Streamer, just spit it out already!
Did I see that wrong just now? The streamer looked really shocked.
Could there be something seriously wrong with this Paras?
"The truth is, this Paras doesn't want to evolve."
When Ye Yinchuan delivered those words in a slightly grave tone.
Little Rich Girl, on the other side of the camera, looked utterly incredulous. Dejected, she said:
"How could that be... Does Paras not acknowledge me as its trainer?"
"You've got it backwards. Paras doesn't want to evolve precisely because it acknowledges you as its trainer—it doesn't want to leave you or lose you."
Ye Yinchuan reassured her.
In fact, in the second before he turned off the Heart of Listening, he heard some of Paras's thoughts.
(Inner voice: Paras has to endure... Hiss... Stay with Master, stay awake...)
After thinking it over, Ye Yinchuan more or less understood.
Because once it evolved, the mushroom would take over its consciousness, which was practically the same as dying.
If that happened, Paras would no longer be able to stay by the side of the trainer who had cared for it so attentively and lived alongside it day after day.
Of course, it couldn't be denied that Paras was also doing it for its own survival.
That was the instinct of life itself. There was nothing to fault in that.
"What... do you mean?"
Little Rich Girl was clearly a little lost.
Normally, the closer a Pokémon was to its trainer, the more smoothly it should level up and evolve.
So why was it the opposite in her case?
It acknowledged her, yet it didn't want to evolve?
And what did it mean by not wanting to leave her or lose her?
It wasn't just Little Rich Girl who was confused. Ms. Carrot and her roommates,