Chapter 25: As Expected
After witnessing Dragonair’s head bumping ‘clang clang clang’ all the way until it disappeared around the stairwell corner, Li Wei finally sighed, rolled over, and got up.
He silently sat back down at the table and calmly ate his meal.
Go up and coax her? Apologize?
This, how could that be possible.
Even if he switched to a different world, Li Wei wouldn’t think Tian Bai could have any real changes.
This big brother has a very wicked mind!!
He bet all the money in his Alipay on it, and now she was either on the stairs or hiding in some room, waiting with a smug grin for him to go up and admit fault.
Hmph!
The deceptions suffered in youth will eventually become experience for the future, and he, Li Wei, wouldn’t fall for it again.
He silently ate his breakfast, petting the fluffed-up Eevee.
Eevee’s little heart had taken a critical hit.
It was one thing for Tian Bai to think of other dogs while petting her, but to actually throw her like a ball!!
This was something Li Wei could tolerate, Riolu could tolerate, but she, Eevee, could not!!
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Having understood the whole process, Eevee indicated that although theoretically Li Wei was more at fault in this matter, from the moment that old aunt threw her out, she was totally on Li Wei’s side!! She wouldn’t say a fair word!
In a huff, Eevee viciously bit into the small bread Li Wei offered, chewing hard bite after bite, as if that small bread was Tian Bai.
Unlike Eevee’s emotional outburst, Riolu was a bit confused.
He stood in place contemplating for a moment, then walked to Li Wei’s side, tugged his sleeve, and pointed upstairs.
Looking at the young Riolu, Li Wei felt his ideological education wasn’t thorough enough.
To avoid alerting the enemy, Li Wei used the newly learned but not yet proficient ‘Aura conversation’ to communicate with Riolu through ‘telepathy’ and convey the message.
【You, quietly go upstairs, take a look, and you’ll know.】
After dithering for nearly a minute, Li Wei finally successfully conveyed this message to Riolu.
Riolu, indicating he understood, nodded, controlled his Aura to lift his feet off the ground, flattened his body against the ceiling, and strangely shifted upstairs.
Seeing Riolu’s now smooth and proficient movements, Li Wei knew his Aura mastery had become even more refined, and it was time to start training Aura Sphere.
‘Hmm····· Later, call Mom to book a nutritionist, then call Doctor Liu to come do a physical examination for Riolu. If no issues, we can ramp up training and make him an Aura warrior!’
Yeah, nice.
No need to spend a penny of his own, and still enjoy top-tier treatment.
Miser Li Wei went all out, racking his brains to protect the over five hundred thousand in his bank card.
After Li Wei finished a fried dough stick and downed his soy milk in one gulp, Riolu whooshed back in front of him with a gust of wind.
“How was it?”, Li Wei asked.
Seeing Riolu’s gloomy expression, Li Wei roughly knew what he had seen.
Nothing more than Tian Bai ambushed in a corner or at the stairwell.
“Rulu······”
【The book was right, a woman’s mouth deceives more than ghosts.】
“Right!! So we must stay away from those terrifying creatures! Remember, any man who can laugh and joke with women is no good! They’re all normies! Enemies! When battling those kinds of people and Pokémon, use all your strength!! Beat them to death!!”
“Rulu!”
【Got it.】
True fff group member, never forgetting to preach no matter the time.
And as an old shut-in, Li Wei, even if he fantasized about girls in his heart, knew his own weight and doubted he could ever get a girlfriend.
The kind of girl he liked was very special, different from ordinary vulgar things, ethereal and refined, but also sharing his hobbies, good-looking, matching his aesthetics, caring, and······
During the post-meal digestion time, Li Wei’s daily daydreaming began again.
Upstairs, Tian Bai, who hadn’t waited for Li Wei, came back down dragging Dragonair after Li Wei finished his second soy milk and fried egg.
“Hey, you’re not coming up to find me?”
Tian Bai asked somewhat displeased.
“If I went up, would you come find me?”, Li Wei countered directly.
“Yeah!”
“Oh, definitely next time.”
After a perfunctory reply, Li Wei got up, snatched Dragonair’s tail from her hand, put a spoon on it, and sent him back to continue eating cereal.
Poor Dragonair, if not beaten out of temper by all the big shots at home when young, would he be this easy to bully now?
Wouldn’t he just blast Dragon’s Wrath at someone like Tian Bai on sight?
Li Wei seriously suspected this Tool Dragon might never learn the ‘Dragon’s Wrath’ skill in his lifetime.
In his daily mental mockery of Dragonair, after finishing breakfast, Li Wei should continue training.
