Pokémon: Who told him to come out of Pallet Town!

Chapter 18: Wu Neng's Request, Wishing Star

The group quickly returned to the Pokémon Center in Pewter City.

After finishing their meal, Wu Neng, looking preoccupied, pulled Natsume away.

"What do you want?"

Natsume looked at Takenori, who was carrying a large bag of tree fruits.

"I want to ask you for a favor."

"I'm busy."

Natsume waved his hand and prepared to return to his room to study the follow-up S-rank mission.

"Wait a minute, you might be interested in this!"

Wu called out to him, and when Natsume turned around, a fist-sized object was already floating in the other's hand, emitting a faint glow.

"what?"

Natsume curiously leaned closer and finally got a clear look at the whole thing in Wu Neng's hand.

It was an irregular fragment of a meteorite, with a rough surface but a angular crystalline structure. The main body was golden, and the interior emitted a faint orange-red glow, with a texture similar to flowing lava.

Star-shaped patterns are faintly visible on its surface. It detaches from Wu Neng's palm and floats in the air, surrounded by tiny starlight particles, like a miniature star.

"Wishing stars!? Aren't these a specialty of the Galar region?"

Natsume's voice was filled with astonishment, as if he had seen something incredible.

"The Galar region? Hahaha, so it's not from Kanto. No wonder I don't recognize it."

Seeing that Natsume had become interested, Takenori looked at him sincerely and said directly:

"If you do me a favor, I'll give you this."

Natsume glanced at the wishing star in Wu Neng's hand and pondered for a moment.

Wishing Stars are the raw material for making Max Bracers. Based on Professor Magnolia's research in the Galar region, and by borrowing Professor Oak's laboratory, Natsume felt that making a Max Bracer by hand shouldn't be a problem.

However... the reason why the Dynamax Band can make Pokémon Dynamax is because Wishing Star guides Galar Particles through the band, thus giving Trainers the ability to Dynamax Pokémon.

Dynamaxing is not possible in any region other than the Galar region.

and many more!

Natsume's gaze darkened as he suddenly thought of the Pokémon with unusually large sizes that had appeared in the original story.

Giant venomous jellyfish, giant dragonite...

Could it be that there are similar Galer particles in the Kanto region?

"Okay, I promise you, as long as you give me the wishing star."

With that in mind, Natsume agreed without hesitation, regardless of what requests Wu Neng might make.

As expected, the system will provide challenges for the giant Pokémon that the main characters will encounter later.

Following the direction given by the system, even if we don't promote Dynamax in the Kanto region, it would be excellent to at least give ourselves a means to Dynamax.

"Okay, here you go. Come with me."

Without saying a word, Wu handed the wishing star to Natsume and turned to walk outside.

After carefully putting away the wishing star, Natsume didn't forget to give a final instruction at the Pokémon Center:

"Xiaoxia, remember to do my laundry. You'll treat me to dinner later."

"Hmph, that's more like it."

Inside, Xia, who was holding her clothes, said somewhat angrily.

Nighttime, a small hill in the suburbs.

Wu Neng carried a large bag of tree fruits and walked with great speed, quickly bringing Natsume to the stall from earlier that day.

"Skin?"

A slight noise caught Natsume's attention.

Looking up, I saw a Pichu standing on Wu Neng's stall.

The moment Pichu saw Wu Neng, he was visibly overjoyed.

"Here, eat."

Wu handed the berry to Pichu, who ate it heartily while looking at Natsume with curious eyes.

Natsume crouched down, and the little guy was startled, hugging the tree fruit and keeping a distance from Natsume.

"Come out and eat, everyone."

Wu Neng's voice rang out from the side.

Soon, many Pokémon emerged from all directions, especially from the cave that Wu had covered during the day, where the most Pokémon came out.

Pikachu... Pichu... Magnemite... Electrode, Electabuzz...

Without exception, they were all Electric-type Pokémon.

Natsume asked curiously, "What are these...?"

"These are the abandoned Electric-type Pokémon. Many of them returned here based on their memories, and I adopted them..."

After saying that, Wu Neng silently distributed the tree fruits to them.

Natsume stood behind him, feeling a pang of sadness.

After a long, long time, by the moonlight, Wu finished dividing the tree fruits. He stood up and looked at Natsume with a pleading expression:

"I would like to ask you for a favor: help me find a way to eliminate the side effects of electrical training."

Watching the electric Pokémon happily munching on berries, Natsume nodded with unusual seriousness this time, unlike before:

"Don't worry, I would have done it even without your request."

"Thank you. These are some of my breeding notes; I hope they will be helpful to your research."

Natsume took the notebook, and immediately Takenori felt a slight pressure on his shoulder.

It was Natsume who placed his hand on it.

"Do you really want Brock to manage the Pewter City Gym all by himself?"

"Giving these children a better environment will also make Xiaogang's younger siblings very happy."

"...Think about it carefully."

After saying that, Natsume disappeared.

Pokémon Center, Natsume's room.

"bass!"

A flash of eerie blue light appeared, and Natsume was brought back by Rotom's teleportation.

The Wishing Star was temporarily left in the system space. Natsume opened Wu Neng's training notes and began to read them diligently.

The nurturing notes contain a great deal of information; they can be considered a diary that the other party casually jots down. Natsume needs to organize the useful information first, which will probably take quite a while.

The next day, early in the morning.

"Pikachu, Thunderbolt!"

Below, Xiao Zhi's energetic training voice could be faintly heard.

In the room, Natsume stretched. He hadn't slept all night, but he looked exceptionally energetic.

On the right side of the desk are two notebooks, both filled with dense notes.

One was the training notes that Wu Neng gave him, and the other was the useful information that Natsume himself summarized.

Wu has trained many different types of Pokémon, or even many different types of Pokémon with different talents, to use electric current enhancement.

From the clues he pieced together, Natsume discovered a pattern.

For the same Electric Pokémon, the better the Pokémon's talent for boosting current, the better the boosting effect.

However, for different types of Pokémon, the opposite seems to be true; it appears that the weaker the Electric Pokémon species, the better the enhancement effect.

As for the so-called side effects mentioned...

Natsume already has a preliminary idea.

It should be related to the number of current cycles and the current intensity.

After all, Pikachu did improve when it first charged at the Pokémon Center, but Natsume observed it for several days and didn't see any signs of its level dropping.

By dividing training sessions into batches, intensities, and time spans, it should be possible to develop an electrical stimulation training method without side effects.

However, this requires a lot of time to repeat the experiments, and as for the subjects of Natsume's experiments—

"Come out, you middle-parted hair."

A flash of red light appeared, and a Pikachu with hair wax and a middle parting appeared in the room.

Unlike the diligent and hardworking Pikachu outside, his own parted hair was still covered with a small blanket, his short legs were sticking out from under the blanket, he was sleeping on his back, and there was a snot bubble hanging from the tip of his nose, his big and small tucked together.

Natsume stood behind it, staring at it with a dark expression on his face.

The trainer activated Serpent Gaze.

"Skin!"

As if sensing Natsume's death stare, the man with the middle parting woke up from his sleep with a start, his hair standing on end like a little hedgehog.

He turned his head and looked at Natsume, a sense of foreboding creeping into his heart.

"Hmph."

"Your good days are over."