Chapter 233: Daigo: Is Diancie also in the Human-Like group? [Seeking subscriptions and food]
“Finally, this day has arrived.”
On New Year's Day, atop the restored Indigo Plateau, Akari, who has turned 11, looks at the newly built magnificent arena and speaks with rare emotion.
Several months have passed since the Miare Gods War.
Akari and Midori, the two freaks from Shin'ou Town, have been on their journey for nearly a year.
Today, they are here to participate in the Indigo League, a competition they have longed for since childhood.
“Akari-nii, do your best! Win the championship and smack Odoroki's face!”
Following behind, with a yellow fur rat hanging on his shoulder, the Shin'ou Town Superman, who is less than two years away from the minimum age requirement for rookie trainers, clenches his fists and exclaims excitedly.
“It's quite a coincidence, it's also the first Indigo League tournament since the Indigo War.”
Professor Okido, walking with Hanako-aunt and Satoshi, explains to the two.
More than two years have passed since the Shadow's Indigo Plateau War, and now the Indigo League headquarters and arena have finally been rebuilt.
This tournament can be considered the first competition in the new Indigo Arena.
“That's quite a coincidence.”
Midori, with a shoulder bag, also walks over at this time and sneers:
“I heard that for this tournament, the Indigo League has also invited many celebrities from other regions as special guests. Don't embarrass our Shin'ou Town in front of the world.”
“……”
Akari responds to Midori with silence.
Midori, who understands his rival, doesn't say much and shrugs his shoulders, preparing to leave.
The best way to shatter that poker face is through battle.
“Oyo yo～ It's so lively, everyone's here～”
A lively female voice comes from another direction.
The Shin'ou Town group subconsciously turns their heads to look. About the same age as Akari and Midori, a young girl with a crossbody bag and full of youthful energy is looking at the two with one hand on her cheek.
“You two are still the same as always, always arguing when you meet.”
“Kasumi-nee!”
Satoshi excitedly calls out the girl's name.
“Oya～ Satoshi is here too～”
Kasumi smiles and waves at him.
“Didn't you say you weren't interested in the League competition before?”
Midori asks with a sidelong glance.
Kasumi spreads her hands and says, “I just happened to pick up some badges while traveling. Before I knew it, I had 8, and I thought since you guys are here, I'd come and take a look. Besides, there's someone I want to see who's also coming.”
After escaping from Itayanagi and regaining her freedom, Kasumi cherishes everything she has now.
Compared to Akari and Midori, who barely come home for the whole year, she goes home to accompany her parents whenever she has time.
But she hasn't stopped traveling.
She is still traveling in various regions of Kanto, searching for traces of Team Rocket, thinking that if she has the opportunity, she will sneak in and say thank you to that person.
“Is it your boyfriend?”
Hanako-aunt asks with a smile.
But a hint of worry flashes in her eyes.
She likes Kasumi, this lively girl, and feels that she is a good match for her big son, who has a silent personality. They complement each other well.
If it's a boyfriend, it would be troublesome.
“No, it's just a younger brother I met before.”
Kasumi waves her hand.
“The Elite Four are here!”
In the crowd, someone shouts.
The Rainbow Team trio all look over.
The hundreds of people originally gathered on the avenue all walk to both sides, making way.
Champion Wataru, Kikuko, Shiba, and Kanna walk side by side towards the main gate.
“Champion Wataru!”
“Elite Four Kanna is still so beautiful!”
“Grandma Kikuko is as profound as ever.”
The participating players and spectators on both sides exclaim.
“That's the Elite Four, their aura is really amazing……”
Satoshi and Pikachu on his shoulder open their mouths into an “O” shape.
“Is that all there is to it.”
A long-lost voice that Satoshi would never mistake rings out.
“Odoroki!”
Seeing the other person's face, Satoshi can't help but pout.
“If you've experienced the great battle in Miare City three months ago, you'll know that this little scene is nothing.”
Odoroki sneers, then spreads his hands and sighs, “It's a pity that some people overslept again and missed the plane. I feel ashamed for him.”
