Seicui area, March 4th, night.

Soroark only showed one face, and then he regained his black robe to cover his face, revealing a little fur that quickly turned into the smooth skin of a human.

She transformed into a middle-aged woman this time, and Soroak whispered, "The ability of our clan is transformation, not transformation...... After all, it's just illusion, so don't let humans touch you, or the illusion will be ineffective. ”

Zoroac's voice is also as soft as a human woman, and she speaks human language, but it speaks very slowly, and in a strange tone, with a distinct accent, and it is clear that the Zoroac people do not naturally master language because of transfiguration...... This human language was taught by Soroark himself.

However, the Zoroyaks have vocal organs that can speak human language...... Maybe it's just that this Soroark is special.

At least...... Even if Zoroa transforms into Xu Qiansu at this moment, he can't speak human language.

Hearing Zoroyak's admonition, Zoroa didn't react much, her eyebrows lowered, and she pursed her lips...... She was neither used to her current appearance, nor was she used to the life after Xu Qiansu's sudden departure...... She didn't know what she was supposed to do at the moment.

Zoroak looked at her, stepped forward, stretched out his hand, and tapped it on Zoroa's shoulder, and then heard a soft 'poof' sound, and Zoroa turned into his original form again.

She pressed her Poké Ball with her little paws, and the Magical Stone Tablet and Divine Flute were placed beside her.

Zoroa looked up at his mother with a blank face.

"Let's master transmogrification first...... At the very least, you can use it however you want. Zoroak's gaze crossed Zoroa, looked at the boat by the lake, and after a few moments of silence, continued: "After you have completely mastered the transfiguration, what do you want to go?" ”

Zoroa's eyebrows lowered and his little head tilted...... Still didn't speak.

"Then go to Ultramarine." Zoroac stretched out his hand, and in an instant, a purple-black ominous energy swept out of his fingertips, turning into an abyssal maw in the night sky, completely engulfing the small boat.

Zoroak glanced down at Zoroa, observing her reaction, and then asked, "Isn't that the place where you first met him?" ”

Zoroa glanced at the crumbled boat in confusion, not understanding why his mother was destroying it.

Seeing that his daughter was still in this ignorant state, Zoroac put his hands behind his back, no longer tempted, and asked directly, "Hate is the source of energy for our clan...... Do you hate him? ”

"Huh?" Zoroa raised his little face, looked at his mother, and tilted his little head again.

“…… Get ready for training. Seeing this, Zoroak stopped saying more and began to prepare for Zoroa's special training.

Three days later, on the night of March 7.

Zoroa turned into a tree, revealing itself in an instant, and then turning into a large and unremarkable stone in the next moment...... In the end, she once again transformed into Xu Qiansu's appearance.

Dressed in white.

Zoroac stood aside, reached out and took out a fanny pack from his bosom, and handed it to Zoroa, "Let's go." ”

"Hmm......" Zoroya blinked with Xu Qiansu's face, took it, crooked his little face, and then put the magic slate, his own Poké Ball, the Flute of the Gods and other things into his waist bag and tied them to his body.

Soroak didn't say much, turned and walked away.

Zoroa looked at his hands, human hands are fine and soft and can do many things...... And Xu Qiansu's hands, slender and distinct, he always used such hands to gently caress Soloya's back.

Zoroa raised his eyes to look at the lake behind him, naturally ...... Nothing.

She withdrew her gaze and followed Zoroac.

A month later, Ultramarine Town was still the same, neither lively nor deserted.

"Mr. Xu! You're back. The guards at the gate were still the two guards, they saw Xu Qiansu, their eyes were slightly bright, they stepped forward quickly, and said with a smile: "Since you left, I don't think about tea and food, so I count on your Chinese cuisine...... How many days are you going to stay this time? ”

Zoroa tilted her face in confusion as she looked at the human who had tried to expel her.

