Chapter 41: Saving The Waste Crybaby
Li Wei reached out with both hands and lifted down his big baby, the all-type genius with Chaos Spiritual Root, from the top of his head.
He placed both hands on the milky white fluff at her neck and picked up the Eevee by it, lifting her to eye level with himself, calling her name in a somewhat meaningful tone.
“Eevee~~”
The expression on Li Wei’s face inexplicably made Eevee a bit fearful.
“Bu Yi!!!”
【No no no no!!! This shouldn’t be this shouldn’t be!! I’m just a little Eevee waaah!!!】
What Eevee wanted to express was far richer than her ferocious shout of those two words ‘Bu Yi’.
A hysterical shout like unfolding a doujin, with eyes brimming with glistening tears, those who didn’t know might think Li Wei was about to do something inhumane to Eevee.
But in reality, the truth of the matter was simply that Eevee chickened out.
Before going to sleep last night, Li Wei had already told her about the upcoming training plan, so Eevee’s current resistance and kicking was merely not wanting to face the upcoming ‘anti-Pokémon’ training.
After all, as the ‘Skill·Mod’ Great Emperor, her training plan was to simulate all the skills listed by Li Wei using the nine-type energy in her body.
All skills.
That long list made her eyes go straight.
This····· is simply not something a little Pokémon like her can do!!!
“Didn’t we agree yesterday to work hard??”
While Eevee was drifting her little squinty eyes and not daring to look straight at him, Li Wei emphasized the words ‘yesterday’ and ‘agreed’.
“Bu Yi······”
【Tomorrow for sure······】
“Tomorrow is tomorrow! Bu Zong, you need to think twice!!”
“Bu Yi!!”
【I’ve thought it over, tomorrow then!! Let me enjoy a billion more days of good life!!】
“I say, Eevee, this laziness won’t do!!”
Li Wei looked at Eevee’s ‘I’ve made up my mind’ expression and silently sighed.
Silent for two seconds, he decided to go all out.
“Tell me, if you keep being idle and loafing around, what will you do if in a few days you can’t even fight Riolu to a draw?”
Hearing Li Wei’s persuasion, Eevee’s expression remained calm.
“Tell me, if I get my Trainee Trainer qualification and start catching other little Pokémon, and you become the little brother of little brothers, what then?”
Hearing such words from Li Wei, Eevee’s ears twitched slightly, but she still pretended to be indifferent.
“Tell me, if one day some good-looking luxury goods are limited edition, only powerful Pokémon can buy them, but you’re too noob to afford it, what then?”
This is panic-inducing! Big problem!
The calm Bu Zong realized the seriousness of the matter.
“Tell me, if one day we encounter danger, and just because our strength is a tiny bit off, we get injured and hospitalized, what then?”
“Tell me, if one day when I need you to help me level up my Trainer rank, but because you dragged the whole team down, you can’t hold your head up in front of everyone, what then?”
At this point, Li Wei’s prepared draft ‘Seven Questions of Conscience’ had already covered five points, and just as he decided to continue, Eevee’s expression suddenly became serious.
“Bu Yi.”
【I’ll go practice.】
Her tone was mixed with thick grievance and unwillingness.
Originally, seeing Eevee jump down from his hands and reluctantly accept her fate, Li Wei was secretly delighted.
‘Another successful coaxing of the little···Eevee for the day!’
But when he saw Eevee run to the side to start special training, and suddenly sensed a very ominous aura from her, he began to panic.
Why······
Why did the emotions in his Eevee’s heart suddenly become so complex?
Being forced to train, sadness is inevitable, unhappiness is reasonable, after all, she’s just a lazy ghost who wants to lie at home doing SPA.
But······
Fear, panic, lingering fear, why?
‘Was it scared by what I just said?’
After recalling what he said, Li Wei stared at Eevee for a while and silently sighed.
Alright.
For this matter today, he needed to apologize.
Perhaps for him, that incident was just an impulsive ‘act of justice’, a lesson that refreshed his frivolous view of this world, but for Eevee, it should be a lingering nightmare like a maggot in the bone.
“Sigh.”
Pokémon nerves are simpler than he imagined, but unexpectedly delicate.
Only now did Li Wei realize that his family’s Eevee was a female Eevee.
