Chapter 42: This Is Called ‘being Cautious’
After meeting up with the instructor outside the training ground, there was another full-speed sprint session lasting thirty minutes.
A morning workout, even if Li Wei, an old slacker, spent the rest of the day being lazy, sleeping, or playing games, would still feel like ‘this day was incredibly fulfilling.’
This is the cheap sense of self-satisfaction that comes from exercise and sweat.
While running back, Li Wei couldn’t help but sigh about this inexplicable slacker mentality.
Returning to the dormitory, the first thing was to take a shower, then head to the kitchen to start making breakfast.
Perhaps cooking was a very difficult task for ‘Young Master Li Wei,’ but for the otaku Li Wei, it was just a simple daily routine.
Fry three eggs, three slices of ham, toast nine slices of bread, stir-fry some broccoli to ensure there was green on the dining table, and cook some porridge until it ‘bloomed’ twice.
Wash the berries, cut them into small pieces, put them in a juicer for 30 seconds, one cup for Riolu, one cup for Eevee, one cup for Dragonair, and he’d sneak a cup for himself too.
The taste of the berries was very rich, and the juice squeezed from them was countless times more intense than that of ordinary fruits.
It was fresh, sweet, and delicious; after a cup, you’d want another, which could be described as ‘addictive.’
Humans could eat Pokémon berries, but because berries contained a large amount of energy, it was easy to absorb them incompletely and become excessively obese.
However, Li Wei, who possessed Aura Ability and exercised diligently every day, clearly didn’t need to worry about this energy being unable to dissipate and causing obesity.
After breakfast, Li Wei took out his mobile phone to check the time. There were still nearly 50 minutes until class.
“Alas, I can only cook for them.”
Li Wei’s original plan was to check the time and if there were less than 30 minutes remaining, he would shamelessly brush off today’s ‘bento’ duty.
“Oh dear, I’m so sorry, I was too busy this morning and didn’t have time to bring you bento.”
Then, he would trick them into eating at the canteen and make himself something delicious back in his room.
But.
Clearly.
The ample remaining time caused his plan to fail.
Now he didn’t know what to do, feeling it was a bit awkward to go to the classroom so early, wasting forty minutes of rest time.
So, after two minutes of contemplation, Li Wei finally opened his storage cabinet, took out the bento boxes he bought at the supermarket yesterday, called his few Pokémon, and started busy making bento with them.
The cooking steps were basically not his responsibility; the vast majority of the complicated chores were handled by Riolu and Eevee.
Riolu was responsible for controlling Aura Ability to act as a knife for cutting and peeling vegetables.
Li Wei’s idea was that every kind of power is not singular, and its application method is certainly not the monotonous usage in the traditional sense.
Because this is reality.
Pokémon wouldn’t only learn four moves, and battles wouldn’t be turn-based, so by the same logic, why should powers of the same attribute have only one usage method? Why can’t a mage be an assassin, and why must a frail character take hits with their body?
With such thoughts, Li Wei decided to have Riolu practice ‘precision’ in controlling Aura Ability while simultaneously strengthening speed training, hoping that one day his control over Aura would be comparable to that of Liu Bo’s Pokémon in their mastery of Ice Attribute Energy, as depicted in manga.
If that were to happen, it would truly be so cool.
Eevee’s task was to arrange the food. Psychic Type is the most brain-developing ability, and to make Eevee smarter, Li Wei felt he had put in a lot of effort.
It wasn’t that Eevee was stupid, but rather that she had a need to be ‘smarter.’
When her strength grew in the future and she could reveal her true power in front of others, switching to the correct form at the right time would surely be most accurate if she controlled it herself.
To perfectly multi-thread her operations, appropriately increasing her Psychic Power was very necessary.
If the energy became unbalanced, then Eevee could just stay up late to train other attribute energies.
Li Wei believed that for Pokémon to battle and become stronger, besides physical fitness and skill training, the most important thing was the control of attribute energy.
If Liu Bo could create a dummy with Ice Attribute Energy, why couldn’t Eevee use it similarly?
Why not research the control of multi-attribute powers to the extreme?
