I'm Really Not a Pokémon

"Well, this is an unfamiliar ceiling. I hope I didn't cross again."

Rope sighed in confusion and frustration. With that, he tried to get up and look around, but realized he couldn't move. He then cleared his head and looked at his hands, he realized that they were secured to the bed, so the reason he couldn't move had been found, he was tied to the bed, no, the autopsy table to be exact.

He was familiar with this place, but unfortunately, he usually stood with the knife in hand, preparing to give a decent funeral to the mice and rabbits. This feeling of lying on the ground and waiting for others to give him a funeral was the first time he had experienced it. He had a rare empathy with the little cuties under his scalpel. He was moved by the cooperation of those little cuties.

...What the hell! If you're going to do an autopsy, do it with anesthesia first! Why do we have to do a vivisection if we're going to be dissected!

...No, on second thought, it's better to be alive.

Fortunately, Rope dared to say to others "I've seen everything!" since he traveled through time, so he was relatively calm. After recalling that he had eaten Flame-Flame Fruit last night, he silently used the elemental transformation and his wrist passed through the restraint without any hindrance.

Good, it doesn't bind him anymore.

However, Rope remained calmly lying on the bed in order to hide it.

"Yo, you awake? Wake up and have some instant noodles, I've prepared a cup for you too."

A gentle and kind voice came from in front of Rope's bed. Rope's mouth tugged at the corners, knowing that his hiding was meaningless. He looked up at the source of the voice and found a gray-haired grandfather looking down at him with a smile.

Professor Oak. Rope silently called out the man's name in his mind. His mind instantly recalled a lot of anime and manga episodes about Professor Oak. He laughed in his heart, he could barely find a way to trust Professor Oak and explain where he came from.

He thought that he must have traveled to Professor Oak's backyard, and Professor Oak found him when he was cleaning up the backyard, so he brought himself back to the institute, great!

The first battle begins.

"You're Professor Oak! My name is Rope Harlow, you can call me Rope, I like your Senryū, ah, instant noodles, I'm hungry, please help me take off the restraints, I'll come down to eat!"

Professor Oak scratched the back of his head in confusion, then placed two cups of instant noodles on the table, picked up the remote control, and turned on the TV.

"Why don't you come down and eat it yourself."

Rope was puzzled by Professor Oak's behavior, and wanted to ask something, but when he saw the picture on the TV, he silently closed his mouth.

The TV was showing a fiery teenager and an Arbok, the teenager was covered in flames, and his fists released a pillar of fire that sent the Arbok flying.

Damn it, I'm so handsome!

Rope looked at the video of his own valiant posture, but could not help but think of this narcissistic sentence.

Then he said to Professor Oak: "Professor Oak, please believe me, this handsome guy in here is definitely not me. I don't know where this hot guy is from, but it has absolutely nothing to do with me!"

How can he admit that it's him, even if the evidence is clear, as long as he's not caught in bed, ah shit, as long as he's not caught in the act, he'll deny it to the death!

As long as I don't admit it, no one will know it was me.jpg

Professor Oak picked up a cup of noodles from the table and took a bite, silently pointing to Rope's right hand.

Rope took a deep breath and the unpleasant odor of burnt leather entered his nostrils. He stiffened and turned his head... Ah, in his new Devil Fruit state of not being able to control his powers perfectly, he'd set his restraints on fire in a fit of extreme narcissism.

He turned back to Professor Oak, smiled, and said gently, "Well, I can explain that..."

Professor Oak smiled, picked up another cup of instant noodles and handed it to Rope. Rope took the instant noodles naturally and said thank you sincerely. Then he took the instant noodles in one hand and the fork in the other hand and stuffed a big mouthful into his mouth. He was really hungry. Devil Fruit was not only not filling, but also made him nauseous. If he had known that he would travel through time, he should have finished the KFC family bucket that he hadn't opened yet.

The next thing he knew, Professor Oak was looking at him with a smile on his face. The smile at the corner of his mouth froze as he ate. He glanced at the intact restraints. He took a deep breath.

"Damn, that's not rigorous..."

"So, are you going to admit that the guy in the video was you now?"

Rope looked at him with a pitiful tone: "Will you stop dissecting me if I say no?"

Of course it was a joke, Rope had read the source material and knew that Professor Oak would never do such a thing. And even if this Professor Oak is the Dark Oak, eating Flame-Flame Fruit is not without the ability to protect himself.

Professor Oak smiled brightly: "Of course not!"

Rope: "..."

No work told him that Professor Oak was mischievous...

I always thought you were a stable old man...

Professor Oak looked at the face of helpless Rope, could not help but laugh, he saw in the video only the child's magic and helpless, did not realize that the child is still very cute. At least the desire to survive is very strong.

"Don't worry, I won't dissect you now, but in case you die in an accident, after all, your ability is the first time this kind of ability is still very valuable for research, it's best not to waste the valuable scientific research material."

I see, you must go further and further down the road of life and never return.

Rope lamented his good fortune that it was Professor Oak who had picked him up, but if he had been picked up by someone else, such as Team Rocket, he would have been treated as some kind of unknown rare Pokémon.

"So, Rope..." Professor Oak smiled gently and said to Rope, "Can you tell me what kind of Pokémon you are? I just took a little bit of your blood for testing, and I found that you're not a bit different from us humans."

Rope's smile froze once again.

Couldn't the world just let him feel warm for a little while longer? Were these people evil?

He responded to the sinful world with a stiff smile, "Professor, believe me, I'm a human, not a Pokémon."

"Hmm, I know, you can't reveal yourself walking in the human world, so are you a descendant of Infernape and Ditto? That would explain your flames and your high resemblance to humans."

"You're the descendant of Infernape and Ditto! Your whole family is the descendants of Infernape and Ditto!"

"Yeah, that still doesn't make sense..." Professor Oak sniffed and thought for a while, then clapped his hands and asked excitedly, "So are you some kind of legendary Pokémon? Let's see, Victini! Your human appearance is a disguise made by physic power, that would explain it."

Before Rope could say a word Professor Oak reversed his conclusion.

"No, if it's a physic power disguise, the blood shouldn't be exactly the same as a human's." Said Professor Oak's eyes became more and more frenzied, grabbed Rope's arm, dragged him straight off the bed, and shoved him to the side of the experimental equipment.

"Come on, don't move, let me check it out, very soon, very soon!"

Rope's eyes went black for a moment. It was as if his good life had already left him, and his miserable future as a test subject was already at hand.

As the sunlight poured on the roof of Oak Research Institution, a Bobo dozing on the roof was awakened by a loud cry of ghosts and wolves, and then flew away with a flutter of its wings.

"Professor! I'm really not a Pokémon!!!"

"Hahaha, I'm just kidding! What a funny kid!"

"Don't joke about this!!!"