As everyone knows, this gender, as long as it’s female, must be treated as a needle in the sea.
Everything has to be hidden, covered up, this tiny subtle self-esteem, he really can’t······ or rather, he can understand it.
Although the example isn’t very apt, he seems to have had such times too.
Back when he was constantly told by his mother ‘your grades are bad, look at other kids’, he was unhappy, but it would stir up determination in his heart to get first in class to show his mother, to prove he could do it too!
But he never said it out loud, just kept it silently in his heart.
Still pretending to be nonchalant about studying, actually just to cover up the fact that even with effort he couldn’t achieve it.
Didn’t want his mother to get randomly happy, nor to be teased by her when he failed.
Maybe Eevee is the same.
Lazy, unwilling, wanting to become stronger, wanting to reclaim something, but because reality has too many complexities, she just didn’t say it outright.
He got it.
“Wow, if this keeps up, I feel like I could open an office.”
After a chain of logic, understanding Eevee’s little heart, Li Wei suddenly remarked to Dragonair, who was coiled on him staring blankly into the distance.
“Woo?”
【What office?】
“Little Pokémon Emotional Communication Office?”
“Woo??”
【What is this place that sounds unserious??】
······
“You’re not allowed to roast me!!! You go train too!!!”
(_)
“Why are you looking at me like that?”
“Woo······”
【Seems like no one has given me a training task······】
As he spoke, Dragonair’s expression suddenly became a bit subtle.
Then, Dragonair turned to look at Riolu doing long-distance side-to-side jumps nearby, then at Eevee with a ball of flame in her mouth ready to spit it out, and slowly turned his head back.
〒▽〒
I’m crying, I’m really crying!!
Dragonair’s expression undoubtedly conveyed this meaning to Li Wei.
·······
“So you want to train too?”
“Woo woo!!”
“How about you hear my idea??”
Seeing Dragonair instantly teary-eyed, Li Wei twitched his mouth, unsure whether to hit him until he stops crying or hug his silly head to comfort him.
Pokémon nurturing really starts from scratch?
Ahead is the complex background, hatred-bearing, usually silly but inwardly persistent hot-outside cool-inside little Eevee, behind is the high net worth but sensitive and delicate inwardly, stimulated to self-isolate by Older Brother’s dazzling light Dragonair.
Hatching his own Pokémon is indeed less hassle!
In?? Look at that Riolu??
This tragic situation further solidified Li Wei’s determination to raise Pokémon from cubs in the future.
“Woo?”
【Li Wei, you say?】
“Want to consider learning Dragon’s Wrath??”
“Woo?”
【Sure? But how to learn?】
“Um······ start with getting angry?”
Seeing Dragonair’s bewildered look, Li Wei gave a bit of his bad idea.
“Or think about your life, is there anything that particularly angered you? My understanding is that Dragon’s Wrath is the materialized use of anger energy, right?”
‘Dragons have reverse scales, touch them and fury ensues’
Theoretically, yes?
It couldn’t be that Dragonair scratches his chin, suddenly scratches that one reverse-growing scale, and comprehends ‘Dragon’s Wrath’, right?
Seeing Dragonair close his eyes in recollection, Li Wei walked to the lakeside, dragging a lump of Dragonair and doing elderly Tai Chi.
Although his ‘growth speed’ can’t match the Pokémon, at least basic exercise can’t be abandoned.
After all, if danger really comes someday, he at least needs to run fast.
Human speed has limits, so he decided to learn from Riolu, using aura to run faster.
After finishing a set of punches, Li Wei found Dragonair still hanging on him in the same pose, seemingly still in contemplation.
“Hey······ Dragonair, have you thought of anything?”
Li Wei was fine not speaking, but once he did, Dragonair opened his eyes, filled entirely with the three big words ‘very wronged’.
“Woo?!!!”
【I’m so wronged?!!!】
???
【Why can Marshtomp grow so fast?
Why, we all came home together, now Li Yuan Sheng takes him out but not me??
Clearly when we were all little, I was stronger??
Since when did I lose to everyone??
Wasn’t I supposed to be the rare Mini Dragon??
Why am I never taken anywhere??
Two years!! Do you know how I’ve survived these two years??】
Dragonair’s expression became extremely subtle.
