"Why are you here?"
"Mime..."
He called Dodo over to translate what Mime Jr. said.
He was asking whether Shen Qi was coming back to live here.
"No, I'm going back to the Saffron Gym. Then, in a few days, I'll be going somewhere very, very far away. I might never come back."
Shen Qi crouched down and handed Mime Jr. a piece of Pokémon Rations. "Make yourself at home. The islanders on Island 6 will treat you well."
Chapter 693: Take care... take care now
'You saved the world...'
Mime Jr. suddenly came out with that, surprising both Shen Qi and Dodo, who was translating.
It was quite a leap in subject.
Still, they could now be certain that the Mime Jr. from Sootopolis City was the one before them.
In other words, the Pokémon Native Shen Qi had once owned.
"I wouldn't say I saved the world. I just helped the Successor and... and another young girl."
Even without Shen Qi's involvement in that meteorite crisis, the disaster could still have been averted.
Mega Rayquaza had destroyed the giant meteorite. The meteorites afterward had actually been brought by Jirachi, who would never have let them cause a disaster.
Shen Qi's greatest contribution in Sootopolis City had been dealing with the Infinity Energy Rocket.
This world was not a game running on a fixed program, and Shen Qi was not its protagonist. Not every disaster and crisis would revolve around him, nor would the world's fate always be his to decide.
'But when there was a crisis, you still stepped forward, even though it had nothing to do with you.'
"How could it have nothing to do with me?"
At the Sky Pillar, if Shen Qi had truly refused to go into space, Zinnia would never have forced him,