"HA哈哈哈哈哈哈哈~"
Beside him, Jace was laughing so hard his stomach hurt. Lu Ze, you too?
"So — come with me. There's lots of good food."
Auron listened to Jace's laughter with a face full of black lines, but still tried his best to lure Zoroark.
"Bwee~"
At that moment, Snorlax scooped Zoroark up into its arms and stroked her back.
"Honhon~"
Zoroark enjoyed it for a moment, then glanced at Lu Ze again, hmph'd at him, and turned her head away with a haughty air.
"Bwee~"
Snorlax smiled warmly at Lu Ze and nodded, then turned and walked home with Zoroark cradled in its arms.
Zoroark didn't resist at all. Right there in Snorlax's arms, she excitedly imagined her future life.
"Huh?"
Auron froze. Wait — did Snorlax just kidnap Zoroark home?
Then what about me…
Who's the actual trainer here,喂?!
"Sigh~"
Auron helplessly yet joyfully tucked the Luxury Ball into his backpack. Either way, getting her home first was fine.
"Let's go — I'm heading back. You guys?"
"Me and Fugui are going back to the dorm too."
By then Jace had also stopped laughing. He stood up, wiped away the completely nonexistent tears from the corners of his eyes, and addressed Auron.
"What about you?"
Auron turned to Anghura.
Anghura hesitated. She hadn't gotten to rua Mini Dragon or Zoroark yet. She wanted to rua~
"Mom said a girl shouldn't go to a boy's house alone — but if the boy invites her, it's okay."
She said it while gazing at Lu Ze with stars in her eyes, practically screaming "invite me, invite me and I'll go!" at him.
"Oh — a girl really shouldn't go to a boy's house alone. Then you should head back."
Auron nodded, said his piece, then turned and followed Snorlax's pace.
"Huh?"
Anghura's starry eyes instantly became doudou eyes — wide, blank, confused — and she began questioning herself.
Was my hint not obvious enough?
"Wait! Hold on!"
Anghura hurried two steps forward, grabbed Lu Ze's arm, and said to him with a completely earnest face.
"My mom said if the boy invites her first, it's okay!"
Auron tilted his head and pointed up at the sky.
"But it's already getting late. We'll need to clean up when we get back and then go to sleep."
"Er…"
This time Anghura really didn't know what to say. She could only watch helplessly as Lu Ze's back disappeared into the distance.
Right now, her whole body was filled with a sense of powerlessness and frustration. This person… I hinted that clearly!
"We're leaving too, bye~"
Just as Anghura was wallowing in defeat, suddenly Jace and Fugui's voices rang out.
Anghura snapped to attention, turned her head — only to realize Jace and Fugui had already run off quite a distance.
"Ah — how am I supposed to deal with this level of frustration? Am I not pretty anymore?"
Anghura was completely devastated now. Negative energy radiated from every inch of her.
At that moment, Dragonite, Hydregion, and Lapras all emerged from the forest.
(Um… what's wrong with老大?)
(Beats us!)
(Aba aba.)
Hearing Dragonite's "aba aba", both Hydregion and Lapras turned to look.
Seeing Dragonite's bruised and swollen face, covered in Ice-type and Dark-type energy, they both nodded with satisfaction.
They didn't have healing skills like Deoxys. But they hadn't beaten Dragonite black and blue just to let off steam — they'd done it to settle a genuine grudge.
"Togepi, am I not pretty anymore?"
"Bo-ri bo-ri~"
Togepi looked at Anghura holding her own face,悲伤, and very considerately nuzzled against Anghura's cheek.
"I'm still pretty, right?"
"Bo-ri bo-ri!"
Togepi nodded, then raised both hands and said to Anghura with the most earnest expression.
Anghura cheered up again instantly. She pulled Togepi into a hug and said, deeply moved:
"Thank you Togepi, thank you for still encouraging — f*ck!"
Before Anghura could finish, she suddenly saw Dragonite's head poking in close.
Dragonite had genuinely been beaten to the point where his own mother wouldn't recognize him.
And Anghura, startled by the sudden appearance of that ferocious face, jumped too.
"Dragonite? How did you get like this?"
After her initial shock, she still recognized it was her Dragonite from the build and coloring — but immediately after was心疼. How did Dragonite end up like this?
"Aba aba."
Dragonite said, pointing toward Hydregion and Lapras, both of whose faces wore expressions of proud satisfaction.
And when Anghura looked in the direction Dragonite was pointing, both Pokémon tossed their heads proudly.
Yep — it was us. We're厉害, right?
Looking at the three Pokémon like that, Anghura couldn't worry or laugh at the same time. She asked them:
"How did you all end up like this?"
She said it while pulling healing spray from her bag and carefully spraying down Dragonite.
What was Dragonite supposed to do? Could he say he'd gotten beaten up because he was chasing his goddess?
Could he say that because he was chasing his goddess, he'd dragged Hydregion and Lapras into getting beaten up too?
Could he say that because those two had gotten beaten up on his account, their anger had nowhere to go, and so they'd beaten him up again?
He couldn't!
So while being treated, he was still scanning everywhere for any trace of his goddess.
Right now, only his goddess could soothe his poor heart — beaten three times in one day.
Alas, his goddess had already left.
. . . . . . . . . .
"Zoroark, where are you sleeping tonight?"
Hearing Lu Ze's question, Zoroark's eyes lit up, and she pointed at Snorlax's belly.
"Honhon~"
(I want to sleep there~)
"But Snorlax sleeps upstairs with me."
Auron said with performed distress. "Only my Pokémon can go upstairs."
"Honhon~"
Zoroark gave Lu Ze a contemptuous look, then followed Mini Dragon and happily hopped up the stairs.
"Um…"
"Hraa…"
Auron turned around尴尬ly — and happened to meet Charizard's gaze.
Charizard startled, worried Lu Ze was going to ask it what to do, so it went first — shrugged, implying "I can't help you either" — and walked briskly upstairs with Igglybuff balanced on its head.
"Argh~ It's only just past eight. How are you all going up this early? Can you even sleep?"
Auron let out a helpless whine. They'd all gone upstairs, and now the only one left downstairs was Farfetch'd, doing calm, focused training.
"Fine, Farfetch'd — I'll wait for you."
It wasn't like he wanted to go upstairs right now anyway. At least Farfetch'd downstairs gave him an excuse.
Otherwise, if he went up and got rebuffed by Zoroark again with all those Pokémon watching — that would be so embarrassing.
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