Chapter 1479

Platinum Silver Mountain Villa.

Baimu's first reaction upon opening his eyes was to check the time.

"Synchronized? Good thing I didn't wait too long." He saw the electronic clock in the corner clearly displaying four days after the transmigration.

At the same time, a cat's meow came from outside the door.

"Meow?"

Alolan Meow Meow hurriedly ran in, happily greeting the trainer with a full face, "Meow~"

"Thanks for keeping watch."

Baimu bent down to pick it up, stroking its silky smooth fur with his fingers while letting his multifunctional phone check the situation in the Ore region.

Many of his actions showed considerable restraint, so he should not have caused any major changes.

Indeed, the liberation process of the Ore region, compared to when he left, could be said to have undergone no change at all, except that the multifunctional phone could not find Qingmu.

"Damn! Blocked by the Multibeast Wall!"

It said angrily, indeed having encountered a setback in front of the Ore Rescue Organization and the Sinnoh region population database, "Still, the past was better!"

Baimu broke into a sweat, "No, why do you always secretly try to sneak in? Don't forget I'm your trainer and now I'm a champion! Just apply and it'll be fine!"

"Not used to it yet……"

The multifunctional phone muttered resentfully.

Actually, it finds it troublesome—why ask for permission when you can just rush in yourself for convenience?

But considering that in this era everyone is on guard against Multibeasts and Rotom, going through the procedure is also perfectly reasonable.

The multifunctional phone submitted an application in Baimu's name to both regions.

On the Ore side, approval came quickly, and it swiftly obtained information about 【Qingmu】 in the Rescue Organization, the title surprisingly being classified.

——"Dragon trainer of unknown origin, purpose and identity unclear, appearing briefly in the Ore region under a false identity."

"Note: Suspected destroyer of the dark Pokémon production line."

After hearing this, Baimu nodded slightly, "Time is too tight—the production line was destroyed front foot, I went missing back foot, being linked together is quite normal."

In the Sinnoh region, approval was slightly slower, but they sent someone to call and inquire about the detailed situation, as well as whether additional help was needed.

The multifunctional phone's response was: "For the detailed investigation of existing residents in Meteor Village, we'll handle it ourselves here."

Baimu's ancestral home being Meteor Village is by no means a secret anymore.

Therefore, even though he is not the Sinnoh champion, the Sinnoh League still treats him with great friendliness and cooperation, living up to being his second hometown.

However, the Sinnoh region's file on 【Qingmu】 has already been deleted.

After the Meteor people were born and established Meteor Village, they were all registered by Shi Yuan Zhi in the Sinnoh region's "household registry," during which process they naturally discovered the impostor 【Qingmu】, but everyone didn't pay too much attention and simply deleted it.

However, the file manager suddenly recalled that the International Police had investigated this file several times before, even going to register and visit Kanaez City, and what happened afterward, he doesn't know.

"No problem, you should be considered a Shadow Power Expert."

The multifunctional phone said.

Baimu wondered: "What does 'Shadow Power Expert' mean?"

The multifunctional phone replied: "It means someone who looks unimpressive but actually possesses the ability to change the world, indeed appearing briefly during a certain period, and finally vanishing without a trace—a powerful one!"

"... Isn't that just a sweeping monk? Stop watching useless stuff!"

Baimu felt quite speechless.

The multifunctional phone hehe-laughed: "Isn't this just idling around watching the odd-colored Gastly?"

Upon learning that the world's trajectory hadn't changed, Baimu, even after completely letting go of his worries, immediately informed Bossukodora of this good news.

Bossukodora didn't notice any strange new memories in herself, and likewise felt very happy.

It most feared that its relationship with Baimu would undergo some kind of change.

——

Ore Academy.

Baimu stood in the teaching building's corridor, facing the window opposite.

Although he had given Mingyi half a month's time, he still wondered whether, after four or five days had passed, this little girl's assignment had made any progress.

"Based on my guess, I estimate she'll only finish it at the very last moment." The multifunctional phone evaluated.

Baimu doubted: "Why say that?"

"All stories are performed this way!"

It declared confidently, "If it's not completed at the very last moment, how can character growth be demonstrated?"

Baimu: "Then I think you might have guessed wrong."

"Why?"

The multifunctional phone quickly discovered the reason: beside Mingyi, for some unknown reason, a messenger bird had suddenly appeared.

Most likely it had run out from the desk.

Mingyi was obviously startled, trying to shove the messenger bird back in.

