Caught it?
Seriously?
For a moment, Baimu did not dare go near. What if the one they had caught was actually Porygon2, and Mew had transformed to look like it?
"Am I awesome or what?"
The excited voice came from the "rope."
He relaxed at once.
Yep, that was Porygon2. "Awesome or what" was not the sort of phrase anyone used in the Pokémon World.
Porygon2 must have remembered him saying it before.
Even so, Baimu could hardly believe it. Looking at Mew's pitiful expression, he said, "This high-tech stuff works way too well!"
After Lugia, Giratina, Rayquaza, Suicune, Celebi, and other Legendary and Mythical Pokémon, had another being of legend fallen to technology?
Humans were terrifying!
Porygon2 looked smug. "Hurry up and call everyone over! Time to settle some scores!"
"Mew~ Mew~"
Mew looked up at him pitifully, as though begging Baimu to let it go. Its eyes could not have looked more innocent.
Baimu smiled, promptly turned around, and went inside to get his spare phone so he could record it.
"Actual footage of Mew! If people found out about this, who knows how much they'd pay for it!"
He had not even told friends like Shan Ren and Cheng Hong that Mew had been staying on Platinum Silver Mountain for so long.
It was not that he distrusted them. The fewer people who knew, the better.
Mew's reputation in Pokémon academia was enormous. Supposedly, it had initially been thought extinct, until Professor Oak confirmed that it existed.
If word got out, Platinum Silver Mountain would never know peace. Even if Mew packed up and left, people would keep coming to bother everyone here.
"Mew~"
"Mew~ Mew~"
Now it was Baimu's turn to grin shamelessly. Every time Mew called, he called back, never stopping his recording. He acted