Chapter 1079: A Happy Ending?

"Mumu~"

Pecharunt, having completed its mission, revealed a smile.

If it had known it was this easy, why would it have gone to such lengths to do those unnecessary things.

Pecharunt couldn't smile anymore; this incident had caused great trauma to its young heart...

"Mu!"

It screamed suddenly, just because All Baimu pulled its braid, and the force was quite heavy.

"Don't be in such a hurry to be happy, now it's time to talk about the price you should pay for doing bad things!"

"Mu..."

Pecharunt trembled in fear.

If it had developed according to the original plot, at least four lives would have been lost to the greed of the "mastermind." Not only that, Ogerpon would have had to endure the departure of important relatives and hundreds of years of slander.

It was simply an unspeakable tragedy.

Fortunately, the timeline had changed slightly under the great hands of All Baimu and Arceus, ushering in a relatively good solution.

Pecharunt could be spared the death penalty, but the living penalty was hard to avoid.

If you're wrong, you have to be punished!

All Baimu never pampered any Pokémon that made a mistake, unless it could obtain the victim's forgiveness.

And who were the victims of this incident, it was obvious—

All the commoners controlled by the sticky mochi, as well as the core victims, Boro and Ogerpon.

In front of the vine cage among the ruins.

Many youths of Kitakami Village looked at the Treasure Companions from afar.

They learned from Cha-Cu that these three guys who looked like they had no combat ability had actually participated in the chaos last night...

Pretending to be weak?

What insidious magical beasts!

When All Baimu returned carrying Pecharunt, what he saw was a group of people looking curious and vigilant.

"Zhi!"

"Wang!"

"Gu!"

The Treasure Companions were quite excited, still frantically begging Pecharunt for sticky mochi, and their pitiful appearance made Cha-Cu unable to bear looking.

"Boss, why don't you... let them go, they should have just been controlled."

"Heh, you're too naive. Let me tell you, this kind of bad Pokémon is best at acting pitiful. Once the addiction comes up, what won't they say, what won't they do? They are like this now, it's entirely their own fault!"

All Baimu sneered.

Pecharunt had told him many things, including that it hadn't controlled the Treasure Companions.

In other words, these three guys were also accomplices!

But keeping them in a cage all the time really wasn't the way to go.

"Long Ren, give me the empty Poké Balls." He said without looking back.

Long Ren said "Oh," and asked again: "Are you planning to capture them?"

"Yeah, to be safe. You also know that these three guys will transform after eating sticky mochi—why don't you do it?"

"... Forget it, I don't have much interest in this kind of spineless Pokémon."

The Treasure Companions, who were addicted to external forces and had degenerate thoughts, made Long Ren very disappointed.

"Fine."

All Baimu didn't force it.

This capture wasn't a recruitment of new partners like before, but purely to change them into a sturdy cage.

"Zhi/Wang/Gu..."

The Treasure Companions were released from the vine cage and regained their freedom.

They looked at Pecharunt, who was being held by its braid and had a face full of sorrow, and suddenly their expressions became firm, all rushing toward All Baimu!

Munkidori's eyes lit up with blue light, Okidogi ran wildly on all fours, and Fezandipiti flapped its wings violently!

Whoosh!

Dust rolled up!

In an instant.

All Baimu and Long Ren's line of sight was blocked, and invisible power trapped their actions, and finally Okidogi pounced on the former, barking and biting the arm that was holding Pecharunt.

"Ao! Aowang!"

Run! Run quickly!

It anxiously signaled Pecharunt to escape, indicating that it would hold off All Baimu and Long Ren for it.

Pecharunt was stunned.

"Mu..."

The bad peach's eyes trembled, gradually welling up with tears.

It's just a pity that All Baimu's hand was comparable to iron pliers, not letting go of its braid at all.

Furthermore, Porygon2's mental power blocked Okidogi's teeth, and then dispelled Munkidori's strong control.

"What a touching partnership; bad guys also have bad guys' saviors? But it's a pity, escaping can't solve any problems."

All Baimu pressed down on Okidogi's dog head.

This guy's original size was only a bit shorter than him, now it was only higher than his waist.

The difference was so great it could be called evolution.

Not far away.

Long Ren let Dragonite catch Munkidori and Fezandipiti, and the latter two also fell to the ground quite simply, without any hesitation.

Clearly, the previous attack had already overdrawn their limited stamina.

"Big Brother!"

"Big Brother, are you okay?"

The youths ran over hurriedly from outside the smoke; the sudden change had given them a fright.

Seeing that the two were safe and sound, they felt relieved.

Okidogi was pinched by All Baimu on the dog head and suddenly thrown next to the other two Treasure Companions; the miserable appearance made Pecharunt's body tremble.

"Mu..."

Regret! Regret not doing it in the beginning!

If it hadn't provoked this human, hadn't provoked that monster, how could it have lost its freedom?

