Fairy trip

"This alliance."

In the steady but slightly trembling voice, another fist was also clenched quietly.

"And, all humans."

The meaning expressed in the words conveyed a firmness that Qingshan had never seen before, but the meaning contained in this sentence itself...

"Just, human?"

"No!"

President Zhang interrupted Qingshan's question with his extremely fast speech and contradictory, unhurried tone.

"Of course, including Pokémon."

"They are indispensable helpers of humanity and an essential part of the world."

From fast to slow, as if to appease something, the second half of the sentence was almost spoken word by word.

"call."

Qingshan blinked his eyes, or at the moment of closing his eyes tightly, he opened his closed eyelids again.

The inexplicably tense atmosphere seemed to disappear from between the two of them in an instant with the foul breath exhaled.

But Qing Shan's expression was no longer as relaxed as before.

"Then, President Zhang."

"How is your 'protection' going to be done?"

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"Oh, Qingshan."

"My young champion."

The distance between the two is only 20 meters.

"Not only you, but everyone present."

President Zhang's eyes no longer focused on Qingshan alone, but looked around at everyone on the entire Guanghai Grand Competition Tower, as well as everyone watching him through the camera.

"All of you have more or less heard the story of the 'War of Warcraft', but I'm afraid there are not many people who have experienced it, let alone know the whole picture of this matter."

"And more alliances..."

Chairman Zhang said pointedly.

"I am afraid that this disaster is gradually forgotten."

"Seven billion humans."

The knuckles of the thumb, index finger and middle finger joined together, President Zhang made a gesture representing "7" in front of his eyes, and then——

"call."

The fingers that are close together are slashing in the air like palm knives.

"half."

It was just two simple words, but everyone including Qingshan felt a deep pain from the inside out.

"More than half of humanity is buried beneath the earth - if any of their remains can be found."

"And the culprit of the whole thing—"

"President Zhang!"

Qingshan sternly interrupted President Zhang's speech, and the old and strong body of the other party even took a step back inadvertently.

"Yes, it is."

"The race war has no reason at all, and naturally there will be no culprit."

"Champion, thank you for your correction."

"I may have been unable to control my emotions for a while because I recalled some bad things."

President Zhang's right hand clasped his left chest quite forcefully, the blue veins and veins were distinct.

"Forgive my poor old gaffe, you know..."

"My love, my children...they were all lost in the terrible disaster that happened in those years."

alone.

Qingshan is confronting Zhang Yizi.

But even so, he had to admit that what kind of pain this old man had been carrying, he resolutely became the pillar of the alliance's trust.

He was alone, save for a few old friends.

"I regret that."

Teacher, professor, president... Aoyama couldn't find a suitable title to describe the old man in front of him who had helped him a lot.

"No no no no."

"Qingshan, my young champion."

President Zhang repeated the previous address for Qingshan again.

"You have never experienced these pains, so you have no knowledge of my longing for these pains not to happen again."

"I forgive you, I forgive everyone."

"Together with the monsters who have been fighting with humans for more than ten years...the Pokémon, I am willing to forgive them together"

The dark clouds in the sky seemed to be tightly attached to the dome of the Grand Arena Tower, and the snowflakes that had not fallen did not suppress the increasingly cold temperature.

"but......"

The dim crystal on Deoxys' chest gave off extremely obvious fluctuations and flickering light the moment President Zhang said these two words.

"Some things are not in this category."

"What do you mean?"

The eyes that were closed hard were slowly opening, but this time the object of the movement was replaced by Dean Zhang who was facing Aoyama.

"legend."

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"Legendary, legendary Pokémon."

"The source of natural disasters, once unrivaled power."

"Countless cities have turned into scorched earth under their shadows, and countless lives have been wiped out with a casual breath."

"It's not my bias."

With straight arms and open fingers, Chairman Zhang did not give Qing Shan a chance to refute.

"It's not just a 'war of Warcraft' disaster either."

"'Three Divine Birds', a troublemaker who can change the environment and climate of the entire Orange Islands with a little recklessness."

"Gulardo and Kyoka, the inevitable battle that will almost destroy Hoenn after waking up."

"Sinnoh Three Dragons, Kyurem, Zygurd, Necrozma, Promise Taina... These Pokémon have caused disasters, and they have just caused disasters not long ago."

"Isn't that enough?"

Examples cited by President Zhang.

Although many of them happened because of human "death", they were finally extinguished before the disaster.

But there is no doubt that the legendary Pokémon does have such power.

"What do you want to do, solve all the legends?"

"No, I'm not conceited to such an extent."

"No, no, Qingshan, you misunderstood."

President Zhang first gave Qingshan a negative answer, but then denied Qingshan's idea again.

"The conceit I'm talking about doesn't mean that I don't have the ability to kill them—although I can't do it now, it doesn't mean that I can't do it someday in the future."

"It means that I am not conceited enough to take on so many 'divine duties'."

"Corresponding to the legendary power is their 'clergy' as the incarnation of nature—the consequences of killing them, I think I can't afford it."

"At least not yet."

"So, what I really have to do is to make them 'obedient'."

Make all Legendary Pokémon obedient! ?

This is something that even Arceus has never done.

For the first time, President Zhang explained his "ideal" in front of everyone.

But the heaviness and thickness of this ideal, as well as the meaning behind it... It reminds me of the "assuming the priesthood" mentioned by President Zhang just now.

"You want... to enslave them?"

"Slavery?"

"Oh, Aoyama, that's the most appropriate word you can use today."

"But it seems that you are disgusted with this word?"

The words that came out of his mouth with a smile looked like a real joke to Chairman Zhang.

"It doesn't have to be that way."

President Zhang pointed his index finger at Qingshan's waist and tapped it lightly.

"The so-called slavery, hasn't it started since the day we were able to put Pokémon into the Poké Ball?"

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"So, do you look at them with this attitude?"

Qingshan's hands caressed his waist, and the 11 master balls moved automatically without wind, quietly suspended in mid-air around his body.

"President Zhang, you are wrong."

Gently holding one of the elf balls, Aoyama gently stroked the white and purple balls with his palm.

"A Poké Ball is definitely not slavery."

"They're mine, they're our friends, our partners, and ... our family."

"From the moment they entered the Poke Ball."

"Our waveguides are connected to each other - this is definitely not a shackle that binds anyone, but an oath to move forward together."

"I've seen your Pokémon before."

"Karby beast, Aiguanshi...I don't know how you look at them, but from the way they look at you, you should not be an individual who can be summed up by the word 'master' .”

"Is not it?"

"..."

The eyes of Qing Shan and President Zhang met.

The atmosphere of silence was at a stalemate, and no one spoke first for more than ten seconds.

"Yes, you are right."

She seemed to be trembling, and then nodded as if approving.

"One kind of intelligent life enslaves another kind of intelligent life, yes, this is indeed not a moral thing."

"Researchers should not make mistakes like this."

"Pokémon... The scope of the title Pokémon is really too large. It mixes all life under one big item."

"I should make a new classification more cautiously and meticulously, and then consider how to treat them."

"You reminded me, yes, you reminded me, it's good and necessary."

President Zhang repeated in a sentence that sounded a bit incoherent.