Gourmet master of the Pokemon world

Although he didn't recognize what it was, Anje felt it looked a little familiar.

What could it be?

Thinking this, he reached out and picked up the stone.

Only when he held it in his hand did he realize that the patterns on the stone were actually cracks, and the cracks were filled with rotten wood chips.

He casually picked off the wood chips.

However, at that moment, a strange fluctuation came from the cracks. Before Anje could react, a mass of dark green aura emerged from the cracks in the stone.

At the same time, the stone left Anje's palm and quickly rose into the air.

After a burst of twisting, the dark green aura was surrounded by a circle of pink energy, and a strange ghost face gradually formed.

It turned out that it was not an ordinary stone at all, but a keystone inhabited by a Spiritomb.

Jie jie jie ~ ~ ~ Accompanied by bursts of strange laughter, a Pokémon completely took shape, and Anje also recognized its identity.

Spiritomb, the Binding Pokémon, Ghost + Dark type. Legend has it that it is a Pokémon formed by the gathering of 108 spirits. Because evil souls are mixed in, its personality is quite bad and it often does evil, eventually being sealed in the keystone.

Anje was no stranger to this Pokémon, because Cynthia had one.

Seeing the light of day again made Spiritomb very happy, so it decided to repay kindness with evil and make Anje and the others suffer.

After all, it is an evil Pokémon.

"Jie jie jie ~" After a burst of strange laughter, Spiritomb launched Shadow Ball. A dark black energy ball was controlled by it and smashed towards Anje.

At this time, Darkrai flashed in front of Anje, and activated Shadow Claw, easily shattering the incoming Shadow Ball.

Although Darkrai is not known for its physical attacks, it has a level advantage. Spiritomb's attack is simply not enough in front of it.

The attack was shattered, and Spiritomb was slightly stunned, but perhaps it had been sealed for too long and its brain had become stupid. It wasn't as sensible and perceptive as Dragalge.

Previously, when Dragalge saw that its attack was easily resolved by Darkrai, it decisively groveled.

But Spiritomb became enraged and continued to attack Darkrai, launching Trick Room.

Black energy rings attacked Darkrai. Darkrai also used Dark Pulse to meet it. Trick Room seemed to have no effect on it at all, and its movements were still so fast.

In just one exchange, Spiritomb's Dark Pulse was destroyed. Darkrai still didn't stop, controlling Dark Pulse to continue sweeping.

In Spiritomb's terrified eyes, Trick Room shattered, really having no effect at all.

At this time, Spiritomb finally realized that the Pokémon in front of it was not one it could afford to provoke.

Just as it was about to beg for mercy, Darkrai launched Black Hole Eclipse. Its shadow suddenly stretched out, turning into a black claw, grabbing Spiritomb.

After the claw rubbed Spiritomb for a while, it stuffed it back into the keystone.

Then, a burst of blue light flashed in Darkrai's eyes, and Spiritomb was resealed into the keystone, even more securely than before.

Seeing this, Anje said in surprise, "Darkrai, you can do this too."

Darkrai raised an eyebrow. Of course, it had lived for so many years, what's so strange about knowing a few tricks?

Anje took the keystone from Darkrai's hand and casually threw it into the system backpack. This thing should stay dormant in the backpack forever.

"Da lu ~ Da lu ~" At this time, Dragalge looked at Anje apologetically, saying sorry. It didn't expect that the box contained a vicious Pokémon.

Anje waved his hand and said, "It's okay, everything is fine."

Saying that, he looked at the corner and asked, "Is there anything else?"

"Da lu ~ Da lu ~" Dragalge looked embarrassed. There was, but it was worried that another Spiritomb would come out.

Anje waved his hand, "It's okay, it's okay, take them all out."

Hearing this, Dragalge nodded and then dragged out the last box.

This was still a wooden box, smaller than the previous two, but it was unknown what kind of wood it was made of. After being soaked in seawater for so many years, it was only a little dark, but there was no trace of decay.

However, the metal lock on it had long been broken, and Anje easily opened it.

As the lid of the wooden box was lifted, Anje saw a palm-sized bell lying quietly at the bottom of the box.

The bell was dark yellow, but the texture was clear, making it impossible to tell what kind of material it was made of.

