Chapter 181:
Hayashi Kaede didn’t concern himself with Salance grudges and grievances—that was Salance’s business. His point was simply to direct this hatred appropriately and not affect the innocent.
Just like the story he had fabricated for Salance before.
If grievances have no specific target and debts no end to collect, hatred would breed hatred and only perpetuately cause hatred endlessly.
"Salance!" (So you an, you’ll let go find those people?)
Salance said with considerable excitent.
"Of course, I won’t stop you from that."
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
Putting himself in its place, if Hayashi Kaede were captured, subjected to daily blood draws and experints, and then regained freedom and power, he probably wouldn’t be much better off than Salance.
Just like the "League Champion" in the story.
So, Hayashi Kaede wouldn’t stop Salance from such matters.
"Salance!" (Good!)
Salance’s initial attitude toward Hayashi Kaede imdiately beca less resistant; in fact, it found him more and more agreeable.
This human was good.
Not only did he provide food every day, but now he wasn’t even obstructing its revenge.
It spread its wings, about to soar into the sky, but Hayashi Kaede tily called out, "Wait... don’t move recklessly! Hear out first."
"Salance?" Its wingbeats halted. Though excited, with wtwo still nearby, Salance could only obediently pause.
"What do you want to do now?"
"Salance!" (Get revenge!)
"Revenge?" Hayashi Kaede placed a hand on its wing. "Revenge? With what? They caught you once; they can catch you again. There are so many of them. Why do you think they’d fight you one by one?"
Salance’s mind blanked. It suddenly rembered that although its strength had recovered, it was at this sa strength level when it was captured before.
If its strength hadn’t changed, wouldn’t it just get captured again if it went now?
"Seeing your expression, you understand what I’m saying. So, focus on getting stronger first before talking about revenge."
Watching Salance’s Happiness value rise and then fall again, Hayashi Kaede patted its head. "During this ti, just stay well-behaved in the Berry Plantation...."
"Salance...."
Salance nodded seriously. Dragon-type Pokémon had long lives; it was only in its pri now. There was plenty of ti to grow stronger and then seek revenge.
Moreover, it could feel that growing stronger here was faster.
Doing the math, it wouldn’t take long at all—maybe it could soon get its revenge!
With a goal, Salance’s entire deanor beca spirited, as if reborn.
Seeing Salance like this, Hayashi Kaede smiled contentedly. His recent period of "earnest teaching" hadn’t been in vain.
....
After raising Salance’s friendship level again, Hayashi Kaede returned to the new kitchen in the garden.
He took out a bottle from his Storage Ball containing a black stone. The bottle was filled with quite a lot of liquid.
This was the Nether Stone w had brought him a couple of days ago.
Initially, he thought it was the one Darkrai had given to Kazephyr. But after w explained—saying it had taken the stone from that Darkrai itself—Hayashi Kaede breathed a sigh of relief.
But then, w imdiately took out a Moltres feather and told him *this* was what it had taken from the Moltres under Kazephyr.
Hayashi Kaede’s expression at that mont had utterly petrified.
Taking a stone from Darkrai, taking a feather from Moltres.
That was so like it...
Between surprise and amusent, he couldn’t help but ask, "Did they know you were taking these things?"
w shook its head.
"That won’t do. Taking things without asking is basically stealing. That’s not a good habit!" Hayashi Kaede had promptly tapped its forehead.
w’s reply at the ti was: "w~" (But they have plenty! These are just consumables for them. Besides, I like collecting odd things.)
It said it very casually.
Like Moltres feathers—if it took so, they would grow back. If it didn’t, they’d naturally molt during shedding season or they might even lose so feathers in battles with other Pokémon.
Hearing this, Hayashi Kaede imdiately found it interesting. "So by that logic, my food is also a consumable. Speaking of which, when you first ca here, you transford into a Pidgeotto and secretly ate my food."
"Here, let give you an example. See how you’d feel."
"Say, you guard the World Tree, right? The World Tree is your root. But there’s sothing on the World Tree that is a great treasure for humans."
"This treasure, as you said, regenerates automatically—it’s a consumable. Now, if a human secretly climbed the World Tree and without your permission, took this treasure, would you be happy?"
"w?"
This speech made w fall into deep thought imdiately. The World Tree was its root.
If the World Tree disappeared, it would vanish too, and the entire world’s ecosystem would be damaged.
Without its permission, it certainly wouldn’t like anyone causing any harm to the World Tree.
w shook its head. "w." (Not happy. The World Tree is very important.)
"Right, the principle is the sa. You also know that taking things without permission is behavior that makes others unhappy." Hayashi Kaede stroked its head. Seeing its thoughtful expression, he didn’t say more.
Ultimately, for a Pokémon like w, who knew how many years it had lived in this world—when it ca to principles, you could only guide it gradually and thodically, letting it realize things itself. Other thods wouldn’t work.
...
Turning back to look at the bottle soaking the Nether Stone, Hayashi Kaede fell into thought.
After w brought it out, he discovered that this stone, whether soaked in water or not, would slowly emit its energy.
However, if not soaked in water, this Dark-type energy would gradually cover the town, potentially turning it into a ghost town again. However, if placed in water, the emitted energy would slowly dissolve into the water.
Since that was the case, it was better to let it dissolve in water.
[Water soaked with the Nether Stone: When applied in cooking, seems to produce a miraculous change. Food made with this water naturally becos more attractive to Dark-type Pokémon.
Side effect: Might also summon nightmares, but can be counteracted with opposing energy.]
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