I'm the Owner of the Pokémon Day Care In the World of Pokémon Chapter 372: Identity

The group paid no attention to Muya on the rooftop and continued to enjoy setting off fireworks, being lively and noisy. Even Yuga's alcohol buzz had lessened considerably due to the excitent.

After playing for quite so ti, Yuga noticed that Dian and Luna were getting tired, so he and Windy took them back inside.

At this mont, Aunt and Suzuki Koen had already tidied up the table and were chatting with Uncle and Beidou.

"Welco back! Tired from playing, I bet!" Aunt said with a smile when she saw Yuga and the others enter.

"Not too bad, just that these little ones can't keep up anymore," Yuga replied, looking at Dian, who was already dozing off in Windy's arms.

Suzuki Koen took Dian from Windy, found a blanket to cover him, and then sat back down, joining the New Year's celebration with everyone.

Ti passed quietly amid the joyful conversation.

When the clock struck midnight, everyone spontaneously wished each other a "Happy New Year!"

It was very late by the ti they all dispersed. Dian and Luna had long since fallen asleep, soundly so.

Therefore, Yuga asked Beidou to take Suzuki Koen and Dian back ho, while he carried Luna and walked Aunt and Uncle ho.

Originally, Yuga's uncle didn't want him to accompany them; Luna could ride on his back. But Aunt said, "Can't we have so alone ti as a family at the end of the year?"

Uncle readily accepted his nephew's kind offer.

Yuga carried Luna on his back and chatted with Aunt and Uncle along the way. He walked them all the way to their ho.

As he was returning, Yuga saw that Muya was still sitting on the roof of his house. Curiously, he asked, "You've been sitting on the rooftop all night. Aren't you cold?"

"Cold?" Muya chuckled softly. "I'm not human; what do I have to fear from the cold?"

What?! Not human?

Yuga was startled by Muya's words. Did I not cross into the Pokémon world but rather into a fantasy realm? Are there shape-shifting creatures here?

Just then, a Gengar suddenly appeared by Muya's side. However, because the night was too dark, Yuga didn't notice.

Then, Gengar's psychic power suddenly carried Yuga into the air, eye-level with Muya.

"Are you curious about my identity?" Muya asked Yuga.

"Are you willing to tell ?" Yuga didn't feel afraid despite being under Gengar's psychic influence. His intuition told him that Muya had no intention of harming him.

"Why not?" Muya countered.

Under Gengar's control, Yuga slowly floated up to the rooftop and landed beside Muya.

"My true na is Cecilia," Muya said softly, gazing at the sparsely scattered stars in the sky.

"Cecilia?" Yuga exclaid. "That's impossible!"

He had seen Cecilia before, and he was very familiar with the aura surrounding her. It was entirely different from the Muya before him. Furthermore, Cecilia was a Specter, while the Muya beside him, Yuga had confird countless tis, was a flesh-and-blood human, with a physical presence!

However, deep down, Yuga had a vague feeling that what Muya was saying might be true, which would explain why she had co to find him.

"Do you know ?" Muya suddenly turned her head, squinting at Yuga.

"I've t Acerola!" Yuga blurted out.

"Oh, I see!" Muya suddenly realized. "Acerola said that as long as you returned to the Ghost World, you would never co out again."

After hearing Yuga's words, Muya fell silent for a mont and then said, "Yes, under normal circumstances, I should not be able to co out. My consciousness should have been erased."

"Then..." Why...

Yuga hesitated to speak further. He suddenly felt that Muya was very sad.

"Do you think there's anything different about now compared to the Cecilia you saw before?" Muya suddenly turned her head and smiled as she asked Yuga.

Anything different? Everything seems different, right?

Seeing that Yuga remained silent, Muya continued, "Because I am no longer the complete Cecilia."

Yuga felt very puzzled by her words but didn't speak up.

Muya absentmindedly took out a Poké Ball and released a Dusknoir.

Yuga recognized this Dusknoir. It had once assisted him and Officer Jenny, and it was the one that had brought Cecilia back to the Ghost World.

However, this Dusknoir now looked extrely strange. It floated there silently, showing no signs of reaction, as if... as if it had no soul!

"Now, I am it, and it is !" Muya pointed to the Dusknoir.

Looking at Yuga's perplexed expression, Muya raised her right hand and pinched Yuga's face. Instantly, Yuga felt a bone-chilling cold.

Even in winter, a person's hand shouldn't be this cold.

"What you see is just a corpse. I found it in the forest and borrowed it for my use."

Hearing her words, Yuga finally understood why there were those dried-up corpses in the town.

"So, do you absorb the life energy of those people to maintain the vitality of this corpse?"

"It's the only way. Otherwise, I would rot!" Muya said with a smile, but her smile sent shivers down Yuga's spine.

He was conversing with a corpse!

"Why does it do this?" Muya suddenly whispered.

"Who?" Yuga was puzzled.

"It, right there!"

Muya pointed to the Dusknoir floating beside her, or more precisely, her true body.

Now, Muya's true identity was no longer a Specter but an actual Dusknoir.

After Cecilia was brought back to the Ghost World, her consciousness was imdiately seized by the Ghost World's consciousness, and the only outco waiting for her was to have her consciousness erased and beco an ordinary Specter.

But how could she, who was determined to leave the Ghost World, sit idly by? So, she used a forbidden technique of the Ghost World to let all her Gengars and Mismagius take the place of her death.

Cecilia originally had many Gengars and Mismagius around her; Yuga had seen so of them the first ti he t her.

In the Ghost World, there was a forbidden technique that allowed other ghost-type Pokémon who shared a life with the deceased Specter to take on the punishnt of the Ghost World's consciousness while avoiding its detection.

Everything was going smoothly with her plan. However, Cecilia had overlooked the Dusknoir that had always accompanied her.

When Cecilia perford the forbidden technique, the Dusknoir secretly released all of her Gengars and Mismagius, taking their place.

Cecilia, although ruthless toward everyone and every Pokémon, never thought of harming the Dusknoir that had always been by her side.

By the ti she realized what had happened, it was already too late.

In the haste of the mont, the forbidden technique went awry, succeeding only halfway.

Half of the consciousness of the Dusknoir and Cecilia was erased by the Ghost World's consciousness, and the remaining halves rged into the body of Dusknoir.

However, Cecilia's soul dominated the majority, with the remaining mories in her mind, which is how the current Muya ca to be.

And Muya originally used to be the na of the Forr Dusknoir.

So, the present Muya is both Cecilia and Dusknoir!

The personality of Muya, The Dusknoir, sotis invisibly influenced Cecilia's actions, which is why she didn't harm Yuga for a long ti. The people she killed were only those two mbers of the Team Aqua and the four thugs.

Otherwise, with Cecilia's originally twisted character, who knows how many more people would have died.