Chapter 46: Yes, Yes, Yes!! That’s Exactly It!!
A pretty Pokémon — none.
All there is is the humanoid ferocious beast Tian Bai’s violent punch.
“Hey! Stop lying there, let’s go eat!”
Saying that, Tian Bai grabbed Li Wei’s arm and with a forceful pull, dragged him off the chair.
Because there was an exam today, and their group’s strength was well-known, the instructor exempted them from the battle test that afternoon, letting them arrange for individual training themselves.
Thus, Li Wei and his group had an endless nap time today.
After a ‘lengthy’ thirty-second serious discussion, the few of them unanimously decided to return to the dormitory for a good meal, and then each go to rest and train.
The main chefs were two Indeedees, with Riolu, Eevee, and Dragonair, who were left in the dormitory, assisting.
These three, influenced by Li Wei, felt their cooking skills had been elevated, so they volunteered to join the meal preparation.
Unlike Li Wei’s specialty in meat dishes, the guardian Pokémon with profound cultivation would surely have traditional Chinese cuisine as their signature dishes.
Under Li Wei’s vigorous insistence before he went to risk his life at the exam, the Indeedees agreed to Li Wei’s request to prepare more meat dishes.
Although it went against ‘health standards,’ considering it was a celebratory meal, they still nodded in agreement.
Upon returning to the dormitory, seeing that almost all the dishes on the long dining table in the kitchen contained minced meat, Li Wei was very satisfied.
Dongpo pork, Guobaorou, sweet and sour pork ribs, stewed beef brisket with tomatoes, dry-fried green beans, lotus root with osmanthus…
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“I won’t be polite, I’m going to eat first!!”
Li Wei put a small spoon glove on Eevee’s left hand and a children’s chopstick glove on her right hand; after giving Riolu and Dragonair a pair of children’s chopsticks each, Li Wei picked up his own tableware and rice bowl and began to eat.
It had to be said that these dishes, full of meat, truly comforted his soul, which had been heavily wounded by the exam.
‘Ah, why does it feel like it doesn’t matter even if I fail?’
The non-greasy texture, the savory sauce, the soup stewed all morning and very flavorful~~~~~
After a ravenous meal, the four little ones sitting at a corner of the dining table put down their chopsticks, revealing satisfied expressions.
×4
“Indeedee~ Another bowl~”
“Oh no, four bowls, thank you~”
Nothing makes one happier than eating their fill and then sleeping.
After finishing the Jolly Water in one gulp, and with the several excellent housekeepers completely freeing him from worrying about the subsequent cleaning process, Li Wei directly picked up Eevee, held Riolu’s small paw, and with Dragonair trailing behind, he nonchalantly left the kitchen and returned to his room to sleep.
At three o’clock in the afternoon, the group set off from the dormitory precisely on time, running all the way to Zone 12, to start their daily game session ahead of schedule.
With upgrades and replacements, their games were no longer limited to simple sports like ‘Frisbee’ and ‘Volleyball’.
Playing shuttlecock, dodgeball, tennis, etc., as long as they could buy sports equipment from the supermarket, they could think of ways to play together.
And due to nostalgia, and the period when the Pokémon were not yet familiar with the games and needed him to demonstrate, Li Wei also had a lot of participation.
Playing shuttlecock could train leg strength and develop the attacking power of Eevee’s hind legs.
When he played the game, the sudden double kick from a standing jump was so impressive to Li Wei that he decided to teach Eevee what a real double kick was in reality.
The most important thing in playing tennis is to learn how to control the force.
How to use their energy to protect the ball and the tennis racket’s net made several Pokémon rack their brains.
And Li Wei was very annoyed when he discovered that this sports equipment was not very resistant to grass.
After inquiring, he found out that it wasn’t the quality of the equipment sold by the training camp that was the problem, but rather their own training equipment.
Their volleyballs, frisbees, and other game equipment and exercise facilities were made of special materials.
And the biggest supplier of this special material was Dragonair himself.
When he was a Mini Dragon, he shed his skin almost every day.
He shed his skin for nearly two years, which was a huge amount.
It felt like a waste to throw away the shed skin, as it was a rare material.
And keeping it in the warehouse was a bit horrifying, so under Li Wei’s father and mother’s whimsical ideas, its skin was made into various things.
For example, small bags, boots, and then mixed with other materials to make leather bags and suitcases, and finally, some scraps were developed into various sports equipment.
Hmm.
In many ways, Dragonair’s life was quite utilitarian.
However, just as Li Wei had finished setting up the venue and sat down on a rock by the lakeside, ready to watch the ‘war,’ the ripples in the lake attracted his attention.
At this moment, he was stunned to see a pair of eyes, well… one eye… it should be… a Pokémon in the water, looking at him with its dull eyes, its body turned sideways.
This feeling was somewhat inexplicable; seeing such a wild Pokémon for the first time made him feel a bit strange.
