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At this time, Gardevoir's figure suddenly appeared from the side.

Ralts froze and quickly hid behind Alex, not daring to look at Gardevoir.

Seeing Ralts's movements, Alex looked at Gardevoir with a serious face. At this moment, he suddenly had a strange feeling of abducting someone else's daughter.

No, he didn't want to abduct Ralts!

Gardevoir didn't speak, and Alex guessed that it was communicating with Ralts through telepathy.

He didn't know what it said, but Ralts's mood visibly dropped lower and lower.

Gardevoir paused when it saw this scene, with a look of impatience and hesitation in its eyes. It opened its mouth and cast its eyes on the human in front of it.

Alex immediately stood up straight, his whole body tensed.

A voice of indeterminate gender suddenly sounded in his mind: "Do you want to take it away?"

Alex froze for a moment, and then realized that it was Gardevoir who was talking.

In the anime, May's Pokédex introduces Ralts like this:

Ralts, the Feeling Pokémon, is the pre-evolution of Kirlia and has the ability to use the horns on its head to perceive human emotions. It rarely shows itself in front of humans, but when it senses positive emotions, it will approach by itself.

Its final evolution is Gardevoir, which can create small black holes with its bare hands and can also undergo Mega Evolution.

Who wouldn't want this kind of Pokémon with high potential, which would even give up its life for the trainer?

Therefore, Alex said honestly: "I want to."

Gardevoir stared at him for a while and said, "You don't have the ability to protect it."

This was the truth, and Alex had no way to refute it.

He felt that if he and Gardevoir switched roles, he would not give his well-behaved and innocent daughter to someone else with confidence.

He didn't respond to that sentence, and Gardevoir looked at Ralts again and asked in front of Alex: "Do you really want to leave with this human?"

"Ralts..." Ralts hesitated, as it could feel Gardevoir's emotions—reluctance, sadness, and strong worry.

Gardevoir sighed and said softly, "Then do what you want."

After all, it turned and left alone.

"Ralts..." Ralts let go of Alex's shirt and stood there at a loss.

Alex felt like a big villain, but he obviously didn't do anything!

He sighed helplessly, knelt down, and said to Ralts: "Your father is very worried about you, which is why he's concerned about letting you go."

Thinking about it carefully, Gardevoir should be very aware that if Ralts leaves, it will be difficult for them to have a chance to meet again in the future.

Compared with the fatherly love of Braviary for Rufflet, Gardevoir's love for Ralts is a completely different kind of love.

It protects Ralts very well. It doesn't want to see it get hurt even a little, and wants to protect it by its side for the rest of its life.

"Ralts..." Ralts was extremely sad at the moment.

Alex comforted: "Go chase it and spend more time with your father. As for me, I live here. If you want to find me, you can come and play anytime."

"Ralts..." Ralts thought for a while and chased in the direction where Gardevoir disappeared.

After running a few steps, it looked back at Alex standing in place, then used teleportation, and disappeared in place.

Alex touched his nose, hugged Archeops, and left the river.

"Gah!"

Archeops let out a blank cry.

Alex wanted to cry very much. If Archeops could understand commands, he wouldn't have to worry about the initial Pokémon as he is now.

Perhaps Archeops heard his thoughts and brought back an easy-to-conquer Pokémon from outside that night.

**[Species: Budew ♀]**

Type: Grass, Poison

Ability: Leaf Guard

Base Stats: 280 (HP: 40, Attack: 30, Defense: 35, Special Attack: 50, Special Defense: 70, Speed: 55)

Known moves: Absorb, Stun Spore, Seed Bomb

Current mood: Nervous

Physical state: Tense (it is so scared)

Friendship: 0 (None of you know each other)

Looking at the green creature curled up on the table, Alex couldn't help poking it with his finger.

Budew, the Bud Pokémon, evolves into Roselia, which is highly used by NPCs blocking the way in the game, and its final evolution is Roserade, whose special attack value is as high as 125.

Budew was terrified. It looked at the scary bird in front of it and trembled slightly in fear.

Alex: "..."

He really wanted to ask what Archeops did to it.

In order to appease (strategize) this Budew and let it be tamed by him willingly, Alex tried his best to show a very friendly smile and hugged the Budew.

Before evolving, Budew was small, about 20 centimeters high, and it looked very petite and exquisite.

It has two yellow-green legs, the body is connected to the unopened flower bud on the head, and the eyes seem to be squinted. It looks a bit like a baby wearing a bib.

"Gah?" Archeops stared blankly at this scene.

Wait!

Alex suddenly realized one thing: this Budew can't be the same as that Pikachu—it's someone else's Pokémon, right?

Before he was sure that Budew had no trainer, he found a pottery pot, put clean soil and grass in it, and "planted" Budew into it.

This is what he saw in the ecology book he borrowed from the library. The Budew that has not evolved into Roselia is still immature and needs to absorb the necessary nutrients for growth from the land.

In addition, there must be warm sunshine and clean water.

Alex was watering Budew while trying to communicate with it: "Little guy, can you understand me?"

The Budew that had been watered gradually relaxed, and it could be seen from the slightly shaking buds on its head that it seemed to be very comfortable now.

Then Alex saw its friendship jump up, from 0 to 5.

Hmm? Can this be done?

Alex raised his eyebrows.

"Budew~" Budew finally confirmed that the human in front of it would not hurt it, and it responded with a very cute voice.

I have to say that Alex found it really cute.

But he couldn't understand what Budew was saying, so he asked Lisa if anyone in the school lost a Budew.

When Lisa replied to him, it was already the next morning.

She sat on the sofa, drank the hot tea prepared by Alex, looked at the Budew sitting in the flower pot and placed on the windowsill to bask in the sun, and said with a smile: "Your place has changed a lot since my last visit. It feels more alive."

"Has it?" Alex looked around, he just moved the position of the furniture.

"Well, it looks very neat," Lisa said with a smile. "I have already found out what you asked me to do. No one in our school has lost a Pokémon. Do you want to tame that Budew?"

In other words, there is no trainer for this Budew?

Alex showed excitement in his eyes: "Yes, I also want to be a trainer!"

When Archeops held the Budew, the Budew used a Seed Bomb on it, and then Archeops ate all the Seed Bombs.