I'm the Owner of the Pokémon Day Care In the World of Pokémon Chapter 1465: Return to Laverre City

Because Ariana had a grudge against Yuga, all six of her Pokémon were familiar with him, so the mont they saw Yuga, they imdiately reacted as if facing a great enemy.

The Honchkrow, which had built its nest atop the cliff, dove down at once, using Sucker Punch to strike at Yuga.

Among the six Pokémon, this Honchkrow was the strongest. It made the first move in order to buy ti for the other five Pokémon to escape.

That’s right—these six Pokémon had no intention of confronting Yuga head-on. They knew Yuga wouldn’t let them off easily, and they also knew they likely weren’t his match, so their first reaction upon seeing him was to flee.

Of course, Yuga wasn’t going to let them escape. Just as the Honchkrow swooped down, he sent out his Charizard.

"Charizard~"

Charizard stood in front of Yuga, shielding him behind its body. It suddenly spread its wings wide, channeling all its strength into its arms, and grabbed the Honchkrow’s descending wings in one swift motion.

Bang!

Charizard was pushed back two steps by the impact, but it quickly stabilized itself and then violently swung its arms, flinging the Honchkrow away in one powerful toss.

The Honchkrow, tumbling through the air, hadn’t even had ti to regain its balance before Charizard opened its mouth and spewed a deep red Flathrower, instantly blasting Honchkrow away.

The Honchkrow slamd into the cliff wall, cracking it in multiple places as rubble and stone fragnts tumbled down.

Seeing this, the other five fleeing Pokémon instinctively froze in their tracks, and by then Yuga had already released Vivillon, Absol, Lapras, Venusaur, and Roserade. Each of them intercepted one of Ariana’s Pokémon.

Among Ariana’s six Pokémon, only Honchkrow was at the Champion level; the others were rely Elite level, so it was easy for Yuga’s Pokémon to stop them.

In the bushes, a Fletchling peeking through the gaps in the leaves was watching the scene unfold. When it saw Charizard injure Honchkrow in just one strike, its tiny beak dropped open in disbelief.

In its mory, Honchkrow was the fiercest Pokémon it had ever seen!

But looking now at Charizard—wow! It was even fiercer!

Fletchling’s eyes imdiately turned into stars of admiration.

After seeing its teammates all get intercepted, Honchkrow grew anxious. With a beat of its wings, it unleashed a Dark Pulse aid directly at Yuga.

Charizard opened its mouth again, unleashing a torrent of crimson fla that clashed directly with the incoming Dark Pulse.

But clearly, Honchkrow was no match for Charizard in terms of strength. Charizard’s Flathrower quickly gained the upper hand, dispersing the Dark Pulse and continuing on its path toward Honchkrow.

Seeing this, Honchkrow flapped its wings in panic and narrowly dodged the attack. But Charizard had already taken flight, and in the blink of an eye, it was beside Honchkrow, raising a Dragon Claw and slashing toward its head.

Honchkrow instinctively tilted its head, causing Charizard’s Dragon Claw to strike the base of its wing instead. Honchkrow let out a miserable cry as it plumted from the sky, crashing to the ground with a heavy thud.

The fallen Honchkrow struggled to take off again, but the excruciating pain from its wing joint made it impossible to spread its wings.

Charizard descended from the sky, landing nearby. With a swing of its Iron Tail, it smacked Honchkrow once again, sending it flying. Honchkrow crashed into a large tree, snapping it in half before collapsing to the ground unconscious, its head lolling to one side.

Seeing Honchkrow defeated, the remaining five Pokémon completely lost their composure and were quickly captured one after another.

Since their original Poké Balls had already been destroyed, Yuga had no trouble at all in capturing them with his own Poké Balls.

Fletchling, who had been watching from the bushes, was so excited to see Yuga defeat six Pokémon so effortlessly that it flew out imdiately, landing on Yuga’s shoulder and chirping excitedly.

"You’re amazing! So amazing! It’s my first ti seeing soone so powerful!"

Yuga turned his head and smiled at it. "Didn’t I tell you I was really powerful?"

Fletchling tilted its head and thought for a mont. "Oh right, you did say sothing like that."

But it imdiately chirped again, "But you’re even more powerful than powerful, you’re... you’re... super powerful!"

"How powerful is super powerful?"

"It’s just... just..."

...

This little Fletchling was quite a chatterbox. Once it got excited about a topic, its little beak would imdiately start chirping away nonstop. Yuga, however, patiently answered all of its questions without getting annoyed.

Just then, the sharp-eyed Yuga seed to spot sothing on the half-built nest of the Honchkrow, so he gave Charizard a look. Charizard imdiately understood and flew up.

Staring in awe at the tall and imposing Charizard, Fletchling said with admiration, "It’s so powerful. Do you think I could beco as powerful as it one day?" As it spoke, it began fantasizing about the day it would defeat all enemies in the world.