But unfortunately, she failed, instead causing the teacher on the podium to notice her and the messenger bird's little movements, "Mingyi classmate~ you can't release Pokémon during class~"

"Yes, yes, sorry, Messenger Bird, behave a little." Mingyi, anxious and sweating profusely, seemed unable to control it, instead letting the messenger bird run wild heedlessly.

Fortunately, before it could cause a disturbance for long, a wave of telekinetic force from afar seized it.

It was none other than Baimu outside the window.

Mingyi still didn't know what had happened; she merely hurriedly used a Poké Ball to recall the messenger bird, then shrunk and locked it.

Generally speaking, as long as the Pokémon inside isn't desperately struggling, a shrunk and locked Poké Ball cannot be escaped from.

After Mingyi apologized embarrassedly to the teacher and classmates, she obediently sat down and continued listening to the lesson.

Baimu glanced around, noticing that although the lesson had been disrupted, everyone's faces showed no rejection toward Mingyi, most were smiling.

The teacher's expression was also friendly.

He nodded slightly.

Disputes between students are a very important link to pay attention to!

Aura Academy absolutely cannot be like a certain village, willing to throw away their lives, even if the world ends, they still go bully the weak, even those not so weak, forming a bullying culture and bullying will.

After class.

Quite a few students rushed out of the classroom first thing, but due to the presence of Breath Concealment, none of them managed to discover the principal standing right by the door; most simply ignored him and walked past.

Taking advantage of the classroom becoming empty, Baimu went straight inside to Meiyi's side.

At this moment, she was holding the Messenger Bird's Poké Ball in her hands, her face full of worry, not knowing what to do.

"What's wrong?"

Baimu sat down in front of her.

Meiyi did not realize the person speaking to her was the principal, and subconsciously replied: "The Messenger Bird... it seems like it doesn't like me... should I release it back to the wild?"

"Why would you think that?"

"Because—eek!"

The instant Meiyi raised her head, she got a huge fright, stood up straight, and said: "Principal!"

"No need to be so worked up, sit down, sit down."

Baimu waved his hand casually, "We're that familiar already, so stop being so jumpy every time, okay? I'm only a few years older than you."

Meiyi timidly sat back down, "But you're the principal..."

"Is the principal not a person? Doing it like this makes everyone uncomfortable. Alright, tell me about the Messenger Bird issue first, why do you want to release it? Casually catching and releasing isn't good." Baimu started discussing the proper business with her.

Mentioning this, Meiyi said with a bitter face: "Because all of this was a coincidence."

She told him everything that had happened recently.

It turned out, after getting the assignment from Baimu, she thought about it on her own for a while, then went to seek help from the current campus's jack-of-all-trades 【Super Z Squad】.

Shengcai and the others were very familiar with Meiyi, so naturally they accepted this mission without hesitation.

Just in swimming, Shengcai and Piru both couldn't swim; only Taini and Dailuo, who used to live in a seaside city, could.

Therefore the learning-to-swim squad expanded from one person to three people.

Affected by beginner factors, their progress was relatively slow, so they decided to put the other assignment on the agenda as well—

Catch a new Water-type Pokémon.

In Shengcai and the others' view, long-distance sea travel would surely be more suitable relying on a large Water-type Pokémon, so they asked Meiyi if she had any preferences.

Meiyi had never caught a Pokémon before, and wasn't too keen on catching a new one either; she felt with her current ability, she couldn't take care of that many Pokémon at once, but since this was set by Baimu, she could only try.

She definitely had no preferences.

Meiyi, like N, unconditionally liked all of them.

Shengcai and the others gave her suggestions.

Considering Meiyi was from the Unova region, and was a girl, they decided to help look for Pokémon like Drifloon, Swanna, or Miltank.

But these Pokémon didn't exist near the academy island, so they asked a familiar school worker to take a boat to the nearby sea to search.

Shengcai certainly couldn't swim, but she had quite a few Water-type Pokémon in her possession.

The others were the same.

Dailuo even had several Water-type Pokémon, and even gave her Mega Stone to Starmie; in finding Water-type Pokémon she was a pro.

And when Baimu heard the two words "school worker," he subconsciously thought of three figures, "The school workers you mentioned, are they Musashi, Kojiro, and them?"

"Right right! It's Teacher Musashi and Teacher Kojiro!" Meiyi nodded rapidly, then said annoyedly: "We only found out later that they're not just school workers, but also handicraft teachers, really rude of us!"

You really are everywhere!

Baimu only felt the plot sounded more and more familiar; if these three scoundrels weren't currently working for him, he'd suspect these guys wanted to go after Shengcai and the others' Pokémon.

"What happened after?"

