[Paper Blade? That name is pretty fitting.]
[Teacher Mo really does know this kind of Pokémon!]
[Things feel a little tense. Is Kartana going to keep fighting Teacher Mo?]
Compared with William's livestream, where the chat was still in an uproar, the atmosphere in the official Zhuxia livestream was far more harmonious. Most viewers had focused their attention on this newly appeared Pokémon with its peculiar appearance.
"Chiaow?"
Faced with Chen Mo's explanation of his attitude, Kartana first let out a confused cry. Then it tilted its head, its gaze passing over Chen Mo and each of the Pokémon beside him, as though carefully trying to discern something.
After a while, having indeed failed to sense any obvious hostility from Chen Mo or the others, Kartana realized that it might really have been overly nervous.
Still, considering everything it had just experienced—and the fact that this was an unfamiliar world where it had no companions to rely on—Kartana remained extremely cautious. Even after apologizing, it maintained a stance that allowed it to draw its blades at any moment.
Seeing this, Chen Mo quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
Being wary was perfectly normal. At the very least, however, it meant that communication with this Kartana was possible.
If something like Guzzlord had arrived instead, Chen Mo would have had no choice but to consider fighting it to the death.
"Gengar…"
At Chen Mo's command, Gengar withdrew all the Will-O-Wisps surrounding Kartana.
Kartana also made another concession and lowered its blade-like arms.
Then the two sides simply stood there, staring at one another, neither making the next move.
In the end, Chen Mo was the first to lose patience.
Looking at Kartana, he cautiously asked,
"Kartana, I want to know why you came to this world. And what is your purpose here?"
As soon as those words were spoken, before Kartana could respond, the viewers watching from behind their screens felt that something was off.
At Anping City's Pokémon Battle Center—
After hearing that a Legendary Pokémon had apparently appeared, Qiao Cheng and the others had temporarily stopped their training to watch the livestream.
They found it strange as well.
Putting everything else aside, whenever the secret behind the transfer of Pokémon between worlds had been involved in the past, Chen Mo had always cut off the livestream.
Yet today, he had not done so.
"Maybe it's because the official broadcast is handling the livestream this time, so things are different from before?"
"I don't think so…"
"Wait, wait. The way Brother Mo phrased that question makes it sound like Kartana crossed over voluntarily, rather than being passively transported here like the other Pokémon?"
As Chen Haoran spoke, the room fell silent.
Everyone knew that the vast majority of Pokémon had come to this world involuntarily.
As Trainers cultivated by the official authorities, Qiao Cheng, Chen Haoran, and the others knew far more than ordinary people. They were well aware that even some Legendary Pokémon had been transferred to this world without any knowledge of what was happening.
Just as everyone was feeling deeply puzzled, A Hui stared at Kartana on the screen with a tightly furrowed brow.
Pokémon came in every conceivable form. There were even quite a few strange species whose bodies were made entirely of stone or gas.
But after going through the entire Pokédex, there were hardly any Pokémon like Kartana that gave A Hui such a bizarre feeling—as though it existed completely outside the established Pokémon system.
If he absolutely had to name something similar…
Suddenly, an image flashed through A Hui's mind.
A bizarre otherworldly Pokémon that looked as though it had stepped out of some surreal circus, with every aspect of its behavior screaming absurdity.
Blacephalon!
…
Meanwhile, Kartana was slowly recounting its experiences to Chen Mo.
It had originally lived in a world covered by vast primeval forests. There, it and other Kartana spent every day honing their swordsmanship.
It was an instinct they had been born with.
Not long ago, Kartana had been practicing its slashes against the empty air as usual.
However, just as it brought down one of its blades, cracks suddenly appeared in the space before it. Immediately afterward, an overwhelming suction force erupted from within and directly pulled Kartana inside.
When it woke up again, it had already arrived in this strange world.
Looking at the land saturated with the dense aura of death and the great tree glowing with red light, Kartana immediately felt an intense sense of discomfort.