The guard blinked, and before he could ask a question, Soroak stepped forward, stretched out his hand in front of him, and whispered, "I'm his companion, he lost some of his memories to save me, so don't embarrass him." ”

"Huh?" The guard's face changed, and he didn't dare to delay any longer, so he hurriedly invited Zoroa into the town, patting his chest and saying that there were many doctors with excellent medical skills in Ultramarine Town, and they would definitely cure Mr. Xu.

Ignoring him, Soroak led straight into town.

Zoroa's eyebrows were lowered, and he looked at the bluestone floor tiles at his feet.

After a short time, Soroyak took Soroya to a bluestone alley, and the yellowed wine flags were waving in the wind.

She glanced at the storefront and walked straight inside.

"Are the guests going to drink here or take away ......" The shopkeeper was bending over the table on his shoulder, and when he saw a guest, his old face hooked up a warm smile, and then he saw 'Xu Qiansu' who walked in, and his expression stiffened.

His cloudy eyes were fixed on Zoroa...... Zoroya frowned slightly, revealing a somewhat timid look, and hid behind Zoroac.

"A jug of wine, take it away." Soroark's words were few and always concise.

After the shopkeeper was silent for a while, he took the wine spoon and stirred it in the large wine vat for a while, but suddenly said: "Jing values Mr. Xu very much, so the house is still idle there, and he often sends someone to clean it...... If you don't have a place to go, there's no harm in staying there. ”

"Thank you." Zoroak nodded slightly, never asking more.

After filling the pot with a full pot of wine, the shopkeeper handed it to Zoroac and said in a low voice: "Recently, the Galaxy team has been here, thanks to them, Ultramarine Town is currently very open-minded about Pokémon......"

Zoroac nodded slightly, took the flask, and walked out of the wine shop with Zoroa.

The shopkeeper looked at the back of 'Xu Qiansu', his expression was a little embarrassed, his clothes remained the same, he was wearing a white robe, but every time, it was not the same person.

In a trance, it seems to be another reincarnation.

……

Soroark seemed to be very familiar with Ultramarine Town, and his steps were unhurried, but he walked through the streets and alleys, and came directly to the house where Xu Qiansu lived at the time.

Zoroa had some of the food he had bought...... Naturally, the mother and daughter did not eat much in the wild, and when they came to the town, they wanted to taste human food...... Although Zoroa was not in the mood to eat at all, to this day, she did not know what she should do or what she could do.

She didn't know why she was alive at the moment.

The news of the arrival of 'Xu Qiansu' had obviously been notified by the guards.

As the mayor of the town, he was waiting in front of the house at the moment, saw Zoroa, smiled gently, and stepped forward, so as to greet him, but he obviously also knew about Xu Qiansu's amnesia, so he only promised to find the best doctor in Ultramarine Town to treat Zoroa, so that she could live here in peace.

With that, he hurried away, apparently not as idle as he seemed.

Under the influence of Team Galaxy, Ultramarine Town is indeed very receptive to Pokémon, but it takes a lot of effort for different races to understand each other and live together with each other.

Zoroa looked at the familiar door in front of him, and immediately reached out his hand, pulled it open, and then made eye contact with one of the little girls inside.

Maple.

She was kneeling on a tatami mat with a rag in her hand and a basin beside her...... Obviously, she was the one who was called by Jing to clean the house, but since Kaede was very young, only eight years old, she should have asked to clean it herself.

Xu Qiansu ...... No...... Zoroa? Feng raised her little face and looked at the face that was exactly the same as Xu Qiansu, and she didn't speak for a while, and after a while, she tilted her head and said to herself.

"Huh?" Six-tails lay beside Kaede, looking up at Zoroa, his little face crooked, and he didn't know how his trainer made such a judgment.

Even if the face is the same, but if it is not a person, it is not a person.