At this time, Li Wei did not move his buttocks, still sitting on the large rock by the lakeside. While the Pokémon in the water stared at him, he was also staring at that Pokémon.
It was a red fish with round, dull eyes.
Long filaments like a catfish hung from its mouth, and the fin on its head looked like it was wearing a golden crown.
That’s right.
It was Magikarp.
Ordinary wild Magikarp had no commercial value, unlike those mixed with Dragon Blood sold for two hundred thousand in Pokémon Day Cares. Wild Magikarp, with their natural predators being fed fatter and fatter by humans, were already tending to become a plague.
Li Wei, who had not been in the water all this time, was unaware of the specific situation of this lake. Now, looking down carefully, there were indeed quite a few fish in this lake.
And this Magikarp staring at him was particularly large, preliminarily estimated to be nearly one and a half meters long and about one meter tall.
Being stared to death by eyes larger than a fist felt a bit strange, but Li Wei did not want to break eye contact himself.
Thus, the staring match began.
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【(ω)】
????????
He read some strange Aura from this fish.
To be honest, Li Wei was startled by the information he read.
“We’re both guys, you stared at me first, why are you shy??”
It was just a casual remark, but Li Wei never expected that his remark would be answered.
“Karoo karoo~”
【Diligent human, I fancy you very much~】
???
“Karoo karoo!”
【Become my Trainer!!】
???
“Karoo karoo.”
【No, this isn’t good.】
“Karoo?”
【You humans seem to care a lot about rituals, so how about this, let’s battle! If I win, you let me be your Pokémon, okay?】
In three sentences, it was perfectly translated into human language by Aura, but Li Wei felt he didn’t understand anything.
He felt his language ability was insufficient to understand what this Magikarp wanted to express.
What’s going on?
Are all Pokémon so eager to throw themselves at you now?
Li Wei felt something was off with this Magikarp, but adhering to the principle of ‘You say you’re interested in me and it pleases me a bit, so I’ll give you a chance,’ Li Wei decided to continue talking with this Magikarp.
After all, textbooks and game Pokédexes all say Magikarp are ‘weak and stupid’; seeing one that was a bit clever suddenly made Li Wei very patient.
Anyway, he had the afternoon off.
Anyway, he was slacking off now.
“Then how do you want to battle?” Li Wei asked.
“Karoo!”
【Just one-on-one!】
With that, this large Magikarp, as if to show its strength, furiously wagged its tail, creating ripples, as if trying to flaunt its power.
“Okay.”
It felt quite interesting, like when playing a game and suddenly encountering a wild Pokémon that rushed up for a battle.
So, he called out the three Pokémon beside him.
The three little ones were currently huddled together, thinking about how to explain to Li Wei why they had already broken another tennis racket after less than two minutes of playing. Before they could come up with a plan, they were called over, and they were all startled.
“There’s a wild Magikarp here that wants to fight you.”
Seeing that Li Wei wasn’t going to question them, Eevee immediately flopped onto the ground to bask in the sun, and Dragonair floated in the air, pretending to be invisible.
“Roo?”
【Gate-crashing?】
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“That word isn’t used like that…”
“Roo?”
【Sparring? Declaration of war?】
Unlike the other two Pokémon, Riolu showed great interest in this.
Thus, the battle opponent for this Magikarp was decided.
The battle was handed over to the two Pokémon, while Li Wei, Eevee, and Dragonair found a clear spot not far away and sat side-by-side to watch.
“Battle begin!”
Li Wei acted as the referee, announcing the start of this ‘battle’.
Unlike Li Wei’s imagination of Riolu easily winning and ending the battle with one punch, this Magikarp’s strategy far exceeded his expectations.
It quickly dodged to the side, evaded Riolu’s distant Aura Sphere, and then suddenly emerged from the center of the lake, opening its mouth and spitting out a string of water spheres.
These spheres, each about the size of a fist, were arranged in a straight line and shot towards Riolu at high speed.
Skill???
Li Wei could recite all the moves a Magikarp could learn on its own before evolving.
Jump, Tackle, Thrash.
No egg moves.
Simply put, it was the standard Pokémon to put in the bag and level up passively.
But.
The attack that whizzed past his face and hit Riolu just now looked like a weakened version of Hydro Pump no matter how you looked at it.
A Magikarp that could use Hydro Pump?
Was this still the same sluggish fish in his impression???
But.
What shocked Li Wei was far more than just this.
Riolu directly blocked the Magikarp’s move with a shield condensed from Aura. Based on his judgment of the energy, the energy of this move was comparable to Eevee’s Water Gun.
While somewhat surprised by the strength of this Magikarp, which was different from the knowledge in his mind, Riolu felt more excited than surprised.
He loved sparring with strong Pokémon!
“Roo!”
【It’s my turn now!】
Saying that, Riolu dashed forward. From his stance, he seemed prepared to walk on water and go to the center of the lake to engage the large Magikarp in close combat.
Facing Riolu’s secondary attack, the Magikarp did not pull away as before.