And even implicated its partners!

It wailed loudly, but the sobbing appearance failed to attract sympathy.

Long Ren even laughed out loud, saying: "Retract the previous statement, these three guys do have a bit of backbone."

It seemed their desire for sticky mochi was just to paralyze the two, so as to create an opportunity for them to leave the vine cage and hold off the enemies so the boss could escape.

However, they couldn't win at their peak, let alone in a weakened state?

"One yard is one yard."

All Baimu didn't hesitate, and under Pecharunt's sorrowful gaze, threw out three Poké Balls.

Bang bang bang!

The Treasure Companions were sucked into them, once again becoming prisoners.

The youths watched the three "sealing instruments" intently, their faces full of wanting to learn, wanting to have.

"Alright! Don't forget your goals! Continue to challenge magical beasts until you defeat them!"

All Baimu clapped his hands and sent the group of youths away.

Immediately.

He took Pecharunt to the festival venue.

Long Ren followed the whole way, afraid of missing some important plot like last night.

"Have you thought about how to compensate?"

"Mu..."

Facing his inquiry, Pecharunt only had confusion.

Compensation?

What is compensation?

The Porygon phone saw that it didn't understand what the Trainer said at all, so it said: "This guy probably really is like you said before, doesn't know evil, doesn't know good, and was dyed black by the people who used it."

"... It's also possible."

All Baimu also couldn't be sure what the situation was with this Pokémon that cried and acted pitiful at every turn.

Festival venue.

Many stalls had already been packed up, and a small number of vendors were having a final clearance sale.

But no matter who it was, seeing All Baimu and Long Ren would smile and greet them, their attitudes one more respectful than the other.

"Compensation? You compensate us?"

Hearing the content he explained, the traveling merchant was a bit confused.

All Baimu pointed at Pecharunt, who looked like it was mourning, "It's the one compensating."

"Magical beast compensating? Wasn't it sealed by you?" The traveling merchant was even more confused.

"Being sealed doesn't mean it doesn't need extra punishment."

What All Baimu said made the traveling merchant fall into silence.

It wasn't how deafening it was, it was an inner lack of understanding—

Who bargains with a magical beast!

In this day and age, when attacked by a magical beast in the wild, don't you just eat a dumb loss and call it a day?

Are the brain circuits of powerful magical beast users this strange?

The traveling merchant barely managed to show a smile, "Then... how about... you, uh, let it compensate some money?"

Can it compensate?

Pecharunt stared at the traveling merchant, and then stared at All Baimu.

The next second.

It disappeared from where it was, and not long after, a cry of surprise came from afar.

"My money pouch is gone!"

"Mu!"

The returning Pecharunt righteously handed the money pouch to the traveling merchant.

Where would the traveling merchant dare to take it, cold sweat flowed down from his temples.

All Baimu decisively gave Pecharunt a knock on the head, then let Long Ren return the money.

"Mu..."

Pecharunt was very aggrieved.

It clearly gave money, why beat it!

Unreasonable!

The Porygon phone sighed, "What a naturally evil poison peach!"

"I'll compensate for it, name a price." All Baimu had expected this, and also made his decision—

Subrogation.

The conversation with Pecharunt earlier made him realize that Pecharunt might not fully understand right from wrong, it likely only had a very rough concept.

It must be made to truly realize that doing bad things requires paying a price.

Otherwise, the meaning of punishment would only be left with simple venting.

Of course.

It's not that venting isn't important.

But for a bad guy whose life shouldn't end, one must grasp both hands, and both hands must be hard!

Anyway, waiting for Cha-Cu's father to make masks, he had nothing to do.

Undoubtedly.

This period of free time was the reason he complicated simple things.

Otherwise, according to common sense, in ancient times when the rule of law was not sound enough, there was no need to provide additional compensation to victims after punishing the perpetrator.

"You compensate for it? I'll dare to change to a compensation method."

The traveling merchant smiled.

He found that the cold-tempered young man before him was easier to talk to than expected, so he mustered the courage to bargain.

All Baimu: "You say."

"Make me a portion of fried noodles, I didn't get to eat any last night and I'm dying of craving." The traveling merchant smacked his lips.

Fried noodles...

It's not impossible.

All Baimu saw that if he delayed any longer, the people attending the festival would all be gone, so he asked Long Ren to go back to Kitakami Village to get the ingredients.

"Just let everyone eat noodles together."

"Hey!"

Hearing this, the traveling merchant hurriedly stopped him: "Don't go! Leave it to me!"

He turned and shouted, indicating that the fried noodle stall owner was back and willing to fry noodles for them for free, only needing the ingredients.

The voice was drowned out in the noisy venue.

Just when Long Ren thought no one would respond, cries of surprise came from everywhere.

The activists quickly carried firewood, flour, clean water, as well as soybean paste, salt, and other seasonings.

