Paranoid of a Taboo

by Doctor Jans

A very skilled Pokémon Trainer in terms of training his Pokémon and battling others is super sensitive about sex, just thinking about it scares him. And when he winds himself into a mythical world with creatures that are not even Pokémon, it's up to the Pokémon Trainer and his Pokémon to survive the outcomes, challenges, and events that throw upon them.

7. Theoretically Invited

YAY! The full version has finally been released, yes that is right I have finally finished the full version of Chapter 7 after several months. School and Vacation were obstacles that were hard to overcome, but I still overcame them anyway. I also changed the title because it was irrelevant to this chapter. I hope you all enjoy, review, and K.I.T

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*Pant—pant—pant.* The sound of our heavy breathing continues to flood the very air, and ceases to rest. The five of us used up a little too much stamina in order to make it back, but that strong burst was what we needed to return before dark. As I clutched both of my knees and bent down gasping for air; I squeezed my eyes shut for the effects of getting light headed were creeping into my skull. A slight ringing can be heard by me, and it drowns out the other loud pants coming from Greninja, Latias, Reisen, and Lucario.

"Jin-san, we really should be heading in now." I heard Reisen remind me though her voice came out distorted from my point of view, however she gives me a light pat on my shoulder which immediately gets my attention.

I snapped out of my dizziness, and shook my head to regain my composure. It was at this moment that I realized we have been standing in front of the entrance for at least three minutes already. I couldn't help but pinch myself, thinking how we should have been inside the mansion a long time ago. And yet we were still standing outside for no particular reason, other than catching a quick breather.

"You're right Reisen-san, what on earth are we still doing out here?"

Looking around briefly, I can already see the entire forest slowly turning dark from the incoming night. The mansion itself was glowing with light coming from lanterns, and I can see little bulbs of strange light floating around the very building, as well as the forest.

Not wasting another second, I started walking into the entrance of Eientei with the four of my friends following after me. As we entered the foyer that would lead to the very rooms, I recalled what Reisen said to me about what happened to her.

"So Reisen-san, when you said you were assaulted, what exactly did you do to get yourself in that situation?" I inquired of the long, purple hair preteen girl apprehensively.

"It's rather complicated." Reisen replies as if she were under stress, I couldn't tell whether that conflict she had scarred her, or if it was just the fatigue from running.

Then Reisen began to sound really pressured now; her tone had a slight mixture of anger and confusion.

"I had some questions I wanted to ask so I went to the Scarlet Devil Mansion, however when I asked her my questions she grew furious and attacked me from there. Why she attacked me in the first place I forgot now, but it must have been something that the mistress didn't want to hear."

"If it was that bad, then maybe it'll be best if you don't try to remember what happened."

Since this topic seemed to bother her greatly; I took the initiative as her friend to drop the subject, I knew exactly how she felt.

By this time we had walked all the way to the door that would lead us to the patio outside. I slid open the authentic looking door, and was greeted by the kind nurse Eirin. She was sitting next to Kaguya who was looking up at the moon neutrally.

She turns her head around to face me and the four behind; greeting us happily. "Ah Jin, Reisen, everybody welcome back."

The five of us dart outside into the patio; Greninja, Reisen, and Latias moved with great haste, while Lucario made his way next to Kaguya and sat down next to her. They seemed awfully close now, and I can't help but assume that their battle was responsible for their sudden friendship. Actually it's quite obvious by now that these two are getting along perfectly since last night's match.

Initially I was going to greet Eirin back, however I had that one question stuck in mind that really needs to be spit out, and the answer must be quick.

"How's progress on that medicine?" I asked somewhat hastily as soon as a sat down next to Eirin.

I was able to control my tone just enough so it sounded polite. She was so kind, and I can clearly understand what time and effort she has to put into this medicine. But since this was a first-aid related thing; something that will save my Pokémon's life at the most urgent times ever, I really needed it now.

"I thought you would ask me that." She answers with confidence and a smile is on her face, which sends a wavering feeling into me.

"As a matter of fact I finished, the medicine is all done."

Euphoria instantly floods my body and my heart pounds like a Hammer Arm attack. I barely manage to refrain myself from screaming in joy, and demanding Eirin for answers about it.

"That's amazing Eirin-chan!" I cheered with my voice cracking a little when I yelled the word "amazing." While I kept myself from overreacting, I couldn't refrain myself from leaning towards the nurse with the silver hair, and hugging her tightly.

"I can't thank you enough, my Pokémon will be so grateful!"

And I felt like I couldn't be grateful enough, this was perfect! Eirin has finally finished something I needed real badly, and best of all she would have spent plenty of time studying my medical items frequently.

It's great for her because that's what she wanted to do.

I felt Eirin's arms and hands wrap around my back. I knew she was returning the hug but she must have felt awkward from my sudden burst of gratitude, because she wasn't tightening her grip. After a while, she sighs happily and puts more effort into hugging me back. I am grinning now; the happy energy rushing through me like adrenaline overfeeds my excitement.

"You're welcome, and I can't thank you enough either. Your medical items were very interesting to work with." Her appreciation praises me greatly, I was feeling like the happiest man on earth.

But that feeling wears off shortly afterwards, because when we let each other go there serious look on her face. That sudden change wiped the grin off my face, and something immediately told me that whatever Eirin was about to say can't good. After a few seconds she flashes an optimistic grin at me, although still smiling a twitching anger mark appears around her forehead.

"However I think you should start controlling your Pokémon a little better, because a lot happened after I nursed those three back to health." She tells me as if trying her best not to burst out shouting angrily.

"What do you mean?" I asked Eirin, sounding unnerved to her stern statement.

Suddenly I see some white stuff at the corner of my eye; I sprung up immediately to get an eyeful of something unexpected. There is thread all over the roofs of Eientei! I could see nets of them lying everywhere like streamers!

I hopped off the patio and ran around the building in distress, as I simultaneously turned my head to observe it I saw even more thread hanging over the edge and swaying there. A lot was on the porch rails too!

"Are you serious?!" I growl incoherently after stopping next to another area of Eientei with more thread spread out onto the walls, rails, and roof. I knew exactly who was responsible for this mess.

"Genesect, get over here now!" I hollered firmly.

I was definitely loud enough because I could hear the sound of drones. They got louder and a few moments later I saw the cybernetic invert hovering above the roof of Eientei, in its High-Speed Flight form.

Tewi was also on its back, riding it!

My arms were crossed and I pushed my glasses up with my finger as Genesect slowly descends, and morphs into its normal form. After it lands on its feet, the smaller rabbit girl hops of its back cannon girlishly. My face remains both disappointed and serious, as Genesect tilts its head to face the ground in shame.

"I want to know what's going, and what you both were thinking." I scolded sternly.

Tewi chuckles nervously and places both hands on the back of her head. "Hehe, let me just say I wasn't being the best pilot."

"What in Arceus' name compelled you to hitch a ride on my Genesect's back in the first place?"

"I was bored, I just wanted something to do."

Well Tewi is certainly lying to herself now when she said she had stuff to do, she seriously couldn't have come with us earlier?! I was about inform her on that, but I knew it wouldn't be relevant and I wanted to stay on topic right now.

"Did you make sure Genesect trusted you first? And that it was okay with you riding on its back?" I express my inpatients to Tewi.

"No." She replies in guilt, "I ended up making it nervous because I was gripping its body to hard, I was also screaming and giving it light kicks with my feet."

Hearing this from her causes me to groan irritably, I shook my head while pinching the bridge of my nose. "Of course you did, that's why you need start slow with my Pokémon first. I've already told you about this before."

I continue to scold the little trouble maker before turning my attention towards Genesect, even though it didn't do this intentionally, it still did it and will have to make up for it.

"And I hope you'll learn your lesson too next time Genesect, you are better than this."

"Chick chick, bitz..." It clicks and buzzes in more shame while shaking its head with regret, it was definitely sorry for what it did.

I nod my head to tell it that I accepted its apology, before pulling out Genesect's Pokeball and instinctively bringing it back inside.

"I'm sorry too Jinny." Tewi says sincerely, but before I could calm down and accept her apologize too, she abruptly grabs a hold of my wrist and pulls me somewhere.

"And about that giant kitty, Raikou or whatever." An edgy Tewi mumbles as we run up the porch and into the building.

"What in the shit?" I cursed as soon as we ended up in the hallway with the sliding doors.

The entire placed was beat up; there were scratch and teeth marks everywhere! The walls and the doors were covered in them, and I can even see small gaps or holes. Tewi and I instantly ran down the hallway to search for Raikou.

"Raikou! Where in the hell are you?!" I screamed.

Like I said I'm usually very mellow unless someone talks Bouffalant shit about my Pokémon, but I also get highly annoyed when people do bad things, and then I'm the one held responsible for them. And I knew it wasn't like my Pokémon to do this at all; they're well behaved most of the times.

We continue to dart hallway through hallway, but Raikou was nowhere to be seen. About a few seconds of running left had past, and then something unexpectedly occurs.

I felt something skip across my feet, this startles me, and I halt my running with Tewi to turn around swiftly and look down. Tewi copies me and gasped, I saw my little tripper to be a small creature on four stubby legs, with two round, floppy ears, and a bushy, cotton ball tail.

I had no idea whether this little guy was a Bunnelby, a Buneary, or a real actual rabbit.

It continues darting down the long hallway to the right letting out squeak-like screams, the poor thing looked terrified and even had tears coming out of its eyes. I saw the chibi creature running in the opposite direction Tewi and I were running earlier. Eventually it does a sharp turn at the end, and goes completely out of sight.

One thing kept happening after another, and it was at this time that we both heard the roar from my legendary cat.

Upon hearing that roar we both turned back to the left, and there he was!

He was running towards us so fast we didn't have time to react; he appeared to be focusing on seeking out a target, so he didn't pay attention to us. Regardless, I did risky move and jumped right in front of Raikou; grabbing him by his chest, and pulling him down to the ground to halt his movements.

"Raikou calm down! What the hell!" I yelled out in a guttural tone.

The troublemaker squirmed around in my hold for a bit, before realizing it was me and coming to a complete stop.

After Raikou calmed down, we both got up. Tewi could tell I was ready to snap again so she hopped in front of me, and began her explanation.

"Before my little ride with your robot bug, Genesect or whatever, I was showing it off to my Earth Rabbit friends. That little creature you saw earlier was an Earth Rabbit, just like me except not in human form."

She then turns her attention to Raikou who was being rather docile.

"And then suddenly kitty over here comes out of nowhere, and tries to pounce on one of the rabbits. They all retreated but one was being chased by him, I didn't know if he was hungry or in a bad mood, but he was hunting down the Earth Rabbit!"

Sounding devastated Tewi catches a quick breather before carrying on her explanation.

"He must have chased the poor thing inside Eientei, which explains the—destruction that happened here!"

Trying to get to the bottom of all this, I make another inquire to Tewi. "Has Raikou even eaten yet? Did you or your masters made sure he was fed properly?"