But with Tian Bai here today, even as a good brother she’s half a guest, so ignoring her completely would be too much.
With the scant conscience he had, Li Wei pondered how to start a conversation, then decided to first ask Tian Bai’s purpose.
If it wasn’t important, she could just study with him.
He was eager to learn now!
Nothing could stop him from memorizing, and if anyone tried, even his Pokémon, he’d drag them along to memorize too.
This was also one of the ‘culprits’ behind Riolu’s recently miserable training schedule.
What kind of novel experience is it to do horse stance for basic training while using Aura to flip pages and recite knowledge, then face dictation tests in the afternoon?
Diligent Riolu indicated, this life is truly fulfilling.
Eevee was about the same misery.
To train various attribute energy, daily basic energy projection and absorption training with Mime Jr. at the gym, while simultaneously forced to draw with Psychic Power—what kind of experience is that?
Seeing the fur shedding every time she groomed, Eevee felt she was just a bald head away from Teacher Saitama in the 《One Punch Man》 that Li Wei drew.
Li Wei, utterly mad, even targeted his own Pokémon, so a mere good brother Tian Bai—if disturbed for some tiny thing while studying, could he tolerate it? Of course he’d drag her along to study!
So, with his mentality already a bit off, Li Wei asked Tian Bai, “Do you have something for me today?”
“Something! Big news!!”
Tian Bai unknowingly brushed past the god of death perfectly.
“Huh?? What big news?”
Seeing Li Wei’s curious face waiting for her explanation, Tian Bai sighed worriedly.
“I say, get your act together! You’re about to become a trainer and still like this!
Sigh, no matter, I’m choosing breeder as my profession, it’s fine, Mommy loves you.”
With that, Tian Bai shook her head and spread her hands.
“Training starts tomorrow, and you, the person involved, know nothing······”
“Training?”
Sorry, Li Wei, who hadn’t received the memory, really didn’t know.
But instinctively, this ‘training’ sounded like no good.
Weekend training, holiday training.
Tsk, this déjà vu, too strong.
“Forget it, your brain must’ve been fed to the dogs.”
Tian Bai mercilessly roasted Li Wei again.
“Training! Training! This is a bonus item, counts toward extra assessment! Get an A or above, and it’s like Top 16 in the provincial competition, you know!! Didn’t you even check before agreeing?!”
“Hmm····· Not important.”, Li Wei could only shrug.
“No way someone really plans to fight to Top 16 in Magic City Province for Magic City First Pokémon Academy qualification?”
“Huh???”
Isn’t that so??
Though Li Wei didn’t say it, Tian Bai read it from his shocked expression.
Tian Bai didn’t know what to say and could only cup her hands to him, signaling ‘big bro is awesome’.
“Your awareness is too cool.”, Rarely, Tian Bai’s tone had little teasing, mostly sincere emotion.
“Mm-hmm!”
But clearly, Li Wei only cared about the ‘cool’ word, the rest didn’t matter.
“So what’s that training for?”, After some narcissism, Li Wei asked Tian Bai.
“Like summer camp, with written exams, but each training has special regulation practical exams.”
“Isn’t that like a professional certification exam?”
“Similar, but practical difficulty much higher than apprentice qualification exam, otherwise it wouldn’t count as extra bonus.”
“Got it, got it.”
Li Wei nodded.
“So when do we leave tomorrow?”
“Eight AM tomorrow, I’ll come find you······ uh, no need, I’ll stay at your home tonight.”
“Oh, good.”
Li Wei nodded, indicating she could do as she pleased.
Home had plenty of rooms, guest rooms numbered one two three four five six seven eight, she could switch hourly no problem.
Anyway, empty is empty, and he’s not the one cleaning the house.
“Then I’ll go home now to pack, and head out with you from here tomorrow morning.”
“Good.”
“Then I’m off too.”, Seeing Tian Bai about to leave, action-oriented Li Wei stood to see her out.
“Hey wait! Suggest calling your mom, ask properly what to bring for training. As for content, even if you don’t know, no biggie, it’s guaranteed admission anyway, go experience the vibe like summer camp, just don’t fail miserably.” With that, Tian Bai ran to the door, changed shoes, and prepared to leave.
“Oh.”
“Oh what! Remember to call Aunt! If you miss stuff, buying there is inconvenient! Also! Put Pokémon in Poké Balls and register at Pokémon Center!”
“Ah?”
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Silence was Tian Bai now.
“No worries, I’ll take you this afternoon.”
Sighing, Tian Bai hurriedly ran out.
Though her tone was quite helpless, her mouth corners were upturned.
