Elf King

Chapter 163 Sudden Bad News

"Mr. Colon, it's not convenient to talk about it here. If you don't mind, please come with me here..."

Miss Joy's tangled look of hesitating to speak at the end made Cologne feel inexplicably flustered.

"This way, please."

Seeing that Cologne didn't object, Miss Joy just walked ahead and led the way.

"Snapped……"

The door was gently closed, and Miss Joy turned her back, showing some hesitation on her face.

"Miss Joy, please speak up if you have anything to say, it's okay!"

The distressed Joey made Colon guess that something happened to Lucario that he didn't expect.

"Mr. Cologne, your Lucario should be able to mega-evolve."

Without pointing out what Cologne wanted to know, Miss Joy first asked Cologne a seemingly obvious question.

"Yes...is there any problem?"

I know that Miss Joy probably has this problem because she saw the keystone on her wrist, but Cologne doesn't know how this has anything to do with the next thing?

With doubts in mind, Cologne, who couldn't figure it out, followed Miss Joy's words and answered without saying anything about the special circumstances of the evolution of bonds.

"In that case, Mr. Cologne, you should be able to understand the important prerequisites for mega evolution."

There was an affirmative tone in the question, and Miss Joy's words made Cologne fall into deep thought.

"Keystone, mega evolution stone, soul bond, and..."

"You mean..."

"Lucario's cells...is there a problem with cell activity?"

Cologne, who was muttering to himself while thinking, seemed to have suddenly thought of the key point, raised his head suddenly, and then lowered his head feebly, as if he had confirmed himself, with self-blame on his face Guilty look.

The sudden low tone made the young Joey feel a little regretful. Cologne's guess was not wrong, but the unspoken consequences might be more serious than he imagined.

"During the physical examination just now, I took the time to read Lucario's previous physical test report."

"I didn't have any doubts at first, but when the routine inspection was done, I saw Lucario's expression."

"That's not a look of pain, it's like the helplessness and bewilderment of suddenly losing something."

"So I did a cell activity test for Lucario without authorization. Compared with the previous data, there was a significant drop...down!"

At the end, Miss Joy closed her eyes and stood in front of Cologne like a child who had made a mistake, wondering if she was sorry for her presumptuous assertion.

"So..., so Lucario can no longer mega-evolve, right?"

Faced with Cologne's question, Ms. Joy remained silent. Although she had confirmed the matter, it would undoubtedly be a very cruel thing for her to personally help Cologne verify the bad news.

"Charle!!!"

What Miss Joy didn't consider was that what the silence brought was not that kind of extravagant hope, but an even more suffocating despair.

A deep roar burst out of Cologne's throat. He understood the heavy damage Lucario suffered in the battle with Char, but he didn't expect that it would directly hurt the original power.

"Is there no other way?"

After the anger passed, Cologne uttered hoarse words.

Although Lucario's mega evolutionary stone has long been shattered, the reduction in the original activity will undoubtedly cut off the path of fetters' evolution.

From then on, not to mention the powerful evolutionary power, even the combat ability in normal form will be damaged to a certain extent.

"I……"

It is true that Joey has nothing to do, but the cowardly kindness in her heart makes her unable to bring the deepest despair to Cologne.

"Ah……"

"Thank you, Miss Joy. If there is nothing else, I will go first."

Cologne smiled wryly. He also understood that his problem had caused a lot of trouble to Ms. Joy, and he could understand it without saying too much. This had become an established fact.

"Cologne, you're back!"

"Where's Lucario? How about Lucario, he should be okay..."

After returning to the hotel and opening the door, Serena had already woken up naturally.

Seeing Cologne coming back at this time, Serena also jumped off the bed, without even wearing shoes, and ran to Cologne barefoot.

Although she fell into a coma because of Hu Di's phantom light, she clearly remembered the things before that, including the tragic fact that Lucario was defeated.

However, after seeing the indifferent expression on Cologne's face, although she didn't understand what happened, Serena's voice became lower and lower when it came to it later, and finally became as thin as a mosquito.

For Serena, who is used to Cologne's gentle smile, the unknown fear brought about by the unreasonable silence made her not know how to deal with herself, and her flustered look of bewilderment made people feel distressed.

No matter what kind of past he has encountered, Cologne understands that only the people and Pokémon that really exist around him are the most important.

"No, it's nothing, Lucario is fine. It's just that there are too many things today, and I'm a little tired."

Forcing himself to clean up the bad mood, Cologne raised a forced smile on his face.

For Serena, he did not reveal the truth, but chose to conceal it.

Because he knew that even if he said it, it wouldn't change anything, it would only add one more worried person, which would only increase his troubles.

"Okay, let's rest early today. After encountering that kind of thing, you probably haven't fully recovered yet."

Not wanting Serena to delve any further, Cologne directly ended the topic.

Late at night, the lobby on the first floor of the Xiulishi Hotel.

The silence of the night made the hall seem extraordinarily quiet at this moment. Apart from the napping reception desk and the serious security guard at the door, there was only a lone figure sitting in front of the communication machine, motionless like a restless statue.

"beep……"

"beep……"

After thinking again and again, Cologne, who left the room late at night, finally dialed Dr. Brattano's private communication.

……

"Hey……"

"Cologne! Why are you, is there something important to come to me so late?"

After a long system busy tone, the figure of Bratano in pajamas finally appeared on the screen, yawning like he was woken up.

After seeing Cologne, he became more sober, but still looked at him very puzzled, waiting for the follow-up development.

"Doctor, it's like this..."

After talking about the matter concisely, both sides fell silent.

Cologne waited for the doctor's response, while Bratano was lost in thought, thinking of all ways to save Lucario.

"Cologne!"

"Although your situation has very few precedents in the records, it is a pity that all of these precedents have failed."

"but……"

Seeing the expression on Cologne's face becoming more and more calm, Bratano hurriedly gave the final answer.

(End of this chapter)