# 0_0 VAR(259, 0): Hey, VAR(259, 1)!
Over here! This way!
# 0_1 VAR(259, 0): OK, gramps!
I brought VAR(259, 1) like I said!
All right, I’ll be outta here!
# 0_2 Rowan: ...
...
...
...
...
...
# 0_3 VAR(259, 0): ...OK...
I get it...
# 0_4 Rowan: Hm! Everyone’s here finally.
VAR(259, 0), everyone, listen.
You may have forgotten already, but
I study the evolution of Pokémon.
# 0_5 But the more I study, the more
mysteries appear and multiply.
Pokémon that evolve, and those that
don’t...
What makes them different from each
other?
Do those that are immature as living
beings evolve to ones more mature?
If so, what do we make of the
legendary Pokémon that don’t evolve?
Are we to assume that the legendary
Pokémon are complete as creatures?
# 0_6 This is where you three come in.
In the three lakes of Sinnoh, there
are said to be mirage Pokémon.
If we can obtain data on them,
it may shed some light on how the\fprocess of Pokémon evolution works.
I need help from each one of you
on this grand undertaking.
Help me find these Pokémon that are
considered to be mirages.
# 0_7 VAR(259, 0): What are you saying?
I didn’t get no Pokédex!
# 0_8 Rowan: ...And who was it that bolted
from the lab before I had a chance\fto give you a Pokédex?
But that’s water under the bridge!
Seeing Pokémon with your own eyes
is important for you in becoming\fa better Trainer, too.
# 0_9 Dawn: You can count on me!
It will help with my Pokédex, too.
VAR(259, 0), you’ll go too,
won’t you?
# 0_10 Lucas: You bet, Professor!
This will add to the Pokédex
database and help advance your\fresearch.
# 0_11 Rowan: Hm! I would have made all of
you go regardless... Anyway.
Now, there are three lakes.
Fortuitously, there are three of you.
You should therefore split up and
investigate the lakes individually.
# 0_12 Rowan: Dawn, you go to Lake Verity.
# 0_13 Dawn: Will do!
# 0_14 Rowan: Lucas, you go to Lake Verity.
# 0_15 Lucas: Yes, sir!
# 0_16 Rowan: VAR(259, 0), I want you to
investigate Lake Acuity.
That would take you almost to
Snowpoint City.
The road there is harsh. I need
a tough Trainer to go.
# 0_17 VAR(259, 0): Uh... Yeah, of course!
Gramps, you know how to call it!\fYou can tell I’m the hotness!
# 0_18 Rowan: And that leaves VAR(259, 0)
with Lake Valor.
The lake is between Veilstone
and Pastoria, if memory serves...
# 0_19 Rowan: ...
...Has it stopped?
Are all of you unharmed?
Let’s go outside, but be careful.
I’m concerned about the city.
# 0_20 Rowan: VAR(259, 1), hurry along.
But beware of aftershocks.
# 0_21 Every book contains someone’s
memories of various places and times.
Libraries aren’t just buildings where
books are kept, you know.
They’re where different places
and times are gathered together.
# 0_22 W-was that an earthquake?
I didn’t imagine it?
# 0_23 Someone’s always checked out the
book I want to read...
# 0_24 I’m feeling wobbly...
Even though the tremor has ended,
my knees still feel like jelly...
# 0_25 This book is titled “Sinnoh
Myth.” Want to read it?
# 0_26 VAR(259, 0) put the book back.
# 0_27 “Sinnoh Myth”
Betray not your anger, lest ??? will
come.
Weep not with sorrow, or ??? will
draw near.
When joy and enjoyment come natural
as the very air, that is happiness.
Let such be blessed by the hand
of Master ???.
Those words were spoken often
as customary.
# 0_28 This book is titled “Sinnoh Region’s
Mythology.” Want to read it?
# 0_29 VAR(259, 0) put the book back.
# 0_30 “Sinnoh Region’s Mythology”
Long ago, when Sinnoh had just been
made, Pokémon and humans led\fseparate lives.
That is not to say they did not help
each other. No, indeed they did.
They supplied each other with goods,
and supported each other.
