Chapter 81: Nothing Special
After roughly planning the items, and confirming some things to buy on the screen, Li Wei took Eevee and started wandering aimlessly in IKEA, because Zhou Fengjue had already left ahead of time, so at this moment Li Wei needed to wait in this area for Mo Jiu, who was still arguing endlessly with Morpeko.
“Chirp!”
【I want the Snack House!】
“What Snack House, isn’t the kitchen enough!”
“Chirp!”
【That’s not happy enough!!】
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“Chirp!”
【I don’t care I don’t care! I just heard Li Wei say he’s preparing small rooms for all his Pokémon, I want one too I want one too I want one too!!!】
At this time, Morpeko was like a child, rolling around and acting cute on the small coffee table in front of the sofa.
“Mine are for building strength and learning, what can your Snack House do for you?”
Mo Jiu irritably gave Morpeko a flick on the forehead.
“Chirp·······”
【Wahhh······】
Then Mo Jiu gave up communicating with Morpeko, took out a white paper and the small colored pencils placed nearby, looked at the photos of the house saved on the mobile phone, and started planning.
Meanwhile, Li Wei, who adhered to the principle of saving and utilizing time, wandered around the area a few times, picked up various small items and looked at them again and again, and occasionally threw ones he liked into the nearby shopping cart; he was truly leisurely to the extreme.
After all, all his work had been taken over by Eevee!
Waiting for Mo Jiu to finish planning, she stood up from her seat.
“Sorry to keep you waiting.”
After apologizing to Li Wei, she grabbed Morpeko who was lying on the table eating nuts and trotted over to Li Wei’s side.
“So Li Wei, your plan is·····”
“No plan, just follow you, you can ask Eevee, she calls the shots on this, I’m just a ruthless card-swiping machine.”
“Oh, like that·······”
Saying that, Mo Jiu shifted her gaze to Eevee, who had a serious look on her face while staring at the paper floating in mid-air.
“So Eevee, where do you decide to shop first?”
“Bu Yi Bu Yi.”
【Just follow you, we have a lot to buy, we can pick anywhere.】
“Okay.”
Saying that, after Morpeko let out a “Chirp,” they headed forward.
At this time, Li Wei’s way of moving forward was very strange; Eevee used her paws to grab two handfuls of his hair, like playing some strange handle game, issuing commands while using the direction of the hair to direct him where to go or where to stop.
Li Wei’s hair on top of his head hurt a bit, but Eevee was having a blast with this game.
‘Fine, as long as she’s happy.’
After buying a lot of things, and noting many appliances that needed to be purchased and contacting a specialized renovation company, today’s 12-hour renovation plan was completed.
In the future, supervision would be taken turns by everyone’s guardian Pokémon······ so basically these few people only needed to be the money-paying masters and hands-off bosses.
Today’s design and renovation was forced, but it had to be said that Li Wei’s nonsense theory was right; Eevee really learned a lot from it.
Especially when facing aesthetic conflicts with Riolu, Magikarp, and herself, how exactly to arrange a living room that everyone likes, and what facilities and items to equip in the small rooms prepared for future Pokémon partners and family to avoid mistakes and show their care as ‘seniors’.
This kind of life experience was something she had never had, and as the main designer, this idea of ‘designing for others’ was also the first time.
Huge gains; Eevee also realized what was missing in her clothes.
Not just her own desire to show off, but also a desire to satisfy the audience and judges, and aesthetic inclusivity for all groups, whether Pokémon or humans.
Since the Grand Festival is about beauty, it has to be beautiful across species, right?
Regarding this, Eevee looked down at her chubby little paw pads, feeling that this was indeed no small challenge for her.
“Bu Yi.”
【Gotta go home and seclude myself for training.】
And Li Wei, who had just gotten home and was walking up the stairs, heard this and blanked out for a moment, accidentally slipped, and fell on the stairs.
Look at how scared Li Wei was by those words.
He really still wasn’t used to this usually lazy Eevee suddenly becoming so diligent.
Time passed steadily like this; the house at school was under renovation and moving furniture, usually supervised by Dragonair, Mime Jr., and occasionally Father when the mood struck.
Riolu and Magikarp were still going back and forth between home and the gym; every night they would drag him to play family mini-games and report their daily training results.
Eevee was bound to the desk, computer, and sewing kit, struggling every day at the forefront of making and training.
At the end of July, busy Father took his Pokémon and left.
After that, Riolu and Magikarp went to the gym every day accompanied by Mime Jr. or Dragonair, while Li Wei continued training at home with Eevee for the Grand Festival stuff.
Hard and boring; even for a while, Eevee dreamed during sleep about special training, making clothes, practicing how to be a proper elegant Eevee.
This was really too painful!!!
But the effort eventually paid off; by the end of July, their costumes and performance were finally ready.
Everything was prepared; before finding Mother, they had Mime Jr. review it, and before going to the match, they repeatedly made five or six video calls to Mother.
Finally, with everyone’s help, Li Wei was ready to participate in the Grand Festival.
On the day the Grand Festival started, Li Wei put on the suit mainly designed by Eevee with help from Mother’s company assistants.
As for Eevee herself, she changed into the performance costume she made by hand with Li Wei’s drawing help, which she then sewed stitch by stitch using psychic power.
The styling was very simple, just like the inspiration for their design: retro, elegant, and heritage.
Infinitely similar to an ancient outer robe, but different in that the patterns were much more complicated.
Mainly themed around gardenia, night-blooming cereus, and lotus flowers, with black base and gold edging; a few accessories on the top of the head, and the largest one made into a paper fan shape.
Glaceon’s two temple corners and four feet were also fitted, with small bells and the two special refillable pink ice powders.
Just like that, walking gracefully with a jingle at every step, it could truly be called stepping into lotus flowers.
One Eevee, under their nearly one month of deep thought and packaging, was stunningly turned into a young lady from an ancient boudoir.
Elegant heritage, nothing more than this.
No way, I really overestimated myself.
