used {STRVAR_1 3, 0, 0}: Hey, {STRVAR_1 3, 1, 0}!\nOver here! This way!\r used {STRVAR_1 3, 0, 0}: OK, gramps!\nI brought {STRVAR_1 3, 1, 0} like I said!\rAll right, I’ll be outta here!\r used Rowan: ...\n...\r...\n...\r...\n...\r used {STRVAR_1 3, 0, 0}: ...OK...\nI get it...\r used Rowan: Hm! Everyone’s here finally.\n{STRVAR_1 3, 0, 0}, everyone, listen.\rYou may have forgotten already, but\nI study the evolution of Pokémon.\r used But the more I study, the more\nmysteries appear and multiply.\rPokémon that evolve, and those that\ndon’t...\rWhat makes them different from each\nother?\rDo those that are immature as living\nbeings evolve to ones more mature?\rIf so, what do we make of the\nlegendary Pokémon that don’t evolve?\rAre we to assume that the legendary\nPokémon are complete as creatures?\r used This is where you three come in.\rIn the three lakes of Sinnoh, there\nare said to be mirage Pokémon.\rIf we can obtain data on them,\nit may shed some light on how the\fprocess of Pokémon evolution works.\rI need help from each one of you\non this grand undertaking.\rHelp me find these Pokémon that are\nconsidered to be mirages.\r used {STRVAR_1 3, 0, 0}: What are you saying?\nI didn’t get a Pokédex!\r used Rowan: ...And who was it that bolted\nfrom the lab before I had a chance\fto give you a Pokédex?\rBut that’s water under the bridge!\rSeeing Pokémon with your own eyes is\nimportant for you in becoming a better\fTrainer, too.\r used Dawn: You can count on me!\nIt will help with my Pokédex, too.\r{STRVAR_1 3, 0, 0}, you’ll go, too,\nwon’t you?\r used Lucas: You bet, Professor!\rThis will add to the Pokédex\ndatabase and help advance your\fresearch.\r used Rowan: Hm! I would have made all of\nyou go regardless... Anyway.\rNow, there are three lakes.\nFortuitously, there are three of you.\rYou should therefore split up and\ninvestigate the lakes individually.\r used Rowan: Dawn, you go to Lake Verity.\r used Dawn: Will do!\r used Rowan: Lucas, you go to Lake Verity.\r used Lucas: Yes, sir!\r used Rowan: {STRVAR_1 3, 0, 0}, I want you to\ninvestigate Lake Acuity.\rThat would take you almost to\nSnowpoint City.\rThe road there is harsh. I need\na tough Trainer to go.\r used {STRVAR_1 3, 0, 0}: Uh... Yeah, of course!\nGramps, you know how to call it!\fYou can tell I’m the hotness!\rAnd, you know what? I was going to\ncatch those legendary Pokémon for you.\rYou know, as thanks for giving us our\nPokémon back on Route 201.\r...Even though I forgot completely\nabout it until just now.\r used Rowan: Very well.\nI’m counting on you.\rAnd that leaves {STRVAR_1 3, 0, 0} with\nLake Valor.\rThe lake is between Veilstone\nand Pastoria, if memory serves...\r used {SIZE 200}DDDOOOMMM!! used Rowan: ...\n...Has it stopped?\rAre all of you unharmed?\r used {STRVAR_1 3, 0, 0}: What was that about?!\rNo, wait, I mean, TV! The TV!\nNews! Anything!\r used Announcer: What you’ve just witnessed\nis actual footage from the scene.\rIt was taken by a cameraman who\nhappened to be there.\rNewscaster: It’s certainly impressive.\rWho knows what the explosion could\nexpose at the lake?\r used {STRVAR_1 3, 0, 0}: Gramps!\nThey said it was an explosion?!\r used Rowan: Hmm...\nBut why at Lake Valor...?\rLet’s get outside.\nI’m concerned about the town.\rYou kids, be careful going down the\nstairs.\r used Rowan: {STRVAR_1 3, 1, 0}.\nYou should leave now, too.\r...There may be aftershocks, however.\nBe alert always.\r used Every book contains someone’s\nmemories of various places and times.\rLibraries aren’t just buildings where\nbooks are kept, you know.\rThey’re where different places\nand times are gathered together. used W-was that an earthquake?\nI didn’t imagine it? used Someone’s always checked out the\nbook I want to read... used I’m feeling wobbly...\rEven though the tremor has ended,\nmy knees still feel like jelly... used This book is titled “Sinnoh\nMyth.” Want to read it? used {STRVAR_1 3, 0, 0} put the book back. used “Sinnoh Myth”\rBetray not your anger, lest ??? will\ncome.\rWeep not with sorrow, or ??? will\ndraw near.\rWhen joy and enjoyment come natural\nas the very air, that is happiness.\rLet such be blessed by the hand\nof Master ???.\rThose words were spoken often\nas customary. used This book is titled “Sinnoh Region’s\nMythology.” Want to read it? used {STRVAR_1 3, 0, 0} put the book back. used “Sinnoh Region’s Mythology”\rLong ago, when Sinnoh had just been\nmade, Pokémon and humans led\fseparate lives.