Chapter 622: No chance of relationship? No!

In Dragonite's perception, this autumn is the longest autumn since Leah gradually grew old.

Under its selfless care, just like that of Leah in the past, the three mini dragons evolved into Haxorus.

Led by Xiaofen, the different-colored Haxorus who was originally taken in by Dragonite, they also have the ability to protect themselves.

This allows Dragonite to focus on taking care of Leah, whose movements are becoming increasingly inconvenient.

With the rapid development of the times, the post office where Kuailong worked gradually declined and could only shrink its business and survive by relying on the "express delivery" business.

This actually does not make any difference to Dragonite. Whether as an ace postman or an ace courier, it is an irreplaceable presence in the post office.

The ability to deliver express to most parts of the planet within a day has even gradually become the signature feature of the post office.

This is true for Dragonite, which has not only not aged over time, but has become even stronger.

Even though it was getting easier to do this, it gradually lost the motivation to continue working.

Dragonite was unsure because working without Leah's company was no longer attractive to it.

Or it was because after a courier was airlifted to the Hoenn region, Dragonite returned home excitedly with the "Kamaen Senbei", a specialty of the Hoenn region.

But the neighbors told me that Leah had accidentally fallen. Fortunately, they found her and sent her to the hospital for treatment in time. She is currently lying in the hospital, affected by the extremely complicated feeling that suddenly arose.

Although the post office tried to keep him, Dragonite still chose to quit his job and stay with Leah wholeheartedly.

After leaving the hospital, Leah's physical condition became much worse than before. Dragonite stayed with Leah most of the time, and only went to Daguo Lake occasionally.

It was also in this autumn that the Padia region finally established its own Pokémon League.

Kuailong clearly remembered that the wrinkled but kind-looking Leah pointed at the young woman named Yeci on TV and said that she believed Yeci would lead the Padiya region to become better and more prosperous.

She sincerely looked forward to that day.

Later, as Leah expected, after the establishment of the Padia Pokémon League, the benefits that Leah had never dared to dream of when she was young gradually became a reality.

Dragonite still remembers.

Usually, when Leah sat in the rocking chair by the windowsill and looked at the teenage boys and girls passing by outside, her eyes would always be focused on the brand new Poké Balls in their hands, with a satisfied smile on her lips.

It was as if her long-cherished wish had finally been fulfilled by these children.

Several years passed.

Under Dragonite's meticulous care, Leah's health has improved a lot. She is no longer like in previous years when she could hardly stand the wind. Now she can sit in a wheelchair and be pushed by Dragonite for a stroll outside in sunny weather.

There was also good news when, during a routine trip to Cauldron Lake, she reunited with her Harkron sisters.

Dragonite and a Dragon-type Pokémon that passed by Cauldron Lake during its migration fell in love with each other, and together they created a Pokémon Egg.

In Dragonite's view, this encounter was just like a "fleeting romance" in the human world, where they were together for a short time, left behind the next generation representing the continuation of life, and then separated again.

After much hesitation, Dragonite thought that taking care of Leah had consumed most of his energy, so he chose to give his child, the Pokémon egg, to the care of his trusted Haxorus sisters instead of taking it home.

Perhaps the new life in the elf egg is a little shy or slow to warm up.

During these years it did not hatch immediately but remained in the egg state.

It seems like it is settling down, and also like it is waiting for an opportunity to hatch.

This situation is obviously beyond the scope of the Haxorus and Dragonite that are hatching eggs for the first time, but judging by the instincts engraved in their genes, although this situation is rare, it is actually not a big problem.

Like the pink Haxorus among the Haxorus sisters, in its vague memory, it stayed in the elf egg longer than the other two Haxorus before finally breaking out of the shell.

This slow-heating problem may be fatal to other Pokémon eggs. After all, the nutrients in the eggs are limited, and if they are not removed from the eggs before they are exhausted, the eggs may die.

But for the Dragonite race, these things are nothing.

The dragon-type Pokémon that combined with Dragonite is also the leader of a migratory tribe. With both parents being very powerful, the nutrients contained in the Pokémon eggs are naturally more than ordinary Pokémon eggs.

