...
"Awoo Awoo"
Jiao Xiaoyan looked at the livestream trio in confusion. "Um... do you know what it's saying?"
"Wait, if even you can't understand it, why do you think we would?"
Lin Siyu rolled her eyes speechlessly, but... why did those words sound a bit familiar?
"Huh? No, I thought Fei Xiao would be able to understand! After all, she..."
Jiao Xiaoyan said as she subtly shifted her gaze to the top of Fei Xiao's head.
Although Lin Siyu didn't say anything, her intelligent eyes seemed to say... that makes sense!
Everyone: (●—●)
"I'm clearly speaking human language, so why do you think I'd know a 'foreign language'?
Just because I have an extra pair of fox ears compared to you?"
Could it be that my ears come with a built-in translation function?
Fei Xiao stopped wasting words and took out a second Poké Ball.
Diancie appeared once again.
"Diancie, help us translate what Dragonair is saying."
"No problem!"
Diancie nodded politely and began to act as a translator.
"You won't hurt me, will you~"
Jiao Xiaoyan: "Of course not! You're so cute, how could I bear to!"
Meng Xi: "It's true. Dragonair, do your wounds still hurt?"
"Hmm, oh! The wounds really don't hurt that much anymore! Thank you!
It seems you humans aren't as scary as everyone says!"
Dragonair realized that its original wounds were basically no longer painful.
It happily spun around in circles on the spot.
Several people gave slightly awkward, friendly smiles, but the livestream trio's eyes glanced meaningfully at the elderly men.
"Cough, cough, cough, what?"
"Don't mention what happened before."
Heh, there was no helping it; the humans Dragonair spoke of were most likely the military.
They were glad it didn't hate humans, but why did they feel a sense of guilt, as if they were deceiving an honest soul?
Lin Siyu tried to reach out and stroke Dragonair's head.
So smooth, so soft!
"It's good that you're okay now."
"Yeah, thank you for saving me. I thought I was a goner! Next time, I must listen to my companions."
Only then did Meng Xi feel curious about something.
"Dragonair, we didn't find any other Pokémon around here. So, who caused your injuries?"
Everyone leaned in together, naturally curious about who the culprit could be that managed to injure a Pseudo-legendary Pokémon...
As soon as the question was asked, Dragonair recalled that terrifying scene and couldn't help but shudder all over.
Then, it tremblingly recounted everything that had happened.
"I had always lived in this lake.
But something happened a few days ago, and all my brothers and sisters left this place.
And I heard them describe how humans in this world are somehow extremely brutal, attacking Pokémon recklessly!
So I've been hiding in the water these past few days, not daring to go anywhere."
Mentioning this, Dragonair's mood clearly dampened; it seemed it might have been living in fear because of this.
Jiao Wuyan and the others noticed those malicious gazes again, and their old faces felt a bit stung.
"Wait? Miss Fei Xiao aside! I'm saying, is it appropriate for you, girl, to stare at your grandfather with that kind of look?"
Jiao Xiaoyan: ( ・◇・)?
Oh right, I accidentally blended in too well! It's okay, since Grandpa cares about me so much, you can take the blame for me!
Lin Siyu's eyes welled up with tears as she hugged Dragonair with a face full of pity.
"I didn't expect you to be so pitiful, Dragonair!"
"Yeah! I'm really so pitiful!"
A dragon and a person hugged each other; the scene was quite comical.
Fei Xiao:...
"Um, Diancie... you don't need to translate that last part."
Diancie: (๑＞ڡ＜)☆
"Oh, sorry!"
Diancie gave a mischievous smile, clearly enjoying herself.
...
"Then your injury was..."
"Just now, I was sleeping soundly in the water.
Suddenly, there were bursts of explosions from the ground, seemingly two kinds of Pokémon battling.
I hid at the bottom of the lake in fear. I originally thought hiding in the water would be very safe, as usual.
But this time, an attack suddenly appeared and slashed the entire lake open...
And that terrifying strike also left me heavily injured.
That white Pokémon that looks a lot like this young lady was simply too terrifying.
Now I'm homeless!"
As Dragonair recounted what happened, tears couldn't help but burst from its eyes once more.
...
Everyone: (・д・)
Suspicious gazes slowly converged on the fox-eared beauty in the back.
Fei Xiao:...
This... so it turns out the culprit was actually me?
"Cough, cough, um, sorry about that!"
Fei Xiao was completely in the wrong this time; having demolished someone's home, she could only apologize honestly.
"Ah! You... you really are that Pokémon that hit me!"
"I accidentally hurt you, but I'm not a Pokémon."
"Um... it's... okay... you... didn't do it on purpose."
As Dragonair replied, its whole body was stiff, not daring to move at all, afraid of angering the monster before it.
It had calmed down thinking it might have been mistaken, but it didn't expect her to truly be the culprit who caused its home to be destroyed and its family lost.
It's over, will I be silenced?
Everyone staring at the shivering Dragonair didn't even know how to begin complaining.
Isn't this Dragonair a bit too cowardly? Is it really a Pseudo-legendary?
...
"Alright, I... forgive you. But are you really not a Pokémon?"
With the efforts of Lin Siyu and the others, Dragonair was finally able to communicate normally with Fei Xiao.
"Forget it, if you think so, then I am."
Fei Xiao was tired; this Dragonair was too difficult to deal with, so if it wanted to think that, so be it.
Fei Xiao recalled Dragonair's previous words and then asked.
"You said your previous companions have all left, and you're the only Pokémon remaining?"
"That's right, even the friends on the ground have almost all left this place."
Meng Xi also felt this was a bit strange.
"Why did they leave?"
Before the battle took place here, it could definitely be considered to have a beautiful environment and fresh air, an excellent place for Pokémon to live and play.
But then she thought of how they had hardly encountered any wild Pokémon anywhere around here earlier.
Could these two things be related?
Or was there some other special reason?
While the three of them were lost in thought, Dragonair provided the correct answer.
"Probably just a few days ago, a massive earthquake occurred in the distance..."
Before it could finish, Jiao Xiaoyan and the others noticed that Fei Xiao and her two companions seemed to stiffen noticeably upon hearing those words.
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