svetikya Chapter 277 The Real Goal, A Parting Gift?
Chapter 277 The Real Goal, A Parting Gift?
oh oh oh!
Will-o'-the-wisp against will-o'-the-wisp?
Is it really that exciting?!
When Ash saw that both Ash's Dusknoir and the wild Dusknoir used Will-O-Wisp, Ash assumed that the two were going to use this move to determine the winner of the day.
Ash, who should have unconditionally supported Ash's victory, is now almost caught up in the trainer's mindset and hopes the match will be more suspenseful.
His gaze even shifted to the point where the two will-o'-the-wisps were about to meet, as if he wanted to concede defeat as soon as possible.
But what he never expected was—
"call!"
The will-o'-the-wisps, which should have converged in mid-air, now seemed to be attracted by something and spread towards a bush on the ground.
"Did it miss?"
Aside from the fact that both of them accidentally used their skills incorrectly, Ah Xun, with his battle-minded mind, seemed unable to think of any other possibilities.
However, the current situation didn't require him to speculate on anything.
after all--
"what?!"
A faint, ghostly voice, or perhaps a little girl's surprised cry, suddenly came from the bushes.
Ah Xun was startled again, thinking that the two Night Demons had accidentally injured the trainers who came to attend the summer lecture.
But just as he was walking forward, wanting to check on the little girl who had been attacked by the will-o'-the-wisp,
The little girl, who was crouching on the ground with her eyes covered just a second ago, was now emitting blue light and slowly floating up.
"what?!"
In less than ten seconds, Ah Xun was surprised several times.
His mind went completely blank at that moment, and he stood there, not knowing what to do.
"It's a ghost, don't stand there!"
Seeing that Ash was neither moving nor dodging, but just standing there dumbly, Ash finally couldn't help but shout out loud.
This finally woke Ah Xun up.
"A ghost?! Do ghosts really exist in this world?"
Ah Xun muttered this strangely to himself, then quickly ran back to his original spot.
"Now that it's right in front of you, don't ask such questions..."
Ash sighed, shook his head, and continued to focus on the battle in front of him.
"When exactly did you discover me? And why did you all launch a coordinated attack...?"
The ghost girl seemed to have her own consciousness, but it was unclear what kind of being she was.
However, the answer to the question is naturally irrelevant to Ash, who is just an ordinary passerby.
All he needed to know was that the Night Demon, who had secretly left a message at night seeking his help, had created this turmoil to protect Xiaoguang and the others.
And if the little girl in front of them hadn't acted first, she would indeed have lured people to the legendary underworld.
That's enough!
"No... I don't want to go back!"
The ghostly little girl roared in anger, and her body then turned into wisps of mist, trying to escape from this place.
"DUS!"
However, the Night Demon seemed to have already guessed her escape route. As her opponent's figure began to turn into mist, a dark light burst forth from its eyes.
The ghost girl's body, which had already disappeared halfway, miraculously reappeared.
"don't want!!!"
"Black eyes? So she's a Pokémon in a certain sense?"
The black gaze that Pokémon cannot escape unexpectedly also works on the little girl, which seems to indirectly prove that the little girl is a Pokémon.
Ash, who wasn't particularly interested in any of this at first, was now itching to throw a Poké Ball at the little girl to see if it could catch her.
However, an idea is just an idea.
Some ideas cannot be put into practice.
Just like Ash wouldn't catch the Rockruff he encountered before, which was made up of pure malice and resentment.
Exploring the unknown is the ultimate joy for Pokémon trainers, but adhering to certain established rules is the bottom line that society as a whole should uphold.
......
In the blink of an eye, the battle between the Night Demon and the Ghost Girl has come to an end.
On that old, dusty tombstone, a huge vortex lit up.
The entire space seemed to have been half-carved out out of thin air.
At the eye of the vortex, there seemed to be another space, a space composed of pure black and gray.
That world contained no light or hope; it was a world completely opposite to that of the living.
"I don't want to! I don't want to go back—!"
No matter how much the self-aware ghost girl tried to escape the vortex's pull, as a resident of that world, her initial plan to lure living people there to replace her had already touched the "administrator's" sore spot.
No matter how much she admits her mistakes and apologizes, the Night Demon will resolutely fulfill her duties.
......
The lonely graveyard fell silent; the ghostly little girl had returned to her own world.
Night Demon landed on the ground as if letting out a long sigh of relief, its gaze fixed on Ash, secretly thanking him.
"You're welcome. It's a small problem. After all, if we hadn't set up such a trap, she wouldn't have fallen for it, and Hikaru and Dr. Yamanashi wouldn't have been able to escape danger either."
Ash heard Dusknoir's voice of thanks echoing in his mind, so he shook his head to indicate that he was alright.
This Night Demon is indeed extraordinary, not only in its methods of imprisoning ghosts, but also in its ability to communicate telepathically.
“DUS......”
Although Ash said there was no need for thanks, for Dusknoir, it wouldn't do to end things so hastily.
After all, it was its responsibility to guard the entrance and exit of the underworld. As a result, a ghost ran into the real world during its guard period and planned to bring a living person into the underworld to replace itself.
In other words, the ending was relatively good, and nothing bad happened.
But if someone truly cannot return due to their own negligence...
Realizing that mere words wouldn't be convincing, Dusknoir turned around and went straight to Ash's Dusknoir.
Their dark eyes met, conveying a message in a "language" unknown to outsiders.
"DUS!"
The whole process lasted about ten minutes.
The Night Demon seems to have already given its reward.
It turned around, waved to Xiao Guang and the others who were still unconscious, and after confirming that all the problems had been resolved, the Night Demon nodded with relief. It gently swayed its arms and soon turned into black mist, dissipating into the world.
"Is it... over...?"
"Yes, it's over."
After the Night Demon left, Ah Xun finally came to his senses.
Everything that just happened was too fast and ended too abruptly, leaving him still unable to recover.
Only when he heard Ash and Dawn talking behind him did he look again, somewhat "unsatisfied," in the direction where the Dusknoir had disappeared, before turning around and running quickly toward Ash and the others.
Ash's Dusknoir stretched out its hands and silently gazed at it, its dark eyes seemingly filled with a sense of bewilderment.
......
Resurrected once again!