Chapter 1352: Mother and Daughter

An Xin'er believed Hu Pa's words.

"Where is this strange dimensional Miare—ah!"

The sudden appearance of Darkrai startled her, and at the same time Hu Pa immediately shrank his head back into the golden ring.

But the attack did not happen.

Darkrai merely silently observed these two beings who opened the golden ring, especially Hu Pa.

An Xin'er nervously clenched her small fists and said awkwardly, "You, hello..."

"You... hello."

Darkrai replied politely.

This made An Xin'er's expression relax considerably; she was worried she would be attacked, but subconsciously she did not want to flee.

Only because she felt the Pokémon before her might perhaps be the source of the recent abnormality.

An Xin'er asked, "Is this your home?"

"... No."

Darkrai did not quite understand why the other asked this, thought for a moment, and then suddenly vanished from the spot.

An Xin'er looked around in surprise, "How did he disappear?"

Hu Pa also extended his head again and asked, "Where is that scary guy?"

"I don't know..."

An Xin'er shook her head.

She looked down at the neon-lit modern city below and said, "Let's go down and take a look first."

The distance was too far, she could not see clearly.

Upon hearing this, Hu Pa obediently moved the light ring to the top of the tower.

"Heave-ho~"

An Xin'er stepped onto the flat ground, her apprehensive expression further relaxed.

At this moment, a voice came from beside her.

"Hello."

"Wah!"

An Xin'er trembled with fright, turned her head, and saw a handsome and refined young man, beside whom stood the Darkrai that had just disappeared.

Baimu looked at this strange little girl, then at her side's Hu Pa, with a strange expression, "Where did you come from?"

"We should be the ones asking that!"

Seeing a stranger, Hu Pa actually became bolder, though he still hid behind An Xin'er, but his mouth showed no mercy, shouting, "How did you get into this other dimension?"

Baimu: "... This is not another dimension."

Upon hearing this, An Xin'er looked at Hu Pa and said, "I said this isn't it, didn't I~"

"It must be the doughnuts you gave that are problematic!" Hu Pa firmly refused to admit it was his fault.

Baimu raised his hand to stop their quarrel, "Alright, if you want to argue, you can do it slowly in private; first tell me who you are, where you come from, and what you intend to do."

A little girl who looked no more than six or seven years old, and clearly not the Hu Pa he was familiar with.

This combination was simply absurd enough to throw his thoughts into chaos.

A new character from the game? An original character from the animation?

While Baimu was pondering, An Xin'er honestly explained her origin, "My name is An Xin'er, from Miare City, seeking the legendary Pokémon for my mother."

"Your mother? Your mother is a Pokémon hunter?" The Rotom phone could not help but ask.

An Xin'er looked in surprise at the speaking phone, "No... my mother is a Champion."

"Champion!?"

Baimu and the Rotom phone were full of question marks.

There are only a few female Champions in the market, but it seems none of them have a daughter!

Could it be a former Champion?

Before Baimu could ponder which former Champion An Xin'er's mother was, the Rotom phone beside him had already spoken, "Your mother... is the Kalos Champion, Calem?"

"Mm~ yes."

An Xin'er said somewhat awkwardly.

Baimu: "..."

WTF!?

Calem has a daughter? Illegitimate child!?

Baimu's expression at this moment was like seeing in the movie *I Choose You! * that female character whose mother resembled Cheren by 90%.

He subconsciously turned to the Rotom phone and said, "Quickly contact her."

"Oh."

The Rotom phone hesitated not, and regardless of the current time, directly called Calem.

An Xin'er instinctively wanted to stop, but then suddenly realized something, "How do you have my mother's phone number?"

"I also want to ask, since your mother is Calem, do you not know me?" Baimu stepped forward to let the other see his face clearly in the moonlight, "Are you sure? Little sister?"

He already had a guess in his heart.

Surprisingly, the call connected, at the eerie time of midnight twelve.

Calem's languid voice came from the other end, "If your answer cannot satisfy me, I will take revenge, okay~ Baimu~"

The familiar voice and strange tone made An Xin'er's face show both joy and strangeness; before Baimu could reply, she tremulously asked, "Mother, mother?"

The other end of the phone paused, as if confirming who had called her.

Baimu remained silent for no reason, choosing to watch with ill intent.

