Xicui area, March 4th, night.
Zoroark only showed one side, and then covered his face with a black robe again, but the little fur that was revealed quickly turned into smooth human skin.
This time she transformed into a middle-aged woman. Zoroark whispered: "The ability of our family is transformation, not deformation... After all, it is just an illusion, so don't let humans touch you, otherwise the transformation will Invalid."
Zoroark's voice is as soft as a human woman's, and she speaks human language, but she speaks very slowly, with a strange tone, and an obvious accent. Obviously, the Zoroark family does not naturally master language due to transformation... This human language was taught by Zoroark himself.
However, the Zoroark family actually has vocal organs that can speak human language... Maybe this Zoroark is just special.
At least... Zoroa can't speak human language even if he transforms into Xu Qiansu at this moment.
Hearing Zoroark's warning, Zoroa didn't have much reaction. She lowered her eyebrows and pursed her lips in silence... She was neither used to the current appearance nor used to the life after Xu Qiansu suddenly left... She didn't know what she should do at this moment.
Zoroark looked at her, then immediately stepped forward, stretched out his hand, and lightly touched Zoroa's shoulder. Then he heard a soft 'pop' sound, and Zoroa transformed into his original appearance again.
She pressed her little paw on her Poké Ball, and the Magic Slate and the Flute of God were placed beside her.
Soraya raised his little face and looked at his mother, his face full of confusion.
"First master the transformation skill...at least you must be able to use it as you like." Zoroark looked past Zoroa and towards the boat by the lake. After a moment of silence, he continued: "After you completely master the transformation, what will happen? Place you want to go?"
Zoroa lowered his eyebrows and tilted his little head...still didn't speak.
"Then go to Ultramarine Town." Zoroark stretched out his hand, and immediately a flash of purple-black ominous energy suddenly shot out from his fingertips, turning into a huge abyss in the night sky, swallowing the small boat completely.
Zoroark looked down at Zoroa, observing her reaction, and then asked: "Isn't that where you first met him?"
Zoroa glanced at the broken boat in confusion, wondering why her mother wanted to destroy it.
Seeing that his daughter still looked confused, Zoroark put his hands behind his back, stopped testing, and asked directly: "Hatred is the source of energy for our clan... Do you hate him?"
"Huh?" Soraya raised his face, looked at his mother, and tilted his head.
"...Get ready for training." Seeing this, Zoroark stopped talking and started preparing for Zoroa's special training.
Three days later, on March 7th, night.
Soraya turned into a tree, revealed her figure immediately, and turned into an ordinary big stone in the next moment... Finally, she turned into Xu Qiansu's appearance again.
Dressed in white.
Zoroark stood aside, reached out and took out a fanny pack from his arms, handed it to Zoroa, "Let's go."
"Hmm..." Zoroa blinked with Xu Qiansu's face, took it, tilted his face, and then put the magic slate, his own elf ball, the flute of the gods and other items into his pocket. , tied to the body.
Zoroark didn't say anything, turned around and walked away.
Zoroa looked at his hands. Human hands were delicate and soft, and could do many things... Xu Qiansu's hands were long and well-jointed. He always used these hands to gently caress Zoroa's back.
Zoroa raised his eyes and looked at the lake behind him. Of course... there was nothing.
She withdrew her gaze and followed Zoroark.
A month later, Qunqing Town still looked the same, neither lively nor deserted.
"Mr. Xu! You are back." The two guards guarding the door were still the same. When they saw Xu Qiansu, their eyes brightened, and they quickly stepped forward and said with a smile: "Since you left, I have been thinking about nothing. No, I’m just counting on your Chinese cuisine… How many days will you stay this time?”
Zoroa looked at the human who once wanted to expel her, and tilted his face in confusion.
The guard blinked, and before he could ask questions, Zoroark stepped forward, stretched out his hand in front of him, and whispered: "I am his companion. In order to save me, he lost some memories, or... Don’t embarrass him.”
"Ah?" The guard's expression changed, and he did not dare to delay any longer. He quickly invited Zoroa into the town, patting his chest and saying that there were many doctors with excellent medical skills in Qunqing Town, who would definitely cure Mr. Xu.
Zoroark ignored him and led Zoroark straight into the town.
Zoroa lowered his eyebrows and looked at the bluestone floor tiles under his feet.
Not long after, Zoroark brought Zoroya to a bluestone alley, where yellowed wine flags fluttered in the wind.
She glanced at the store and walked straight in.
"Do the guests want to drink here or take away..." The shopkeeper was bending over to clean the table. When he saw the guests, his old face evoked a warm smile. Then he saw 'Xu Qiansu' walking in, and his expression froze again.
