Chapter 184: Happiny's Wish

The second wave of reinforcements arrived even faster than Baimu had expected.

Almost only half a day behind Sharen.

Once the professionals arrived, the relatively clumsy medical personnel could only do odd jobs.

Occasionally one could still hear the Young Ladies Joy complaining.

"Be gentler, this isn't a rock!"

"Don't reuse gloves!"

"If you bandage it like that it'll fall apart, ugh honestly, let me do it!"

"Where's the medicine? These things need to be prepared in advance!"

"Chansey, you take over."

"Happiny, I'm counting on you."

And so.

The medical staff of Iron Town could only awkwardly and helplessly do logistical work; whether in their attitude toward patients and injured Pokémon, or in their medical skill, they were far too inferior to the Young Ladies Joy.

Baimu was also freed up.

As an excellent administrator, Sharen took on the role of anchoring the rear; the Rainbow Team personnel operated in an extremely orderly fashion under him, everyone had something to do—

Except him.

According to Sharen, his contributions had already been great enough, and he needn't steal any more of the spotlight; the immediate priority was to rest and conserve his strength.

But how could Baimu possibly sleep? The rumbling outside kept going, the battle had not yet ended. After coaxing the overly exhausted Aggron and the other Pokémon to sleep, he brought Chansey over to the Pokémon Center to have a look.

"Young Ladies Joy..."

Looking at the busy pink-haired nurses in the hall, he fully grasped the greatest mystery of the anime world—the power of the Joy family.

How on earth did Brock tell which city they belonged to from among these women whose faces were almost identical?

Way too exaggerated.

Baimu didn't even dare to chat with them much, afraid that after getting familiar with one he'd accidentally mistake her for another, and that would be awkward.

"Lucky~"

Chansey gazed at the passing Happiny, its eyes full of longing.

"You want to be a Pokémon nurse?"

Baimu asked curiously.

Hearing this, Chansey hesitated, then shook its head back and forth, "Lucky!"

"Then you want to evolve?"

It shook its head again, "Lucky!"

"If it's neither of those, then you must be envious of their such superb Pokémon nursing skills." Baimu said after thinking it over.

This time Chansey finally nodded, even clasping its little hands together longingly.

"Lucky!"

As a Pokémon naturally fond of caring for the sick, Chansey was quite envious of those Pokémon nurses, envious of their possessing such powerful skills.

Baimu looked at Chansey, then at the Young Ladies Joy bustling in the distance, and said, "Wait for me a moment."

"Lucky?"

Chansey was bewildered, and then saw Baimu flag down a Joy.

He bowed repeatedly with a broad smile on his face and said something, and that Young Lady Joy was very angry at first, but after hearing what Baimu said, she immediately looked over toward Chansey.

Chansey instinctively turned its head away, not daring to meet her gaze; when it raised its head again, it found the Young Lady Joy no longer seemed angry.

Instead.

Baimu came back.

"I begged an opportunity for you—a chance to observe them caring for patients as an assistant Pokémon nurse. Go on, that Young Lady Joy is waiting for you."

He smiled and patted Chansey on the head.

Chansey looked up at him, its eyes a mix of joy and surprise, "Lucky?"

"Go on, don't keep her waiting, she's very busy."

Baimu gently pushed Chansey forward; Chansey took two steps forward, then turned its head back to look, and seeing him nod encouragingly, only then walked toward the Young Lady Joy.

"Lucky~"

Chansey looked timidly at the latter.

"Hello, I'm Joy." The Young Lady Joy's face was full of gentleness as she gently stroked its head, "Don't be nervous, from now on you'll stay by my side for the time being, I'll be responsible for guiding you."

"Lucky!"

Chansey nodded vigorously, then looked toward the entrance of the Pokémon Center, but Baimu had already turned and left.

Obviously.

The reason he had rushed to the Pokémon Center wasn't that he had too much free time, but that he had seen through its longing for Happiny and the other Pokémon nurses, and had specifically come up with a plan for it.

Thinking of this, Chansey's heart was full of warmth.

The Young Lady Joy also said, "You have a Trainer who really thinks about you."

Chansey was stunned for a moment, then broke into a brilliant smile, "Lucky!"

Yes.

He's the best!

——

The rooftop of the Rainbow Team office building.

"It's basically at the end, right?"

All Baimu stood atop the water tank, gazing out over the entire town of Ironhaven.

Champion Dawu and the others truly spared no effort, fighting hard from broad daylight into the dead of night; setting aside that terrifying endurance, the very fact that they had the heart for it was enough to move him.

A堂堂 Champion and the four Elite Four fighting for an unfamiliar city down to the very last minute.

To carry out justice, Champion Dawu could truly be said to have led the charge himself.

When Ghetsis was about to destroy Kalos, he had also stepped forward without hesitation and defeated numerous members of Team Flare; the beauty of the Pokémon animated world's broader environment owes much to this one's help.

Suddenly.

"All Baimu! All Baimu!"

A call came abruptly from behind.

All Baimu turned his head and saw it was Narihiro. "Aren't you supposed to be on Magnet Street steadying everyone's emotions? What are you doing here?"

When immortals fight, mortals suffer; not every commoner dares to throw themselves into the battlefield without a second thought, and to keep the panic from spreading, the Rainbow Team had specifically arranged personnel to soothe those frightened ordinary people.

"Otsuka's in charge over there. I'm the one helping to transport the Dark Pokémon back. Floboe's waiting downstairs; he said he has something to show you."

Narihiro pointed downstairs. "It's on the third basement level."

"... What thing?"

"Should be something related to the Dark Pokémon."

Hearing it was related to the Dark Pokémon, All Baimu nodded and jumped down from the water tank.

Just as he was about to leave through the balcony door, Narihiro's voice came again. "All Baimu, everything that's happened these past few days has come so fast I can't even keep up... can Master Liu Ge and the others really bring us the life we want?"

He slowed his pace. "What's real can't be faked, what's fake can't be real. Whether it works or not, we'll see for ourselves with our own eyes."

"But I heard from Otsuka that you're planning to leave here... All Baimu, you wouldn't just abandon us, would you?"

Perhaps the rescue organization's creed was too "ahead of its time," or perhaps the worldview they'd built in their hearts hadn't been thoroughly corrected yet—Narihiro was very flustered at this moment.

Surely many people on Aoi Street were just as flustered as he was.

"There was never any talk of abandoning anyone."

All Baimu turned his head and said seriously to Narihiro: "We are free, and our fate should be in our own hands. What we're doing is shattering the shackles of this town of Ironhaven, so that anyone has the right to be the master of their own destiny."

"But..."

"Going out to travel is to broaden my horizons and raise my own strength, not to abandon anyone. Naturally, I'll be coming back."