There were plenty of interesting things on Mt. Silver.
He had never noticed them before, when he had been wholly focused on training Pokémon and stirring up trouble outside.
Now that he had slowed down and spent every day wandering around Mt. Silver in the name of experiencing nature, he had discovered that most of these wild Pokémon had extremely distinctive—strange—personalities.
Combined with the fact that he could communicate with them through Aura.
Sometimes, Heiduo would unconsciously forget that the Pokémon in front of him was a Pokémon and feel as though he were talking to a human.
Fortunately, once Aura Power was turned off, that feeling vanished.
So it really was psychological.
"All right! Go keep your wives company!"
Heiduo scratched Mightyena's belly, then pushed it and its rowdy sons and daughters away.
The other Mightyena nearby watched in silence.
Poochyena and Mightyena were not especially useful in the games, but in reality, they looked both cool and adorable, giving off the feeling of Czech wolfdogs from his previous life. Of course, their actual inspiration was the African brown hyena.
"Howl!"
Mightyena stuck out its tongue and licked Heiduo's face, then turned around and ran off with a loud howl.
The other Mightyena followed close behind, howling nonstop, while a whole pack of tiny Poochyena joined in as well.
It was unbearably noisy.
Heiduo stood up and shook his head. The Mightyena were howling to declare sovereignty over their territory, a species-specific trait. At the same time, howling helped raise their physical excitement.
That was right. Humans roared because they were excited, while Mightyena howled in order to get excited.
But this noise was far more than ordinary "disturbing the peace."
Quite a few wild Pokémon had already come to Heiduo to complain multiple times. They said the Mightyena