"Get lost! All of you, get lost!"
The usually quiet inpatient corridor of Vermilion City Hospital was shattered by a harsh, unruly shout.
Nurses, patients, and family members passing by all cast disgusted looks toward Room 250, whose door stood half-open.
Ever since the person in that room had been hospitalized, the patient inside had often made unreasonable scenes, babbling nonsense about how he wanted to catch Mew and how he did not need those heartless Pokémon anyway.
At first, some passing family members thought the child had developed some kind of mental illness. After asking around, they learned that he was someone who caught Pokémon recklessly, then abandoned them to be cared for by his childhood friend's family.
That alone was not much of an issue. At worst, people would call him a shameless freeloader.
But no one knew who he had offended. All of his Poké Balls burst open at the same time, and most of the Pokémon he had caught chose to flee. A small number of them even attacked him like they bore him a deep grudge, nearly causing fatalities.
There was no shortage of Trainers who caught large numbers of Pokémon, like Professor Oak's grandson Gary from Pallet Town.
But even though Gary caught many Pokémon, he regularly rotated his team, doing his best to care for every Pokémon and build bonds with each one.
No one had ever heard of a Trainer as outrageous as that patient named Goh.
He had become famous throughout Vermilion City now. With such a huge commotion, even Nurse Joy had been dispatched to prevent the escaped "wild Pokémon" from causing trouble. There was no way to keep it under wraps.
Even Sakuragi Laboratory's reputation had plummeted, forcing Professor Sakuragi to temporarily cut off contact between his daughter and