Chapter 57: Sure Enough, Practice Is Needed Everywhere In Daily Life
The hot pot was eaten very enjoyably, after slurping a mouthful of noodles, using a small cake taken from the refrigerator to fill the last gap in his stomach.
Half a glass of iced cola went down.
“Ha~”
Even on Mo Jiu’s face, an expression of enjoyment appeared, body leaning back against the chair back, enjoying the brief sage time after eating one’s fill.
“Chirp~”
【Delicious~】
The brief fullness made Morpeko happily flop onto the table, rubbing its own belly.
To be fair, this hot pot meal was the most flavorful one it had ever eaten.
Not only was the taste top-notch in its memory, more importantly, the thrill of snatching food from under others’ chopsticks was something no cooking could conquer.
No.
Perhaps roasted meat too.
【Roasted meat ah, hope little Jiu will take me to eat it ah, if I can eat until stuffed that would be too wonderful.】
Making Morpeko eat until stuffed, without a thick wallet it might really be impossible.
After the meal, Mo Jiu helped Li Wei clear the tableware to the kitchen, then simply dumped out the soup base inside, and handed all the complicated steps to the dishwasher.
These technologies truly provided great convenience for someone like Li Wei who can cook but doesn’t like washing dishes.
After giving Morpeko another serving of mixed fruit juice, amid Mo Jiu’s repeated gratitude and promises like “When we get back to Magic City, I’ll treat you to a meal,” she finally pried Morpeko off Li Wei, grabbed her own embarrassing little fool, and returned to the dormitory to review.
Before, watching Mo Jiu’s behavior like hating iron for not becoming steel, silly son too embarrassing, Li Wei only found it funny, but now, he only felt heartbroken and could empathize!
Now if he had to drag Magikarp out, he would have the same thoughts.
It was really too······ embarrassing.
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May 19th.
The training exam day arrived.
Li Wei went to the exam venue smiling, came out crying.
To make the training seem more valuable, to keep these trainees from slacking in the half month before the provincial exam, they made the questions as tricky as possible.
Even to increase the difficulty and authenticity of the paper, the training management specially invited former question setters to help with the questions.
The purpose was to comprehensively and thoroughly inspect how far the trainees’ knowledge mastery had reached, whether they passed, and if they could be qualified trainers.
But this set of papers was really too difficult for Li Wei.
The proportion of Pokémon basic knowledge he was best at was only 45% of the score, while the remaining 55% were various trainer clauses, benefits, laws······
It made his head spin, in various easily confused clauses and details, he was truly torn.
Being human is really too hard!
With his mind full of just this one sentence, Li Wei walked out of the exam venue in despair.
The only fortunate thing was that he had calculated the score before coming out.
The grade should be okay, not failing.
Upholding the principle of ‘persistence, no giving up’, he wrote answers for every question, no blanks.
Probably at least should maybe possibly hopefully at least·······65% score.
After calculating based on the minimum points for himself, Li Wei no longer had ideas of being an excellent trainee, at this moment he only wanted to scrape by with a ‘training passed’ graduation certificate.
The afternoon battle test time and groups had long been assigned.
Limited time 3 minutes, defeating the opponent within 3 minutes counts as victory, otherwise failure, and if no winner after 3 minutes it’s a draw.
Whether 1v1 or 6v6 battle outcomes don’t affect the final score, it looks at the tacit understanding between trainer and Pokémon during battle, the Pokémon’s training level, and the trainer’s on-the-spot adaptability, while 6v6 also has team collaboration, strategy and other scoring points.
Li Wei’s 1v1 is at venue 16 at 1:30 pm, their group 6v6 at venue 7 at 5:20 pm.
The trainee for 1v1 battle is named An Xiaotian, Pokémon is a Clefairy.
For this trainee, Li Wei had no impression, looking at the ID photo on the opponent data sent, it’s quite ‘cute’.
Hmm·····?
Seems like Mo Jiu is a bit cuter?
His own teammate’s looks are really too high, influenced by constant exposure, Li Wei this eternal old virgin’s appreciation for girls has also increased day by day.
Always feels like, unless it’s Yang Yuhuan level world-class beauty, none are worthy of him this genius trainer.
······
“Cough cough.”
Because daydreaming during the day caused his standing posture to tilt, Li Wei was patted awake by Eevee who sensed the throne about to tip.
Thoughts returned to the exam.
A mere apprentice class not even guaranteed Clefairy, Li Wei definitely wasn’t scared of it, for battling this matter just leave it fully to Riolu to handle, he only needs to shout ‘dodge!’, ‘go for it!’, ‘you can do it!’.
If win, it’s his excellent guidance, using the power of bond; if lose, then Riolu can probably be remade into a Pokémon.
The battle went exactly as Li Wei thought, very smoothly.
Upholding the idea of ‘let the opponent have a good score’, after communicating with Riolu, Li Wei chose to make this battle a draw.
Anyway scores aren’t affected, one-punching the opponent to KO would be a bit too unkind.
