Chapter 158: The End of Diemei's Mother?

Just as Diemei is about to get the key to the princess she once dreamed of, the despicable, shameless, sinister, treacherous, cunning and indecent (of course, a little more subjective) dark team blasts through the walls and storms in and surrounds the stage and the audience.

"What? Those dark teams turned out to be?! Lucia and Anelle, who were watching the live broadcast of the show in front of the TV, realized the seriousness of the situation and immediately got up and rushed to Xinyin City.

"Don't move, or these girls on the stage will be finished!" Zlohi took a step forward and shouted at the audience, "Tell your mayor to hand over the vajra soul in the museum, or these girls will suffer!" ”

"What should we do, should we do it?" Keymei turned to look at Lan Lu and Misawei.

"It's okay." Lan Lu looked calm: "Didn't you see Diemei there?" I heard that her current strength is not what it used to be, and it should be easy to defeat these dark teams. ”

This time, the dark team took the initiative to attack at the risk of being annihilated by the alliance, the purpose was to save the diamond jade soul in the museum, but they also planned very carefully: take advantage of the performance competition to attract attention, and then kidnap those powerless girls as hostages, even if the alliance reacts immediately, you can use hostage threats without worrying at all, so that you can not only get the mission items but also hit the morale of the alliance, it can be said that the plan is perfect.

But isn't planning meant to be broken?

After threatening the audience who wanted to make a move, Zlohi was just about to arrest the girls when he saw a member of the Dark Team screaming and drawing a parabola and slamming it to the ground, and near where he had been standing, a Shanaido was standing proudly showing his queenly temperament.

Seeing this, Zlohi was about to shout at someone when a voice that frightened him sounded.

"Stupid Dark Team, since you sent it to the door yourself, Miss Ben is welcome!" Seeing that Diemei, a member of the Dark Team, quit the lady mode almost instantly, and switched to the torture and killing villain mode within 0.003 seconds: "Go Charizard, attack with a big word explosion!" ”

Under Diemei's command, Charizard flapped its wings and flew up into the air, and launched a large character explosion at the most densely populated place of the dark team members below, and began to bombard indiscriminately.

“…… Let's go! Everyone present was stunned by the sudden situation, and the host Meow Ke hurriedly called on those scumbag girls to hide in a safe place.

"Damn, go for the Sound Blaster!" Seeing that his subordinates were knocked down one after another, Zlohi couldn't help but shoot anymore, although he definitely couldn't beat Diemei, but it was okay to delay time.

But...... He overestimated himself too much......

"Oh? It turned out that you were the fish that slipped through the net, why can't you wait to be caught by Miss Ben? Diemei jumped off the stage: "In this case, Charizard, you can fulfill his wish, use the dragon's wave!" ”

Charizard sends a blue-purple beam of light at the approaching blaster, and the blast dragon can't dodge and falls back to the ground with smoke and turns into a mosquito eye - this is the consequence of daring to challenge the demon.

"It's not good, hurry up!" Witnessing his Pokémon being killed in seconds, Zlohi realized how powerful the current Diemei is (young man, did you forget what happened last time?). If he continued to fight, there would be no other result than being completely annihilated, and he immediately ordered all the men to retreat.

"I want to run now...... It's late! Go for the eagle, the flaming nightingale catches up! Seeing Zlohi's decisive retreat, Diemei immediately took out two Poké Balls and released flying Pokémon to chase after him, this time I can't let him run anymore!

"............" So the audience looked stupidly at the dark team who had just been arrogant and now fled like a lost dog: What is the situation?

"Go Charizard and attack their path with a big word blast." Sitting on Charizard's back, Diemei proudly commanded Charizard to attack the dark team: "Don't take them all down too seriously, Miss Ben still wants to play a little longer." ”

…… So the more beautiful the girl, the more dangerous it is.

Under Charizard's powerful attack, the Pokémon of the members of the Dark Team were very fragile, and one by one was constantly killed in seconds, although one or two of the ignition characteristics of the Black Ruga tried to resist stubbornly, but they were immediately defeated by Charizard's air cut.

Just when the audience was stunned and having fun, a discordant voice suddenly sounded.

"Little girl, obediently let our team members go, otherwise this woman will be finished." A voice suddenly came from the audience, and the people around looked back and found that it was a tall woman, this woman may be in a high position, her face is very cold and arrogant, wearing a black dress and black pants with long blue and purple hair, she looks very heroic.

