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It only took Eddie a few seconds to recall what Professor Oak had told him. At this moment, Green was still looking at him with disbelief and wariness.
"How do I know you're afraid of Flying-type Pokemon? It's simply a logical deduction. Take a look at these two photographs first."
Eddie's expression remained unchanged as he directly took out the two photographs that Professor Oak had given him and tossed them toward Green.
Green instinctively wanted to release a Pokemon to catch the two photographs, but she still had some trust in Eddie deep down, so she refrained from releasing any Pokemon this time. Instead, she caught the photographs Eddie had thrown with her hands.
"..." Green looked at the new and old photographs and began trembling.
"You're in both photographs, aren't you? Professor Oak told me that you're from Pallet Town and were captured by a large, strange bird several years ago."
"Although I don't know how you managed to return, you've always been traveling with Jigglypuff for flight. I can easily deduce that you probably don't have any Flying-type Pokemon. More seriously, you may still be afraid of Flying-type Pokemon."
Eddie spoke with confidence, as if he had truly figured out Green's fear of Flying-type Pokemon through deduction alone.
In fact, this was exactly how Professor Oak had explained it in the original story.
Green listened to Eddie's explanation while looking at the photographs in her hands.
Although she still had some lingering doubts, Eddie's explanation seemed reasonable and correct.
"Eddie, why didn't you tell me this earlier? You scared me so much!" Green said, very skillfully placing both photographs into her bag with quick, almost furtive movements, as if hiding stolen goods. Then she returned to her normal demeanor and spoke to Eddie in a playfully petulant manner.
As she spoke, she moved closer to Eddie and looked at him with a rather resentful expression, as if he had just wronged her somehow.
"Alright, stop being so dramatic. It's a shame you're not an actress," Eddie said, rolling his eyes at Green's perfectly convincing performance.
"Also, Professor Oak asked me to tell you not to deceive others or steal things anymore—these are bad behaviors."
Eddie also relayed what Professor Oak had instructed him to say. It seemed appropriate to mention it now anyway.
Green nodded somewhat sheepishly after hearing this, with an embarrassed expression on her face.
Obviously, she knew that being a thief wasn't exactly a respectable career path.
But she really had no choice. She still hadn't managed to get proper identification documents. How could she find suitable legitimate work?
Although trainers receive some subsidies, and powerful trainers never lack money, Green had no identification, so naturally she had access to none of these benefits either.
Besides, she still had to investigate what had happened in her past, so she had no time to earn money through normal means. She could only occasionally engage in minor cons to make a living.
But these were just small-scale deceptions, nothing too serious. If it came to anything more harmful, the kind-hearted Green wouldn't go that far.
"I haven't done it recently! Thanks to my Eddie's sponsorship, I've been doing just fine!" Green's face was full of smiles, as if she was recalling what had happened on the S.S. Anne in Vermilion City. That had been the first time she and Eddie had met.
Of course, she didn't mention that she had initially wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to steal Eddie's Pokedex. Bringing that up would be embarrassing for everyone involved.
"Here, take this. This is also from Professor Oak. I don't know why he thought to give you this," Eddie said, taking out the Pokedex that Professor Oak had given him and handing it to Green.
"This is... a Pokedex! Professor Oak gave this to me?!" Green accepted the Pokedex with a look of complete disbelief on her face.
She couldn't understand why Professor Oak would give her a Pokedex.
"He said that as long as you don't do those things anymore in the future, this Pokedex will be yours."
"You'll be a trainer from Pallet Town from now on, and the fourth owner of an official Pokedex."
Green stared blankly at the Pokedex in her hands. When she heard Eddie repeating Professor Oak's words, she looked back at Eddie.
Instinctively, Green grasped Eddie's hand, covered her mouth with it, leaned her entire body against Eddie's chest, and began sobbing quietly.
Green was a strong young woman—or rather, the trauma of her childhood had made her stronger than most people.
But no matter how strong she was, she was still just a young woman after all.
As a child, she had been captured and taken to the masked man's base. When she grew up, she had escaped from the masked man's base with her younger brother, who depended on her for survival.
Then, in order to investigate both her own and her brother's origins, she had traveled around investigating alone.
She often went hungry because she had no money, not to mention having a stable place to live.
Some time ago, she had finally found her hometown and returned to Pallet Town in the Kanto region.
Unfortunately, her parents had already left Pallet Town to search for her.
Green had no choice but to leave and continue her investigation, but after seeing Professor Oak's laboratory, she had suddenly decided to go inside and take something.
During this process, she had also learned about the existence of Pokemon Pokedexes, discovering that there were currently three people with official Pokemon Pokedexes.
They were Gary, Ash, and Eddie.
Therefore, when she was investigating the S.S. Anne, she had found Eddie and Ash battling Lt. Surge, and then she had emerged to help them.
And now, when Green had thought she had been forgotten by everyone in Pallet Town, she discovered that Professor Oak still cared about her and had even given her a Pokedex, simply hoping that she would stop engaging in petty theft.
"To be honest, if this happened to me, I wouldn't cry, but I would definitely feel the emotional impact," Eddie thought to himself, recognizing what a truly good person Professor Oak was, while simultaneously comforting the crying Green.
He held the sobbing Green with one arm and gently stroked the back of her head with his other hand, as if he were comforting a distressed cat.
Gradually, Green seemed to have cried enough, and she finally pulled away from Eddie's embrace.
She glanced at Eddie, who wore a gentle smile on his face, then turned her head away and wiped the tears from her face with her hand.
"Don't look at me right now—I look terrible. My makeup is all ruined," Green said shyly. She had only worn light makeup, but it didn't look good after crying.
At this moment, she didn't want Eddie to see her current appearance.
"You know it doesn't look good, right? Then don't cry anymore," Eddie said these words gently. At this moment, he was simply comforting Green softly, as he didn't like seeing young women cry.
However, when Green heard this, she felt her eyes beginning to moisten again.
It turned out that it wasn't that no one in this world cared about her—it was just that she had never noticed it before.