“I was just thinking, Xiao Xia, were you a girl all along? I thought Yu Feng was a girl.”
How should I put it? It's truly Ash, to have spent so much time together and only just realize this.
Xiao Xia never tried to hide it, did she? And her clothes don't look like something a boy would wear.
If Shiny Kirlia remembered correctly, when they challenged the Cerulean Gym, Xiao Xia mentioned the Cerulean Gym's Four Beautiful Sisters, right?
Just thinking about it made her want to laugh, and she had no intention of holding back.
“Hahahahaha!”
“Kirlia! (Hahahaha)”
Yu Feng and she were indeed siblings; even their laughter echoed simultaneously. As for why Yu Feng didn't care that Ash called him a girl, he had been mistaken for a girl so many times that he no longer cared, especially when it came to a simpleton like Ash.
The uninhibited laughter reached Xiao Xia's ears, making her face flush with anger. She gripped the Master Ball-shaped sphere with both hands and threw it at Ash with all her might, shouting, “I always was!!!”
After finally sending Ash and his friends off to play, Yu Feng was happy to enjoy a rare holiday with his Pokémon.
“Hey, Uncle Yu, come over here.”
A very familiar voice reached Yu Feng's ears. Perplexed, Yu Feng opened his eyes and looked in the direction of the voice; after all, there were quite a few people he found familiar.
A young girl, wearing a blue hat and with white-and-blue gradient hair, dressed in a blue ruffled swimsuit, was leading a very serious-looking Oshawott. She was greeting a kind-looking middle-aged man.
Looking at the familiar hairstyle and hearing the voice, Yu Feng called out uncertainly, “Fu Ningna?”
The white-haired girl flinched when she heard someone call her name, but then remembered she wasn't in the country, so she turned to find out who was calling her.
Upon seeing it was Yu Feng, she was startled and her face turned crimson. She immediately held Oshawott in front of Yu Feng and let out a sharp shriek: “You... you... you... you, put your clothes on!”
“Huh? Ah! Oh~ You misunderstood.”
Yu Feng's head was full of question marks, looking at Fu Ningna's actions. He was at the beach, why should he put on clothes?
When he saw her holding Oshawott in front of him, he instantly understood what she was saying. He smiled and explained to Fu Ningna that he was a boy, which finally calmed her down.
“Hey, Xiao Fu, what's wrong? Don't scare me.”
Seeing Fu Ningna suddenly go berserk, the man she called Uncle Yu immediately walked over with Indeedee and Gallade, wanting to see what was happening.
When Indeedee saw Yu Feng's Indeedee, her eyes lit up, and she happily pulled her aside to whisper something.
“No, nothing, Uncle Yu, I just met a fan.”
Even after knowing Yu Feng was a boy, the blush on Fu Ningna's face hadn't faded. Although Yu Feng wasn't a muscular man, who doesn't like to look at a handsome man, especially such a beautiful one?
“Hmm, as long as you're okay. And you are? From Galar? No, not like... You're from our China Alliance, right?”
Looking at the Pokémon around Yu Feng, Uncle Yu felt a sense of familiarity; people who like Psychic Pokémon are rarely bad people.
But to know Fu Ningna's name, and judging by his Pokémon team, is he from Unova? He then dismissed his own thought, as Yu Feng's appearance was typically that of someone from the China Alliance.
“I don't know what region I'm from. I was raised by Pokémon.”
Actually, there was nothing he couldn't say. Yu Feng shrugged and told the two that he was raised by Pokémon; he himself didn't know which region he was from.
“Is that so? My name is Yu Huijun, I'm in my thirties. She is Fu Ningna, she just turned twenty this year. We're here on vacation.”
Hearing Yu Feng's explanation, Yu Huijun nodded. Such things were all too common; every year, they would find children raised by Mightyena, or children raised by Ambipom.
Although he sympathized with his plight, since he had grown up to be so big, there was nothing more to say, right?
“I am Yu Feng, I am ten years old.”
Following the introductions, Yu Feng also shared his information.
“Yu Feng, huh? We might be from the same hometown. When we go back, Uncle Yu will ask around to see if any family has lost a child...”
Hearing Yu Feng's self-introduction, Yu Huijun patted Yu Feng's shoulder. With the surname Yu, he must be a son of China; perhaps their ancestors were even from the same family.
As he spoke, he seemed to sense that something was amiss.
“Wait a minute, Xiao Fu, how old did he just say he was?”
Realizing there was a problem, Yu Huijun turned his head, looking incredulously at Fu Ningna, who was covering her mouth and staring at Yu Feng, wanting to confirm if what he had just heard was an illusion.
“He... he said he's ten.”
Fu Ningna looked at Yu Feng, who was even taller than her, and stammered her response to Yu Huijun's question. The majestic Oshawott beside them merely glanced at Yu Feng without saying anything.
“Xiao Fu, don't be disheartened, you can still grow taller.”
Yu Huijun looked at Yu Feng, who was about the same height as him, then looked at Fu Ningna, who was about half a head shorter than him, and after a long pause, he uttered this sentence.
“What are you talking about, Uncle Yu?!”
Hearing Yu Huijun's words, Fu Ningna knew she couldn't blame him for his awkwardness, as she herself didn't know what to say at the moment.
Ten years old and this tall? If he were a girl, it would mean that at ten, he had a better figure than her, was taller than her, and his looks were no worse than hers.
Raised by Pokémon, was the nutrition that good?
Fu Ningna fell into deep thought; she had seen children raised by Pokémon before.
But in reality, individuals like Yu Feng, with his appearance, were very rare.
Long hair and a full beard were the standard look for such children.
“Don't misunderstand, I was raised by Psychic Pokémon.”
Yu Feng saw their expressions and knew they hadn't thought it through, so he quickly clarified, as he also knew what those children raised by Pokémon typically looked like.
“Oh, Psychic-type, then it's not surprising.”
Hearing that he was raised by Psychic-types, the two were instantly less surprised.
After all, it was common knowledge that Psychic-types were empathetic and could communicate with humans, making them more than capable of raising a child.
“So, are you traveling now?”
Yu Huijun asked Yu Feng somewhat uncertainly. Previously, seeing his height, it seemed normal for him to be traveling alone, but now knowing his age...
It was really hard to say, because where they came from, ten-year-olds were still in school; traveling alone was unthinkable.
