Chapter 23: The Stealing Thorntail (and its Accomplice, Whom Is Still Unknown)

Chapter 23: The Stealing Thorntail (and its Accomplice, Whom Is Still Unknown)

At this time, Hemmer's Batgirl and Shun's Poison Rose were training on special moves on the private beach of the hotel. To be precise, they were mainly helping Shun's Poison Rose train on special moves.

Chi Haimo: "Ba Dadie, the wind blows!"

Butterfree immediately flapped its wings, and a strong wind rushed towards Xiao Shun's poisonous rose at an extremely fast speed.

Xiao Shun: "Poison rose, magic leaf!"

The poisonous rose spun its body gorgeously, and magic leaves shot out from the rose quickly, then collided violently with the wind-raising trick, and were crushed into powder by the wind again.

Why do we say "again" here? This is because Heimer and Xiaoshun have practiced like this for several times. Although Xiaoshun has always been reluctant to say why they suddenly want to do such training, Heimer has actually guessed it in his heart.

(Xiao Shun, probably because he was very unwilling to be knocked down by the silver whirlwind during the battle with Xiaoyao, he has been training the magic leaf of the poison rose.)

Xiao Shun: "Poison Rose, reduce the power and adjust the angle, try again, Magic Leaf."

Chi Haimo: "Bardalie, let's raise the wind again."

This time, the poisonous rose obviously reduced the power of the magic leaf. After the magic leaf was shot out from the rose, its speed slowed down visibly, while Butterfree's Wind was still as powerful as before.

I thought the result this time would be the same as before, but who knew that after Butterfree's Wind collided with Poison Rose's magic leaves, the magic leaves did not break into powder, but were simply bounced away by the wind.

After the magic leaf was bounced away, it suddenly launched another attack and shot directly at Butterfree. After being hit, Butterfree fell directly from the air.

Seeing this, Heimer immediately stepped forward and caught Butterfree with one jump.

Xiao Shun took the medicine and walked towards Heimer, while speaking to Heimer and Butterfree.

Xiao Shun: "Thank you for your hard work."

After taking the medicine, Heimer checked Butterfree's wound and said to Shun.

Chi Haimo: "So what you want to train is not the strength of the magic leaf, but how to prevent the magic leaf from being destroyed?"

Xiao Shun: "Well, since the magic leaf is a must-hit skill, you just need to make sure the magic leaf won't be destroyed."

After Heimer sprayed Batdie with medicine, he went back to the hotel with Xiao Shun to have dinner.

The hotel's restaurant is very luxuriously decorated, with very delicate heart-shaped fish carvings on the ceiling. And because the hotel is next to the sea, you can enjoy the sea view while eating.

What shocked Heimer even more was that during the meal, not only was there piano accompaniment, but there were also special waiters serving the dishes.

Xiao Shun: "Why are you in a daze? Aren't you going to eat?"

Xiao Shun was drinking soup with a spoon and said this while looking at Heimer who was in a daze.

Facing Xiao Shun's question, Heimer lowered his head a little embarrassedly and said.

Chi Haimo: "It's a waste of money."

Seeing this, Xiao Shun smiled and said.

Xiao Shun: "Don't worry, these meals are given by the hotel, so you don't have to worry."

Chi Haimo: "Eh? Really?"

Xiao Shun: "Well, eat it for me."

Chi Haimo: "Okay, leave it to me."

After finishing speaking, Heimer ate the various foods on the table with big mouthfuls. At this moment, a scream came from the kitchen.

Heimer and Xiaoshun looked over when they heard the sound and discovered that it was a stingray stealing food from the kitchen.

The stingtail insect nimbly escaped from the kitchen using a silk thread. As soon as the kitchen staff chased it out, the mop next to it fell down in a strange arc, and then the people who chased it were tripped by the mop and fell to the ground.

Taking advantage of this time, the spiny-tailed worm successfully escaped from the crime scene.

(It's really strange that there are stingrays in a place so close to the sea. Could it be that they were abandoned by someone?)

Xiao Shun: "Let's go."

Chi Haimo: "Oh, wait a minute."

Heimer and Xiao Shun were walking in the corridor of the hotel. At this moment, they were going to the hotel's Pokémon-only bathing area to help the Pokémon wash their bodies.

On the way to the bathing beach, Heimer suddenly stopped, as if he had thought of something.

