Saffron Gym.
The Gym apprentice in charge of the entrance was still the same one from yesterday.
When he saw Terrance, he immediately showed a surprised expression. "You again..."
There weren't many people who visited Saffron Gym this frequently.
"Haha, hello, I'm looking for Sam…uh, I'm here to see Miss Sabrina." Terrance started to speak, then suddenly realized he was here for Sabrina and quickly corrected himself.
"Alright, please wait a moment," the psychic apprentice said. "Miss Sabrina should be practicing her psychic power. I need to notify her first."
After Terrance nodded in understanding, the apprentice started to turn away, but halfway through, his body suddenly froze, and a lot of information flashed through his mind.
"Um... there's no need to notify her. Miss Sabrina just informed me via telepathy that you may enter. Please follow me," the apprentice said, turning back around awkwardly.
She can use telepathy from that far away?
Terrance glanced into the depths of the Gym, suddenly wanting to see a PK between Sabrina and Mewtwo.
If he had Kirlia summon Mewtwo to battle Sabrina... would that be interesting?
As soon as this thought arose, Terrance quickly squashed it. It's better not to even think about such suicidal ideas. If that ever really happened, he would definitely be the one to die...
Following the psychic apprentice, he arrived at a special room. At the apprentice's gesture, Terrance walked in.
This wasn't the reception room Terrance had stayed in before, nor was it the lounge, or the battle room... Seeing all kinds of equipment inside, Terrance immediately guessed. This must be where Sabrina practiced her psychic power.
Much of the equipment here looked like it was designed to help train psychic power.
As he was taking in the equipment, Terrance also saw Sabrina sitting in a swivel chair in the distance, holding a Float Stone...
Sabrina looked very focused, one long leg in white stockings crossed over the other, reclining in her chair, holding the Float Stone level with her eyes, as if she hadn't noticed Terrance's arrival.
"Miss Sabrina..." Terrance called out since she wasn't responding.
"May I observe your Pokémon for a moment?" After Terrance spoke, Sabrina followed up, her words making Terrance pause for a second before he understood. This woman...
That Pokémon... she must be talking about Pupitar.
Terrance shrugged helplessly and said, "Of course. After all, the topic of our research is the Float Stone, so of course we can't do without Pupitar, who has already grasped its power."
Sabrina slowly put down the Float Stone in her hand, was silent for a moment, then said, "Thank you."
Uh...
That thank you really left Terrance at a loss. He was so used to the cold Sabrina that her being this polite was hard to get used to. But Terrance didn't have time to think about it. He got straight to the point and took out Pupitar's Poké Ball.
When the pupa-shaped Pupitar appeared in front of Sabrina, the psychic queen frowned, then used telekinesis to float a chair over to Terrance.
"I'd like to use psychic power to examine its body. Don't worry, it won't have any effect on it," Sabrina said, asking for Terrance's permission.
"Hold on," Terrance said, righting the chair but not sitting down. Instead, he first communicated with Pupitar. After a moment, Terrance spoke up: "No problem. But after you use psychic power to examine the Float Stone-related information inside Pupitar, could you share your findings with me?"
"Mm." Sabrina nodded.
At the same time, Terrance called out the Rotom Pokédex. When Sabrina saw it, she was clearly surprised. She hadn't sensed any extra living presence… but… this electronic-like device actually seemed to suddenly come "alive" from a "dead" state.
Terrance also noticed the change in Sabrina's expression, but simply thought she was surprised that the Pokédex could fly. If Terrance knew that what Sabrina saw in the Rotom Pokédex was the boundary between "life" and "death," he would probably be extremely dumbfounded.
Because… just now, the Rotom Pokédex had been in a power-saving "semi-shut-down" state.
After being momentarily amazed by the Rotom Pokédex, Sabrina quickly recovered and used psychic power to teleport Pupitar over.
Suddenly being teleported gave Pupitar a fright. Even Kirlia's Ally Switch wasn't this intense. This teleportation didn't give it any time to react at all.
Fortunately, Pupitar already understood the situation ahead of time, or it might have attacked Sabrina by now…
At this moment, after Pupitar was teleported over, Sabrina hugged it in her arms. Terrance's expression was odd. Pupitar should be very heavy right now, so much so that even he had trouble picking it up, but Sabrina held it as if there was no difficulty at all.
"Is she supporting it with psychic power?" Terrance wondered to himself.
After picking up Pupitar, Sabrina immediately began to use psychic power to probe the psychic energy inside its body.
After a while, she could clearly see a special stone, fixed inside Pupitar's body like a heart.
This stone looked nothing like a Float Stone anymore, but Sabrina could still sense the aura of the Float Stone from it. The fluctuations of psychic power that belonged to the Float Stone…
"How did he do this? To perfectly gather the energy of countless Float Stones into a single point, fusing it into something like an organ."
Sabrina was extremely curious.
After a while, she wanted to know how the psychic power operated within Pupitar, and began to speak to it: "Can you actively mobilize that energy inside your body?"
Pupitar naturally understood what Sabrina meant. After nodding, it activated that special organ. Immediately… Sabrina could feel Pupitar's weight decreasing at an astonishing rate…
"Interesting." As Pupitar's weight dropped, Sabrina watched that special organ with intense focus, observing its operation.
Sabrina had previously had her own Pokémon wear a Float Stone and activate its power. At that time, she could sense that when the Float Stone resonated with the Pokémon, it released a field similar to gravity, but with the opposite effect, enveloping the Pokémon and making it lighter. But that kind of observation brought Sabrina no real gains.
It was as if… she could see its form, but not its essence.
However, the way the Float Stone's psychic power operated inside Pupitar gave Sabrina unexpected results. Compared to directly using the Float Stone, in Sabrina's view, Pupitar's method of utilizing the Float Stone was obviously more advanced, and touched more on the Float Stone's true nature!
She gently set Pupitar down, then suddenly closed her eyes. After a while, she opened them again, looking at Terrance, who was also watching her.
"I've made some gains."
"Congratulations." Terrance smiled slightly. He'd been waiting for her to say that. But Sabrina made progress just from this brief contact. Her psychic power was honestly more of a cheat than scientific instruments.
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