The innocently sinister Trainer

"Your Highness? What are you doing here? Why don't you go inside?"

Nurse Joy, dressed in a Pink dress and carrying a basket filled with vegetables and fruits, was heading towards the Pokémon Center.

She suddenly spotted a furtive figure, and upon closer inspection, it turned out to be the Trainer who had been bringing her Berry before.

"Nurse Joy, I was just about to go inside."

Dian smiled and greeted Nurse Joy behind him.

That's not all; he even filled in the phone number, all that was left was to dial it.

Be prepared to contact the emergency center of Antler Town Central Hospital at any time if anything goes wrong.

Nurse Joy tilted her head, not quite understanding, but she smiled kindly and then pushed the door open to let the prince go in first.

"Happy!"

When Blissey saw the test subjects—no, the patients—entering the room, it immediately came over happily to greet them.

"Blissey, when did you get up?"

Joey happily patted Lucky Egg's pink ears. "Could you please take the ingredients to the kitchen? I'll be making food in a bit."

"Happy, happy."

Blissey happily took the basket and then walked towards the back of the front desk.

At this moment, Nurse Joy noticed that there were already people waiting at the Pokémon Center. "Excuse me, Your Highness, please have a seat and wait a moment. Two Trainer have already arrived."

"It's alright, Nurse Joy, you can go ahead with your work."

After hesitating for a moment, Dian still didn't ask if he needed help making a call to the hospital.

Since there were some things that were difficult to say outright, he coughed slightly. "Nurse Joy, would you mind having lunch with me?"

Nurse Joy was taken aback, wondering why the princess, who always ate two big bowls of food, was being so polite today. "Of course, no problem. I'll prepare a special portion for you later, as a thank you for finding so many delicious Berry for me. Blissey likes them too."

She finished speaking and was about to walk to the front desk, connect the computer, and start her work for the day. However, she hadn't made lunch. So, what did those two eat?!

Nurse Joy instantly understood Dian's unspoken meaning, because she was also one of the witnesses to that tragedy and still felt a deep sense of guilt.

She quickly walked to the table where Dark and Ailan sat, pointed to the exquisite food in front of them that had already been touched, took a deep breath, and asked, "Excuse me, what is this?"

"Nurse Joy! That's wonderful!"

Upon seeing Nurse Joy, Ailan exclaimed with delight, "I've been waiting for you for so long!"

She put away the Senbei in her hand, then took out a black Poké Ball. "This is my Carnivine. For some reason, it's been acting a bit erratic lately. Thank you for your help."

"Okay, no problem."

Nurse Joy instinctively caught the Poké Ball and flashed a sweet, heartwarming smile, but halfway through her smile, she remembered something more important. "Are you two alright?"

"Are you alright? Of course you're alright."

After handing the Carnivine to Nurse Joy, Ailan breathed a sigh of relief. She was about to take out her Senbei to continue eating when she heard Nurse Joy's question and was puzzled. What could they possibly have to do?

She glanced at Dark had been soundly asleep the entire time, and said, "Hey! Dark, how long are you planning to sleep? Your goddess is here!"

Dark seemed not to hear and continued to Sleep.

Ailan sensed something was wrong. Dark had always been infatuated with Nurse Joy, considering her his lifelong goddess.

In the past, when we met, I would always pay close attention to her. Even this morning, I left home later than her and even wore perfume. How come she's sleeping soundly now?

She gently patted him, but he still didn't wake up. So she patiently patted him again, but he still didn't move.

"..."

Ailan put down the Senbei in her hand. "Dark, you are the first person to dare to ignore me, Ailan- sama. I'll remember you. Don't worry, I'll send you flowers every year on this day."

She was determined to put this person who was pretending to be asleep into a deep sleep, because her mother had once said that there was only one kind of person in the world who could never be woken up, and that was someone who was pretending to be asleep.

So without a doubt, Dark was the one pretending to be asleep, preparing to rebel against her!

"Huh?!"

Nurse Joy, who was standing to the side looking worried, was at a loss. She quickly gave the palace envoy standing to the side a meaningful look.

The prince had originally planned to watch the play, but suddenly he felt something was amiss.

First, who among the people here is the most suspicious?

If an incident occurs, who would be the first suspect?

He had already witnessed Officer Jenny's wild imagination, and he couldn't rule out the possibility that there were always people more imaginative than Officer Jenny, and that there might be other Officer Jenny out there. What if the Officer Jenny of Antler Town was someone with an even more outlandish imagination?!

It looks like someone's about to die, and he'll be called to the Police Station for questioning. If another character with the same wild imagination as Great Detective Officer Jenny appears, he might end up in jail.

The more he thought about it, the more convinced he became that way.

As a single man, he was jealous of Dark's multiple women, so he was blinded by jealousy and teamed up with others who also resented Dark for stealing his Nurse Joy's Blissey to start his wicked plan, and so on.

Then the leader could gloriously go mining for the League, becoming a qualified "construction worker" with room and board provided, and dedicating his salary to the League.

"He might be a little sleep-deprived or slightly poisoned. Don't worry, we'll take him in for treatment."

As he spoke, Dian immediately led Dark, who had actually fainted, into the Pokémon Center's work area.

Nurse Joy, ever the quick-thinker, removed the food from the table to prevent another victim from appearing.

Ailan pondered this for a moment, and it seemed, perhaps, that was indeed the case, because the Vine Whip of her Carnivine really did contain some poison...

She glanced guiltily in the direction where Dark had disappeared, and was about to take a bite of Senbei to calm her nerves, but then she remembered that she had apparently snatched the Senbei from Dark as well.

Suddenly, the girl seemed to have a change of heart. She actually put the Senbei she was about to eat back down, and then thoughtfully repackaged it, making it look brand new.

"Well, I haven't read this magazine yet, hmm, I'll take a look."

Ailan started fiddling with the magazine in her hand, then secretly glanced in the direction the two had disappeared.

"What to do..."

Dark looked helplessly at Dark, who was lying in a corpse-like state in his hands, not knowing what to do.

Indeed, the ancients were right. "He who takes a man's money is bound to him, and he who eats another man's food is bound to him."

Now that his fingerprints are on him, if Officer Jenny takes it too seriously and subjectes him to one of the eight most brutal tortures in the Pokémon World, whether he confesses or not is a question, a very serious one.

"Fine."

Nurse Joy quickly walked over after putting down the "Toxic substance," then took a closer look and revealed a relieved smile. "Not dead yet, no, I mean, still alive..."

She thought for a long time, struggling with how to express her thoughts.