“What did you say!?”
Satoshi rolls up his sleeves in anger.
When Akari went to Miare City to participate in the Youth Cup, Satoshi was originally planning to go and cheer for his older brother.
Unfortunately, he overslept like when he received his initial Pokémon in the original story, causing him to miss the plane.
Then the Gods War happened, and Satoshi hid in his quilt and cried all night.
“Oh? Want to try?”
Odoroki takes out a Poké Ball from his belt.
Inside is his initial partner, the Shiny Stufful.
“Oh dear, you two are enough.”
Kasumi can't help but play peacemaker again.
The relationship between Satoshi and Odoroki is simply a weakened version of Akari and Midori.
But when Akari and Midori get along, Midori mostly says a few foul words, and Akari responds with silence, and nothing happens.
But these two childish ghosts really start fighting if they disagree.
“Kasumi-nee!”
At this moment, a red-haired boy waves and rushes over.
Satoshi and Odoroki, who were about to start a fight, turn their heads to look. The boy has already reached Kasumi.
“Yo～ Long time no see, Ginji. You've grown taller.”
Kasumi affectionately touches the red hair on Ginji's head.
“Don't do that, Kasumi-nee.”
Ginji takes a step back embarrassedly, there are so many people here.
“Tsk tsk～ You start to distance yourself from your sister when you grow up. Sister is so sad.”
Kasumi clasps her hands together, covering her chest with teary eyes.
“Kasumi-nee, stop acting.”
Ginji says speechlessly.
He used to be tricked by this trick when he was a child, and it's a bit disrespectful to himself to still play like this now.
“The older you get, the less cute you become.”
Kasumi pouts, then pulls Ginji to introduce him to everyone, saying that this is the younger brother she met when she was abducted by human traffickers.
Professor Okido and the others also know about Kasumi being abducted by human traffickers for three years. Of course, Kasumi concealed the fact that the person who kidnapped her was Itayanagi.
“Eh～ This sister has a really good figure～”
At this time, a boy wearing a cap backward and riding a skateboard comes close to Kasumi in a cheap manner.
“What do you want to do to my sister!?”
Ginji rushes up instinctively and starts beating him up.
The two quickly start fighting.
Afterward, Ginji said that this guy is called “Kintoki” and is an annoying ghost he met when he was traveling in Jouto.
Kasumi blinks her eyes, her gaze shifting back and forth between Ginji and Kintoki, then turning to look at Akari, Midori, Satoshi, and Odoroki.
Tsk… none of them are worry-free.
When heading to the player registration office, Kasumi and Ginji, the adoptive siblings with their own little secrets, walk at the back exchanging information.
When Kasumi was traveling in Kanto, she helped Ginji inquire about the news of the family whose child was kidnapped 6 years ago, to see if she could help Ginji find his biological parents.
And when Ginji was traveling in Jouto, he would also help Kasumi pay attention to Team Rocket's affairs.
After all, Kanto and Jouto are Team Rocket's main areas of operation, which is known to everyone.
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On the other side, after entering the arena, the Indigo Elite Four immediately saw the League executives from various regions.
Seeing Su Jheng, Yulong Wataru, Dande, Mikuri, Karune, and other young Champions, the reporters' flashbulbs kept flashing.
And except for Yulong Wataru, Su Jheng and others didn't hesitate to give smiles to the camera.
Adeku sighed and smiled bitterly: “Although everyone is a League Champion, whenever I see these young people, I always feel old.”
The new Sinnoh Champion Gonoji next to him felt that he had been accidentally injured and protested dissatisfiedly: “Hey～ Now 65 years old is just a young old person, I'm not even 40 yet, I should still be considered a youth.”
Adeku said speechlessly: “Youth my ass, I heard that the Sinnoh people are very dissatisfied with you taking over Tsurugi's Champion position, thinking that you are old and ugly, lowering the regional image of Sinnoh.”
Katorea resentfully and curiously asked the Alola Reserve Elite Four Tsurugi: “Miss Tsurugi, why did you go to Alola?”
