Cinnabar Island

"Jie?"

Haunter poked his head out with a puzzled expression.

It looked at Charmeleon and shiny Metang that were soaking in the glacier, receiving the piercing cold and the rushing water as a way to exercise their bodies.

"Jie..."

Haunter's ghostly hand scratched its ghostly head with a slightly puzzled expression on its face.

It felt that it wasn't in the same picture as the way they worked out.

Haunter then floated above the surging icy river, and one of its ghostly hands probed within the river water mixed with some broken ice.

"Jie!"

The ghost hand was immersed within the icy river water, and the piercing coldness instantly caused Haunter to scream out in cold.

It immediately retracted its claws, and with a smile on its face, it waved its hand at the two companions in front of it who were casting puzzled gazes at it, saying "nothing" before floating back to the shore in a puff of smoke.

"Jie..."

After returning to the shore, Haunter finally lost its grip.

It looked at its frozen ghost hand with tearful eyes.

It was clear that he also knew the Ice Punch move, and it wasn't like he hadn't been frozen before.

How... this time it got frostbitten instead?

"Chansey?"

Over there, Chansey noticed Haunter's abnormality.

The pink demon's small eyes immediately locked onto Haunter's ghostly hand, and it judged that it was frostbite.

"Chansey!"

The dutiful team doctor immediately scurried to Haunter's front in a trot, and her little pink hand took Haunter's ghost hand and glowed with a gentle light.

Heal Pulse!

"Jie~"

Along with the Heal Pulse's light spreading above its own ghost hand, Haunter gradually showed a comfortable expression.

The frostbite wasn't that serious, so it was said that Chansey directly healed it.

"Jie..."

After healing it, Chansey let go of Haunter's ghostly hand.

Haunter's tearful eyes looked towards Chansey with a touched face, and was about to thank it when Chansey touched its head with a leathery smile.

"Chansey~"

Chansey's palm had Gravity attached to it, and Haunter felt like its head was going to be smacked flat.

There was no way to run!

"Jie..."

A bewildered Haunter looked at Chansey with horrified eyes.

Chansey, on the other hand, still maintained that elegant, polite and still gentle smile.

"Chansey~"

Good boy, don't be a bear child, let your sister save some heartache.

Chansey smiled gently, but its eyes revealed a trace of fatigue.

"Jie, jie..."

Un- understand...

Haunter was scared, however, more than anything, it felt guilty, so it responded to Chansey's words very honestly.

"Chansey~"

Chansey let go of its hand and revoked the Gravity applied to Haunter.

Haunter also exhaled as if it was relieved, then, it bowed very respectfully to Chansey and drifted hastily into the distance.

"Chansey..."

After watching Haunter go far away, Chansey also shook its head helplessly.

The fierce appearance was a look it put on.

Chansey's personality is actually overly gentle, and it doesn't get angry no matter what its teammates does.

As it turns out, everyone within the team is also very reassuring, and basically doesn't do anything that would give anyone high blood pressure...

Well, except for Haunter.

It was a naughty boy, so naughty and curious that it could get hurt if it wasn't careful.

Chansey didn't want to see its companions get hurt, and it was worried that something would happen to Haunter if it had such a personality.

Therefore, the only way to correct it was to take advantage of the child's respect for itself and pretend to be angry.

"Chansey~"

Sitting down, Chansey sighed.

"That child will appreciate it loto." Rotom floated next to Chansey and comforted it, saying, "It's uncomfortable inside if you don't use your heart."

"Chansey?"

Chansey looked over at Rotom with confusion in its eyes.

Rotom smiled a little and said, "That Haunter child, naughty as it is, however, there is no doubt that it is smart."

"You suddenly put on a different look than usual, it's now bluffed for a moment, and later on, it can definitely react to the fact that you're putting on this look... then, on further reflection, it certainly knows your good intentions and fear of it getting hurt." Rotom spun around, hesitated for a while, but still told something, saying, "Instructor Ai actually knows that Haunter has a problem with its mischievous nature."

"Then, Instructor Ai is actually correcting its character problem."

"Chansey?"

Chansey was a bit surprised.

Really?

But why didn't it see it?

"You don't know that anymore, it's still Instructor Ai who thinks a lot." Rotom shook its head, then, cupping its voice, imitating Aisha's tone, it said: "'Haunter is naughty, however, it's not like it made any mistakes, there's no need to teach it a lesson in public, that will only embarrass it, it's counterproductive, bear child can be good at saving face, correcting a child's character requires a carefully considered countermeasure, and not just criticizing.'... This is what Instructor Ai said in the beginning."

"Chansey..."

Chansey had a face of plausible understanding.

It was mature, but it was also relative, and the approach taken was still simple and crude.

Rotom, on the other hand, laughed and reminded it once again, saying, "Think about it again, just as mischievous, isn't there a bit of a gap between today's Haunter and the one who joined the team at the beginning?"

"Chansey?"

Chansey froze.

It was still true!

When it first joined the team, Haunter that was still Gastly could be considered to be skinny as hell, and when everyone was rushing, it disappeared from time to time.

