Chapter 47: Dad’s Got The Solution For You
The inexplicable terms that jumped out of the Magikarp’s mouth made Li Wei instinctively take a few steps back.
He always felt that this Magikarp was a bit strange.
“How about? You go back into the water first, and we’ll chat properly?”
Looking at the Magikarp still flopping around on the ground, Li Wei pondered his words and asked the Magikarp euphemistically.
“Karoo?”
【Chat? Chat about what?】
“Chat about you.”
“Karoo~”
【() No problem, you can capture me first, then we can have a night talk by candlelight, and you’ll have plenty of time to get to know me deeply~】
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Seeing that the Magikarp had no intention of jumping back into the lake and the terms coming out of its mouth were getting worse, Li Wei waved his hand and called over Dragonair, having it use its tail to wrap up the Magikarp and toss it back into the lake.
Splash.
With the sound of it hitting the water, his eyes and ears were briefly liberated.
Watching a red and plump Magikarp keep jumping on the ground nonstop was truly a rather masochistic thing.
“Karoo karoo?”
【Diligent trainer, where’s your Poké Ball? Don’t know how to use it? No problem, I’ve heard how it works specifically, you can give the ball to me too?】
The first thing the Magikarp said after popping its head out of the water was again about ‘capture’.
This sudden ‘enthusiasm’ left Li Wei a bit at a loss.
“Tell me, why exactly do you insist on having me capture you?”
Li Wei asked somewhat helplessly.
This was the first time he’d experienced something like this, it felt totally inexplicable. He wasn’t some anime protagonist, so why was this Pokémon insisting on giving itself to him for free?
A Magikarp that could learn ‘Hydro Pump’ and ‘Dragon Pulse’ could already be described as a once-in-a-century encounter. Could he really pick up this kind of bargain?
His grandpa had said there’s no such thing as a free lunch in the world, and pretty young ladies generally wouldn’t give it away for no reason, so Li Wei felt that at least some verbal therapy was necessary.
“Karoo?”
【You mean why I want you to be my trainer?】
“Yeah.”
“Karoo!”
【Of course it’s because I like you!】
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Hearing such an unreliable answer from the Magikarp, Li Wei smoothly stood up and struck a pose as if turning to leave.
“Karoo karoo karoo!”
【No no no! No need no need! Let me explain in detail! Ah, you bad trainer! People get shy too! (ω)】
In that instant, Li Wei decided that if this Magikarp ended up becoming his Pokémon, then his first training task for this silly one would be ‘learn language’.
Twitching the corner of his mouth, Li Wei sat back on the rock, crossed his legs, and prepared to listen to the Magikarp’s ‘defense’.
“Karoo karoo~”
【Because you have a very comfortable aura~ I can feel you’re a really good person, we should get along great~ Also, I discovered you’re a very diligent person! I admire diligent people the most~】
Aura?
Get along great?
These adjectives were a bit subtle.
After thinking for a bit, Li Wei turned to look at Riolu.
The Magikarp’s subtle description sounded exactly like it was talking about his aura, but as a human, he had no feeling for whether aura was ‘comfortable’ or ‘uncomfortable’. For this kind of thing, he still had to consult the aura master at home, Riolu.
“Ruru!”
【Indeed a very comfortable aura!】
“‘Comfortable’ means compatible, right?” Li Wei continued to ask.
There’s a rumor that Riolu and Lucario only choose trainers whose aura is compatible to grow together with, so occasionally, when news of Riolu running away appears, some ‘scholars’ will explain it with ‘aura compatibility’.
But the cases are too rare, and after research by scientists, no proof supporting the idea of ‘aura compatibility’ has been found, so this so-called rumor hasn’t been formally recorded.
In the view of scientists, Riolu and such Pokémon running away is a normal phenomenon, unrelated to so-called compatibility, only related to the trainer’s situation.
Because Riolu and Lucario are rare Pokémon with overflowing sense of justice, their behavior style, even after nurture, will infinitely approach the side of ‘justice’.
For this point, Li Wei, who had the concept of game Pokédex, easily understood.
This was ‘Just Heart’, the League’s name for it was the same, but after massive data statistics in real society, it was found that this just heart wasn’t only targeted at ‘Dark-type energy’; simply encountering ‘evil acts’ would also affect Lucario’s behavior.
——Making them more aggressive, or having a persistence that they must correct it.
And Pokémon with the same ability like Gallade, Arcanine, etc., have also had multiple cases of running away and parting ways with trainers.
This content was mentioned as extracurricular trivia in the nurturing chapter of the League textbook.
Originally, a part-time slave like Li Wei wouldn’t pay attention to such trivia, but because the textbook highlighted the Pokémon names ‘Riolu’, ‘Lucario’, a worried Li Wei, concerned about his eldest son running away, still took some time to specifically open the browser and search for related info.
According to statistics released last year, most Pokémon runaways are due to nothing more than ‘trainers being utter scoundrels’, ‘abusing Pokémon’, or simply ‘sulking’ or ‘arguing’.
Most Pokémon unconditionally approve of their trainer’s actions because they are in a ‘family’ and ‘raised’ relationship with the trainer.
And having received incorrect education from birth, they won’t doubt the trainer’s wrong actions.
Even some Pokémon, due to species ability and incomplete brain development leading to poor ability to accept external info and self-learn, won’t feel repulsed by the things the trainer does, nor doubt the trainer’s ‘inhuman and anti-Pokémon’ actions.
But.
Riolu and such Pokémon will.
Apart from innate sense of justice, being able to sense aura, they can easily distinguish the good and evil of people’s hearts and emotions.
Various vile ideologies and negative emotions are the most direct reasons prompting them to leave their trainers.
