It turned out that the Ghost-Faced Man had been targeting Eddie for several days, and his target was Larvitar.
This Ghost-Faced Man is actually just a small gangster who has nothing to do in his daily life.
However, his family has an ancestral home, which is the dilapidated house that Eddie saw in the illusion. One day, the Ghost-Faced Man accidentally discovered three Ghost-type Pokémon that liked to play tricks in the ancestral home.
At first he was also scared by the three Pokémon, but later he found that the three Pokémon had no ill intentions and would not hurt anyone at all. They were just bored in the ancestral home, so they showed up to play pranks on people.
So the Ghost-Faced Man tricked three Pokémon into doing things for him. The three Pokémon were simple-minded and always thought that the Ghost-Faced Man was just playing a prank on them, so they would always help the Ghost-Faced Man to deal with others.
These three Pokémon have a special talent, which is that they can work together to create realistic illusions. Because of this ability, the Ghost-Faced Man has done more deceptive things.
That day, Eddie and Teacher Omura took the Pokémon out to eat and were seen by the Ghost-Faced Man. After noticing Eddie's Larvitar, he couldn't help but have some evil thoughts in his mind.
If he could get Larvitar and sell him, he would never have to worry about anything in his life.
So from that day on, the Ghost-Faced Man started targeting Eddie.
Eddie went back to the Berry exhibition every day, and he would mingle in the crowd to observe Eddie. After several days of observation, he felt that Eddie was just a little brat with no strength and no background, so he decided to take action tonight.
He couldn't enter the high-end restaurant, so he didn't know that Eddie actually knew people with strong backgrounds like Lysandre and Caitlin.
But he never dreamed that he would encounter the legendary Flame Mask when he took action.
In fact, the three Ghost-type Pokémon are not very strong. Their advantage lies in creating illusions, which make the victims psychologically weaker beforehand, and then the Ghost-Faced Man can take the opportunity to sneak attack others.
But Eddie was actually not affected much. Even if the Flame Mask had not appeared, he would not have allowed the Ghost-Faced Man to succeed in his sneak attack.
After understanding what happened, the Flame Mask glared at the Ghost-Faced Man and said, "It seems that you have done a lot of bad things in your daily life. It's your bad luck today that you met me, the Flame Mask who stands up for justice."
As he said this, he struck a dramatic pose, squatting with his legs down and his hands facing the sky. Blaziken cooperated with him very tacitly and did the same movement.
Eddie was so embarrassed that he just wanted to leave. He was very curious about how old Flame Mask was. From his voice, he seemed to be at least twenty-five, maybe even thirty. How come he hasn't graduated from junior high?
After interrogating the Ghost-Faced Man, the Flame Mask looked at Eddie and said, "Young man, we are really destined to meet. I didn't expect to meet again."
Seeing Eddie looking at him quietly without saying anything, Flame Mask finally felt the awkward atmosphere, so he apologized:
"I misunderstood you last time. I'm sorry. I sincerely apologize to you."
Eddie snorted coldly: "If apologies were useful, what would we need Officer Jenny for!"
"Uh..." Flame Mask was stunned when he heard that. The person he least wanted to see was Officer Jenny, so the atmosphere became awkward again. After a long while, he said, "How about this, I'll give you something as an apology later, and the misunderstanding between us will be written off!"
"Apology?" Eddie didn't expect the Flame Mask to be so easy to talk to. Before he could say anything, he saw the other party picking up the Ghost-Faced Man and leaving.
The Flame Mask is tall and strong, and he carries the thin and short Ghost-Faced Man as if he were carrying a chick.
"Leave this person to me!"
Eddie quickly said, "Why don't you leave those three Ghost-type Pokémon to me!"
It just so happened that his orchard was short of some manpower. Ghost-type Pokémon might not be able to do other things, but it could definitely climb trees and pick Berries.
Moreover, Ghost-type Pokémon are rare and elusive. If they can grow up in the future, it will be of great benefit to the safety of the orchard.
Flame Mask stopped when he heard that. After thinking for a while, he asked Blaziken to throw the Poké Balls of the three Ghost-type Pokémon to Eddie.
Gastly, Haunter, and Litwick were still trembling at this time. They were put into the Poké Ball by Eddie without any resistance.
When Eddie came to his senses, Flame Mask had long disappeared, but he was a little curious about how Flame Mask would deal with the Ghost-Faced Man.
You won't kill him, right?
Of course, Flame Mask couldn't be so cruel. He took the Ghost-Faced Man directly to the police station. When no one was around, he threw the unconscious Ghost-Faced Man at the door of the police station. Also placed at the door was a recording of the Ghost-Faced Man's confession of his crime.
In fact, what Flame Mask didn't know was that the Ghost-Faced Man had already been registered at the police station, and as long as he was caught, he would definitely be in jail.
Eddie brought the Pokémon back to the hotel. At this time, Teacher Omura had already returned from his friend's place. Eddie went to say hello to him and then returned to his room.
After closing the door of the room, Eddie released three Ghost-type Pokémon.
As soon as the three Pokémon came out, they huddled together, trembling in the corner, looking at Eddie with fear.
"Bri~Brio~"
Brionne was still not satisfied and yelled at the three Pokémon fiercely, scaring them even more.
After Brionne finished playing the good cop, Eddie started playing the good cop. He said to the three Pokémon: "You don't have to be so scared. I won't hurt you."
The three Pokémon remained silent.
Eddie continued, "I will be your new master from now on. As long as you are obedient, I promise that you will not be harmed at all. I will not deceive you into doing bad things like your previous master did."
When the Ghost-Faced Man was describing his crimes, the three Pokémon were present, and they had already realized that they had been deceived before.
After hearing Eddie's next words, the three Ghost-type Pokémon finally calmed down a little and no longer trembled like before.
But they did not completely trust Eddie and still huddled in the corner, refusing to get close to Eddie.
Eddie did not continue to force them. This kind of thing could not be rushed. There was a long time to come. They still had plenty of time to cultivate feelings. One day, the three Pokémon would believe that he had no ill intentions.
Now all they have to do is behave themselves.
So he took out the Poké Ball and took the three Pokémon back.
The next morning, Eddie and Teacher Omura packed up and went to the Lumiose City Airport. This time, Fiona and Amber also went to Coumarine City with them.
Eddie had already discussed with the two of them and wanted to invite them to visit his orchard.
As for the apology offered by Flame Mask, Eddie did not receive it, nor did he take it seriously because he had already forgotten it completely.