Chapter 1239: The Little Female Ghost Appears

Is that Vibrava?

Baimu also noticed that paradoxical Pokémon.

The multifunctional phone affirmed: "Correct, the magazine says its soul was born from the soul of an ancient pterosaur."

"What dragon?"

Baimu turned his head in surprise.

Pterosaur?

"It might be a fossil pterosaur from ancient times." Multibeast 2 showed no change in expression, "The magazine forcibly linked it to Vibrava."

So it's a fossil pterosaur.

Baimu nodded, then noticed the fearless Roaring Tail inexplicably retreat a few steps.

"Ee-ya..."

The opening voice actually dropped in pitch!

Peony and Pappa, who were grieving over being deceived again, simultaneously noticed this.

What surprised them even more was that, when other wild Pokémon saw this mighty troop and fled without hesitation, Vibrava didn't run away at all, but even actively approached.

And its target was clearly Roaring Tail.

"Ke-mi~"

The bold Vibrava swiftly flew to Roaring Tail's front, circling it back and forth, blinking curiously.

Roaring Tail was extremely nervous, its head turning with Vibrava's flight direction, yet it could never catch its ghostly form, and thus became anxious.

"Ee-ya!!"

It suddenly turned to look at Baimu, took tiny quick steps and ran wildly, seeking the trainer's protection.

Everyone became even more astonished, exchanging glances and reaching a consensus—

There's a situation!

Baimu opened his arms and embraced the rushing Roaring Tail; the latter felt the familiar warmth, immediately sighed in relief, and its expression turned wild and fierce again.

It turned around and angrily shouted at Vibrava.

"Ee-ya! Ee~ya!"

"Ke-mi-mi-mi~~"

The feather-like wings on Vibrava's cheek curved, resembling a maiden covering her smile.

Peony's expression was rather awkward.

Setting aside its paradoxical Pokémon identity, Vibrava is indeed quite cute, every gesture full of maidenly charm.

This made her quickly glance twice at Roaring Tail, and her heart calmed down.

"Do you know each other?"

Baimu pressed down on Roaring Tail's head, preventing it from relying on human power to provoke Vibrava.

Upon hearing this, Roaring Tail half-turned, pointed at that guy, and furiously accused him of numerous misdeeds, including but not limited to stealing its food, mocking it, teasing it, etc.

Unfortunately, it couldn't defeat the opponent.

Multifunctional phone: "According to Dr. Futo's data, Vibrava belongs to the Fairy-Ghost dual type."

No wonder it couldn't win; Roaring Tail is Fairy-Psychic.

Baimu looked at Breaking Flame and Future Holy Sword Warrior, "Look at what you've done, bringing the paradoxical Pokémon to the top."

Normally, only near the middle layer would paradoxical Pokémon appear.

Future Holy Sword Warrior's electronic eyes flickered, Breaking Flame remained silent.

Even under the current circumstances, neither side felt they had any fault; the shrinking territory was merely due to Baimu's overwhelming strength.

If they had any room to resist, they wouldn't be so obedient.

Breaking Flame can communicate, but that doesn't mean it's pleasant to everyone; even when facing Baimu, with whom there's some hidden connection, it has had thoughts of devouring him.

"It seems unwilling to leave."

Pappa saw Vibrava neither fleeing nor continuing to approach, merely lingering in place watching them, "Should we drive it away?"

"Let's handle it later."

Baimu reached out to touch Breaking Flame's fur; the astonishing heat instantly reddened his palm, "First, settle the main matter."

Another tedious territory division.

During this process, Xin Li, stationed at the First Observation Post, drove over; although there was hardly any sun, the cross-dressing beauty's face wore a pair of sunglasses.

"What are you doing?"

"Dividing territory."

Peony briefly explained the situation.

Xin Li clicked her tongue in amazement: "A struggle over living space? Future Holy Sword Warrior actually even 'speaks up' for ordinary Pokémon."

【52> She then sheepishly touched her hair, "During the move, we didn't do proper investigation; to put it bluntly, the root cause is us, which might be called 'every sip and bite has its destiny'."

She touched her hair again, a bit embarrassed. "We didn't investigate properly during the migration; to put it bluntly, the source of the incident was ourselves — perhaps this is what they call 'every sip and peck is predestined'."

"So afterward, we still need you to handle it yourselves."

Baimu confirmed the range and said: "The rules we set, they may not necessarily obey honestly."

Breaking Flame obviously felt somewhat guilty, acting as if it hadn't heard, observing the surroundings.

Wisdom and tyranny are not opposites; its demand for territory far exceeds that of its two brothers, otherwise it wouldn't have specially run to the upper layer.

"Don't worry! We'll handle it well!"

Xin Li laughed heartily.

Having other region's champions handle our alliance's mistakes—saying it's not embarrassing is definitely false.

But everyone also didn't react overly sensitively.