“Sure enough, they can’t do without me~”
She jogged all the way out of Li Wei’s home, got into a black sedan parked at the door, and went home to pack.
Meanwhile, Li Wei silently returned to his room.
Turned on the computer, opened the browser, multi-thread searched ‘training’, ‘Pokémon Academy admission bonus project’, ‘bringing Poké Balls to Pokémon Center for registration’, ‘why Magic City provincial Top 16 is so hard’, etc., and also messaged his mother on WeChat.
Li Wei: Mom, what to bring for training?
Mother: Money
Li Wei:······
Mother: No need to bring money?
Li Wei: Can you be more vulgar
Mother: Wait for it
Truth be told, when Li Wei saw those three words, he instinctively felt his scalp tingle.
Analyze what ‘wait for it’ in Mom’s message meant?
In that instant, countless ideas and escape methods flashed in Li Wei’s mind, and just as he was about to give up and face Mom’s punishment, he received an 800KB document.
Titled ‘Zone 1 Bronze Combat Department Training Item Preparation Guide’.
Full of gripes, too many elements.
This Zone 1, which Zone 1 exactly?
Ionia?
And what the heck is Bronze? Looking down on this diamond goalie?
Never expected his ‘social knowledge supplement’ to start from a document title.
After this month’s study, Li Wei felt his geography knowledge was perfectly mastered.
Blue Star’s area was countless times larger than original Earth’s, both ocean and continent plates expanded countless times.
Big is good, after all, bigger ball feels better to knead.
But this change worried Li Wei a bit.
He worried that if during exam he wrote habitually and accidentally shrank Zhonghua Family’s area, would the grading teacher strangle him.
Besides basic plates, national composition, area, and names had big changes.
Most special: this world has nearly one-third not belonging to humans, called ‘other dimensions’, only trainers Professional level and above can enter.
All exam content, and most insane: candidates not only recite theory, but memorize exact numbers.
Too terrifying, he’d rather recite Lu Xun’s texts.
But he didn’t know ‘zone numbers’ for one reason: not required, so he skipped without looking.
A central Zhonghua Family area divided by Pokémon League into independent municipality, also called ‘Training Area’.
This area functionally numbered and graded, like Bronze level training for ‘Temporary Trainer’, and Gold to King level for ‘Professional Trainer’.
Called training, actually assessment, no issue.
Under unified teaching, League assesses and awards certificates based on training results.
Or simply, many pro exams tied to these trainings.
“Wow, such an important thing······”, Li Wei couldn’t help but exclaim.
Why not make this required, instead test text recitation? What’s the use? In battle, send a noisy bird to recite texts for mental attack on enemies?
After more roasting, Li Wei checked Magic City provincial competition info.
After reading Zhihu posts, Li Wei got it.
He knew why everyone chose training as second best.
In one sentence: even with audience seats, one venue might not fit his zone’s competitors.
In Magic City, qualifiers forced into free-for-all for mass elimination.
Real 128-strong battles are chaos, these 128 competitors could get Top 16 to Top Four in remote zones.
As expected of Magic City, terrifying.
So to avoid big shots denying school entry, official ‘training’ emerged on demand.
For preparing items, Li Wei wouldn’t do it himself, sent file to Mime Jr., let family main pet handle, he reaps benefits.
Skimming, now he just needed to recall Pokémon to Poké Balls, go Pokémon Center for re-registration.
Hard to believe: a month since buying, Riolu and Eevee haven’t experienced Poké Ball.
After all······ free-range at home doesn’t delay, no need for Poké Balls.
So naturally Li Wei forgot.
Now, per Mom’s instructions, he went to storage, opened second drawer by window, took out red-packaged box.
Hmm······
Seeing the box’s luxurious packaging, bad premonition hit, and opening to see contents, Li Wei sighed, ‘As expected.’
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Today’s py: 《Pokémon Crown Summoner》
Synopsis: Why don’t trainers in this world use Poké Balls? Why can trainers use Giga Drain? Why does champion trainer like me still go to university in Magic City?
Bai Xuan looked at the somewhat fantastical summoning array in his hand, pondered long—seems not using Poké Balls is pretty good.
Pokémon crowd shouted: “Good or not doesn’t matter, Master when summon us over?”
Bai Xuan calmly waved: “What’s the rush, wife and daughter not here yet.”
Author’s Notes as you wish!
Timo’s Flop Diary
June 30, don’t know the weather
Forgot to turn off AC last night, and coincidentally forgot quilt too.
gg
Sick resting all day today······
Too miserable wuwuwuwu.
