Chimney Mountain.

Towering into the clouds.

The volcanic ash that has been drifting for thousands of years has nourished the northern part of the Hoenn continent, making the originally barren town of Akiba full of life for generations, and even becoming a food center.

At the same time, it is also one of the important attractions of Hoenn, and tourists often take the cable car to enjoy the scenery of Chimney Mountain.

But the staff of the cable car did not expect that they would welcome such a "distinguished guest" today.

"That's Lei Gong, right?"

"Absolutely, it doesn't look like a doll!"

"Legendary Pokémon...... It's the first time I've seen a physical entity, and I've only seen some pictures on the Internet before. ”

The staff in charge of the cable car whispered, frequently glancing at Kashiwagi, who was pushing a huge board car, wearing a hat, sunglasses and a large mask that covered almost all of his facial skin.

In order to ensure safety, they had just lifted the cloth on the cart, and they caught a glimpse of Lei Gong, who also moved his eyes to them.

I almost screamed.

Fortunately, they were professional enough, and they also understood that Kashiwagi probably didn't want to expose Lei Gong's existence, so they were very understanding and silent, but it was a little strange why they didn't put Lei Gong into the Poke Ball.

Other tourists in line occasionally glanced at the cart with curiosity, but didn't pay much attention to it because they didn't know that there was a legendary Pokémon inside.

Less leaning.

Kashiwagi finally waited for the empty cable car, and he quickly pushed Lei Gong up against the galel sun coral.

Although the internal space of the cable car is quite large, due to the existence of obstacles in the corners of the multi-faceted corners, it almost got stuck, and when the mechanical door behind him made a strange creak, the cable car began to run before the cloth wrapped around Lei Gong was lifted.

The latter flicked his tail slightly, a little impatient.

Obviously not this kind of secretive character, but forced to hide his head and tail, it really damaged the identity of the Phoenix King's guard.

"There's no way, the target of going over the mountain directly is more exposed, you can see for yourself, you can't see anything from this perspective." Kashiwagi seemed to see its discomfort and knocked on the glass.

There is a huge distance between the front and back of the cable car, so you don't have to worry about the cable car in front of you or behind you to see Lei Gong, but the cable car coming back from the other side may be able to see it.

Lei Gong got up lazily and glanced out the window.

It is true that as Kashiwagi said, I can see the scenery of Chimney Mountain below, but I am still a little unhappy in my heart.

And when it saw the former, he suddenly smiled and took out a comb—

It's even more unpleasant.

"Roaring ......"

Lei Gong's black iron-like headdress was slightly blue, and the flickering electric light jumped non-stop, and his eyes were locked on the cypress with a bit of threat.

"Your hair is knotted, either lick it or I'll comb it for you, you choose one yourself."

He stood still and didn't step forward, just held up his comb and watched with a smile.

Although this big cat has no habit of cleanliness, he can't help but lick it when he sees the hair knotted, especially after he specially reminded it once, this thing will be stuck in its heart like a thorn.

Not surprisingly.

When Lei Gong heard that he had hair knots, he quickly glanced around his body, and when he found that there were indeed two knots, he immediately leaned his head over, and quickly froze in place.

No way!

Licking detracts from majesty!

It seemed to feel the burning gaze of the cypress and silently turned its head back as if nothing had happened.

However, the more I tried not to think about it, the more I felt the knots of the two hairs on my body corresponding, and I couldn't help but get up and start walking back and forth on the cable car, trying to rub the knots apart.

Someone showed a teasing expression, "There is no way to rub it away like this, you can only get covered in dust." You'd better obey me! ”

“……”

Lei Gong silently stared at the unhurried cypress wood, but after all, he still couldn't pass the slight obsessive-compulsive disorder, and lay on the board and turned his head to the other side.

Belch~

If you agree, you agree, okay, and do this.

Kashiwagi seems to have seen the former big-mouthed baby, and the latter is now basically only Jiao and no arrogance - there was not much at first, how could Lei Gong be so difficult, and it softened in a few days

。

He picked up the comb and slowly combed it on Lei Gong's back.