Kaede stared at Zoroa, and finally put down the rag, adjusted his sitting posture with both hands on the tatami mat, knelt in front of Zoroa, and then gently patted the tatami mat beside him, and asked in a childish voice and a soft tone, "Are you hungry?" Eat first? ”

"Huh?" Zoroa looked up at his mother, but Zoroac just crossed his arms and looked at her, not saying a word...... It's about letting her decide for herself.

"Hmm......" Zoroa lowered his eyebrows as he looked at the familiar hallway, and after a moment, he stepped into the house and sat down at the small table...... Well, it's lying down.

She still maintains her habit of being a Pokémon.

Kaede grabbed her hands, adjusted her sitting position, and taught her the habits of human life.

Soroak walked in, still not speaking, just placing the flask on the small table, and looking at his daughter with a side face.

Kaede took the food that Zoroa was carrying, took the dishes and chopsticks, and placed them on the table, "Eat." ”

At the age of eight, she is not like a little girl, she looks very mature in her every move, but like Zoroa's mother......

Although Zoroa's real mother was sitting at the table, not saying a word.

Zoroa looked at the mustard noodles in front of him and hesitated for a moment before reaching out and grabbing it and stuffing it into his mouth.

This time, Kaede didn't teach her how to use chopsticks again.

Bang bang bang.

Bean-sized tears slid down Zoroa's face like pearls with broken threads, dripping on the table with a soft sound.

I can't stop it, and I can't finish wiping it.

Even if she has mastered the transfiguration, even if she is using Xu Qiansu's face at the moment...... But she is Zoroya after all, the one who was born not long ago, and always hides in Xu Qiansu's arms timidly.

"From now on, you can live with me." Kaede looked at Zoroa's face, her immature little face looked mature and reliable, and she said softly.

Hearing this, Soroac remained silent and looked at his daughter...... Still let Zoroa make his own decisions.

Zoroa chose to nod.

Seeing this, Soroak smiled, it was the first time she had smiled in front of her own daughter, she was happy, loving, and soft.

Then she got up and left the room, and ...... Zoroa never saw his mother again......

Two days later, Jing brought a doctor and wanted to see Soroya.

The visitor was a pink-haired woman with a double ponytail.

Miss Pestle, she followed the investigation team of the Galaxy Team out to do a mission, passed through Ultramarine Town, and was invited here by Jing......

She knew Xu Qiansu.

She looked at the familiar face, and the keen observation of a doctor made her notice something unusual at a glance.

But she just held Zoroa's hand and said softly that she would help keep the secret

Two years later.

Kaede leaves Ultramarine with Six Tails and Zoroa on a trip.

The destination is Tianguan Mountain.

Listening to Zoroa, Xu Qiansu had a very cherished frame, which had to be thrown on Tianguan Mountain...... Kaede wants to go and bring it back.

They left the Ultramarine Coast and headed west, passing through the Red Lotus Wetlands, arriving at the Black Yao Field, and then heading north, through the forests, across the rivers, over the mountains, and finally, at the Tianguan Mountain.

Call.

Kaede was wearing a thick cotton suit, and her little face was a little red.

She let out a white breath, and her almond eyes stared at the scenery in front of her in a daze.

In front of the ordinary hillside, a cleaned and clean frame is parked in place, but there are many small branches on it to cover it, like a bird's nest, Pokémon of various races live around the frame, and there are even many grass-based Pokémon, thanks to them, the white mangled Tianguan Mountain, has greenery......

The cold wind blew, and the waist-length black hair that maple was scattered behind him blew up.

After a while, Kaede unzipped her padded coat and looked at Zoroa who was shrunk inside, her little face flushed from the cold pulled a gentle smile like comfort, "Let's go." ”

"Hmm."

Kaede zipped up, stepped on the thick snow again, braved the awe-inspiring cold wind, and left.

At the end of the long journey, she took nothing with her, didn't take the frame with her, and didn't take in any Pokémon......

At the time of departure, Kaede was ten years old.

When he returned to Ultramarine, Kaede was twelve years old.

They stop and go, they travel all the way.

