"Ah? What happened to Ampharos?"
Silas immediately became nervous.
Recently, because he had been recovering from his injuries in Olivine City, Ampharos had naturally been training alongside Jasmine's Ampharos, Sparkle.
It was also a case of taking advantage of being close to the source.
In terms of pure strength, Sparkle might not be particularly outstanding, but its experience was second to none.
On top of that, it was also Silas's Ampharos's senior.
Looking across the entire Pokémon world, it would be difficult to find anyone more suitable to guide his Ampharos.
And perhaps the concept of grandparents being especially fond of their grandchildren also applied to Pokémon, because Sparkle was extremely attentive toward Silas's Ampharos.
As for the special electricity and unusually high potential possessed by Silas's Ampharos, Jasmine had not asked, so naturally, Silas wasn't going to explain anything.
These days, what Trainer didn't have some kind of fortunate encounter or another? The resources found in the wild were beyond imagination.
"It's nothing. It's hard to explain over the phone. Just come over first. I'm here at Lighthouse No. 2."
Jasmine's voice over the phone was vague, and then she hung up.
"Seriously..." Silas shook his head helplessly.
However, judging from Jasmine's tone, it probably wasn't bad news.
He gestured toward Prinplup and Dreepy, signaling them to continue training, then looked down at Escavalier beside his feet.
"How about coming with me to take a look? Your training equipment won't be reinstalled anytime soon anyway."
"Kia."
A curious light appeared in Escavalier's eyes, and it nodded.
Silas smiled in satisfaction.
Compared with the Karrablast it had been at the beginning, Escavalier's personality had become much more cheerful.
If it had been before, even if its equipment wasn't ready, Escavalier would still have chosen to curl up in the small room and wait.
That was only natural.
Whether it was the bond between a Trainer and a Pokémon or the bond between Pokémon themselves, such bonds could only develop through spending time together day after day.
For two partners who had only known each other for a day to already be completely inseparable, even a novel wouldn't dare write something like that.
"Escavalier."
Escavalier raised its lance and gave a little jab, returning to its Poké Ball.
A faint purple light spread across Silas's eyes.
The next moment, under the curious peeking of Prinplup and Dreepy, their Trainer finally left the training area.
"Piplup."
Prinplup finally breathed a sigh of relief.
It continued its journey of recruiting subordinates.
Meanwhile.
Inside Lighthouse No. 2 at Olivine Port.
Jasmine was resting her chin on her hand as she watched Sparkle and Silas's Ampharos constantly communicate with each other.
As though she had thought of something, she secretly giggled.
"Amph?"
Sparkle gave its Trainer a strange look.
"It's nothing. I just thought of something happy."
Jasmine's eyes curved into crescent moons.
"What happy thing?"
Silas, who had just Teleported over, came back to his senses after hearing Jasmine's words and instinctively asked.
"Ah!"
Jasmine was startled. She then complained somewhat reproachfully, "Seriously, didn't Nurse Joy tell you not to use Psychic to Teleport? It puts a huge strain on your body."
"Didn't you say something had happened to Ampharos and ask me to come take a look?"
Silas felt rather wronged.
"Besides, I control both the distance and the intervals between my Teleports very carefully. There won't be a problem."
As he spoke, he pointed at his head with complete confidence.
Over the past half a month, besides his Pokémon training desperately, he had also spent plenty of time becoming proficient with his newly acquired powers.
There was no denying that Psychic was incredibly convenient.
Travel, housework, battle, communication, almost every aspect of life could make use of Psychic.
The only thing that puzzled Silas was.
"Did I remember incorrectly? Wasn't that place the Tree of the World?"
Remembering the scene he had seen through the Sea Soul Scepter on the Whirl Islands, he became somewhat confused.
"Or could it be that the Tree of Beginning where Mew lives actually represents Psychic rather than Aura?"
After all, that little pink cat was a Mythical Pokémon of the Psychic type.
"Amph!"
The excited cry of Ampharos brought Silas back to his senses.
His Trainer had been spacing out like this more than once over the past half month, so Ampharos had already gotten used to it.
An invisible blue interface flashed across the bottom of Silas's eyes.
"Hmm?!"
His eyes suddenly widened.
"Ampharos, you've reached the Elite level?!"
"Amph!"
Ampharos proudly put its hands on its hips and nodded.
