Traces of Celebi, God of the Forest

After resolving Scizor's personal issue.

What came next was the mystery of everything that had happened in National Park over the past year.

Why had the soil suddenly become fertile? Why had the plants become more productive? What exactly had happened in National Park, which had once suffered severe pollution and soil erosion?

When Heiduo questioned the female Scizor, she immediately wore an expression that said, I know, but I'm not telling.

Good thing she had just reached an agreement with Scizor. Otherwise, Charizard would have blasted her with Flamethrower already!

Who the hell did she think she was fooling?

Scizor frowned and rebuked her as well.

Only then did the female Scizor, looking aggrieved, begin telling them what had happened in National Park over the past year—no, in this patch of land.

It had to start with the winter when Scizor left.

Because food production had been insufficient, most wild Pokémon had gone hungry and huddled in their nests, afraid to make any unnecessary movements and waste their strength. The female Scizor had food she had saved up, as well as the food Scizor had left behind, so she could barely eat her fill.

Under those circumstances, powerful, starving wild Pokémon began plundering and occupying the territories of neighboring wild Pokémon, for the sake of their clans and themselves.

Some wild Pokémon even began invading cities, attacking humans or stealing their food.

When they could barely survive, who cared about the consequences?

Death was death, after all. To them, starving to death was no different from being beaten to death.

And so.

The hard-won balance between humans and wild Pokémon, between cities and the wilderness, was quietly destroyed.

The people in the cities had no idea why wild Pokémon that had been living perfectly well in the wild were