As he pondered, he couldn't help but feel somewhat emotional.
Thank goodness he'd slightly increased the difficulty when creating this game; otherwise, with players like Cynthia's skill level, they would probably breeze through gym battles easily.
If these players progressed faster than his update speed, that would be troublesome.
The current difficulty level could be said to be just right.
And just as he was thinking this, a system notification suddenly popped up before him!
[Ding! Congratulations, host. You have received panic, surprise, shock, and other emotions from special character "Iono," converted to a total of 230 Emotion Points (including 35 bonus points from CG)!]
[Ding! Congratulations, host. You have received shock and other emotions from Iono's live stream viewers, converted to a total of 150 points (including 20 bonus points from CG)!]
Looking at the notification before him, Kairos froze for a moment.
It seemed Iono had also already triggered that Regirock CG sequence while live streaming in Rock Cave.
Perhaps she had even started challenging Dewford Gym.
This harvest of around 400 Emotion Points wasn't much, but the proportion obtainable from Iono's side was already quite low.
After all, both she and the viewers in her live stream were already old friends of Emerald.
This was enough to show just how much shock that Regirock CG had brought to her and her audience!
At the same time, Kairos noticed an issue—while Regirock's CG had successfully pushed Cynthia's emotions past the threshold to reach a new level, the same thing had not happened with Iono.
It seemed the emotional threshold evaluation standard wasn't entirely based on the character's level of shock...
Perhaps the emotions the game evoked had to correspond to their specific traits.
For example, what Cynthia loved most were ancient myths and Legendary Pokémon...
Looking at it this way, raising a character's emotional threshold really wasn't as simple as he had thought.
But fortunately, Kairos was confident that the game content he would create next could satisfy anyone's inner expectations and preferences.
After all, this was a world filled with Pokémon and trainers—what most people were interested in would naturally be Pokémon-related.
While thinking, Kairos glanced at his system panel balance. Even after just buying an Intermediate Module, he already had over 700 points again.
This feeling of spending money and having it come back was really quite nice.
By now, it was already 1 a.m. Kairos yawned and prepared to wash up and go to bed.
However, a figure jumped in through the window beside him.
It was clearly Litwick, who had been out all day and had not returned!
"Oh? You're back? Tired from playing?"
Kairos raised an eyebrow with a smile.
The latter directly pounced into his arms, looking very excited.
"Lit litwick!!"
"Alright, you must be hungry after playing out there so long. Come eat something first."
As Kairos spoke, he took out a can of Pokémon food from a nearby cabinet, opened the lid, and handed it to Litwick.
Litwick immediately jumped onto the can and buried his head, eating in big mouthfuls.
While eating, he also told Kairos about everything he had seen and heard today.
"Lit... litwick."
[This place is so amazing. There are big iron monsters running on the ground, and all kinds of colorful lights...]
[I saw so many people! And so many guys I've never seen before.]
Watching Litwick's excited appearance, Kairos became curious again.
Everything in the city was so novel to this little guy—what kind of place had he been staying in before?
After some thought, Kairos felt it probably wasn't Ultra Space...
So why not take this opportunity to ask?
Kairos explained his question.
However, after hearing Kairos's words, Litwick's excitement immediately vanished, replaced by a slightly trembling body—he seemed somewhat afraid.
After brief hesitation, he still spoke up.
"Lit... litwick"
"Lit"
Three minutes later, through Litwick's narration, Kairos roughly understood the place where he had previously lived.
—It was a dim world without light, vast but with almost nothing on the land.
The only inhabitants were various Ghost-type Pokémon.
Originally, these Ghost-types lived by consuming a type of mist in that space, not interfering with each other—everything was normal.
But starting one day, the mist became scarcer.
The Ghost-types' temperaments suddenly changed drastically, becoming constantly enraged and extremely vicious, attacking and even devouring other Ghost Pokémon.
Under these circumstances, the weak Litwick could only hide every day, daring to forage only when the surrounding Ghost-types had dispersed.
However, in this way, Litwick could never eat his fill, spending every day in fear and anxiety.
As he spoke, Litwick's body began trembling violently, his eyes welling up with tears, as if he were about to cry at any moment.
Clearly, those terrible days had already become a shadow in his heart.
Seeing this, Kairos paused for a moment, then stepped forward, held Litwick in his arms, and patted his body, his tone gentle and serious.
"Don't be afraid. You're my partner now. From now on, no one can bully you."
"I promise!"
Litwick stared at Kairos blankly, his trembling finally calming somewhat...
After a moment, confirming that Litwick's emotions had completely stabilized, Kairos spoke again:
"So how did you suddenly come from that space to my place?"
"Lit..."
Litwick began narrating again:
One day, just when he was dizzy from hunger and about to give up, a whirlpool suddenly appeared, directly sucking him out of that space.
When he opened his eyes again, he was already in Kairos's room.
"A whirlpool... huh?"
Hearing this, Kairos became thoughtful.
It did sound somewhat like an Ultra Wormhole situation, but he was certain that place definitely wasn't Ultra Space.
If so, what exactly was the place Litwick had been living in before?
He pondered for a moment, opened his phone, and searched for information like "Ghost-type Pokémon gathering places."
An official Alliance news article caught his attention—
[Citizens, please note: Ghost World fluctuations have been increasingly intense recently. When encountering Ghost-type Pokémon in the city, please immediately call the city emergency number to contact professionals for on-site handling!]
Kairos immediately raised an eyebrow.
—Ghost World?
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