"Nurse Joy, may I ask if this Marshadow belongs to a Trainer?" Heath asked curiously as he watched Nurse Joy examine Marshadow.
Whether it had a Trainer was important. If it did, this was an accident; if it did not, then generally, if any harm occurred, it would only amount to the League providing humanitarian compensation.
Although Heath had not been injured, he was still very concerned about this question. He wanted to find out why Marshadow had been watching Mimikyu. Could it also be a Pokémon someone had abandoned in Kanto?
Although Heath's memories of Marshadow were not particularly clear, his impression was that Marshadow should not be a Pokémon from the Kanto League. The reason was simple: back then, Heath had completed the entire Pokédex for the Kanto Region, but he had never seen a Pokémon like Marshadow.
"Probably not? There's no record of it among the registered Trainer-owned Pokémon in Pallet Town, but you could ask Professor Oak. Sometimes some strange little fellows escape from his laboratory," Nurse Joy said with a smile. Heath's mouth twitched. Good grief, Professor Oak actually had things like that happening in Pallet Town?
But after thinking it over, Heath felt that it seemed quite normal. After all, Professor Oak was an exceptionally accomplished Pokémon Professor, and he always had some strange research projects on hand. That was quite normal, with nothing odd about it.
So Professor Oak sometimes received Pokémon sent by professors from other regions for research, and it was also quite normal for Pokémon to occasionally escape through various means.
Heath glanced at Marshadow, and Marshadow instinctively shrank back, too afraid to look him in the eye. In the end, Heath decided to call Professor Oak and ask. Although it was already rather late, Professor Oak probably had not