Detective Meloetta on the case!

It's been a few days since we met Ralts. We have been playing every day since then.

Mel too seems to be fond of her new friend.

At first Ralts seemed pretty confused about Mel.

Well, she didn't have any friends before so it is understandable that she does not know how to treat her.

But she was very clingy with me from the start,

I wonder why?

Oh well, All's well that ends well.

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A few days ago at a certain Ralts's house,

"Ra.. Ra.. Ralts!!" (Mama Ralts found Ralts mate!)

Hearing Ralts say that the mama Gardevoir who was floating towards Ralts lost her focus in shock as she fell down rolling on the ground.

"Gardevoir!" (Say that one more time!)

Said the mama Gardevoir as she stood up and got close to the little Ralts who was fidgeting around holding her blushed cheeks.

"Ra..Ra.. Ralts… Ralts!" (Just like the stories Ralts that you told me about, Ralts found her mate!)

After that little Ralts told mama Gardevoir all about her mate and what happened with her.

Hearing all the details, Mama Gardevoir didn't know what to feel about the situation. As she had told that story to the little Ralts to give her hope and not break down.

The little Ralts in the beginning was a cheerful and curious child. Mama Gardevoir used to tell her about her childhood friends and a child friendly version of her experience with dada gallade. However little did she know that her baby Ralts will have an innate monstrous affinity for the dark element.

The psychic type pokemons dominant sense is their psychic senses unlike other creatures who mainly rely on vision or hearing.

And because of this psychic type pokemons are one of the best sensors.

"However there is one flaw in our senses and that is we can't sense dark type Pokémon as they are immune to all psychic forces."

Little Ralts having affinity with the dark element was an anoma as it is very rare to have affinity with conflicting elements so much so that even natural treasures that improves one's affinity cant increase a conflicting affinity making them more rare than almost extinct pokemons.

And having dark type affinity in a fighting poketown living among psychic types, that's a misfortune of gigantamax proportions.

One will look down in contempt and the others will look away in fear.

And the other tidbits like shroomish, torchic , chimchar etc who don't have fighting type but are allowed to stay here because of their evolution forms having fighting type tend to follow the norm.

So her little Ralts was avoided and isolated.

As a mother it hurt mama Gardevoir. she couldn't do anything about it but to give her daughter false hope.

Seeing her sweet daughter returning home day after day crying broke her heart,

" But at least little Ralts is not breaking down."

That was the only solace she found in her situation.

But now her little Ralts told her that she found a mate while fidgeting in her place holding her blushing cheeks.

After a lengthy mother daughter talk where Little Ralts told her everything about her self proclaimed mate, Mama Gardevoir didn't know what to feel.

She had an idea of who her daughter was referring to and if it is anything like that then that would be a load of problems.

However, watching the silly smile on her daughter's face for a moment, she couldn't remember the last time she saw her smiling.

" My little Ralts is a strong girl. I believe she can face any problem that may come in her path. As a mother the only thing I can do is to prepare her as best as I can."

From that day little Ralts began to learn many things of dubious origin from her mother.

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Meanwhile, Aeron was looking at Meloetta while suppressing the smile forming on his face.

For a few days it has become a schedule for me to tell a story to Mel before she goes to sleep.

I had the idea to tell her stories from my previous life to develop her imagination and mental growth.

Yesterday night I told her a watered down version of a detective story.

And today Mel took me to 'investigate' the surroundings with her.

Currently, she was flying here and there looking around.

"Here is an idea.Why don't we investigate why Ralts was mistreated?"

" Mel! Meloetta ~" (yes! Let's do it.)

So began our investigation as we decided to start from the kids we saw the day we first met Ralts pushing her.

After some time looking around the outskirts of the town we found them fighting with other groups of baby pokemons.

"La~Lala~La~ La~Lala~La~ "

Nothing that Mel's melody can't solve.

After calming them all, Mel went ahead to 'interrogate' them.

Now The most surprising thing was how each of the Pokémon gushed over her and fought against each other to answer Mel's questions.

That was the effect of her ability 'spellbound'.

When I experimented with her ability back then, it didn't have much of an effect on me, so it was surprising how every pokemon became enamored with her.