\rThat is not to say they did not help\neach other. No, indeed they did.\rThey supplied each other with goods,\nand supported each other.\rA Pokémon proposed to the others\nto always be ready to help humans.\rIt asked that Pokémon be ready to\nappear before humans always.\rThus, to this day, Pokémon appear\nto us if we venture into tall grass. used This book is titled “Sinnoh’s\nMyth.” Want to read it? used {STRVAR_1 3, 0, 0} put the book back. used “Sinnoh’s Myth”\rThree Pokémon there were.\rInto the lakes they dove.\nDeep, deep, drawing no breath.\rDeeper, deeper they dove.\nInto suffocating depths they dove.\rDeeper, then deepest they alight.\nFrom the lake floor they rise.\rBearing with them the power to make\nvast lands, they rise again. used This book is titled “Veilstone’s\nMyth.” Want to read it? used {STRVAR_1 3, 0, 0} put the book back. used “Veilstone’s Myth”\rA young man, callow and foolish in\ninnocence, came to own a sword.\rWith it, he smote Pokémon, which gave\nsustenance, with carefree abandon.\rThose not taken as food, he\ndiscarded, with no afterthought.\rThe following year, no Pokémon\nappeared. Larders grew bare.\r...Would you like to keep reading? used The young man, seeking the missing\nPokémon, journeyed afar.\rLong did he search. And far and wide,\ntoo, until one he did find.\rAsked he, “Why do you hide?”\nTo which the Pokémon replied...\r“If you bear your sword to bring\nharm upon us, with claws and\ffangs, we will exact a toll.\r“From your kind we will take our\ntoll, for it must be done.\r“Done it must be to guard ourselves\nand for it, I apologize.”\r...Would you like to keep reading? used To the skies, the young man shouted\nhis dismay.\r“In having found the sword, I have\nlost so much.\r“Gorged with power, I grew blind\nto Pokémon being alive.\r“I will never fall savage again.\nThis sword I denounce and forsake.\r“I plead for forgiveness,\nfor I was but a fool.”\rSo saying, the young man hurled the\nsword to the ground, snapping it.\rSeeing this, the Pokémon disappeared\nto a place beyond seeing... used This ancient book is titled “The\nOriginal Story.” Want to read it? used {STRVAR_1 3, 0, 0} put the book back. used In the beginning, there was only\na churning turmoil of chaos.\rAt the heart of chaos, where all\nthings became one, appeared an Egg.\rHaving tumbled from the vortex, the\nEgg gave rise to the Original One.\r...Would you like to keep reading? used From itself, two beings the Original\nOne did make.\rTime started to spin.\nSpace began to expand.\rFrom itself again, three living things\nthe Original One did make.\r...Would you like to keep reading? used The two beings wished, and from them,\nmatter came to be.\rThe three living things wished, and\nfrom them, spirit came to be.\rThe world created, the Original One\ntook to unyielding sleep... used This book is titled “A Horrific\nMyth.” Want to read it? used {STRVAR_1 3, 0, 0} put the book back. used Look not into the Pokémon’s eyes.\rIn but an instant, you’ll have no\nrecollection of who you are.\rReturn home, but how?\nWhen there is nothing to remember?\rDare not touch the Pokémon’s body.\rIn but three short days, all emotions\nwill drain away.\rAbove all, above all, harm not\nthe Pokémon.\rIn a scant five days, the offender\nwill grow immobile in entirety. used This book is titled “Sinnoh Folk\nStories.”\r used Which story would you like to read? used {STRVAR_1 3, 0, 0} put the book back. used “Sinnoh Folk Story 1”\rPick clean the bones of Pokémon\ncaught in the sea or stream.\rThank them for the meals they\nprovide, and pick their bones clean.\rWhen the bones are as clean as can\nbe, set them free in the water from\fwhich they came.\rThe Pokémon will return, fully\nfleshed, and it begins anew. used “Sinnoh Folk Story 2”\rThere lived a Pokémon in a forest.\rIn the forest, the Pokémon shed its\nhide to sleep as a human.\rAwakened, the human dons the\nPokémon hide to roam villages. used “Sinnoh Folk Story 3”\rThere once were Pokémon that\nbecame very close to humans.\rThere once were humans and Pokémon\nthat ate together at the same table.\rIt was a time when there existed no\ndifferences to distinguish the two. used On this floor, you will find many\nbooks on the myths and legends of\fthe Sinnoh region.