“I just wanted to change the environment and take a look.”
Tsurugi certainly couldn't tell Katorea the truth and could only fool her as much as possible.
She has also stayed in Alola for several months.
During this period, Tsurugi could hear about Team Rocket's actions from time to time.
It is said that after Team Flare was destroyed, Team Rocket began to send branch personnel to take over Kalos's underground forces.
But during this period, Su Jheng stayed in Alola and did not take action.
It seems that Su Jheng did not participate in these dirty things that Team Rocket did.
This made Tsurugi breathe a sigh of relief, but no matter how Tsurugi persuaded, Su Jheng still had no intention of severing ties with Team Rocket.
Miss Tsurugi is very distressed.
“It's really not because of that guy? Miss Tsurugi, that's hell ahead.”
Katorea secretly pointed at Su Jheng.
At this moment, Su Jheng was taking photos with Sonia on his left and Rurina on his right, this group of best friends.
A few months ago, a reporter took a photo of Su Jheng holding hands with these two while shopping.
One more person was added to the Su family's loving group chat.
In addition to envy and jealousy, the vast majority of male compatriots said that they were already used to it.
Many netizens speculated that it wouldn't be long before Pachira and Tsurugi, the beautiful Champions who switched jobs, would also join.
And many of these precious things expressed their hope that Su Jheng could learn to take pictures, and that he could leave some soup for them to drink after he was tired of eating meat.
When Katorea saw this kind of comment, her superpower almost went berserk again, twisting these people out of the screen and pinching them to death.
“No, you're thinking too much.”
Tsurugi comforted.
“How did he do it?”
Mikuri found a chance to approach Daigo and asked.
Daigo, whose gaze was always focused on Diancie next to Sonia, didn't react for a while, “What are you referring to?”
Mikuri raised his eyebrows at Rurina and Sonia next to Su Jheng, “Mr. Su Jheng, the number of his girlfriends is almost uncountable, right? They can actually get along well.”
Get along well?
Daigo blinked his eyes.
Before, when he was in Hoenn, he happened to hear the conversation between Sonia and Rurina. At that time, Rurina held Sonia's hand and said happily, “Great, with you, I'm not afraid of Rika and her little follower anymore.”
Daigo felt that Su Jheng's group of women should not get along well on weekdays, and they even had to form gangs to fight.
But no matter what, at least in front of outsiders, they are still relatively harmonious.
“Who told him to be so excellent.”
Daigo said perfunctorily.
“I'm not bad either, why can't I handle even one?”
Mikuri said unconvinced.
Nagi still has no intention of getting back together with him.
“If you can give your girlfriend a Legendary Pokémon, you might be able to do it.”
Daigo said unhappily.
If Su Jheng could give himself a Diancie, Daigo said that he wouldn't mind letting him sleep with him.
Speaking of which, Su Jheng's paper written some time ago seems to say that the genetic composition and physiological structure of humans and Pokémon are very similar.
Especially like Gardevoir, Machamp, and Aceburn, these Human-Like Egg Group.
Speaking of which, Diancie also looks like a human, is it also in the Human-Like Group?
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“Friends of the audience and trainers all over the world, hello, welcome to this year's Indigo Conference, here is a feast gathering trainers from all over the world who love Pokémon.”
“The sacred fire, the flames of Ho-Oh, are guarding us.”
“Pokémon trainers, in the next two weeks, please fight fairly and without regrets.”
The chairman and president of the Indigo League, Damaragi, stood in the center of the stage and gave a speech at the opening ceremony of the Indigo Conference the next day.
Huge cheers and applause rang out from the scene.
Not only was it dedicated to Damaragi, this highly respected old man, but the audience was also full of expectations for the Indigo Conference, which was held again after nearly three years.
Su Jheng, who was sitting in the VIP seat with a group of Champions, accurately locked onto the Shin'ou Town Rainbow Team trio on the left side of the player square and secretly smiled.
The reason he was invited here was to see the performance of these three people with his own eyes.
After the opening ceremony, the audience and players dispersed.