【Being carried and beaten by Delibird Older Brother is fine, chalk it up to type advantage, but same Dragon-type, I still can’t beat Salamence Older Brother!! Even if Salamence Older Brother is five years older, but the little Marshtomp from the same batch can already Mega Evolve! Why can’t I evolve!! I can’t even beat that noob Marshtomp!!】
【Woo woo woo woo QAQ 】
【I’m just a waste, right!!】
【Dragon life has no meaning, restart.】
······
“Then turn that grief and indignation into motivation!!”
As a pseudo-legendary, what’s with the crybaby look? Where’s the pseudo-legendary glory??
“Woo!!!”
【But I really want to cry!!】
Li Wei: (ΩДΩ)······
This Dragonair is hopeless.
Seeing Dragonair’s performance, Li Wei made such a conclusion.
“With your personality like this, no wonder you became a Tool Dragon!!”
Even Li Wei now felt a bit ‘angry at his incompetence’.
When facing things, first grievance, that’s really too······
If it were a female dragon it’d be fine, but you’re a boy······
Boy, child.
Fine then.
Heard boys cry more than girls when little.
Considering Dragonair is a long-lived species, and he’s just a two-year-old child! Li Wei sighed and rubbed his head.
When it comes to spoiling, Li Wei is quite skilled.
This is no longer a strength issue, purely Dragonair’s little heart took a hit.
So, when the team forms, raising this long nurturing period pseudo-legendary, who’s also under a battle maniac and busybody like his dad, a delicate and fragile-hearted little Pokémon is bound to have issues.
Sighing, Li Wei instantly brainstormed a plan called ‘Saving the Waste Crybaby Dragonair Starting from Helping Him Build Confidence’.
“Good boy······ it’s okay if you can’t get angry, can you help me with something first?”
Li Wei asked Dragonair like coaxing kids from distant relatives during New Year.
“Woo?”
【What help?】
(=)
Sure enough, mentioning ‘helping’ made Dragonair’s eyes light up.
At this moment, no one understood Dragonair’s thought process better than Li Wei.
Helping = helping the weak = he’s strong = he’s useful
Absolutely this equation!
If not, he’d go call Tian Bai daddy tomorrow.
“Help me teach Eevee to learn skills? See, you taught her Water Gun, you know quite a few skills, then try if you can teach Eevee Dragon Breath? I want to do an experiment, without you it really would be hard.”
Saying this, Li Wei put on a very troubled look.
“Woo?”
【Really?】
“Really.”
“Woo?”
【I’m really important?】
“Yeah! We really need you!”
Dragonair smiled =v=, so innocent, so overjoyed.
“Woo!!”
【Leave it to me!!】
Saying that, his two little wings spread, whoosh, and he charged to Eevee.
Finally having coaxed Dragonair away, Li Wei pulled out his mobile phone from his pocket and sent a message to his father.
Li Wei: In? Why did you raise Dragonair so strange?? Do you know he almost cried himself crazy just now?? Why would a perfectly fine Pokémon be raised like this by you? Believe it or not I’ll go to the Pokémon League and report you by name??
The message was filled with the two big words—Collapse.
Father: ?
Li Wei: What question mark! Help me think of a way! Dad!!! Just now your Dragonair’s snot almost rubbed on my clothes!!!
Father: Oh······
Father: Remember to wash your clothes then.
??????
Li Wei: Got it, telling Mother right now!
Father: ?
Li Wei: I hold grudges, bye!
The Li Wei who expected a normal reply from his father was now furiously condemning his ignorance and stupidity.
Taking a deep angry breath, he prepared to do a few more sets of Tai Chi to calm down.
The early morning exercise time passed with ups and downs.
Li Wei, distracted by various things, didn’t even notice when leaving with the Pokémon that from his first set of Tai Chi, a pair of big eyes at the nearby lake had been watching him.
Timo’s Flop Diary
July 14th
【July 13th recommendation votes, 950 votes, no extra chapter~~~oh dear what a pity, why can’t we have an extra chapter~~~】
Today.
Today is a day of sleeping.
Feeling overly flop without realizing it is really nice, feels like liberation.
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Crazy.
Just like this then, today nothing happened, totally can’t bb.
