Pokemon: I Said I Had No Connections, and the Lie Detector Went Off

"What? I don't have any connections! Those legendary Pokemon you mentioned? I don't know them!"

Ding!!! The lie detector's needle shot off the scale!

Ling Mo, a rookie trainer who claimed to be "perfectly ordinary"!

Ding! The God-Tier Connections System has been bound!

"Champions, Elite Four members, professors, legendary Pokemon... They can all become your 'friends'! The deeper your bond, the more helpful your 'friends' will be. They might even take care of everything for you!"

Ling Mo's lips curled into a meaningful smile. "Connections? I really don't have much of a background. I just happen to have a tiny bit more 'friends' than most people."

"He says he's made it all through hard work, but the lie detector went off?! Who is this kid, really?!"

"Impossible! Those treasures that exist only in legends, those ancient manuals that have been lost for ages... He just casually says Professor Oak, Big Sister Cynthia, Big Brother Lance, and the others 'gave' them to him, 'shared' them with him, or 'forced' them on him?! How does that make any sense?!"

"Wait! Was that... Ho-Oh?! It looks like it tossed Ling Mo a feather and said, 'Trade it in if you run short on pocket money'?! I must be seeing things!"

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.