Pokémon: An Encounter with You

Chapter 235 Forgetting

"Death is terrible, it represents the end of all connections."

"Is there anything scarier than death?"

"Yes, there is something more terrifying than the severance of connection, and that is the annihilation of one's own existence."

"what is it then?"

"It's oblivion."

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It is a very valuable experience to recreate the scene of that day from another perspective.

Words are a very strange thing.

In such a diary, with the narration from beginning to end and the flow of words, one can clearly feel the remarkable changes that Tutu dog has undergone in just one day.

But since Shi Qiu was the only one who remembered and retained the memory, the weight of this text seemed to be more than a thousand pounds.

This was the first time that the young boy felt so intuitively how important he was to his fellow elves.

Shi Qiu returned the diary in his hand to Tutu Dog.

I don't want to forget so much that I try to describe the memory again and again. I try so hard, but in the end, I forget it gradually.

The boy couldn't laugh, and he couldn't cry, either. He just sat there with everything grey in front of him.

He raised his head and saw Tutu Dog standing silently in front of him, not taking the diary from his hand.

The memory, without support, fell to the ground.

Shi Qiu reached out to pick up the small notebook helplessly, but tears fell out instantly.

Shi Qiu looked at him holding the paintbrush with both hands, picked up the diary on the ground, gently dusted off the non-existent dust, and handed it over again with a smile:

"Why don't you answer?"

Tutu Dog then took it, and gently loosened the hand that had been holding its tail, stretched forward and gently touched the boy's cheek, and asked again in a low and serious voice:

"(Why are you crying?)"

He knew the scientific name of crying, but he had forgotten the meaning behind it.

Shi Qiu smiled: "I cry because I am sad."

Sadness, an emotion you have forgotten.

Tutu tilted its head and looked at him expressionlessly, with a blank look in its eyes.

He didn't understand.

"It's okay. It's normal to feel confused. Even I can't fully explain the meaning of tears."

Why was he crying?

Is it for Tutu's forgetfulness, for the Tutu who once wrote this diary, or for my own inner sadness?

All of them, and more.

Shi Qiu's eyes curved slightly, and he reached out and patted the painter's small painting cap that felt very good.

Tutu's beautiful eyes looked back at him quietly, its pupils were black and bright, clean and innocent, and clearly without any emotion, yet there seemed to be a hint of confusion.

Shi Qiu saw his own reflection in it.

The boy was forbearing and smiling, his face, which had never been so ugly, was reflected in his eyes. Tears were falling slowly, drop by drop, surging and sad.

Then, the boy was surprised to find that from the beautiful eyes of the little painter, with a slight blink, crystal drops actually fell gently.

"(This is......?)"

Tutu Dog raised his hand in confusion and felt something rolling over his face. When he touched it, it was cold and wet.

"(Shi Qiu...Shi Qiu...)"

Tutu dog murmured in a low voice, and the two-word phrase was repeated several times, but even the elf who was repeating it did not understand the meaning of doing so.

It was just a subconscious action.

After murmuring for a while, the little painter suddenly understood and babbled with bright eyes:

"(Shi Qiu, I seem to be sad too.)"

In other words, the body has reacted sadly for him.

The absurd sense of separation adds a different kind of misery.

Tutu Dog naturally equated tears with sadness because of Shi Qiu's previous explanation.

Shi Qiu gently wiped away his tears and held him in his arms.

"You promised me that you would remember every day."

The boy whispered in his ear.

"Tutu dog, I beg you to keep your promise."

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In the game series "X/Y", outside the Pokémon Center in Baike City, and in the game series "Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire", outside the Pokémon Center in Shuijing City, there is a relatively special game NPC.

Memories girl.

Unlike the NPC who recalls Pokémon's moves, the Memory Girl does not have the ability to recall moves. She can only read a "memory" of a Pokémon that is irrelevant to the game.

During a previous game, Shi Qiu encountered a very special triggering situation.

The Pokémon being read has no data related to its memory.

The memory girl will bow slightly after a period of silence.

"This Pokémon seems to have some fond memories, but it can't remember them..."

Shi Qiu always felt that what he used at that time seemed to be a Tutu dog.

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The Foamy Squirrel finally returns with the elves.

Tutu the dog had turned around and continued to stare at the blank drawing paper.

Shi Qiu organized his words and gave a brief account of Tutu dog's situation.

The companions listened quietly. In the end, all the elves, including the Green Ivy Snake, couldn't help but silently glance at the painter who was immersed in his own world.

Unlike Shi Qiu who still had some marks left on them, they, who were once finally recognized as companions, were now rejected again by Tutu's world.

"(Forgotten?)" Bubble Squirrel's face turned slightly pale, "(Is there something wrong with his memory?)"

After hearing what the little gray mouse said, all the elves, including Shi Qiu, turned their attention to him.

Shi Qiu: "...You mean, there were some signs before Tutu Dog appeared, right?"

Bubble Chinchilla nodded, and while recalling the scene when he and Zoroa delivered smoothies to Tutu Dog, he frowned and told the story.

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“(…So at that time, I thought I was influenced by Qiu and was too sensitive…)”

After hearing this, Shi Qiu and the Pokémon fell into silence.

After a long while, Shi Qiu shook his head: "The point is not the disappearance of emotions, that is the consequence. And what caused all this is the disappearance of memory."

Tutu the dog seems to have sensed it long ago and has been trying to find ways to resist forgetting.

There is a reason for this seemingly impulsive decision to draw portraits of my friends.

It's a pity that I have drawn, engraved, and traced my old diary countless times in an attempt to deepen my memory, and I have repeated your name countless times.

No matter how much you don't want to forget, you will eventually forget it.

Shi Qiu didn’t dare to think about how desperate the lonely and mentally disturbed Tutu dog would be while maintaining his last scattered precious memories in “seclusion”.

【Throwing everything away may also be a relief, no longer having to endure the inner depression and the guilt of forgetting. 】

This thought only lasted for a moment before Shi Qiu discarded it.

Anyone can persuade Tutu Dog to give up its last memory and be free, but they alone cannot.

Only they, the protagonists of the memories cherished by Tutu Dog, cannot and do not have the qualifications to let the painter give up.