Chapter 698: The Thief Asking the Robber for an Explanation
By the river.
Looking at Volcanion yelling and shouting non-stop in the sky.
Kazuya couldn't help but shake his head.
Using jets to fly up is easy.
The difficult part lies in maintaining balance while flying.
Volcanion had practiced for a week.
And still couldn't proficiently grasp this method of flying.
Jet propulsion flight is hard to control, far inferior to those creatures that fly with wings.
But this couldn't be helped.
With Volcanion's body structure, He wasn't supposed to have the ability to fly in the first place.
Using the power of fire and water to evaporate moisture and shoot out steam to fly was already breaking the shackles of His body; one couldn't ask for too much.
Moreover.
As long as He practiced diligently.
Jet propulsion flight could also be done very well.
Just like the Volcanion in the future League Era.
"Di-lu-xi."
Amaura lay listlessly on Kazuya's lap, looking somewhat unhappy.
Summer had passed.
Although the weather in Kalos in early autumn was still relatively warm, it was much better compared to two or three months ago.
Amaura acting like this was not affected by the weather.
Kazuya lowered his head and reached out to stroke its head.
Amaura was feeling sad because it hadn't seen Floette for a long time.
Since the attack on the way back from the Nebel Plateau last time, Floette hadn't visited the Nebel Plateau for seven days in a row.
Otherwise.
Floette used to come three or four days a week.
Although Kazuya hadn't gone to Azoth these days either, he knew without thinking that it wasn't that Floette didn't want to come, but that AZ wasn't comfortable letting her come over.
During this week.
Kazuya occasionally ran into the Allearth Forest to find other wild Pokémon to fight and level up.
During this process.
Kazuya found that the number of Azoth soldiers stationed around the Nebel Plateau had greatly decreased, and the rapid sound of horses' hooves stomping the ground could often be heard on the plains outside the forest.
He guessed.
AZ must have sent the Azoth Kingdom's troops to attack the other two countries.
A war between the three major kingdoms.
Was enough to affect more than half of the Kalos region.
Fortunately, with the natural forest barrier of the Allearth Forest blocking the way, the Nebel Plateau was basically unlikely to be affected by the flames of war.
At most.
Some Pokémon living in the forest might be startled by the sound of humans riding horses past, and accidentally stumble into the Nebel Plateau.
That kind of situation was also quite easy to resolve.
If they were friendly, they could simply stay.
If they were irritable, they would be driven away directly.
No matter what.
No matter how intensely the three human kingdoms outside fought.
The Nebel Plateau remained a worldly utopia.
But.
Before this great war came to an end.
It would probably be very difficult for Floette to run over to the Nebel Plateau to play again.
Kazuya estimated that the duration of this war wouldn't be less than three months.
If Amaura wanted to see Floette again, it would highly likely have to wait until the end of the year or next year.
As for Kazuya...
He could just run directly to Azoth to find Floette.
He believed Floette must also be waiting for him to go play with her and help relieve her loneliness.
But she would have to wait a little longer.
Because Volcanion wouldn't let Kazuya run to the Azoth Kingdom by himself.
He felt it was too dangerous.
He had to wait until He mastered jet propulsion flight.
Then Volcanion would personally escort Kazuya over.
Since being sneak attacked by humans last time.
Volcanion had quite a few complaints about humans and had grown somewhat more distrustful.
If Kazuya were to run to the human kingdom alone, He would definitely worry uncontrollably and become overprotective.
This also made Kazuya quite helpless.
He originally thought.
Volcanion's overprotectiveness would only be directed at His "daughter" and the next "Princess of the Nebel Plateau," Magearna.
Who would have thought.
Before that.
Kazuya, the current "Princess of the Nebel Plateau," was His first-generation overprotective target.
Just as he was sitting on the grass meditating out of boredom.
Noisy arguing sounds came from afar.
"Di-lu-xi?"
The bored Amaura immediately raised its head to look over.
Only to see a large figure seemingly rush out of the forest.
Kazuya turned to look, his eyes widening uncontrollably.
It was actually a Snorlax!
A Pokémon like Snorlax was rarely seen in the wild in the League Era, let alone in the Magical Beast Era.
Their evolution condition is abstract, requiring high affection or friendship to evolve.
But here was the problem.
Snorlax is extremely lazy, waking up just to eat and sleeping when full, never socializing, and because they eat too much, they can't even form groups with their own kind.
Given this.
How could they possibly meet the evolution condition?
Kazuya couldn't guess how this Snorlax evolved, he only focused on how this big guy ran over to the plateau side.
It seemed.
It had also clashed with Luxray and the others.
"Di-lu-xi."
Amaura stood up and turned to look at Kazuya.
"Mhm, let's go take a look."
Kazuya nodded and jogged over with it.
While running, it could be seen.
Kazuya's long dress was constantly "floating" in mid-air; it didn't cling tightly to his legs as he ran.
