While Dian and Yue Jifei enjoyed their leisurely time together, Misdreavus drifted along helplessly, her eyes downcast and her mind in a daze, leading Ralts, Mawile, and Alolan Vulpix away from civilization and into the Nameless Forest northwest of Lumiose City.
"Misdreavus—"
Misdreavus idly swung a vine she had snapped off, utterly baffled. How had she fallen for such a simple trick?
Whose fault was this? (︶︿︶) In the blink of an eye, she tossed those thoughts aside, because with summer approaching, the scent of fruit trees filled the entire forest.
Completely ignoring all the eyes watching from hiding, Misdreavus casually passed through a vine-covered tree, picked a big, round red Berry, and began taking enormous bites.
Ralts, meanwhile, had been leisurely cradling a Daifuku and savoring it wholeheartedly from the very start.
Mawile and Alolan Vulpix, however, had vanished into the dense woods...
"Quack!"
"Quack, quack!"
"Quack, quack, quack—!!"
Summer's restlessness affected more than just the humans in the metropolis. It also stirred up the Pokémon that lived in groups.
One example was the Ducklett that migrated from the Unova Region for the summer.
As their name suggested, Ducklett looked very much like young swans. Blue all over, they liked to greet others by waving their wings and letting out mocking peals of "quack, quack, quack—" laughter.
The one baffling thing was how Ducklett, a dual Flying- and Water-type duck Pokémon, could evolve into a swan Pokémon like Swanna. To this day, it remained a mystery.
Rumor had it that a Pokémon Watcher had even lived among them to get to the bottom of it, quacking all day long, yet still failed to figure it out.
Summer was also an opportunity for Trainers to catch Pokémon that were rare in their region, since migration often brought an influx of