Xiao Shun: "What's wrong?"

Chi Haimo: "Xiao Shun, I'm sorry, I have some things to go back and deal with."

When Xiao Shun saw that Heimer wanted to leave, he immediately grabbed his arm and spoke seriously.

Xiao Shun: "Remember what you said to your Poison Rose yesterday? Take him to the bathhouse today to give him a good bath."

Chi Haimo: "Oh, that's right."

Xiao Shun: "It's not nice to break your promise."

Seeing this, Heimer gave all his Poké Balls except Butterfree to Shun.

Chi Haimo: "Xiao Shun, leave it to you, I really have something to verify."

Xiao Shun: "I'm telling you, it's too casual to just hand over the Poké Ball to someone else like that."

In response to Xiao Shun's words, Heimer smiled at him and said.

Chi Haimo: "You are right. However, if it is a first-class coordination trainer like you, there will be no problem. I will leave Poison Rose and the others to you. I believe you will definitely take them to take the most comfortable bath."

After saying this, Heimer went to the restaurant where he had just eaten.

Seeing this, Xiao Shun hugged Heimer's Poké Ball, sighed softly, smiled and whispered.

Xiao Shun: "There's really nothing we can do about him."

After arriving at the restaurant, Heimer went to the kitchen where the accident had just happened and checked the place where the kitchen staff had just fallen.

(There are no suspicious traces. Could it have been cleaned up?)

Seeing that he couldn't find anything, Heimer went to ask a kitchen staff.

According to the staff, the stingray seemed to have been hiding in this hotel, and it appeared and disappeared mysteriously every time. Many trainers had been found before, but none of them had been able to catch the stingray. Finally, rumors of the hotel being haunted spread, and this incident gave the owner of the hotel a headache.

(But it’s strange, the fall of the mop was obviously caused by telekinesis or mental interference. The stingtail can’t have such a move, so, that means there must be another Pokémon, and that Pokémon should be able to use telekinesis or mental interference.)

After sorting out his thoughts, Heimer took out Butterfree's Poké Ball and released it.

There was a flash of white light, and Butterfree flapped his white wings and appeared in front of Heimer.

Chi Haimo: "Ba Dadie, I need you to do me a favor."

Butterfly: "Beep?"

After finishing what he wanted to do, Heimer returned to the door of his and Xiaoshun's room and knocked on the door carefully.

Xiao Shun opened the door with a serious face, looked at Heimer a little angrily and said.

Xiao Shun: "Where have you been? I've been waiting for you in the bathhouse for a long time."

After entering the room, Heimer immediately said very apologetically.

Chi Haimo: "I'm really sorry, Xiao Shun, I'm going to investigate what happened today with that stingtail insect."

Xiao Shun said a little helplessly after hearing this.

Xiao Shun: "It's more troublesome than it is worth to meddle in other people's business."

Chi Haimo: "So you also know about this."

Xiao Shun: "Yes, I heard about it on the first day I came to the hotel."

Chi Haimo: "Then let's catch this thief together tomorrow."

Xiao Shun: "No time."

Chi Haimo: "Eh? Why?"

When Xiao Shun heard what Heimer said, he suddenly became very angry and spoke very seriously.

Xiao Shun: "Because tomorrow is the day when the Kaina Conference begins."

(Oh, oops, I totally forgot. As a coordinator trainer, I didn’t even remember something as important as the start time of the Grand Contest. No wonder he was so angry. Well, but then again, I don’t plan to attend Gai’s contest myself.)

Chi Haimo: "Ah, I see. Sorry, maybe it's because I didn't plan to attend, so I didn't know."

After Xiao Shun turned around, he sighed softly, and then asked Heimer in a low voice.

Xiao Shun: "So, you are going to catch a thief in the restaurant tomorrow, right?"

Chi Haimo: "Well, yes, it is said that the boss will give a large bonus, then..."

Xiao Shun interrupted Heimer before he could finish.

Xiao Shun: "Okay, I'm not interested. By the way, your Poké Ball, I've cleaned it and put it on the desk. That's it for now, I'm going to sleep first."

Chi Haimo: "Oh, okay, do you want me to turn off the lights for you?"

After a moment of silence, Xiao Shun, who was lying on the other bed, nodded slightly.

So, Heimer got up and turned off the lights, ending the day.