It seems the more the disparity between the spirit stat the more effective the ability gets or maybe i was already so enamored with her that the ability didn't even affect me?

"Nah~ it couldn't be that. I should rather focus on Mel 'interrogating' the pokemons."

"Oh! Mel looks cute even in her serious mode!"

Ignoring a certain Meloetta-con, let's get back to the interrogation.

"Mel..meloetta? Mel.. melo?." (Why were you not playing with Mel's friend Ralts that day? You even pushed her. What if she got hurt?)

"Makuhita!" "Shroomish!" "Tyrouge!" "Mankey!"

"Poliwag!"

(We're sorry, Please forgive us!)

Said all the pokemon looking desperate.

" mel.. meloetta." ( just answer me.)

Meloetta huffed and said, she is still angry with them for their action against her friend.

At this the leader of the group, a makuhita more fat than a normal makuhita came forward and said,

"Makuhita! ma.. maku.. makuhita!"

(That Ralts is a freak! She doesn't have big muscles nor does she have fat like me yet she defeated me in battle. Moreover she awakened the dark element being a psychic type, pathetic. The advantage she could have had against us, she lost it. Besides, she is annoying. Always asking to play with us!)

Hearing that, Meloetta was angry that they were making fun of her friend in front of her.

"Meloetta!!!" (All of you are mean!!)

Yelled meloetta as she showed them her little tongue and went away.

"Maku!" "Shroo!" "Mankey!!" "Poli!!" "Tyrogue!!"

(Please don't hate me!) ( I didn't do anything!)

(please forgive me!) (Everything is their fault!.)

( don't go please I will play with Ralts from now on!)

Watching the effect of 'spellbound' made Aeron speechless.

"Mel is the literal definition of kingdom toppling beauty."

Thus concludes the investigation there as detective meloetta and assistant Aeron went away to interrogate other pokemons.

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From the gangs of baby pokemons we moved to interrogate related and unrelated pokemons.

For utilizing Mel's ability we only picked baby pokemon or weak pokemons.

From interrogating multiple pokemons we have gathered many bits of information.

Apparently Ralts have the dark element affinity that is weak to fighting type and immune to psychic types. So her position is pretty awkward.she was even restricted from entering deep in the town.

Now that made me very angry seeing Ralts being discriminated against just for her affinities. Moreover kids are kids but even the mature pokemons didn't come forward to help her.

However, one of the old Pokémon 'an alakazam' heard our conversation and came forward to clear things out.

Apparently the town was built upon natural fighting type energy reserves which is helpful to the fighting type pokemons however since Ralts has the dark affinity it will come in conflict and harm her.

And as for the descrimation, the town is full of fighting type Pokémons who love close combat.

Especially the baby pokemons as most of them don't have long range attacks.

So being beaten without even being able to come closer to the opponent they are naturally vexed.

And since dark type makes Ralts avoid other psychic's senses they are fearful.

"You can't blame kids for being fearful of the unknown."

Hearing Alakazam's explanation for a while, I didn't know how to feel about it.

In this situation there is no right or wrong. There is no villain to conveniently take the blame.

It was like the whole world was against Ralts.

"However I cannot just do nothing!"

Feeling the frustration building in him, Aeron slowly calmed himself down as he began to think things thoroughly and logically.

He began to stimulate all scenarios he could imagine and was trying to come to a conclusion.

"The most logical thing for me to do would be to let things be as they are. Now Ralts has us as her friends and is happy. She doesn't seem to want more friends either."

"But it infuriates me to see Ralts sad when she heard others talk bad behind her back that one time. Or the time I invited her to come to my place. It was clear from her face that she wanted to come yet couldn't, however she suppressed her sadness and didn't tell us anything."

After some time Aeron came to a conclusion,

"It doesn't matter who is right and who is wrong.

Ralts has grown on me in the short time we know each other. She is my friend and I will support her with whatever she may want. If she doesn't like others talking behind her back she just has to be strong enough that no one would dare to talk behind her. If she wants to come to my place she just has to be resilient enough that the fighting type energy geyser doesn't affect her."

With his thoughts cleared out, Aeron decided to train Ralts like he will train his own Pokémon and not play around anymore.

"If the world is against her I will just have to make her strong enough to face the world head on!