Plus, Dratini is a Pokémon that can grow from the leftovers that settle down, so it's not a big problem if he takes a while to warm up in the Pokémon Egg.

The Hackrons and Dragonites simply often surround the Pokémon eggs, nurturing the Pokémon eggs with their own breath and energy. This way, although the child inside stays in the Pokémon egg for a long time, when it is born, it will grow faster and surpass its own race.

It's autumn again, a season of harvest and withered leaves.

As usual, after visiting the Haxlon sisters and his own children, Dragonite returned to his home, which held many of his memories, carrying flowers carefully collected from the Big Pot Lake.

——But this time, it saw Leah, who had been lying in bed for a long time, stood up and prepared the same lunch for itself as it remembered.

No matter how much they understand the human world, Pokémon are still essentially pure-hearted creatures.

Even though Dragonite's subconscious was warning people frantically, it still wishfully believed that under its care, Leah's illness had healed and her body was getting better again.

Later, Dragonite found out that Leah had never been sick from the beginning.

The fall a few years ago only weakened her physical condition. Under Dragonite's care, Leah's physical condition is actually quite healthy.

——The only thing that cannot be defied is time.

That night, Dragonite slept in the same bed with Leah, just like when he first met her and was still Haxorus.

Dragonite curled up carefully, not letting the weight of his body burden Leah, and tried his best to use his softest abdomen to support Leah who was lying on her side in his arms.

Just like decades ago, the clingy Hakron entangled the helpless and indulgent girl.

Perhaps when that moment comes, everyone will have a vague premonition in their hearts.

Leah stayed awake all night, hugging Dragonite's plump and soft belly, chattering on and on about many things, recalling every detail of her journey with Dragonite.

She also said that seeing that Dragonite was enjoying his lunch and dinner today, she would also try her best to prepare a sumptuous lunch and dinner for Dragonite tomorrow.

Gradually, perhaps because she was tired, Leah closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

Kuailong stayed by her side until noon.

After making sure that Leah's breathing was steady and she was just sleeping soundly, Dragonite carefully left the bed without waking her up.

Today it had something to deal with. It was a request from someone in the post office who had taken good care of it and Leah, and Dragonite couldn't refuse.

It needed to deliver a letter to a corner of the Padya region, which could be accomplished in less than an hour at Dragonite's flying speed, so it took on the task.

The breeze that Dragonite created when it flew away with the letter blew the flowers in the vase by the window and blew off the last yellow leaf of the old tree in the yard.

But when Dragonite finished delivering the letter and returned to the familiar house excitedly, what was waiting for it was not a table of steaming hot meals.

The front door of Dragonite and Liya's home was now full of neighbors. Among them, the kid who was close to Liya was holding the landing Dragonite and crying and saying something that Dragonite couldn't hear clearly.

Kuailong extracted some information from it with difficulty.

Shortly after it left, the child took the admission letter from Orange College and excitedly wanted to share the news with Grandma Leah, who had always been very kind to him, but he found that she was sleeping soundly and could not even hear the knock on the door.

The child just thought that Leah was a little sleepy and didn't take it seriously.

It was only after he went home and told his elders that the neighbors became concerned and came over to take another look, and only then did they realize something was wrong.

When they climbed through the window and entered the house, they found that the other person had a faint smile on his lips and fell into a long sleep.

Kuailong doesn't remember clearly what happened afterwards.

It only knew that it seemed like a puppet, participating in the funeral held by the neighbors in the town. It stared blankly at the wooden box containing the person in its heart being buried in the ground, the stone tombstone erected, and the flowers it picked from the flower field beside the Big Pot Lake yesterday were quietly leaning on the tombstone.

All the facts that it had deliberately avoided attacked its defenses, and amid the exclamations of its neighbors, Dragonite flew away from the funeral scene and fell into the Cauldron Lake like a meteor, and was then taken back to the island in the lake by the Haxorus who had sensed its presence and rushed over.

Dragonite lived in the Big Pot Lake in a daze for a while, because it didn't often talk to the Haxorus about what was happening over there, and they didn't understand what was wrong with Dragonite.

