Pokémon Beyond the Blue

It was another sunny morning. Ikki stayed at Grandpa Fuji's house last night. Although he felt that there was no big problem, Grandpa Fuji still insisted on letting him stay here so that he could observe Riolu's condition.

This was the first time that Ikki got up earlier than Riolu. Riolu used to wake him up, but it was strange that Riolu's voice was suddenly missing.

"Ikki, how many badges do you have now?"

Grandpa Fuji also got up very early and started busy preparing breakfast as soon as he got up. Reina also came to the nursery early to help.

"...There is only one now..."

Ikki felt a little disappointed when he thought about the number of badges he had.

"It's okay, it's okay. It's impossible for an enthusiastic kid like you to be unlucky. You can definitely get a lot of badges."

"Well, thank you."

He called out Charmander and Lulili and asked them to play with Korakola. Ikki was not idle either. At this time, he was changing towels for Riolu next to his stand.

After drinking the bottle of medicine, Riolu's injuries began to heal at an absolute speed. It didn't matter for a long time. But the night after that, he had a low fever again. According to Grandpa Fuji, it was just a side effect of the medicine. Just deal with it briefly.

No matter what, Grandpa Fuji runs a nursery after all, and at least has much more experience than him as a new trainer, so he followed what Grandpa Fuji said and brought a towel and cold water, and put the wet towel Covering Riolu's forehead, it continued like this for most of the night.

"Okay, Ikki, come and eat."

Breakfast is a very ordinary whole grain porridge - this is for Riolu's consideration. If you are sick, you still need to eat something light.

"Riolu, how are you?"

Rena walked to the stand and asked with a smile when she saw Riolu's reaction.

"O...Olu."

Now his body is almost healed, but he feels like he can't exert himself, and he doesn't know what happened. Ikki didn't tell him about the medicine.

"It looks like today will be enough. You can set off at noon."

Fuji walked over and saw Riolu who was fine, so he suggested to Ikki.

"But Riolu is still feeling very uncomfortable. Grandpa Fuji, what's going on?"

Riolu frowned slightly.I originally wanted to pretend to have recovered, but the feeling of powerlessness coming from my body was really not easy to control, as if I had been electrocuted by Pikachu.

"Well, that's true. It seems that I underestimated the effectiveness of that bottle of medicine, um..."

"Olu."

Riolu sat up and refused Ikki's offer to continue resting. Riolu smiled at Ikki, then turned his head and called Fuji twice.

"Huh? Ikki, does your elf want to say something?"

Seeing this situation, Ikki had already taken out the illustrated book and handed it to Leo Lu.

[How to get to Honglian Island? 】

"Huh? Are you going to Red Lotus Island..."

Fuji obviously didn't find it strange at all that elves knew human writing, but Reina opened her mouth in surprise.

"Oh! By the way, maybe Red Lotus Island can do it."

Fuji suddenly turned around and walked into the back room, and then there was the sound of rummaging for something, and Reina quickly followed to help.

"Red Lotus Island? Is this the next place we are going to?"

Leo Lu nodded.

"Oops, I almost forgot that I still have this thing."

Fuji handed Ikki a dusty, folded and crumpled map.

"Grandpa Fuji, this is..."

"This is the map to Honglian Island. You can follow the route drawn above to reach Honglian Island. The hot springs there are notoriously good. It is said to have the magical function of helping elves recover. You can take your elves with you. Going there, maybe we can relieve him of the side effects of the medicine.”

After dusting off the dust, Ikki slowly opened the map.The image has begun to fade, but it still does not affect viewing. However, judging from the age of this map, it is probably about 20 to [-] years old.

After carefully putting the map into his bag, Ikki expressed his gratitude to Fuji again.

"Okay, thank you for taking care of him these two days. Since there is a way to help him recover quickly, I think it would be better to leave earlier."

'Well, that's right, and the Red Lotus Gym is also there. '

Riolu took the towel off his head, lifted the quilt and prepared to jump off the stand, but suddenly felt a little top-heavy.

"Riolu, don't force yourself."

