Little Sableye

Deino took the lead and headed forward.

Baimu followed behind it with his flashlight, sweeping the surrounding area.

As a Pokémon with weakened vision but heightened smell, hearing, and touch, Deino was perfectly suited to places like caves. If wild Deino existed, they would generally only be found in caves.

"Deino~"

"I'm here."

He answered Deino's cries. The price of having it lead the way was having to respond immediately whenever the little fellow called out. If he was even slightly late, it would definitely come running back and bite his hand.

Baimu had expected his phone to have no signal, but the terrain inside Granite Cave was far more complicated than he had imagined.

The countless paths crisscrossed one another, and the geological structure was extremely complex. Even with a map, it was easy to get lost in a place like this. The Trainers who came here to explore had taken this into account and chosen to draw unique symbols on the rock walls—symbols only they could recognize.

The walls were already covered.

Looking at all the strange patterns on the walls, Baimu had no idea what to say.

Drawing an X or some kind of icon would have been fine, but what's the point of drawing anime characters here? If you have that much free time, get a job. Don't waste your artistic talent.

"Impressive."

He shook his head with a sigh and shone his flashlight over the crude map Shinobu had drawn for him.

When he had first seen it, he had found it difficult to understand, but once he arrived at the actual location, he immediately understood what everything depicted. For example, that steep slope resembling a slide.

It wasn't a steep slope at all! It was a pit leading to the deepest level of Granite