"I tried to stop Raikou but he kept pushing me away, and later on he was too fast for me!" She exclaims sounding almost like she was at the verge of tears.

"Calm down Tewi-san, just tell me if Raikou had any food today. Eirin told me she was going to nurse him and the other two while Reisen, the others, and I were away."

"No!" She shouts in guilt and devastation, "I'm so sorry Jinny! Eirin-sama, Kaguya-sama, and I didn't know what kind of food he can eat! Or what any of your—Pokémon eat!"

Well now I know the reason as to why Raikou was chasing down Tewi's Earth Rabbit friend earlier. But I start to feel terrible when I saw tears of shame starting to form in Tewi's eyes. "It's okay Tewi-san, it's my fault actually. I should have told you more about my Pokémon sooner. You don't have to cry, or get overexcited."

She sniffles a single time and looks at me with a sorry face. "No its mines, I never listen to what you say, and I do things without thinking at all. I am-"

I placed a hand on Tewi's head and cut her off by petting her; I couldn't bear to hear her putting herself down any longer.

"Tewi-san its fine, I do the exact same thing too, just as Lucario says." I say trying to be optimistic.

"What matters is that we learn from our mistakes, and try to prevent them from happening again."

We continue looking at each other before she sniffles again, a small smile appears on the little girl's face, and she wipes her tears away using both her hands.

"Yeah, you're right Jinny. You are absolutely right." She replies calmly.

"And I hope you learned a little something too Raikou, I know you better as a Legendary Pokémon than some crazed animal with problems."

My comparison earns a purr of relief, and he walks up to us rubbing against Tewi's belly and mine's just like how a Glameow showing affection would. We both laughed before I took out Raikou's Pokeball and brought him back in.

After I clipped the ball back onto my fanny pack, I heard a bellowing roar echoing from a distance, and through the walls. I immediately recognized the roar to be Charizard's, and urgently sprinted down the hall looking for a nearby exit. Tewi followed behind me and we both found an exit door that would take us outside.

From my perspective, I heard the roar to be coming from the far side of the mansion. We ran there and came across a horrible sight.

The side of Eientei which was the porch scorched! That means Charizard must have used a Fire Type Attack and almost burned down the building itself!

"Holy fucking Arceus!" I screamed in both anger and distress, "Charizard what is the meaning of this?!"

"What have you done?!" Tewi gasped in distress and grabs her ears; pulling them down while gritting her teeth.

Actually the area appeared more singed, though there were some small areas that were completely charcoaled; thankfully it looked like someone doused it just in time.

Despite that though, I was still pissed. I scowled at the orange, fire dragon firmly, but looking at him more told me that he didn't do it intentionally. It actually concerned me more, because he appeared to be hyperventilating and his pupils were shrunk, the colors in his eyes were faded; almost cloudy.

"And what happened to you?" I asked anxiously.

Seeing that freaked me out, because for my Charizard to be looking like that meant that something out there must have tried to attack him, but what? Then I heard rustling in the bushes, Charizard swiftly turns to face them, but swings his head around in random directions. He makes a startled grunt before slowly stepping backwards in spastic movements; I could notice Charizard trembling slightly at the corner of my eye.

"It better not be who I think it is." The little rabbit girl, stunned with emotion grumbles as she too was facing the bushes.

They continued to rustle for a while longer before a figure finally pops up.

"What's all this yelling and cursing going on?" the figure asked in curiosity.

I'm getting a good look at the figure right now, she's a female. This little girl has grey eyes, pink hair, pointed ears like a Noctowl, and light pink bird-like wings with purple highlights. She is dressed in white and brown clothing, and her hat and dress contain numerous bird-shaped ornaments.

Though only half her body was seen at the moment, I saw at the corner of my eye a glimpse of her green fingernails. Holy Arceus, they were as long as the claws on a Sneasel, or longer!

"What the, who are you?" I asked the strange, bird like girl bluntly.

Tewi and I just saw a roasted porch, and then for someone to appear out of nowhere and act like she has no clue what's happening is pretty damn odd.

"Hey! There's no need to get all impudent with me mister!" She snaps back at me with a scowl. "I just wanted to know what was happening that's all!"

"That is totally none of your business right now!" Tewi barks at the girl with her hands on her hips. It's obvious that she doesn't get along with the mysterious bird female.

"Well whatever, so you there you're a human right?" She questions me with sass in her voice. "What's your name?"

"It's Sakurai Jin." I rushed a reply to her. "And now isn't really the time for introductions, an area was just set on fire and-"

"Nice to meet you Sakurai-san, my name is Mystia Lorelei." The girl introduced herself casually, not at all aware of the current situation right now. "In case if you're new here I'll tell you who I am, I'm a Night Sparrow. I'm those of what everyone calls me, nocturnal."

Her cheeky attitude was starting to drive me nuts, and I'm not enjoying her arrogant nature either.

"Raooh~!" Charizard suddenly roars in fear, I think the sound from this girl now known as Mystia Lorelei's voice was the cause of his cry of anxiety.

Surprised Tewi and I turn to face him; he is blindly running into the wooden poles that connect with the porch. His head is swinging in random directions, and every clash his head makes with the poles makes a loud thud noise.

"Charizard, what's going on?" I asked in both concern and confusion, I can't understand what's gotten in to Charizard all of a sudden.

"Cherry-zard?" She rehashes his name incorrectly, almost intentionally. "Say does that dragon creature by any chance belong to you?"

I spun around in shock, hearing that sentence gave me a sense that this Midnight Bird or whatever had an encounter with my Charizard before. "What do you mean by belong to me?" I questioned her suspiciously.

"Did you do something to Charizard while Jinny was away?" Tewi inquires of Mystia with the same exact tone as me.

"I was doing my usual routine of singing my songs of confusion in order to drive any nearby humans insane."

She slowly steps out of the bush and closer to us, her full body has now been revealed and she appears to be as short as Tewi.

"And I know my songs sometimes attracts nearby youkai as well, because suddenly this giant, dragon like creature appeared in-front of me!"

I can see her pointing one of her long, green fingernails rudely at Charizard, who was flailing wildly about. I immediately send him back into his Pokeball to prevent anymore destruction from happening to both the porch and himself.

"I never seen anything like that thing before, and it appeared threatening to me."

"So you blinded him with your night-time blindness ability?" Tewi jumped to conclusions, her arms were folded and she had a look of disgust on her face.

"Of course I did! It was out of self-defense and-"

"YOU BLINDED MY CHARIZARD?!" I hollered out of concern and anger; cutting off the girl responsible for Charizard's weird behavior.

Like Kaguya last night, Mystia shows no signs of reaction to my snapping, instead she continues with her tone totally unchanged

"Like I said, it was out of self-".

"Did Charizard do anything to you?!" I firmly asked her and cut her off again.

"He started breathing fire all over the place and-"

"Did Charizard do anything to you?! Answer the question!" I repeated even more firmly, I wasn't going to put up with her irrelevance any longer.

"No he didn't, calm down! I usually blind people at night for fun, but this time I panicked and used my night-blindness as my first initial response! I didn't think it would actually work on your dragon thing! My ability is supposed to work only on humans!"

I couldn't calm down with what just happened to my Charizard, but I can give this—Night Sparrow credit for being honest at the very least.

"Do you know what you did could have also cost your life too?! I know for a fact that after you blinded my Charizard, he must have freaked out and started breathing fire everywhere. And because he couldn't see at all, he almost burned down Eientei without even being aware of what he was doing!"

I squeezed my eyes shut and made an annoyed breath. Gensokyo is just beautiful, and most of the residence living here has been very kind to me and my Pokémon. I even admitted to myself that it's my fault for letting my Pokémon go off my supervision, and for not telling the ones who live here about them. But honestly, I still would appreciate it if some of them residence of Gensokyo got some sense in their heads.

"Well never mind, I'll forgive you this time because I just met you, and I hadn't told you anything about me and my Pokémon."

I knew I was going to run into more predicaments like this in the future that would lead to fights much worse than right now, so instead of arguing further I just ended the subject here.

"What's a Poe-kay-man?" Mystia questions cheekily.

"Tewi-san can you explain everything to her please, there's something I need to do." I requested Tewi as I had just remembered the invitation I got from Meiling, well she didn't technically give it to me, but she told Lucario and I in words to come over tonight.

"Um—sure." She replies nonchalantly and turns her attention on the arrogant Mystia Lorelei.

By this time I had taken off running and left the two little girls to talk in private, I came to a conclusion that letting my Pokémon roam free in Gensokyo or anywhere was a terrible idea. To tell the truth, this actually wasn't the first time this has happened. I once got kicked out of Lavender Town's Pokémon Center for letting my Pokémon run free in the building, it was several years ago. Even though the only two Pokémon I had with me were Riolu and Charmeleon, there was still total destruction and chaos, and I had to take full responsibility for it. Now I have six Pokémon I'll have to deal with, and on top of that I have to go through more possible incidents involving them and the residence of Gensokyo.

I tried pushing this inevitable thought out of my head, but it didn't do any good.

I eventually made back to the area that Eirin was earlier, as well as Lucario and Kaguya who had been talking together about something. Greninja and Latias were huddled next to Eirin for whatever reason, and I took out their Pokeballs.

"I think it's time you two return." I state seriously before earning confused cries from both of them, I opened their Pokeballs and took both Pokémon back inside quickly. Then I instantly walked over to Lucario with his ball in my hand.

"You too buddy."

But as the ball was halfway to his face, Lucario turns around and raises his paw to tell me to wait.

"Jin I've been thinking about this a lot, and I want to be free from my Pokeball from now on." Lucario's stated, his request was totally irrelevant to the situation right now. "Even for three days I've grown to really enjoy this place, and I want to learn more about it."

"Buddy you can't, didn't you see what happened to Eientei while we were away?" I protested.

"What are you talking ab-oh." He cuts himself off as he looks around a single time and witnesses the vandalized mansion.

"When on earth did this ha-" Lucario asks but was interrupted by me, as I had anticipated his question.

"Charizard, Genesect, and Raikou did this. They didn't do it intentionally, but I still had to call them back in. It's just not safe to have them roaming around, especially in a world like this."

He shakes his head in disagreement, "But why does this have to apply to me too? I mean, I haven't been doing anything wrong."

"He does have a point there Jin-san." Kaguya suddenly joins in to Lucario's defense, "I've gotten to know Lucario-san for some time now, and he's not the kind of youkai that would cause mischief at all. Plus aren't you two rather close?"

I noticed right away that Kaguya doesn't seem upset about her vandalized mansion. This surprises me because even though Kaguya was usually calm about most things, its her own estate and she should be doing something about it.

"I'm not doing this only because I don't want my Pokémon to destroy your mansion Kaguya-san, which I'm sure you should be worrying about right now! But I'm doing this for their safety; some nocturnal bird like girl just blinded my Charizard earlier!"

"You mean that pesky Night Sparrow, Mystia Lorelei?" The Moon Princess adds sounding slightly alarmed. "You know how dangerous she can be a night don't you? Ah pardon me, I should have told you and Lucario-san about her sooner."

