"You lied, and you're blaming Mewtwo?"
Heiduo's voice rose an octave. Beside him, Umbreon immediately paused the movie, then quietly turned around and fled.
Salted Fish had long since become shameless and thick-skinned. Completely unafraid of Heiduo's questioning, it casually waved a paw. "Oh, come on. I can't do anything about that thing. Wouldn't telling you be the same as not telling you? Better not to tell you, so you won't keep agonizing over it."
Its tone was brimming with concern for his sake, so much so that Heiduo laughed in anger.
"Oh? Really? I don't believe you."
With a smile, Heiduo grabbed Lugia by the ear and lifted it up. "If you don't give me a proper explanation today, you'll be eating nothing but green pepper feasts for dinner from now on."
Because of Japan's climate and soil, its green peppers had relatively low vitamin content and therefore tasted rather bitter.
And the Pokémon world had faithfully inherited that particular trait of green peppers.
Perhaps green peppers were nothing to Pokémon that liked bitter flavors.
But Salted Fish...
Like Electivire, it had an enormous sweet tooth.
"!!" Salted Fish's eyes widened. Struggling wildly, it shouted, "It's true! I didn't lie to you! How am I supposed to do anything when the powers aren't connected?!"
"Then the Orbs on Anomalous Magnet Mountain—"
"Fuck, those were attribute energy! What do they have to do with the power in the pendant?! I can't even use Cosmic Energy! What the hell!"
Salted Fish shouted indignantly.
It made sense.
But still.
Heiduo casually tossed Salted Fish onto the couch.
"I don't believe you can't do anything at all with this thing. Did you live all those years for nothing? Even if you spent eighty percent of your time sleeping, what did you do with