His cloudy eyes were staring at Zoroa... Zoroa frowned slightly, showing a timid look, and hid behind Zoroark.
"A bottle of wine, take it away." Zoroark spoke very little, always concisely.
After the shopkeeper was silent for a while, he took the wine spoon and stirred it in the big wine vat for a while, but suddenly said: "Jing values Mr. Xu very much, so the house is still unused there, and he often sends people to clean it... If there is no place to go... , it doesn’t hurt to live there.”
"Thank you." Zoroark nodded slightly and never asked more questions.
After filling a bottle of wine, the shopkeeper handed it to Zoroark and whispered: "Team Galaxy has been here recently. Thanks to them, Ultramarine Town is currently very open-minded towards Pokémon... "
Zoroark nodded slightly, took the wine bottle, and walked out of the wine shop with Zoroa.
The shopkeeper looked at the back of 'Xu Qiansu' with a somewhat sad expression. His clothes remained the same, wearing a white robe, but it was not the same person every time.
In a daze, it seemed like reincarnation was happening again.
…
Zoroark seemed to be very familiar with Qunqing Town. He walked unhurriedly, but walked through the streets and alleys directly to the house where Xu Qiansu lived at that time.
Soraya was holding some bought food in his hand... Mother and daughter naturally didn't eat very well in the wild. When they came to the town, they wanted to taste human food... Although Soraya was not in the mood at all. Eat, to this day, she doesn’t know what she should do or what she can do.
She didn't know why she was alive at this moment.
The news of 'Xu Qiansu''s arrival had obviously been notified to Jing by the guards.
As the mayor of the town, he was waiting in front of the house. When he saw Soraya, he smiled gently and walked up to greet him. However, he obviously also knew about 'Xu Qiansu''s amnesia, so he just promised to find the best person in Ultramarine Town. Only good doctors treated Soraya and allowed her to live here with peace of mind.
After saying that, he hurried away. Obviously, he was not as leisurely as he seemed.
Under the influence of Team Galaxy, Ultramarine Town is indeed very accepting of Pokémon, but it will always take a lot of effort for different races to understand each other and live together with mutual understanding.
Zoroa looked at the familiar door in front of him, immediately reached out his hand, opened it, and then met his eyes with a little girl inside.
maple.
She was kneeling on the tatami at the moment, holding a rag in her hand and a basin beside her... Obviously, she was the one who was asked by Jing to clean the house. However, given that Feng was very young, only eight years old, so She should have requested the cleaning herself.
"Xu Qiansu... no... Soraya?" Feng raised her little face and looked at the face that was exactly the same as Xu Qiansu's. She didn't speak for a long time. After a while, she tilted her head and muttered to herself.
"Huh?" Vulpix lay next to Kaede, looking up at Zoroa, his face twisted, and he didn't know how his trainer made such a judgment.
Even if they have the same face, they are not the same person.
Feng stared at Soraya, finally put down the rag, adjusted his sitting position with his hands on the tatami, and knelt down facing Soraya, then gently patted the tatami next to him, using a childish voice, In a soft tone, he asked: "Are you hungry? Eat first?"
"Huh?" Zoroja looked up at his mother, but Zoroark just crossed his arms and looked at her without saying a word... This was to let her make her own decision.
"Well..." Zoroa lowered his eyebrows and looked at the familiar entrance. After a moment, he stepped into the house and sat down at the small table... well, he lay down.
She still maintains her lifestyle as a Pokémon.
Feng grabbed her hands, adjusted her sitting posture, and taught her human living habits step by step.
Zoroark walked in and still didn't speak. He just put the wine bottle on the small table and looked at his daughter with his side face raised.
Feng took the food in Zoroa's hand, took the bowls and chopsticks, and placed them on the table, "Eat."
At eight years old, she doesn't look like a little girl. She looks very mature in every move she makes. She looks like Soraya's mother...
Although Soraya's real mother was sitting at the table, saying nothing.
Soraya looked at the mustard noodles in front of him and hesitated for a while before reaching out and grabbing it and stuffing it into his mouth.
This time, Feng didn't teach her how to use chopsticks.
Snap, snap, snap.
The big tears slid down Zoroa's face like broken pearls, making a soft sound when they dripped on the table.
It can't be stopped, and it can't be wiped completely.
Even if she has mastered the transformation, even if she is using Xu Qiansu's face at the moment... But she is still Zoroya, the Zoroa who was born not long ago and always hides timidly in Xu Qiansu's arms.