A Pokémon proposed to the others
to always be ready to help humans.
It asked that Pokémon be ready to
appear before humans always.
Thus, to this day, Pokémon appear
to us if we venture into tall grass.
# 0_31 This book is titled “Sinnoh’s
Myth.” Want to read it?
# 0_32 VAR(259, 0) put the book back.
# 0_33 “Sinnoh’s Myth”
Three Pokémon there were.
Into the lakes they dove.
Deep, deep, drawing no breath.
Deeper, deeper they dove.
Into suffocating depths they dove.
Deeper, then deepest they alight.
From the lake floor they rise.
Bearing with them the power to make
vast lands, they rise again.
# 0_34 This book is titled “Veilstone’s
Myth.” Want to read it?
# 0_35 VAR(259, 0) put the book back.
# 0_36 “Veilstone’s Myth”
A young man, callow and foolish in
innocence, came to own a sword.
With it, he smote Pokémon, which gave
sustenance, with carefree abandon.
Those not taken as food, he
discarded, with no afterthought.
The following year, no Pokémon
appeared. Larders grew bare.
...Would you like to keep reading?
# 0_37 The young man, seeking the missing
Pokémon, journeyed afar.
Long did he search. And far and wide,
too, until one he did find.
Asked he, “Why do you hide?”
To which the Pokémon replied...
“If you bear your sword to bring
harm upon us, with claws and\ffangs, we will exact a toll.
“From your kind we will take our
toll, for it must be done.
“Done it must be to guard ourselves
and for it, I apologize.”
...Would you like to keep reading?
# 0_38 To the skies, the young man shouted
his dismay.
“In having found the sword, I have
lost so much.
“Gorged with power, I grew blind
to Pokémon being alive.
“I will never fall savage again.
This sword I denounce and forsake.
“I plead for forgiveness,
for I was but a fool.”
So saying, the young man hurled the
sword to the ground, snapping it.
Seeing this, the Pokémon disappeared
to a place beyond seeing...
# 0_39 This ancient book is titled “The
Original Story.” Want to read it?
# 0_40 VAR(259, 0) put the book back.
# 0_41 In the beginning, there was only
a churning turmoil of chaos.
At the heart of chaos, where all
things became one, appeared an Egg.
Having tumbled from the vortex, the
Egg gave rise to the Original One.
...Would you like to keep reading?
# 0_42 From itself, two beings the Original
One did make.
Time started to spin.
Space began to expand.
From itself again, three living things
the Original One did make.
...Would you like to keep reading?
# 0_43 The two beings wished, and from them,
matter came to be.
The three living things wished, and
from them, spirit came to be.
The world created, the Original One
took to unyielding sleep...
# 0_44 This book is titled “A Horrific
Myth.” Want to read it?
# 0_45 VAR(259, 0) put the book back.
# 0_46 Look not into the Pokémon’s eyes.
In but an instant, you’ll have no
recollection of who you are.
Return home, but how?
When there is nothing to remember?
Dare not touch the Pokémon’s body.
In but three short days, all emotions
will drain away.
Above all, above all, harm not
the Pokémon.
In a scant five days, the offender
will grow immobile in entirety.
# 0_47 This book is titled “Sinnoh Folk
Stories.”
# 0_48 Which story would you like to read?
# 0_49 VAR(259, 0) put the book back.
# 0_50 “Sinnoh Folk Story 1”
Pick clean the bones of Pokémon
caught in the sea or stream.
Thank them for the meals they
provide, and pick their bones clean.
When the bones are as clean as can
be, set them free in the water from\fwhich they came.
The Pokémon will return, fully
fleshed, and it begins anew.
# 0_51 “Sinnoh Folk Story 2”
There lived a Pokémon in a forest.
In the forest, the Pokémon shed its
hide to sleep as a human.
Awakened, the human dons the
Pokémon hide to roam villages.
# 0_52 “Sinnoh Folk Story 3”
There once were Pokémon that
became very close to humans.
There once were humans and Pokémon
that ate together at the same table.
It was a time when there existed no
differences to distinguish the two.
# 0_53 On this floor, you will find many
books on the myths and legends of\fthe Sinnoh region.