Dream and Reality

Rope just watched Granny Agatha's first burial of another person in the illusion like he was trying to watch a movie.

Rope had little else to show but admiration for Granny Agatha and this mourning for the people of the town.

Rope's bringing back an urn was nothing compared to Granny Agatha, who had buried an entire town all by herself.

It's hard to imagine the struggle Granny Agatha went through when she was a young girl. He watched as Granny Agatha dug a hole and buried the bodies without a word. Clenching her teeth tightly, she didn't say a word.

She didn't want the Pokémon to help either.

The group of Pokémon, led by Gengar, would just have to watch from wherever they were as their own master came to carry out this task...

Rope could see Granny Agatha's resentment and self-loathing. It was pointless, but an emotion anyone would have...

The world was such a reckless place before League's hay day. The relationship between people and Pokémon couldn't even be described as harmonious; it would be good enough to describe it as peaceful.

What is in front of me, although cruel, is just a small microcosm of the whole world.

When the dark clouds dissipated and the morning light shone on the town, the only thing left here besides Granny Agatha was a grave and a blank tombstone.

The young girl Agatha sits in front of the headstone, hugging her knees, not saying a word, in a daze.

Rope walks up and looks at the simple headstone, made from a billboard of some sort.

The name "Echosail Town" was on it...

Rope hadn't heard of the name, so he thought it had died out.

Rope looked at the dumbfounded girl Agatha and smiled, "You've worked hard."

"But I'm late." Teenage Agatha said sullenly.

"How come? It's not like coming earlier..."

Rope paused before he could finish his words, he looked down at Teenage Agatha in amazement. then to his surprise, he realized that she was looking up at him.

"You can see me?" Rope asked in surprise.

"Or else? As weird as your sudden appearance was, Gengar told me you were harmless and normal human..."

Rope vaguely sensed that something was wrong, but had a tendency to not be able to tell what was wrong. And the next moment... his body began to fade, fading like a piece of colored paper fading in water. Agatha looked at Rope with wide eyes, her heart filled with wonder, so shocked that she didn't have the heart to feel sad.

Rope subconsciously reaches out his hand toward Agatha, "Granny!"

Agatha watched him reach out and subconsciously intended to pull him back, but halfway through her hand she heard the word 'mother-in-law'.

"Hey..! You are older than me alright! Who is your granny!!!"

Unfortunately, Rope had disappeared before her words had even left her mouth.

She scanned around and didn't see Rope's figure again, feeling strange and having very bad associations.

"A human ghost? First time I've seen one alas, but it doesn't seem to be very vicious..."

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Rope's eyes snapped open.

He quickly got up and looked around, his left hand had been put to his waist, and his right hand was already ablaze, still with white flame. It looked like he was so frightened that he even used the white flame unconsciously.

"You're awake, huh?"

Granny Agatha's pale voice came out. The clarity of youth could still be heard, but the etchings of age were always unavoidable.

Rope took a deep breath, then regained his normalcy and said without a trace of humor, "Granny you're letting Gengar scare me with illusions again. Can't you use a more normal way of opening up?"

Said Rope as he cocked his neck to the sides, making a "clicking" sound. Then he was ready to stretch again.

Halfway through the stretch Granny Agatha's rather cold voice came through.

"Forgot everything you were taught? Or did you sleep foolishly? Gengar's illusions cannot be activated while a person is asleep. Misdreavus that can be used."

Rope didn't care and continued to stretch, then said with full disinterest, "Yes, yes, yes, Misdreavus is Misdreavus, that said, where is the little Misdreavus? Wouldn't the little guy have to be on my head if he had to invade my dreams?"

Granny Agatha picked up the tea on the table and took a sip, then blandly said, "I didn't bring Misdreavus with me this time out."

"What the heck... actually didn't bring... "Rope's slouch got stuck here, his eyes widened, then he shouted, "You didn't bring Misdreavus???"

Granny Agatha put down her teacup and frowned, disgruntled, "Can't you be more composed? If I didn't bring it, I didn't bring it, I only brought Gengar and Banette on this trip. what's wrong?"

She looked at Rope's somewhat disoriented expression and sensed something was wrong as well, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

Rope snapped back to her senses and then asked, "Granny, do you know Echosail Town?"

Agatha's eyebrows immediately knitted together

"How do you know?" Agatha's tone had quite a sense of not wanting to remember.

"You didn't give me an illusion or a dream?"

"No means no! What? Do I need to lie to you?!" Granny Agatha's tone was clearly angry.

"...Did you know me before?" Rope seemed to stabilize a very stupid question.

Granny Agatha sneered and was about to start disliking her, but after taking another closer look at Rope, she let out an 'eep' before stepping forward and staring dead into Rope's face.

"I remember a ghost in my mind, and he looked like he looked... a little like you."

Something didn't feel right to Agatha, but the memory was right, she had indeed seen such an apparition. But why was she only remembering it now?

Shouldn't she have recognized the resemblance between this little child and the ghost that had left such a lasting impression on her from the very first moment she saw Rope?

Rope's face was a little hard to see.

Celebi, Darkrai, Cresselia?

It wasn't right! Having the ability to put yourself in a dream, and even allowing yourself to travel through time and space right in your dreams? What was going on here?

"What's wrong with you?" Granny Agatha spoke up in concern as she looked at Rope's face, which looked even worse than her own.

Rope shook his head, then fell silent again, and after a long time, he looked up with a bitter smile, "Granny, it seems that I have circled into some unknown event..."

Granny Agatha was also helplessly holding her forehead when she heard Rope's words...

What kind of body is this kid in the end...

Rope and had a headache, but he actually didn't even have a thought process this time... an existence that can make a person change time and space in a dream world... is there really one?

Then is it a dream or is it a reality? Rope was a bit unable to tell the difference for a moment.

Just as Rope was getting a headache, Rotom scurried through the door with a dripping shriek, followed by Mr. Fuji.

"Professor Oak is on the phone, loto!!!"