June 2.
The sky was clear.
Alolan Ninetales walked out of the room with two enormous dark circles under its eyes.
As soon as it came out, it greeted Lin Feng.
Behind it were Sylveon, Umbreon, and Leafeon.
Judging from their expressions, none of the three had gotten much rest either.
Hmm.
Lin Feng had a pretty good idea what had happened.
They had probably suffered a setback at the hands of the second Pokémon in the first stage of the Dream Challenge.
The second Pokémon was the Fire-type Elite's Charizard.
His Charizard had already reached Champion level.
Its training and individual potential were both exceptional.
It even had a type advantage over Alolan Ninetales and Leafeon.
For the current team, this stage was simply too difficult.
Constantly engaging in high-intensity battles inside the dream realm obviously consumed a great deal of energy as well.
"Vuuu..."
Alolan Ninetales greeted Lin Feng listlessly.
"Uh... good morning."
Lin Feng returned the greeting.
Then he felt that was a little too brief, so he added,
"Hmm... don't stay up too late."
Although he wasn't entirely sure whether what they were doing could really be called staying up late.
[Vuu?]
Alolan Ninetales flicked its tails before taking the Eevee team off to wash up.
At the same time, they needed to discuss their battle strategy.
If a mere Charizard could stop them in their tracks now, then what were they going to do when they eventually faced Rayquaza?
Lin Feng could only shake his head at that.
This Charizard was already one of the absolute strongest Charizard out there.
He followed Alolan Ninetales and the others to the reservoir.
Not long afterward, around the usual time each day, ripples appeared across the surface of the water.
A little red airplane suddenly burst out of the water.
Lin Feng casually tossed a Storage Ball and a barrel of wine into the reservoir.
At the same time, Milotic and Primarina surfaced as well, blowing bubbles as they emerged from the water.
"I'm here~!"
Latias, disguised as Kanon, happily called out.
"Yep. Still showing up for work with a huge smile on your face."
Lin Feng nodded.
(●'◡'●): "Hehehe~"
Latias landed on the ground and giggled.
After several days of studying, even its laughter was beginning to sound more and more like that of a human.
Its speech had changed as well.
If he put it in a human city now, he estimated that without some kind of technological examination, it would be nearly impossible for anyone to discover its true identity.
"Go to the kitchen first."
"Gardevoir and Indeedee are waiting for you there."
"I'll come over in a bit."
After calling out to it, Lin Feng watched Latias head toward the kitchen.
He then walked into the garden.
The garden was filled with buzzing insects and flowers of every color.
Under Serperior's Grassy Terrain, even beneath the scorching midday sun, the flowers could continue blooming brightly.
Though it wasn't noon yet.
Rustling sounds came from among the flowers.
Comfey and Floette were darting through the flowerbeds.
Every now and then, they poked their little heads out.
They looked like a group of tiny fairies.
Speaking of which, Serperior's cultivation had actually produced several mutated flowers.
Their effects, however, were rather strange.
For example:
[Sun Sunflower: Absorbs the essence of sunlight. Its seeds contain a large amount of solar energy. The longer it absorbs sunlight, the richer the solar energy within becomes. It possesses the property of never withering.]
This one was relatively normal.
Although Lin Feng had no idea what he could actually use it for.
After all, the so-called solar energy was something he had only ever heard about in connection with the legendary Pokémon known as the Sun God.
It might indeed be useful to it.
But the Sun God probably hadn't appeared yet.
Perhaps it was still nothing more than a tiny nebula somewhere out there.
There were also flowers like:
[White Rose: A mutated rose. Wearing it will bring a brief period of bad luck before the flower withers.]
[Sweet Lily: Wearing it will attract the attention of members of the same sex...]
Honestly, Lin Feng nearly burst out laughing when he saw those two.
Wearing it brings bad luck?
Then what exactly am I supposed to do with you?
And there was another one...
Ahem.
That one was even harder to explain.
Of course, there were good ones too.
For example:
[Perfume Tulip: Possesses a peculiar fragrance. Wearing it will attract Pokémon.]
In short, there were all kinds of strange flowers.
Whether useful or useless, Lin Feng moved all of them into a special flowerbed.
That way, he wouldn't forget that these unusual flowers existed.
After leaving the garden, he returned to the villa courtyard.
Early in the morning, most of the wild Pokémon had already gone to work as usual.
Furret, Greedent, Meowth, Ponyta, and the others were all busy.
Lin Feng never forced them to work.
He followed a completely voluntary policy.
They came if they wanted to.
Because of that, he couldn't expect to see every Pokémon working every single day.
The giant Pidgeot was standing guard in the courtyard.
At this point, it had completely lost the freedom to go outside.
It had grown to a height of four meters...
It was actually taller than Dragonite.
The large tree in the plantation simply couldn't bear its weight anymore.
So, for now, Pidgeot had no choice but to remain in the villa's courtyard.
There was nothing that could be done.
It was simply too enormous.
If it casually walked outside, it would probably frighten people.
"Pidgeot, good morning!"
"Pidgeot..."
Besides Pidgeot, Indeedee's older brother was also in the courtyard.
It was sweeping fallen leaves that had drifted into the Berry orchard.
Today was the weekend, so the nursery wasn't officially open.
That gave him some free time to handle miscellaneous chores like this around the courtyard.
Zoroark was there too.
It had just emerged from its Poké Ball.
Since it had appeared so suddenly, Lin Feng had originally planned to let it stay at the nursery.
But the environment inside the nursery didn't seem quite as comfortable as a Luxury Ball.
So he had given it a Luxury Ball to live in instead.
At this moment, however, Zoroark looked extremely uncomfortable standing in the courtyard.
Its flowing red and white fur did nothing to make it feel safer.
Instead, it only gave it an even stronger sense of separation.
Zoroark knew very well that it didn't belong here.
[Breakfast will be ready soon.]
Lin Feng greeted it.
"Zoro... Zoro..."
Lin Feng didn't pay much attention to it.
After reminding it about breakfast, he turned toward the kitchen to prepare food for everyone.
But before he could take another step...
Someone had already arrived to freeload.
Obviously, it was Qin Shu.
Her parents weren't home at the moment, so she had naturally come over to mooch a meal.
"Feng..."
Before she could even finish speaking, Lin Feng stopped her.
"Go sit inside properly."
"And don't come into the kitchen."
"Hehe..."
Qin Shu grinned happily before walking toward the house.
Lin Feng followed her into the kitchen.
Once he brought Gardevoir, Latias, and Indeedee's younger sister into the dining room and announced that breakfast was ready...
Qin Shu, who had been busy getting acquainted with her newly caught Gible and Farfetch'd, casually glanced around.
Then her eyes suddenly widened.
A girl...
A girl?!
Wait...
She's a girl?!
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