Chapter 97: Are You Planning To Become A Flying Type Master?
“Hello, do you have a reservation? There are still available private rooms upstairs right now. If you don’t have a reservation, I’ll arrange one for you right away.”
After entering the Pokémon Center and arriving at the front desk, the front desk staff immediately stood up and asked them.
It wasn’t that the Pokémon Center’s service was particularly enthusiastic; they generally followed a strictly business approach. But after the automatic doors opened, the most eye-catching teenager truly startled them.
A Dragonair was coiled around his body, a Glaceon was perched on top of his head, and a Riolu was following behind him.
My goodness.
How much is this teenager’s net worth??
The front desk staff, who had been working at the Pokémon Center for seven years, immediately pictured a number in their mind that was nearly eight digits.
“We have a reservation. The reservation information is here.”
Tian Bai stepped forward and showed the front desk the reservation information saved on her mobile phone.
“Alright, please wait a moment.”
After operating in the system for a bit, she stood up and led them to the top floor.
As they walked, the front desk staff recognized this ‘arrogant’ teenager.
Wasn’t this the recently famous genius teenager Li Wei?!
Li Wei, seventeen years old this year, rookie trainer, Provincial Competition Champion, and who had easily won a ribbon in the beginner division of the Grand Festival just a few days ago.
Using Pokémon Riolu and Glaceon, and reportedly also a massive Magikarp that got so excited during a match that it fell off the spectator stand.
Father Li Yuan Sheng, the pride of Magic City and the Imperial Capital.
The pride of the Imperial Capital was naturally because he came from the Li family, while the pride of Magic City was that after becoming famous at a young age, he ultimately chose to develop in Magic City, single-handedly establishing his Tianyuan Gym, and within just three short years, he crushed all of Magic City’s veteran gyms, successfully claiming the top gym spot in Magic City.
From then on, Magic City gained another top-tier gym. On the devil gym gathering place rankings, Magic City crushed the Imperial Capital to hold the number one spot, having defended it for seven years now.
Later, due to his affiliation, Li Yuan Sheng belonged to the Magic City region’s Pokémon League, and his outstanding performance during missions was widely talked about among the league members.
It could be said that among the teenagers in Magic City, at least half of their dreams of joining the league started because of Li Yuan Sheng!
‘The child of an idol… I wonder what Pokémon he’s here to buy today?’
Having made up her mind, after ushering this small group into the private room, she didn’t leave. Instead, she stood by as an attendant, ready to help check Pokémon egg inventory at any time. If needed, she could even directly call friends at out-of-town centers to arrange transfers.
‘What are these kids discussing now?’
Thinking this, she tilted her ear, listening carefully to their discussion.
“For a Grass-type team, you could raise a weather setter?”
Zhou Fengjue suggested.
“Weather setter, huh? Vulpix? Coalossal, no way…??”
Tu Xiaomi’s expression was very stiff, as if she really disliked Coalossal.
“Forget it. The weather setter position can actually be filled by any Pokémon that can learn Sunny Day, and changing the weather requires a lot of energy unless it’s due to an ability. I don’t need it right now anyway.”
Tu Xiaomi thought for a moment and rejected Zhou Fengjue’s suggestion.
“If I remember correctly, my Budew can learn it after evolution, so no need to raise an extra one.”
“Yeah, true.”
“What about Rowlet?”
Mo Jiu, browsing the sales list, suddenly looked up and asked Tu Xiaomi.
“Rowlet?”
“Wow! That’s super cute!”
Before Tu Xiaomi could picture it in her mind, Tian Bai exclaimed upon seeing the Rowlet photo on the screen.
Rowlet, once one of the starter Pokémon from the Alola region in the game, Grass/Flying-type.
Its initial form is round, with a white face, brown feathers all over its body, green tail feathers, green leafage like a bowtie, and thick, short bird claws.
It’s cute, very cute, but also very silly, yet it has great growth potential.
Its typing changes after final evolution to Grass/Ghost-type, but this doesn’t affect its final strength—instead, it adds stealth as an ‘assassin’.
This ability was already evident when it was still in its initial Rowlet form.
Rowlet flies silently in the air without making any noise from flapping its wings. Using this advantage, it can slowly approach opponents from above. Its feather color also blends easily with leaves, allowing it to launch attacks from long range at the right moment.
It also has strong night vision, giving it great combat ability day or night.
“This one’s pretty good. It fits your requirements well.”
Li Wei said to Tu Xiaomi.
“If it’s for bringing into secret realms, it’s perfect. It has scouting and stealth abilities, and with some Grass-type nurturing, it fits your specialty needs too.
Starter Pokémon, great potential, no way to lose, total profit this time.”
Li Wei gave his ‘total profit’ evaluation.
This Pokémon was indeed excellent. If it weren’t for its silly appearance not matching his handsome and cool persona, he might have been tempted.
Having one embarrassing Magikarp was enough; he couldn’t handle another.
“Alright, then I’ll go with this one. Thanks~”
With that, she pulled Tian Bai along to start selecting Pokémon and chatted with the nearby staff.
She had them check inventory and brought up the parents’ information for the Pokémon, beginning the inspection and screening.
“Have you decided what to buy?”
Li Wei asked Zhou Fengjue and Yu Yixian.
“Yes, Rookidee and Charmander.”
“Oh ho, nice. Starter Pokémon and a watchbird.”
“Huh?”
“Nothing, nothing, it’s good. Are you planning to become a Flying-type master?”
???
Zhou Fengjue was left completely confused by Li Wei’s two sentences, unable to follow his train of thought for a moment.
“Nothing, nothing, just praising you. It’s great.”
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Sceptile gains the Dragon attribute after Mega Evolution, Charizard has ‘dragon’ in its name and gains Dragon attribute after Mega Evolution X, and adding a Corviknight here—isn’t this the standard lineup for a Dragon-type Elite Four???
After chuckling a bit unkindly, Li Wei looked at Yu Yixian, who was staring at the tablet hesitantly nearby.
“What are you doing??”
Seeing Yu Yixian’s troubled frown and how he occasionally checked his reflection in the glass, Li Wei twitched his mouth and asked.
“Oh, I’m just sighing that someone as handsome as me has to pick Pokémon that don’t match my looks. It’s truly sorrowful.”
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The private room wasn’t big, and everyone in the room heard Yu Yixian clearly.
In that instant, he earned disdainful looks from his little partners.
More to come
Busy all day today, didn’t sit down until 7 PM, updating overnight, above.
