Just as Roy was about to look around for any other clues, a spying gaze fell upon him, and Roy instantly turned around.
"Who!"
Upon realizing he had been discovered, the person who had been spying on him quickly fled into the forest behind him.
"Abandoned!"
The Annihilape moved faster than it could make a sound, and immediately rushed toward the prying gaze.
Roy waited where he was. Although the first thing he saw when he turned his head was a dark shadow, the system had already provided scan information that it was a level 16 Mankey.
Maybe this Mankey knows something.
In less than a minute, the Annihilape returned to Roy's side, carrying a Mankey in its hand.
The Mankey tried desperately to struggle, but the Annihilape's hands gripped his body like a giant iron clamp, and he couldn't break free at all.
Watching the Annihilape lead him toward the humans who had captured his people, the Mankey felt only despair.
As the Mankey drew closer to Roy, it tried to bite the Annihilape, but the Annihilape 'Mankey scarlet eyes terrified it, and it even forgot what it wanted to do.
When the fear in his eyes disappeared, the Mankey found himself standing in front of Roy. Just as the Mankey thought he would suffer the same fate as his tribesmen before him...
The large pincers that had been gripping him loosened, and he fell to the ground.
The Mankey had no idea what was happening, but his first instinct was to run.
Before he could make a move, he met Roy's gaze.
A terrifying pressure emanated from this human.
The Mankey's legs went weak, and it collapsed to the ground.
Seeing Roy's hand already reaching out towards him, the Mankey had only one thought in its mind, just like the Swellow had just had.
Finished...
As a result, Roy simply reached out and swept away the few dry branches on his head, threw them on the ground, and did nothing else.
After a while, the Mankey opened its eyes and looked at Roy with a surprised expression. Roy did not harm it, nor did it directly capture it.
What does the other party mean by this?
However, the more Roy Mankey dared to move; Roy in front of him gave him a terrifying feeling.
"You Annihilape, go ahead and ask."
"Abandoned!"
The Mankey carefully examined the Annihilape that had just captured him. The monkey actually claimed to be of the same kind as him?
After careful observation, the Mankey discovered that Annihilape indeed looked very much like its evolved form, Primeape.
But he didn't know that Primeape could evolve.
The Annihilape wanted to communicate with the Mankey, but the Mankey was too nervous to speak after seeing the Annihilape's scarlet eyes.
In the end, all the Annihilape could find out was that this Mankey was one of the two missing Primeape groups.
Seeing the Mankey's appearance, Roy ordered Annihilape to step back and released Misdreavus from its Poké Ball.
Mimikyu, which was also in a Poké Ball, ran out of Misdreavus's Poké Ball along with it.
"Dream!"
The Misdreavus once again transformed into a translator.
"Mankey, I've come here specifically to investigate the disappearance of the Primeape tribe. Do you know where the two Primeape tribes that went missing on either side of the stream went?"
"Grumble?"
The Mankey then realized that the human hadn't come to capture him, but rather to investigate the specific reasons for the disappearance of the Primeape tribe.
But the ones who captured their people before were humans. Could the human before them be a good person?
"Grumble!"
"Dream!"
You ask me why you should believe me?
Roy chuckled and said:
"If I wanted to arrest you, I would have done it already. Why would I have waited until now?"
"And you can only trust me; without me, no one will help you rescue your people."
After hearing Roy's answer, the Mankey fell silent. Although he didn't understand why Roy wanted to help him, Roy was right. He had no other choice and had been wandering helplessly in his tribe's territory for several days.
Perhaps Roy in front of him really is here to help him, and... he has nothing left to lose.
After mentally preparing himself, the Mankey decided to take a gamble and trust Roy in front of him.
"Grumble!"
The Mankey made sounds while gesturing wildly with its hands and feet.
"Dream!"
"You mean people like me kidnapped your people?"
The Mankey nodded.
It all started last week when the Mankey told Roy that he had gone to the neighboring Scyther territory to pick Berries because he was playing around.
When they returned, it was already evening.
As soon as the Mankey returned to his territory, he found that the Primeape and Mankey in his tribe had all fallen asleep on the ground, and no matter how much he called out, they couldn't wake up.
Just as he was about to splash some river water to wake the chieftain, he heard footsteps and human voices coming from afar.
The Mankey, frightened, quickly ran to a nearby tree to hide.
He then discovered a group of humans appearing on the tribe's territory, as if they had anticipated this.