Then, at that very moment, it saw strange dark-red creatures suddenly pouring out from the glowing red stones, swarming toward it.
Sensing that something was wrong, Kartana decisively drew its blades and cut down several of the dark-red creatures.
But it was useless.
More and more of them continued to emerge without end.
Feeling increasingly baffled, Kartana decided to leave first.
Yet it soon discovered an inexplicable barrier blocking its path.
With no other choice, Kartana attacked again.
However, the barrier was far stronger than it had expected. Only after exhausting a large portion of its energy did Kartana finally manage to force its way through.
At that point, Kartana had already marked this world as an extremely dangerous place.
Just as it was preparing to find somewhere to recover its strength and then leave this world as quickly as possible, Chen Mo arrived with Pikachu and the others.
"…"
Chen Mo did not know whether to laugh or cry.
Lucario, however, wore an expression of complete confusion.
"As far as I remember, the World Origin Tree's defense system shouldn't actively attack Pokémon."
Long ago, the World Origin Tree had allowed all forms of life to enter freely.
At that time, whether human or Pokémon, anyone could freely visit the World Origin Tree—or even settle there permanently.
However, compared to Pokémon, whose minds were relatively simple and who regarded the World Origin Tree merely as a place of shelter, humans had far more complicated thoughts about it.
Some simply regarded the World Origin Tree as a beautiful home and did their best to build and improve it, hoping that it would become an even better place in the future.
But others…
Had set their sights on the World Origin Tree itself.
After all, it was a special lifeform that had existed since the birth of the world. The region surrounding the World Origin Tree contained countless treasures of immense value in the outside world.
For example—
Various medicinal herbs, gemstones, rare stones containing special forms of energy, and Aura minerals, which were exceedingly scarce throughout the world.
Human greed drove them to take endlessly from the World Origin Tree.
And eventually, humanity even set its sights on the rare Pokémon living there—Pokémon that had once been considered their neighbors.
Mew had always been a Legendary Pokémon with an exceptionally pure heart. Although it treated every life living within the World Origin Tree equally—
It could no longer tolerate such despicable behavior.
Using the authority it possessed through its symbiotic connection with the World Origin Tree, Mew marked all humans—except for certain special individuals, namely the Aura Guardians—as targets for expulsion.
Humanity was forcibly driven out of the World Origin Tree by Mew.
Over the following centuries and millennia, whenever a human entered the region surrounding the World Origin Tree, the tree's system would lock onto them. Any suspicious movement could trigger its defensive mechanisms.
That was why the World Origin Tree's defenses attacked humans while generally ignoring ordinary Pokémon.
"As for that…"
Having also heard about these events from Lucario, Chen Mo glanced at Kartana, which was staring up at the sky as though deep in thought, before slowly saying,
"You just heard it as well. Kartana's world and the world you originally came from aren't the same world. So my guess is that the aura it carries caused the World Origin Tree's system to remove it from the list of creatures considered safe Pokémon."
"I see…"
Lucario nodded thoughtfully and did not press the matter further.
At that moment, however, the official livestream had already exploded because of Chen Mo's words.
[Kartana and Lucario's Pokémon aren't from the same world!? What the hell is going on!?]
[This is driving me insane! Teacher Mo clearly knows the official livestream is broadcasting everything, but he still refuses to explain more! So just because it isn't your own livestream, you're no longer the Professor Mo we know, the great Pokémon popularizer? Damn it!]
[Lucario and Pikachu come from one world, Kartana comes from another world, and now they're all here in our world. Damn, why does Earth feel like a sieve that anyone can invade?]
[The worst part is that they all keep coming to Earth. Earth says: I seriously can't take this anymore. There's no room left!]
While the audience continued discussing the matter nonstop, the livestream suddenly split into two screens.
Then, a man wearing a white lab coat appeared on the left side of the broadcast.
"Hello, everyone. My name is Zhou Yichuan."
"I believe everyone currently has many questions about Kartana, but there is no need to rush, and there is no need to panic."