Since then, she has never traveled for such a long time in her life.

Feng wiped down the plaque of 'Little Green Snake's Cooking Hut' under Xu Qiansu at that moment, placed it in front of the house, and started a cooking business.

She doesn't know how to cook Chinese food, but she takes it more seriously than anyone else.

When Kaede was sixteen years old, the Six-Tails evolved, and the Nine-Tails' fur was soft and warm, and she liked to sleep on the Nine-Tails' stomach.

When Kaede was seventeen years old, her parents gave birth to another sister, giving Kaede a name.

Kaede called her 'Su'.

Su was brought up by Kaede, and Kaede always said to Su, "There is a saying in our family that a thousand years later, in the middle of February, on a rainy morning, there was a dark-haired girl with Morubec, who had light green eyes like a clear autumn sky...... When you see her, you have to give her the token,"

"What kind of Pokémon is Morubay? What is a token? Can I take a look? Every time, Su asked curiously with his eyes wide open and his chin pointed.

"No, how can a treasure that has been passed down from generation to generation be seen casually?" Each time Kaede refused.

"Huh? But Mom and Dad said that this is not something that has been passed down from generation to generation in our family. Then Su would retort.

"Talky, what do you little kid understand?" This is how Kaede ends the topic every time.

Sixty years later, Kaede is seventy-seven years old.

For a person 1,000 years ago, this was an extremely long life.

Kaede is not married, and she lives with the Nine-Tails and Zoroa all their lives by relying on each other.

In her room, the green lights are faint.

Kaede lay on the bed, Nine-Tails and Zoroa lying beside her.

She looked at Zoroya, her lips slightly open, as if she wanted her to turn into Xu Qiansu's appearance, but in the end, she just asked in a low voice, "Zoroya...... In your opinion, am I doing my duty as a trainer? Is my life meaningful? ”

Zoroa's appearance was no different from before, still so lovely and timid.

Her big golden eyes looked at Feng, and she didn't know when, she turned into Xu Qiansu's appearance.

'Xu Qiansu' knelt in front of Feng, pursed his lips, and didn't say a word.

She doesn't speak human language...... But she can write, which Xu Qiansu taught her.

Therefore, 'Xu Qiansu' held Kaede's hand, and his fingertips lightly stroked a few strokes in Kaede's palm.

"That's it......" Kaede smiled, still so gentle.

She whispered, "Zoroa, in the end, can you fulfill one of my wishes?" ”

“…… Zoroa, you always don't want to transform into someone other than him, but when I'm gone, can you transform into me? ”

'Xu Qiansu' lowered his eyes and looked at Feng, and in the end, his body continued to shrink...... She became what Kaede was when she was eight years old.

Kaede laughed, gentle, cute, and happy.

She tilted her chin slightly, "This look, I like it the most...... He once said, I'm cute. ”

After laughing for a while, she sniffled again, and her words carried a bit of crying, "Zoroa, for me, please live, live for a long, long time, live for a hundred years, live for five hundred years, live for a thousand years, and then use my appearance to meet him in a thousand years, okay?" ”

Zoroa looked into Kaede's eyes and nodded slightly......

She was always dazed, ignorant, and didn't know what she was living for, but Kaede's words finally made her find the meaning of living.

Even if it's not for Kaede, it's just for yourself...... She wanted to see Xu Qiansu again.

Kaede lowered her hand...... At the end of life, there was no pain.

Although her life is not very colorful, she thinks...... I have spent my life happily and conscientiously for a lifetime.

Zoroa placed Kaede's hand on her eight-year-old face, which was still slightly baby fat, and then sobbed quietly.

She likes Xu Qiansu and Feng ...... But at this moment, she made up her mind that she would never like anyone again.

……

Zoroa left Ultramarine and went to the Hidden Springs to live with the Pokémon there.

The Nine-Tails remained in Kaede's family...... She was also given a last wish by Kaede.