Nowadays, it was still mischievous, but it didn't dare do anything that would give the group a headache...

"Chansey?"

Chansey was a little ashamed.

It actually didn't notice these minor changes in Haunter, and took it upon itself to teach that child a lesson today.

"It's fine, it's not that you're stupid, it's mainly because Instructor Ai is too good at it."

"If Instructor Ai hadn't told me about it, I wouldn't have guessed that he'd already given Haunter a couple of mental lessons." Rotom patted Chansey's shoulder with a washing machine hose and said, "Considering Haunter's origin and the possibility that an off-color Pokémon would most likely be ostracized and bullied within the wild Pokémon's community, which is what led to Haunter's leathery and excessive personality, he didn't violently correct that child's character , instead, I chose to change it little by little by following the method of kindness."

Rotom's tone was a bit emotional, and a bit adoring, saying, "Instructor Ai is really treating us with great care, he's considering a lot of things, it's too strong."

"Chansey~"

Chansey nodded its head in agreement.

Instructor Ai was too strong.

"Amen!"

Rotom's hands, which had turned into clothes forks under its washing machine form, clapped together in a folded hands pose.

It praised Instructor Ai's greatness very reverently.

"Chansey~"

Chansey also followed its example and put her hands together with a very pious expression.

Amen~.

"..."

Caterpie looked at Rotom and Chansey a bit speechless from the side.

You guys are a bit extreme.

"Lar?"

Larvitar looks puzzled.

"Mee."

Caterpie raised its tail and blocked its eyes.

Good kid, don't look, they're both neuropathy

Caterpie sighed.

There was still a child inside the egg that hadn't been born, hopefully, that child wouldn't be brought up by Rotom and the others.

Caterpie looked towards Instructor Ai in the distance.

At this moment, Instructor Ai was holding a handkerchief and carefully wiping the shell of Ralts' Pokémon Egg.

"Hmm~ it's very healthy looking."

After sensing Ralts' supernatural power fluctuations and realizing that the child's psychic power was growing day by day, and the growth trend was very stable, Aisha also revealed a smile.

"Bee~"

Victini withdrew from under the state of invisibility, and it came up next to Aisha.

The little guy unconsciously revealed a warm smile as it looked at the even younger child.

It reached out its small hand and touched the eggshell.

Then, a shimmering light unconsciously glowed in its palm.

"Hmm?"

Aisha froze.

This light, he could be too familiar with it.

Wasn't this Victini's power of victory?

"Buzz!"

At the same time, along with the blossoming of the power of victory, Ralts's psychic power instantly skyrocketed countless times.

That psychic power even overflowed its eggshell, affecting the surroundings.

Above the ground, some rubble and sand trembled due to the fluctuation of Ralts' psychic power.

"It's..."

"Bee?"

Victini also realized that it had subconsciously used its energy and immediately lowered its small hand.

Ralts' psychic energy fluctuations also quickly dissipated.

Victini, on the other hand, reached out with an embarrassed smile and scratched its head.

"Bee..."

"It's fine."

Aisha stroked Victini's head.

It hadn't gotten into trouble.

Victini's power of victory did not do any harm to Ralts.

On the contrary, this child received such a share of Victory Power under the form of an egg that it might be able to rub off some benefits.

"Ah~"

Holding Ralts' egg, Instructor Ai's expression was a bit complicated.

With a somewhat flirtatious tone, he muttered to himself, saying, "You child, I'm afraid you've been treated the best, having a Mythical Pokémon giving you blessings even before you were born."

"Buzz!"

The sleeping Ralts inside the egg acted as if it heard Instructor Ai's words, and the faint fluctuation of its psychic power tugged at his fingers.

"Haha~ Victini, this is Ralts saying thank you."

"Than~"

Victini happily flipped up and down.

[Hero, the day of this child's birth, is almost here].

"Well, I've done some calculations, and it's indeed almost time..." Aisha responded to Reshiram's telepathic words.

And then, he hesitated for a moment.

"Reshiram, Victini's power of victory, could it be that it accelerated the hatching of the egg?"

[Yes. Incidentally, Victini's power of victory slightly strengthened this child's physique.]

"Hiss..."

Instructor Ai looked at Victini with a surprised face.

This, the egg hatching hand isn't here?

Victory Star?

More like Flame body!

...

Unova region, Unova League.

"Hiss, this kid's got something."

Sitting down in front of his desk after a long time, Alder, in his primitive attire, flipped through several stacks of information piled up on his desk, occasionally tapping the keyboard a few times with clumsy movements.

A piece of information fell to the floor, and on top of the information was printed Aisha's picture.

Apparently, Alder had responded to Drayden's commission and investigated Aisha's information.

"Debuting as a trainer less than a year ago, acquiring the championship of a regional 'Rookie Tournament' in Dayan, and then, instead of going to school, start traveling in the Kanto region..."

Alder held his old face as he perused Aisha's experience.

This file, up until now, was normal.

As for the matter of Aisha not going to school and traveling, Alder didn't comment on it.

The traveling school and the academy school were each good in their own way.