First, Baimu has a very good relationship with the Padia Alliance; second, those in the Pokémon world who are truly willing to do practical work don't care much about face.

The new territory for Breaking Sky Blaze was settled.

Baimu stood at the edge, looking at this Rampardos, "I hope you can abide by the agreement. Your brothers too. Otherwise, when I come next time, it won't be so easy to negotiate."

Turning, he addressed the Future Swordsmen: "You as well. As long as they don't do anything overstepping, you cannot go looking for trouble with them again."

"Dulu~~!"

Bastiodon gave an affirmative answer.

Their fundamental purpose in driving away the Ancient Ho-Oh Guard was for the peace of Area Zero.

As long as the opponent is honest enough, they naturally can also live independently in peace.

Baimu then looked toward the Breaking Sky Blaze who had not yet expressed a stance.

"... Ao!"

It let out a low roar, turned its head and suddenly leaped up, disappearing into the rock walls and caves in a few bounds.

Baimu gazed at its retreating figure and said, "You all disperse as well."

The Future Swordsmen's electronic eyes flickered; they stepped back a few steps, then swiftly turned and withdrew.

Who doesn't yearn for freedom?

The territory dispute ended, and the conflict between Ancient species and Future species was considered temporarily settled.

Baimu recalled all his Pokémon, his peripheral vision catching sight of Flutter Mane hiding in the dark.

This couldn't help but remind him of the former Roaring Moon.

Back then, Roaring Moon had also chased them for a long time, until it couldn't catch up and returned to the Second Observation Station to wait for them to come back.

Flutter Mane...

"Does it want to play with Roaring Moon? Make friends?"

Penny made a bold hypothesis.

Peony rolled her eyes at him, "Who wants to make friends with someone by bullying them!"

The Young Lady Tsareena, who had had a bad experience, absolutely did not agree with this kind of behavior.

Penny realized she had misspoken and hurriedly laughed it off, "I'm just extrapolating from that guy Roaring Moon's bizarre behavior!

"Think about it, why was Roaring Moon so noisy back then, yet got caught by Baimu?"

Roaring Moon hated loneliness, so it dispelled the loneliness in its heart through noisy racket, and also yearned for the lively Baimu quartet.

Flutter Mane bullying Roaring Moon — its thinking might be similar.

After all, Ancient Paradox Pokémon are generally very savage!

Hearing Penny's words, Peony also began to think rationally, "Hmm... what you say isn't without reason..."

"Let Roaring Moon go ask?"

Penny proposed.

Baimu lowered his head to look at Roaring Moon, "What do you think?"

"Yiya..."

Through the Rotom Phone's translation, Roaring Moon learned the content of what Penny said, and unprecedentedly began to think.

Before, it definitely wouldn't have done that, but having stayed with Baimu for a long time, it inevitably picked up some qualities.

Such as composure and empathy.

Although these two qualities both have cooldowns lasting hours or even days, and are easily overridden by other qualities, they indeed occasionally come in handy.

On a whim, it decided to give it a try.

Baimu then approached Flutter Mane together with it; the latter, as always, was bold, letting them approach.

On the contrary, Flutter Mane even welcomed them, circling around the two of them.

"Kami? Kami?"

"You say it yourself."

Baimu gently pushed Roaring Moon; some things he could handle on behalf of his Pokémon, but occasionally they also needed to act on their own.

Roaring Moon mustered its courage, "Yiya? Yi~ya!"

'Do you want to be friends with me?'

It nervously gazed at the frolicking Flutter Mane.

Flutter Mane's figure suddenly froze, as if its thoughts were exposed; it turned its head to the side, then used its wings to cover its face, as if shy.

Roaring Moon's eyes widened, "Yiya? Yiya——"

'You actually really——'

"Kami."

Flutter Mane abruptly lowered its wings, revealing a disgusted expression, "Kami? Kami!"

'Friends? You're so gross!'

Roaring Moon: "!!!"

It was as if struck by lightning, frozen in place.

Flutter Mane tilted its head slightly, looking down at it with a disdainful gaze, "Kami~ Kami!"

"It says it just thinks Roaring Moon is fun, a very interesting toy..."

The Rotom Phone sighed with emotion, "Such pure malice; Ancient species are all too pure."

Baimu: "..."

He hurriedly lowered his head to look at Roaring Moon; the Wicked Wigglytuff right now wasn't wicked at all, eyes brimming with tears, body trembling.

Yet Flutter Mane still refused to let it off, drawing close and mocking: "Kami? Ka——"

"Fine, since you don't want to be friends, then stay away."

Baimu kicked sideways, pushing Zhenyifa away.

Just as he was about to mock the crying howl of the weakling Zhenyifa, he was interrupted, instantly showing an annoyed expression.

"Kami!"

It shot up into the air, its entire body releasing brilliant rainbow light.

Ready to attack at the slightest disagreement!