As the sixth Pokémon to join his current team, its strength had actually progressed a little faster than the three senior Pokémon that had joined before it.
It had to be said that this was an astonishing achievement.
"That's amazing."
Silas vigorously rubbed Ampharos's little head, almost as if he were going to rub sparks out of it.
He could already completely imagine how the other three would react when they heard the news.
It seemed that those three little guys were going to train even more furiously over the next half month.
Naturally, Silas was delighted to see such a scene.
He, as their Trainer, didn't even need to push them to train. He only needed to take care of the logistical support.
That made things much easier.
"Jasmine, you really did give me a huge surprise."
He looked toward Jasmine, who was pretending to be clueless.
"Ah? What are you talking about? I didn't say anything wrong. Something did happen, right?"
Jasmine blinked innocently, indicating that she had no idea what had happened.
Silas was completely helpless.
After spending half a month together, he had more or less figured her out.
This Steel-type Gym Leader known as the "Tempered Steel" Gym Leader was, at heart, also a sly older sister.
"Thank you."
After remaining silent for a while, Silas solemnly bowed to Jasmine and Sparkle.
Ampharos's own hard work could not be ignored, but Sparkle's guidance had also been an extremely important part of this.
Otherwise, according to Silas's estimates, Ampharos's breakthrough would not have come this soon.
At the very least, it should have happened after Gigalith and Serperior.
Jasmine hurriedly waved her hands at Silas.
"It's nothing. The main thing is that this child is exceptionally talented. This is also the first time I've ever seen such an amazing little guy."
"Amph."
Sparkle was lying on the table nearby and nodded in agreement.
As for the several younger members of its own group, it was quite displeased whenever it looked at them.
They had talent, but they had absolutely no idea what hard work meant.
All they did every day was eat and muddle through life.
How could they become stronger like that?
The Ampharos family might have gentle dispositions by nature, but Sparkle, which understood the responsibilities of their species, knew very well how necessary strength was.
Only by becoming stronger could they save more people when danger came.
"Amph."
Otherwise, perhaps in the future, it could pretend to be sick from time to time and have those little guys come guard the port instead, Sparkle thought.
How could they become stronger without experiencing real battles?
In any case, the more it looked at this Shiny descendant in front of it, the more it felt that those freeloaders back home were hopeless.
Jasmine and Silas naturally had no idea what Sparkle was thinking.
Even if they had known, there probably wouldn't have been much they could do about it.
Among the Ampharos group raised at Olivine Gym, Sparkle's status was even higher than that of the group's leader.
Hearing Sparkle and Jasmine praise it, Silas's Ampharos also put its hands on its hips and looked extremely happy.
"All right, all right. I know you're amazing."
Silas lightly patted Ampharos's head several more times to encourage it.
He looked at Jasmine. "By the way, Jasmine, there's something I wanted to tell you."
Silas told Jasmine about his plan to travel throughout the entire Johto region while taking on some bounty missions along the way.
"I see." Jasmine frowned slightly. "According to Nurse Joy, your body has indeed recovered almost completely.
"But before you set off, you should still let Chuck know. He cares about you quite a lot."
She could completely understand Silas's thoughts.
Before she became the Gym Leader of Olivine Gym, she had also been the type of person who liked running around everywhere.
"Of course."
Silas assured her that he definitely wouldn't forget.
During these past two weeks, besides Jasmine constantly looking after him, Chuck and Walker had also come to visit him from time to time.
Chuck was relatively fine. He had so many disciples, and with Yuriko and Brawly there, he didn't need to worry about anything going wrong while he was away for a while.
That was what he had done recently when he went to train Gary.
As for Walker..
"Anyway, that kid Falkner will have to take over the Gym sooner or later, so it's good to let him familiarize himself with it early."
Yes, he was a thoroughly irresponsible father.
Silas felt that Walker and Brock's father, Flint, probably would have a lot to talk about.
The difference was that Walker only had one son, while Flint had a full seven children. Well, it had originally been six. When Brock returned home, he discovered that during this period, his father and mother had produced another child.
Although the baby had not been born yet, as the eldest brother, Brock had already begun skillfully preparing baby supplies once again.
Apart from his second-oldest brother, Forrest, all of his younger brothers and sisters had been raised by him.
"Sparkle, we're heading back now~"
Jasmine said goodbye to her Ampharos, Sparkle, and left the lighthouse.
"Amph."
Silas's Ampharos waved its little hand at its senior of unknown relation.