Next to this woman, Diemei's mother, who was caught by Meka Yangma, was constantly struggling, and the three girl gym trainers in the audience below her showed bitter faces: just now they teamed up to try to stop her but failed, and sure enough, Team Rocket's Heavenly King is also very strong.

"Mom?!" Seeing her mother being caught, Diemei was startled at first, and after finding out that her mother was actually fine, she took a closer look at the woman in a black uniform: "Who are you?" ”

"I'm Yuriko, one of the three kings of the dark team, and now your mother is in my hands, if you dare to act rashly, I'll kill her." Yuriko reached out and touched her waist, and when she looked closely, she noticed that there was a katana hanging there.

"Hey, Mom, don't you have a mane werewolf in the form of a dusk that is stronger than the Heavenly King?" The cold Diemei suddenly asked.

"Uh...... Mom put it at home to look after the house, and today I only brought the West Lion Hairen when I went out, so ...... Daughter, don't care about mom, hurry up and catch her! Diemei's mother has been struggling desperately in the hands of Meka Yangma: "Even if my mother really dies today, I am not afraid to send them to prison quickly!" ”

"Oh? Since you're so brave, I'll send you on your way. As she spoke, Yuriko pulled out the katana at her waist and dangled it in front of Diemi's mother.

Looking at the katana reflecting the cold light, Diemei's mother, who had just made a gesture of sacrificing herself, immediately coaxed: "Are you really playing?!" Good girl, help—"

"Uh......" Diemei took out a handkerchief to wipe the cold sweat from the top of her head: "So why did Dad fall in love with Mom back then?" Or did my mother actually have a shining point back then? ”

But at this time, Diemei didn't care about thinking nonsense, because Diemei's mother was in the hands of someone else, so Diemei had to get out of the way and let those miscellaneous soldiers retreat, while staring at the dark team members who fled in embarrassment with vicious eyes.

"Anyway, the goal of this mission has been reached, so I won't play with you." Yuriko grabbed Diemei's mother and flew into the air on her own Meka Yangma, and then Diemei also chased after her in Charizard.

"If you want to get back to your mother, hand over all the slate in your hand, or ......" Yuriko saw Diemei catch up and stop in mid-air, just said a few threatening words, suddenly several air blades flew over and knocked over Meka Yangma, who kidnapped Diemei's mother, and Diemei's mother fell from the sky and was caught by Diemei's flaming nightingale in time.

"You're alright, Mom." Diemei flew to her mother's side and asked her with concern.

"It's mom who is useless to disappoint you......" Diemei's mother took a big blow this time, turned gray-white and solidified, and was sent back to the ground by the Flame Nightingale.

"Hmph, it's really fast!" Steady Mekayangma Yuriko looked in the direction of the attack, where a tyrannosaurus and a chief swan were flying towards them, with Lucia and Anel sitting on their backs, respectively.

"If you dare to go against the dark team in the future, this is the end!" Knowing that the threat plan had failed, Yuriko put down her cruel words and planned to retreat as usual.

"Don't worry." Diemei's eyes narrowed into a dangerous arc: "From today onwards, there will be no more peaceful days for your dark team." ”

"Humph! Hope you can! After saying that, Yuriko didn't stay any longer and flew away.

"Don't run!" Lucia sits on a tyrannosaurus and tries to chase but it is too late, and Yuriko has already flown far away.

"Teacher, are you okay, teacher?" Anel, who was sitting on the chief swan, fell to the ground to look at Diemei's mother, but Diemei's mother was still in a petrified state and motionless.

"Uh...... Okay, teacher, I'll check the damage first. Seeing this, Anel had no choice but to leave Diemei's mother.

"Team Dark, Miss Ben will see how long you can hold out!" Diemi, who stared at Yuriko's disappearance, showed a sneer.

Girls are very vindictive!

—————— Scales ——————

"It's your reward." Meow Ke, who had been hiding in the shadows before, handed the golden princess key to Diemei: "Thank you this time, otherwise we will definitely be finished." ”

"It's okay, it's just a gesture." It was also a little uncomfortable for the girls to look at Diemei with the eyes of heroes, and she glanced at Iya as if she had taken advantage of the chaos to escape.