Fortunately, Ikki reacted in time and firmly caught Riolu who was about to fall off the support.

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nbsp;"Well, after all, the health of the elf must come first, so we won't send you away. There are still a lot of things to do in the nursery."

After waving goodbye to Fuji and Reina, Ikki carried Riolu's small backpack and slowly walked towards the route marked on the map.

[Ikki, be careful yourself. If you have any questions, remember to wake me up. I'll take a nap first. 】

Seeing the paw behind him holding the illustrated book in front of his eyes, Ikki smiled and gently took the illustrated book. When he looked back, Riolu had already laid on his shoulder and closed his eyes, listening to what was coming from his ears. He was breathing evenly, and he was obviously asleep.

'But why is it so strange? '

Why was the medicine bottle Fuji took out the same as the one the strange store manager gave him?Is this a coincidence?

Ikki kept recalling the information about the two bottles, and unknowingly arrived at the entrance of Shion City.

"Hey! Little brother over there, come here!"

As he was walking, Ikki heard someone shouting something in the guard room next to him.After looking around, there was no one else here, so Ikki had no choice but to walk over.

"Is there something wrong?"

"That's right. Officer Junsha from Hualan City asked me to tell you that they found some clues outside the city, so they didn't notify you. They also said that if you want to leave, remember to ask me to give them a message."

It seems that he was entrusted by Junsha to investigate together, but it seems that Miss Junsha was not seen much in Ziyuan City. It seems that they have found clues and they should no longer need him.

"Thank you. Please tell Miss Junsha that I am going to Red Lotus Island. If there is anything, please inform the elf center there and I will go there."

"Well, then I wish you a safe journey."

While carrying Riolu's backpack and spreading out the map, Ikki touched his chin helplessly.

"The journey seems a bit far..."

Looking at the signs on the map, Ikki estimated that if he walked to the ferry next to Honglian Island, it might take about a week, not counting weather and physical factors.

"Hey, it would be nice if there was a vehicle..."

Ikki folded the map as if resigned to his fate and was about to move on, when the sound of an engine suddenly came from behind him.

"What do you think the boss wants us to do to find that old man?"

"I don't know. Anyway, the boss wants us to do it, so we can just do it. Why do we care so much?"

Two people wearing black coats and black sunglasses were sitting in a car, passing the time with boring conversations.

Suddenly, the person driving the vehicle slammed on the brakes, causing the person sitting in the passenger seat to hit the windshield head-on.

"Hey! What do you want to do!" "No, look ahead."

Ikki was now standing in front of the car. When he saw that the car had stopped, he immediately caught up.

"Kid, it's very dangerous for you to do this." "That's right, what if we bump into each other like this!"

The person in the passenger seat lowered the glass and yelled at Ikki angrily.However, when he saw the elf behind Ikki's head, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes, but it quickly disappeared.

"Sorry, sorry, I just wanted to ask if you could give me a ride, I didn't think much of it."

Ikki also smiled sheepishly.

The two people in the car looked at each other. The driver seemed to be confused, but after a few seconds, the person in the passenger seat said, "Okay, but you can't cause any damage."

Seeing that the other party agreed, Ikki nodded vigorously, quickly opened the back door and sat in.

The car continued to move forward smoothly. After a while, the person in the passenger seat asked Ikki, "Kid, where are you going?"

Ikki was looking at the scenery outside the window and replied lazily: "Red Lotus Island."

After all, I didn't get much rest all night, and now I finally feel tired.

The two looked at each other again: "What a coincidence, we are also going to Red Lotus Island, kid, you are so lucky."

"That's very kind of you, Auntie."

"Wait...what did you call me..."

Ikki didn't think too much. Hearing that the other party's voice was a relatively mature female voice, he shouted out according to the method Yukino taught him, but he didn't expect that it would make others unhappy.

"Don't worry, that's just the way she is. You can call her whatever you want."

"Shut up, why do you have to do this every time!"

Ikki saw that the woman in front of him looked like she was going to kill the man driving the car, and he made a mental note.

Never call someone aunty casually!

In this way, the car headed towards the direction of Honglian Island while making a lot of noise.