"From now on, you can live with me." Feng looked at Soraya's face. Her immature face looked mature and reliable, and she said softly.
After hearing this, Zoroark remained silent and looked at his daughter... still letting Zoroark make his own decision.
Soraya chose to nod.
Seeing this, Zoroark smiled. This was the first time she smiled in front of her daughter. She was happy, loving, and gentle.
Then, she got up and left the room. Since then... Soraya has never seen her mother again...
Two days later, Jing brought a doctor to see Soraya.
The person who came was a pink-haired woman with twin ponytails.
Miss Chu'er, she followed the Galaxy Team's investigation team on a mission and passed through Qunqing Town, so she was invited here by Jing...
She knew Xu Qiansu.
She looked at the familiar face, and as a doctor's keen observation, she noticed something strange at a glance.
But she just held Soraya's hand and said softly that she would help keep this secret
Two years later.
Kaede left Ultramarine Town with Vulpix and Zoroa to travel.
The destination is Tianguan Mountain.
I heard from Soraya that Xu Qiansu had a very cherished bicycle frame, but it was thrown away in Tianguan Mountain... Feng wanted to bring it back.
They left the Ultramarine Coast and headed west, passing through the Red Lotus Wetland and arriving at the Black Glory Wilderness. They then walked north, passing through the forest, flowing through the river, and climbing over the mountains. Finally, they arrived at Tianguan Mountain.
call.
Feng was wearing thick cotton clothes and his face was a little red.
She let out a breath of white air, staring at the scene in front of her with almond-shaped eyes.
In front of an unremarkable hillside, a clean bicycle frame was parked in place, but it was covered with many small branches, like a bird's nest. Pokémon of various races lived around the frame. There are even many grass-type Pokémon. Thanks to them, Tianguan Mountain, which is full of white light, has become green...
The cold wind blew by, and Feng's waist-length black hair spread behind her.
After a while, Feng opened the zipper of the cotton coat and looked at Zoroa who was huddled inside. Her little face, which was red because of the cold, put on a gentle and comforting smile, "Let's go."
"Yeah."
Feng zipped up, stepped on the thick snow, braved the awe-inspiring cold wind, and left.
At the end of the long journey, she took nothing with her, not the frame, nor any Pokémon...
When we set off, Feng was ten years old.
When he returned to Qunqing Town, Feng was twelve years old.
They stop and go, traveling all the way.
After that, she never took such a long trip again in her life.
Feng wiped off the 'Little Green Snake's Cooking House' plaque that Xu Qiansu had engraved at that time, placed it in front of the house, and started a cooking business.
She doesn't know how to cook Chinese food, but she is more serious than anyone else.
When Kaede was sixteen, Vulpix evolved, and Kyuubi's fur was soft and warm. She liked sleeping on Kyuubi's belly.
When Feng was seventeen, her parents gave birth to another sister and asked Feng to name her.
Feng calls her 'Su'.
Su was brought up by Feng, and Feng always said to Su, "There is a saying in our family. A thousand years later, in mid-February, on a rainy morning, a black-haired girl with a morubeko , she has light green eyes like a clear autumn sky... When you see her, you must give her the token,"
"What kind of Pokémon is Morube? What is the token? Can I see it?" Su asked curiously every time with his eyes wide open and his chin nodding.
"No, how can a treasure passed down from generation to generation be exposed to the world casually?" Feng refused every time.
"Eh? But my parents said this is not something our family has passed down from generation to generation." Then Su Hui retorted.
"Talk a lot, what do you kid understand?" Feng would end this topic like this every time.
Sixty years later, Feng is seventy-seven years old.
For people 1,000 years ago, this was already an extremely long life.
Kaede is not married. She, Kyuubi, and Zoroa have lived together all their lives relying on each other.
In her room, the green light was dim.
Kaede was lying on the bed, with Kyuubi and Zoroa lying next to her.
She looked at Soraya and opened her lips slightly, as if she wanted her to turn into Xu Qiansu's appearance, but in the end, she just asked in a low voice: "Soraya... in your opinion, I have done my best to train a person." Is it the responsibility of the family? Is my life meaningful? "
Soraya's appearance was no different from before, he was still as cute and timid.
Her big golden eyes looked at Feng, and at some point, she transformed into Xu Qiansu's appearance.
'Xu Qiansu' knelt down in front of Feng, pursed her lips and said nothing.
She doesn't speak human language...but she can write, which Xu Qiansu taught her.
Therefore, 'Xu Qiansu' held Feng's hand and lightly drew a few strokes on Feng's palm with her fingertips.