"It's kind of okay now since I got to meet her in person, but that's beside the point." I switched tones and got Lucario's Pokeball ready again. "Lucario, I want you to go back inside your Pokeball now."

"Come on Jin please!" He begs, which kind of creates a scene between a child and his or her parents.

"You and I have been traveling together for years, ever since we were young! Why can't we recreate those memories now, and do the same thing like we always did in the past?! We're best friends forever aren't we?!"

"Yes we are but-" and then Kaguya cuts me off to defend Lucario again.

"He's absolutely right Jin-san; he needs you just as much as you'll need him. Think about it, you're in Gensokyo, a place that can put your life at risk anytime. I know a human like you wouldn't stand a chance against the youkai here, and my pet and attendant can't keep tagging along with you every second of the day or night. You were lucky you actually had friends with you when you ended up in Gensokyo, because an outsider like you is definitely going to need all the help a human can get."

Suddenly I feel her hand touch mines; the same one holding Lucario's Pokeball. She pushes it down until she had my hand pointing straight to the ground.

"And it just so happens that Lucario-san told me earlier he wanted to get stronger so he can take on others like me in the future. He also told me that a Pokémon grows stronger through bonding, and that means spending quality time with their trainer."

Then something inside me opened up, something that snapped some sense into my brain. I just was drawn by her words; she had a really good point! I couldn't believe how foolish I was being right now! I'm in a world with no Pokémon except the ones I have with me now, and then I have this attitude like I don't want them to be here.

What the fuck's gotten into me?! Was it the stress of them meeting others here in this world, or was it just my character?

I let Kaguya's words sink in for quite a long time, I continue thinking about what she said before eventually letting loose a deep breath.

"—Yes Kaugya-san, buddy, it's not about keeping you and the other five safe. It's about having each other."

I adjust my glasses and shrunk the Pokeball; clipping it back on my fanny pack.

"But let's make a compromise Lucario." I say seriously.

"I'll let you roam free from your Pokeball for now on, but just you only. Having all six of you out here at once will be too much trouble. Trust me, I understand what you and Kaguya-san said, but let's try get more familiar with this world before letting everyone out okay?"

Lucario didn't even ponder for a second; he nods in agreement as he was already happy with my acceptation of being outside his Pokeball for now on.

"Thank you so much Jin! You don't know how much this means to me!"

I chuckle bashfully to his loud gratitude and placed a hand on Lucario's shoulder.

Suddenly Kaguya makes a reminder that made both of us snap into realization. "Shouldn't you two be getting ready? I believe Lucario-san also told me about his and your invitation to the Scarlet Devil Mansion for dinner, you both should be getting ready because it's already dark."

Our eyes immediately budged, and we turn our head to face the sky. Kaguya was right, it was dark blue, and then I turned to my Poketch to see that it was 7:30 PM!

Holy Mother of Arceus, I didn't even realized how dark it was getting since our return at Eientei!

"That's right! Lucario we made a promise that we will be there, and now we're going to be late!" I exclaimed. With that said, I instantly bolted into the building in front of the patio we were all sitting on. I can hear Lucario getting up and darting after me, when he caught up Lucario throws a comment at me.

"I think you were the one who promised that Chinese lady, not me."

I scoffed at that comment and returned with a sassy one. "Yeah I'm not the one who wanted to battle with her, and I definitely didn't call her a Fighting Type."

"You're really going to go through this again?" He says as if my earlier sentence was full of guff.

We ran through a couple hallways and pass a few corners; suddenly I saw Eirin walking towards our direction, and I did my best to halt myself so I didn't crash into the nurse.

"Woah Jin-kun, and Lucario! What's the rush?" The silver haired woman inquires to the both of us.

"It's a long story, but Jin and I were invited to a place called the Scarlet Devil Mansion." Lucario says .

Eirin grew alarmed as soon as Lucario told her; it was clearly obvious that I had forgotten to tell her about this earlier. Seriously, how many times has this happened already?! Others getting shocked because nothing was told to them earlier, it's getting ridiculous!

"The Scarlet Devil Mansion? Who invited you to a glamorous place like that?"

"We'll explain everything to you later Eirin-chan, but for the time being could you tell us where we could get a bath."

I remembered telling Meiling that we would have to get ready before coming over to her place, and having not taken a bath for days gave me my first initial task.

"Yeah we could really use one right now, it's been quite a while already, and my trainer smells like Tauros shit."

"Not funny." I growled at Lucario's uncalled for quote, which results to him rolling his eyes.

"Why of course." She happily accepts our request.

"If you both continue to go down, and make two turns to the left, you'll come across a hot spring with soap and shampoo already prepared. Since it's an outdoor bath so we made sure the water always stays hot."

"That's awesome, thank you very much Eirin-chan!" We both thanked Eirin in unison and bolted forward; racing against the time we had.

Though for a second, I swore I heard the nurse attempting to tell us something else, but we had already run too far to hear her.

After following her directions, we came across a sliding door. Lucario swings it open with a hasty movement, and we were met with a relatively massive pool. Thick steam arose from the water, and there were rocks and boulders placed around various edges of the pool.

We both enter through the door and outside; even from a distance I could feel the heat emanating from the spring.

"This is Eirin's idea of a bath?" Lucario asks himself; not hearing her words earlier.

I didn't care though, I was in desperate need for a bath, and here was one in front of us right now. I walked closer to the spring getting a face full of hot steam, I astonished by how hot this was feeling right now. It feels like all the Fire Type Pokémon in the world used their Fire Type Attacks on this one pool of water. And it was just from steam too, imagine how the actual water would feel. I couldn't wait to go in and actually feel the water first hand, though Lucario and I would have to take a quick bath with Meiling's invitation in mind.

Then a realization comes to me that made me want to shoot myself in the face.

I didn't bring my changing clothes with me before asking Eirin for a bath! Goddamn it, now I would have to retrace my steps and run back to my room to get them. We were really going to make Meiling mad now, well that was until I ended up seeing them perfectly folded on one of the medium boulder rocks.

While I did sigh in relief due to convince, I also grew suspicious when they appeared in front of my face, who brought them here?

I didn't bother trying to think about who did it; all I wanted now was to get clean. I was feeling quite of itchy and irritable from being in these dirty, sweaty clothes for a couple days. But of course I was hesitant on taking them off, I mean Lucario and I are in an outdoor bath right now, so what if someone sees's us. And for your information I do not get embarrassed stripping in front of Lucario or my other Pokémon mind you, I bathed with Lucario all the time since he was a Riolu and I was a kid. He's a Pokémon for Arceus sake, he doesn't wear clothes to begin with, and he definitely wouldn't even think about dirty things!

So wasting no more time, I went into taking off my glasses, then my shirt, and so on.

"Aw Jin please, not in front of me." I heard Lucario groan. "Maybe as juveniles that's fine, but your almost a grown man. I don't want to see the exposed parts on a grown man, that's fucking disgusting."

"Oh, so you'd rather see a nude woman in front of your eyes then." I riposted, scoffing at his immaturity.

"I know you wouldn't, you freak out when you catch even a glimpse of one, oh Mr. Prude." he mocks.

I scoffed again, Lucario can be quite a push over at times. Anyway I had all my dirty clothes off of me now, and they were thrown to a random part of the ground, I was—nude—with the exception of my glasses which were still on my face. My skin was crawling with excitement at the thought of that boiling hot water touching my skin, as it was still fall the air around me was pretty damn cold. Feeling it nip at my skin combined with the feeling of warmth emitting from the hot spring made me shiver.

I walked around the rim of the spring until I was close to the area where I saw my changing clothes, I was pleased to see that there was shampoo, soap, and a towel next to my clothes already prepared. Slowly but eagerly, I dipped my foot into the shallow part of the spring.

"Wow!" I exclaimed, this water is definitely a lot hotter than the steam, but holy shit this felt really good!

This is the hottest water my skin has ever touch in my life, hotter than any of the springs and bath houses I went into before. I didn't waste another second before putting my full body deep into the rest of the calm water. It took me a while to adjust to the warmth of the water because of how hot it was, it's not so hot that it'll scald my skin, but the way I can describe it is like this.

Have you ever had a sand bath before, where they bury you in warm sand up to your neck? If you have then imagine you are buried up in warm, sun heated sand, but all the sand you are buried in is in a pot. The pot is being heated by fire on a stove; that is set to around medium heat. That was what I was feeling right now, and after I finally got used to the heat I brought myself to the deeper part of the spring until only my head wasn't submerge. I then rested my back against one of the steps and sat down, the hot water felt so comfortable; it forced a deep breath of relief and satisfaction out of my mouth.

"Lucario aren't you coming in?" I conjectured and sighed again to the cozy warmth of the water.

"Yeah, the water is really nice." He answered, but it didn't sound relevant to my question.

When I looked around the spring, I saw that Lucario had already gotten into the water before I did. His fur grew dark in color due to the water, and he was currently scrubbing himself with shampoo from top to bottom.

"You really should hustle up on cleaning or we're going to be late."

But I wasn't alarmed with the time we had right now, I think the warmth of the water has taken effect of me because all I wanted to do was relax. I closed my eyes and let loose a third deep sigh, this was feeling even warmer than the heater in my room, and the table blankets in the living room.

However I did remember how smelly I was so using slow but ensure movements, I reached out a hand with my eyes still closed and instinctively grabbed the soap.

It was a big, bulky block that just barley fitted in the palm of my hand. I slowly started to scrub my body with the soap subconsciously because I was now in a trance. Then my scrubbing grew vigorous, I scrubbed my chest, legs, arms, belly, everywhere. As I was scrubbing my back roughly, the fucking soap decides to come alive and slip right out of my hand with a squish.

"Oh for the love of mother fucking Kangaskhan!" I growled incoherently and opened my eyes again to search for the runaway bar of soap.

I didn't feel like taking my body out of the water even halfway, and have the cold air nip my wet skin. So instead I sort of trotted my way across the water, my full body still submerged. Even though the water itself was pretty clear, I still found myself unable to find the damn soap, and the steam didn't make it any easier either.

After only three rounds of searching, I already gave up. I swam my way back to the spot I was earlier so I could scrub my head with shampoo.

I hadn't seen Lucario at all during my short trip back. The steam seems to be really good at obscuring visions, and then again it was a rather large spring so he could have swam to a very far spot.

I sat back down the moment my destination was reached; I hastily grabbed the bottle of shampoo and flicked the cap off. Then I brought the bottle above my head, and squeezed out a great amount of soapy lube onto it. After squeezing out the large amount I needed onto my head, I started scrubbing it vigorously with both hands so the gloppy shampoo became one with my hair.

And of course to prevent the soap from getting into my eyes, I squeezed them shut. I also placed my glasses aside, and used some of the suds to scour my face.

When my face, hair, and head were cleansed thoroughly, I dipped my entire head into the water to wash all the suds off.

