Chapter 1080: Return to the Future

Passed away?

All Baimu and Long Ren looked at each other in disbelief.

They were full of curiosity about who the mastermind was, specially bringing new masks here, and it turned out they had already passed away?

The young man outside was still vigilant, but after seeing the strange-looking Pecharunt, the vigilance turned into disgust.

"It's this bad thing!"

"Bad thing..."

All Baimu twitched the corner of his mouth and found Pecharunt still looking for the Grandpa Masahiko family the young man mentioned, pulling open a screen from time to time, its expression switching between expectation and frustration.

It looked like it didn't understand what "passed away" meant.

And from Pecharunt's appearance, it could be seen that it had a deep affection for Grandpa Masahiko's family.

Long Ren whispered: "What do we do now?"

"What do we do..."

All Baimu patted his forehead.

The young man observed them from afar, suddenly turned and ran, shouting at the top of his lungs while running: "That bad thing is back! The evil magical beast that bewitched Grandpa Masahiko and Grandma Shiko is back! Everyone come quickly!"

"Ah??"

Long Ren was shocked, lifting his foot to chase.

All Baimu stopped him and said: "Let him shout, it saves us from having to find someone else to ask about the situation."

Long Ren thought it made sense and released Rhyperior to avoid unnecessary conflicts.

Life in Kitakami Village these days had given him a general understanding of the ancient social environment, knowing that the taller the Pokémon, the easier it was to deter ordinary people.

Pecharunt searched all the rooms but couldn't find its beloved grandparents, feeling lost and somewhat confused.

"Mu?"

Where did they go?

At the same time.

The quiet village gradually became lively.

Young and strong male villagers held pitchforks and sticks, surrounding this abandoned wooden house in groups, shouting loudly for the two to come out.

They wanted to break in, but when they saw Rhyperior, they stopped very tacitly.

"Mu!"

Pecharunt frantically sought protection from Okidogi and the others, but the Treasure Companions were all in All Baimu's Poké Balls.

It had no choice but to roll on the spot and turn into a peach to play dead.

"This guy..."

All Baimu looked at its appearance, thinking of the information he had seen from the Pokédex before, and felt somewhat speechless for no reason.

【Pokémon:??? (Temporary name Pecharunt)】

【Attribute: Poison + Ghost (Tentative)】

【Gender: None】

【Height: 27cm/0.3kg】

【Ability:???】

【Level: 70】

【Moves: Sludge Bomb/Poison Gas/Memento/Astonish】

【Withdraw/Destiny Bond/Fake Tears/Parting Shot】

【Shadow Ball/Toxic/Nasty Plot/Recover/???】

It's a level 70 Pokémon, what are you afraid of? Could it be that the ancient people's levels are higher than yours?

All Baimu picked up the peach and patted it twice, "Cowardly and bad!"

"Mu!"

Pecharunt shook its body, seemingly protesting.

The time spent together made it know that All Baimu wouldn't hurt it at will except for forcing it to do chores, so it became much bolder.

"Everyone, please calm down! We came here just to find the owner of this magical beast."

Long Ren stepped forward to negotiate with the villagers.

His innocent youth appearance made many people restrain their hostility.

He continued: "We came from Kitakami Village. This magical beast and its accomplices caused chaos in Kitakami Village and were tamed by us. We traced the source to your precious land..."

"It's not a magical beast from our village! We are also victims! And this bad thing harmed Grandpa Masahiko's family!"

The young man from before said through gritted teeth.

Hearing someone mention Grandpa, Pecharunt quietly opened its shell to look outside.

All Baimu glanced at it and asked: "Can you explain in detail?"

Suddenly.

Shouting sounded from behind the crowd.

"Put down your weapons! What does it look like to shout and kill! Make way!"

The panicked villagers stood to both sides immediately, revealing a middle-aged man.

A smile appeared on the other party's face, "Two magical beast users have come from afar, welcome, welcome, I am the village chief of Peach Village. The country bumpkins are rude, I hope you will be magnanimous."

The village chief is this cultured?

All Baimu was surprised in his heart, and on the surface, he also said: "It was our rudeness, I wonder if the village chief can explain the situation here?"

"Please allow me to explain while entertaining the two of you."

The village chief of Peach Village took the initiative to invite them.

And so.

The scene changed.

They came to a tea room laid with tatami mats.

The village chief didn't sell it short, just looked at the helpless Pecharunt with complex eyes, recounting the ins and outs he knew.

It turned out that Pecharunt was adopted by an old couple who had lost their middle-aged son.

Even if it was a magical beast, they still treated it as their own.

But for some reason, the original kind and simple old couple changed their temperament, becoming reclusive and greedy, wanting to get whatever they saw.

For this reason, Pecharunt often stole various things from the villagers' homes.