"That's it..." Feng smiled, still so gentle.
She whispered: "Soraya, finally, can you fulfill my wish?"
"...Zoroa, you are always reluctant to transform into someone other than him, but after I leave, can you transform into me?"
'Xu Qiansu' looked down at Feng. Eventually, her figure continued to shrink... She became what Feng looked like when he was eight years old.
Feng smiled, gentle, cute, and happy.
She tilted her chin slightly, "I like this look the best... He once said that I am very cute."
After laughing for a while, she sniffed again, with a hint of crying in her words, "Soraya, for me, please live. Live for a long, long time, live for a hundred years, live for five hundred years, live for one year." A thousand years later, and then use my appearance to meet him a thousand years later, okay?"
Soraya looked into Feng's eyes and nodded lightly...
She was always confused and confused, not knowing why she lived, but Feng's words finally made her find the meaning of living.
Even if it wasn't for Feng, just for herself...she wanted to see Xu Qiansu again.
Feng lowered his hand... At the end of his life, there was no pain.
Although her life could not be said to be very colorful, she believed that... she had spent her life happily and lived her life seriously.
Soraya put Feng's hand on her eight-year-old face, which still had some baby fat, and then sobbed softly.
She liked Xu Qiansu and also liked Feng...but at this moment, she made up her mind never to fall in love with anyone again.
…
Zoroa left Ultramarine Town and went to Hidden Spring to live with the Pokémon there.
Kyuubi stayed in Kaede's family...she was also entrusted with her last wish by Kaede.
Even after so many years, the Pokémon in Hidden Spring still remember this timid little fox who couldn't even fight.
In fact, up to this moment, Soraya is still very weak, and he has not been able to touch the edge of evolution... But Soraya doesn't care.
A thousand years was too long. After Zoroa lived with the Pokémon in the Hidden Spring for a period of time, he turned into flowers and trees and spent this long time through sleep.
Zoroa is a ghost-type Pokémon. There is no problem even if he doesn't eat. He can survive even if he doesn't eat...
At first, Soraya would sleep for three or four days and then wake up faintly.
Then, half a month, one month, half a year, one year, three years, five years, ten years, fifty years, one hundred years...
Every time he wakes up, Soraya will transform into Xu Qiansu and go to the outside world to inquire about information and determine the year...
In a thousand years, Zoroa slept for more than nine hundred years... None of her kind, the Zoroa clan, survived. After a thousand years of evolution, they turned into another form.
Zoroa... just like the marsupial, he only has one Pokémon left.
But why can Zoroa survive for a thousand years?
Soraya doesn't know either.
Soraya... woke up a thousand years later. Times have developed and technology has changed, but Soraya doesn't care. She just wants to find her own identity.
But the world is so vast and the world is so vast. How can Zoroa find a human being on his own?
She thought about it and felt that making herself famous would be a good way... As long as she was famous enough, would Susu come to find her?
But how to become famous? Soraya doesn't know.
In a daze, Soraya remembered Xu Qiansu's habit of recording what he saw and heard... Soraya recorded everything he saw and heard over the past thousand years.
This habit was brought to her by Xu Qiansu, and even the writing was taught to her by Xu Qiansu... Such a coincidence can make Soraya happy all day long.
As the pen name, she chose 'Su Yu Feng'. She believed that as long as she saw this pen name, Su Su would understand and come to her.
She chose the title of the book "Cleaning Green on the Left, Sinnoh on the Right". It had no meaning, just because Xu Qiansu mentioned it when she was on the phone with Ma Li, and was remembered by Soraya at that time.
Soraya gropingly submitted it to the publishing house... and refused to sign.
The reason given by the editor was that the writing was too poor, there was no story, and there was no evidence for the historical facts recorded in it. It was just a fabricated self-help article.
Soraya didn't understand, but she learned how serious Feng was.
So she learned how to write a book, then resubmitted it to a publisher and got it published.
Soraya happily and expectantly waited for Xu Qiansu to come to her... But after waiting for a year, she found nothing.
Soraya was full of doubts and wanted to cry, but she only cried in front of Xu Qiansu and Feng.
So she used the stupid method again... to find it herself.
She traveled from the Sinnoh region to Hezhu, and finally ended up in Galar...
In an ordinary town called Mugan Town, Soraya found Xu Qiansu!
It was a winter, and the sky was full of snow, like catkins, layer upon layer.
Soraya transformed into Xu Qiansu and was walking on the street, but for some reason, the people around him were very familiar with him, and there were many rich ladies who stuffed notes into Soraya's arms.
