Seeing that Mewtwo was no longer depressed, Axel patted Mewtwo's head.
"Actually, this world is still very beautiful, don't think of others as so bad, okay?"
Mewtwo pondered, feeling that what Axel said wasn't wrong.
Although this world was quite beautiful, it could become even more beautiful.
Otherwise, what's up with Team Rocket?
Sensing Mewtwo's thoughts, Axel added another sentence, "Of course, there are still bad people…"
Mewtwo's eyes lit up.
'So, I beat up people, and you also feel they need to watch cartoons, right?'
'Don't worry, I will definitely carry forward your will!'
Seeing that Mewtwo had picked up the tablet again, Axel patted its shoulder and didn't say anything more.
Anyway, as the god of battle, Mewtwo would become very strong even without training.
So besides learning how to grow mental power together with Gardevoir, letting it find something to do wasn't bad either.
After comforting Mewtwo, Axel happily opened the box.
Professor Elm's image instantly popped out, "Professor Elm?"
["Hehe~"], Professor Elm in the video looked obviously a little nervous.
["Mr. Axel, I believe by now you've already seen this recording. I want to explain something to you."]
'So it's a recording huh~'
Axel breathed a sigh of relief, he thought it was a video call from Professor Elm.
Unlike Professor Oak, Axel really didn't want to interact with Professor Elm.
Because this guy was a complete and utter unlucky fellow.
In the Pokémon Special manga, at the start he had one of his starters stolen by Silver, and the remaining one was taken by Gold by accident.
Even after letting Gold become his researcher later, he was always assigned unlucky roles, living under the shadow of Pokémon hatched by Gold.
In short, anything related to Professor Elm would turn out very unfortunate.
Moreover, Axel had heard from Gary that this world's Professor Elm had already met Gold in advance.
That's basically misfortune raised to the power of misfortune, an egg among unlucky eggs.
Professor Elm's recording continued, ["I originally planned to provide an excellent Pokémon egg for the first place in this competition, but later there were some problems…"]
Axel grinned, he knew this one, 'Isn't it just smoking, drinking, and perming your hair?'
["But I will definitely compensate you!"]
Then came a kind-looking old man in the shot.
["You must be Axel, let me introduce myself, I'm your school's principal."]
["I think you're outstanding, so after discussing with Norton, we decided to give you a better gift."]
["I believe you'll definitely like it."]
["As for Professor Elm here, I'll make sure he gets you the best Pokémon egg!"]
After watching their video, Axel licked his lips in excitement.
'Looks like the champion reward for this Baby Cup is much more generous than I imagined.'
These two people, one was the principal of Ninox University, and the other was the professor of Johto region, one of the people with the deepest research on Pokémon egg hatching.
If the gift were something light, they wouldn't have the face to record this video.
"Kinda looking forward to it now."
Axel pulled off the ribbon on the gift box and unwrapped layer after layer.
A strong surge of psychic energy came from the box, along with a faint fairy-type energy.
As she felt this energy, Gardevoir's eyes instantly flashed with a pink gleam.
'The item in the box is extremely important to me.'
Noticing Gardevoir's mental state, Axel had some guesses in his heart, and his movements to unwrap the gift became even faster.
A few seconds later, a sphere made mostly of crystal, wrapped with pink and green cloud patterns in the center, appeared before Axel and Gardevoir.
Around the sphere was also placed a pure gold frame and chain.
As long as all three were combined, it could form a Gardevoir Evolution Stone pendant.
"Here, let me put it on you."
"Mm!", Gardevoir obediently stood in front of Axel, her gaze gentle like water.
Now that she was no longer a burden, 'This world, the path we walked together, has indeed become much easier~'
In the past, during times like this, Axel was still dragging her around everywhere looking for ways to evolve. They didn't even have enough travel money for Kanto.
Not to mention legendary beasts like Ho-Oh and Mewtwo.
After Axel helped Gardevoir put on the necklace and saw her dazed eyes, he flicked her nose with his hand.
"What are you thinking about?"
["N-No... just happy…"]
Gardevoir stepped forward, burying her head into Axel's chest, finding a comfortable position.
"Definitely worth being happy."
In the Pokémon world, aside from normal evolution, there was another very special kind of evolution.
Some Pokémon could break free from the shackles of their species and further elevate the level of their individual life form.
And Gardevoir was one of them.
If they could get the Key Stone for evolution, along with Gardevoir's Mega Evolution Stone, it would allow Gardevoir to evolve into Mega Gardevoir.
At that time, Gardevoir's base stats would rise from 518 to 618, with notable increases in both special attack and speed.
Aside from that, after evolving into Mega Gardevoir, she would also grow a pair of very cute ears.
Power +1, beauty +MAX.
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2 PM, Eva returned to the research lab.
Taking advantage of the other researchers still being on holiday, Eva pounced into Axel's arms.
"Axel, I'm so happy today! You really know Cynthia!"
Eva sat on Axel's lap, excitedly pulling Gardevoir's arm.
She started counting on her fingers as she talked about her day with Cynthia, "We went shopping together today, ate together, and even went to the Pokémon amusement park and took a photo with the Tropius there."
"And Cynthia also said you're a very good Trainer, and I'm a very good researcher. She hopes we'll have a chance to work together someday."
"Not bad," Axel naturally pulled both Eva and Gardevoir into his arms, "What else did you do?"
"Well…", Eva paused, her face blushing.
"I'll say it, but don't be mad."
"Cynthia also watched a movie with me, and we even went to Lovers' Hill… Do you think she likes women?"
Axel and Gardevoir looked at each other.
'Can't catch the one you like, so go after the guy (or girl) they like?'
'Isn't this just a variant of Caitlin's move?'
She didn't even master it herself, how did Cynthia already learn it?
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