In this way, to satisfy Li Wei’s wild imagination, Riolu and Eevee lived within Li Wei’s routines, even when eating, drinking, sleeping, or resting.
As he threw ingredients into the pot and smelled the aroma of the food wafting out, Li Wei couldn’t help but feel a sense of emotion.
When I was young, I always thought adults were very capable because they never picked at their food. Only when I grew up did I realize that adults just never made things they didn’t like to eat.
The current Li Wei, remembering past lessons learned through blood and tears, only made things he liked to eat in this bento.
—Meat, the best.
30 minutes later
Since he also made some Pokémon food, the number of bento boxes on the kitchen counter was now spectacular.
“Should I just have them go back to the kitchen to eat next time??”
Carrying so many bento boxes to class every day, wouldn’t he look like a complete idiot on the way?
But looking at the lunch break time of only three hours, Li Wei abandoned this idea.
Eating took half an hour, sleeping took two hours, and the remaining time for washing up and rushing to class took another half an hour, which didn’t seem to leave him enough time to cook.
Using the canvas bag he received as a gift from shopping at the supermarket, Li Wei put the bento boxes into the bags two by two, hung the bags on his arms, and like a newspaper delivery person every morning, he knocked on each door and placed their bento outside their rooms.
“Eh? Li Wei? Good morning.”
Tian Bai was the first to open the door.
She looked at the bag placed at the door and the bento inside, and a very happy smile immediately appeared on her face.
“Wow! You really made them!”
She was a little excited.
In her impression, she always felt that the scoundrel Li Wei would use some strange excuse to get out of making bento this time.
She had even thought of specific excuses for Li Wei, such as, ‘Ah, I need to do my morning exercise, no time to cook.’
But she never expected that this time, she was judging a gentleman with a villainous mind.
“Thank you~ I’ll savor it! See you downstairs later!”
Saying that, she closed the door.
Li Wei didn’t wait for the rest of the people to come out and get their bento; he directly returned to his room to pack the luggage he needed for class.
First, the schoolbag.
Wow.
The moment this word came to his mind, it gave him a sense of unreality.
After living affectionately with his Pokémon for over a month at home, he had almost forgotten that he was actually a student.
He took out his small black backpack from the wardrobe and checked the contents.
A new notebook, a folder, and a pencil case.
Hmm······
All the luggage was packed by the thoughtful Mime Jr.
Taking a bottle of mineral water and three small packs of snacks from the nearby storage shelf, he zipped up his schoolbag and, with Eevee and Riolu, Li Wei prepared to go downstairs to wait for his bad friends to gather and head to class.
“Then, Dragonair, I’ll trouble you to look after the house.”
“Moo~”
【 Okay~ 】
Dragonair felt that looking after the house was something it was extremely skilled at, it just felt a little lonely.
And this minor emotion was precisely captured by Li Wei, who had recently made significant progress in his Aura Ability studies.
“Oh, right, if you have time, please help me with some chores. Alas~ my studies are busy. It would be great if the house was clean and tidy when I get back. And it would be even better if you could help me wash and dry my morning exercise clothes in the washing machine.”
Leaning against the doorframe, Li Wei pretended to be vexed as he said this.
“Moo!!!”
【 I’ll help you!!! 】
Saying that, Dragonair rushed to the clothes rack, rummaged through its personal small bag for a long time, and then took out a small card, presenting it to Li Wei.
Advanced Housekeeping Pokémon Qualification Certificate
—Officially Certified by the Pokémon League
Just like an ID card, it had Dragonair’s photo on the left, its corresponding identification number below, and the Pokémon League’s emblem on the back.
Looking at Dragonair proudly holding the small card, Li Wei was speechless. It was like being choked by an egg, and he silently twisted the mineral water and took a few gulps.
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“Then I’ll leave it to you.”
After a few seconds of eye contact, Li Wei uttered these words.
“Moo!”
【 Leave it to me! Go to school with peace of mind! 】
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“Okay, bye-bye.”
After speaking, Li Wei closed the dormitory door.
How to put it, he felt Dragonair’s image in his mind was becoming more and more subtle… like a tool.
Did it want to learn more skills to indirectly prove its usefulness to its Trainer father since it couldn’t defeat its older brother?