"Roaring ......"

Not here!

Lei Gong's protesting roar sounded, but he continued to brush as if he hadn't heard it, until he began to jump the current before he said: "If you want to brush, brush together, so that it is neat, so as not to have fish that slip through the net, isn't it?" ”

Huang Chengcheng's current gradually subsided.

For fluff lovers, brushing is an extremely pleasant thing, and it is even better if there is no one to disturb the brushing during the period.

Sensing that a cable car was approaching the opposite direction, he said without raising his head: "Please, Galar Sun Coral." ”

“……”

Galal Sun Coral opened his eyes, and in Lei Gong's puzzled eyes, he used his smoke-like tentacles to pull up the black cloth used to cover Lei Gong, and tried to extend the tentacles against the two ends of the black cloth, hanging them on both sides of the glass.

Two cable cars are staggered.

Tourist in the other: "??? ”

Why is there a curtain on the cable car opposite? It's not fair!

The cable car drifts away.

Galel Sun Coral quickly dropped the black cloth and returned to the trainer's shoulder to continue his sleep, not wasting any more time and effort.

"Thank you."

Kashiwagi said with a smile.

“……”

Lei Gong, who was quietly paying attention, was a little speechless, and he didn't know whether to say that Garrell Sun Coral was diligent or lazy.

You say it's lazy, it's usually trained a lot, and you can do things when you shout it. You say it's diligent...... Have you ever seen a Pokémon that can sleep motionless from morning to afternoon and never fight back even when beaten?

The combination of diligence and laziness is really worthy of the Pokémon of Kashiwagi's weird little ghost...... Oh~

Lei Gong suddenly felt a little cool on his back, and the comb seemed to have brushed over a particularly itchy place, making it can't help but tremble its hind legs, and wanted to scratch it twice.

And after being so cool, I don't know why other places started to itch.

It was a little uncomfortable and couldn't help but want to change positions.

But the next second.

A large hand scratched the itchy spots, using just the right amount of force to make it feel comfortable quickly, and after grabbing one place, it moved to another.

It finally fell on the chin.

Lei Gong's movements instantly became stiff, and he turned his head to look at the innocent Kashiwagi.

"Don't you itch? I see you're itching, and your tail is starting to twitch all over the place. The latter said this, and raised his hand in surrender.

Only then did it realize that its electric tail was constantly flicking, hammering at various uncomfortable parts of its body, and it didn't even feel it!

Lei Gong: "! ”

How can you move around!

Lei Gong's tail: "! ”

I don't say it!

Kashiwagi, who saw this guy's performance in his eyes, couldn't stop laughing in his heart, and sure enough, the cat tail and the cat body are two species!

He quietly put his hand on Lei Gong's chin and scratched it.

While scratching my heart, I did a countdown to death.

Are you going to be electrified?

Electricity?

No power!

Kashiwagi kept moving in his hands, quietly looking at Lei Gong's face, and unexpectedly found that he was not electrocuted, and the big cat seemed to acquiesce in his behavior!

This made him excited, and he felt that he was one step closer to completely attacking all the body parts of Lei Gong!

It's definitely not far from burying your belly with your face!

The cheerful cypress hummed a little song and plucked the hair of Lei Gong from the comb.

I thought that the legendary Pokémon would not shed hair, but now it seems that he is thinking too much, should it fall or will it fall......

Why don't you collect it and tie a small Lei Gong to give it to this guy on the day of separation?

Kashiwagi felt that it was somewhat feasible, and the little song he hummed became more and more rhythmic.

Recently, I have been dreaming of a musician every day, and I am almost vomiting when I practice the guitar vigorously, and opening the dream every day is like clicking on a playlist that has stopped thousands of times, listening back and forth to a few familiar tunes.

But so far, he hasn't really gotten his hands on a guitar, and he didn't find a guitar shop when he went to shop just now.

It's a shame.

——

More than half an hour later.

The cable car stopped at the top of Chimney Hill.

This not-so-large place is much livelier than expected, with all sorts of trainers carrying Pokémon coming and going, as well as stalls set up by small vendors.

