After the minor incident with the Mankey attack, the group arrived in Celedon City.
Their first stop was the city center.
Skyscrapers surrounded them, countless glass curtain walls reflecting rainbow light. Neon billboards flashed, and a holographic projection of Pikachu danced across a departnt store's outer wall.
"Wow—" Ash gasped, looking up at the sky.
A flock of Pidgeot soared between the skyscrapers, the sound of their wings drowned out by the bustling city noise.
The city was like a monunt of crystal prisms, scattering sunlight into countless rays of brilliance, showering every corner of the steel forest.
"Celedon City really deserves to be called one of the biggest cities in Kanto!" Brock exclaid.
Even though he had been here several tis before, each ti he entered, he couldn't help but marvel.
"Ugh, you two, don't act like country bumpkins!" Misty's voice ca from behind.
The three turned around to see Misty, who had changed outfits without them noticing. She held Giselle's arm, the two of them looking like stylish city girls.
"Uh, Misty, don't you think that outfit looks kind of ugly?" Ash frowned, unable to find the right word to describe it.
"Shut up!"
Wham! Misty pulled her fist back.
"Ash, what you should say is that Misty doesn't suit a mature style of clothing," Brock reminded him.
"Natsu, want to go shopping with ?" Giselle leaned closer.
"No money."
"I do!" Giselle raised a card excitedly.
"No ti." Natsu lifted the Ultra Ball in his hand.
Under the rainbow glow around them, the Ultra Ball glead like a piece of obsidian.
"I'm heading to the Pokémon Center first." As Natsu spoke, the Rotom Phone used Teleport to take him away.
Years earlier, Natsu had traveled through every Pokémon Center in Kanto.
Almost every one, as long as the distance wasn't too far, the Rotom Phone could teleport him there instantly.
"Don't be sad, Giselle. I'll shop with you!" Misty said, hugging her arm.
...
At Celedon City's Pokémon Center, in front of a communications device—
"Huh? Natsu, do you have sothing important to ask ?"
Before Natsu could speak, Delia cut in first.
"Aunt Delia, you're really amazing." Natsu gave her a thumbs-up.
"Hahaha, well, if it wasn't sothing important, you'd usually just contact through Rotom Phone," Delia laughed.
"That's right. I have sothing I need you to run through the research lab's supercomputer."
As he spoke, Natsu plugged a USB drive into the communication device.
Monts later, Delia received the data Natsu sent.
"Oh, you could have just sent this straight to by laptop." She skimd through it casually.
"No, the file's too big." Natsu's expression turned serious.
Delia froze, a bad feeling creeping up inside her.
Sure enough, after the first file arrived, her computer began spinning endlessly, stuck processing.
The second file still hadn't finished transferring.
"Natsu, what's in the second file?" Delia asked curiously.
"Of course, it's a tutorial. I thought you might not be too familiar with this stuff, Aunt Delia."
"Oh, true. It's been a while since I really studied anything—my brain does feel rusty these past few years."
Seeing that Natsu wasn't pulling so crazy stunt but had instead thoughtfully sent a tutorial, Delia finally sighed in relief.
"By the way, where's Ash?"
Delia looked around but didn't see him or his friends behind Natsu.
"Ash went shopping," Natsu replied.
"With girls?!" Delia's eyes sparkled.
"Of course. I can even show you a live feed."
Natsu tapped an app on his Rotom Phone.
Soon, the screen displayed Ash's face—shown through Brock's perspective.
Yes, the tracking devices Natsu had stuck on them also had livestream functions, powered purely by solar energy.
Normally, he used them for researching migratory Pokémon populations.
But in his eyes, travel and migration were more or less the sa.
"Wow, Ash is surrounded by so many girls!" Aunt Delia exclaid in surprise.
"Huh?" Natsu looked over as well.
Ash seed to be in a perfu shop, encircled by a group of older girls, looking quite popular.
But soon, his true nature was revealed.
"Perfu is just sothing won without charm use."
Ash said it with a straight face.
The next second—"Sir, please leave!"
*Bang!*
From Brock's perspective, Ash was carried out by several of the won and tossed outside, the store door shutting tightly behind him.
Delia: "…"
"Natsu, do you think our family line is going to end with him?" Delia muttered bleakly.
"Don't worry, Auntie. I'll teach Ash how to deal with people properly!" Natsu said seriously.
Delia: "…"
That would be even worse.
"Ah, tell , um, do you think Ash will ever have a girl who likes him?"
Delia quickly changed the subject, afraid Natsu really would beco Ash's life ntor.
"Well…" Natsu fell silent.
On the other end, Delia sighed in relief, glad her distraction worked.
"If you're worried, Auntie, take a look at this!"
Natsu sent over another file.
It was a full ten gigabytes, but it still transferred quickly, leaving Delia stunned.
She glanced at the second file still stuck loading and swallowed nervously.
"Auntie Delia, open it."
"Oh? Sumr Camp?"
It was a video file, nad by **Natsu: Professor Oak's Research Lab – 4th Sumr Camp**.
"The fourth sumr camp… Ash joined that one. Wait, you were the supervisor, Natsu?!"
Delia was surprised. No wonder after that year, Ash kept running off to Oak's lab whenever he had free ti.
"Is this the video you fild at sumr camp?" Seeing the tiny, chibi-like Ash on screen, Delia couldn't help but smile in nostalgia.
But soon, sothing felt off.
The cara started focusing repeatedly on Ash and another girl.
She had light golden-brown hair, slightly curled at the ends, with large teal eyes full of liveliness.
In many clips, she wore a light pink beret, a pink-and-black sleeveless dress with a white ribbon belt, black shorts, and brown boots.
The video froze at the final scene: Ash crouching down, bandaging the girl's injury.
From the angle, it was clear Natsu had been hiding up in a tree filming secretly.
"Ah~" Delia covered her face, feeling embarrassed just watching it.
"Her na is Serena, from Vaniville Town in the Kalos region. She likes sweets and fashion. Auntie, you could send her so Kanto specialties, like Viridian Forest honey pancakes or Vermilion City's Magikarp sugar candies."
Natsu rattled off information like a rapid-fire combo, leaving Delia stunned.
"Natsu, why are you even investigating her?" Delia said, half laughing, half crying.
Natsu ignored the question, seriously stretching out his hand.
"Auntie Delia, if you settle this engagent, rember to give a big envelope full of cash."
Delia: "…"
After so small talk, the call ended.
At Oak's lab, Delia sat blankly at her desk, replaying the video compilation again and again.
"Oh dear, the more I watch, the more I want to see!" Her face glowed with motherly warmth.
When Professor Oak returned and she had so free ti, maybe she should travel to the Kalos region?
The thought suddenly struck her.
*Beep, beep!* Suddenly, her computer issued a warning.
Delia froze and closed the video, only to find an **Insufficient mory** warning pop up on her desktop.
"How can the mory be full?" she muttered in confusion, then noticed that the second file Natsu had sent had finally finished downloading.
Over a hundred tutorial videos, each starting at ten gigabytes or more.
Frowning, Delia opened the first video.
**Professor Natsu's Class Begins!**
"…"
**The aning of Scientific Research.**
"…"
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