A few seconds later, when An Xiner's tense expression became evident, a clear voice came from the opposite side: "Little miss, did you pick up someone else's phone? I am Champion Kaluoni, don't be nervous, I can help you."

"... Mother, I am An Xiner."

An Xiner was about to cry.

She had no idea what was happening, but the voice on the other end of the phone was so familiar.

Noisy sounds came from the other end of the phone, as if Kaluoni's female agent had entered her room and was explaining the situation to her.

Baimu stopped observing and said with a smile: "Hey, did I scare you?"

"... Oh my god, Baimu! You're really a bad guy!" Kaluoni's relieved yet angry voice came through: "Playing this kind of prank in the middle of the night!"

"I'm sorry, but it's not a prank. There really is a little girl named An Xiner in front of me."

Baimu did not continue to provoke her: "She is probably your daughter from a parallel world."

Parallel world.

As soon as this term was spoken, An Xiner, whose eyes were red-rimmed, and Kaluoni on the other end of the phone fell silent at the same time.

Then An Xiner looked toward the neon-lit city of Miallei, feeling all her doubts instantly dispelled, and immediately turned to pinch Hu Pa, angrily saying: "Hu Pa! You definitely opened the wrong door!"

"As I said, Hu Pa only opens the wrong door when he eats the wrong doughnut." Hu Pa turned and fled, and An Xiner pursued him relentlessly.

On the other end of the phone, Kaluoni let out a long sigh: "Baimu, did I offend you somewhere?"

Disturbing her sleep in the middle of the night, saying a bunch of nonsensical things.

What daughter, what parallel world.

If she were a bit slower, her mind wouldn't be able to keep up right now.

"It's not true. Precisely because I consider you a good friend, I'm telling you this important matter."

Baimu said with a smiling face: "Aren't you curious what your daughter would look like if you had one?"

Kaluoni fell silent again.

How could she not care? Or rather, she is simply too curious about this parallel world's daughter.

——Premised on Baimu really not deceiving her.

Her intuition told Kaluoni that the other party wouldn't do something so boring in the middle of the night.

So she said: "Where are you? In Miallei City?"

"Yes, I and she are at the top of the Prism Tower." Baimu glanced at An Xiner, who was currently pinching faces with Hu Pa.

Needless to say, this little girl is truly very cute.

In her previous life, she would probably be mocked with a Xia Ya emoji pack.

Kaluoni gave an address: "Can you bring her over?"

"I'll try."

"Alright, I'm coming right away."

The phone hung up.

Baimu looked at An Xiner and said: "Are you interested in meeting your mother's parallel world counterpart?"

"... This."

The little girl fidgeted a little: "Okay, I also want to see what my mother looked like when she was young."

Baimu raised an eyebrow: "Young? How old is your mother?"

An Xiner did not directly state her mother's age, but instead told Baimu the time of her world.

It was only three years later!

"Three years? Impossible! Miallei City was destroyed five years ago and only just rebuilt last year!" An Xiner quickly shook her head.

She also confirmed through this that the current Miallei City is from the past.

But she didn't expect the timelines to differ by only three years.

This made Baimu realize that she most likely comes from the timeline in which Miallei City was destroyed.

He then told An Xiner that two years ago, the Flash Flame Team was dealt with in advance, and Miallei City remained completely unharmed—

Wait.

"How old are you this year?" Baimu sized up An Xiner.

An Xiner shyly said: "Six years old... minus one month."

Six years old!

That means if Kaluoni's life trajectory is the same as in the parallel world, then the An Xiner in this world is already two years old now!

Baimu once again doubted this top-tier champion.

The two took the elevator out of the Prism Tower, without disturbing Hitlon and Youlijia the whole way.

Target coffee shop.

Baimu saw Kaluoni in casual clothes and her agent.

An Xiner looked at her eagerly: "Mom—"

She didn't finish speaking, only because she remembered that the other party was not her real mother, but a parallel world counterpart.

Kaluoni stared blankly at An Xiner, and before she could speak, her agent Biwo shouted beside her: "So alike! Really too alike!"

In Biwo's view, An Xiner and Kaluoni as a child were simply like they were printed from the same mold.

Baimu greeted An Xiner to come sit in front of the two, and said to her: "Don't put too much pressure on yourself, treat her as your aunt, you two are probably related by blood."

One sentence brought Kaluoni back to her senses.

She snapped: "What are you talking about! Who's the aunt?"

