"Young man Tetsuya, I've got my eye on the third picture. Name your price."
"Taxus, don't fight me for it! The third one is mine!"
"You two can fight over the third one. I want the seventh and eighth anyway."
"Two pictures? How can you even ask for that? There are only so many clear pictures to begin with. There almost won't be enough for one each!"
Inside an unnamed chat group.
Messages flooded the screen one after another.
Every person speaking was a Pokemon Professor, each one renowned throughout the Pokemon World.
Though they were not arguing face-to-face, it was not hard to infer their states from their words.
Red-faced was the bare minimum. Those taking it further had likely abandoned all pretense of decorum.
The doctors could hardly be blamed.
A Legendary Pokemon had appeared. Every photograph capturing details of its body was worth a fortune, not to mention those showing it in battle.
That was especially true for these Pokemon Professors.
With their vast knowledge and insight, they could use such details to advance entire fields of research.
Seeing the small to understand the great—that was all there was to it.
"You brat, you've really gotten this bunch worked up."
Professor Oak sent a message, sounding rather helpless.
His primary field of research was the theory of relationships between humans and Pokemon.
Photographs of Legendary Pokemon alone were of relatively limited use to Professor Oak.
So he had not joined the fray, merely acting as an organizer and helping Tetsuya contact doctors from the various regions.
Professor Rowan had not joined either.
Of course.
Another major reason the two professors had stayed out was that Tetsuya had produced all sorts of photographs of Mew—taken at close range, no less.
He had also provided a rough description of