Upon hearing that, Yuga activated his Insight Vision and looked at the Fletchling.

...

[ Fletchling ]

Type: Normal, Flying

Ability: Big Pecks

Gender: Female

Potential: Orange

Level: 18

Moves: Tackle, Growl, Quick Attack, Thief.

...

Uh... with these conditions, becoming as powerful as Charizard might be a bit difficult... but Yuga didn’t want to crush Fletchling’s enthusiasm, so he dodged the question and said, "Then you’ll have to work very, very hard."

Fletchling didn’t pick up on the hidden implication in Yuga’s words and remained imrsed in its fantasy.

Not long after, Charizard flew down from the cliff carrying a bundle. Yuga took the bundle and opened it to find quite a number of items inside.

There were evolution stones, elental gems, Pokeblock, accessories, and other such items. They were probably Ariana’s leftover belongings, which the six Pokémon had gathered together.

At that mont, Yuga suddenly saw a stack of papers. He picked them up and casually flipped through them, and his expression imdiately beca serious.

The pages didn’t just record the Rocket Team’s power distribution across various regions; they also detailed their plans to capture various Legendary Pokémon. The recent actions involving Dialga and Palkia were just one part of this larger plan.

Based on the information recorded, Team Rocket seed to be scheming sothing particularly major.

Yuga carefully packed up the docunts, deciding to hand them over to the League once he returned.

Since Ariana’s Pokémon had all been captured, Yuga decided to head back. He recalled the other Pokémon, mounted Absol, and started the journey back.

As they neared the valley where Bouffalant lived, Yuga noticed that Fletchling was still chattering away excitedly on his shoulder, so he asked, "We’re almost there. Aren’t you going ho?"

Fletchling, who had been chirping energetically, fell silent all of a sudden.

Seeing the sudden silence, Yuga asked curiously, "What’s wrong?"

Fletchling hesitated for a mont, then said with so internal conflict, "Um... um... could you take with you?"

Yuga looked surprised. "You really want to co with ? My ho isn’t here. Once you leave with , it’ll be hard to return."

Fletchling visibly hesitated again after hearing this, but in the end, she said firmly, "I want to go with you."

Yuga quite liked Fletchling. Although it didn’t have great potential, it was very interesting. So he said, "Alright then." As he spoke, he took out a Poké Ball.

Fletchling understood what Poké Balls were for. She raised her wing and tapped the button on the ball, then was promptly absorbed inside.

After successfully capturing it, Yuga released it again.

"Fletchling, I’ll be counting on you from now on!"

Fletchling excitedly patted Yuga’s hand with its wing, then chirped happily and landed on his shoulder.

When Yuga returned to the valley, Elder Torre had already arrived, and his Delphox had also regained consciousness.

Seeing Yuga, Simon imdiately ran over and asked, "How was it? Did you find the culprit?"

Yuga nodded and told them about Ariana’s six Pokémon, though he didn’t hand them over. Those six Pokémon were now his spoils of war, and he had no intention of giving them away.

Once he sold those Pokémon, he’d make a handso profit.

However, Simon and Elder Torre didn’t question him further. Since Yuga said the problem was resolved, they naturally believed him.

That didn’t stop them from being furious at Team Rocket’s actions. The disaster in the Arche Valley was entirely Team Rocket’s fault.

Even though the Arche Valley had never interacted with Team Rocket before, this hatred now ran deeper than the ocean.

In the following days, Diantha continued negotiating with the Arche Valley about joining the League, while Yuga, who had nothing to do, was taken on strolls through the Valley and Mount Belljade by Simon and Naya.

In Mount Belljade, Yuga encountered many high-level Pokémon. It was only after introductions from Simon and Naya that he learned those high-level Pokémon had been placed there by the elders. Their purpose was to drive away adventurers who tried to trespass into Mount Belljade.

For so many years, Mount Belljade had only existed as a legend in Laverre City, with no one able to uncover its secrets. These high-level Pokémon were the "main culprits."

On the fourth day of Diantha’s visit to the Arche Valley, the matter of the valley joining the League was finally settled.

According to the plan, the League would designate the entirety of Mount Belljade as an autonomous zone for them. In return, they would send a portion of their high-level trainers to join the League, to be dispatched as needed.

Moreover, Master level, Champion level, and Elite level trainers from the Arche Valley would be required to comply with the League’s commands in tis of major crises.

At the sa ti, the League would provide a period of free resource support to the Arche Valley, covering areas such as food, clothing, housing, and daily necessities.

However, these were only broad agreents. The specifics would still need to be negotiated between the Arche Valley and the League, which no longer required Diantha, the League Champion, to personally oversee.

After the matter was concluded, Yuga left Mount Belljade with Diantha and the others and returned to Laverre City. But since Diantha and the rest still had important business, they didn’t stay long and left the sa day. Yuga’s Ninetales also left with Diantha — their filming work hadn’t been completed yet.