As I felt the water around me, and I was brushing my hair and face to rid the suds faster, I felt someone tap my shoulder. At first I had no idea who, as my entire body was completely underwater I couldn't see at all. Assuming it was Lucario, I instinctively ascended my head out of the water and called to him.

"Buddy do you need something?"

I was busy rubbing the water out of my eyes so I didn't ask him directly. But when I got a reply, I realized it wasn't his voice at all.

"Jin-san, were you looking for this?"

It was the voice of a female and it sounded very familiar, but the water's intense warmth had already sunk into me because I was too relax to care at the moment.

"Uh yes, thank you very much." I said, I already knew what it was, and brought my hand forward to get it placed into my hands.

"Anytime, yeah I always seem to have trouble handling the soap bars too."

And with a plop, I felt the bar of soap land on top of my palm. By now I had rubbed enough water out of my eyes so I could open them, after I opened my eyes I immediately placed the soap bar aside, and took my glasses to put them back on.

I was now thoroughly washed, and was ready to take my clean body out of the spring to dry off.

"If you see Lucario, can you tell him to wrap it up so we can go please?" I asked, though I felt like I had no idea who I was talking to.

"Of course, if I can find him that is." The voice replies.

Some of the steam seemed to have cleared out, and a feminine figure came into view. It was Reisen, it turned out the female voice I was hearing earlier was her's.

"Oh hey there Reisen-san." I greeted with the tone I usually used when I see friends again. After she looks at me and gives me a small wave, I wave at her back and proceeded to turn around to step out of the spring.

I was walking up the shallow area with my body a quarter and a half out of the boiling spring water, until suddenly I had that feeling of something being totally wrong. I was completely snapped out of my trance.

"Wait, Reisen-san?! Y-you're…" I stammered before turning back to face her in a swift, frantic movement.

Reisen was also completely naked! Though her head and shoulders weren't submerged, her light skin was exposed, and looked paler under the water. Her long, purple hair was tied back into a medium sized bundle. I could briefly see her curves that would be the shape of her breasts. Her ears were soaked from the hot water, and many droplets of water on it would slide down her neck, and around certain sections of her nude figure. Through the water, Reisen appeared to be resting on her knees with her arms on them, and her legs squeezed together to cover her—you know what.

All I could think was "holy fuck!" as my heart pounded rapidly, like a Pokémon was using Mach Punch on it.

And the next thing I knew, my face started to tense up greatly, and grow bright red. Gritting my teeth and cringing in extreme embarrassment, I realized that not only was I seeing the preteen girl naked, but a certain appendage right below my crotch was being completely exposed!

"O-oh-OH MY FUCKING ARCEUS! I'M SO SORRY!" I shouted in pure horror, and rushed out of the spring as fast as I could, while covering my private area with one hand. With the other, I simultaneously fumbled to grab my changing clothes, and ran back to the building feeling greatly ashamed.

No one told me this was a public bath!

As I flung the door open and bolted inside, I kept feeling that overwhelming shame burning in my soul.

"What have I done?!" I asked myself mentally as I took cover in the nearest guest room to put clothes on my naked figure.

"First I accidentally groped Keine-chan's breast, and now I see my female friend in the bath?! What kind of sick fuck was I?"

As I threw on my T-shirt hastily, I began to have horrific thoughts on what Reisen would think, and how she would react to me seeing her exposed. My mind races violently, and my throbbing chest never ceases.

I slipped into my boxers and pants with a great rush of speed before taking the towel I had with me to dry my hair.

Now fully clothed, I step out of the guest room trembling slightly. I proceeded to power-walk my way to the patio, since Lucario wasn't done yet I would have to wait for him outside.

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Normal P.O.V

Reisen just sits there in her spot of the spring completely motionless, her mind was having trouble piecing together what she had just saw. It all happened so fast, but even during those brief twenty seconds she got a perfect look at something completely new to her.

With Gensokyo being mostly female populated, this was the first time she has seen a human male nude. The rabbit girl with long, purple hair had only seen pictures of them on medical charts or models in the operation room where Eirin usually works. And to see one in person (not to mention it was her friend that she had met two days ago) was rather intriguing.

Yes Jin also saw her naked body, but Reisen seems more perplexed than upset.

That perplexity gradually shifted into excitement, and Reisen's body started to feel hot. This heat was way different unlike the intense warmth of the hot spring, it felt like an adrenaline rush. Her chest pounds roughly and she felt certain areas of her body tingle.

"What is this feeling?" Reisen questions herself as her cheeks flushed with arousal.

She didn't know how to describe the warming excitement rushing throughout her entire body, but she does have sense on what triggered it. When she saw Jin's naked figure walking out of the spring, she got a perfect look at his cock. She also has never seen a real male genital in her life, so this was also her first time seeing one in person. As much as it embarrassed her to do it, she admitted to herself that she liked it. It looked so intriguing; it was so amazing to look at in perfected eye view, even during those short seconds.

Soon the sight of her very first genital got the best of her, and Reisen started having dirty thoughts about it. She started imagining on how it would feel between her hands or her breast; she wanted to touch it. Reisen wanted to grab that meat of Jin's and knead it through her hearts content. What Reisen saw had to be one of the most interesting things she has ever seen in her life, she couldn't wait to get another look at it.

"Reisen? You're taking a bath in this spring too?"

A curious voice that suddenly makes way immediately startles Reisen and snaps her back into reality.

Her embarrassment rose up and she started blushing hard, Reisen was really close to touching her private area. Even though it underwater, with someone being in the spring with her she didn't want to risk being caught.

"Huh! Uh-y-yeah. I-I mean this hot spring is opened up for anyone right?" She replies with stutters as she now finds the voice to be Lucario's. He was under the water the whole time, though his voice didn't sound distorted because he doesn't speak through his mouth.

Lucario rises from the water next to Reisen, and begins to shake off the excess water from his fur. After he finishes, he looks over at Reisen who covered her eyes from the splashing caused by Lucario's shaking earlier.

"Are you okay Reisen? You look flushed." The observant Pokémon asked the Moon Rabbit which made her really nervous.

"Wha-n-no, no it's just the heat from this hot spring, that's all." She stammers in a desperate attempt to hide her arousal.

"And did Jin leave too? One second he was here, then I heard a scream, and the next moment I see you." He asked her curiously, now realizing that his trainer Jin was nowhere to be seen.

"Yes actually he left a couple minutes before you showed up Lucario, he seemed frightened upon seeing me, and then he got up and ran." She states as if it wasn't anything out of the ordinary.

But Lucario knew his trainer more than anyone else in the world, so he already had a sense on what happened after hearing Reisen's statement.

"Um Reisen, there's something you need to know about Jin. It's really important."

"Huh?"

And then Reisen swims a little closer to Lucario so she can listen closely, a conversation that important even with her long, sensitive rabbit ears meant that she will have to really hear Lucario out.

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*Sakurai Jin's P.O.V*

I am sitting on the patio outside shivering from a combination of the cold, windy autumn night, and from the sight I saw earlier. I'm thankful at the moment that the image hasn't permanently imprint itself into my brain yet.

But by this point, I wasn't anxious from seeing Reisen naked, I was anxious on what her reaction would be. I felt so ashamed, she's definitely going to call me a pervert, and slap me across my face multiple times, or kick me in the balls. She'll think I'm some sick peeping-tom, and will never forgive me.

Okay maybe she wouldn't go that far, but the prude side of me made me really apprehensive.

"Jin-kun, you're done already." I heard the voice of a familiar nurse call out to me.

"Uh yeah, I'm just waiting for Lucario to finish up." I said and saw Eirin walking towards me; she appeared to have something in her hands. I'm pretty sure it's the medicine she said she had finished earlier.

"Ooh that's good to know, because now we will have time for me to show you this."

The young woman with long, silver hair sits next to me and hands me a small spray-type bottle. It had the same shape as a Full Restore and Max Potion, except the lower part was purple. It looked like a new brand was just sold in the Pokemart!

"Wow, is this the medicine?" I inquire of Eirin eagerly, snapping out of my apprehensive moment completely.

"It sure is Jin-kun." She confirms and winks at me.

I feel her grab my right hand and lift it up a bit. She then turns it around gently, and places the purple colored potion onto my palm. Finally her hand softly pushes four of my fingers down, until they were touching the rim of the spray bottle.

"The medicine you gave was quite hard to use, but very interesting. I learned a lot from using your brand, anyway this is a spray-type medicine that can be used on creatures and humans, that means any type of youkai, fairies, or your Pokémon can use this. I designed it to heal all types of wounds or other problems."

I adjusted my glasses with my free hand to get a better look at the new potion Eirin made.

"I bet you mixed some of your medical stuff with it, what kind of ingredients did you use? Herbs, solutions, or maybe some kind of powder?"

My curious question earns a chuckle from the nurse, "Yeah, though I usually keep the names of my ingredients secret. I don't want to risk others misusing my medicine if they find out, including this new one."

I knew her point very well, I wouldn't like it if I invented something and a told others about it only for them to use it for evil. And then I remembered a victim of mines that was inflicted with a status condition I had never before.

"Eirin-chan, you say this medicine can heal any kind of condition right?" I rehash, trying to make sure if what Eirin said was true.

"Why yes, well curing huge wounds will take about a half hour. What did you have in mind?" The nurse asked me as if expecting me to be open-minded.

"Well you see Charizard, one of my Pokémon, was blinded by a Night Sparrow named Mystia Lorelei."

"Is that so? I do recall Kaguya-sama telling me something about that while you were in. So that damn bird girl was the one responsible for making Charizard burn down Eientei—well almost."

Wow I guess Eirin doesn't like Mystia either, something tells me that everyone here will always get annoyed with her, but I didn't think about that irrelevant subject for even a second. I took out Charizard's Pokeball and held towards Eirin so she could see it.

"Here take a look." I tell Eirin in concern; I opened the ball and out came the panicked Charizard who started breathing heavily.

"ROARH!" he roars starts to wobble, and walk in random directions while swinging his head and body around aimlessly, occasionally he lets off a shot of fire into the night air.

"Oh my goodness." Eirin gasp as I see her looking into his cloudy eyes. "He has been inflicted with Mystia's Night-Blindness, we will need to get him to come over here calmly so we can spray the medicine into his eyes." She informs me seriously.

"Jin-kun, I want you to test out the medicine for the first time."

My eyes grew wide in euphoric surprise and I look over at Eirin. "You really mean it? You want me to test out?"

"You have the honor, would you like me to coax him over here?" " She replies with a smile.

"Um you may have to leave that one to me; I don't think my Charizard fully trusts you yet." I say as I remembered Eirin running into the same predicament with Greninja last night.

Meanwhile Charizard has been firing strong bursts of flames into the air while stumbling around clumsily, and shaking his head and body around in a freaked-out matter. If I don't act soon, he could go into a rampage.

I unzipped my fanny pack quickly and pulled out a soothe bell. Knowing this item was meant to soothe the nerves of Pokémon, and calm them down, it was the first item I pulled out to resolve this problem. This bell will work on just about any Pokémon.