"Or should I call you sister? That wouldn't be a generation off, would it?" Baimu called the waiter to bring coffee.

Kids can't drink coffee, so I switched it to juice.

Hu Pa clamored for donuts.

Why does every Hu Pa like eating donuts?

Seeing the coffee shop didn't sell any, Baimu had the Gengar inside his shadow bring out the stock; though it was for his own Hu Pa, using it for an emergency now and then was fine.

Hu Pa was happy.

An Xiner and Minami switched seats, her face red as she pressed close to Carney.

Carney was nearly melted by the cuteness and actively started chatting with An Xiner, who naturally couldn't be more eager to talk more with her "mother."

In her world, because Carney was too busy with work, she had long been left behind alone, until half a year ago when she picked up an injured Hu Pa, finally bidding farewell to her lonely life.

And in the process of getting along with Hu Pa, she coincidentally met Rayquaza in the alternate dimension Miare, and from then on embarked on the path of chasing Rayquaza.

An Xiner's idea was simple: catch Rayquaza and give it to her mother, making her mother the strongest Trainer, nothing more.

As for whether it would work...

That depended on whether her Hu Pa pulled its weight.

After the two chatted for a while, Baimu began asking An Xiner about the future Miare City.

From her he learned that Miare City was currently experiencing a "natural disaster"; Pokemon living in the city were forced to Mega Evolve due to excessive Mega Energy, causing them to go berserk.

"Mega Energy?"

This term was unfamiliar to Carney.

Baimu, on the other hand, associated it with the power Team Flare tried to draw from the Legendary Giant Rock.

An Xiner added that an alternate dimension Miare had also appeared, but a couple days ago the alternate dimension above the Prism Tower became strange, then suddenly erupted with green light and collapsed.

She sneaked into the top floor of the Prism Tower, used a donut to make Hu Pa open a door wanting to take a look, and ended up opening straight into a parallel world.

An Xiner fidgeted with her intertwined fingers and said, "I want to catch a Legendary Pokemon for Mother..."

"Baby~ you're just too cute!" Carney's maternal instincts exploded, pulling An Xiner into her arms.

Baimu nearly choked on his coffee.

Baby?

It's only been a few minutes and she's already calling her baby? She really is an auntie, huh?

But he could also understand Carney; there's nothing wrong with wanting a child when you're older.

Carney looked at Baimu, alert: "Are you thinking something very rude?"

"I am indeed thinking: do you secretly have a partner, and a two-or-three-year-old child to boot." Baimu didn't care if the other party minded.

Carney's pretty brows furrowed; she hmphed softly and couldn't be bothered with this presumptuous guy anymore.

Minami said faintly: "These two years Carney hasn't had much private contact with men; if there's a possibility, you're actually the most likely one."

"Cough cough cough..."

Baimu covered his embarrassment with coughing; from the corner of his eye he noticed An Xiner secretly watching him, so he asked: "An Xiner, who is your father?"

This question drew Minami and Carney's attention.

Neither of them had dared ask before; one was afraid Carney would actually take it to heart; the other felt the parallel world's self had nothing to do with herself.

Curiosity-wise...

There was a little bit.

Facing the three gazes, An Xiner shook her head desolately: "Mother... never told me... but having Mother is enough!"

As she said this, her gaze intentionally or unintentionally looked at Baimu.

The Rotom Phone precisely captured it and typed on the screen — 'Could it be the you from the parallel world?'

Smack!

Baimu directly slapped it flying.

How could that be? I am a unique existence, just like Dialga and Palkia, absolutely not a plural life.

The me from a parallel world absolutely cannot be me.

His conviction was firm.

The four sat until dawn outside; Minami couldn't help reminding Carney of today's announcements and schedule.

Carney said: "All canceled! I'm going out to play with An Xiner!"

This woman was completely conquered by An Xiner.

Minami had expected it; seeing this she not only wasn't disappointed but nodded in agreement, "Good! I'll go help you arrange it!"

An Xiner was also very happy, looking at Baimu: "Can you come too?"

"Me? I still have to go watch the match—"

"We're going too! Come with us, Baimu!" Carney cut off Baimu's words while secretly shooting him a look.

An expression of "Can you bear to refuse a five-or-six-year-old girl?"

Baimu was speechless.

But looking at An Xiner and her Hu Pa, he thought for a moment and said: "Alright then."

For the sake of you being an important NPC.