Since it wasn't clear who had stolen them at the time, everyone could only eat a dumb loss.

Who would have thought that all the nearby villages had been stolen!

So much so that various rumors spread around, and some people thought it was a magical beast raging, spending heavy money to hire magical beast users to solve it.

In the end, nothing was gained.

Until some time ago, the old couple suddenly appeared and told the villagers the truth—the things were all entrusted by them to Pecharunt to steal.

Then they returned everything they had stolen.

They even wanted to go to other villages to admit their mistakes to those victims and return the stolen items, but were stopped by the villagers.

On one hand, the old couple were kind to others on weekdays, and they felt there was a reason; on the other hand, if others knew that the perpetrator of such a shocking case was in Peach Village.

Wouldn't their village be ruined?

After the old couple was stopped, they didn't say anything and returned home quietly.

It was just that when the villagers went to the door again, they were shocked to find that the old couple had already passed away.

"... Was it suicide?"

Long Ren's eyes widened.

The village chief said sorrowfully: "Not sure... but Grandpa Masahiko left a letter, saying he was ashamed of his ancestors and had no face to see us again. We collected the remains of the two elders and, according to the instructions in the letter, properly buried them in the peach forest."

The tea room was peaceful.

Until sharp gasps suddenly sounded, originating from the collapsing Pecharunt.

"Mu——Mu!!"

It screamed, constantly shaking its head, its voice filled with pain and despair.

Clearly, Pecharunt finally understood what they were saying.

It flew outward suddenly, disappearing in an instant.

The village chief said in surprise: "This..."

"May I have a look at the letter?" All Baimu didn't care about Pecharunt's whereabouts at all, just wanted to see the letter.

The village chief nodded with a complex expression.

A moment later.

All Baimu and Long Ren bowed their heads to observe, the latter blinked, "All Baimu, can you understand?"

"Yeah."

He responded without raising his head.

The knowledge infusion from the calligrapher made it very easy for him to read these letters from hundreds of years ago.

The content described above was not much different from what the village chief said.

But the old couple didn't blame Pecharunt in the letter, just saying they were too greedy and ate too much toxic sticky mochi, which stimulated their own potential greed.

It was Pecharunt's unintentional mistake.

If Pecharunt returned safely one day, they hoped the village chief and villagers would drive it away, and not hurt its life.

The two were willing to die to apologize.

"A tragedy from beginning to end."

All Baimu sighed, spotting another item taken out by the village chief, and said: "This is?"

"A relic found among them."

The village chief pointed to the crude little Pecharunt doll that could be seen.

Undoubtedly.

Even after the old couple sobered up, they still loved and missed the Pecharunt that had gone far away.

Unfortunately, influenced by All Baimu, Pecharunt was trapped in Kitakami Village...

Even without him, it was estimated that it would be very difficult to catch up.

According to All Baimu's understanding, the reason the old couple sobered up should be because Pecharunt was defeated by Ogerpon.

Because many people at the festival venue who hadn't eaten Pecha Berries also inexplicably regained consciousness.

Without the help of the Treasure Companions, it was very difficult for Pecharunt to return to Peach Village in a short time.

A doomed tragedy?

"Sorry to bother you."

All Baimu stood up and went to the peach forest pointed out by the village chief with the bewildered Long Ren.

Under a giant peach tree, they saw a simple grave mound and the Pecharunt that had fled.

This palm-sized guy was foolishly looking at the grave mound.

All Baimu felt the vibration at his waist, thought for a moment, and released all the Treasure Companions.

"Ao/Zhi/Gu!"

They surrounded Pecharunt, their faces full of worry.

No response was received.

The sorrow in Pecharunt's heart was so thick that All Baimu could see at a glance that the passing of the old couple was a bigger blow to it than being beaten or doing hard labor.

For a Pokémon with a fragile heart, it was estimated that it would be very difficult to get through.

After a long time.

A few tears fell slowly.

The silent crying showed the sadness in its heart.

All Baimu didn't go up to educate Pecharunt, saying something like "This is the price of making a mistake"; he knew that even if he didn't speak, the other party had already fully realized it.

He placed the small Pecharunt doll on its head and left with Long Ren.

The doll fell.

Pecharunt's gaze fell with it, tears streaming down like a spring.

"Mu! Mu!"

It could no longer suppress the sound of crying, like a child who had lost its home.

——

After a long time.

Inside Peach Village.

All Baimu waited for the three bewildered Treasure Companions and the Pecharunt that had turned into a peach.

The Porygon phone scanned and said: "Its mental power is very weak, it is estimated that the mental blow was too great, and it is going to fall into a long sleep."

Long Ren: "Long sleep? Will it be a long time?"

"Not sure. Phantom Pokémon are usually a group of unverified Pokémon, and no one knows their habits and abilities."