I jiggled the bell slowly from side to side, and the little trinket began emitting its peaceful chime.

"Raor~!" He shrieks another loud roar again in a combination of fear and frustration; after he fires one last round of Flamethrower blindly into the sky he halts his movements.

I could tell the bell's effects were starting to tick in; it was working perfectly on Charizard!

The orange, fire dragon slowly looks left to right, and finally he turns to face my direction. With his cloudy eyes, Charizard wasn't technically staring at me; however I knew I had gotten his attention.

Rrrrrh?" He grunts calmly and in confusion; slowly but surely he begins to walk towards us.

I kept on ringing the bell, I felt really proud on how well this working. The Soothe Bell wasn't only helping Charizard relax; it was giving him a source to follow because he was blind.

"Hrrr~…" Charizard growls softly as he was finally close enough for me to reach.

"Just relax okay; I'm going to help you out." I whispered and reach out to hold his face to mine. One hand was gently holding his head, the other held the medicine.

Cautiously I motioned the spray bottle over to his left cloudy eye, with a deep breath of caution and hope I slowly pressed the button and sprayed the liquefied potion directly into it.

The moment the spray fluid touched his eye, his eyelids abruptly close together and he tenses up with a snarl. Using swift movements, I brought the bottle to his right cloudy eye and sprayed.

He snarls again and backs away from me, with both eyes squeezed shut he shakes his head around violently to the sensation. This causes Eirin and I to recoil at the thought that Charizard was in more pain than he already was.

His squeezed-shut eyes were now watery, and he nurses them frantically with his clawed hands.

I was beginning to feel devastated that the medicine might have failed us both, freaking Mystia didn't even tell me if her Night-Blindness was temporary or not. I saw Eirin at the corner of my eye folding her hands together in hope.

"I'm so sorry Jin-kun, I hadn't even tested out the medicine first. How can I be so foolish?!" Eirin berates herself which I shook my head to and placed a hand on her shoulder.

"It's alright Eirin-chan, you did everything you could." I praised.

We have been waiting for the medicine to take effect for only a couple minutes, but it felt like hours. Charizard claws at his eyes a moment longer before he starts to blink; he blinks several times and squeezes his eyes shut while shaking his head.

Then he opens them again slowly, and I can see the cloudiness in his eyes vanish completely! They were even shining like glass windows that were just cleaned, I could see his pupils clearly now!

"It worked, the medicine worked!" Eirin cheers with overwhelming happiness and hugs me proudly; I immediately return the hug after a gasp of relief.

"Yeah it did, I'm so happy!"

With Charizard able to see again he runs towards us, and happily snatches me out of Eirin's hands. Like the silver hair lifesaver, he takes me into a tight hug and roars with gratitude.

"—Cough—Okay okay—Wheeze—you're welcome." I choked out with oxygen forced out of me. Trust me I've gotten plenty of hugs that were tighter, besides the hugs I got from the girls here in Gensokyo, the one that nearly killed me was from a trainer's female Goodra after I defeated her in a worthy match.

"You should be thanking Eirin-chan Charizard, she was the one who made the potion to cure you." I gagged in half a desperate attempt to break free, and to give the kind nurse credit.

"Well I couldn't have done it without your medical supplies, I think you should get the credit Jin-kun." She jokes bashfully which made me feel as if she knew what I was planning, and if she were encouraging Charizard to crush me to death.

"Eirin-chan why?" I asked in a stifled tone feeling slightly betrayed even though she was joking, I heard her giggle innocently. All fails for her though when I noticed Charizard looking at Eirin for a few seconds. He drops me like a glass of wine and charges towards Eirin with his arms spread apart.

"Uagh!" she exclaims as Charizard heaves the nurse off the patio, and hugs her tightly as well while roaring with gratitude.

This scene made me chuckle out loud, "It looks like he trusts you now a lot faster than I thought, heck he even likes you now."

"Yeah, but he sure does have a painfully tight way of showing it." She squeaks, her voice sounded high because of the hug she was trapped in.

And with an apologetic grunt, he carefully places her back on the spot where she was sitting. I found this to be quite unfair because I am his trainer yet he just dropped me like a piece of garbage, whereas Eirin was like a fragile belonging of his, and he only met her a while ago!

That thought was immediately replaced with a realization.

"I just realized we haven't even given a name for your medicine yet Eirin-chan."

"It's our medicine now, any you're right. We should have given it a name a while ago, any ideas?"

I was about to answer her when suddenly I heard Lucario call out my name.

"Jin!"

I took out Charizard's Pokeball and brought him back inside, not before long I let loose a sigh.

"We'll take about this later Eirin-chan." I told Eirin and got a nod from her; I stood up and turned around to see Lucario swinging the sliding door open. I gulped when I saw Reisen standing next to him, thankfully she was wearing clothes but I still grew nervous because of what happened earlier, it made me even more anxious when I saw that innocent smile on her face.

I knew something had to be up with her; I had that feeling that even though she looks nice now, she was going to snap at any time. I didn't know if Reisen was forgiving or not.

"Hello again Jin, are you and Lucario ready to go?"

She refers to our invitation to the Scarlet Devil Mansion sweetly; this was starting to make me sweat. It was killing me that Reisen was keeping her anger inside, well whether she was angry or not. If she wanted to confront me for being a perv, she should just do it already! I rather have her shout in my face then pretend to be innocent, and not show her anger.

"Y-yeah of course." I stuttered and got a mischievous look from Lucario.

"You don't look ready, you look like you'd rather stay and have me go myself."

I had no idea what he was getting at, but what mattered now was that we needed to go.

"I'll show you two the way; it's pretty obvious that you two are going to the mansion for the very first time. So I'm sure you guys don't know where it is."

Reisen says cheerfully and hops off the patio, running to the foyer that would lead to the exit.

"I'll see you later Eirin-chan."

"Mhm, have fun you two."

After the nurse and I exchanged good-byes, Lucario and I quickly take after Reisen. Seeing that she once again showed no sign of confrontation causes me to cringe on the inside; I was really worried at this point, how long was Reisen going to let me off the hook?

When we finally caught up with the long, purple hair girl with rabbit ears, she was already standing outside the gate staring at us. A glare struck us hard and I noticed her eyes were brighter, they were both emitting light like a flashlight would.

"Wow Reisen-san, you can produce light from your eyes?" I asked in astonishment earning a chuckle, and a nod from her.

"Uh-huh, while being able to control many waves like sound-waves, and ESP, I can also manipulate light. Just like how I'm using light from my eyes to light up the way."

And then I remembered a topic the three of us were talking about earlier.

"Which reminds me, didn't you ask us if you wanted to know what Pokémon Type you were?"

"Ah yes! How could I forget!?" She answers gleefully, I figured a conversation like this will keep my mind off of the hot spring incident.

"So what type do you and Lucario think I am?" She questions eagerly as the three of us were walking through the dark forest road, illuminated by Reisen's flashlight eyes.

This calls for some hard thinking.

"Well to start, let's talk about your abilities." I reply, pushing my glasses up a bit with a finger. "So you said you can control waves, light, and ESP?"

"Uh-huh." Reisen says with a nod. "I'm also known as the Manipulation of Insanity, mentioned by Eirin-sama two days ago, I can cause illusions and hallucinations with eye contact using my Lunatic Red Eyes."

"I see, so basically your signature ability is to control unseen energy, and that energy usually comes from your eyes."

"In a sense." She answers.

With the information Resien gave me, I used this to speculate what other Pokémon could do the same thing, or do things similar. Then I can compare that Pokémon to Reisen and maybe confirm her type. I pull out my Pokedex, and pressed my finger on the touch-screen where the microphone symbol was.

"Search Pokémon: Control unseen energy, illusions and hallucinations." I spoke clearly into the Dex's mic, I know how stingy this machine can get so I spoke as specifically as I could.

"Details Achived: Searching Pokémon now." The Pokedex says in its high-pitched, electronic, female voice, after three beeps.

"What are you doing Jin-san?" Reisen questions me curiously and looks at the screen.

"How is that thing going to answer Reisen's question?" Lucario copies her inquiry.

"Search Completely." It affirms mechanically and shows us a picture of a Zoroark.

"Zoroark: The Illusion Fox Pokémon, and the evolved form of Zoura. Each Zoroark has the ability to fool a large group of people simultaneously using illusory scenery; they also use this to protect their lair and the safety of its pack."

I had pieced together the information from both the Moon Rabbit and my Pokedex in my head.

"Well though Zoroark itself is an illusion by mimicking the appearances of others. I don't think you're a Dark-Type Reisen-san."

"He does have a point there, Zoroark can only create illusions in the beginning of a match. After it's been hit, the illusion is gone for the rest of the battle. You however Reisen can create illusions whenever you want, and no matter how much damage you take. Though I've never actually seen you make them yet, I'm sure you're capable of doing so."

Lucario joined in as he has battled many Zoroark in the past, he knew a lot about them.

"Yeah and I'm pretty sure these foxes can't create sound-waves, make others go insane with my eyes, or beams from them."

Reisen remarks truthfully, to which I chuckled to.

"And they certainly don't shoot bullets out of their fingers like a hand-gun."

My commented made Reisen return the round of laughter; soon I began to search for a different entry. I didn't use the mic though because I knew how annoying they were after a while, and instead I decided to type the entire out. I was going to type in the Pokémon's name instead of describing it, that way we'll have a better chance on figuring out Reisen's type. I ponder for a while thinking of a Pokémon that best represented Reisen Udongein Inaba.

"Hmm—a Pokémon that could fight by looking at its opponent in the eye." I said mentally, and pinched the bridge of my nose, pushing my glasses up.

"And a Pokémon that controls ESP and could manipulate insanity, waves, and light."

I groaned quietly and squeezed my eyes shut; even a nerd like me was having trouble thinking at this point. Then I thought of the Pokémon, though it wasn't snappy as I wasn't entirely sure. I still decide to go with.

"Well, the closest I can come up with would be this Pokémon Reisen-san"

I began typing in the Pokémon's name hastily, and five seconds later the picture of a Hypno appeared on screen.

"Hypno: The Hypnosis Pokémon, Hypno is a Pokémon that will put people or other Pokémon to sleep, and then feast on their dreams. When making eye contact with Hypno, it will use its pendulum to try to put you to sleep."

"Eek! What a creepy youkai!" Reisen blurts, looking at the screen with disgust. "If you're trying to compare me with that thing, you're completely out of your mind Jin-san!"

"Relax Reisen-san, I'm not comparing you with the Pokémon. I'm comparing the Pokémon's abilities with yours, that way I'll be able to identify your type." I explain to her straightforwardly.

"So from our last battle Reisen, you shot bullets and laser beams at me, as well as controlling your sound-waves to defeat me." Lucario joins in and rehashes which Reisen nods to in response, and also made me remember something from the battle too.

"And as a matter of fact, I noticed a lot of kinetic energy leaking from those attacks too. Could it be that you are-"

I pause for a moment as I will feel quite strange for saying this.

