He circled around, widening his search for his Pokémon Trainer and calling out without pause.
On the next sheet, crayons depicted a simple scene of the moon and sun alternating, indicating the passage of time. Wingull had searched for days without finding him, eaten some wild fruit in the grass to stave off hunger, and gulped down some stream water before choosing a direction and flying off.
By then, his throat could barely produce a sound.
That was the content of the first set of pictures, a very simple story: a lost Pokémon frantically searching for his owner.
Wingull was the protagonist, and the emotional script was titled "The Journey Home."
Its keywords also included: longing, actively searching.
It was obviously Shen Qi's Wingull.
More precisely, Native Shen Qi's Wingull.
After crossing over, Shen Qi had heard some basic information at the Security Bureau.
The native Shen Qi had owned three Pokémon: Wingull, Pidgeotto, and Mime Jr.
Pidgeotto had been released into the Shallow Leaf Protected Area around the time Shen Qi entered his second year of high school;
Mime Jr. was very strange and extremely withdrawn, rarely responding to the outside world. He was practically nowhere near being raised to a usable stage, and had not even entered a Poké Ball, simply being kept at home.
He was a Pokémon with whom no bond had yet been established.
That meant Wingull was the only Pokémon Native Shen Qi could use normally.
After the fall off the cliff, Wingull's Poké Ball might have bounced and rolled into freshwater, then drifted a long way downstream, separating him from his trainer.
It was better that they had been separated.
Shen Qi was the only person in the world who knew how it had ended. His native counterpart had tumbled down a jagged,