The Porygon phone couldn't give the correct answer.

Long Ren then looked at All Baimu, "Do you want to leave it here? Bury it under that tree?"

"Peach Village probably can't accommodate them."

All Baimu shook his head.

Burying the sleeping Pecharunt in the ground might be nothing, but what about the Treasure Companions?

They would inevitably be active nearby.

Separating them was estimated to be very difficult.

Not to mention that their own power relied on Pecharunt, they themselves were unwilling to separate from Pecharunt.

"Take it back to Kitakami Village, only that place can accommodate them."

All Baimu thought of Boro and Ogerpon.

Leaving these few guys to them to manage might be a good decision.

Take it back?

Not to mention whether Arceus would agree, there was already a sleeping Phantom Beast at home.

Leaving it in Kitakami Village, maybe they could meet again in the future.

If they really had fate.

All Baimu and Long Ren bid farewell to the village chief of Peach Village and borrowed Dragonite's power to cross mountains and rivers to return to Kitakami Village.

At this time.

Boro and Ogerpon's new residence had been built almost completely.

In front of the shrine's open space, Cha-Cu and another youth were having a battle with Sinistcha and Rockruff.

All Baimu had once exhorted them that if they wanted magical beasts to become powerful, battles were unavoidable.

Some time ago, he often pulled them to the shrine and used Long Ren's Pokémon to bully them.

Seeing the two return, everyone expressed great happiness.

Boro also agreed without any hesitation to take care of Pecharunt, and Ogerpon successfully became the new boss of the Treasure Companions, often holding the Spiky Vine Club and eyeing them covetously.

The Treasure Companions were sweating profusely.

Seeing that everything that should be done had been done, All Baimu secretly handed the self-made Hisui Poké Ball to Cha-Cu and discussed the matter of returning with Long Ren.

"Are you leaving already?"

Long Ren thought they would go to Hisui to take a look.

All Baimu said: "Almost, anyway, I can't take it anymore."

In these recent days, he missed his own Pokémon more and more, and could dream of their figures every night.

Sometimes he would subconsciously shout when he got up.

If it weren't for worrying about the existence of the Crystal Pool's travel limit, he estimated he would have started traveling back and forth between the two timelines long ago.

"Fine."

Long Ren nodded.

Hearing that they were about to leave, many people and Pokémon expressed extreme reluctance.

"Bonieo..."

Ogerpon looked at him with eager eyes.

Besides Boro, the human it liked the most was All Baimu, who was very gentle to it.

Long Ren, because he was always startled, wasn't taken much to heart by it.

"Meeting is fate, we will meet again if fate allows."

All Baimu smiled and touched its head, and said to Pecharunt, who was placed on the offering table: "I'm leaving, I'll come to see you when I have time, you must learn to turn over a new leaf."

Pecharunt had no reaction.

The Treasure Companions looked at each other, not knowing why they were also a bit reluctant.

"Stay well, if your boss wants to do evil again, persuade it, so as not to have people like me appear again."

All Baimu touched their heads in a friendly manner.

The Treasure Companions immediately looked submissive.

Before rushing to the back mountain.

Cha-Cu rushed over panting, his eyes red as he said: "Can you take me with you? I can do anything, I can do everything."

"Sorry Cha-Cu, the road we have to walk is only for us."

All Baimu patted him on the shoulder, "Work hard, youth, with your talent, even without us, you can have a very brilliant future."

Long Ren said with a grin: "Just don't forget what we taught you!"

"..."

Cha-Cu bit his lip stubbornly.

Until the two went up the mountain, he suddenly knelt down and kowtowed three times to them, "Master! I won't let you down!"

In the woods.

The two heard the shouts coming from behind and smiled at each other.

On the way, they encountered a Haunter again.

All Baimu gave it the last honey candy in his pocket, which was also specially prepared for it, "Goodbye, friend."

"Hu?"

Haunter chewed the candy, quite puzzled.

All Baimu smiled: "Nothing."

At the top of the mountain.

The Crystal Pool with flowing brilliance.

Long Ren wasn't here for the first time, but it was the first time he was so close, squatting by the shore, "Just touch it and—"

Before the words fell.

The person had disappeared.

Traveling as soon as he said, the efficiency was exaggeratedly high.

All Baimu turned his head to look in the direction of Kitakami Village, took a deep breath and said: "See you in the modern era!"

Familiar people and Pokémon.

See you again!

He touched the pool water lightly.

The next moment, his eyes suddenly fell into darkness, and his consciousness became blurred.

Don't know how long it had passed.

The darkness faded, the scene before his eyes gradually became clear, but his brain was still chaotic.

"This is... the dormitory?"

All Baimu looked at the quiet dormitory, turned his head to scan the giant crystal cluster, and asked himself in confusion, "Why am I outside the door?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1081 =====