Back home, Chen Dafu sat on the sofa watching the Sichuan Province TV news channel, which was broadcasting news about Liang Zhi and Dong Gang catching a spy in Cheng City.
With this broadcast, even ordinary people now knew that the authorities were catching spies.
"Xiao Kai, you're starting school tomorrow, why are you still coming back so late?" Bai Lijuan lectured from the kitchen.
"I came back early already!" Chen Kai responded, then went straight to his room to look at the unhatched egg.
According to the staff member, this egg should hatch in the next few days.
After all, this batch of eggs was specifically for selling to students, and they had calculated the hatching time; they couldn't possibly make students buy them and wait for a month or so for them to hatch.
Just then, he received a message from Chun Jie in Kyoto: "Little brother, please take good care of Bai Jin for me!"
"What? Who is Bai Jin?" Chen Kai was full of questions.
He sent messages and called, but Chun Jie didn't respond.
"What's going on? Forget her, Chun Jie often acts like this."
On the other side, as soon as they got home, the Dipplin ran off to play with Exeggutor, while Xiao Mei and Boltund were roughhousing, and Miraidon, as usual, stood guard at the kitchen door. It could even help Bai Lijuan carry plates with its head now!
Bai Lijuan happily bought it a large bag of snacks, and now it had its own small storage room for snacks in this house!
As the last rays of the setting sun painted the hillside in warm orange, the family and their Pokémon gathered around the table, chatting, enjoying delicious food, and their laughter echoed on the hillside for a long time, forming a heartwarming picture of joyful harmony.
Time came to September 1st. The summer heat hadn't completely faded, but the sun was no longer as scorching as in midsummer, casting a gentle glow upon the earth.
Chen Kai walked along the road to school with his backpack, the leaves of the plane trees along the street beginning to turn slightly yellow, with an occasional leaf drifting down, twirling in the air.
The Soundproof Pokémon in the trees curiously observed the students on the road.
The aroma from the breakfast stalls by the roadside wafted, a mix of fried dough sticks, soy milk, and steamed buns, making Miraidon's stomach rumble again.
"Didn't you just eat at home?" Chen Kai covered his face, but still walked over to buy Miraidon more breakfast.
"Breakfast isn't filling enough," Miraidon chuckled.
Chen Kai also bought a cup of soy milk for himself and Xiao Mei: "I wonder what the difference is between schools on Blue Star and Earth."
From afar, the outline of the school came into view. It was an old building, its exterior tiles faded, as if stained by years of gray-yellow, with some wear and tear at the corners. The school gate's iron door, though slightly rusted, had clearly been wiped clean, appearing neat and orderly overall.
All in all, it was pretty much the same as schools on Earth, perhaps just Zining High School itself was a bit old.
"Hey! Young man! This kind of Pokémon can't enter the school!" The security guard at the gate stopped Chen Kai.
Chen Kai at this moment was accompanied by Xiao Mei, who had recently grown taller and was almost a meter tall, and Miraidon, who looked like a large motorcycle. He also had two Dipplin on his shoulders, and the egg was in his backpack. He needed to register his initial Pokémon today, even if it was just an egg.
Meanwhile, other students around him were either carrying eggs or small Pokémon like Caterpie and Pidgey.
Chen Kai indeed seemed out of place among them.
"Oh! Then I'll put them away." Chen Kai scratched his head awkwardly and returned Xiao Mei and the others to their Poké Balls.
"It's not just about putting them away! You can't bring your parents' Pokémon in!" The gate guard still wouldn't let him in.
Chen Kai explained, "No, Grandpa, you might be mistaken, they are all my Pokémon."
"How can a student bring several Pokémon before school even starts! I see an egg in your bag, that must be your initial Pokémon, right?" The grandpa lectured, "Don't try to show off with your parents' Pokémon just because you have an egg; that's not very good!"
"No, Grandpa, it's really not like that..."
Chen Kai explained repeatedly, but the grandpa just couldn't understand. The grandpa had never encountered a student who had already raised a bunch of Pokémon before the second year of high school even began.
"Hahahahaha! Grandpa, let him in. He transferred from Kyoto and doesn't quite understand. I'll tell him not to bring them next time, hahahaha." At this moment, someone nearby was laughing uncontrollably.
Chen Kai looked over and saw it was Zhao Mingzhu, whom he hadn't seen for several days. Chen Kai was wondering why she hadn't been around.
"Oh! Teacher Zhao, if you say so, then alright." The gate guard, seeing it was Zhao Mingzhu, let him through directly, though he quietly mumbled, "Why are there so many transfers from Kyoto this year?"
"Zhao Jie, thank you just now. But how did you become a teacher at the school?" Chen Kai asked as he walked through the school gate.
Zhao Jie said, "I'm not really a teacher. There aren't many good research labs in town, and I searched for a long time. In the end, the town mayor helped me, and Zining High School made some rooms available for me.
This way, I'm also closer to you, making it convenient for inspections."
"You should be in Class 1 of the second year. I'm going to be busy now, I'll find you later when I have time!" Zhao Jie walked towards an office building.
Chen Kai also headed towards the livelier teaching building. After searching for a bit, he arrived at Class 1 of the second year.
"Now that it's come to this, going to school in a place so similar to Earth's schools feels strange," Chen Kai said.
Miraidon retorted, "You think everything is strange."
There were already about ten or twenty people in the classroom.
But they were all gathered in one place.
"What's going on?" Chen Kai curiously pushed his way over to see.
In the crowd was a girl and her Pokémon—a pink Dratini.
"Hmm... I think I've seen this Dratini somewhere," Chen Kai stared at the Dratini, thinking hard.
"But it's a shiny! So cool! I want a shiny Pokémon too! Miraidon, can you change color? White, that would be super flashy!"
"Get lost!" Miraidon replied with one word.
"The energy fluctuation of this Dratini... Oh! I remember now. Didn't you go to that secret realm competition with the Ampharos legendary Pokémon a while ago? The one that was hardest to beat was this Dratini!"
Chen Kai clapped his hands, "Oh! So it was it! I knew it! I thought it was very beautiful back then."
While Chen Kai was staring at the Dratini, its trainer, Bai Jin, also saw Chen Kai.
As soon as she saw Chen Kai, she remembered her beautiful pink Dratini being charred by electricity, sending Dratini for medical treatment, and then she herself was just kidnapped!
A few days later, her clan even disbanded, and they had to leave their ancestral home, with the clan members forced to scatter across the country.
Her paternal uncle, Bai Ling, betrayed the country and their clan, causing her entire branch to be assigned to a particularly remote area.
These past few days in Zi Ning Town, she hadn't been sleeping well or eating properly. Having been a young lady for over ten years, always living in luxury, how could she have endured such treatment?
The more she thought about it, the more wronged she felt, the sadder she became, and tears gradually welled up in her eyes.
She had only wanted to ask Chen Kai why he was here, but she could only point at Chen Kai, stammering, tears blurring her vision, unable to form a complete sentence: "You... you... why... why?"
The classmates who had just been chatting and laughing with Bai Jin were dumbfounded.
What kind of plot development was this?