Alder was a traveler, but he didn't look down on academics.

There were quite a few types like Aisha who had made a big splash at the 'Rookie Tournament' right after their debut.

And then...

"He sabotaged Team Rocket's plan to capture the wild Clefable clan and mine for fossils at Mt. Moon in the Kanto region, single-handedly captured all of the Team Rocket members involved in the operation, and captured one of Team Rocket's Three Beasts, Carr, alive... and in Lavender Town's Pokémon Tower, he sabotaged Team Rocket's plan to go on a rampage to collect wild Ghost type Pokémon, capturing alive Proton, one of Team Rocket's Four Admins, along with the remaining hundreds of Team Rocket grunts."

Alder's expression grew progressively more brilliant.

He was originally going to comment, "Young people shouldn't be too aggressive."

Then, Aisha proved to him with his actual actions that "what's a young man if he's not too aggressive".

Team Rocket's Three Beasts and Four Admins were internationally wanted criminals, and Alder naturally knew their details.

Aisha, who could capture two criminals of this level alive in a row, was at the lowest Elite Four level.

"Hiss..."

Alder's heart was filled with envy and jealousy.

"The Dayan region is truly full of talents." He lamented again.

At this time, a new file also appeared on top of the computer.

"Eh?"

Alder glanced at it, and found that it was from a few days ago, when Aisha had sabotaged Team Rocket's plan to take in Pokémon in Fuchsia City's Safari Zone, as well as his feats of calming the Beast Tide and leading a group of casual trainers to arrest dozens of Pokémon Hunter as well as Hunter J with one man's power in Grampa Canyon.

Since it was so recent, Alder didn't have a paper file on the top of his desk about the incident.

"Ah..."

Alder had gone numb.

I thought you were a newbie trainer, but it turns out you're actually a hidden big shot?

Do your schoolmates and teachers know that you're an Elite Four class trainer?

Oh, you didn't go to school.

It's okay then...

"Hey."

Sighing, Alder turned off his computer.

If at first, he had doubts about Aisha being a White Hero, now he had no doubts at all.

He had strength and a strong sense of justice.

Combined with Drayden's information.

If you're not White Hero, who is?

"That's an interesting kid." Alder crossed his legs and reclined on top of his chair, muttering to himself, saying, "Finally met a righteous hero."

Instructor Ai knew nothing about it, but the current Unova Champion had already concluded that he was a "righteous hero" from what he had done in the past.

"Good."

Alder's mood improved.

A righteous hero who stood in the league's camp was much safer than N's kind who didn't know what he was thinking and wandered around with Zekrom like a psychopath all day long.

Maybe even contact him to deal with Team Plasma etc...

"That would be a good thing."

He sent a message to Drayden.

Something along the lines of "Aisha was last seen in Fuchsia City, according to his track, the next gym to challenge would be Cinnabar Gym, just send the delivery to Cinnabar Island."

A few moments later, Drayden returned an "OK."

Then Alder put down his cell phone.

He scratched his head and poked his head out of the office.

After realizing that no one was paying attention to him, the Unova Champion made a dash for it.

"Whoever cares about this league, I don't care!"

Anyway, the information he needed to check had already been checked out, he didn't want to be assigned a bunch of official duties over here.

Being lazy is the king!

Today is still the day of the on-the-run champion.

...

Kanto region, Seafoam Islands.

Instructor Ai had been over here for a week.

This week is still mostly for Azumarill, in order for it to learn Bruno's Upaniṣad of Stiffness.

The results were also very encouraging.

Azumarill managed to get out on the Poliwrath side and, in all seriousness, had two days of lessons on Bruno's side.

Today it has a proper knowledge of what the Upaniṣad of Stiffness is.

Bruno himself was highly complimentary of Azumarill's learning success.

After that, it only needed to practice on its own.

Since that was the case, Instructor Ai naturally had no need to stay in the icy environment of Seafoam Islands.

After discussing with Lorelei, the two of them were ready to depart immediately for Cinnabar Island.

"See you later, Ai-kun."

On the shore, Bruno arched his hand towards Aisha.

Ai Instructor also returned the arching salute and said, "In the future, there will be opportunities to spar again."

"Good!"

Bruno nodded his head with a serious face and said, "Next time, I will definitely bring out a stronger strength!"

"I'm looking forward to it."

Aisha smiled and twisted his head to jump onto Lapras' back.

Lorelei smiled brightly beside him.

"Let's go, Bruno."

"Have a safe trip."

After the Ice Elite Four and Fighting Elite Four said goodbye to each other, Lapras swung its big fins as well

Following the ocean currents, it swam towards Cinnabar Island.

"This trip has been quite rewarding."

Looking at the Seafoam Islands that were gradually disappearing behind him, and squeezing Azumarill's Poké Ball, Instructor Ai was also overwhelmed with emotion.

With Marill evolving into Azumarill and mastering Bruno's Upaniṣad of Stiffness, the Cinnabar Gym Challenge in the near future was a little more grounded for himself.

"Pity."

Instructor Ai shook his head.

Didn't meeting that Articuno.