Chapter 79: Let’s Just Restart With Eevee
In the situation where Riolu and Magikarp were enjoying themselves and reluctant to leave, Li Wei headed out with Eevee on his head and Dragonair.
Today Dragonair didn’t go to the gym for training; according to him, this was his vacation.
The group had agreed to meet at the school gate to truly experience the route from school back to the house, research the shops and restaurants along the way, and then conduct an examination inside the villa.
The plan was extremely meticulous, giving Li Wei, who had once dragged a bag of luggage to high school dorms, a serious sense of incongruity.
This inexplicably high-quality life formed an extremely stark contrast with the memories of squeaky bunk bed dorms, making it impossible not to feel emotion.
The shops along the road from the school area to the villa neighborhood were all doing very well.
There was the Starbucks cafe that Li Wei liked, as well as many snack shops with jianbing guozi, double-skin milk, takoyaki, flowing yolk egg fried rice, and more, all available.
For people like them who wanted to eat something anytime and anywhere, it was incredibly convenient.
On the way home from school, chatting with classmates, lining up, buying some food, and leisurely heading home was truly one of the great joys of being a student.
The atmosphere of living in the Pokémon World was much denser than he had imagined; more gimmicky shops were even called things like Bulbasaur seed shop, Typhlosion skewer shop, and so on. While feeling a bit like ‘fantasy linkage,’ Li Wei even wanted to take his Pokémon inside to sit when he had time.
“Hey, Eevee, how about this street?”
Walking leisurely behind, Li Wei poked the Eevee on his head and asked.
“Bu Yi!”
【It looks so tasty!】
“Right? If Magikarp found out, he’d probably write me another happy little essay.”
“Bu Yi Bu Yi.”
【Ah this·······better not tell him then, hide it as long as possible.】
At this moment, Eevee couldn’t help but recall Magikarp’s persistence with food and nagging attribute, shuddering her ears a bit in fear, thinking it was best not to tell him about this; after starting school and moving in, just bring him out to eat directly would be the most cost-effective.
Telling Magikarp now = Magikarp nagging every day = little essays expressing expectation = various demonic trainings with weirder reasons = forced to take Magikarp to eat delicious food = still have to listen to his post-meal thoughts
Bringing Magikarp later = only need to listen to post-meal thoughts
With such an obvious comparison, Eevee held back the urge to share with Magikarp and decided to be a profound, secret-keeping, intellectual Eevee.
The efficiency of house viewing was ridiculously fast.
After the vanguard team’s ‘Tian Bai, Tu Xiaomi, and Yu Yixian’ talked their way through, they viewed all four townhouses in the neighborhood in just one hour and negotiated them down to 30,000 per month each.
The location was superior; even though the rooms lacked many necessary furniture and most things needed to be furnished themselves, as a property only five minutes’ walk from school, its inherent advantages were hard for ordinary houses to match.
Tian Bai checked the typical rents in the area and carefully examined every spot in the rooms, confirming everything was fine before signing the contract and paying.
Decisive and super efficient.
The room allocation was: Li Wei alone in one, Mo Jiu alone in one, Tu Xiaomi and Tian Bai sharing one, Zhou Fengjue and Yu Yixian sharing one.
The reason was simple: Li Wei and Mo Jiu had too many family-bringing Pokémon.
Unasked, they didn’t know; once asked, everyone learned Mo Jiu was also a big shot who had caught three Pokémon long ago.
Morpeko, Absol, and a Ralts.
After visiting Mo Jiu’s home, Li Wei had to say her first two Pokémon choices really fit the family style, but for the Ralts after, he felt somewhat regretful toward it.
Just like Riolu being fed wrong information as a child and starting to champion violent aesthetics, what kind of Ralts could come out mixed in a pile of Dark-type, Li Wei said it was hard to imagine.
The subsequent IKEA shopping really worried Li Wei to pieces, but the clever him, when facing such issues, wouldn’t choose to worry but would use his clever brain to solve the problem.
“Eevee.”
Familiar tone, familiar opening; Eevee, picked up from his head, looked at this familiar scene and couldn’t help feeling a bad premonition.
“I think you still need to hone your appreciation of art.”
“Bu Yi??”
【No···we’re clearly out playing, why say this??】
Eevee, just about to launch herself onto the soft mattress nearby to roll around, was now bound in limbs and felt a bit wronged.
“You’re hitting a bottleneck in designing clothes and can’t progress because your understanding of art and design is limited to ‘clothes.’ It’s like training skills: weren’t the first few skill simulations very difficult? But after mastering a dozen proficiently, the later ones become simple, right?”
“Bu Yi.”
Picked up, Eevee thought for a moment then nodded sincerely.
The daily skill training back then made her want to be reborn, but now daily skill simulations felt incredibly easy.
Having found the knack for energy use and activation, and gradually gaining control, Eevee realized ‘skills’ were just that; most were ways of using energy, and as long as she mastered all energy thoroughly, simulating skills was just a matter of seeing them once.
“Design is the same, so you shouldn’t miss this perfect chance to exercise your aesthetics and abilities.”
Seeing Eevee’s expression agreeing with the earlier ‘skill simulation’ theory, Li Wei pressed the advantage.
“Designing a house is a challenge for you, but it can enrich your big-picture view, just like in performance contests; the costumes serve your performance, and the furniture in the house is the finishing touch, fitting the house’s layout and meeting family members’ needs.
Isn’t this just like clothes serving the performance core, thereby making the judges appreciate the beauty of your clothes?”
Hearing Li Wei’s words, Eevee’s eyes widened again.
“Bu······”
Wanting to say something, but opening her mouth, she only made a meaningless sound and froze.
Why was it so reasonable?
There was clearly a feeling of being tricked, but why couldn’t she refute his words at all?
When unable to refute turned into acquiescence, when Li Wei only found things that moved him emotionally and sent pictures to her tablet, when she silently used psychic power to pick up the pen and start sketching, Eevee felt both fulfilled and very bleak.
Both expecting to stun everyone at the Grand Festival, and lamenting why she couldn’t refute Li Wei’s magical logic theory again.