After the girls went back to their respective homes, Diemei thought about hanging the princess key outside her backpack as a decoration - so that she could pretend to be a performer in the future and pretend to be a warm pig to eat a blazing roaring tiger~

"Anyway, the performance facilities were not seriously damaged this time, all because of Diemi's outstanding performance, so to thank you, I specially brought a rare Pokémon." When Anel learns about the destruction - she is also responsible for Queen Miaro - she comes to Diemei and hands her a diving ball.

"What's in there?" Diemei asked, shaking the diving ball.

"It's a very rare Pokémon Stupid Fish, and you know that it can evolve into the most beautiful Pokémon Menas, although there are some problems with the personality of this Stupid Fish...... But you can definitely cultivate it. Anel nodded to Diemei, then turned her head sideways to look at Lucia with disdain: "I'm not like someone, I'm really stingy when others don't reward me at all when they help." ”

"Who said that!" Lucia, who noticed that Anelle's gaze was watching the play on the side, immediately ran over, and then took out a large glass bead from her bag and handed it to Diemei: "This is the Shanaiduo Mega Stone that I said last time, I just need to study it and I didn't give it to you, and ......"

Saying that, Lucia took out two more luxury balls (Diemei: The league is really rich...... "This is the Pokémon that the Pokémon Alliance specially rewarded you for your performance, the one in the left hand is the Carty Dog, and the one in the right hand is the lazy man, all of them are very rare Pokémon, you can pick one." ”

"Uh...... Can't you have both? Okay, okay, I know......" Under Lucia's expressionless gaze, Diemei decisively retreated and gave up the idea of taking both: "Hmm...... Lazy Man's final evolved Leave King is a very powerful Pokémon, but its traits can greatly affect the performance...... The Cutty Dog evolved into a Wind Speed Dog, which is a very loyal Pokémon that must be good to use to help mom take care of the house...... Then it's decided, I'm going to ask for this card......"

"My good daughter wants to be a lazy woman." Diemei's mother suddenly ran over from the side and picked up the luxury ball pretending to be a lazy man and stuffed it into Diemei's hand: "It's decided!" ”

"In that case, I'll take this catty back to the Alliance, okay, Anel should go, and we're going to the Alliance to hold a meeting to discuss this...... Speaking of which, the Four Heavenly Kings have not been active for a long time, and it is time to gather them to act. ”

"Okay, okay, got it." Anel waved her hand reluctantly when she heard that she was going back, and before leaving, she quietly approached Diemei's side: "Diemei, your performance is very good, remember to continue to work hard in the future, I will wait for you on the final stage." ”

"Uh...... Maybe I won't ...... in the future."

"Yes, Diemei must be an excellent performer in the future, goodbye to my best student-"

With the farewell of Diemei's mother, Lucia and Anel flew away in their own Pokémon, and the alliance should have a big move to eradicate the dark team...... Right?

"Mom, how did you recover so quickly?" Diemei turned her head to look at her mother, who was still taller than herself (nonsense).

"Doesn't the good daughter want to see her mother come back together?"

“…… I didn't mean that, I meant ...... Haven't you ever thought about what would happen if Grandma found out about this? ”

Diemei's mother instantly solidified and petrified.

"Speaking of which, Mom, why do you want to take the lazy man by himself?" That's when Diemei asked the crucial question.

"That's because your father had a leave king back then, and he was very strong and could defeat his opponent with one blow." When it comes to Diemei's father, Diemei's mother is like a nymphomaniac with her hands in her hands: "Back then, people liked his calm and handsome appearance when he fought." ”

“…… What if Dad gets old in the future? Does mom dislike dad? ”

"What do you say, no matter what he becomes, your dad will always be your dad, and mom will always love him."

"Hmm...... It seems that Dad didn't marry a good-for-nothing woman in the first place. Diemei nodded thoughtfully.

"Hey, hey, mom, that's the impression you're on? Don't forget who gave birth to you and raised you! ”

"Yes, yes, my mother is the best for Diemei."

……

The next morning, when she had breakfast, Diemei's mother slowly walked to the edge of her seat listlessly and sat down.

"Mom, what's wrong with you?" After eating the fried chicken thighs, Diemei realized that there was something wrong with her mother's appearance.

