"Time Machine..."
Mingyou murmured the words. If such a thing really existed, then Flutter Mane and Iron Valiant could theoretically travel through time. But could something so utterly beyond common sense actually exist?
Uva nodded gently, but she did not explain further. Instead, she led him to a hospital room.
She knocked softly. After someone answered, the two of them went in. A Mabosstiff sitting beside the bed turned toward them and met Mingyou's eyes. They both looked surprised.
"Huh? Aren't you the one who..."
"Wum~"
Ogerpon looked startled. It was the Mabosstiff that had been handing out flyers on the street. It was here too?
"I see. So he's your Trainer? I'm glad you found him."
Mingyou smiled. Seeing Mabosstiff together with the Trainer he loved was enough.
He and Uva walked over. Arven was sitting up in bed, eating a Sandwich to fill his stomach. He had not felt hungry in the Network World, and going without food there had not affected him at all.
But the moment he returned to the real world, a month's worth of hunger had hit him all at once.
"We're here, Arven."
"You're here... Huh!?"
Arven answered with a smile, but the moment he noticed Mingyou, his expression turned wary. He even stopped eating. Frowning, he asked seriously, "What's your relationship with Uva? Are you friends, or..."
"Mingyou saved you, Arven."
Uva answered with a smile. Her sweet, innocent expression instantly wiped the seriousness from Arven's face. Mingyou, who had been about to introduce himself, felt his mouth twitch. He could not help but regard her with awe. She charms men and women alike... The Paldea succubus really is terrifying!
After the introductions, Arven learned that Mingyou and Uva were not particularly close. They merely knew each other and had both gotten