Pokémon: Dreams Come True Starting in Sinnoh

"Please listen to the first question—"

About ten minutes after leaving the Pokémon Center, Ash and Teruhiko arrived at the first clown in the alley, led by Teruhiko. Ash didn't know why the clown could hide in such a secluded place. Was he afraid of being discovered?

"bring it on!"

Xiao Zhi composed himself and prepared to start answering the questions.

It's just a question about Pokémon, and there's no way he can't answer it. After all, he was someone who had almost reached the throne of Pokémon Master!

"Who is it?!"

"..."

The clown held a picture of Pokémon taken from above, but the entire picture was black. However, that wasn't the key point; the key point was the shadow of the Pokémon appearing in the picture...

"Isn't this a ball?!"

The picture shows a perfect circle. Honestly, it's impossible to guess the answer just from the picture.

"It's a Pokémon!"

The clown kindly explained it to Ash, but that wasn't the explanation Ash wanted at all.

"I feel like I've encountered something similar before..." Ash said, rubbing his slightly aching head. "Never mind... maybe a Voltorb or a Electrode."

"The answer is Jigglypuff, which you see from top to bottom!"

With a smile, the clown pulled out another color photograph from behind him, which clearly showed a picture of Jigglypuff taken from above.

"I've actually encountered that!"

"Pickup!"

"I guessed wrong on the first question~ Do we have to start over? I have over a hundred questions in my question bank~"

The clown approached Ash and said this in a smug tone. Ash had never been treated like this before. Even if it wasn't to help, he wouldn't give up just to prove himself.

"Again!"

"Um... big brother, if it doesn't work out, then we should..."

"Okay! Let's try again. Here's the question—"

And so, the battle between Ash and the clown is about to officially begin.

.......

"Ugh! I can't take it anymore! I'm exhausted!"

The afterglow of the setting sun painted the bustling city red. Sitting on a park bench, Ash leaned back wearily, his hands outstretched, clearly unable to continue "battling".

"Pikachu..." (Why are you taking it so seriously?)

Pikachu made this comment with a look of disgust.

It was just a simple question and answer session, but Ash acted as if he were engaged in some life-or-death battle, constantly getting it wrong and answering incorrectly until he cleared out the 4-500 question bank of the three clowns. Only then did Ash finally get the so-called special Pokémon list exchange ticket.

"Sorry about that."

Knowing that Ash was taking it so seriously because he had asked him to, Teruhiko apologized to Ash with a sense of embarrassment.

"Oh, it's nothing, just treat it as studying."

Although that knowledge is of little use.

Ash never imagined that the hundreds of questions he answered this afternoon, all related to Pokémon, would be so numerous and complex that almost none of them were normal.

To be honest, if Xiaozhi hadn't known Zhaoyan's identity, he probably would have thought he had accidentally participated in some kind of prank show.

"So this is what you want?" Xiao Zhi handed the voucher he had obtained to Zhao Yan, but unexpectedly, he just shook his head and said, "This is not what I wanted. It's just a task that my dad gave me."

"Task?"

Finally, the other party's thoughts were about to surface, and Xiao Zhi showed a suspicious expression. Then, he saw Teruhiko scratch his head embarrassedly, and then turn around. He saw a figure slowly walking towards him from behind.

"I'm sorry to have troubled you all day. I was the one who asked this child to do it."

A slightly overweight middle-aged man emerged from around the corner. Approaching Ash, he bowed apologetically and said, "I only asked him to help find a suitable trainer, but I didn't expect the challenges he set to be so outrageous. If I had known beforehand, I would never have assigned him this task. But I couldn't refuse him, so..."

"He created all these questions?" Xiao Zhi's lips twitched a few times, and his expression turned sour.

Teruhiko realized he had done something wrong, smiled awkwardly at Satoshi, and then hid behind the middle-aged man.

"I'm so sorry... Maybe this child is just too playful, because he actually wrote down the contents of those strange books."

The middle-aged man apologized again, then introduced himself: "My name is Teruto, and I am the general manager of Pokémon Watch. I'm sorry to have taken up your time... Actually, we are currently looking for excellent Pokémon Trainers to help test our products."

"test?"

"Pikachu?"

Ash and Pikachu exchanged a glance and asked, puzzled, "But the Pokémon Watches are supposed to be released tomorrow, right? Why are they only starting testing now?"

"No, no, no." Terutoshi quickly waved his hand and explained, "Products are bound to be replaced, and the Pokémon Watch is no exception. Although the first version of the Pokémon Watch will be released tomorrow, our company's research and development has never stopped. It's just that we haven't found the right people to help test the new features yet, so our company's talent came up with this method."

"Can you find trainers with Pokémon knowledge by asking clown questions?"

"That's how it is... I just didn't expect things to go wrong like this. Although there were problems throughout the Q&A session, Teruhiko insisted that he saw your battle and said that you are a very skilled Pokémon Trainer. That's why I wanted to ask you to help test our product."

Atsushi explained the whole story to Ash, and Ash roughly understood what had happened, but...

"If that's the case, I'm afraid I don't have much time. I have to go to the Grand Contest tomorrow, and then I have to leave here the day after tomorrow."

"No, no, no, it's alright. It doesn't have to be here. All we need is for you to carry the product with you, and then we'll give you some related items. You just need to report your experience using the Pokémon Watch's mail system during your trip... Of course, the reward will be substantial! What do you think?"

"..."

Ash glanced at Teruyuki, then at Teruhiko, who was hiding behind him and looking at him with the same hopeful eyes. In the end, he could only nod and say, "I understand. That's fine."

Since it didn't require him to spend any of his time, Xiao Zhi had no reason to refuse, especially since the other party had promised to provide corresponding compensation.

And so, Ash followed Teruhiko and Terutoshi slowly toward the Pokémon Company.

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