After distributing the Pokéblock, the Annihilape leaned against the tree trunk and ate the Pokéblock Roy had prepared for him.
Seeing the Annihilape leaning against the tree, the Mankey wanted to approach Annihilape, but was afraid of the aura emanating from the Annihilape.
The Annihilape noticed the Mankey's subtle movements, and immediately concealed its aura, along with the oppressive aura emanating from it.
After discovering that the aura on the Annihilape had disappeared, the Mankey also lay down to rest very close to the Annihilape.
At the same time, its tail swished behind it, getting closer and closer to the Annihilape. Seeing that the Annihilape still did not react, it slowly draped itself over the Annihilape's body, feeling that this would be safer.
The Annihilape looked at the tail draped over its arm but didn't say anything, just quietly leaned against the tree trunk.
Roy sighed upon seeing this; he knew that the Mankey had only recently emerged from its Newborn Stage.
After experiencing such a huge change, one will definitely feel insecure.
By this time Little Absol had also woken up. After finishing his lunch, he looked at the unfamiliar Mankey around the Annihilape and found them fascinating.
Now, Little Absol has reached level 10, successfully passed the Newborn Stage, and its size has grown to about half the size of a normal Absol.
Little Absol came to the Mankey's side, lay down on his lower body, and invited the Mankey to play together.
The Mankey didn't want to play at first, but he couldn't resist Little Absol's enthusiastic invitations.
Two Pokémon, both Newborn Stage, started playing together.
With Little Absol's presence, the Mankey became much more cheerful and temporarily forgot about its tribe.
Watching the two having fun, Roy had a headache. Although he knew that the culprit behind the disappearance of the two Primeape tribes was humans, he still needed to take the Mankey to identify who exactly they were.
Although only one person needs to be identified, there's no way he could possibly take the Mankey to identify each and every one of the countless people in the entire Johto.
After finishing the Pokéblock in his hand, Roy planned to leave the National Park, but the Mankey, who was playing with Little Absol, climbed back up the tree.
Before Roy could figure out what was going on, the Mankey jumped down from the tree again, a circular Badge curled up from its tail.
The Mankey said he had previously discovered it among the Primeape tribe on the other side.
Roy said he hadn't found anything, because it turned out the Mankey had already cleaned it up.
Roy took the Badge from the Mankey's tail and noticed a bird-shaped icon on Badge that looked somewhat familiar.
Why does this icon look a bit like Ho-Oh?
Ho-Oh?
Upon hearing the name Ho-Oh, Marshadow immediately emerged from Roy's shadow, thinking that Ho-Oh had returned.
Where is Ho-Oh? Where is Ho-Oh?
"It's not Ho-Oh's here, it's this."
Seeing Marshadow's anxious look, Roy handed the round Badge to Marshadow so that Marshadow identify it.
Marshadow it wasn't Ho-Oh had descended, and took the Badge from Roy's hand.
After observing it carefully, Marshadow felt that the Badge looked familiar, and then he suddenly remembered where he had seen Badge before.
"I remember now, this is the Badge worn by the human family in Ecruteak City who served Ho-Oh when Ho-Oh was still Ecruteak City."
However, because people were constantly waging war, resulting in numerous casualties among humans and Pokémon, Ho-Oh -Ho-Oh became dissatisfied and left Ecruteak City, no longer caring about that family of humans.
Roy felt like he'd heard this story somewhere before, recalling the same story Agatha had told him a year ago.
It seems that the family has declined ever since Ho-Oh left.
Is it actually related to that family?
That makes things much simpler; all I need to do is go to Ecruteak City, find that family, and I'll be able to find the two missing groups of Primeape.
Thinking of this, Roy Swallow the Pokéblock in his hand and stopped the running Little Absol and the Mankey.
Roy simply placed a Luxury Ball in front of Mankey, letting it enter the Mankey Poké Ball first, and then released it once it found the Primeape tribe.
Mankey was initially hesitant, but after seeing Annihilape nod at him, it immediately pressed the red button in the center of the Luxury Ball and entered the Poké Ball.
After resting in the forest, Roy got up and prepared to ride Dragapult to Ecruteak City ahead.
Just as he was about to command Dragapult to take off, Marshadow, who was holding the Badge, seemed to sense something, threw the Badge to Roy, and then disappeared into Roy's shadow.
"Roy, someone's coming from the east."
East?
Roy looked in the direction Marshadow indicated but couldn't sense anything unusual. However, based on Marshadow's perception, the person he mentioned must have arrived.
But the person coming now should be about a hundred meters away.
Why are you here at this time?
It is highly likely related to the disappearance of two groups of Primeape.
It's said that criminal suspects often return to the crime scene after committing a crime.
Now that the other person is back, it saves me the trouble of looking for them again.
Roy wasn't worried about not being able to handle it. With his current strength, he could escape as long as it wasn't a High-level Elite Four Pokémon Trainer.
As for those Pokémon Trainer whose strength is below the High-level Elite Four level, he can just go up and deal with them directly.
If someone with the strength of the Elite Four really came, then he would only be able to summon Marshadow from the shadows.
However, it's unlikely that any Elite Four would come because of two Primeape tribes.
Roy even put all his Pokémon back into their Poké Ball beforehand, leaving only Mankey on his shoulder.
He was curious to see who would be here at this time.
Seeing that Roy wasn't worried at all, the Mankey felt a little relieved.
About two minutes later, a rustling sound came from the bushes to the east of Roy, and the Mankey quickly hid behind Roy.
Then, a crocodile-like creature, about 2 meters tall, with black sunglasses-like eyes and a dark red-chestnut body, appeared in front of Roy from the grass. Krookodile mouth, nose, limbs, and tail were covered with thick black ring-shaped stripes.
System Scan
Pokémon: Krookodile
Level: 59
Sex: Male
Ability: Anger Point (When a vital point is hit, the user will unleash a furious rage, maximizing their attack power.)
Skills: Sand Attack, Leer, Hone Claws, Sand Tomb, Power Trip, Focus Energy, Dragon Breath, Bite, Roar, Work Up, Dig, Pursuit, Slam, Crunch, Scary Face, Swagger, Sandstorm, Earthquake, Outrage
Items carried: None
Egg Move: Double-Edge, Aqua Tail
Individual Values: 17
Technical Machine /skill tutorials: Bulk Up, Dig, Dragon Pulse, Dragon Tail
A Krookodile that's not even at the Beginner King level.
There's nothing to fear.
Then three more people dressed in green Ranger uniforms appeared from behind the Krookodile.
The Ranger in the middle was burly, while the two people next to him, a man and a woman, were of average build. Each of them was accompanied by a Nidoking and Rhyperior, both of which were at the Gym Leader level.
It's fair to say that he alone could defeat all three of them, along with their three Pokémon.
The three of them paused for a moment when they saw Roy; clearly, they hadn't expected anyone to be there.
They also saw a Mankey on Roy's shoulder.
Could they be survivors from that group of Primeape from last time?
The man and woman on either side of the burly man's eyes lit up when they saw the Mankey on Roy's body, and they were about to step forward to Snatch, but were stopped by the burly man.
While the three were observing Roy was also observing the three opposite him.