Yuga did not give the docunts found from the six Pokémon to Diantha. Since Team Rocket didn’t have a strong presence in the Kalos region, it was better to take them back and hand them over to the Hoenn League, who would then pass them on to the Kanto or Johto League.

After all, Kanto and Johto were where Team Rocket’s influence was the deepest.

Yuga decided to stay one more night in Laverre City and set out the next day for Zenith Academy, to visit Aya and deliver the gem belonging to w to them.

That evening, Yuga initially wanted to contact Licia to sell her Ariana’s six Pokémon, but after thinking about it, he decided to wait until he got ho. It wasn’t urgent — those Pokémon wouldn’t die from going hungry for a few days.

The next morning, Yuga was awakened by Fletchling’s "singing." Fletchling didn’t like staying inside a Poké Ball, and Yuga didn’t force it.

Fletchling’s singing wasn’t exactly pleasant, but it worked just fine as an alarm clock.

After a quick wash, Yuga packed up his things, went out for breakfast, and planned to leave Laverre City right after finishing his al.

However, not long after he sat down in the Pokémon Center’s cafeteria, he sensed that soone seed to be watching him. Without showing any reaction, he calmly finished breakfast together with Fletchling, then headed to the station of Laverre City.

There were a lot of people at the station. Yuga slipped into the crowd, and with Gengar secretly concealing him, the person who was tailing him instantly lost sight of him.

However, Yuga did not leave. Instead, when that person turned to leave, he quietly followed him.

When they reached a deserted place, Yuga instructed Gengar to stealthily abduct the person.

Suddenly being grabbed by a Ghost-type Pokémon, the man was scared half to death. He thought it was an evil Ghost-type that wanted to absorb his life energy.

Yuga, held by Gengar and invisible while standing next to it, suddenly spoke: "What were you planning to do by following that person just now?"

That man thought it was Gengar speaking and beca even more terrified. His eyes rolled back as he was about to faint, but how could Gengar give him that chance? It extended its long tongue and wrapped it around him with a flick.

Lick move activated.

Just as he was about to faint, the man suddenly felt a wave of intense pain surging through his body, followed by a jolting, numbing sensation. His desire to faint disappeared entirely.

Due to the paralysis, the man collapsed stiffly on the ground, convulsing nonstop, but his mind remained surprisingly clear.

"I’m asking you a question. Why won’t you answer? What were you doing following that person? If you still don’t answer, I’ll eat you."

After Yuga finished speaking, Gengar very cooperatively stuck out its tongue and licked his face twice. Bzzzzt... bzzzzt...

N-N-Now it’s numb again!

Under Gengar’s relentless tornt, the man who had refused to speak finally opened his mouth.

"I-It was... Mayor Raul... Mayor Raul asked ... to keep an eye on you. I don’t... I don’t know anything else!"

Mayor Raul?

Yuga didn’t expect that answer at all. He had originally thought it was that farr nad Joel who was behind this. After all, in Laverre City, the only people he’d had dealings with—besides Gym Leader Valerie—were just those two.

But what connection did he have with Mayor Raul? Could it be that Mayor Raul was also after that key? Yuga instantly had a suspicion. Other than that, he really couldn’t think of any other reason why Mayor Raul would send soone to follow him.

"The Mayor Raul you ntioned—is he the mayor of Laverre City?" In order to confirm he hadn’t guessed the wrong person, Yuga asked again.

"Y-Yes... yes, it’s... it’s him." Because of the paralysis, the man was stamring even more as he spoke.

Yuga had t Mayor Raul once—on the day Diantha and the others were about to leave for Mount Belljade. He had co together with Gym Leader Valerie to pay a visit to Diantha and the League representatives. But Yuga had only exchanged greetings with him and barely got acquainted; they hadn’t exchanged a single aningful word.

Was that key really that important? Even Raul, a city mayor, was so desperate for it. Yuga couldn’t help but wonder.

After the interrogation, Yuga didn’t make things any harder for the man and had Gengar dump him on the main street.

After all, the man had only followed him for a short while and hadn’t committed any major cri. A small punishnt was enough.

Because of this incident, Yuga decided not to rush out of Laverre City. He resolved to first figure out what secret that key actually held.

When he returned to the Pokémon Center again, Nurse Joy was very surprised.

"Gym Leader Shimizu, didn’t you already leave? Why have you co back?"

Yuga smiled and said, "Sothing ca up at the last minute. I won’t be leaving today."

"All right then. I’ll keep your previous room for you." As she spoke, Nurse Joy once again helped Yuga check in and handed the room key back to him.

As soon as Yuga returned to the room, he released Klefki and took the key from it to study again. But the situation remained the sa as before—he couldn’t find anything unusual about the key.

Yuga thought to himself: Looks like I’ll have to find another way!