"Do you need to say it......" Diemei's mother showed a wry smile: "Mom called, she said that she was disappointed in me after this incident, so she decided to fly from the Sosis Islands in person to teach you how to be a good trainer." ”

"Oh? Then mom, you shouldn't be like that. Diemei swallowed the sandwich into her stomach heartlessly, seemingly not caring about her mother's expression at all.

“…… But without your mother's teaching, Diemei, your dream of being the queen of the performance competition may not be realized. ”

"It's okay, anyway, Iya's arrogance has been suppressed this time, and it doesn't matter if I participate in the future or not." After eating the last takoyaki, Diemei drank the juice in the cup and patted her little belly with satisfaction.

"............" Diemei's mother didn't say anything, and stuffed the food on the table into her mouth to vent her anger.

"Goodbye mom, my daughter is going to challenge for the last badge, I hope to see my dear mother next time~" After breakfast, Diemei walked out of the room with a satchel on her back.

"Hmm...... Diemei, don't leave your mother alone! ”

—————— Ghost Fire——————

Diemei, who left Xinyin City, unfortunately found that she seemed to be lost again after entering the forest.

"This kind of plot hasn't been encountered by Miss Ben for a long time, it's really ......" using the mark of the electronic map, Diemei found the direction and continued to move forward.

"Yo roar~" A thing called the system flew out and landed on a nearby apple tree, picked a big apple and took a bite: "Host, this system has long said that you will fly to Purple Leaf City." ”

"When did you say that?"

"Uh......" The system scratched its head, and found that it was a little embarrassing to find that it really hadn't said this sentence: "This is not important!" Now that the moon is out, host, you might as well hurry up and build a house for the night. ”

"That's right...... You're not here to help. Diemei took out the block-like planks from the system space and began to put them together, and soon a small temporary house was built.

"OK, now it's time to get some rest." After saying that, Diemei walked into the house, and after a while, the lights inside were turned off, indicating that Diemei began to sleep.

In the dead of night, a chandelier ghost flew out of the forest and noticed the house, and when he looked around, no one quietly stretched out a hand burning with blue flames to set the wooden house on fire, and after doing bad things, its lantern face showed a humane evil smile.

The blue flame quickly became very large, and just as the chandelier ghost was thinking about whether he wanted to get some water to extinguish the fire, the voice of Butterfly suddenly came from inside.

"Nani! Save...... Fight the fire—ah no, go Blastoise, the fluctuation of water! ”

As the sound of the water balloon bursting continued, the flames visibly became much smaller to the naked eye, and after a while, a column of water suddenly broke through the wall and completely extinguished the fire.

"Who is it! Isn't it the scum of the dark team who wants to set fire to Miss Ben! Soon Diemei ran out of the burned house with the blastoise and the jumping lantern monster and shouted into the forest.

Quiet –

"Huh? Something is wrong, go Geng Ghost! Die Mei keenly sensed that something seemed to be hiding in the air (hidden characteristic: a woman's intuition), and immediately took out the dark ball and released her own Geng.

"Kouji...... ......"Who knew that this Geng ghost was lying on the ground and falling asleep as soon as he appeared, which made Diemei very angry, and immediately kicked it on Geng Ghost, kicked it out and hit the tree - although the ghost system is immune to certain physical attacks, but Diemei in the angry state ignores attribute restraint and characteristics."

"Kouji!" Geng Ghost got up and was about to shout who was attacking it, but when he saw that it was Diemei, he immediately wilted.

"You're a ghost-type Pokémon and you actually sleep at night, do you still have the consciousness of being a ghost-type Pokémon!" Diemei was very dissatisfied with her hands on her hips to teach Geng Ghost, and when she reprimanded Geng Ghost, there was a place where the air seemed to ripple.

"There is a situation! Gengar uses the Shadow Ball there! Diemei immediately pointed at the air and asked Geng Ghost to make a move, and the Geng Ghost who had undergone special training immediately reacted and threw out a pitch-black shadow ball, and the hidden chandelier ghost showed his body and blocked this move with a large character explosion.

"Can you even block the attack of the Gengh?" Diemei was surprised by this, you must know that Geng Ghost likes to play pranks very much, so he is often punished by Diemei, and the special training time is extended, and his strength has skyrocketed because of this, and he is not lost to the main force at all, and this chandelier ghost can actually block its blow......