Unlike the Galar Star League, where the competition starts in a large arena.
The Galar Star League initially limits the number of participants to dozens.
It starts with a 6V6 full battle.
But like the Kanto Indigo Conference, the Jouto Silver Conference, and the Hoenn Sailboat Conference.
There are often hundreds of participants.
First, a 2V2 or even 1V1 format will be adopted, and 80% of the participants will be eliminated in the small venues around the large arena before returning to the arena for the final championship tournament.
Only players who enter the elimination round of the top 32 are eligible to fight in the Indigo Arena.
Su Jheng did not go to the scene to watch the game, but returned to the hotel room and watched with his family on TV.
On TV, the battle between Akari and an unknown player at the No. 4 Rock Battlefield was being broadcast.
“Go Akari-nii!”
When the picture quickly scanned over the audience at the scene before the game was about to begin, a certain conspicuous bag suddenly jumped up from the seat, holding his hands to his mouth and shouting.
And the yellow fur rat on his shoulder also responded with “Pikachu Pikachu”.
Su Jheng couldn't help but smile, and became more and more looking forward to this kid embarking on a journey a year and a half later.
But there are so many geniuses in this world, even if Satoshi doesn't make mistakes, it won't be easy to stand out from these freaks.
“Hmm?”
Su Jheng suddenly frowned.
"What's wrong?"
Lihua asked.
"Rewind the previous scene and play it in slow motion."
Su Sheng pointed to the screen where the competition had already begun.
Although she didn't know what Su Sheng wanted to do, Hu Tao obediently dragged the progress bar.
Because it was a live broadcast, she couldn't fast forward, but rewinding was fine.
Hu Tao dragged the progress bar back and pressed 5x speed.
The camera slowly swept over the audience.
Brock, Delia Ketchum, Professor Oak... and Blue, whom he had met once last year, who was only 11 years old but whose figure was already more developed than Diantha's.
"Pause!"
Su Sheng shouted, and Hu Tao pressed the pause button in time.
The screen froze on Blue's side, on a red-haired boy who was almost the same age as Brock, about eight or nine years old.
"Good heavens!"
Su Sheng sighed inwardly.
He didn't expect to run into him here.
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Meanwhile, in Cliff Cave, Johto region.
"How long are we going to hide? Zao Bo!"
Chakra roared at his ally in anger.
Half a year ago, after Giovanni issued a secret order to the entire team to search for his son, Chakra defected from Team Rocket.
At that time, besides dozens of his trusted subordinates, the only executive-level member who was willing to follow him was Zao Bo.
In the past half year, Chakra has been constantly recruiting, but he has only expanded his forces to over a hundred people.
After all, who in the black market doesn't know that Team Rocket is the number one force in the underground world?
How many people would dare to follow you, Chakra, a traitor to Team Rocket?
"Don't worry, Chakra. With our current strength, do you think we can compete with Team Rocket? Our only means of winning..."
Speaking of this, Zao Bo took out a photo from his pocket and suddenly raised his voice: "Is this kid!"
The man in the photo is Giovanni in his youth.
And the focus is not on Giovanni, but on the red-haired infant in Giovanni's arms, about two or three years old, with his back to the camera!
Giovanni's son!
Zao Bo said righteously: "Getting Giovanni's son is our only chance to win!"
In recent years, Zao Bo has been extremely dissatisfied with his position in Team Rocket.
He felt that he, the dignified second-in-command of the Aether Foundation, didn't even rank in the top twenty after defecting to Team Rocket.
This made Zao Bo very annoyed.
After Chakra's defection, Zao Bo struggled for a long time and finally decided to work with Chakra.
But Zao Bo is not an idiot.
Even if Joker doesn't take action, the power Giovanni possesses is not something they can contend with with their current manpower.
Therefore, their chance is to get Giovanni's most cherished son and then find a chance to threaten Giovanni!
Chakra gritted his teeth and finally calmed down, saying with a fierce face: "But the problem is, no one knows where that kid is!"
"Chakra-sama, there's progress in the investigation."
Just then, Chakra's subordinate reported.