This was his secret to preventing falls!
Inspired by Volcanion lifting his dress for him earlier.
Kazuya used Confusion to constantly control his dress, keeping it in a floating state at all times so it wouldn't affect his movements.
Of course.
Kazuya could even use Confusion to make himself fly.
It was just that the flying speed wasn't very fast, and the consumption of psychokinetic energy wasn't small.
More importantly.
Confusion and Extreme Speed couldn't be used together.
So Kazuya preferred to reduce psychokinetic energy consumption, control only the dress, and use his legs to run.
Running close.
Seeing Kazuya arrive, the group of plateau Pokémon made way, allowing him to walk to the front beside Luxray.
"Luxray, what's wrong?"
Kazuya reached out and hugged the big lion beside him.
The fluffy big head felt incredibly comfortable to hold.
"Roar..."
Luxray was startled by Kazuya's sudden hug.
Because he was just intimidating the big fatty in front of him, the fur on his body was in a state of friction generating electricity. If someone touched him at this moment, they would get shocked.
Fortunately, the Gardevoir beside him didn't seem affected.
Although he didn't know why.
It still made Luxray breathe a sigh of relief.
Then.
He began to explain the beginning and end of the matter to Kazuya, and then glared at the Snorlax in front of him again.
"...Huh?"
Kazuya was clearly stunned after hearing this, then frowned and looked at the big fatty in front of him.
This Snorlax was being too unreasonable.
The situation was like this.
This Snorlax was originally stealing honey from the Combee clan in the Allearth Forest, when suddenly another big guy jumped out and snatched her honey.
Up to this point, it had nothing to do with the Nebel Plateau.
But immediately after, it did.
The Pokémon that snatched Snorlax's honey ran towards the Nebel Plateau.
Snorlax believed they were in cahoots with that robber, so she angrily came up to argue and demand an explanation.
This really amused Luxray.
You're a thief, and you're asking a robber for an explanation?
Moreover.
Luxray hadn't seen anyone on the plateau eating honey recently; that robber couldn't possibly be with them.
In his view.
This Snorlax was clearly just making trouble.
And Kazuya thought so too.
As the mother-figure for the group of Pokémon on the Nebel Plateau, he knew their movements very well.
No Pokémon had run into the forest at all today.
So the Pokémon that snatched Snorlax's honey absolutely couldn't be a plateau Pokémon.
This Snorlax was slandering them because she couldn't find the culprit.
Unreasonable.
"The Pokémon you're looking for isn't here. Please leave the plateau."
Kazuya spoke to Snorlax rather politely.
He understood Snorlax as a Pokémon.
The vast majority of Snorlax have a very gentle temperament, or rather, they are gentle because they are too lazy.
But once food is involved, they easily become serious.
If you see a Snorlax fighting with other Pokémon in the wild, nine times out of ten it's over food.
"Snorlax!"
Snorlax wouldn't leave.
She insisted on finding that robber and dueling them today.
Or the plateau Pokémon had to compensate her with a portion of honey.
"Doing it the hard way, huh! I'll duel you!"
Kazuya took two steps forward, motioning the other Pokémon to step back.
He was exactly lacking an opponent for a spar right now.
This Snorlax's level didn't seem exaggerated; she would be a great opponent. Otherwise, Kazuya could easily have everyone jump her.
"Ga-o?"
Luxray stepped forward and nuzzled him with his head.
"It's fine, leave it to me. I want to fight."
Kazuya rubbed his mane.
Luxray nodded and retreated with the other Pokémon.
Volcanion, who was practicing flying, noticed the commotion here and ran over with wide, angry eyes.
He thought Kazuya was being bullied and seemed intent on finishing Snorlax off with a Hydro Pump, but was stopped by Kazuya's gaze.
"Snorlax!"
Snorlax glanced at the skinny and frail Kazuya, completely unfazed.
She patted her big belly.
Gesturing for Kazuya to bring it on.
"..."
Kazuya looked at the four-meter-tall behemoth in front of him and narrowed his eyes.
Normal-type Snorlax are only weak to Fighting.
What a coincidence.
Kazuya happened to not have trained much in Fighting in this life.
But it was perfect.
He could try out a new fighting style.
A large circular battlefield was automatically cleared out on the plateau.
A gentle breeze blew past.
A few blades of wild grass drifted up from the ground.
In just the blink of an eye.
Kazuya's figure had already disappeared from Snorlax's sight.
"Snorlax?!"
Snorlax was startled and hurriedly looked around.
Then she was even more surprised!
She found that from all directions in the sky, over a dozen Gardevoirs had actually appeared, leaping towards her!
Which one was the real one?!
Snorlax couldn't tell, so she decided to defend.
Consequently.
She opened her mouth wide and took a deep breath, and the entire Pokémon directly inflated.
Stockpile!
Snorlax's Defense and Special Defense were both increased!
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