Obviously, many people come up via the bumpy mountain road and don't go to the cable car, which costs money.

If the target is too big and the cart can't find a way to push it up, Kashiwagi will actually choose to take the bumpy mountain trail, and climb to the top of the mountain with his feet at his speed 100% faster than the cable car.

He pushed the cart carrying Lei Gong down, intending to bypass the crowd and head to the cable car station north of Chimney Hill.

Wait until you reach the foothill below the north side.

Take a quick walk through the Flame Trail and Akiba Town is really not far away.

If it weren't for the many changes that happened along the way, such as encountering some Pokémon Aid Society, and provoking lava worms in the Flame Trail and being chased frantically, it wouldn't have taken that long.

"Don't miss it when you walk by! Gambling stones, gambling stones! You can bet on meteorites falling from the sky! Anyone who likes meteorites or exotic stones comes and has a look—"

The sound of yo ho sounded not far away.

Kashiwagi had no intention of joining in the fun, but Lei Gong stretched out his tail from under the black cloth and released the current to electrify his feet.

"Shhh What are you doing!? ”

He glared at the scooter, knowing that the latter could see it, despite the black cloth.

Go further.

It was electrocuted again.

Kashiwagi lowered his head and found that Lei Gong's tail was faintly pointing in the direction where the sound of yo was coming from, so he looked over there thoughtfully-

The voice was a middle-aged man with buckteeth who looked a little obscene, next to a black-haired jumping pig with a pink pearl on his head, and many large and small stones in front of him.

Many of the stones are cratered, like the surface of the moon.

[Iron Liar]!

When Kashiwagi saw this man shouting, the surrounding vendors had expressions waiting to see who was the wronged leader, and they knew that most of the people were selling roadside goods.

Pure roadside pick-up.

Can you deceive one like Uncle Carp King?

But what did Lei Gong stop him for? Could it be that there is something good in the pile of stones picked up by the roadside?

Kashiwagi trusts the big cat very much, and even if Lei Gong guesses wrong, it doesn't matter, he really doesn't lack the twenty or thirty thousand now, and Lei Gong will feel guilty after being trapped......

Well?

How do you feel like you're chasing girls?

He was stunned for a moment, and then he felt that pleasing a Pokémon whose friendliness was still in the stage of improvement was indeed a bit similar to falling in love. It's that desire belongs to another kind -

Suck the desire for fluffy.

Kashiwagi was thinking crankily as he pushed the cart to the stall.

The eyes of the middle-aged man with buckteeth lit up, and there were large sighs around him, as if lamenting that another fish had unfortunately been hooked.

"Hey, hey, hey, little brother is really good-eyed! Come and see my stone here! 100% pure extraterrestrial meteorites, let me tell you that each meteorite contains enough energy to change the Pokémon world! ”

The man opened his eyes and began to speak nonsense, and then he picked up a stone from the ground, "Look at this! Does Deochis, who was very popular a few years ago, know? Some experts have proven that they landed on the Hoenn continent on a meteorite! You know, it's a Pokémon that can wrestle with the Burning Sky! So you get the idea, right? ”

The middle-aged man with buckteeth dangled the meteorite around.

Kashiwagi was not confused by this person, looked around and asked, "You said gambling stones...... How to bet? I don't seem to see a machine with calcite. ”

"Calcite? What calcite? ”

The other party was stunned for a moment, and didn't seem to understand, "You just pick one and buy it back, take it to teach professionals for identification, and make money when you identify good things, just like that!" ”

“……”

Kashiwagi looked at the middle-aged man with buckteeth in disbelief.

After a few inner entanglements, he cautiously asked, "Do you think I look like I have no brains?" ”

"Poof!"

There was a sudden burst of laughter from the side, followed by a series of bangs

Laughter, impressively from the laughter of the street vendors, attracted the attention of many passers-by.

The middle-aged man's expression quickly became embarrassed and unkind.

