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“… The circumstances in which I aquired the egg are not something that I want to talk about, but as an academic, transparency is important to me, so… I’m willing to explain.”
“You are right. It is important to me. This BAD EGG… This was the very first anomaly that fell into my possession- honestly, perhaps the first I ever encountered.”
“… It was not originally my Pokemon. It was the sole partner of a dear friend of mine. An Absol. It always kept her safe- she was far more adventurous than me, hah…”
“The phenomenon of what this is, and why it occurs, isn’t something well understood by the scientific community. It certainly wasn’t when I first… acquired this.”
“I desperately wanted to learn why it had happened. How I could undo it. I- I needed to. But there was no information, other than the few recounts of other trainers out there who had fallen victim to this exact same phenomenon. None of us knew what was happening, nobody knew what to do- the only advice was to quarentine it, as many found keeping it near other Pokemon caused it to spread.”
“… I was a budding academic, at the time. I’d always had interest in the field of Pokemon research and was beginning a path to become a Professor, at the time. I- I can’t even remember what I’d originally planned to study, but…”
“As I searched desperately for information on this that just didn’t exist, I stumbled on recounts of more and more similarly inexplicable oddities. They piled up, with not a single one understood, answered, or fixed.”
“They consumed my attention, and… Finally, I made a decision.”
“Nobody else had given these anomalies the light of day. All of them, simply passed off as urban legends, or the ramblings of madmen gone off the deep end. So I decided- I wanted to be the one to understand. I wanted to approach this properly, academically, so I could be the one to give hundreds- perhaps thousands- of unheard cries for help the answers that they needed.”
“… Including my own.”
“Years later, well… Here we are. I’ve a lab, and hundreds- thousands, perhaps- of notes, essays, papers full of analysis and theory, and an entire lab’s worth of hard proof on the existence of these in my possession.”
“… I understand the BAD EGG much better, now. But despite everything, the way to undo it still evades me. At the very least… I’ve procured a lot more knowledge in the meantime. I hope that’s worth something, at least.”
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