After allocating the points, Mark and Caterpie passed out one after the other again.
When Mark and Caterpie woke up, they were still beside two enormous bonfires.
The fires crackled as they burned, seemingly incinerating something, but Mark could not remember it at all.
"Do you remember what was burning in the fires?"
"Si si."
Caterpie shook his head. He could not remember either, only that whatever had burned seemed to make him feel a little sad.
What exactly had burned?
"Si si?"
Caterpie turned his head and asked several Caterpie nearby.
There were some Caterpie near the bonfires, though not many—only a dozen or so. Three of them were slightly larger Leader's Guards.
The Caterpie tilted their heads. They did not know what had been burning in the fires either.
Several meters away, Mark watched the dozen or so Caterpie around him in confusion. He had the vague feeling that these Caterpie should not have been here, but he had no idea why.
He did not dwell on it. He had important matters to deal with now and no time to think about such messy things.
Mark looked at his Caterpie. "Caterpie, your Run Away Ability awakened some time ago, but awakening was only the beginning. Just as you developed many techniques from Tackle, the Run Away Ability can also be developed further."
"Si si!"
Caterpie nodded. He thought Mark was absolutely right.
Mark lightly pinched his chin. "Reality isn't a turn-based Pokemon game. In reality, the Run Away Ability is more like a sensory ability.
"In my opinion, it has no essential difference from Eevee's Danger Prediction, Jigglypuff's Anticipation, or Wimpod's Run Away. They're all forms of danger perception.
"It's just that Run Away and Wimpod's Run Away affect your emotions while sensing danger, giving you an instinctive