Chapter 414: Latias's Resistance
It was night...
The wind blew like catkins.
In the evening, Gengar paid a visit. It gave Hikaru a meaningful look, took the energy cubes it had requested Hikaru to make, and then said, "Don't worry, I won't say anything for now."
This left Hikaru baffled.
Later, when making energy cubes, he went to the training house.
He worked until twelve o'clock, but had actually only done half.
Each time he made energy cubes, it was a major undertaking.
What's more, the quantity and variety this time were exceptionally large.
"Alright."
At this point, Hikaru actually didn't plan to continue.
Stretching lazily, he was about to leave the training house. When he turned his head, he found that everyone else had already fallen asleep; only Latias was still keeping watch by his side.
"What's wrong, Latias? Aren't you going to rest? Weren't today's matches tiring?"
Her matches today, from a certain perspective, were quite arduous, after all, three Pokémon had been knocked out.
"Ngh..."
Latias transformed into human form. Not caring if the ground was dirty, she sat down directly, blinking her orange-yellow eyes as she looked curiously at Hikaru, "Hikaru, I want to ask you..."
"Hmm? What do you want to ask?"
Hikaru packed up his things and then sat down in front of her.
He had been having fewer heart-to-heart talks with his Pokémon lately, perhaps because there were too many real-world matters recently.
In the past, he would often come to chat with them.
"It's just..."
Latias suddenly adopted a slightly coy posture. She cautiously moved closer to Hikaru, glanced at the Pokémon all sleeping behind her, and then brought Hikaru into a state of Godly Stealth.
"What is it that you have to speak about so secretly?"
Scanning the barrier that had risen around them, Hikaru found it somewhat amusing. When he turned back, his expression froze.
Because this child had already moved right in front of him.
"Hmm?"
Hikaru came back to his senses. Just as he was about to ask what she was planning to do, a psychic power restrained his hands and feet.
"Huh? Latias, what are you doing? If you have something to say, just say it. Don't resort to force, okay?"
Hikaru didn't know what she was up to, but he also didn't believe Latias would harm him, so he could only speak in a conciliatory tone.
But soon, he lost even this power to speak, because his mouth was also sealed by psychic power.
But he still had Aura.
"Latias? Latias?"
Hikaru tried to use his voice to bring Latias back to her senses, instead of her crawling in front of him like this, curiously examining his face.
"Ouch, what are you doing?"
Up to this point, Hikaru still didn't know what she wanted to do.
Latias leaned in very close, her pair of clear, large eyes almost touching the edge of his face. Hikaru wanted to turn his head away but was powerless. He could only watch her get closer and closer, her legs also crossed as she sat before him.
"I want to kiss..."
Although her posture was coy and her words were shy, Latias's actions were unambiguous. Hikaru hadn't even reacted to her words when he felt warm lips press against his, and only then did his whole body relax.
"???"
Hikaru, having regained his ability to move, hurriedly retreated. Looking at Latias, who was touching her lips with a somewhat puzzled expression, his pupils quaked.
Huh?
Was I just kissed by my own Pokémon?
And forcibly at that?
For a moment, Hikaru's mind was a complete mess.
After composing himself slightly, he could only say gently, "Latias?"
"Mhm..."
Latias at this moment became very obedient again, sitting straight in front of Hikaru, like the adorkable psychic girl who first followed Hikaru.
"No... what are you doing?"
Hikaru stood up. Although he couldn't tell the time in the training house, it was already twelve o'clock at night, approaching midnight.
There was a match tomorrow.
He never would have imagined he would be controlled by Latias.
"Because, I also want to kiss Hikaru..."
Latias pressed her index fingers and thumbs together, her apricot-yellow eyes looking straight at him, "If I asked, Hikaru definitely wouldn't agree."
So, you just did this?
Hikaru felt a headache coming on.
Regarding Pokémon developing romantic feelings for their trainers, it wasn't unheard of after the Great Pokémon Era. In the early years, there was a Psychic-type Elite Four trainer who was said to have raised a Gardevoir. Later, the Gardevoir fell in love with that human trainer.
But at that time, the human trainer actually had a girlfriend.
Then something outrageous happened.
After that Gardevoir found out, it gradually became yandere. It didn't interfere with its trainer, but instead, it used Illusion on its trainer's girlfriend every day, eventually succeeding in driving her away.
And it painstakingly studied human aesthetics, ultimately causing that trainer to fall for it...
Whether this incident was true or false, or just something fabricated by some "bard," was unknown.
But there's no smoke without fire.
This indicated that such things were possible.
Hikaru had previously noticed such a tendency in his Gardevoir, so he had given it things to do to keep its mind off such thoughts.
Hikaru probed, "Latias, do you know what this means in our human world?"
Latias nodded.
He was slow on the uptake.
Latias had been with him in the human world for so long; how could she not know the rules of the human world?
"Then what you did is not okay, you know?"
Hikaru decided he still needed to educate her properly.
"Why?"
Latias seemed to have known Hikaru would say no and looked at him curiously, "Haven't you already kissed Xiao Ye (Sakura)?"
When they had just become a couple, they were naturally very affectionate.
Sometimes, Latias would also come out and would naturally see them.
"But Xiao Xue (Sakura) is human! We are together openly and honorably... What's wrong?"
Hikaru felt a little unconfident towards the end.
"Then I can be human too."
Latias stood up and twirled around a few times, as if to prove to him that she was indeed human.
"That's just your transformation ability."
Hikaru also stood up, suddenly realizing something was off.
The Latias of the past would never speak to him like this.
"Then, what does Hikaru say makes someone human?"
Latias looked at him curiously, seemingly wanting to find human characteristics on him.
But how could Hikaru answer this question?
However, what he could be sure of now was that Latias had indeed developed feelings she shouldn't have.
"Human..."
"Aiya, Latias, undo Godly Stealth and get some rest. I'll need your help again tomorrow!"
For the first time, Latias refused his command, "No..."
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