Pokémon: I, Xiaozhi, return to the beginning

The whole staircase was spiral-shaped, leading all the way to the bottom, and Ash didn’t know if it was connected to a room on the first floor, or a private space specially vacated when it was originally built.

The corridor was dark overall, and Ash didn’t bring a flashlight, and without the help of electric light, Ash could only carefully grope all the way forward.

But before he could take a few steps, suddenly a blue fire burst out of the entire space. Looking at the wall, it turned out that the torch hanging on it was lit, but how did it light it? And why it showed a dark blue color, Ash was indifferent, his heart at the moment was just filled with a strange and suffocating feeling.

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In less than half a minute, Ash came to the bottom of the seemingly long staircase, which was indeed a completely enclosed space.

The space is small, at most it can only accommodate three or four people, and the torch that was previously hanging on the wall is in this small space… Or maybe there was also a light on the wall directly in front of the room, and the blue fire swayed in the breeze from nowhere, bright and trance.

In the center of the room is a table and a chair, which looks disrepaired and somewhat dilapidated, which is completely different from the neat and clean decoration of the Western-style building.

Illuminated by the dark blue fire in the room, Ash slowly walked to the side of the old table and silently stretched out his hand to wipe away the heavy dust left on the top. Without the cover of dust, the worn diary on the table also showed its original appearance over the years.

The notebook cover is just a simple black color, which looks very simple, and the only special thing is that there is a string of unknown characters tattooed in the middle.

Ash

was silent, turned the page, and began to slowly read the content with a faint blue firelight.

Although Ash wasn’t sure what the notebook was at first, after seeing the contents of the first page, Ash probably understood that it was

a diary.

But unlike the current general diary, this diary does not indicate a certain year and month, but only the day of the week and the weather conditions of each day, and I don’t know whether this is the trend of that era or the habits of the old man himself.

And say it’s a diary … The content is also a bit too sloppy.

“Monday, cloudy

” “Our hotel is built!” My husband asked me to choose a name, but I didn’t have a talent for naming, so I simply called our inn Mori no Yokan~”

The content of the diary is very concise, basically every day is only summarized in one sentence, there is no important information in the previous days, and there are many strange words in it that Ash can’t recognize.

But fortunately, this will not cause much trouble for Ash’s reading.

“Thursday, rainy

day” “The business of the hotel is very good, I planned to write a diary every day to record my life, but the real life is too busy to spare time.”

It can be imagined that just from the interior decoration of the current Mori no Western, you can also understand the reason for their booming business, after all, there were few inns in the past, and the transportation was not convenient, most people passing through the Momoyo Forest should choose to stay here, right?

Ash continued reading.

“Wednesday, sunny day

” “Business has been getting better and better recently, although the business is prosperous, but this kind of life always feels a little too monotonous.”

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“Monday, sunny day”

here, the handwriting and the feeling on the note have changed a lot compared to before, there are many lines between the two contents, deletions and deletions, maybe the interval between the two paragraphs is very long.

“Our business has been very good for more than a year, but neither my husband nor I are very satisfied with the current life, and although the laughter of the guests after checking in can make us happy, but… Is this really the life we love?”

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“Friday, rainy

days” “The forest situation seems a little strange lately, every night there is an ominous breeze, something seems to be smiling in the middle of the night, my husband and I have not slept well these days, and we have even plans to close the hotel.”

“Saturday, cloudy

day” “On a strange and surprising day, a little Mr. Ghost collapsed at our door, and although we heard that they were dangerous, my husband and I decided to save them! But it’s strange that we can actually touch it, icy… Cold… Does the ghost also have a physical entity?”

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“Friday, sunny

” “A week has passed, and Mr. Ghost’s body has also recovered! Mr. Mononoke is powerful, it can show us very real images! In the video, we see a lot of Mr. Ghost, but those Mr. Ghost seem to hate this Mr. Ghost, because he is too small, so he injured him and drove him away… It turns out that their world is as cruel as ours.”

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“Monday, sunny

” “We took in Mr. Ghost because we could feel Mr. Ghost sad… Mr. Ghost stayed because it had nowhere to go back, and it seemed to want to repay us… It’s just that we don’t have anything we want, and for a while we don’t know how to make it repay … We didn’t speak, and Mr. Ghost was a little sad.”

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“Monday, rainy day

” “It’s a bit nerve-wracking, Mr. Ghost started playing pranks after a quiet while… Guests always come up to us, crying and saying our hotel is haunted… Although this news will have a great impact on our business if it gets out, my husband and I are very happy, and the way the guests are scared is just as funny as they look when they are happy!”

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“Wednesday, sunny day” ”

Although we also taught Mr. Ghost among us, it still went our own way, we started thinking that Mr. Ghost liked to play pranks, but then we found out that Mr. Ghost did it because he saw us laughing for a long time because of the panic of our guests.”

“Hmm… So it’s our fault… After all, Mr. Ghost’s idea is simple, just to repay the favor… And to be honest… Mr. Ghost’s pranks are really funny, and my husband and I discussed it for a long time and decided to simply change the style and turn Morinokan into a ghost hotel that is occasionally haunted! That should make Mr. Ghost happy too, right?”

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