Luo Mu: What Do You Do When Trouble Blocks Your Way? Waiting Online, Urgently

That was during the year he had still been traveling through the Paldea Region.

Standing on the street outside a bright, transparent shop window, Luo Mu had first seen Mimikyu in the corner of a doll shop bustling with customers. It had been trying hard to disguise itself as a stuffed doll, hoping to blend in among the genuinely cute dolls and be chosen.

He had noticed that none of the passing customers ever spared it a glance. Instead, they would walk right past it, pick up the cute dolls beside it, and laugh together with their families.

That Mimikyu, sitting alone in the corner and waiting for someone to choose it, had probably been there through countless sunrises and sunsets.

Yet Mimikyu, with its Pikachu disguise, was undeniably cute. It should not have gone unnoticed by everyone.

After observing the passersby's gazes and movements, Luo Mu vaguely understood what the problem was.

It was not that customers saw it, found it unappealing, and chose to ignore it.

—They had simply never noticed the Mimikyu in the corner to begin with.

That was highly unusual.

Then, after Luo Mu communicated with the Luxray, Servine, and Mudkip following beside him,

he was astonished to discover that, if he had not mentioned it, none of the three would have noticed that a Pokémon had somehow been mixed in among the lifeless stuffed dolls.

By now, Luo Mu could not clearly remember what he had been thinking back then.

He only remembered that he had not stopped to wonder why Mimikyu could not be "observed." Instead, he had instinctively pushed open the shop door and, amid the pleasant chime of wind bells, picked up the Mimikyu in the corner.

Then, beneath the clerk's confused expression of "Since when did our shop have this