A Special Blaze

"Legend has it that if you enter the Los Platos Gym, which seems to have been built overnight, during the witching hour, there's a chance you'll reach a parallel world."

"That world belongs to ghosts. They love disguising themselves as humans and luring you into staying there."

"Of them all, Big Head Ghost looks the least human."

"Bumping this! I was one of the victims. Its movements were stiff, and it definitely didn't sound like it was speaking with vocal cords. That head hidden under the hood felt almost as wide as the Chansey nurse next door at the Pokémon Center."

Luo Mu had clearly read the post in an exceptionally calm tone.

Yet Calyrex and Oranguru lowered their heads as though they had been embarrassed beyond all limits, wishing they could immediately claw out a three-bedroom apartment beneath the floor and hide inside.

Because—it was just too humiliating!

Oranguru had it better. The post had merely called out its unusually broad hands and feet, its slight hunchback, and the inexplicable white and purple fur that had gotten stuck to the fabric on its body after leaving the Gym.

But there were far more comments about Calyrex.

For once, it lost its composed demeanor. Its face flushed red as it protested, "It's not as wide as a Chansey! And these are flower buds—my head is underneath!"

Calyrex pointed at its head, trying to make the Pokémon watching the spectacle understand that they were flower buds rather than its head.

Unfortunately, the effect was limited.

Even Cosmog crawled over to Calyrex with its little hands, pattering along the floor, and cried out a few times with an innocent expression.

"Cosmog, Cosmog~" (big-headed daddy! Big-headed daddy!)

Calyrex: "."

Luo Mu, who was having a hard time holding back his laughter, waved a