So fundamentally, running away has nothing to do with ‘aura’, and from a scientific standpoint, that rumor indeed doesn’t hold up.
His thoughts suddenly veered off, and Li Wei suddenly realized something.
Wait.
This Magikarp says it can perceive the aura on me??
“Hiss······”
(ΩДΩ)
In that instant, Li Wei’s gaze toward the strangely behaving Magikarp changed again.
What’s going on, little bro??
You have this talent, why be born as anything else but a Magikarp.
What is this?
The Pokémon World’s bottom-tier Pokémon suddenly awakens top-tier talent, turning into a dragon at the first sight of wind and cloud?
Protagonist?? (#`O′)?
Or the version where a loser makes a comeback?
Twitching the corner of his mouth, and giving a few more glances at the Magikarp blowing bubbles in the lake and throwing flirty looks, Li Wei silently gathered aura and opened an encrypted call with Riolu.
【Riolu, do you think···this is a bad fish?】
His aura detection couldn’t compare to Riolu’s. In his view, this Magikarp now was abnormally excited, its blue aura wildly fluctuating in his sight.
If summing up this Magikarp’s inner activity in one sentence, it was probably like this—”Aaaah!”
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It felt a bit subtle, so Li Wei entrusted the matter to Riolu.
The benefit of aura power was right here.
Being even slightly proficient makes it easy to judge good and evil, right and wrong. Though people and Pokémon with special abilities might conceal their inner thoughts with their powers, most of the time, it’s impossible to hide.
Because aura is everywhere; capturing info and emotions is all too easy.
【Feels like a diligent good Magikarp.】
After pausing for two seconds, Riolu added another sentence.
【Just······very energetic.】
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Seems like a hyperactive dummy.
That’s acceptable.
After slightly pondering, Li Wei chose to take out his mobile phone and call his father.
“Hey? Dad, I want to raise a fish.”
“Huh?”
From the other end came Li Yuan Sheng’s puzzled voice.
“I want to capture a Magikarp.”
“Huh???”
“Is it okay? Right now, just need a Poké Ball and League procedures.”
“No, son, what happened that you’re going to capture a Magikarp in the wild?”
Because Li Wei’s straight-to-the-point opening left Li Yuan Sheng still not understanding why his son was doing this.
“Don’t do anything rash? Magikarp···if you really like them, when you get back from training camp, your mom and I will buy you twenty-something Dragon Blood Magikarp eggs to play with! The evolution probability for this thing is too low. That nurturing scholar I know said that out of twenty eggs, you’re lucky if one hatched Magikarp can evolve!”
Li Yuan Sheng rapidly persuaded his silly son who was thinking rashly and about to eat shit.
But Li Wei calmly shut Li Yuan Sheng’s mouth with one sentence.
“Just now training at the training camp grounds, then suddenly ran into a Magikarp that knows ‘Dragon Pulse’ and ‘Hydro Pump’, now it’s clinging to me, insisting I be its trainer.”
???
Li Wei smoothly explained the cause and effect, after which there was a brief silence on the other end.
“Go ahead and capture it, Dad will figure out the way.”
()
“Then···Dad, what about the Poké Ball?”
“Have Dragonair get the flight permit and come find me. You’re at that training area, right? Tell it to fly fast, round trip’s just an hour and a half.”
“Oh oh oh, okay.”
After saying that, Li Yuan Sheng hung up, and Li Wei turned his gaze to Dragonair.
“I’m counting on you?”
Dragonair had heard the phone conversation and nodded to Li Wei to show it understood.
And just as it was about to fly off, suddenly a small thought flashed in its brain in that split second, it stopped its action and turned its head back.
“Woo······”
【Want extra chicken leg for dinner······】
Timidly, it said to Li Wei in a very small voice.
This was the first time it was bargaining while running an errand, a bit panicked.
But the chicken leg and the important meaning it represented forced it to muster courage and say it.
Its black eyes sparkled, nervousness and expectation blended together, staring at Li Wei helplessly.
“Okay, extra chicken leg.”
(><)
“Then on the way back, stop by the supermarket and buy some good stuff. Tonight we’ll have pizza or something to celebrate salted fish···Magikarp becoming part of our family? How’s that?”
“Woo~”
【Okay~】
After saying that, Dragonair used its tail to swipe Li Wei’s key, took off into the air, and flew to the dormitory to get its flight permit.
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Today’s py: 《How the Godly Tycoon is Raised》, Xia Ye, a bottom-rung social member, after unexpectedly binding with the godly tycoon nurturing system, his life slowly starts becoming different.
If you like it, Author’s Notes self-serve link yo.
Timo’s Flop Diary
July 20th
【July 19th, 1051 votes, +1 update】
*Because of py, diary is destined not to write many sentences, otherwise the AI idiot won’t let me post the link.
It’s been overcast these past few days, making me just want to sleep.
Then I slept.
Just now too, kept wanting to sleep, then fell asleep.
Probably around 10:30 that I crawled up.
Sigh.
Before crawling up, my brain was full of “Sleep sleep~ Skip today~”
Honestly, I was this close to being convinced.
Pfft.
Then, also the py thing.
Py will definitely have poison milk, and everyone has their own tastes, so if you don’t like it, don’t over-comment on the py, got it.
——《Emotional Intelligence》
Don’t make Timo struggle too much, thanks.
Lately feels like eating less and less, kinda uncomfortable.
Haven’t had milk tea or Jolly Water in a long time, every day coffee and mineral water, feels like I’m getting all healthy and wellness.
Feels a bit off.
But, with Grandma and them, saying I want Jolly Water always feels kinda wrong???
orz
Whatever, tomorrow eat roasted meat to comfort my wounded heart.
Mm.
Beef best~~~