"It seems to be the Pokémon of the three kings of the dark team, go for the fork word bat, the sound blast dragon!" Diemei immediately released two specially bred bat-like Pokémon suitable for night battles to attack the chandelier.

"The forked bat uses the divine bird, and the blasting dragon uses the storm!"

The cross-word bat turned into a white light and rushed towards the chandelier, but it dodged it, and then the blast dragon saw the opportunity to flap its wings and set off a storm that swept the chandelier ghost in.

"It's good to kill it, Geng Ghost Mega ......"

"Come back, chandelier ghost." Just as Diemei was about to make the Mega Geng Ghost launch the Shadow Ball, a woman suddenly came out of the forest and took the Chandelier into the goal.

Diemi rubbed her eyes and took a closer look, this beautiful woman had light blue shawl hair and dark blue pupils, and was wearing a well-fitting white kimono, and she was carrying a paper lantern in her hand - what was the matter with this sense of immediacy?

"It must be that the chandelier ghost has played a prank again, and the little woman hereby apologizes to you." The woman bowed slightly and raised her head to look at Diemei carefully: "But the strength of this kid is also very strong, even in the face of multiple opponents, he has never lost, but you seem to be able to defeat it by virtue of numerical superiority." ”

"Uh...... You've won a prize. The corners of Diemei's mouth twitched quietly, relying on the numerical advantage to defeat ...... Could it be that this girl's strength is as strong as the Four Heavenly Kings, the legendary hidden master?

Because Diemei's poor little house was burned down by the chandelier ghost, the woman who called herself Arya took Diemei to her house for a night.

Arya's home is near the forest, and it's a traditional Japanese building with a quaint flavor — why it's so much more visual—but there's some weird runes stuck on the door.

"That ......" couldn't help but be curious, and Diemei pointed to a talisman on the doorpost and asked, "This is?" ”

"Oh, it's a rune that has been passed down from generation to generation by our witch clan, and it is said to be used to ward off evil spirits." Arya explained to Diemei and led her to a room where she was staying, "You can stay here tonight." ”

"Then thank you, sister."

After Arya left, Diemei lay down on the tatami mat unceremoniously and planned to continue her dream of beating the leader of the dark team, but found that she was not sleepy.

"That big sister...... Feels mysterious, huh? ”

"Uh-huh, indeed." The system slowly flew out and landed on a small table: "If the system guesses correctly, she should be a superpower, and her ability should be a superpower...... It's the one that can move objects with telekinesis. ”

"Oh?" Hearing the topic of interest, Diemei immediately sat up: "Superpowers? ”

"That's right, that's right." The system nodded calmly: "According to the investigation of this system, the special abilities of the Miyaro region are superpowers and the power of waveguides, and because there are too few people with these abilities, they are rarely known." ”

"That is to say, this big sister ......"

"Well, in fact, 90% of superpowers can just do magic, but this woman should be a real superpower...... This can be seen from her temperament. ”

"Isn't she amazing?"

"Actually, superpowers are not useful in this world, they are just a little bit of the power of a super or ghost Pokémon when fighting, and you can roughly feel the other person's thoughts or move an object or something...... Being able to let you stay overnight means that she doesn't feel your malice, so she lets you stay overnight. ”

"Uh...... Because my set is immune to Super skills? ”

"No, no, no, no." The system shook his head calmly: "Host, you wouldn't have done anything bad to ordinary people, and even if you don't have the effect of clothing, you are immune to the skills and superpowers of the super energy system." ”

"Uh...... So why? ”

"Because you're a villain of the "evil system." The system made a smiling expression.

"Damn, your system dares to make fun of me, look at the trick!" Diemei threw out the pillow but was dodged by the system, and after playing around for a while, Diemei lay down and continued to sleep.

The next morning, Diemei got up early, because she couldn't cook, she had to give Arya a hand or something, and soon breakfast was ready, it was very light greens and a few side dishes, and it was also very good with rice.

After breakfast, Diemei was going to say goodbye and leave, but as soon as she thought that it would not be good for someone to entertain her, she would leave it to Arya to clean the house - as for cutting the grass, it would be left to Lothom, whom Diemei caught.

"Speaking of which, big sister, are you living here alone?" Diemi asked as she swept the floor.

"That's right, but I'm not alone with Pokémon." Aryar expertly wrung out the rag and began to gently wipe the window glass.

