After lunch.
Takeshi and Brock strolled through the streets of Pewter City.
Pewter City was still the same Pewter City as before.
Not changed at all.
"Takeshi, what's wrong? You seem distracted."
Brock looked at Takeshi, who was lost in thought beside him.
"Me?"
Takeshi had been pondering Brock's daughter.
In fact, it wasn't just Brock's daughter.
There was also Forrest and Misty's daughter.
He couldn't see any of Forrest's features in that daughter's face either.
Simply put.
These two daughters didn't resemble their fathers at all.
They hadn't inherited anything.
Was this reasonable?
It was very obvious that it wasn't reasonable!!!
Takeshi was no longer the naive and ignorant Takeshi he once was.
He had experienced hardships and suffered greatly. He didn't want his friends to go through the same.
But it was clear.
Both Brock and his father, Forrest, had been cuckolded.
"Should I tell him?"
Takeshi was considering Brock's situation.
If he told him, the family would be broken, but he would know the truth and wouldn't be raising someone else's child.
If he didn't tell him.
He would never know that his beloved child was someone else's.
But in this way, the family could remain harmonious forever.
"Does it matter if it's your own child? Does being biologically related matter?"
Takeshi thought back to himself.
He had discovered the relationship between Ash and Serena, but he had never exposed it for fear that his mother, Delia, and Ash would argue and break up.
Therefore, he sacrificed himself.
To fulfill them.
But what about Brock?
Looking at Brock's kind and good-man image.
Takeshi really didn't know what to do.
He wondered if Brock hadn't noticed at all that his daughter didn't look like him?
"Takeshi, isn't my daughter beautiful? Doesn't she look nothing like me? Especially her eyes."
"Hm?"
Brock's sudden remark at this moment startled Takeshi.
Could it be that Brock had already noticed?!
And like him, he had endured it for the sake of family?! Had he kept silent?!
But later, Brock's words made him feel he had overthought it.
"Takeshi, actually I saw it. I noticed it during dinner. You've been looking at my daughter and me, wondering why my daughter doesn't look like me at all? Have I been cuckolded?"
"I once went with my wife, Emily, to a gathering of the Joy family. I ate with the men who had married Joy sisters. They also said such things."
"At that time, I also thought Emily had betrayed me."
"But the facts proved."
"Proved what?"
Takeshi's eyes widened.
Brock: "I was being suspicious. I shouldn't have thought of Emily that way."
"She is my good wife. She would never do something like that to me."
He pulled out a few photos from his phone.
"Look, these are paternity tests between me and my daughter. One was done at the Pewter City Hospital, another in a big city, and one at the most authoritative paternity testing center in Kanto. All show that we are father and daughter."
"As for why my daughter doesn't look like me, the doctor said it might be a genetic mutation. These things are hard to explain."
"Oh, is that so?"
Takeshi carefully examined the paternity tests.
He finally felt at ease.
His worries were unfounded.
"But what about Uncle Forrest and Aunt Misty?"
Takeshi still had doubts in his heart.
However, this was no longer his concern.
After staying at Brock's house for a few more days, he headed to Cerulean City to visit Misty.
Author: Hu Die Lan