After looking at the Primeape and Mankey lying on the ground, those people took out Poké Balls and captured all the sleeping Poké Ball Primeape, packing them up and taking them away.
During this time, the Mankey hiding in the tree also heard the group say things like "experiment," "anger," "Ghost type," and "Annihilape."
Experiment? Annihilape?
After hearing about Primeape's ordeal Roy seemed to understand what had happened.
It's highly likely that someone wanted to evolve Primeape into Annihilape, but they didn't know how to do Primeape, so they needed many test subjects, which is why they captured both Primeape groups.
"Did those people only capture two groups of Primeape? Did they capture any other Pokémon as well?"
"Grumble!"
The Mankey said he didn't dare follow them at all, so he didn't know if the group had gone to catch other Pokémon.
Roy picked up a branch, drew an "R" on the ground with it, and asked the Mankey:
Do they have this symbol on their clothes?
The Mankey looked carefully at the symbols on the ground, then Knob firmly.
Isn't he a member of the Team Rockets?
"Can you still recognize those people?"
The Mankey nodded very seriously to Roy. He would never forget the appearance of the people who took away his people. He had memorized all of them while he was in the tree.
Roy suddenly realized that this Mankey didn't seem to lose its temper easily, and it remained very calm even when facing so many poachers, without rushing down to fight them.
Otherwise, given the Mankey's level, charging down would only be a pointless death.
Perhaps this Mankey can evolve into Annihilape.
"I will help you find your people and rescue them, but during this time you must listen to me, you must not run away, you must not lose your temper, and you must not run away on your own."
"Grumble!"
The Mankey nodded; he was willing to go with Roy to find his people.
To be honest, he wouldn't know what to do without Roy.
"Gurgle~"
No sooner had he finished speaking than Growl came from the Mankey's stomach. He hadn't been able to eat properly since his people had been captured.
"Let's have a camping trip here at noon today."
With noon approaching, Roy began preparing lunch.
His own food consisted of two top-tier human-edible Pokéblock and some juice made from Berry.
The Mankey hid alone under the tree. These days, he was the only monkey left in his tribe. He was constantly worried and had no appetite.
Suddenly, a gray palm appeared before his eyes, and a Pokéblock appeared above the palm.
The Mankey looked up and found that it was the Annihilape handing it the Pokéblock.
"Abandoned!"
Should we give him food?
The Annihilape nodded.
After Mankey took the Pokéblock from Annihilape went to distribute Pokéblock to Roy's other Pokémon.
"Thank you... thank you!"
Mimikyu thanked the Annihilape after receiving the Pokéblock.
Although some of Roy's Pokémon looked scary, none of them bullied her.
Even the Pokémon with white, gas-like fur gave her Pokéblock to eat.
In the Spirit World, this was something she wouldn't even dare to dream of.
Mimikyu was finally relieved; she believed that following Roy was the right choice.
Just as Mimikyu was about to eat the Pokéblock Roy had prepared for her, she suddenly felt something watching her from behind.
Looking back, she saw a single, scarlet eye staring at her.
Mimikyu was Dusclops's scarlet single eye and quickly hid behind the Misdreavus, because she had seen that kind of gaze in the Spirit World as well.
I thought the Dusclops was Spirit World Envoy from the Spirit World.
Seeing that Mimikyu was frightened by itself, Dusclops still wanted to stretch out its two large, bandaged hands to scare Mimikyu a little more.
Just as he was about to take a step forward, he suddenly realized he couldn't move. When he turned around, he saw that Roy had pulled on his two bandages.
Roy raised his fist. He just couldn't understand why this Dusclops, who had just rested, wanted to scare people.
Seeing Roy's Iron Fist hovering over him, the Dusclops chuckled awkwardly. Not daring to frighten Mimikyu any further, he took his oversized Pokéblock and went to eat his lunch.
Roy knew that the Dusclops meant no harm; it no longer needed to absorb fear energy, it was just one of its little quirks.
Just like how he was able to spot Gary, who was afraid of ghosts, from Professor Oak, Ash, Gary at a glance.
Mimikyu then realized that this was Roy's Pokémon, which she hadn't seen yesterday.
The Misdreavus comforted the Mimikyu behind her, saying that the big, fat guy with bandages just liked to scare people, and there was no need to worry about him.
If the Dusclops to frighten Mimikyu again, the Dusclops Misdreavus will teach it a lesson on Roy's behalf.
Wow! So manly!
Feeling the admiring gaze from Mimikyu, Misdreavus finally understood why Snorunt had always liked taking on followers.