"Oh, this is a lot like Sister Sachiko Izumi." Thinking of a blue-haired woman who looked like Yamato Nadeshiko was actually a little black-bellied, Diemi could only smile.

"Oh? Do you know Sachiko Izumi? Arya suddenly stopped and looked at Diemei.

"That's right, I once went there to shelter from the rain for a day, and by the way, I helped her manage the manor......" Diemei said and suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a smile in Arya's eyes: "That...... Do you know? ”

"yes, we've traveled together before." Snickering and being discovered by Diemei, Arya quickly turned around: "So you are the recently famous Sakurai Diemei?" ”

"Huh? Sister, do you know me? ”

"Yes, your deeds have spread all over the Miyaro region recently, and the appearance of killing all sides in the show competition has been broadcast live, and it is said that you are also named the most likely person to become the new Queen of Miyaro."

"Nani? How can the tabloid reporters be believed. ”

"Okay, for the sake of you knowing Sachiko and helping me clean up, I'll help you divination for free." Arya put away the mop and bucket she used to mop the floor, and turned to Diemei.

"Uh...... You don't have to ...... divination."

"Come with me." Arya didn't wait for Diemei to refuse, and immediately led her into a secret room, there was only a small table with an incense burner and an ancient painting hanging on the wall, at first Diemei thought it was Arya's ancestor, and when she looked closely, she found out that it was a black dragon-shaped Pokémon, which was ...... Kiratina, in its form of origin?

While Diemei was looking at the paintings, Arya put a bowl of water on the ground, and then lit a few incense sticks and inserted them in the incense burner - it seems that this is a preparation for divination.

"Well, Sister Arya, divination doesn't cost lives like in the novel, does it?"

"It's impossible, it's just that it consumes a lot of mental power...... Now that the divination begins, don't bother me. With that, Aryar released a cursed doll and told it to look around to prevent it from being disturbed, and then began to chant strange spells - it wasn't supposed to be "I'll blind you" or something.

Arya chanted a strange spell for a while, and suddenly a hole of light appeared above her head, and several unknown totems flew out of it and began to circle around Aryar.

"Is this the legendary psychic technique? Hurry up and record ......" The voice of the system sounded in Diemei's head, and then there was no movement.

The super development of the plot of "............" has stunned Diemei, and she stared at this strange scene motionlessly.

As the sound of the incantation became higher and higher, the speed of the unknown totem became faster and faster, and finally the spell and the unknown totem stopped almost at the same time, and then the unknown totem released a strange light to shine on the bowl of water, and some golden ancient characters appeared strangely on the water surface - of course, Diemei couldn't understand it.

Fortunately, there is no Newton in the Pokémon world, otherwise this thing would have been angry for 800 times.

After doing all this, the unknown totem flew back to the light hole and disappeared, Arya opened her eyes and made a very pious salute to the place where the unknown totem disappeared.

"Hmm...... Let me see what the results are. After the divination, some beads of sweat appeared on the top of Arya's head, and it seemed that the so-called divination was not easy.

"What does that mean?" Diemei curiously leaned over to the bowl to read the words inside, but she still couldn't understand the system and didn't give an explanation.

“…… When a rising star shines on the Miyaro region, the darkness disappears into the morning light. Aryar translated the results of the divination: "Could it be that the nova refers to ...... Something in the grass, go curse the doll! ”

The Cursed Doll immediately floated up and burrowed into the grass, and after a while the Cursed Doll flew out and threw out a small camera machine that had been damaged.

"Someone is peeping over here, those people ......"

"It must be the Dark Team." Diemei stepped on the small machine to express her displeasure: "Some people who are still resisting, Miss Ben will send them all to prison sooner or later!" ”

……

It was dark in the room during the day, only the light on the screen illuminated the surroundings, there were some scenes on the screen, the screen turned into snowflakes after a cursed doll appeared, and a middle-aged man was watching in front of the screen, and he turned off the screen after finding that the monitor was destroyed.

"Nova Nova? Then let me see if she has what it takes to save the world. ”

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PS: The character Arya in this chapter is provided by Feng Yi's friendship, and she also wrote a PM novel "Pokémon Crossing Journey" at the starting point, which is well written, you can go and see it.

PS2: A special is in the works......

PS3: It's only been changed once because of the time relationship