Soon Anje recognized the identity of the bell.

Clear Bell?

The Clear Bell is a tool related to Ho-Oh. In the game, it can be used to summon Ho-Oh at specific locations, but I don't know what the situation is in reality.

Anje gently picked up the bell, and then a burst of crisp and pleasant sounds rang out.

Hearing this sound, Anje and the Pokémon felt calm, as if all the noise had disappeared.

He couldn't help but shake it gently again.

"So nice to hear."

Although he didn't know why the Clear Bell was here, since he had encountered it, it was his! Anje thought.

After admiring the Clear Bell, Anje put it away.

Now that he had obtained everything, Anje left the cabin with Dragalge and the others.

As soon as they came out, Mantine flew forward to greet Anje.

With Darkrai's help, Anje sat back on Mantine's back and was carried off the ship by Mantine.

As Dragalge, who was lying on the bow of the ship, howled, the wooden ship sank back into the water under the control of the broken rudder.

After the wooden ship completely disappeared on the sea, Mantine carried Anje back the way he came.

Anje looked at the location of the sunken ship, and saw Dragalge, Skrelp, and Seadra family of three stretching their necks to look in the direction he was leaving.

Anje waved vigorously at the family of three and shouted, "Dragalge, Skrelp, Seadra, goodbye! Thank you for your gifts!"

As the figures of the family of three completely disappeared from Anje's sight, a burst of melodious dragon's roar came from afar, as if saying goodbye to Anje.

On the other side, Ash and his group had finished fishing.

They gathered excitedly on the beach, guessing who would win in the end.

Among them, Ash and Sophocles looked confident, as if they already had the victory in their hands.

Lillie asked in confusion when she didn't see Anje, "Where is Mr. Anje?"

Mallow pointed in one direction and said, "I saw him go there before, he must have gone a little far."

Hearing this, Ash said, "In that case, he should be back in a while."

He was not worried about Anje's safety at all.

"Why don't we see who has the most harvest first?" Sophocles suggested impatiently.

"Great! Great!" Ash happily echoed, "Watch mine first!" He said, pulling out a pile of Poké Balls.

Lana immediately started counting, "1, 2, 3, 4..."

The result came out quickly. Ash had caught a total of 8 Pokémon.

As he opened the Poké Balls, 8 Water-type Pokémon appeared: 3 Magikarp, 1 Krabby, 1 Octillery, 2 Pyukumuku, and 1 Corsola.

Lana exclaimed in surprise, "Wow, Ash, you actually caught a Corsola!"

Hearing this, Ash immediately puffed out his chest with a proud look, "What's so special about that? With Misty's special lure, I could even catch Kyogre!"

Lana scoffed at him, "Liar!" She was the real legendary angler who had caught Kyogre before!

"Me next! Me next!" Sophocles hurriedly took out his Poké Balls, "Ash's haul is nothing compared to mine!"

Hearing this, Ash retorted, unconvinced, "I'd like to see what you caught."

At this time, Mallow had quickly released the Pokémon Sophocles had caught. He did indeed catch more than Ash, a total of 10, including 3 Magikarp, 2 Feebas, 2 Lanturn, 2 Tentacool, and 1 Crawdaunt.

Ash said in disbelief, "Sophocles, you actually caught a Lanturn!"

Lanturn usually only live in the deep sea, otherwise they wouldn't have evolved organs for illumination.

Sophocles puffed out his round belly, "That's right, with my special fishing rod, anything is possible."

Then Lana tallied the catches of the others.

She herself caught 6, slightly less than Ash, including 2 Tentacool, 1 Qwilfish, 1 Sharpedo, 1 Clamperl, and 1 Huntail.

Although the quantity was not as high as Ash and Sophocles, the quality was definitely far superior to theirs.

Kiawe, despite his initial momentum, actually performed only so-so, catching only 1 Shellder and 2 Carvanha.

Lillie and Mallow caught the least, only 2 each.

Lillie caught 1 Feebas and 1 Luvdisc.

Mallow caught 1 Alomomola and 1 Shellos.

Sophocles was far ahead, and he said smugly, "Looks like I've won this time!"

Ash retorted, "There's still Mr. Anji, Mr. Anji is so good, he'll definitely beat you."

