[Actually...]

Sika and Ash strolled across the prairie, quietly feeling the breeze blowing through each other.

[It's not wrong to love Pokémon. From my point of view, from Pokémon's point of view, isn't your love for Pokémon what attracted me, and one of the big reasons why I would like to choose you to be my trainer? 】

[So please don't think that if you love Pokémon, you will become an unqualified Pokémon trainer because you love Pokémon, and a trainer who doesn't love Pokémon should be that unqualified trainer.] 】

Its voice drifted in the mind, no longer in its infancy, and the voice of its mind echoed in Ash's subconscious, leaning towards the pitch of a girl and a teenager. Because he is not human, Ash has not thought about Sika's gender, resulting in a very vague distinction between Sika's voice in his mind, and he can't tell whether it is a girl's voice or Xiao Nian's voice.

But he didn't bother with it now.

The bangs under Ash's hat swayed gently with the wind, and the face hidden in the shadows moved gently.

"What do you want to say?"

【... Nothing, as you can see, tries to persuade you. 】

It chuckled.

[Do you think that your love for Pokémon makes you unable to make up your mind to make some necessary sacrifices... But in fact, you love Pokémon only from your own point of view, since you can't find a solution to the problem from this point of view... Why not try to solve the problem from the perspective of us, me, and Pokémon? 】

"What do you mean?"

"Follow me.] 】

Sika glanced at Ash silently, and suddenly his body sank, and he suddenly rushed towards the wild jungle next to the wilderness area two or three steps. The guardrail in the Pokémon zone failed to stop Sika's light and ethereal steps, and Sika waved his hand at Ash, who was running over, and then disappeared into the forest.

“...”

Ash was stunned, looked at Sika's gradually departing figure, and glanced back at Xiaoxia and Xiaogang. Finally, he silently turned around and walked briskly towards the place where Sika had left.

The dense forest branches and foliage are luxuriant, but at this time, Xiao Zhi is far from that day, the body hammered by the power of the waveguide is strong and fast, plus because of the improvement of mental power, the reaction ability and thinking ability of the rising tide, he can already move around the forest, but his body will not be entangled and volleyed by the branches and vines that have been swept over many times.

His growth was witnessed by Sika, and Sika's growth was also witnessed by Ash. But as time went on, the gap between Sika and Ash grew faster than other Pokémon and Trainers in this cruel world, and the gap between them became smaller and smaller.

Sika has entered the stage where his strength no longer grows by leaps and bounds. All the necessary means have been mastered, and the rest can only be improved by slowly exercising one's physical fitness.

Ash is different, with the resonance between the power of the waveguide and Sika, his strength is increasing rapidly. The power of the wave guide is growing rapidly, and Ash, who was already proficient in using wave missiles not long ago, is now in terms of physical strength, physique, reaction speed, strength, and agility has completely reached a point that many fighting Pokémon cannot reach, and is in a critical period of physical strength improvement.

If it weren't for Ash's lack of martial arts, he would have been able to throw at least a few punches with Sika... It's a pity that the almost endless fighting wisdom in his mind makes Sika far surpass Ash at this stage, even in various waterproofs, and with three times weaker than Ash, it is easy to solve him.

Fiddling with the last vine that wrapped around him, Ash saw Sika standing there silently, standing on a bush, leaning down and wondering what he was looking at...

"What are you looking at..."

[Shhhh 】

Ignoring Ash who was following up, Sika just silently looked in that direction, without looking back or paying attention to Ash.

“...”

Ash was curious and took a few steps forward, but the next sight surprised him, and then without even thinking about it, he rushed out of the bush in two or three steps.

It was a slightly steep downhill, and the downhill was a little...

A flying mantis grabs a large needle bee that is clearly covered in scars. It looked miserable, with several legs and feet broken, even one of its wings.

The dying and struggling needle bee was thrown so hard that it slammed into the tree next to him, and he couldn't even make a wailing sound.

The sharp scythe was raised, and the flying mantis slashed towards the slender neck of the giant needle bee.

Dying Pokémon are often able to burst out with terrifying power, and often when the Flying Mantis hunts, they will choose to torture the captured Pokémon to the point of death before slashing their lives.

There was no pity in his calm and cold eyes, only a trace of sigh at the cruel laws of the forest after the food was about to be delivered.

But it's a pity that he is probably going to return empty-handed today.

"Dangchang!"

The clashing of gold and iron was crisp and powerful. The slender hand was erected, and the skin wrapped in the power of the waveguide was like metal, blocking the blow that was almost the full force of the Flying Mantis.

The wings behind the flying mantis, which was shocked by the tremendous force, shook violently several times before it stabilized its body in midair. But it was blown away by a crystal blue wave missile that followed, and disappeared into the forest.

Ash gently threw the field ball. While there is an additional cost to use the Pokémon Field Ball outside of the Pokémon Fields Zone, the cost is just a bunch of cold numbers for a Pokémon's life.

The seventh Poké Ball could only sit on its body for about five hours, but the Field Ball could last for a full three days.

What are you doing? 】

At this time, Sika's voice came out of the mind of Ash, who had grabbed the field ball. However, its voice did not stop Ash's movements, and Ash hid his face under his hat and turned his head and ran out of the forest.

“...”

Watching Ash pass by, Sika turned his head slightly, watched Ash disappear into the forest, and shook his head slightly.

"You are doing this in vain. 】

[The phenomenon of predation in the cruel forest has never disappeared, today you saved a large needle bee, tomorrow, the flying mantis that tried to prey on the giant needle bee may be hunted by other Pokémon...]

[There's no point in you doing that. 】

[This is the life of Pokémon in a real wild environment, and even the interior of many dense forests that are blocked by alliance trainers is even more cruel, even many trainers with large Pokémon have eternal sleep in them...]

Don't think that this world is so fraternal. 】

[It may be a little too cruel for your age, but you must know that there are some things that cannot be changed.] You can't change the world. 】

[For Pokémon, humans will subdue them, even if they are placed anywhere after subduing, as long as they can get out of the whirlpool of predation and prey, there are many Pokémon who will be grateful to you in their sleep. 】

[Unless you can abolish the law of the forest in the entire world, so that all Pokémon no longer need to rely on fighting, fighting each other to seize the chance to survive...]

Ash ran farther and farther, faster and faster, as if he wanted to abandon something in the forest completely. Unfortunately, there are some things that you can't just throw away if you want to.