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The rumor about Caroline's psychic abilities being too powerful, causing her brain's emotional functions to be impaired, was actually true.
For Caroline, since childhood, other people's voices had always sounded distant and unreal. She existed in this world but seemed separated from it by an invisible barrier, unable to inject genuine emotion into anything.
Only the love from her parents and family members could occasionally make her feel emotional turbulence, but those feelings quickly faded away. Even Ralts, who had grown up alongside her and was now Gardevoir, couldn't consistently evoke lasting emotional responses.
Beyond this, she harbored a secret she had never shared with anyone—Future Sight.
She had experienced prophetic dreams repeatedly since childhood, and the futures she witnessed were filled with endless disasters.
Violent seas crashed against the land, arid wastelands expanded wildly, and the ozone layer high in the sky began rupturing. Lightning and flames intertwined with each other, but ultimately extreme cold consumed everything, destroying the silence of all things and causing all life to perish.
Time distorted, space collapsed, and antimatter fell into chaos. Beasts devoured the sun while summoning creatures of the moon. Blazing light burned everything in the world, yet darkness still fell. The Supreme Creator sought to reclaim His lost authority.
Each disaster required humanity's combined strength to resist, and among them existed doomsday catastrophes that humans could never overcome. This was the established future—unchangeable and inevitable. The world was destined for destruction.
Given this certainty, there seemed no point in integrating into the world or investing emotions in it.
She fulfilled her life as a human being, met her duties as an Elite's daughter, and embarked on the path of a trainer. Even without genuine interest, her naturally powerful psychic abilities allowed her to shine effortlessly on the trainer's journey, eventually becoming the world's Psychic Queen.
Her father's praise, everyone's envy, and younger generations' admiration couldn't create any ripples in her heart. All of this felt inevitable yet also like illusory bubbles.
She lived like an empty shell for twenty-three years.
Until last autumn...
It was an ordinary day when she fulfilled her sisterly obligations by attending a competition with her father. The event featured novice-level battles that couldn't have been more immature.
When she first saw Roy, she thought he was quite handsome by human standards. That was all. She didn't care about anything, especially not appearances.
Their second meeting occurred two weeks later when Roy visited their house. She disliked human contact, so she had Gardevoir handle the teleportation duties.
Her aversion to physical contact had a simple explanation—whenever she touched someone else, her powerful Future Sight activated automatically, allowing her to perceive that person's predetermined future and once again witness countless disasters and the deaths of countless lives.
Everything changed when Roy accidentally touched her.
His future appeared as a blank canvas—no disasters, no inevitability, no predetermined end. Like a coin suspended in mid-air, he existed as a person beyond fate.
In that moment, she felt herself sink into water with a splash. The empty shell filled with suddenly emerging emotions, and her black-and-white movie existence took on vibrant color.
The world's fate no longer mattered.
She didn't know if this was what humans called 'love,' but only when facing Roy did her emotions feel truly alive. Unfortunately, she was too clumsy and didn't know how to express these feelings properly.
As a result, Roy had developed strange impressions of her—misandrist, sickly, mentally unstable, and antisocial.
Even now, she still didn't know how to express herself correctly.
However, Roy loved Pokemon, so she tried to like Pokemon too. Roy immersed himself in the trainer's path, so she invested more enthusiasm in that same journey.
In the originally established future, she would become a Psychic Elite a year later. She had always disliked idle fantasies, but one day she even thought that perhaps she could change her name from Caroline to something incorporating Roy's name.
The day after the national competition, while the world remained immersed in Roy's demonstration of Mega Evolution, another sensational news story appeared.
"Shocking! Four Grown Men Shouting Loudly in Public—This Will Take You Into the Inner World of Champions and Elites!"
"Roy's Words Make Champion and Elite Reveal Their True Feelings!"
"After Reading This, Do You Still Want to Covet Mega Evolution?"
"The Rise of Great Powers: On the Influence and Prospects of Mega Power in China!"
In the video footage, China's Champion and Elite Four had successfully demonstrated Mega Evolution. Due to the relatively distant filming angle, specific discussions couldn't be heard clearly, but the loudly shouted lines at the end came through crystal clear.
Elite trainers and Champions from other countries all recognized the serious implications of China's top combat forces mastering Mega Evolution, their expressions growing grave.
If Elite-level Pokemon could be promoted to Legendary Pokemon status through Mega Evolution, they would possess overwhelming advantages against former peer rivals. Considering Mega Evolution's duration, while one might not sweep through six opponents, defeating at least three seemed highly probable.
For the next two years, it might be wise to avoid direct confrontation.
Various forces that had harbored ill intentions toward China, viewing the nation as young and inexperienced, now felt deep jealousy.
Most importantly, the next global championship wasn't far away. Facing China, where all members had mastered Mega Evolution power, what chances did other countries have of winning?
Important figures pondered these deeper strategic questions.
However, most ordinary people found the situation amusing.
"Hahaha!"
"My stomach hurts from laughing! How did they come up with those lines?"
"Men remain dramatic until death!"
"It's so embarrassing! If I had to recite those lines, I could dig out a three-bedroom apartment with my toes from pure mortification!"
"It's just reading lines—that won't stop me from pursuing Mega Evolution power!"
"Dream on! While ordinary people might use Mega Evolution theoretically, Key Stones are too scarce. Only master-level trainers qualify to compete for available slots."
"With spiritual resource development, in-depth Key Stone analysis, and technological advancement, I believe Key Stones will eventually reach mass production levels."
"I hope so."
After reading through the comments, Caroline closed the webpage. Her computer desktop was filled with photos of Roy from various periods, collected from internet sources. Among them, the pictures where he appeared with his Pokemon showed the most genuine smiles on his face.
Those comments, changes in the national situation, the introduction of Z-moves and Mega Evolution—these represented futures she had never seen before.
She thought of Roy, who was about to depart today for the Crown Tundra, and her heart trembled with anticipation.
On the blank canvas, a new journey was about to be painted. That journey represented a completely unknown, brand new future.
The catastrophes from her dreams would still come, but a person beyond fate had already appeared.