Li Wei considered if the opponent got one-punched to KO, the instructor side wouldn’t be able to score well.
After all if I go all out, one-shot KO, what level can people see?
If because of his ‘oversight’ the opponent loses battle score and can’t get the ‘graduation certificate’ that would be too bad.
Those who come to training, most feel no hope for provincial competition, but don’t want to give up entering good school, so come to find another path to add to resume.
He lets Riolu punch out, it’s satisfying and saves time, but if something unexpected happens, what gets buried might be someone else’s future.
For such things, Li Wei this old nice guy feels, if can avoid then try to avoid.
Just a little effort.
Time came to 1:30 pm, Li Wei arrived at the designated training ground and stood ready, preparing to start the battle test.
That girl named An Xiaotian also arrived at the training ground.
At this moment, her ashen face standing on the command platform was seen clearly by Li Wei, the ‘panic’ aura emanating from her body was also nowhere to hide in front of Riolu and Li Wei.
“Sigh.”
Li Wei sighed.
‘Sure enough still need to keep becoming stronger ah······’
Just like his written exam, can’t fully recite book contents, when facing ‘exam’ and such with absolute power existences, all he can do is pray.
Pray the question setter loves him, pray heaven blesses him, pray guessing all correct.
This feeling is really····· too uncomfortable.
Unlike formal matches, this battle had no preparation time, once both ready, the referee didn’t dawdle and directly announced the battle start.
“Battle begin!”
“Clefairy! Use Pound!”
Starting with an attack skill, after getting the battle list and doing some mental struggle, An Xiaotian thought to land a hit if possible, display her power as much as possible before being taken out, to strive for a good score.
Li Wei side facing Clefairy’s attack gave the command, “Block it.”
Facing Clefairy’s Pound, Riolu effortlessly caught it with one hand, slightly gathering aura, and flung Clefairy away.
Clefairy’s feet left the ground flying backward, after landing staggered back a few steps.
Finally steadying itself, it looked around in slight surprise, discovering it wasn’t injured, didn’t hit any walls, and the place it was at was still within the arena!
Seeing this scene, An Xiaotian couldn’t help taking a deep breath, as if seeing hope.
Tentatively, she once again gave Clefairy an attack command.
“Clefairy! Double Slap!”
Watching Clefairy rush over, Riolu still unpanicked used the same method to catch its skill, and once again used aura to send it back to original position.
If ignoring Riolu’s strolling-in-a-court demeanor, viewing this battle from a beginner’s perspective, it was somewhat back and forth.
Clefairy’s movement speed wasn’t fast, in Riolu’s judgment this speed was about the same as Magikarp jumping forward on the ground.
Waiting for Clefairy to rush over for exchange was a bit tedious, but Riolu felt this could also be seen as a form of training.
After all hearing Li Wei say, high-level psychic-type Pokémon have a skill called ‘Trick Room’?
And patience is the most important part of becoming an excellent fighter?
‘Sure enough life everywhere needs training too!’
Thinking so, Riolu put away its careless attitude, focused on accompanying the noob Clefairy to kill these three minutes.
As the referee announced “Battle end”, “This battle result is a draw”, An Xiaotian incredulously covered her mouth.
Very shocked, but more was gratitude.
Without much talk, An Xiaotian when leaving the venue said thanks to Li Wei and bowed.
“Thank you!”
Then very happily ran towards her friends’ place.
Li Wei side hid his merits and name, under the instructor’s thoughtful gaze carrying Eevee, bringing Riolu also left the training ground, went to gather with his little partners, waiting for the evening team battle.
Timo’s Flop Diary
July 29th
【July 28th, 1170 votes, add 2 chapters】
Today there was something impressive but incomprehensible.
Suddenly saw such a thing.
Rough content as follows.
“Author sister, I clearly quite like your book, I just shared my opinion, why did you say such harsh words to me? Is it necessary? Now I’ve deleted your book, satisfied?”
Roughly this meaning.
Made me completely baffled.
Original post already deleted by him, so I can’t screenshot as evidence.
But sorry ah, although my chapter comments are many, replies plenty, but coincidentally, I remember his comment and my reply.
Actuary major, great memory, no choice, life forces it.
As long as I replied to it, seen it, at least within a week, I’ll 100% match it.
His original post was complaining about ‘Purity’.
Saying this world’s Purity existence is unreasonable, shouldn’t exist, because this world has no Viridian Forest.
Tone very harsh, not a bit of this ‘author sister~’ warmth.
So my reply was like this.
“You say no then no.”
“Pen to you, you write.”
This matter is like this.
But covering my comment, just looking at his three long replies, and various wronged wording, ‘disappointed’ ‘is it necessary’ ‘I just····’ etc., I even feel like I cursed him.
Very helpless.
Why only at this time think to position oneself as the victim.
Where did the confidence when insisting ‘I don’t understand my book’s settings’ go.
Just play the fragile white lotus?