Even after all these years, the Pokémon of Hidden Springs still remembers this little fox who is timid and can't even fight.

In fact, until this moment, Zoroa is still very weak, and he has not been able to touch the edge of evolution...... But Zoroa didn't care.

A thousand years is too long, and after living with the Pokémon of the Hidden Springs for a while, Zoroa turned into flowers and trees and spent this long time by sleeping.

Zoroa is a ghost-type Pokémon, so it's okay if you don't eat, and you can live even if you don't eat......

At first, Zoroa slept for three or four days, and then he would wake up in a gloomy mood.

Then, half a month, a month, half a year, a year, three years, five years, ten years, fifty years, a hundred years......

Every time he woke up, Zoroa would take on the form of Xu Qiansu, go to the outside world to inquire about the news, and determine the year......

For a thousand years, Zoroa slept for more than nine hundred years...... None of her kind, the Zoroas, survived, and after millennia of evolution, they had changed to a different form.

Zoroa ...... Like the Suppurn, there is only one Pokémon left.

But why did Zoroa survive for a thousand years?

Zoroa didn't know either.

Zoroa ...... Awakening a thousand years later, the times are evolving, technology is changing, but Zoroa doesn't care, she just wants to find her own essence.

But the heavens and the earth are so big, and the world is so vast, how can Zoroya find a human on his own?

She thought about it and felt that it would be a good way to make herself famous...... As long as he is famous enough, will Su Su come to him?

But how do you become famous? Zoroa is not clear.

In a trance, Zoroa remembered that Xu Qiansu had the habit of recording what he saw and heard...... Zoroa recorded what he had seen and heard for thousands of years.

This habit was brought to her by Xu Qiansu, and even the words were taught to her by Xu Qiansu...... Such a coincidence can make Zoroa happy all day.

Pseudonym, she chose 'Su and Maple', she believes that as long as she sees this pen name, Su Su will definitely understand and will definitely come to her.

The title of the book, she chose "Xicui on the Left, Sinnoh on the Right", which has no meaning, just because Xu Qiansu once mentioned it when he was talking to Ma Li on the phone, and it was remembered by Zoroa at that time.

Zoroa fumbled to the publishing house...... Visa refusal.

The reason given by the editor is that the writing is too poor, there is no story, and there is no evidence of the historical facts recorded in it, just a self-congratulatory article fabricated out of thin air.

Zoroa didn't understand, but she learned Kaede's seriousness.

So she learned how to write a book, which she then resubmitted to the publishing house and published.

Zoroa was happy and expectantly waiting for Xu Qiansu to come to her...... But after waiting for a year, nothing was found.

Zoroya was full of doubts and wanted to cry, but she only cried in front of Xu Qiansu and Feng.

So she used the stupid method again...... Find it yourself.

She traveled from Sinnoh to the United Crowd and finally to Galar......

In an ordinary town called Wooden Pole Town, Zoroa found Xu Qiansu!

It was winter, and the sky was full of snow, like catkins, layered on top of each other.

Zoroya was taking the form of Xu Qiansu and was strolling down the streets, but for some reason, the people around him were familiar with him, and many rich wives stuffed notes into Zoroya's arms.

Zoroa didn't understand, but then, she met Xu Qiansu.

At that time, Xu Qiansu was holding a billboard in front of the station, and his hands and face were red from the cold...... It's very hard.

Zoroa looked at his figure in the snow and was stunned for a while before turning into a maple.

She walked on her short legs, stepped through the layers of snow, and walked desperately in the direction of Xu Qiansu.

Smack.

Fall in the snow.

Zoroa got up, his footsteps kept coming in front of Xu Qiansu, raised his little face, and stared at him.

You okay? After a thousand years, I have come to you!

But Xu Qiansu just glanced at her suspiciously, then squatted down, patted the snowflakes off her body, touched her little head, and said embarrassedly, "Are you lost?" Sorry, I'm working part-time right now and can't leave...... You can go to Miss Junsha, she usually patrols that place......"