"Little brother, I'm in business here! Malicious troublemakers will not be accepted! ”

"Whoever messed up, I really want to buy it. How to sell? By one? ”

Bai Mu waved his hand, his eyes aimed at Lei Gong's tail, and saw that it poked twice in several directions as if it was twitching, as if there was more than one target, and he couldn't help but feel a little strange, there are really good goods in these stones?

Could it be that this person is not a liar?

Hearing that the cypress began to ask the price, the middle-aged man changed his flattering expression again, "It's not expensive, it's not expensive, 10,000 pieces of stone, no matter how big or small." ”

"Ten thousand?"

"Little brother, you don't want to be bullied, even if you can't touch Daiochis, what if you find the evolution stone inside?"

"I still don't think the price is right."

"Huh! Gambling stones are sincere, and it will be difficult for you to ship if you are not sincere! ”

"Then keep this sincerity for yourself—" Kashiwagi pushed the cart and planned to go out.

The middle-aged man may not be able to open an order in a day or two, so he hurriedly stopped him, gritted his teeth and said, "Then you say!" How much is appropriate! ”

He turned his head and said, "Let me pick six for the unit price of five thousand, that's all, love to sell or not." ”

"Six!"

The middle-aged man didn't expect that the cypress wood would be a bunch of them as soon as he bought them, and everyone else bought one to try, so far he really hasn't encountered such a wronged man, so he was inevitably a little stunned.

Instead, he rubbed his hands excitedly, "Okay! Yes! ”

Seeing this, the surrounding vendors instantly froze on their faces, just now Kashiwagi said that he was not a fool, but he bought six stones in a blink of an eye?

You are not a fool who is!

These are all picked up randomly on the mountain!

He couldn't wait to expose the true face of the middle-aged man on the spot, but he had no choice but to mix it up on the same territory, and it was really bad to say it so bluntly.

can only keep giving Kashiwagi a hint in his eyes.

But the latter is picking stones, how can he have time to pay attention to the "flattering eyes" thrown by a man.

The stones that Lei Gong pointed at with his tail were really hard to find, so he had to buy all the stones in the direction he pointed to.

And eventually.

Cypress Mu took six stones of different sizes, and when he saw that Lei Gong didn't blindly finger anymore, he turned around and left satisfied, while the middle-aged stall owner smiled and counted the banknotes with the jumping pig, as if he had made a lot of money.

Only the vendor next to him was so angry that his hands and feet trembled.

Seeing others cheating fools and getting money is even more uncomfortable than losing money himself!

"Alas! How could there be such a stupid person? ”

Seeing that the middle-aged man with buckteeth came to return the goods in order to avoid the cypress, and the remaining stones were not wanted to run away in a hurry, he couldn't help but sigh.

——

Successfully boarded the cable car to the north of Chimney Hill.

Kashiwagi lifted the black cloth that covered Lei Gong and asked, "What are these stones?" ”

The latter jumped out of the cart, turned his head to look at the oddly shaped stones, and tossed three of them aside, leaving only the other three.

"Roar~"

It smashed a piece with a wave of its claws, revealing the gray orange-red crystal inside.

"Fire Stone!"

Kashiwagi was a little surprised, the middle-aged man just now said that there might be a fire stone in it, is the relationship serious?

Immediately.

Lei Gong went to shoot another relatively larger stone, and with a claw, the huge stone directly shattered into three petals, revealing the bright orange-red light inside.

He glanced at it, "Gems? Or is it some kind of common mineral? I guess it's a gem. ”

Ever since he had gotten so many stones in Soul Hook's hand that day, he had gone to make up for his knowledge of gemstones—unfortunately, it was really difficult to identify without systematic learning.

Because a lot of gemstones look too similar.

Kashiwagi decided to turn to the field for support.

It just so happened that Lysa, a cute Dewen company employee, didn't seem to be busy, and the first time she saw his pictures and text messages, she first sent a string of ellipses.

Lysa: "Pokémon again?"

cypress

Wood: "...... Is this a gem, so to speak?'

Lysa: "Of course, this is an attribute gem, which is not quite the same as an ordinary gem, because it contains various attribute energies, which can greatly amplify Pokémon's attacks. The ...... of this color in your hand The Jewel of Fire.'"