Sophocles said, "That's not necessarily true, fishing is different from other things!"

At this time, Anji, carried by a Mantine, was rushing back, when he suddenly noticed a pink hue in the distance, with a little purple in the red.

He quickly said to Mantine, "What's that? Mantine, go take a look."

Mantine nodded, and accelerated to the side of the floating object.

Anji took a closer look and realized it was a Slowpoke! It was the same one that had teased him before.

Although all Slowpoke look similar, their Aura is different, and Anji immediately recognized it.

He reached out and grabbed Slowpoke's tail, dragging it onto Mantine's back, only to find that it was on its last breath because of poisoning.

See, you played yourself!

Anji quickly took out a Pecha Berry and fed it to its mouth. If he didn't treat it, this guy would really die.

It was in a state of severe poisoning, not ordinary poisoning. The toxin would deepen with time, and its stamina would be lost faster and faster, instead of steadily like ordinary poisoning.

It's really a wonder it could hold on until now.

Because the poisoning was too deep, Anji fed it several Pecha Berries in a row before the toxin in its body completely receded.

Then Anji took out berries that could restore stamina and fed them to it. Slowpoke finally woke up, with a trace of confusion in its eyes.

"Yadon~" Am I not dead?

"Awake?" At this time, Anji's voice sounded.

"Yadon~" Slowpoke was startled and immediately wanted to jump into the water. How could it be this person? Run!!

Anji was quick-witted and grabbed its tail, "Is this how you treat your savior? You're not even going to say thank you before running?"

"Yadon~ Yadon~" Slowpoke hurriedly begged for mercy.

Anji smiled, "Looks like you haven't forgotten what you did. Tell me, how do you plan to compensate me?"

Hearing this, Slowpoke scratched its head. How could it possibly compensate Anji?

Seeing this, Anji said, "The grace of saving a life should be repaid with one's own self. In that case, sell yourself to me."

Without waiting for Slowpoke to react, Anji used a Poké Ball to catch it.

It had just finished detoxifying and its body was still weak, so it didn't have the strength to resist and was caught by Anji just like that.

On the other side, Ash and the others had been waiting for Anji for a full half hour, but Anji still hadn't returned.

"Could something have happened to Mr. Anji?" Mallow said with a worried look.

Hearing this, Ash immediately retorted, "Impossible!"

Lillie asked in confusion, "Why don't you guys just call Mr. Anji?"

Everyone suddenly realized.

"That's right!" Ash patted his head. He was about to have Rotom Dex call Anji when he suddenly saw a figure appear on the sea in the distance.

"That... seems to be Mr. Anji," Kiawe said with wide eyes.

Lillie guessed, "Mr. Anji went so far, he must have a lot of catches."

Ash: "Definitely!"

Hearing this, everyone had great expectations for the number of Pokémon Anji had caught.

Soon Anji returned to the shore. After saying goodbye to Mantine, he saw that everyone was waiting for him, so he said apologetically:

"I took a little risk in the distance, so I was delayed."

Everyone became even more excited upon hearing this.

"Mr. Anji, quickly show us your catches!" Ash said excitedly.

Anji nodded and said, "Okay!"

He took out a Poké Ball and released Clauncher and Alomomola.

Seeing that there were only two Pokémon, everyone was stunned.

"Is that all?" Ash asked.

Anji suddenly patted his head, "Oh, there's more, I almost forgot."

Hearing this, everyone once again looked expectant, and then they saw Anji take out only one Poké Ball.

As the red light flashed, Slowpoke appeared.

Staring blankly at Slowpoke, Ash asked, "That's... that's it?"

Anji nodded and said, "Yes, that's it!"

Hearing this, Ash wailed, "Why is it like this!!!!!"

Anji looked puzzled, "What's wrong? What's wrong? Am I last place?"

Lillie and Mallow raised their hands at the same time and said, "We're last place."

Hearing this, Anji smiled and said, "That's good, as long as I'm not last place."

Ash said with a sullen face, "Mr. Anji, you have no ambition, are you satisfied with not being last place?"

Anji said, "The process of fishing is the fun, the result is not important."

Lana sighed, "As expected of Mr. Anji, so mature."

Anji: . . .