GS Ball and the Pokémon (Three-Quarters-of-an-Hour Revision)

Tetsuya, far away in Kanto, had no idea how things were going between Norman and Mitsuko.

He merely used the remaining time to deal with a few minor issues left on his hands.

Kanto, Pallet Town, Oak Research Lab.

The gold-and-white GS Ball stood steadily within a cylindrical instrument.

The sounds of machinery operating rang out continuously.

"Without any energy fluctuation. No record of corresponding materials in the database. No signs of life."

The researchers presented their findings to Professor Oak and Professor Rowan one after another.

"There's no change from the previous results. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't dare believe it was real."

Professor Oak clicked his tongue in amazement as he looked at the GS Ball.

Professor Rowan, who had returned to Kanto to handle some matters, was equally curious. "I've never heard of anything like a Poke Ball being capable of containing a Legendary Pokémon. Just as you said, this should be some sort of token belonging to the Celebi clan—a 'space-time coordinate,' perhaps."

"Anyway, I can't keep this thing with me forever, can I?"

Tetsuya stood in the corner and shrugged. "It's too valuable. If anything happened to it, I couldn't afford to compensate for it."

"That's not necessarily true."

Professor Oak said with a cheerful smile as he flipped through the report in his hands, "The relationship between Legendary Pokémon and humans has always existed on a vague boundary. Perhaps only in your hands can this 'space-time coordinate' serve its proper purpose. In someone else's hands, at most it would be an ordinary Special Poke Ball with an unknown use—or one that couldn't even be opened."

Tetsuya blinked.

If anyone else had said that, he might have believed them.

But when Professor Oak said it, he really couldn't bring