But because it had many qualification certificates, Li Yuan Sheng mistakenly thought it wasn’t focused on that and didn’t train it in combat?
Li Wei felt that in a sense, he might have figured out the truth?
Several people walked together into the teaching building for training.
The teaching building wasn’t very tall, estimated to be only about three stories high. However, in keeping with the architectural style of the Pokémon World, the building’s shape was somewhat peculiar, and the ceiling height was exceptionally high, preliminarily estimated to be around 4 meters.
It was about the height where Dragonair could stand up and its head would touch the ceiling. This classroom was designed to be quite friendly for these Pokémon.
The classes here were interesting, allowing Pokémon to attend with their trainers, but it required signing an agreement.
A document called the Classroom Discipline Responsibility Statement.
The gist of this statement was that the trainer guaranteed their Pokémon would abide by classroom order, manage their Pokémon, and be responsible for any potential aggressive behavior from their Pokémon.
It meant managing your Pokémon to ensure it wouldn’t suddenly unleash a Flamethrower on your deskmate, or suddenly emit ear-piercing sounds or chatter incessantly during class, severely affecting everyone’s learning experience.
Attending class with Pokémon felt magical and novel, but Li Wei felt the two Luxury Balls his parents bought him were becoming increasingly useless.
The classroom was tiered, giving it a university lecture hall feel.
The group found a row in the middle, towards the back, and sat down.
The feng shui of this location was perfect, directly facing the whiteboard and projector used for lectures, making it very convenient for diligent students like them to learn.
At this moment, the classroom was very quiet. The students who had arrived early and taken their seats were not whispering to each other, they were diligently flipping through the League textbooks they had brought with them. Occasionally, a student would close their book and mumble, seemingly memorizing, very diligently.
Seeing the strong academic atmosphere in the classroom, the group, after taking their seats with their Pokémon, also stopped chatting and joking.
Similarly, they prepared their learning materials for class, took out their books, and began to read.
Maintaining silence and not disturbing others is the most basic virtue.
Time reached 8:40, and as the familiar class bell rang, the teacher arrived punctually.
Still in familiar camouflage uniform, but this time, the old （ Instruc）tor） W）ang wore glasses and held many course materials.
“Class!”
As these two words were spoken, a powerful muscle memory, as if etched into their DNA, caused Li Wei’s body to naturally stand up with the surrounding students, even though his mind was momentarily blank.
“Good morning, students.”
“Good morning, teacher.”
“Please sit.”
Without any rehearsal or prior communication, the voices and movements were uniform, natural, and smooth, as if it were as natural as eating and drinking.
Indeed, no matter where one transmigrationed, the daily life of students from Zhonghua Family was the same.
“My surname is Wang, you can call me Instructor Wang or Teacher Wang.”
“We will have an exam in three days, primarily to assess your foundational knowledge, after which we will divide you into classes and conduct targeted small-group instruction. The main exam content will be based on the written exam for the Trainer Apprentice Qualification Test. We instructors will set the questions; it won’t be very difficult, so please pay attention to your review these few days.”
After announcing this matter, which was like a nightmare for Li Wei, the instructor took out a large pile of teaching materials he had brought and began passing them forward.
“There are three documents in total, all of which I have bound for you. This is the content you need to learn this morning. It’s not much, all basic content and related exercises.”
Not much.
All basic content.
These two keywords made Li Wei feel like he had time-traveled back to Earth.
The instructor was truly worthy of being an instructor; his teaching method was also incredibly simple and direct.
“Alright, there are a total of three hours of instruction this morning. I hope everyone will focus and listen attentively, as classroom performance is recorded.”
Without any further preamble, he picked up the whiteboard marker and began the ‘lecture.’
“The first topic to be covered is an important knowledge point in the syllabus, and also a problem you will face now, corresponding to the first document you were just given, Volume 8 of the League Textbook, ‘Training’ module, the Infancy and Growth Periods.”
Listening to the instructor explain the knowledge of the Pokémon World with a serious expression was undoubtedly a bit strange.