Although it was only two nights, All Baimu's craftsmanship had already conquered everyone.

Kitakami Village's magical fried noodles had even spread to the outside world.

In an instant.

In front of the fried noodle stall.

Pecharunt was forced to help, carrying water, burning fire, adding firewood, and even carrying flour, all were handed to it.

It was treated as a Tauros.

Later, the Treasure Companions also joined in; after they were released from their balls, they each ate a sticky mochi, and before they could react, they all became bitter cattle and horses.

Okidogi, with great strength, was responsible for kneading dough, Munkidori, with strong mental power, did chores, and Fezandipiti maintained order in the sky while transporting supplies.

All Baimu turned into a ruthless fried noodle machine, not even letting go of the Kitakami villagers who heard the news and rushed over, handing a portion of fried noodles to everyone.

After everything was over.

Facing Pecharunt and the three Treasure Companions who were exhausted and lying all over the ground, he said: "Now your debt objects have become me, I will teach you well."

Before, he could only be considered half a victim, now the responsibility had been transferred, and he had become a creditor no less than Boro and Ogerpon!

Pecharunt didn't speak, just cried silently.

It wanted to go home.

Satisfying the ordinary victims, it was the turn of the two core figures.

"Does the Venerable One want to give them some punishment?"

The intelligent Boro grasped All Baimu's intention.

He nodded and said: "Yes, as the main victim, how do you intend to deal with them? I can make the decision for you."

Beside him, Pecharunt hung its head with dead eyes, and the Treasure Companions behind it were the same.

They had already lost the will to live.

All Baimu was simply their living father, too good at tossing people around!

Fine!

Just toss, who can toss more than you.

"What about Ogerpon?"

All Baimu asked Ogerpon, who was happily eating honey beside him.

It blinked its star eyes and suddenly pulled a Spiky Vine Club from behind its back.

"Mu!"

Pecharunt's body trembled violently, and the Treasure Companions also shrank into the corner together.

Clearly, Ogerpon holding the club had caused them serious psychological trauma.

Boro pressed down on the club and said: "Please allow me to consider it for a period of time, Venerable One."

"... Fine."

All Baimu wasn't in a hurry for a plan.

Unexpectedly, a plan was soon delivered to his door.

The reason was that the village chief and several village elders decided after discussion to invite Boro to live down the mountain, and they were willing to give the land next to the shrine to Boro and Ogerpon to live on.

By the way, build a statue for Ogerpon in the shrine.

Originally, they also wanted to build one for Boro, but Boro refused no matter what; he wanted to build one for the Great Venerable One of Sinnoh, but he didn't know what the real Great Venerable One of Sinnoh looked like.

So he wanted to build one for All Baimu—

It would be a ghost if he agreed!

Therefore, they only built them for Ogerpon and the masks, while the construction of the house continued to be handled by Pecharunt and the Treasure Companions as cattle and horses.

What is this? Labor reform?

Quite a funny idea.

A few days later, Cha-Cu's father made three gorgeous masks, inlaid with Terastal shards that All Baimu had Ogerpon knock off the Crystal Pool.

"According to your requirements, they are engraved with the three emotions of disgust, shame, and fear."

The new masks were deep purple like a demon for disgust, pink-colored like a goddess for shame, and black-gray like a human face for fear.

If they had attributes, they would likely be Ghost, Fairy, and Dark.

"Thank you."

All Baimu took the masks, and Pecharunt was also very happy.

It was finally liberated!

It could go home to see its grandparents!

Pecharunt was eager to return home, selectively forgetting the fact that All Baimu and Long Ren going to find the grandparents would very likely be unfavorable to them.

It took the initiative to become a guide.

The express flight initiated by Dragonite embarked on the journey, crossing the ocean to the south at high speed, to a small village located by the coast.

"Mu! Mu!"

Pecharunt called out to the old couple while rushing toward the house it was familiar with.

However, All Baimu, who was following behind it, discovered that the house seemed to have been abandoned, with a dilapidated appearance of no one living there, and the courtyard was full of weeds.

Did they run?

He seriously suspected that the wind from Kitakami Village had spread here...

Not very likely, how could the information dissemination efficiency in ancient times be so high, this place was far from Kitakami Village.

The reason they came so fast was entirely because Dragonite flew fast.

Inside the house, dust floated everywhere.

Pecharunt called out for the grandparents everywhere, but never found them, feeling very lost.

All Baimu followed behind, thinking about where they might have fled.

"Hey! Who are you!"

Someone shouted outside the courtyard.

He turned his head and saw a young man holding a stick, frowning at him and Long Ren.

"May I ask where the people of this house went?"

"You mean Grandpa Masahiko? What are you to them?"

"Distant relatives."

"Distant relatives? Hehehe, then you came at a bad time, they passed away some days ago."

Thump!

All Baimu's heart trembled suddenly.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1080 =====