Pokemon Lord of Fear

The invitation floated up into the air right before Edward's eyes.

His mouth twitched at the sight, and in the next second, the invitation vanished from before him entirely. Yet, even after it disappeared, nothing else happened.

"Wait, where's the invitation? What—or who—did it invite?" Edward muttered to himself in confusion. Something wasn't right. He had clearly used the invitation, hadn't he? Logically speaking, if it was called an invitation, then using it should have summoned or invited something over, right?

Honestly, Edward had even mentally prepared himself to see Rayquaza descending from the sky, or for Champion Leon to stroll into the room. Hell, even Eternatus wouldn't have been out of the question.

But to his surprise, the invitation had done nothing aside from floating around a little before disappearing. No dramatic flashes of light, no earthquake, no interdimensional rift opening. Just a bit of levitation and then—poof—it was gone. The whole thing left Edward utterly baffled. He had absolutely no idea what had just happened.

A second later, his phone vibrated.

Edward raised an eyebrow and pulled it out of his pocket. A friend request notification popped up from the Delibird App. Slightly frowning, he tapped to open it and found that someone with a blue, glowing, triangular eye as their profile picture had sent the request.

Underneath the request, the message read: [Who are you?]

"…That eye…" Edward scratched his head. Normally, when a stranger added him out of nowhere and opened with something cryptic like "Who are you?", Edward would just hit reject without a second thought. After all, what else could this be but some lunatic or a bot? He hadn't added them, after all.

But there was something oddly familiar about that avatar. Those eyes… he couldn't quite place where, but he was certain he'd seen them before. The profile picture showed nothing but a pair of glowing, eerie, bluish eyes staring out from complete darkness—as if you were standing in a pitch-black void and suddenly saw a pair of eyes open and look directly at you.

And now that he thought about it, it was right after he used the invitation that this person added him.

So, after a moment's hesitation, Edward accepted the friend request.

Right away, he saw the person's username:

[What is the meaning of life?]

"…Okay, that's got some serious edgelord vibes," Edward murmured, feeling a pang of secondhand embarrassment. The name immediately reminded him of his own cringeworthy past.

In his previous life, anyone over twenty who had spent their teenage years obsessively using Delibird App would likely experience intense public shame if they ever dared scroll back to their earliest posts or status updates. The levels of emo and melodrama were off the charts. Just thinking about it made his skin crawl.

Fortunately, in this world, he didn't have those old black marks on his record.

[What is the meaning of life?]: Who are you? Why did I suddenly receive your invitation?

A message popped up in the chat window.

Before Edward could even respond, another message followed quickly.

[How do you know me? Do you know my name? Who am I?]

Staring at the screen, Edward fell silent.

He was starting to suspect that this invitation had been sent to someone from a psychiatric ward. What kind of person didn't even know their own name? Asking who he was was one thing—but not knowing who they were?

[Presenting Horror Movies to the World]: You don't even know your own name?]

Edward couldn't resist asking.

It was rare—extremely rare—for someone not to know their own name.

[What is the meaning of life?]: I don't. I've never had one. I only ever heard them say that I was born because of Mew.]

Edward's pupils contracted.

He had a sudden realization about this mysterious contact's identity.

When he added up the mention of Mew, the amnesiac self-questioning, and those glowing blue eyes… it all came together. Edward now felt almost certain he knew who he was dealing with.

This had to be Mewtwo.

Well, that was anticlimactic.

The mystery had barely begun and the answer was already sitting right in front of him. Edward had been hoping for a detective game—some suspenseful back-and-forth of deduction and intrigue. But now, the moment the first clue had been revealed, the whole puzzle fell apart.

If this wasn't Mewtwo, Edward swore he'd write his own name backward as punishment.

Mewtwo—the first man-made Legendary Pokémon—was once a figure of immense prestige. But as more artificial Legendaries were introduced over time, Mewtwo had started to feel a bit... commonplace.

And its mono-typing—just Psychic—didn't help its competitive relevance. Even with Mega Evolutions giving it two distinct forms, its battle strength wasn't exactly overwhelming.

In player-versus-player battles, Mewtwo was practically invisible. No one ever used it in Legendary tier matches.

But that was just in the games.

Here, in reality, Legendary Pokémon were terrifying forces of nature. Each and every one of them, no matter their game-tier standing, was an unstoppable powerhouse. Regular Pokémon couldn't even lift a finger in front of them. And Mewtwo, a genetically engineered powerhouse, was no exception.

Edward also remembered that in the Rainbow Rocket storyline, a version of Giovanni had captured Mewtwo and built the entire Rainbow Rocket organization around it.

And Mewtwo still had decent popularity—at least enough to appear in multiple movies and feature prominently.

It had even given rise to several iconic Ash Ketchum moments—some of the most memorable scenes in the anime.

[Mew… That's a mythical Pokémon.]

Edward sent the message as a test.

He honestly hadn't expected the invitation to reach Mewtwo. And how on earth did Mewtwo get his Delibird ID anyway? He guessed it must've been written on the invitation itself.

[Mew… Is it powerful? Can it live freely? I'm stuck in a glass container every single day.]

Seeing this reply, Edward instinctively rubbed his temples.

What was going on with this Mewtwo? Why did it seem so… pure? So emotionally open?

It was telling him everything without reservation.

Could it be that the invitation had some kind of special effect—one that caused the recipient to form a connection or emotional bond?

[I only know that Mew is a mythical Pokémon. Very few people have seen it. I don't know if there are other Mews like you.]

Edward replied truthfully.

Mew was one of those Pokémon that rarely showed up in public. Most sightings were either isolated eyewitness accounts or brief glimpses caught in blurry photographs or videos.

Its appearance was certainly adorable, widely loved by fans. But that was just the image.

In reality, Mew—as studied by Pokémon researchers—lacked a clear human sense of morality or good and evil. It acted purely on its own nature. Which meant that something Mew did that seemed completely harmless to it might be seen by humans as outright villainous.

Thankfully, Mew didn't often appear in human society. Most of the time, it just stayed out of sight in remote locations.

[That sounds nice... Could you talk to me more? I don't know why, but even though we've never met, I feel a strange sense of comfort from you.]

Another message popped up from Mewtwo.

Edward agreed.

At this point, Mewtwo was probably still locked up in Team Rocket's lab, not yet at the point where it would break out and go rogue. That made him think back to Giovanni's sudden departure earlier—could it have been because of something related to Mewtwo's experiments?

Still, it was shocking that the invitation could evoke such a feeling of closeness from a being like Mewtwo.

If it really did boost the recipient's affinity, then this was huge. He might have just unlocked the chance to play a whole Mewtwo bonding simulator.

What a development.

(End of Chapter)

(TN: Didn't Mew was a mythical Pokémon always thought it was a legendary.)

Also I'll be changing the messaging QQ or Penguin App to Delibird App.