When the New Love Met the Old Love

A silent atmosphere swept through the Su family living room...

Back to Su Hao, who had just arrived home. Because a challenger qualified to challenge the Rising Sun Gym had suddenly arrived, Su Hao's father had Charizard fly straight to the Gym and told Su Hao to walk home by himself.

On the way home, Su Hao sent the photos he had taken of Litten to their small group chat.

Group Chat: [Future Elite Four]

16:35

[Pokémon Master]: "[Image][Image][Image] Your grandpa is a man with a cat now!"

[Why isn't Gyarados a Dragon?]: "66666, Brother Su, you picked your second Pokémon so quickly?"

[Clear Water]: "My family has also been helping me look for a second Pokémon lately. You should start preparing too."

[Why isn't Gyarados a Dragon?]: "It's not like I've met one I'm fated to be with yet~"

[Pokémon Master]: "After school starts, the exams will at least be 2v2. If you don't want one Pokémon fighting someone else's two, you'd better find one soon. [Dog Head.JPG]"

[Why isn't Gyarados a Dragon?]: "Huh!?? There's a rule like that?? [Dazed.JPG]"

[Clear Water]: "I'll be going to the Breeding House to pick a Pokémon in a few days. You can come look around too."

[Why isn't Gyarados a Dragon?]: "Alright, alright, we'll set something up then! [Sweating Panda.JPG]"

After returning home, Carbink was sitting properly on the sofa three meters away from the big-screen TV, catching up on anime.

Hearing the door open, Carbink saw that Su Hao had returned. She used the pointed crystal beneath her body to press the pause button on the remote, then slowly hopped toward him.

Su Hao had just changed into his indoor slippers when he saw Carbink coming over. He immediately waved his hand and used Wave Power to tell her to wait there for a moment. He had a new companion to introduce to her.

Walking up to Carbink in his slippers, Su Hao took out Litten's Poké Ball.

"Come out, Litten!"

"Meowraow~!" With a textbook cat landing, Litten touched down successfully!

"Meow~" Hello~ Litten thought. The litter scooper said there's an older sister at home. I should say hello and get along with her~

"Na na~" Hello, we'll be partners from now on~

Carbink had already been told by Su Hao yesterday that a new member would be joining the family today, and he had asked whether she wanted to come along.

Unfortunately, a new episode of the anime she wanted to watch had come out today, so she could only politely decline.

After the two Pokémon greeted each other, they simply stared at one another without moving. The silence left Su Hao a little bewildered.

Watching the two Pokémon locked in a staring contest, Su Hao hesitated over whether he should step in and ease the tension.

The Su family living room was filled with silence. After Carbink and Litten stared at each other for a full five minutes, Carbink, looking as though nothing had happened, warmly shook Litten's paw with her ear. The two Pokémon then hopped onto the sofa one after the other.

Seeing Carbink and Litten, who had seemed somewhat on edge just moments ago, shake hands and make peace, Su Hao finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, he had spent plenty of time online and understood the various conflicts that could arise between the older and younger children in a family. Balancing the relationship between the first and second child(?) was an art in itself.

Fortunately, no major friction had arisen between the two Pokémon. Still, the incident made Su Hao pay even more attention to how he should treat them fairly in the future.

Watching Carbink and Litten happily watching cartoons together on the sofa beside him, Su Hao let out a sigh as well.

So becoming a Pokémon Trainer also meant learning the art of balance...

Pokémon like Carbink generally did not have any particularly obvious gender tendencies.

As Su Hao's Carbink watched cartoons and anime, she gradually developed a concept of different genders.

One day, Carbink, lying in her little bed beneath her tiny blanket, asked Su Hao a question that struck at the soul...

"Am I a girl?"

From then on, Carbink's self-perception of her gender leaned toward Female Pokémon.

Since Litten's cat bed would not arrive until tomorrow, Litten would have to make do with sleeping in Su Hao's bed tonight.

Although many Pokémon loved sleeping in their Trainers' beds, Su Hao felt that as long as he continued growing steadily, the number of Pokémon around him would definitely increase. His bed was only so big, and he did not want uneven treatment to cause friction between them. So he made a decision: every Pokémon Su Hao caught in the future would be given a suitable bed of its own. That way, he could avoid conflicts within the team over sleeping arrangements.

Tomorrow, Su Hao planned to bring Carbink and Litten to the nearest Secret Realm to explore and level up.

Since Litten's level was still low, aside from having Litten practice against carefully selected Pokémon, Carbink would be the main force for this exploration.

The Secret Realm they were preparing to visit had been officially named the "Spiral Secret Realm" by the Divine Land Alliance.

It was called the Spiral Secret Realm because there was a huge, dilapidated tower at the center of its forest.

The giant tower contained a great many spiral staircases, which was why the Secret Realm had been named the Spiral Secret Realm.

As one of the earliest Secret Realms developed by the Divine Land Alliance, nearly every location within the Spiral Secret Realm had been explored countless times.

It was said that some Dragon-type Pokémon had once lived near that giant tower.

Unfortunately, during a Pokémon poaching crime many years ago, Poachers stole half of the rare Pokémon in the Spiral Secret Realm.

To protect the rare Pokémon populations, the Pokémon League could only send Pokémon to communicate with those groups before relocating them to the League's nature reserve.

After generations of development, most of the Pokémon in the Spiral Secret Realm were now relatively low-level and common Pokémon.

After reading up on the Spiral Secret Realm, Su Hao noticed that its giant tower resembled a building from the fifth generation's Unova Region—the Dragon Spiral Tower.

As the oldest structure in Unova's founding region, the Dragon Spiral Tower might contain the sealed legendary Dragon God, Zekrom and Reshiram.

According to the settings of GF Company before his transmigration, the Unova Region had originally possessed the strongest Dragon God of the Way.

After some untraceable events, the Dragon God of the Way split into three dragons.

The three dragons formed from the Dragon God of the Way were:

[The dragon shell that sought truth and ideals to fill its hollow body—Kyurem]

[The True Dragon that sought the hero of truth and built the Real World—Reshiram]

[The Dragon of Ideals that sought the hero of ideals and built an ideal world—Zekrom]