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"Thanks for the meal!!" After finishing his meal, Li Ke said contentedly. Although he camped alone outside and handled his own meals, his cooking couldn't compare to Brock's. He was a bit stuffed tonight.
"Brock's cooking is really delicious, I'm a bit full!" Misty also touched her belly without regard for her image. She truly couldn't help but eat a lot tonight. "I can see your approval of my cooking from the empty plates!" When talking about these things, Brock seemed like a completely different person.
Not only Ash and the others, but the Pokémon also ate very well, making Ash once again raise his opinion of Brock. It wasn't just their own Pokémon. The surrounding Clefairy and Cleffa were also attracted, and Brock didn't mind. Instead, he patiently prepared food for all of them.
After eating, Brock packed up, Li Ke and Misty sat by the campfire, and Ash, seeing Axew still asleep, sat on a nearby rock, looking at the sky from inside the meteor crater.
The sky was densely packed with stars, a sight rarely seen before. And in such a unique location, looking up from below, the entire sky seemed to be contained within the meteor crater, truly a naturally breathtaking landscape.
"Ash, aren't you cold?" As he was looking at the sky, Misty walked over from behind, asking worriedly, seeing Ash still wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt.
"Hmm? Oh! No, I'm fine, don't worry about me," Ash replied instinctively, glancing in Axew's direction. It was a bit cold in the mountains at night, but his body could still endure it. Pikachu also jumped onto the rock, then climbed from Ash's hand to Ash's shoulder. Misty also climbed onto the rock and sat beside him.
"Actually, isn't this a good time to catch Axew?" Misty already knew Axew's name from Ash. Ash didn't look up after hearing her. "If I caught it now, how would I be different from those two? It wouldn't submit, and I wouldn't accept it either,"
Ash said, shaking his head slightly. He could completely catch Axew with his own strength, but since the Clefable intervened, it wouldn't count as him catching it, so he wouldn't do that. However, the Clefable did that to protect their territory and the meteor, so he couldn't blame them either.
Misty sat beside him, listening to Ash's response without saying much. Although they hadn't known each other for very long, she already understood Ash well. She didn't say anything more, sitting beside him and enjoying the night sky.
Slowly, drowsiness came over her. After greeting Ash, she returned to the tent to rest. Li Ke and Brock also successively returned to their tents to rest. The tent Brock prepared was large enough for four or five people.
Around the meteor, the Clefable and Clefairy nestled together, letting the Cleffa lean on them and slowly fall asleep.
Axew~~~~ It was late at night. Ash was sitting cross-legged on the rock, his hands supporting him from behind. Pikachu was sleeping on Ash's lap when suddenly there was a movement from behind him.
Axew woke up groggily. During the day, the Clefable's Aromatherapy helped it regain its spirits, and after Brock finished eating, he sprayed some topical medicine on it, so Axew's injuries had mostly recovered now.
After waking up, it quickly became alert, then instinctively stood up, cautiously looking around. Then it felt its jacket fall off. It looked down at its red and white jacket, then looked at the rock not far away, and saw Ash wearing a short-sleeved shirt. It immediately became wary.
"Don't be afraid, those two are gone now." Ash naturally noticed Axew's movements, still looking at the sky and speaking calmly.
Axew!!! Hearing Ash's voice, Axew immediately adopted a vigilant posture, but after hearing Ash's words, images from earlier today began to surface in its mind. It wasn't entirely clear about what happened at first,
only remembering the situation in the cave. Later, after it ran off, this person chased it, and then it came to this place... Then, this human and his Pokémon battled it until the very end, when this human placed his hand on its head.
Slowly, it lost consciousness. It still remembered that this human tried to catch it twice during the battle, but a Pokémon could still feel whether it had been caught or not. It was obvious that this human didn't catch it while it was unconscious, which made it lower its guard slightly, but it still hadn't completely let its guard down.
"Don't be so hostile towards me. I wanted to catch you because I was worried about you getting hurt or hurting others. You're free now.
You can go anywhere you want, or if you want to go home, someone will send you back tomorrow." Ash could still feel that Axew hadn't lowered its guard, but he didn't mind. It was normal for Pokémon that had been persecuted by humans to be wary of humans and find it difficult to open up.
...
Axew listened to Ash's words without any other reaction, but after hearing Ash's words, it hesitated whether to leave. Seeing Ash still sitting on the rock, with no intention of stopping it, it knew that what Ash said was true. Looking at Ash, who was looking at the sky without turning his head, it was a bit curious what he was looking at.
Slowly, it lowered its guard. It remembered what happened after it lost consciousness. Pokémon also knew human rules. Trainers would use Poké Balls to catch Pokémon.
For humans, catching Pokémon with Poké Balls was legitimate, and for Pokémon, it gradually became a matter of being defeated by the opponent and being caught with a Poké Ball to be convinced.
Compared to the actions of those two poachers, and then comparing it to Ash's actions, plus the power of Ash entering its body today, a connection was formed between them, an inexplicable trust, which slowly made Axew lower its guard and walk to Ash's side, also looking at the sky.
"Axew!!"
"You're asking what I'm looking at?" Ash replied softly.
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