Sitting on the filthy ground where stagnant water formed puddles, a kid with greasy black hair and black eyes observed people as they passed by and went to work.
Occasionally begging for a piece of bread or some pokedollars, he mostly stared at the incoming people without moving, his voice drowned by the chatter of the peak morning hour when most headed to the factories.
Extend your psychic sense, touch upon others' minds and read their thoughts.
Kotami was busy trying to master thought reading.
His psychic sense expanding and trying to pry upon the passers-by's minds.
After many failed tries, he managed to touch and attune to the frequencies of a middle-aged man's mind.
The man was walking hurriedly along the street, frequently bumping into other people absentmindedly.
If I can't earn five pokedollars today I won't be able to feed my daughter.
His daughter the cause of worry and nervousness.
Kotami was elated as he finally understood how mind reading worked.
By extending your spiritual sense to somebody and synchronising to their psyche's frequencies you could decipher the thoughts being 'emitted' by the other individual.
Excitedly Kotami continued begging and started reading minds with a fervour in search of news and information.
As time passed the amount of useless information he got was uncountable.
The filth in other people's minds terrifying as Kotami witnessed pure darkness and depravity.
His throat dry and expression somber as he remembered about one guy wanting to rape his neighbour or the guard who expectantly waited for slum dwellers to cause a ruckus just to sadistically torture them with his pokemon.
I want- no I need power! He thought determined.
Tired and weary from the effort he decided stop and only beg.
One intercepted thought sticked in his mind though.
"Which kids should I kidnap for my mission? Not like there would be a reward for me anyway"
This thought belonged to a passing normal looking young man inconspicuously blending into the crowd.
Kotami automa branded him as someone dangerous and to stay away from.
***
As the sun drew its cycle Kotami had collected .80 pokedollars, a meagre amount, but sufficient enough to guarantee them enough food for survival when summed up with the other's earnings.
Kotami then stood up and made his way back to their gang's meeting point in their 'home turf'.
As he gave away to a minion his earnings of the day, the other beggars started regrouping before following the leader's lead into their 'home'.
After getting to the dark and worn down warehouse, he relieved himself by the ditch and queued up to the row of people waiting for their bread.
After eating the bread he anxiously started to meditate, as he sensed abra's presence through their link his mind eased up and abra told him what had transpired during the day.
Abra had fought many pokemon like pidgey, rattata, arbok and even more aggressive pokemon like beedril and pinsir.
He had mainly used moves like psyshock, psybeam, extrasensory, confusion and hypnosis.
Using teleport when meeting strong enemies.
As they went through abra's move and how to better refine and utilise them they analysed each move's structures
Psyshock, a wave of energy which directly targets and attacks the mind.
Psybeam, a colorful ray of psychic light which confuses the enemy, by overwhelming the opponents brain receptors.
Extrasensory, briefly takes hold of the enemy through a simple use of telekinesis.
Confusion, static psychic energy burst which destabilises the opponent's senses.
Hypnosis, sends pulses of telepathic waves which synchronise with the enemy's brain waves and lull them into sleep.
Kotami as a human saw huge potential in psychic moves and told abra to keep practicing them.
He also had Abra levitate as many pebbles as possible, moving and finely controlling their trajectory, to fine tune his control of psychic energy and his psychic sense, also trying to raise his telekinesic limit.
Abra of its own initiative tried to manipulate and take control of other Pokémon's thoughts, occasionally successful in making a caterpie drop from a tree or briefly make a pidgey change its flying trajectory.
Overall Kotami was thrilled. His eyes were bloodshot and his breathing rapid as he imagined himself and abra growing invincible and steam rolling other people and pokemon.
He truly felt that a future where they were considered strong was truly nearby, one in which his partner evolved and became a pokemon feared by others.
Once Kotami calmed down they both started mediatating, one in his cramped dirty corner faking sleep, the other sitting on a tall tree's branch.
As had happened when they were in the forest, abra's meditation was more than twice as effective than before the link, his psychic energy pool growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
What's happened between us?
Abra curiously thought as they calmly meditated.
Ah ,All of a sudden Abra exclaimed through their psychic link.
I also felt two psychic presences observing me today.
Kotami's eyes opened wide.
What!?