"What?" Reisen tries to get me to wrap up my question quickly.

"Okay ESP waves, controlling light and sound, kinetic based attacks, and making illusions. Hypno has some abilities that are quite similar, and its attacks are kinetic also."

Pushing my glasses up a bit with my finger, I prepared myself to conclude Reisen's type.

"Reisen-san, I would have to come to a conclusion that you are a Psychic Type."

"A Psychic-Type?" She repeats, my close appears to have mystify Reisen; she turns her hands around and stares at her palms anxiously, as if she were deviant from a new power or spell she had just obtained a second ago. The Moon Rabbit continues to examine herself while walking for twenty more seconds, then she looks over at Lucario and I dumbfounded.

"So what does this mean?" She questions us with unsatisfactory.

"It means you can do a ton of damage to anyone or anything that's a Fighting or Poison-Types, and other Fighting or Psychic-Type Attacks won't budge you as much. You are really powerful Reisen!" Lucario answers which made her grow excited and happy.

"Wow really?! I mean I'm pretty good at fighting and Danmaku already, but you're saying I've been gifted with an ability I never knew about, and made me overpowered?"

"Well yes but there are some drawbacks, being a Pyschic-Type also means you'll be vulnerable to Dark, Bug, or Ghost-Type Attacks. While your Psychic-Type Attacks won't do too much on Dark and Steel-Types, as well as other Psychic-Types."

I answered Reisen seriously. Yes I had told her about types at the Misty Lake, however with her Pokémon-type somewhat confirmed it definitely helps to rehash.

"Which reminds me Jin-kun and Lucario, if you guys say I'm a Psychic-Type then how would my bullets and spells be affected?" The long, purple hair girl inquires of us.

By the "Hmm?" he was making, I could tell he utterly didn't understand what Reisen meant.

However I did.

"You mean you also want to know what types your attacks are." I informed and got a nod from her.

"It seems most of your attacks have to be Psychic because of the kinetic energy I noticed during your battle with Lucario, but didn't you also have some kind of skill or spell in which you threw a glass jar to the ground, and poisonous gas started coming out?"

"Uh-huh, that was my Poisonous Smokescreen Spell Card. I use this spell to weaken other opponents by gradually sapping their energy away." She replies, but I was left confused as I remembered how she used it on Lucario.

"I see, but what I don't understand was how you got it to work on Lucario. That spell sounded like a Poison-Type Attack because of the name, and Lucario is a part Steel-Type. Since Steel-Type Pokémon are immune to Poison-Type Attacks, Lucario should have took no damage yet the gas was still sapping away his health. "

This seems to leave Reisen a little curious too, however it was her spell so she should know why.

"If that was the case, then that spell most likely has different properties."

I was going to use this time to think about what other type that spell could be, until Reisen suddenly comes to a complete stop. I barely manage to stop myself from accidentally walking into her, and Lucario stops behind us too as he is curious from the sudden halt.

"We're here." She says seriously, looks up, and turns off her eye lights. By the tone of Reisen's voice, she obviously didn't sound happy with what she was seeing.

Lucario and I came across a large brick wall; we looked up pass the wall, and got a good look at some lights coming from inside several rooms through windows.

"So this is the Scarlet Devil Mansion up close." I heard Lucario say quietly, we were both surprised how fast we already got here. I guess the conversations with him and Reisen made the time fly.

The mansion was huge, as heard in Lucario's tone I was shocked to see how big it was compared to seeing it far away. It looked really fancy too, well Eientei itself is beautiful already, but this mansion had a more modern, European style to it. And from the angle the mansion was displayed, we must be looking at the side of it. As I observed the building some more, I noticed a curved trail that would most-likely take us to the entrance. At the corner of my eye, I can see Lucario looking the same direction as me.

"It seems like you and Lucario may know the rest of the way there." Reisen comments sounding slightly disappointed, I couldn't help but feel like she was holding a grudge against whoever lives in that mansion.

"Well then, I hope you both have a good time." She finishes before turning around to walk back to her place, it was at this time Lucario and I realized we had also walked out of the Bamboo Forest. The rest of the area was covered in grass giving it a plain atmosphere.

Just as Reisen is about to stroll back into the forest, she lets loose another comment out but doesn't turn to face us.

"And I would watch out for the mistress, who runs that place, she can be quite—self-centered..."

"We will." I reply to her nonchalantly before watching her disappear into the forest, Reisen's tone combined with her brief back-story from earlier was making me nervous. But I knew now wasn't the time to have second thoughts, we have come this far so we might as well finish what we started.

"So buddy, are you ready for this." I asked Lucario in anticipation, my heart pounding relatively fast as to how dinner at this mansion will go.

"Yep, I'm ready to proceed whenever you are." He informs me back.

Taking a deep breath I began strolling towards the right, Lucario follows behind me and we followed the trail.

After twenty seconds of walking, we came across what I'm sure was the entrance; there was a large gate in between the brick wall we saw earlier and another. Through the gaps of the gate was the front yard which was slightly illuminated from the lights coming trough the windows. There was long dirt road that lead straight to the mansion's front door, and between the road were grass and medium sized hedges with flowers blooming from them.

"Wow." We both whispered in astonishment, this place had to be fancier than the Parfum Palace in Kalos. We have never seen anything like this place before, and it was just marvelous.

"Hey you two, I'm glad you both made it!" A familiar voice calls out and gets our attention.

And standing in front of the entrance resting her back against the wall was Hong Meiling, our newfound youkai acquaintance.

"Yeah me to." Lucario remarks as we ran our way towards her.

"We're terribly sorry if we are late, there were some issues back at Eientei that I had to deal with." I said apologetically.

"Yeah someone was having an awfully amazing experience back at the hot springs." Lucario remarks mischievously with a smirk making me shudder instantly as the thought of the hot spring incident found its way back into my brain, and the fact that he found out about what happened made my face redden in humiliation.

Then I grew irritated at the nosy Pokémon, "Shut up." I growled.

He snickers without remorse, and the Chinese redhead starts chuckling at our behavior.

"Haha, it's no problem at all, we're constantly active especially at night." She informs without mentioning what Lucario had said, though I was still greatly embarrassed.

"Well I already told my mistress about you both, and she is expecting both of your arrivals. Especially you Lucario, she was really eager to meet you after I told her about you."

Lucario's expression changes to an interested one. "Well I'll be, If I'm that unique then I must be very popular then." He boasts which made me scoff.

"Hehe, well anyway enjoy your time at the Scarlet Devil Mansion."

With a light tap of her foot, the gate slowly begins to open with soft creaks coming from it. She motions her hand towards the opened entrance and flashes a welcoming smile.

Without reservation Lucario and I started sauntering our way into the front yard, I can hear the gate closing behind us as we walked further towards the front door. I pointed my head up to get a good look at a large veranda along the front side of the mansion.

"Buddy, if the outside of the mansion is already this massive, can you imagine how big the inside would be?"

I question Lucario curiously and somewhat excitedly, while doing so we progress towards the front door further.

"Well it's going to be bigger than Eientei that's for sure. All we can do now is just go in and see how it goes."

After his reply we found ourselves standing right in front of the door, now we have to decide who should knock on the door. But only five seconds later, we already decide to cut crap and knocked on the door together. As we were this close already, it definitely wouldn't be worth arguing now.

"Are you ready buddy?" I ask in anticipation, my heart pounding.

"Yeah, let us do it."

Then we reached out and knocked on the door lightly three times with our hand/paw.

"Here goes." I heard Lucario mumble as I took a deep breath; our gaze remains on the front door which was yet to be open.

And then fifteen seconds later, the sound of the door unlocking was heard. The double swinging door slowly began to open up by one side. When the door was fully open, Lucario and I got a look at the one who opened it.

A tall, young woman with long, green hair was revealed.

"Can I help you two?" She asked meekly.

Suddenly Lucario backs up slightly and has a surprise facial expression grown on his face.

"Daiyousei, you work here?!"

What on earth was he talking about? What did he mean by work?

And then I got a better look at the woman who now opens both doors fully, she was maid! It was the first in my life seeing a maid in person, and I'm pretty damn sure it was Lucario's too. Like most maids, this one was wearing a skirt which was light brown, and there was a white apron tied and displayed below the waist.

"Um yes, I believe we were both invited by the gatekeeper to come here for dinner." I reply calmly and also sounding slightly awkward.

"You know that unless this invitation came from the mistress herself, you cannot just show up here because someone told you to come."

Her tone had just changed into a blunt one and she fires a cold stare at us; it threw me off because suddenly I get the feeling like we did something wrong. But then she suddenly smiles as if she were joking around.

"Oh mind me, she did invite you two. I heard Meiling tell our mistress all about you both, and she granted her permission to let you both come to the mansion for dinner."

I couldn't help but sigh and shake my head to her sudden changes in her tones, goddamn she had me nervous there for a second!

"Well I apologize for my prankster-like behavior, come in." she says kindly.

Still slightly flabbergasted Lucario and I slowly walked our way inside. When our full bodies were inside the mansion, I heard the maid close the door behind us.

Lucario and I found ourselves in the mansion's lobby, and Holy Arceus were we introduce to what had to be the cleanest, dazzling estate we ever step foot in. Our eyes were greeted with the polished, checkered floor, and a red and white carpet that covered a stairway in front of us. The details on the walls were so modern it was hard to explain, plus there were many doors in the corners.

Unfortunately this is best I can describe how glamorous the mansion is on the inside, but I knew right away that this mansion was a European style one.

And it is certainly big, much bigger than Eientei and possibly the Parfum Palace itself.

"Check it out." Lucario whispered to me, as he was most likely too astounded by scene.

"I know, it's amazing." I returned the whisper back with the same tone.

My eyes were constantly looking around the lobby of the mansion; I caught sight of some more wonderful things. One was a really big, rainbow colored chandelier with lit candles on it. It hung there on the middle of the ceiling emitting its glorious light that filled the room. And two were the maids; there were at least fifteen of them.

The thing that stood out to them the most were their wings, by now I knew these were fairies, real fairies. Before the only fairies I saw were Fairy Type Pokémon, now I get to see actual ones in the flesh.

However I never knew they could come in this many flavors, these fairies were human sized they were basically young, teenage girls with relatively small wings.

"Follow me I shall take you two to the mistress, she should be expecting you both right about now."

After the same maid who let us in instructs us, she steps in front of us and begins walking. Just like the rest of the fairy maids here, she has wings too.

Lucario and I walk after her; the three of us walk up the stairs which takes us to two more on the sides. We chose to take the stairs on the left, as we took a couple steps Lucario suddenly nudges my arm.

My attention was brought and I turned to face him, "what is it?" I muttered.

"I think they're talking about us." He whispers back while simultaneously motioning his head and rolling his eyes back.

I turned my head more to face wherever he was pointing at, standing on the stairs to the right of us were three other fairy maids. I knew they were communicating with each other, but what they were saying was incoherent. However we got the sense that they were indeed saying something about us because their eyes were in our direction, I even heard one of them snickering.