"After that we went to the nearby sea..."

When Meiyi recalled the experience she was smiling, obviously having played very happily with Shengcai and the others, which also made Baimu very relieved.

So why did Meiyi catch the Messenger Bird?

The actual situation, even she herself couldn't figure out.

Clearly with Shengcai's help, she successfully hooked a Miltank, but why was it a Messenger Bird that got caught after the Poké Ball was thrown, and where did this Messenger Bird come from?

After Meiyi accidentally caught it, she originally wanted to release the Messenger Bird, but was stopped by Shengcai and the others.

They thought this might be fate; otherwise how could it be such a coincidence, Meiyi should cherish it.

Although the Messenger Bird wasn't their operation's final target, it itself possessed super strong endurance and carrying capacity, so it should also be able to meet the course requirements.

Under their coaxing, Meiyi brought the Messenger Bird back.

However, the coincidentally caught Messenger Bird was unwilling to listen to Meiyi; compared to the Audino and Torkoal that could communicate peacefully, it appeared far too unruly.

To the point that Meiyi had the thought of releasing it back to nature several times, yet didn't know how to bring it up to Shengcai and the others, so she could only endure for now.

"I see..."

Baimu generally understood.

At the same time, he formed a guess about the Messenger Bird.

He softly comforted: "The reason the Messenger Bird doesn't listen to you is actually very simple: you're too weak."

"As expected." Meiyi had guessed as much, and after getting the answer from Baimu, she was utterly dejected.

Baimu continued: "Precisely because of this, you should continue to get stronger, and earn the Messenger Bird's acknowledgment. Or, do you have some objection to the Messenger Bird, do you dislike it?"

"No no!"

Meiyi hurriedly waved her hands; she really did like the Messenger Bird, or rather, she had a favorable impression of all Pokémon.

"No matter what you want to do in the future, whether it's becoming a Coordinator or going to help N save wild Pokémon, strength comes first."

Baimu said, "Do your best. How to earn the Messenger Bird's trust is the new assignment I'm giving you. Remember, Pokémon are sincere; as long as you treat them with sincerity, they'll see it."

When did Charizard start acknowledging Ash?

It was that night when it was injured by Ice Punch, and Ash, disregarding his own exhaustion, warmed it without stopping for a moment.

The unruly Charizard finally realized that from beginning to end, Ash was still that same boy — the one who would reach out a helping hand to it on a rainy night, bravely say no to the Trainer who once abandoned it, and strive to catch up to him.

Precisely because of this, Charizard lowered its head and continued to be Ash's most loyal partner.

"Mhm!"

Meiyi nodded vigorously, confidence welling up under the principal's reassurance.

Baimu stood up and walked out the door, heading straight for the office he'd assigned to the Team Rocket trio — a place that had undoubtedly already been remodeled into a secret base by the trio in the throes of their chuunibyou.

Bang!

He pushed open the door and asked the startled James, "That Messenger Bird — it's Team Rocket's Messenger Bird, right?"

The Team Rocket trio in the office exchanged glances, not expecting Baimu to find out so fast.

Meowth approached awkwardly: "This is all a misunderstanding, nya. You have to believe us, nya."

"That's right, that's right, we didn't expect it either……"

"It was completely a sudden accident!"

The three explained in a babble of overlapping voices.

Only then did Baimu learn that the Messenger Bird had lost its job because the Team Rocket trio didn't go chase Ash, calling the Gacha Machine for support instead. In pain and sorrow, it traveled ten thousand li to Orre, secretly tailing the Team Rocket trio, wanting to find evidence of their negligence.

As a result, it was inadvertently caught by Meiyi — truly a coincidence.

Baimu found it strange: "Why could it be caught? Isn't it your Team Rocket Pokémon?"

"It's already been fired, nya."

Meowth raised a claw, then patted its chest, "Besides, nya, even Meowth can be caught."

Indeed.

Team Rocket's Meowth has nearly been caught by Poké Balls several times.

In any case, within Team Rocket there are also differences between Pokémon and Pokémon. Smarter ones like the Messenger Bird that can accept missions are treated as official members.

The ones in the Gacha Machine are comparatively stupid, only knowing how to fight, so at most they count as auxiliary members who can be called upon at any time.

But because Baimu had taken action against Team Rocket several times, their internal efficiency was too poor to support that many official members, so Team Rocket launched a layoff mode.

Many people and Pokémon were laid off, and the Messenger Bird was one of them.

The unfortunate unemployed one came to make trouble for the Team Rocket trio, but ended up roping itself in, now facing a future of room and board included.