was chasing it, showing just how cruel All Baimu was!

Fortunately, it was clever enough and had good helpers.

Pecharunt looked at Munkidori, who was rotating his finger at his temple like Ikkyu-san.

After eating the mochi, Munkidori not only had his intelligence greatly increased, but he had also gained the ability to briefly foresee the future.

He used this to judge whether All Baimu and the others would catch up.

But because the future he could foresee was limited, and occasionally errors would occur due to the information density being too high, Munkidori had to be 100% focused.

"Awoo~"

Okidogi raised his arm, indicating there was no need to run at all.

If that human dared to chase them, he'd just finish him off!

"Coo~"

Fezandipiti disdainfully flapped his wings; that idea was too crude, they should use pheromones to capture him instead.

Pecharunt shook its head frantically, "Mo mo!"

You guys haven't had contact with that human, that's why you dare to say these things.

That human...

He's not a human at all!

Pecharunt was very certain of this point and absolutely did not want to have any more contact with All Baimu.

It would rather go directly to confront Boro and Ogerpon.

"Mo mo!"

Munkidori, find out where they live, and then find a good opportunity to steal the masks!

Pecharunt assigned the task.

It didn't want to stay in Kitakami any longer; it just wanted to go home early to see its grandfather and grandmother.

Humans are so scary, it wants to go home!

——

All Baimu, unaware of how much psychological trauma he had caused Pecharunt, was currently harvesting a third Rockruff with Long Zhi.

"I can't walk anymore, big brother..."

"Please, spare us..."

"I want to go home, wuwuwu."

The youths were either begging for mercy weakly or crying.

Using magical beasts was much harder than they had imagined; they couldn't even last three rounds before being exhausted from being hit by rocks and bitten.

All Baimu was full of disappointment, "You are the worst batch I've ever led!"

"—Have you taught many novice trainers?"

Long Zhi asked blankly.

All Baimu: "Not really, just used to it, hehehe."

However, being able to get three lone Rockruffs in one day was already quite good.

He had Long Zhi release his Pokémon to carry this group of disappointing guys back to Kitakami.

Many people in the village learned that they had gone out to capture magical beasts and all came to watch.

When they saw the Rockruffs in the baskets, they were quite disappointed.

Everyone had thought All Baimu and Long Zhi would bring back some Pokémon that looked fierce and ferocious.

(End of chapter)