Soraya didn't understand, but then she met Xu Qiansu.
At that time, Xu Qiansu was holding a billboard in front of the station, his hands and face were red from the cold...it looked like he was working very hard.
Soraya looked at his figure in the snow and was stunned for a long time before he transformed into Maple.
She stepped on her short legs, stepping through layers of snow, and walked desperately in the direction of Xu Qiansu.
Snap.
Fell in the snow.
Soraya got up, walked non-stop to Xu Qiansu, raised his little face, and stared at him.
How are you? After a thousand years, I'm coming to find you!
But Xu Qiansu just looked at her doubtfully, then squatted down, patted the snowflakes off her body, touched her little head, and said sheepishly, "Are you lost? Sorry, I'm working now and can't leave. ...You can go find Miss Junsha, she usually patrols that place..."
Soraya didn't listen to what Xu Qiansu said later.
She looked at Xu Qiansu, who was much younger than she remembered, and understood.
He...is not his Susu.
Even though the faces are similar, the voices are the same...but no.
Soraya took a few steps back, disappeared into the wind and snow, and turned into her original appearance. However, she did not leave. Instead, she lay on the eaves of a roof and looked at Xu Qiansu quietly.
She was waiting, waiting for the moment when this Xu Qiansu turned into the Xu Qiansu she knew.
So, one year passed.
Soraya never met Xu Qiansu again. He just followed him quietly and watched him silently.
She learned that he had no parents or friends, but he wanted to conquer a Pokémon of his own, so he worked hard for it and never slackened off... But Soraya was not his Pokémon; Xu Qiansu's Pokémon.
There was someone with the same face as Xu Qiansu, but he didn't know Soraya... This fact made her unbearable anymore.
Therefore, Soraya once again chose to sleep.
In her memory, her Su Su was seventeen years old, and this Xu Qiansu was only fifteen years old... Let's sleep for another two years.
But before going to bed, Soraya sneaked into the place where Xu Qiansu lived.
There, she wrote a sentence using the words Xu Qiansu taught her.
Fifteen-year-old Xu Qiansu has no Gardevoir, no Wombat, Vulpix, Blue Crow, Vine Snake, Mary, Cattleya...no Zoroa.
But even so, Soraya hopes from the bottom of his heart that he can live happily and freely.
Once, Soraya's mother asked her, 'Do you hate Xu Qiansu? '
Don't hate.
Soraya has never hated Xu Qiansu.
Soraya was born with love in mind and was raised in love by his mother.
After meeting Xu Qiansu, he was loved and cared for.
After losing Xu Qiansu, he fell in love with Feng and lived together for decades...
Soraya believes that he has lived a happy life.
She huddled in a corner, hiding her figure through transformation... She believed that this was her last sleep.
A little moisture slipped from the corners of Zoroa's eyes.
That Xu Qiansu who never got his Pokémon in his life, or that Xu Qiansu who woke up from the snow and came to this strange world.
When he came to this world, he was not favored by anyone, not loved by anyone, and even La Lulas was hostile to him at first... He had nothing.
But no.
A Pokémon endured a thousand years of loneliness and pain, cherished the hope of meeting him, and used the words he taught her to write her most ardent expectations and deepest wishes for him in the winter wind and snow. like.
"Even if you have lost everything, please live according to your own ideas."
(Canghua chapter, end)
————Pokémon Research Notes——————
"Zoroa, a Pokémon born to be hated."
"Hate is their strength and their life."
"When the hatred is gone and the enemy is no longer there, that is the moment Zoroa dies."
"Thousands of years have passed, humans and Pokémon have understood each other, been considerate of each other, and lived together. In this way, Zoroa, who was born to hate, has gradually evolved into what it is today... Zoroa's evolution is the relationship between humans and Pokémon. It symbolizes the transformation of Pokémon from enemies to allies.”
"And my Zoroa is probably the only one in the world, the most special Zoroa."
"It's not because she can survive for thousands of years, it's not because she is the only Zoroa in the green form..."
"The reason why my Zoroa has been able to survive for thousands of years is not due to obsession or resentment, but..."
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Squeak.
The door opened slightly, and a little light passed through the crack and shone into the dark room.
A girl with waist-length black hair walked in, her light green eyes scanning the surrounding area.
Obviously, it was her first time entering this room and she was somewhat unfamiliar with the unfamiliar environment.
After a while, she turned on the light, sat down on the bed, raised her slender legs, reached out and brushed the smooth black hair beside her shoulders, opened her lips lightly, and said solemnly and calmly:
"Zoroa, come out."
(End of chapter)