And then I knew what was going on.

"Buddy I think there talking about you, because you know, your appearance."

In return Lucario just scoffs and turns back to face the front, in which I do the same. After a few seconds more, we have walked up the stairs completely and arrived at a large, brown door. The fairy maid we were following goes to the door and opens it. When she opened the door wide enough she nods at us as if telling us to go in, we nod back and comply.

As Lucario and I step pass the fairy maid holding the door open and into the room, the environment around us change slightly. It suddenly grew a little darker than the lobby, and the air was seemingly warmer. I immediately had the assumption that Lucario and I were in the dining room, because in front of us was indeed a dining table with china and silverware set in a neat order.

"Hello there you must be our guest."

A soft, high, female voice alerts us and we instantly turned our attention from the table to the front.

Sitting at the front side of the dining table was a little girl, she has red eyes, short light-blue hair, and pair of black bat-like wings on back. She is wearing a pink mob cap and dress, with bright red trimmings. A welcoming smile is on her face, and she stares at us in a way of saying hello.

I allow the girl to stare into our eyes for a while, our first initial response was to greet her back. However something caught my attention, I turned to face Lucario who turned to look at me afterwards.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking buddy?" I whispered awkwardly.

"Yeah Jin, I am." He replies momentarily and turns back to face the little girl, I did the same.

We knew one thing considered about less than half of this little girl's body was can be seen with the rest covered by the table, she was really short. This little girl had to match Tewi's height for sure, but her short figure gave us another thought.

This little girl was the mistress, and she looks really young. To think this girl who appeared probably twelve is wealthy enough to own such a glorious mansion. Don't get me wrong, I've seen little girls at many other mansions, but seeing this little girl running this particular mansion leaves me totally dumbfounded.

Astonished I turn back to face the rich, little girl with blue hair and wings.

"Yeah—yeah that's us." I say slightly breathlessly as the thought still rings in my head.

"I think one of your workers told me you were expecting me, like specifically me." Lucario mentions in a tone which he wasn't trying to steal the spotlight.

"Ah yes I was, here have a seat both of you and then I will tell you more."

The little girl says looking at Lucario; she motions us to sit on the chairs in front of us, in which Lucario and I comply. After we sit down in our chairs and scoot forward she folds her hands together and eyes Lucario some more, the little girl with bat wings ruffles her blue hair for a brief moment while keeping her attention towards Lucario.

"So you're the exotic youkai Meirin told me about constantly, seeing you in the flesh now I can see why she was so worked up when she was explaining to me about who you were."

A small grin forms on her face and she giggles, "you're very interesting to look at, oh won't you tell me about yourself great mystical creature?" The little girl requests elegantly, despite her playful tone she was talking like a princess and I can tell it was starting to embarrass Lucario.

"C-could you tell us your name first?" He asked bashfully in which the little girl lets out an apologetic chuckle.

"Fufu of course, how rude of me to forget such an important task?" She questions herself in a frisky manner.

"Well allow me to introduce myself, my name is Remilia Scarlet. As my servants including Meirin probably told you by now, I am the head mistress of the Scarlet Devil Mansion."

"Well it's a pleasure to meet you Remilia, my name is Lucario and this is my trainer Sakurai Jin." He returns the greeting with his own and turns his head to face me; he seems to be gesturing me to say something.

"Hmm? oh yeah, hello." I greet as I snapped myself out of some kind of daze.

Why I was in a daze to begin with? Well I had been observing the little girl now known as Remilia Scarlet as she was talking to Lucario, she was talking really sweetly. Her tone was how all young ladies living in mansions were supposed to talk, and the sound of her voice was so soft and high. I now find it hard to believe that Reisen had a conflict with this little girl, seeing how sweet she was acting did she actually assault Reisen? Would she even assault anyone to begin with?

I'm not going to underestimate the little girl with wings though, after-all Reisen told me Remilia was furious for whatever reason last time they met. So it makes sense that this little girl is just in a good mood.

"Trainer?" Remilia remarks sounding confused.

"I'll explain to you now, you see Miss Remilia I've been called an exotic youkai for some time now because I am a completely different species. In the world Jin and I come from we're referred to as Pokémon, I'm a type of Pokémon and everyone including Jin calls me Lucario, because that is the name of my kind."

"Lucario, I don't really see your point."

"Oh yeah, Jin is known as a Pokémon Trainer because what he does is capture Pokémon like me with these devices called Pokeballs. Then he trains them so they can get stronger, one of the ways he does this is by making them battle other Pokémon or having us practice a specific move over and over again everyday."

"That is kind of an exteme way to make friends don't you think, they are nicer ways to start and develop friendships."

"Don't take this the wrong way Miss Remilia he does capture Pokémon like me and makes us his, but he treats us fairly and with a great amount of respect. His other Pokémon and I are happy to have met him, to be with him, and are willing to stay loyal to him throughout his entire life. Pokémon battles are not cruel at all, after multiple Pokémon are done fighting they are given medicine and other beneficial items to make us healthy again."

Wow is it just me, or have I rubbed onto Lucario and now he's becoming a nerd.

"Oh now that sounds more like the kind type like something a good friend would do. I have never heard of such an interesting lifestyle, especially how you make fighting in your world sound more beneficial than some sick sport. Speaking of which, can you use Danmaku by any chance?"

That question left me pondering whether Remilia knew Danmaku as well; it must be obvious by now because she has wings too so she definitely can fly. But then again my Pokémon and I have only been in Gensokyo for two days now so I'm still not too sure.

"Well after a few friends of Jin and mine here told us what Danmaku was, I wouldn't say I can. However I was able to put up a good fight with a few of the beings here in Gensokyo, so I guess that also means I can use it?"

"So I have been told, Meirin mentioned it to me that you were able fight her without the use of Spell Cards. That is very impressive especially for an outsider like you Lucario and I congraulate you for that."

Then she turns to me, when our eyes met I snapped back into reality for I had been fiddling around with my fanny pack the entire time they were talking.

"And Jin if what your furry friend said was true then congratulations to you too, you are indeed a really good person. It is obvious by now that you and Jin are outsiders but you're outside ways of living allow you both to survive and cooperate in such a beautiful yet dangerous land like Gensokyo, for that I also congragulate both of you."

"Uh thank you." I say bashfully with a modest blush on my face, I appreciate the complement but being told straight up and topping it off with congragulating us three times in a row is kind of embarrassing.

Suddenly I hear a low, growling sound ringing in my ear. As soon as I heard it coming from Lucario I immediately looked at him and saw him staring at his stomach with surprise.

"Eh, I guess doing all that talking really worked up an appetite." He comments awkwardly making me sigh in embarrassment.

"And keep in mind that you also had quite the day."

Remilia chuckles before making an expression that draws a line between bashfulness and apologetic. "Hehe sorry about that, I guess it's time we pause our conversation for a while."

"Sakuya!" She calls out demandingly, though in a polite tone.

"Who?" Lucario vocals earning a shrug from me.

And then a figure appears on the scene standing next to Remilia; she showed up with some kind of teleportation. The figure came into perfect view three seconds later and revealed to be a young teenage girl with braded, silver hair and dark, blue eyes.

"You called, Lady Remilia?" The girl rehashes calmly, her voice was soft and high almost matching the girl with wings.

Remilia eyes Lucario and me then motions the teen girl to look at the both of us; she gives off a remembering expression and steps towards us. All of a sudden it felt like Lucario and I were in a restaurant or café, and a waitress was going to take our order right now. From the way this girl was dressed, it was obvious that she was a maid too.

"Would you like me to prepare a Japanese or Western-style dish?" She asked me straight up with no objections, questions, or any suspicous comments. This kind of threw me off guard because of the way she asked me, she literally just came up to me a second ago without knowing who I was. Yet she was willing to serve Lucario and I food, not that I'm complaining or anything but things like that blow my mind all the time.

"Um, Japanese-style please." I reply trying to keep cool and resist the urge to ask who she was.

She nods and then looks at Lucario in which he turns to face her as well.

"And you?" She asked in the same tone which surprised me even more because she acted like she was talking to someone she knew.

"Pardon me for the request, but can you make a Chinese-style dish?" He replies unfazed as if he was testing her or something.

Startled with Lucario's rash additude I whisper back at him in a firm tone, "Lucario don't be rude."

However the maid just nods like she did to me earlier and flashes a small smile instead of being offended. "Very well." She approves of Lucario's request before turning to look at her mistress, Remilia just shakes her head calmly and smiles.

"Just the usual will do; nothing too much please."

Then the maid bows her head and walks away disappearing into some kind of area. Just what was she anyways? There's something about that female teenager that baffles me though I can't seem to get my tongue on it.

"Why the baffled looks?" Remilia questions us curiously.

"It's just that all of your other maids had wings on their backs, but this specific maid didn't. Is there something different about her?" I asked putting a lot of thought into my question.

"Oh? Well that is because she is human."

When Remilia said that Lucario and I recoiled in total astonishment.

"Did you say she was human? As in…"

"Mhm." She vocals before Lucario could finish his confirmation.

"But how is this possible? She just magically teleported here and I'm sure the human body isn't capable of preforming something like that." I remarked stating my point clearly.

"I believe you're referring to those humans living in the Human Village, well you see Sakuya isn't an ordinary human. There are many human beings living in Gensokyo who know magic and Danmaku, Sakuya happens to be one of them."

"How do they gain those kinds of abilities in the first place?"

"I don't know too much about how but they most likely know them from birth, it's kind of like a gift."

And then the teenage maid whose name a while ago was revealed as Sakuya returns, I don't know where she came from but she appeared with a tray of food and a teapot in her hands.

"Arceus that was fast." I thought to myself impressively as I wondered how she made the food Speed-Boost fast.

Sakuya places a tray in front of me and then Lucario; I briefly look over at the food she made for Lucario first. His dish reveals to be Chinese-style rice with some vegetables; there were a few eggrolls on the side along with a small bowl of dipping sauce, and a glass of ice water.

By now I'm sure you would realize that Lucario grew up eating human food and he's never touched any Pokémon food ever in his life.

I then look down at mines for a moment and saw simple yet very neatly prepared bowl of Chazuke and glass of ice water.

Finally Sakuya walks over to Remilia with the teapot on her tray, puts the tray down, and picks up the teapot; poring fresh, hot tea into a tea cup that was near the little girl with blue hair.

"Speaking of gifts," Lucario adds as he is about to dig into his food. "Did you know that I'm actually the only Pokémon that can actually talk?"

"Is that so?" Remilia questions with the cup of tea in her hand.

"It is, and it's a good thing I told you sooner because otherwise you would assume all Pokémon like me could talk."

"That is true since my knowledge on these youkai creatures you call Pokémon are slim to none, you would the first one I have ever seen. I have yet to see more of these and would love to witness some more so I can learn more about them, well that is if your trainer companion possess anymore."