Xu Qiansu's later words, Zoroya did not listen.

She looked at Xu Qiansu, who was much more immature than she remembered, and understood.

He...... It's not your own element.

Even if the face is similar, the sound is the same...... But no.

Zoroa took a few steps back, disappeared into the wind and snow, and turned into her original appearance, but she did not leave, but lay on the eaves of a house, quietly looking at Xu Qiansu.

She was waiting, waiting for the moment when this Xu Qiansu became the Xu Qiansu she knew.

And so, a year passed.

Zoroa never met Xu Qiansu again, but he kept quietly following him and silently watching over him.

She learned that he had no parents and no friends, but he really wanted to accept a Pokémon of his own, and worked hard for it, never slacking off...... But Zoroa is not his Pokémon, Zoroa is Xu Qiansu's Pokémon.

Someone with the same face as Xu Qiansu, but he didn't know Zoroa...... Such a fact made it unbearable for her to endure it anymore.

Therefore, Zoroa, once again, chose to sleep.

In her memory, her Su Su was seventeen years old, and this Xu Qiansu was only fifteen years old...... Let's sleep for another two years.

But before going to bed, Zoroa slipped into where Xu Qiansu lived.

She was there, using the words Xu Qiansu taught her, and wrote a sentence.

Fifteen-year-old Xu Qiansu, no Shanaiduo, no pouch beast, six tails, blue jay, vine snake, Ma Li, Jiadelia...... There is no Zoroa.

But even so, Zoroa hopes from the bottom of his heart that he can live happily and freely.

Once, Zoroa's mother asked her, 'Do you hate Xu Qiansu?' ’

Don't hate.

Zoroa never hated Xu Qiansu.

Zoroa was born with love and was loved and raised by his mother.

After meeting Xu Qiansu, he was taken care of by love.

After losing Xu Qiansu, he was loved by Feng and lived together for decades......

Zoroa believes that he has lived a happy life.

She huddled in a corner, disguised by transfiguration...... She believed that this would be her last sleep.

A little wet, sliding through the corners of Zoroa's eyes.

Whether it's Xu Qiansu who hasn't been able to get his own Pokémon in his life, or Xu Qiansu who woke up in the snow and came to this strange world.

When he came into this world, he was not favored by anyone, he was not loved by anyone, and even Larulath was hostile to him at first...... He had nothing.

But no.

A Pokémon endured thousands of years of loneliness and pain, with the hope of meeting him, and wrote the most ardent expectations and deepest love for him in the winter wind and snow with the words he taught her.

"Even if you have lost everything, please live your own life."

(Canghua, end)

—————— Pokémon Research Notes——————

"Zoroa, a Pokémon born of abomination."

"Abomination is their strength and their life."

"When the hatred is gone, and the enemy is gone, it is the moment when Zoroah dies."

"Thousands of years have passed, humans and Pokémon have understood each other, understood each other, and lived together, so that Zoroa, who was born of hatred, gradually evolved into what it is today...... The evolution of Zoroa is a symbol of the self-hatred of humans and Pokémon towards partners. ”

"And my Zoroa is probably the only one in the world, the most special Zoroa."

"Not because she's survived for a thousand years, not because she's the only Zoroa in her emerald form in existence......"

"The reason why my Zoroa has been able to survive for a thousand years is not obsession, nor resentment, but ......"

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Squeak.

The door opened softly, and a little light shone through the crack in the door, into the dimly lit room.

A waist-length girl with black hair walked in, her pale green eyes scanning the surroundings.

Obviously, it was the first time she had entered this room, and she was a little unfamiliar with the unfamiliar environment.

After a while, she turned on the light, sat down on the bed, erected her slender and slender legs, reached out and brushed the soft black hair on her shoulder, her cherry lips opened lightly, and she said calmly:

"Zoroa, come out."

(End of chapter)