Chapter 373 Subjugation, Flash Noctowl

"Then, that can't be a bird Pokémon's nest box!"

Serena pointed to the small wooden house on the treetop and asked in a low voice.

"It does look like a bird nest box, but it's too big for a Pidgey's home, and too small for a Pidgey's home. What kind of bird's nest box is this?"

Sundae asked.

Ash was about to speak when he heard a low cry.

A Noctowl landed in front of the nest box.

Seeing this, Ash simply raised his hand and waved a Psychic Barrier to isolate the sound transmission from the outside world, so as not to be discovered by the Noctowl on the tree.

Usually owls appear at night, but this forest is dark and the sun is usually difficult to cover.

The Noctowl living here has become accustomed to coming out during the day.

"Ash, do you want to capture this Noctowl?"

Serena Sundae looked at Ash and asked.

Noctowl is not rare in the Johto Region, and the owl in front of them doesn't look special. However, after the Wobbuffet exchange incident, they have 100% trust in Ash's vision.

"No, let's wait and see!"

Ash shook his head and was not in a hurry.

Through the power of waveguide, he detected Aqi who was hiding and camouflaged under the tree, that is, the man who wanted to subdue Flash's heterochromatic owl in the original plot. 220

It was seen that the ordinary Noctowl landed on the branch for less than a minute, and was driven away by the branches waved by the man in the disguise of the ten-cornered bark.

"*,*..."

"It seems that someone has the same goal as us!"

Ash said to Sundae and Serena who were full of surprise.

The three of them waited patiently in the bushes.

During this time, three or four bird Pokémon, Pidgey, Hoothoot flew by one after another, and then finally waited for the Flash Noctowl, which was different in color from the ordinary Noctowl.

Ordinary owls are dark brown, while this Noctowl is light yellow, and it will occasionally move its head 90 degrees.

After confirming that it was the Flash Noctowl, the man replaced the branch in his hand with berry bait and handed it to the Flash Noctowl.

However, the Noctowl first carefully tried twice, then let out a loud cry, flapped its wings and knocked away the bait handed over by the man.

The sudden change caused the man's feet to slip, and he was about to fall to the ground. Fortunately, he reacted quickly enough to grab the treetop where he was standing before.

Seeing this, the Noctowl immediately jumped onto the branch and kept pecking at the man's hand holding the branch.

Ah!!!

"Bang!!!" The man fell to the ground with his buttocks, uttering a series of painful cries.

" Hoothoot~

Noctowl, who returned to the treetops, turned his head and looked at the embarrassed man below with disdain.

"Uncle, what are you doing!"

"Don't call me uncle, my name is Aqi!"

"Uncle Aqi, were you just at the Mimic branch?"

Ash and the other two asked after they walked out of the bushes. Aqi pouted and replied: "I was trying to catch the rare owl with different colors, but unfortunately I failed again!"

"Noctowl? It just so happens that I also need a bird to improve, okay, I want to subdue it!"

"You want to catch that owl too?" Looking at Ash, Aqi pouted and smiled, his tone was quite playful: "That was impossible, the Noctowl with different colors is different from the ordinary ones nearby, and its brain is very flexible!"

"However, the size of this owl looks more Arnold than the normal Noctowl!"

Looking at the treetops Noctowl, and the ordinary owl that was just driven away by the man, Sundae said.

"No, no, it is indeed not as big as others, but its IQ is very high. It is too difficult to catch it with ordinary methods!"

"Really? Then I am more interested!"

Ash walked to the bottom of the treetop where Noctowl was, and looked up at the different-colored Noctowl who was standing on the treetop confidently and observing, and even unwilling to leave.

"Hello, owl, I am very interested in you, become my Pokémon partner!"

As he said, Ash took out Pikachu's Poké Ball from his pocket.

"Pikachu, leave it to you!"

"Hoothoot~~"

However, just as Ash threw the Poké Ball belonging to Pikachu, the different-colored Noctowl on the treetop had Psychic blue light in his eyes.

Psychic wrapped the Poké Ball, isolating it from the outside world, so that Pikachu was not released.

Immediately afterwards, Flash Different-colored Noctowl locked his eyes on the bottom Ash's eyes emitted circles of hypnotic waves.

"Amazing, using Confusion to control Pikachu Psychic while being able to use the Hypnosis skill at the same time. "This should be your special ability as a Flash Pokémon!"

Ash's eyes flashed with surprise, and he covered himself with Psychic at the same time, isolating Noctowl's Hypnosis. "This, this is..."

Aqi who saw this scene nearby was stunned.

Before, he was like Ash now, being mercilessly played by the Hypnosis of the owl [ten times he was even controlled by it to run to the passerby Trainer and dance.

After waking up, he wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into, it was too embarrassing.

However, at this time, Ash was completely unaffected by Noctowl's Hypnosis.

Not only Aqi, but after Hypnosis failed, the smart Noctowl immediately realized that something was wrong.

The Psychic fluctuations suddenly released by the human in front of him gave it an amazing sense of oppression, and it was very likely that he was not Rival.

Thinking of this, the heterochromatic Noctowl quickly flapped its wings and wanted to get away Ash.

"Where are you running? Come and fight my Pikachu!"

As he said that, Ash raised his right hand and used Psychic to restrain the Noctowl, which was about to take off and flee.

With his other hand, he gently waved to break the Confusion that the owl had applied to his Poké Ball.

"Pikachu~~"

The Poké Ball opened, and Pikachu jumped out.

Seeing this, Ash removed the Psychic that was applied to the owl and shouted to Pikachu: "Thunderbolt!"

The Noctowl, which had just been untied and had not yet taken action, immediately encountered the Thunder Shock attack of the champion-level Pikachu.

With a scream, the owl, who was unable to dodge, was hit by Pikachu's Thunderbolt and fell directly to the Ground and became unconscious.

Ash threw out the Poké Ball and successfully captured it!