Pokémon: Simultaneous time travel, this Ash is too versatile!

Chapter 45: Is the shimmering blue-haired little girl any rarer than a mythical beast?
Ralts jumped onto Ash, causing the eggshell on her head to fall to the ground. The other half of the eggshell was still in Ash's hand, but no one paid attention to this at the moment. Misty, Pikachu, and the other two were all staring at Ralts.

After a long pause, the former finally let out a sound that resembled a scream: "So cute!!!"

With its petite body, pale pink skin, and deep blue hair, it possesses a unique kind of cuteness compared to Pipi. Even if you can't see its eyes, you can't help but exclaim "So cute!" upon seeing this appearance!

Especially for girls, they have almost no resistance to Pokémon like Ralts.

"Um, well, she seems really clingy to me." Ash carefully squatted down, placed the eggshell in his hand on the ground, and then gently lifted Ralts off his body so that she could hug him without much effort.

Ash couldn't understand why Ralts was sticking to him so much, and what kind of Pokémon Ralts was anyway? He'd been cramming with the experts in the group lately and knew almost all the Pokémon in Kanto, but he'd never seen one like this before. (You can post pictures you remember or imagine in the group.)
Could this be a Pokémon from outside Kanto? Come to think of it, Ralts's Pokémon egg supposedly fell from the sky; could she really have come from the moon?!
"Can I hug you, Ash?" Misty came up to Ash, her big, watery eyes looking at him with longing in them. It was clear that she really wanted to hug Ralts, even more so than Clefairy.

Xiaoxia didn't show this expression when she first met Pipi.

"Sure, but she's not my Pokémon, so you'll have to ask her opinion first." This time, Ash didn't blurt out Ralts' name like he did with Ho-Oh.

Otherwise, it would be rather strange if he knew Ralts's name but didn't recognize the elf.

Xiaoxia squatted down in front of Xiaozhi and whispered, "Um... what's your name? Can I hug you?"

Ralts turned around at the sound, and after a moment of silence, her figure suddenly disappeared. Ash and Misty were both startled. Ash even subconsciously tried to use Aura to sense where she had gone, but the next second he felt a little weight on his other shoulder.

Ash turned his head and, sure enough, Ralts had run onto his shoulder just like Pikachu, while its little hand was tugging at his hair.

This behavior speaks volumes; she didn't want to be hugged by Xiaoxia, which greatly upset Xiaoxia.

Even Pikachu quickly accepted Misty upon their first meeting, but Ralts showed some aversion to her, with Ash being the only person she felt close to.

"Why is she so attached to Ash? Is it because Ash caught her when she fell?" Misty asked, somewhat unwilling and puzzled.

Why is this newly born Pokémon only sticking to Ash and not to her? Is it in this river?
"It's probably because the first person Ralts saw after it was born was Ash. Some Pokémon become devoted to the first trainer they see after they are born, and Ralts is that kind of Pokémon," Brock, who hadn't spoken until now, explained.

"Ralts? Is that the name of this Pokémon?" Even Misty, who is quite knowledgeable, did not recognize the Pokémon Ralts. After all, Ralts is not a Pokémon that appears in Kanto, and it is very rare even in the Hoenn region.

“That’s right, this is a Pokémon that lives in the Hoenn region. It’s very rare in Kanto, you could even say it’s completely unseen. Even in the Hoenn region, it’s an extremely rare Pokémon. I only learned about this Pokémon by looking at some other Pokémon from other regions when I had nothing else to do.” “Ralts, is that your name?” Ash pretended to have just learned Ralts’s name and reached out to pat Ralts’s little head.

Ralts twisted its body, looking quite pleased. The lower half of its face, which was exposed, revealed Ralts's happiness. It seemed that even such a small gesture from Ash could make it happy for half a day.

Xiao Gang also walked in and pressed his face close to Ralts. This strange uncle-like behavior made Ralts immediately hide behind Xiao Zhi, its little head peeking out timidly, which almost melted Xiao Xia's heart.

"Xiaogang, what are you doing? You've scared her!"

"Ah~ I'm sorry, I just wanted to confirm if my guess was right." Xiao Gang made an apologetic gesture towards Ralts, but it didn't seem to have any effect; the newborn was indeed quite sensitive.

"Confirm what?"

"Confirm if this little guy is a Shiny Pokémon."

"Shiny Pokémon? *2" Ash and Misty said in unison, the former looking confused and the latter looking shocked.

"What is a Shiny Pokémon?" This question once again touched on Ash's blind spot.

"Shiny Pokémon are also called Species Pokémon. They have an appearance that is different from their species and are extremely rare Pokémon. Among thousands or tens of thousands of Pokémon of the same species, there may not be a single Species Pokémon. Because they are as eye-catching as a flash of light in the night in their group, they are also called Shiny Pokémon."

This time, Xiaoxia didn't say that Xiaozhi was ignorant, because few people know about Shiny Pokémon, and some people will never encounter a Shiny Pokémon in their entire lives, let alone catch one.

Judging from Ralts's behavior, it seems to have decided to stick with Ash. Ash essentially did nothing and got a shiny Pokémon... In this river?
"A shiny Pokémon! I didn't know you were so amazing, Ralts!" Ash exclaimed in surprise as he pulled Ralts from behind him to his front and lifted it high. Only he knew that Ralts was not just a shiny Pokémon; what made it even rarer was its talent—a talent comparable to that of a god, a talent that would appear only once in millions of Pokémon.

A combination of dazzling brilliance and full S-level aptitude is something most people would never encounter even if they used all their luck in a lifetime. It's practically a blessing from heaven... Wait, heaven... a blessing?
Ash suddenly remembered something: he seemed to have just drawn an S-rank one-time ability last night—the Chosen One's Radiance.

That ability allows him to encounter an extremely rare Pokémon within three days, with a high probability of capturing it. Ash originally thought that Pokémon that could be called extremely rare should be legendary Pokémon or something similar, and how could he possibly capture such a Pokémon?

But looking at the blue-haired little girl in his hand, Ash realized that this shiny blue-haired little girl with all S stats was rarer than a legendary Pokémon.

(End of this chapter)