It suddenly twisted its watery fish-like waist, and with a burst of strength, it leaped high out of the water, jumping more than three meters high!
The sudden vertical movement caused Riolu’s kick, which was imbued with Aura, to miss. And in the brief moment Riolu hovered above the water after his attack missed, the Magikarp seized the opportunity.
While in the air, it did not simply fall freely; instead, as it descended, it used Tackle.
The Normal-type energy of Tackle, combined with factors like gravity, caused the Magikarp to charge towards Riolu at an extremely high speed.
But.
Aura… Aura training wasn’t for nothing. Riolu calmly raised his hands and gathered energy, preparing to use the Aura energy in his hands. He looked up, trying to locate Magikarp’s direction to directly take this enhanced Tackle head-on.
It was three o’clock in the afternoon, and the sunlight overhead was still strong and dazzling. Riolu squinted his eyes, using Aura to locate Magikarp’s position in the sky.
However, this time, the Aura detection used for pinpointing its location revealed an unusual power.
The blue Aura outline originally representing Magikarp was suddenly enveloped by a purple Aura. This purple Aura rapidly condensed, forming a spherical energy mass, accompanied by a large amount of diffuse, wave-like purple fluctuations, approaching him at a speed faster than Magikarp’s Tackle.
These were two waves of attack.
At this rate, the purple Aura would hit him first, and without additional preparation, he would be directly hit by Magikarp’s second enhanced Tackle!
“Roo!”
With no time to think, relying on the combat instinct honed over the past month, Riolu changed his defensive strategy at the critical moment.
He compressed the gathered energy and blasted a ring towards the approaching purple fluctuations.
Li Wei said to fight magic with magic.
If you can’t dodge the numerous skills attacking you, then fight back with your own.
Boom.
This was the huge sound produced by the collision of the skills. Due to the impact of the fluctuations, Riolu staggered back a few steps, losing his balance.
Fortunately, he could now control Aura relatively proficiently, so the shockwave from the skill collision did not cause him to fall into the water and become soaked.
Unlike Riolu, Magikarp’s situation was rather miserable.
After being blown away by Riolu, who was stronger than him, it fell in a perfect parabolic arc onto the grass not far from Li Wei’s feet.
“Karoo karoo!!”
【How could this be!! My full-power attack actually… (ω)!】
Glancing sideways at Li Wei, who was running towards him, Magikarp took a sharp breath.
Like a live fish placed on a grill, it finally did something extremely fitting for its species.
He jumped wildly, twisting his body, in short, he just jumped and jumped and jumped non-stop.
He abandoned thought, only following instinct to perform Splash.
People’s joys and sorrows are different, let alone between humans and Pokémon; there must be different emotions.
Li Wei’s mind at this moment contained only one plant – grass.
What kind of Magikarp is this?
Although the battle was extremely brief, it was almost accurate to say that “the Magikarp was instantly defeated by the Riolu.”
But!!! What skill did this Magikarp just use???
That purple wave.
Isn’t that “Dragon Pulse”???
Looking at the match from a god’s perspective, at that moment, turning his head to meet Dragonair’s gaze confirmed his judgment was not wrong.
This Magikarp not only knows Hydro Pump, has extreme jumping ability and seemingly knows “Jumping”, but also has learned Dragon Pulse!
Huh? Why does the Pokédex say, “Magikarp’s strength and speed are almost nonexistent; he is the weakest and most pitiful Pokémon in the world”?
Picking up the Magikarp still flopping on the ground, Li Wei prepared to return him to the lake.
Although scientific experiments have proven that a Pokémon like Magikarp would not die within thirty minutes of dehydration, he still felt it wasn’t right to keep a fish out of water, so he had to put it back.
At least he wouldn’t have to look at it flopping around on the ground, which would be more pleasing to the eye.
“Karoo karoo!!”
【 No!! Don’t!! Don’t release me!! I’ve already been defeated by you, quickly capture me!! Let me go with you!! Diligent trainer with the marvelous wave!! Please!! 】
The Magikarp, who inexplicably felt its fate was dire, began to shout rapidly after being held by Li Wei, and at the same time, it thrashed even more violently.
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After being slapped in the face by the fish’s tail and feeling pain, Li Wei accidentally let go, dropping the Magikarp on the ground.
“Karoo karoo!!”
【 Yes, yes, yes!! Just like that!! Throw me on the ground and smash me hard with a Poké Ball!! 】
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Today’s py: 《 When a Trainer has a cheat code 》, “Capturing a Pokémon is a very sacred thing, I will demonstrate for all my students,” Li He said seriously. The fox-like Vulpix cautiously lowered its head, its dark eyes nervously staring at him. Li He gave it a “peck” kiss.
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July 19th
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I feel like I remember something, but also feel like nothing happened.
Today is another day of forgetting what I intended to write in my diary….
A bit helpless.
That’s all for now.
Not writing today.
???
Early to bed and early to rise, I’ll see you tomorrow if I remember.
Bye~Bye~
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