'Mm...'
"Let's not waste time. We booked a room in Lavender Town. Every hour we check in late is an hour's worth of money wasted!"
Shen Qi put on an exaggerated look of surprise, prompting Lilligant to tease him. 'We're not that poor anymore!'
A little playful banter swept away the lingering reluctance to part and heartache from earlier, and the Flower Crown set off for neighboring Lavender Town.
Every generation of Pokémon games had a few eerie maps related to ghosts and spirits. As a supernatural location from the earliest versions, Lavender Town had plenty of details that grew more horrifying the more one thought about them.
Leaving aside its bizarre background music, the first time players spoke to an NPC outside the Pokémon Tower, where memorial tablets were kept, the NPC would ask whether they believed in ghost stories.
Players could choose yes or no here.
If players chose no, the NPC would say that a translucent ghostly hand had been resting on their shoulder just moments before...
In the Pokémon Origins anime, the protagonist arrived in Lavender Town and spoke to a man and a woman. The production team went so far as to draw a translucent ghostly hand right on his shoulder.
After finishing the story about Lavender Town's ghostly hand, Shen Qi said, "Earlier, Espeon and the others lost control of their car and started swaying as soon as they reached the Lavender Town section of the course. It was like they were fighting a ghostly hand for control."
'Aah-'
Lilligant cried out. 'Don't scare me while I'm driving!'
"That's why I didn't say much during the race."
'Don't say it now either!'
Shen Qi glanced at the back seat. Chansey was listening with a cheerful smile.
"Look at Chansey. She's barely reacting."
'She dares