Lucario begins placing food into his mouth with his chopsticks, "actually he does carry more, though every trainer can hold up to six Pokémon at a time in their party. Every seventh or more a trainer catches or receives will go straight into their PC."

I had been busy eating my food while listening to the two's conversation, after another swallow along with a huge sip of my glass of clear liquid with cubes of frozen liquid inside I proceed to join in.

"Unfortunately for us the other Pokémon I have with me will be the only ones I have until we can find a way back to our world."

As I say this to Remilia I begin to feel slightly sad, this land is amazing and really fun to be in I admit. So far Lucario and I are having a really great time here in Gensokyo, though I still miss my other trainer friends and Pokémon especially Jansey. I hope she isn't worrying to much about our disappearance. I can hear Lucario sigh or rather purr in a deep, gloomy tone as well as making a frown.

"I see you both must be quite homesick already, I know exactly how you two feel and I'm really sorry." she sympathetically says to us in a soft comforting tone of warmth.

"Don't apologize it's alright really, on the plus side we are both learning more about this land the more we stay here." I add trying not to make the little sympathetic girl worry too much.

"You know exactly how we feel so you probably weren't from this Gensokyo world before." Lucario assumes.

Remilia takes a long sip of her tea, she then places her cup down and sighs.

"You are correct, I never grew up in Gensokyo to begin with. I lived in a completely different hometown before I immigrated to this magical land."

Oh no the word "immigrated" is bringing back memories of my parents' horrible experiences during the war. I have a very strong feeling that Remilia's past would be quite traumatizing as well.

"Did anything happen to you back then? What made you decide to come to Gensokyo?" I asked anxiously.

"I would love to tell you both my backstory, but unfortunately my memory of it are pretty foggy." She chuckles, "Yes I am being honest, and as much as I want to remember my past I just can't."

I felt a massive wave of disappointment crash through my body, but then again if it was something tragic then it's totally fine if she doesn't want to talk about it.

"How about you two, what made you both want to leave your world and come to Gensokyo?"

"We didn't come here intentionally; Lucario, my other Pokémon and I were on our way to a certain city in our world. Then out of nowhere this storm appeared and wiped us out, and then we ended up here."

"Hmm, I don't know why but something tells me an event like that has happened before."

"What do you mean Miss Remilia?"

"We had a new foreign member join the Scarlet Devil Mansion about eight years ago, he doesn't talk but my little sister was able to understand him and she was able to tell us how he got here in the first place."

After I had finished the rest of my food while Remilia had been talking, I felt something click in my head, though I couldn't quite put my finger on what was it that clicked.

"Now you are losing me here Miss Remilia."

A puzzled Lucario utters while simultaneously finishing up his dinner. The little girl with blue hair chuckles at the furry blue humanoid playfully, she ruffles her hair and sighs as she turns to look at a giant grandfather clock standing in one area of the room.

"Well I suppose it is getting pretty late, would you two care to stay for dessert?" She asks us in a polite tone, although her question is sort of irrelevant to her comment about "it getting pretty late."

"Thank you Miss Remilia I appreciate your offer, but you're right when you said it is getting pretty late, so Lucario and I will have to get going soon."

"Are you sure we can't just stay a little longer." Lucario requests and throws of a little smirk, I knew right away this mischievous Fighting/Steel Type wanted dessert.

"No buddy" I decline with an insisting tone in my voice, "besides it's definitely really dangerous at this hour, youkai and other non-Pokémon may come out and attack us.

"Oh all right!" Lucario pouts disappointedly before the two of us finish up our ice water.

"Plus we could come back here anytime, if that's okay with you Miss Remilia."

"It is, I'm more than happy to allow you two to visit the mansion anytime. And please, just Remilia would do." She replies happily and has a friendly smile on her face.

"Thank you so much for having us over Remilia, it was really being able to have this conversation with you." Lucario complements her as we stand up and begin to walk to the door where we first entered.

"It is a pleasure." The small smiling girl nods and gives us a small wave.

We happily wave back at her and exited through the door, two other fairy maids came and escorted us out of the mansion. We waved to them and began walking down the road that will take us back to Eientei, while walking we pass by Hong Meiling who happens to be sound asleep; her snoring made us chuckle and we both joke about how she can snore louder than a Snorlax.

Lucario and I were now walking around the side of the Mansion, which was near the Bamboo Forest. As we finally made it to the forest's entrance emitting chirping noises, Lucario notices my look of unsureness.

"Is something bothering you Jin?"

"Sort of, it was when Remilia told us that she had a new foreign member working at her mansion."

We begin to walk into the forest of bamboo; immediately we were surrounded by pitch black, the only light being the full moon that gave off a very dim amount due to the bamboo trees covering most of the sky. It was at this moment that we realized how dark it was and that we probably couldn't make it back without Reisen's help.

Well let me tell myself now that it was very wise of me to call the rest of my team back, thankfully I still had my fanny pack with me along with the six Pokémon (excluding Lucario) inside their balls attached to the leather strap.

"Charizard let's go." I say calmly and toss his detached Pokeball to the ground, the ball opens up with a flash and the orange dragon appears on the scene with a short growl.

After the ball retreats the palm of my hand, I strap it back on and the three of us continue walking. With Charizard stomping in front of us a large, glowing ball of light surrounds us and illuminates most of our surroundings including the path ahead.

"Good thinking my nerdy trainer."

I could have thanked Lucario sarcastically to his weird complement, but this foreign member Remilia speaks of keeps coming to mind.

"In the dining room we had breakfast in with Reisen-san, Tewi-san, Eirin-chan, Keine-chan, Mokou, and Kaguya-san, Eirin-chan mentioned something about a strange creature she tended many years back before she met us."

"Oh yeah I remember that, but I don't really see how this connects to what Remilia said to us. I mean I was pretty lost when she just randomly said that."

"And then yesterday when I called you back into your Pokeball, the two rabbit girls and I went to a Human Village which was where I met Keine-chan. When the four of us were talking in a café Tewi told me about an incident about something and some girl whose feelings were hurt for whatever reason."

"Okay? I still don't see your point."

"So what if this incident Tewi spoke of had something to do with Remilia and the foreign worker that works for her. Eirin may have been tending her and the foreigner many years back, that foreigner may even be that creature Eirin mentioned to us and Remilia may be that girl's owner."

Lucario suddenly gasped, as if my conclusion had fried something in his mind. His gasp echoes through the forest and he ceases walking for a moment.

"You may be right; Remilia mentioned that he doesn't talk. This "he" could indeed be the creature Eirin took care of."

As soon as Lucario finished his sentence his composure came back and the three of us continue walking. While walking the possibility of that creature being in the Scarlet Devil Mansion causes a combination of anxiousness and anticipation inside me. I shudder theoretically thinking that this little mystery of mine may finally be solved.

But then another thought of realization brings me down to the ground mentally.

"While it is possible that this mysterious creature may be the foreigner who works in Remilia's mansion, I don't think she is his owner."

"Why do th-oh wait I remember, Remilia said she had a little sister. She said her little sister could understand the foreigner even though he doesn't speak. So that must mean the foreign creature belongs to Remilia's little sister and she was the one being treated by Eirin not Remilia."

"Remilia's little sister could be the depressing patient who constantly asked Eirin-chan if he was going to be okay, Tewi was referring to Remilia's little sister."

Then in unison Lucario and I both say aloud, "Remilia's little sister is the special girl and this foreign creature is very precious to her!"

We may have shouted a little too loud because loud fluttering noises suddenly begin to intrude the chirping atmosphere. As if our noise scared some flying creatures, the fluttering grew louder and louder making the bamboo trees bluster with rustles. One minute later and the puncturing noises begin to die down bringing the silence back with a hint of chirping sounds.

As surprised as the three of us were we continue walking.

"This is really starting to make sense, we should definitely tell the others about our theory piece by piece." I excitedly tell Lucario, connecting our theories together in front of the girls will not only interest them but will make Eirin remember what happened.

"I say we do it even though our information will remain limited because we have yet to see those two in person."

"You have a point but still, this is plenty already."

We continue walking down the road of the Bamboo Forest; taking a few turns on some curves and making quick decisions on forks in the road; according to my Poketch from Sinnoh Charizard, Lucario, and I have been walking for a total of fifteen minutes.

"What's plenty already?"

And then we froze, after an unknown feminine voice flushes our ears terror begins to settle in our spines and everywhere else on our bodies.

"Holy shit!" I exclaim incoherently, Lucario takes a fighting stance and snarls.

"Who's there?!" He demands firmly and loud.

"Rgh!" Charizard growls defensively.

"Only your subconscious huhu!" The female voice giggles childishly.

Suddenly another glowing ball of light slowly descends from above and blinds us momentarily. The light was bright green in comparison to Charizard's red orange color one, the light also appears to be more concentrated like the light was coming from a battery source such as a flashlight.

With Charizard's flame being our only light, the voices adding up to that other bright green light heading straight towards our direction filled us up with dread.

I knew it had to be some dangerous youkai or non-Pokémon and I didn't waste another second to activate my protective instincts.

"Charizard Flamethrower now!"

"Roar!"

Charizard opens his mouth fires a powerful stream of flames at the ball of green light, the flames blasts through the light and fills the entire forest with bright orange red light. Thankfully Charizard shot the fire at an empty space so the forest of bamboo didn't catch on fire.

He ends his powerful stream of flames in about a minute and huffs to catch his breath; shooting a small amount of fire out of his mouth and onto the ground.

The forest remained partially illuminated instead of fully with the fiery assault halted, though we were given a few moments of relief. That relief only came briefly because a few seconds later a figure swooped down from above in an attempt to dive bomb my face.

I felt the fearful adrenaline in my bloodstream and veins pump wildly as the figure literally just flashed or teleported into our light, and right in front of my face from my point of view.

"Guh!" I yell out loud and flinched from the unexpected jumpscare, but with fast instincts my loyal Lucario jumps up and lands a swift kick onto the figure; sending it flying outside the light and back into the darkness. Charizard follows up by firing more fire out of his mouth into the area where Lucario kicked away the figure; illuminating even more parts and sections of the forest as he did so.

With my life thankfully saved by Lucario and Charizard I make an attempt to take a deep breath.

Charizard ends his brief attack as he only wanted to finish off the figure that assaulted me, but his desire proved to be denied as Charizard's eyes go wide in dismay.

Standing in front of the three of us were two little girls, one of them was on her stomach holding herself up with her arms. She has bright red eyes and short blond hair, she wears a black vest and skirt with a white blouse underneath. Finally a small red amulet is tied to the left side of her hair; making it look like a ribbon. The other one was shielding her friend with some kind of magic or Special Attack, she has dark blue eyes, short teal hair, and bug-like antennae. She wears a white shirt with stylized long sleeves, a black cape with red color on the inner side, and knee-length, blue baggy shorts, floating next to her was a familiar I can barely make out to be a miniature, deformed Illumise or Volbeat.

I couldn't believe my glasses or my eyes, we were now dealing with not one but two youkai.

Two non-Pokémon.