"Geh! (Sayoko! Where are you? Get out here!)"
The Shandu Gym was actually an enormous amusement park specializing in horror and supernatural attractions. Apparently, it had been the Strange Tales Museum long ago, but the younger generation had expanded it to keep up with the times.
The original museum had become part of the amusement park, while attractions such as the haunted house now provided most of its revenue.
At that moment, Gengar was passing freely through the floors of the office building, searching for the current Gym Leader.
"Geh? (Time for work! Where is she? Why are young people getting lazier and lazier?)"
She wasn't in the office, the surveillance room, or the restroom. Even the lounge showed no sign of her.
Gengar scratched her chin, then produced a pair of glasses from somewhere and took out a map to study carefully.
Mismagius, who had been accompanying her, fell silent at the sight. She hadn't expected that, after so many years apart, Gengar would still be so... well, young at heart.
Even performing a one-Pokémon show, she could find ways to amuse herself.
"Don't you have a phone?"
"Heh? (That wouldn't be Pokémon enough. I know where Sayoko is now. She must be in her secret lounge.)"
Gengar seemed to have pinpointed her target on the map. She led Mismagius straight there, finally plunging into a rather gloomy lounge.
The floor was piled with plush toys of all kinds of Ghost-type Pokémon. Some unidentified creature seemed to be crawling darkly across the large bed in the middle. The curtains beside it were tightly drawn, letting in no sunlight despite it being midday.
Gengar looked at the blanket on the bed, whipped it off, then lifted the girl out from underneath.
"Geh! (Why have you painted yourself up like a