Gradually, Dragonite recovered and calmly told the Haxorus that it would be away for a while.

To the Haxorus, Dragonite does this all the time, so they don't find it strange.

After letting it rest assured to leave the Pokémon egg in their care, the Haxorus watched Dragonite leave.

But from that day on, Dragonite never returned to Daguo Lake.

Kuailong didn't believe what the neighbors told him. He thought that Leah had gone out traveling without telling him, just as he and she had imagined countless times, traveling all over Padya and even other areas.

Leah must be waiting for me to find her somewhere in the world.

Thinking this way, Dragonite began his journey alone.

Until one day when it was not clear when, it encountered a humanoid Pokémon that exuded a powerful aura.

The other party stared at him for a long time, and then said slowly in a cold voice: "You are about to collapse."

Kuailong didn't understand what the other party meant, but thought that Leah should still be waiting for him somewhere, so he planned to turn around and leave.

Perhaps it was a trace of compassion that was at work. The humanoid Pokémon used its powerful mental power to restrain Dragonite and said in a tone of notification: "You will be broken if you continue like this anyway, so why not become my messenger and use it for my own benefit."

"On the other hand, I will let you live in the illusion that this may be salvation for you."

The moment the other party finished speaking.

Another ray of light appeared in Dragonite's world.

Looking at the figure of that girl that appeared beside him.

The other person was holding the bouquet of flowers she had picked, and her smile was as beautiful as when she first saw the girl when she woke up on the hospital bed.

Watching this scene, the humanoid Pokémon was silent for a few seconds and snorted coldly.

"From the beginning to the end, the relationship between beings with unequal life spans is nothing but a source of sorrow."

".If we hadn't formed a bond from the beginning, we wouldn't have gotten hurt."

Memory stops here.

The memories of Leader Kuailong also stayed in that autumn.

With the help of Bud Crown, Luo Mu transferred the memories of Dragonite leader that he had obtained from Mewtwo to Tapu Finfin who returned from the South Padya Sea.

As far as he knew, the town where Dragonite leader and Leah once lived was now deserted, and the people who lived there had long since moved away to who knows where.

Although when he, Dragonite, and Hackon went to check, the tombstone was still well preserved, but it was overgrown with weeds.

But after careful consideration, they did not take Dragonite there directly, but waited for an opportunity to try to resolve Dragonite's knot and obsession through Tapu Fin-Fin's mist or Celebi's ability to travel through time and space.

Through the memory of Dragonite leader, Luo Mu guessed that its greatest regret was that it did not say goodbye to Leah properly, and chose to deceive itself from beginning to end.

Even that autumn, it did not accompany Leah through the last moments of her life.

All the regrets could not be made up, and the leader of Dragonite refused to accept the reality that Leah had passed away, so he began to have mental problems. He left the Padiya area alone and searched the world for the "non-existent footprints".

"Finally."

After reading all the memories, Tapu Finfin's expression became a little more complicated.

Indeed, as the guardian god that controls the fog with magical power, it is accustomed to the separation of life and death. There were countless people who could not bear the separation of the Yin and Yang and prayed for its power, wanting to see their deceased relatives again.

Among these people, Tapu Fin-Fin tends not to ask for everything he wants.

It was once a patron saint who disliked humans and hated the development of the nature of Poni Island.

Therefore, no matter how touching the story is, it will set tests according to one’s heart and watch those people struggle with cold eyes.

It will only lift the fog when the mood strikes.

But after going through many things, Tapu Finfin has changed a lot.

Now it has full empathy for this warm yet sad story.

Tapu Fin-Fin's gaze fell on the leader of Dragonite, who had regained a moment of clarity after being affected by the power of Bud Crown and was looking at him hopefully.

Tapu Fin-Fin closed his eyes.

Since you hold this power, you must fear and respect it.

It will not open the fog again until a special moment.

But the story of Dragonite leader and Leah moved it.

Can’t be together?

Do not!
I have the power to make up for this regret!

It was as if it was refuting what Mewtwo had said in his memory.

Tapu Fin-Fin opened up a thick white mist.

(End of this chapter)