I'll come back to see you when I get the chance, you old geezer.
Sparkle rolled its eyes in annoyance.
There was nothing wrong with this little guy, except that its mouth could never produce anything resembling a dragon's tooth.
On the way back, Silas didn't continue using Psychic.
He wasn't that powerful yet.
At most, he would occasionally use it to hurry along when something urgent came up.
"I should ask Sabrina later. Psychic users should be able to train their own powers too, right?"
He thought about it.
"And there's Cynthia. Caitlin seems to be an incredibly powerful Psychic user too. She can even control herself when she goes berserk."
"Kia."
"Amph."
At some point, Escavalier had come out of its Poké Ball and was enthusiastically chatting with Ampharos.
A Shiny Ampharos might attract a great deal of attention elsewhere.
But in Olivine City, especially when it was accompanied by Jasmine, its appeal had dropped considerably.
Apart from foreign Trainers casting surprised looks at it, the residents of Olivine City had already grown accustomed to seeing it.
When Silas returned to Olivine Gym, Chuck, who had received Silas's message, had already called several times.
Silas hurriedly used the Gym's equipment to answer.
Chuck appeared on the screen looking somewhat swollen.
Silas immediately knew what had happened.
"Senior Chuck, you should hold back a little when sparring with Machamp. Otherwise, you're going to be sore for several days again."
"Ah~ Don't worry. I know what I'm doing."
Chuck's answer was exactly the same as Silas's.
Jasmine was speechless at the two of them.
"Speaking of which, have you really made up your mind?"
After chatting for a few minutes, Chuck appropriately turned the conversation back to the main matter.
Silas nodded firmly.
"Yes.
"You know me, Senior Chuck. I can't stand staying in one place, so I'd rather experience more of the Johto region."
"The route through the eight Gyms basically covers all the famous places in Johto." Chuck shook his head indifferently. "But I'm not going to stop you."
His tone suddenly changed.
"My only requirement is that you remember to call every so often and let us know you're safe."
Silas couldn't deny that when Chuck said those words, he felt a very strange sensation in his heart.
In the more than ten years since he had come to this world, this was the first time he had experienced something resembling familial affection.
"I will."
He smiled and replied to Chuck and Yuriko on the screen.
That afternoon.
Watching the well-prepared Silas leave Olivine City, Jasmine leaned against the Gym's entrance with a somewhat unaccustomed feeling.
"Teacher, Teacher, where's Big Brother Silas?"
A lively voice rang out.
Standing beside Jasmine was a young girl.
It was Janine, the waitress from the restaurant next door.
"He went off to work toward making his dream come true."
Jasmine looked at her newly accepted disciple and gently rubbed her head.
"Huh? I still have some questions I wanted to ask Big Brother Silas."
Janine's face immediately fell.
She could already imagine how hopeless her homework would become without Big Brother Silas around.
Jasmine smacked her lightly.
"You little troublemaker. Your assignment for today is doubled!"
"Nooo, Teacher!"
Janine's wail echoed through the hot air.
For Jasmine, Janine, and even most of Silas's friends, it was as though he had disappeared for the next period of time.
If they hadn't occasionally heard news about Silas from Chuck, or learned about his progress from the Bounty Hunters' Association, they wouldn't have known where he would appear.
Perhaps the day before, he would still be in the mountains at the northernmost edge of the region, while the next day he would appear near a seaside city at the southernmost edge.
With Pidgeot and Gallade by his side, Silas had absolutely no need to worry about the time required for traveling.
And so, autumn gradually passed.
The cold winter slowly arrived.
However, because of its geographical location, Johto's winters were actually somewhat warmer than Kanto's.
Inside a cave at the summit of White Mountain.
"Rrr!"
Articuno glared unhappily at the human in front of it.
This was already the third time you'd come to my home this month. Can't you have some shame?
Silas casually fed Alolan Ninetales a transparent blue herb before paying no attention whatsoever to Articuno's anger.
"Come on, we're all friends. Why make such a fuss?
"At worst, I'll give you some food when you come visit my place next time."
He patted his chest as though he were being exceptionally generous.
Articuno's expression grew even darker.
It was about to produce the next generation. Where was there going to be a next time, you bastard?
"Speaking of which, you told me about a place last time, but it didn't have what I wanted."
Silas moved around the pile of materials Articuno had gathered in front of him as he spoke.
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