RNP Chapter 204 The Truth Behind the Final Kick
Chapter 204 The Truth Behind the Final Kick
Chapter 214 The Truth Behind the Final Kick
The preschool is small, with only four classes.
The school buildings mainly consist of two teaching buildings, one large and one small, which are like refrigerators crammed full by a housewife. Inside, children's classrooms, indoor activity rooms, dormitories for lunch breaks, a small canteen, a medical room, and teachers' offices are neatly and fully arranged. All the windows are equipped with fence-like safety railings to prevent children from falling while climbing.
In addition to the two teaching buildings, there is a playground connected to the play area, and a clock tower at the end of the playground that echoes the main building.
Putting aside the clock tower where Azur Lane was spying, the school's teaching area is designed to be extremely small, with all the equipment and facilities geared towards children. If an adult were to wander through it, they would really feel like they were in a parallel world.
Presumably for safety reasons, there is no designated area for free-roaming Pokémon on campus. Even friendly Pokémon like Sylveon and Sylveon are not allowed inside. Only teachers who specialize in teaching Pokémon knowledge are permitted to bring one or two Pokémon into the school during class hours.
"It doesn't look like there are any wild Pokémon hiding anywhere."
Behind the teaching building, Azure hid behind the shade of the trees, cleverly avoiding the gaze of passing teachers, while a thoughtful expression appeared on her face.
According to Professor Oak, the hypothesis linking mental illness to wormholes is highly improbable, for reasons similar to those previously proposed by Azur Lane.
Mental illness cannot affect others other than the patient. Sachiko's intermittent disappearances at school must have other reasons. Scientific theories also cannot support the existence of spacetime rifts that form naturally by chance. Perhaps one or two such wormhole wonders may appear in the vast universe of light-years and the microscopic world under a quantum microscope, but such randomness does not exist in reality that can be perceived by the naked eye.
Even if it exists, it could only be caused by Pokémon.
"Well... in a sense, the existence of some Pokémon is essentially a manifestation of supernatural concepts."
Last night, or rather, in the afternoon in the Kanto region, a leading authority in Pokémon research said this on the phone.
“Psychic Pokémon like Abra embody teleportation and telekinesis, while Ghost-type Pokémon, represented by Gastly, achieve possession and the ability to pass through walls; similarly, Togepi represents good luck, Unown embodies the unknown, Girafarig represents the bizarre, Spectrum embodies resentment, Coffin seals away ghosts, and Orpheus mimics UFOs... Pokémon fill the sky, the sea, and the earth like air, so there are no inexplicable things in the world, and all the unknowns seem to be answered by Pokémon.”
Some modern Pokémon scholars even believe that it is precisely because humans have fantasies about the unknown that Pokémon appear one after another. On the other hand, it is also because of the appearance of these Pokémon that the true supernatural fantasy has been dissolved. Miracles, ghosts, vengeful spirits, monsters, aliens, the unknown... they should have appeared more commonly in the world, but their place has been replaced by Pokémon that possess the same elements, so they have nowhere to exist in the real world and have turned into nothingness.
"Of course, these are just the conjectures of those scholars, and they are far from the truth of the world. Modern views hold that this theory is full of anthropocentric idealism, and evidence against it is constantly emerging. The most typical example is the ghosts that people often witness in Lavender Town, Kanto... However, even if the theory is flawed, the arguments they put forward are undeniable—if Pokémon are considered as part of nature, then more than 99% of the supernatural phenomena that humans see are caused by Pokémon after in-depth investigation."
The strange phenomena on this campus probably fall within that 99% range.
Setting aside situations outside of school and eliminating hypotheses such as time travel, the only real problem left to face is this:
How did Sachiko disappear so suddenly, leaving behind memories different from everyone else's?
When talking about how Pokémon can make a little girl disappear instantly, the first thing that comes to mind is the "Teleport" move, which can teleport people to different locations. And when it comes to making children have the illusion of traveling to parallel worlds, we can't help but mention superpower moves such as "Hypnosis".
Combining both factors, if we only consider the possibility of a crime, if this case had occurred in the Kanto region, people would undoubtedly have suspected psychic Pokémon like Kadabra or Hypnos.
However, this raises new questions—a kindergarten classroom is an extremely enclosed small space, and teachers are already supervising the children at all times, assuming that they will run around, and the students will also pay attention to each other's situation.
Even if a Pokémon only uses "Teleport" to flash through the classroom, it is very likely to be witnessed by the surrounding children and supervising teachers. How exactly did that Pokémon take the girl away so quietly?
Take what she observed this morning as an example. All the children in the class were playing on the playground, with at least two preschool teachers supervising them. There was even a little boy talking to Sachiko. Bilan simply couldn't imagine how the girl could disappear under such strict surveillance.
Furthermore, there is no possibility that the fairy could have kidnapped Sachiko while she was in the toilet, because in preschool, teachers organize boys and girls to go to the toilet in batches at fixed times... This is how preschool children go to the toilet, otherwise they would easily wet their pants because they have no sense of time.
Upon witnessing this scene, Azure felt as if she had been struck by "100,000 volts," recalling fragments of information from before she could remember with such shame.
Is it possible that the Pokémon clung to the underground parking garage and used "teleportation" to take the children on the surface with it?
Seeing the underground parking garage next to the campus entrance, the female detective's mind started racing again.
Although this location isn't in the heart of Castelia City, land is still incredibly valuable, and the design had to take land utilization into account. Therefore, the teachers' parking area is located underground on the playground. If the basement isn't sufficiently separated from the playground, that mischievous Pokémon could easily use the underground space to perform a teleportation trick.
"Yes, it's definitely necessary to investigate the underground as well," the girl thought to herself, having already thoroughly investigated the school's above-ground structure.
However, there were guards at the garage entrance, and the nearby playground offered an exceptionally wide view, making infiltration impossible. Even if one managed to sneak in, measuring the thickness of the barrier would be a problem. If only Gengar, capable of invisibility and wall-penetrating, were here, Ditto, which only "transforms" from memory, couldn't do such a thing.
However, relying solely on herself wasn't without a solution. Azure took two seconds to devise a strategy—
Just pretend to be a relative of the client when you go to school after school.
The phone's built-in GPS system can also display the altitude, and the conclusion can be drawn by subtracting the height of the space inside the basement.
So, using the slides and swings as cover, Azure crossed the playground again, entered the small auditorium inside the clock tower, went up the old and steep stairs, and climbed to the top of the clock tower.
"Speaking of which, this clock tower looks much older than the school, and the stairs are so high, it couldn't possibly be designed for children. Was it a building that existed before the school was built?"
Just as Azure was about to glide away on the Vulture, which Ditto had transformed into, before jumping off the clock tower, an idea flashed into her mind.
It was as if all the clues to solving the case were ready, and he was only half a step away from the truth.