Pokémon: Rise of Evil

Chapter 163 Goodbye Girl Ghost

Seeing Shota suddenly appear beside her, Hanako was a little overwhelmed by fear, but she still said with concern:

"Are you done? Are you hurt?"

Watching Hanako looking left and right at her body, Shota touched her head and shook his head to indicate that she was fine.

……

As the ship got farther and farther away, Shota waved to Hanako on the ship. Just as he turned around, he faintly heard Hanako's shout:

"Come back soon, I will study hard and try to guide you on the right path."

After a pause, Shota walked to a place where people could not see him and disappeared on the spot.

……

Xiaozhi and his team, who were heading for Golden City, arrived at a small town in the port by boat - Maiden Gorge, where a summer temple fair was being held. Xiaozhi and his team decided to relax at the temple fair, while Team Rocket also picked up money lost by passers-by at the temple fair.

At this time, a mysterious beauty suddenly appeared on the beach, and Xiaogang and Kojiro fell in love with her at first sight. But for some reason, this beauty disappeared soon. At the temple fair, they met an old woman who claimed to be a fortune teller. The old woman warned Xiaogang and Kojiro not to get close to beautiful women in the near future, otherwise disaster would come, which once caused strong dissatisfaction from Xiaoxia and Musashi.

At the temple fair, the mayor showed everyone a painting that was only exhibited at the summer temple fair. Brock and Kojiro were very surprised when they saw it, because the girl in the painting was exactly the same as the one they saw at the pier. The mayor said that the painting was of a girl who was waiting for her husband to return from the army more than 2,000 years ago. Because she never waited for her lover to return, she finally turned into a stone statue, and this stone statue still stands on the seashore. Brock was attracted by this legend, so he ran to the seashore alone and did not return until late at night. Xiaozhi wanted to find Brock, but was stopped by Joey because of the access control of the Pokémon Center. And Kojiro of Team Rocket was also seduced away by the ghost who seemed to be a mysterious girl.

The next day, Xiaozhi and Xiaoxia searched for the missing Xiaogang, while Musashi and Meowth were also looking for the missing Xiaojiro. After the two sides met, Xiaogang and Xiaojiro suddenly fell out of the door together and lost consciousness.

Pikachu used electric shock to restore the two to normal. At this time, the fortune-teller appeared again and said that Xiaogang and Kojiro were possessed by the ghost girl, and she had a spell to fight against it. In desperation, Xiaozhi and others spent money to buy a lot of spells and covered the whole house, but at night, the ghost girl still appeared and forcibly took Xiaogang and Kojiro away.

During the chase, Musashi attacked the ghost girl with rockets but it was completely ineffective. Xiaozhi used the Pokémon Encyclopedia to investigate and found that the ghost and the previous fortune teller were both Gastly in disguise. After that, Xiaozhi used Pikachu, Charmander, Squirtle and Bulbasaur, and Team Rocket sent Meowth, Arbok and Gastly to fight Gastly, but they were all defeated by Gastly's transformation. Xiaoxia even wanted to use garlic and a cross to deal with Gastly. In the chaos, the sky gradually brightened, and Gastly claimed that since ghost Pokémon could not move during the day, he had to be forced to disappear. Xiaozhi and Team Rocket put these things behind them and happily participated in the temple festival.

Thinking about the original plot, Shota sat on the edge of the Girls' Gorge, quietly waiting for dark.

At night, the scent of the ocean was carried to Shota's nostrils through the wind, waking him up from his position on the grass.

For some unknown reason, the stone statue of the girl has turned into a pile of rubble, lying there quietly.

"Come out, there's no fresh sea breeze this high up."

As a strange wind blew, a translucent figure appeared in front of Shota.

"Very smart, you actually found me."

Shota shook his head and said, "It's not you. Or rather, it's not you in essence."

Shota stared at the pile of rubble, crouched down, and poked it with his hand.

"It is not gentlemanly to touch a lady's body like this."

Following this ethereal voice, another translucent figure appeared in front of Shota.

"To be honest, I already knew you were coming. After all, those kids carry your scent."

Looking at this thousand-year-old Gastly and this ghost girl, and listening to what she said, Shota seemed to understand something, but he still didn't give up and asked:

"You, the Miko clan, have a technique to track others based on their aura, right?"

The ghost girl nodded and said, "That's true."

“So this is the root cause.”

After mumbling to himself, Shota said, "How did you feel about the painting I gave you last time?"

After a moment of silence, the ghost girl said: "It reminded me of my sister and awakened my memory."

It was a bit unexpected. After carefully observing the appearance of the ghost girl, Shota was about to speak but was interrupted by the ghost girl.

"No need to say, I already know it through Gastly. She is not as skilled as others. Perhaps this is her fate."

After a pause, the ghost girl continued: "However, as a sister, I still want to save her."

After saying this, the ghost girl stared at Shota blankly and said, "In the past thousand years, I have found a way to reconcile with my sister, that is blood transplantation, transplanting my blood into her body. However, during these thousand years, I lost my memory and survived in the form of a sculpture. Thanks to this Gengar, it should be called Gastly now."

After a pause, the ghost girl continued: "Looking in the direction she left, I have been hoping that she would change her mind and jump into my arms from the beach like she did when we were little. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that she had always been near me..."

As if she was lost in her memories, the ghost girl did not speak for a long time. After she came to her senses, she said with an embarrassed look on her face: "I'm very sorry, I'm lost in my memories of the past. Let's talk about the price I'll give you now."

"Although you woke me up by accident when we first met, I still have to thank you. I will give you this blood exchange method that I researched on my own."

Shota took the parchment scroll handed to him by Gastly without hesitation.

"My sister was dragged into the reverse world. It's all her own fault. Now, I have a request, that is, you go to the reverse world and rescue her... The reward afterwards..."

After hesitating for a while, the ghost girl said: "That's me, a witch who is proficient in various magic."