It was like one day a group of people were sitting in a classroom, diligently taking notes of ‘last hitting and wave control,’ ‘poking and pushing towers,’ and other knowledge points written on the blackboard by the teacher.
It was subtle.
But it was also interesting, much more enjoyable than listening to math and physics.
“Everyone bought their Pokémon after the physical examination in April, right? After a week in the infancy period, Pokémon enter a rapid growth period. This is one of the most important periods in their growth process.
During this process, various organs of the Pokémon’s body develop rapidly, and their talent gradually becomes apparent. In the growth period, the strength of some Pokémon will also increase rapidly.
However, the growth rate and the duration of the growth period vary greatly depending on the species of Pokémon.
The rapid growth period for normal Pokémon lasts about a year, but for short-lived Bug-type Pokémon, their growth period is only one to two months.
For Ghost-type Pokémon, which have peculiar growth methods and rely mainly on energy, their growth period ranges from one month to several years. Theoretically, they can remain in this growth period until the amount of energy they can absorb reaches saturation.
As for what we typically call pseudo-legendaries, especially Dragon-type Pokémon, due to their lifespan, their growth period can even last for decades, with the shortest taking two to three years or more.
Therefore, when buying a Pokémon, you don’t necessarily have to pick the most expensive or the rarest; what suits you is the most important.
A short growth period means rapid growth, allowing you to quickly tap into the Pokémon’s strongest potential and gain more resources for the trainer in a short time.
Reasonably seizing the opportunities during the growth period is a chance to narrow the gap with whales, or even surpass them.”
This passage was packed with information, all of which needed to be memorized for the exam.
Li Wei and Riolu found the instructor Wang’s words extremely familiar.
Almost identical phrases had already been circled in the book by Li Wei with a yellow highlighter.
Meanwhile, Riolu had already memorized all the content in Volume 8 while practicing Tai Chi.
There was no other way; such a diligent Riolu was trained by Li Wei.
Li Wei had said that to be invincible in every battle, one must know oneself and the enemy, so understanding the most basic Pokémon knowledge was also very necessary.
So Riolu believed him.
Riolu even decided that after he finished reciting the most basic Pokémon textbook, the next things he would tackle were the Pokédex and the Pokémon skills already discovered by the League.
Because only by doing so could he perfectly cope with various possible situations on the battlefield.
In the way Li Wei taught him, this is called ‘prudence’.
Thus, Riolu, upholding that Li Wei’s teachings were always correct, was now holding the documents and the pen taken from Li Wei’s pencil case, and using the crooked Chinese Characters he had only learned a few days ago mixed with a little Pinyin, he was attentively listening and taking notes.
At this moment, the real Trainer Li Wei had just yawned.
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Eevee, who had learned about 80% like Li Wei, also let out a big yawn after being infected.
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Oh right, happy birthday to my European Emperor fan （ Elder ） fans （ Dog ） Tiantian!
However, your opening a portal today, a Darius Hextech, and a Bounty Ultimate Skin really struck me.
Now, as I wish you a happy birthday, my heart is bleeding.
Timo’s Flop Diary
July 15th
【 July 14th, 1153 tickets, 2 extra chapters 】
I flopped, I really did.
Hmm.
But it’s okay.
After calming down for an afternoon, I decided to struggle a bit more.
Timo generating power for love has always been very capable.
As long as my mindset isn’t messed with, everything is acceptable.
Hmm!
ヾ(°°) Keep going!!!
Charge!
As everyone knows, the feeling after burning bridges is liberating.
Since there’s no room to struggle anyway, I’ll just write at my own pace.
I’m starting to write from my backlog.
I’ll give a big surprise all at once when it goes on sale!
Hehehe.
Specifically when it will go on sale, I don’t know, I’ll go confirm on Friday.
I’ll post a single chapter countdown about a week in advance.
It’s estimated to be around 8.1 or 8.7.
The plot.
The early stage is almost over.
The provincial competition is coming soon.
It’s probably after capturing the third Pokémon.
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I feel like I’m still too stupid.
There were many ways to make money, but I chose the stupidest one.
┓(`)┏
This inexplicably damned persistence.
I’m outta here.
Time to code.
No more chatting.
Done.