The odd-colored Gengar from the shadows flew out, the multi-sided phone immediately prepared to raise a shield, but neither was as fast as the howl tail.

Only seen with tears in the corners of its eyes, it angrily leapt high, its body suddenly spinning like a metal sphere!

【Gyro Ball】!

Buzz!

The metal sphere collided with the rainbow light, the two opposing energies suddenly exploding!

Bang!

Smoke billowed, followed immediately by two entwined figures falling simultaneously.

Only seen, the howl tail bit Zhenyifa's wing, carrying its full anger as it continued to spin.

The metallic luster flashed again.

"This guy only remembers type advantage, forgetting the effect!"

The multi-sided phone complained.

【Gyro Ball】 is a Pokémon whose power increases the slower the opponent is compared to it.

The howl tail's speed is not slow, despite the type advantage, but hitting Zhenyifa may not cause much damage.

Unless the opponent is much faster than it!

But if that's the case, how could Zhenyifa be caught?

Both fell to the ground, the howl tail continuously swinging and crushing Zhenyifa's body; it had been with Baimu for half a year, its level hadn't improved much, but its combat awareness had been cultivated.

Now it could be said to have transformed, and that would not be an exaggeration.

Meanwhile, Zhenyifa had not expected that the guy it used to bully casually could now unleash enough force to crush it; in pain, it still tried desperately to counterattack.

But the howl tail had no intention of giving it that chance.

"Yiya!!"

Having learned type compatibility, it naturally no longer uselessly shouted at the Ghost-type Zhenyifa as before.

It either used Play Rough or used Bite and Gyro Ball.

A series of attacks left Zhenyifa unable to defend, and after just a few attempts at resistance, it collapsed and fainted.

"Yiya!"

The howl tail stared at the fainted Zhenyifa, still wanting to whip the corpse.

Baimu quickly intervened: "Alright, alright, forget it, forget it."

"Yiya..."

The howl tail looked at the trainer, recalling how he had just stood in front of it; the anger in its heart gradually faded, and its angry eyes once again welled with tears as it cried out, "Yiya!"

It's all your fault! Making me get mocked again!

"My fault, my fault, I'll make you something delicious tonight."

Baimu squatted down, rubbing its face, and after a long while finally soothed the evil Chubby.

In the distance.

Paipa and the others seemed to have realized something too.

"Did I guess wrong?" he asked sheepishly.

Baimu nodded: "Zhenyifa is purely malicious, indeed having no intention of befriending the howl tail."

"..."

Mudan adjusted her glasses.

Paipa chuckled apologetically to the howl tail: "Sorry, it's my fault, I'm sorry."

"Howl tail, I'm also very sorry to you; I should have been firmer."

Mudan echoed.

Clearly someone who had suffered a loss, yet still believed Paipa's theory.

The howl tail looked at their two sincere attitudes, pouted and turned its head, "Yiya!"

"Not willing to forgive..."

"No, it has forgiven you."

Baimu explained on behalf of the howl tail.

Paipa and Mudan then relaxed.

Xinli laughed heartily: "You two are really interesting, making Xinli sister also want to travel with you!"

The brief interlude passed.

Baimu took Zhenyifa as a researched Pokémon to subdue, handing it to Xinli for handling.

The howl tail stared at that Poké Ball, only then realizing it could defeat the creature that had bullied it before, and couldn't help but beam with joy.

"Yiya~ Yiya~"

"Keep trying; right now you're far from being a 'main force.'" Baimu pinched its cheek.

The howl tail was full of confidence, vowing to defeat other Pokémon and become the strongest.

Indeed, it had become somewhat swollen with pride.

Evening.

Nemo sat on Milotic, windblown and dusty, exhausted beyond measure, handing two Poké Balls to Baimu. "I take back what I said..."

"Thanks for the trouble. Look after these two for me."

"It really was trouble... How are the Ancient Roaring Moon Guard and the Future Iron Leaves Swordsman? Did they start fighting again?"

"Resolved for now. Released them."

"—Hah?"

"Simply put, it's..."

After hearing Baimu's account, Nemo wore an expression of despair. "I actually missed such an important event."

A whole day wasted on two lizards.

Baimu smiled. "It's fine. I'll still be counting on you from now on, after all I can't come to Paldea often."

Six Poké Balls were handed to Nemo as a matter of course.

Should they break the pact, Nemo would be the first to punish them; if Nemo can't handle it.

Then have her come to the Paldea region's Glaseado Mountain, and ask Champion Baimu for help.

Nemo accepted solemnly.

"Tomorrow return to the surface, then prepare a bit and we can go to Blueberry Academy." The Rotom Phone lit up the memo.

Blueberry Academy.

One of Shanian's alma maters.

A place that has produced countless strange Trainers.

Baimu was very curious about it, and at the same time hadn't forgotten a certain related promise he once made.