"Based on the information we currently possess, I will now give everyone a brief introduction to these special Pokémon from another world."
"First, as Comrade Chen Mo has said, Kartana indeed comes from an entirely different world, one separate from the original Pokémon world."
"And for Pokémon of this special type, we have a relatively clear collective term."
"They are known as—"
"Ultra Beasts."
…
At Anping City's Pokémon Battle Center—
After guessing that Kartana might be an Ultra Beast, A Hui briefly described to everyone his encounter with Blacephalon at Mount Taibai. He also focused on explaining what Chen Mo had told him about Ultra Beasts.
Apart from Chen Haoran, who had also personally witnessed Blacephalon, everyone else in the room wore extremely serious expressions.
"Legendary-level Pokémon like Kartana and Blacephalon are as common as stray dogs in their world? That's just…"
Song Qingyun swallowed hard.
For a moment, he seemed to see an image in his mind.
A pitiful, weak, helpless Earth, surrounded by countless Ultra Beasts hidden somewhere in the void, greedily staring at it.
Seeing their reactions, A Hui smiled.
At this moment, everyone looked exactly like he had when he first heard the news. Fear was rising uncontrollably in their hearts.
But…
"Don't let the Ultra Beasts scare you too much. Just like Zapdos, some Legendary Pokémon also have entire populations."
A Hui, who had already asked Chen Mo about certain details, slowly continued.
"Crossing through space isn't nearly as simple as you imagine. Whether it's Blacephalon or the Kartana Brother Mo encountered, the fact that they were able to safely cross into Earth is already proof that they're most likely among the strongest members of their species."
"Besides, among the Ultra Beasts, there are cunning Pokémon like Blacephalon, but there are also Pokémon like Kartana that can communicate normally."
"So what we need to do is the same thing we do with all other Pokémon."
"If they're dangerous, we do our best to drive them away."
"If they're friendly, we coexist with them normally."
A Hui's attitude was also Chen Mo's—and the official authorities'—attitude toward Ultra Beasts.
Therefore, since Kartana had merely stumbled into this world by accident, Chen Mo naturally had no intention of doing anything further to it.
Instead, after watching the fairly harmonious communication between them, Chen Mo hesitated for a moment before slowly saying,
"Kartana, if you have nowhere to go, I can offer you some help."
Upon hearing those words, Hu Chengliang, who was watching the livestream from a helicopter, secretly exclaimed in his heart,
Well played!
Kartana's combat strength was unquestionably formidable. If they could lure it over to their side, then…
Just as Hu Chengliang's imagination began running wild, Kartana shook its head at Chen Mo.
"Chiaow! Chiaow, chiaow!"
"I see… You only want to go home…"
Chen Mo sighed softly.
If they were destined to meet but not destined to remain together, then there was nothing he could do.
At that moment, however, Kartana suddenly began emitting a faint white glow.
Then, after lasting for only a second or two, the light abruptly disappeared.
"Chiaow…"
Kartana's face filled with confusion.
After pausing briefly, it repeated the same action.
Yet the result was identical every time.
The white light emerging from its body would appear for a moment, only to inexplicably fade away again.
"Photosynthesis?"
Chen Mo naturally recognized the move. It was the very same move he had discussed with Hu Chengliang not long ago.
For a Grass- and Steel-type Pokémon like Kartana, Photosynthesis could not only help it recover from injuries, but might also allow it to replenish its energy more quickly.
Yet when Kartana tried to use Photosynthesis now, it inexplicably found itself unable to absorb the light around it.
Even though the sunlight overhead was clearly intense.
Kartana raised its head in confusion.
Then—
As it focused all its attention and extended its senses to the limit, Kartana suddenly noticed that the light above was avoiding it.
Instead, all of that light was flowing toward a single direction.
And that direction was…
Kartana turned its head.
Toward the World Origin Tree.
It slowly raised one of its blade-like arms as its aura continued to build.
Then, as though suddenly remembering something, Kartana tilted its head and looked at Chen Mo.
"Chiaow."
(Um… can I cut it down?)
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