Kashiwagi: "How do you use it, just let the Pokémon hold it?"

Lyza: "Yes, but I suggest you cut it and use it again, this shape is prone to too much energy boost and hurt your Pokémon...... You can find a place to cut the gem, right?'

Kashiwagi: "Ahem, of course. But are you interested in this fire stone?'

Click.

He slapped the Fire Stone over.

Lysa didn't reply for a long time, and it wasn't until he looked up at Lei Gong with a puzzled face that he was a little nervous, and then he received the other party's helpless emoji and:

"Send it together, I don't even know where you got your strong luck."

Kashiwagi: "Hey, hey, hey...... Don't worry, there's another thing I can't figure out."

After posting a smirk, he looked at Lei Gong, and then mouthed at the last basketball-sized rock Nunu, but the latter did not smash it with his claws as before, but pushed it extremely gently, causing it to sway back and forth.

"What do you mean?"

Kashiwagi looked at Lei Gong, who was also looking at him, a little puzzled, "What is this?" ”

The latter shook his head.

"You don't know? I don't know what to do with it......"

He swept his gaze to the Fire Stone and the Fire Gem, and suddenly said, "Wait, is this the main purpose you asked me to buy in the past?" ”

"Roar~"

Lei Gong bowed his head slightly in affirmation.

This made Kashiwagi intrigued, and took a picture and sent it to Lysa, "Do you know this thing?"

After waiting for a few seconds and not responding, he slowly observed it himself.

Lei Gong was also very curious about this thing that caused his subconscious reaction, but he couldn't see what it was, and he didn't smash it because-

"It's so hard!"

Kashiwagi, who was holding a small hammer, smacked his tongue secretly.

He went down with a hammer, but only a very small part of the broken rock was shed on the surface of the rock, and it looked like there was something else inside.

After a few more slam knocks, the outer layer of rock gradually cracked, revealing a jagged pitch-black crystal.

"This looks like ......"

Kashiwagi looked at the crystal in a daze, as if he had thought of something, and he couldn't recall it for a while, so he hurriedly took a picture and asked Lysa, who just replied.

Lysa: "!!"

Lysa: "Let's see if the rock breaks a little bit."

Kashiwagi: 『(Image)』

Lysa: 'Ah! That's it! What the hell is your luck! This is Kira in his sleep!'

"Ahh

Kashiwagi looked at the crystal in his hand in shock, and the content of the theatrical version of "Seven Nights' Wishing Star, Kira Qi" hidden in his memory kept coming up, and the crystallized appearance of Kira Qi after sleeping in his mind gradually compared with the thing in his hand.

But then he had some regrets.

Because Kira Qi had already woken up once a few years ago, unless this Kira Qi was not the one they saw in the theater version.

It's not impossible.

When Ash traveled to the United Nation, he met a second Kirachi in the Jackrolla Islands. The combination of the theatrical version and the feature film in this animated world is enough to prove that Kira Qi is plural.

Unfortunately, Chimney Hill is very close to the location of the Seven Nights Wishing Star - Faens, and it is not clear that the middle-aged man picked up the wishing star from Faennes.

"Can you hear me?"

Kashiwagi tapped on the stone, but received no response.

Legend has it that Kiraqi only comes to the ground during the seven days of the arrival of the millennium comet, and chooses a young man with a pure heart as a temporary companion.

The theatrical version of Kiraqi chose a small victory.

This ...... that happened to me In short, I didn't reply, I don't know if I slept to death, or my heart was not pure enough.

And the Galal Sun Coral on his shoulder was a little envious when he heard that Kira had prayed for a thousand years to sleep peacefully

Not to mention that it can't sleep that long, once the stored energy is almost exhausted, it has to come out to "forage".

I can't sleep so hard!

The Galel sun coral sleeps for a long time on the surface, but in fact it sleeps very lightly, and most of the time it does not show its eyes and is just in a silent daze.

Otherwise, where can you respond to the trainer's words so quickly.

I can't help but think a little too much.