Rope and Whitley had entered the Safari Zone by now...
"This place is really not small." Whitley made a gesture of putting his hands on the cooler, and then looked around to see the whole Safari Zone, what was in front of him was a wide grassland, looking at the scale it was a little bit bigger than Professor Oak's backyard.
The mountains, forests and lakes can also be seen in the distance.
It was obvious that the entire Safari Zone was really quite large. But when you think about it, how can a place set up by an alliance and a large company be small in size. Being small was in a sense a slap in one's own face.
"Look at that, Rope, it's Tauros! It's the Tauros swarm!"
Whitley flung one hand at Rope's arm, and with the other pointed at the Tauros swarm that was leisurely grazing and resting not far away.
"No... you like Tauros type of Pokémon???"
Rope had the feeling that his idol was crumbling. The Mei or Whitley he remembered didn't use Pokémon like Tauros...
"How come! I just heard Tauros is a blast to ride!"
Whitley gave Rope a blank look before retorting.
Tauros racing was also a relatively well-known sport now, just like Rhyhorn racing in the Kalos region were both regional specialties with fewer participants but still fairly high visibility.
However, the cost of these two sports is relatively high, after all, although Tauros and Rhyhorn are not extremely valuable Pokémon, but if you want to cultivate them in the aspect of racing, it will cost a lot of money.
Moreover, they are not necessarily strong in combat, in other words, they are basically a vase that is specialized in speed racing.
The price/performance ratio is indeed low enough. But it was good to be happy.
"Want to ride?"
Rope asked casually. Honestly, just letting Tauros be ridden for a bit really wasn't a problem for Rope. As long as they outwardly released their life breath, most Pokémon directly and straightforwardly chose to submit...
At least they wouldn't rebel against Rope in a situation where their lives weren't in danger.
After all, Legendary Pokémon really did have an objective level of suppression over ordinary Pokémon...
And even if Rope And even if Rope can't, Entei can. After all, ever since Entei's power was awakened, basically whenever Entei comes out, all the wild Pokémon in the neighborhood will kowtow to him.
After all, his authority is 'King'.
So it seems that Rope's power hasn't officially arrived yet. After all, the authority of the Moltres that was the God of Fire hadn't been handed over yet.Rope didn't know exactly how to take the authority over, and the information that Al Zeus had left behind in the Jewel of Life wasn't complete...
Thinking of this, Rope scratched his head, forget it, don't think about it, the car will be there.
Whitley heard Rope's words also just shook his head and said, "Don't want to..."
"Just now, didn't you also say that Tauros rides very sensationally?"
Rope felt his teeth ache, how can this little girl think of one thing after another...
"I didn't realize before that Tauros was so... distinctive..."
Whitley looked at the Tauros that was nibbling on the grass on the ground and said .
Rope: ...
Wouldn't you just say he's ugly...
It's true that Tauros isn't exactly a divine steed, but you shouldn't expect so much from a cow, okay? What else would you name a cow? A buffalo with an exploding head? That's even more unorthodox.
"Let's get you a rainbow pony some other day..."
Rope also pondered in silence for a while, and then thought of this Pokémon, Psychic-type and cute-looking, and more importantly... pink... "Rainbow pony???"
Whitley looked at Rope quizzically, big eyes shining with great confusion.
Rope found a direction to walk forward while explaining to Whitley, "It's the Rapidash of the Paldea region, how can I put it, full of unique bunch of Pokémon I guess. Even though it's called Rapidash, it's not even a Fire-type anymore[1]..."
"By the way Rope! There's something I've been wanting to ask for a long time!"
Whitley interrupted Rope with a sudden outburst.
Rope looked at Whitley who followed him up and asked suspiciously, "What's the question?"
"Can your ability enchant Pokémon with other attributes?"
Whitley asked curiously.
Rope didn't hesitate to nod, "Indeed I can, my ability can be counted as an additional attribute bonus, you can understand it as an enchantment or some other type of bonus skill..."
Halfway through his words, Rope saw Whitley's confused expression. Thinking about it, yeah, Whitley didn't seem to understand what 'enchantment' meant after all, the world of Pokémon didn't have that concept either.
Rope tugged at the corner of his mouth and mused for a moment, trying to think of how he should describe it.
Halfway through...
"Yes!"
Rope nodded towards Whitley with a firm face.
Whitley looked at Rope with a speechless face, she could tell this guy didn't want to bother organizing his words. However, her purpose had been achieved, so she didn't pursue it.
"We're going somewhere here." Whitley asked, confused as she looked ahead of her in the direction she was advancing.
"To see Kangaskhan, the Safari Zone was meant to be a reserve-like place for Kangaskhan. But Kangaskhan are also powerful Pokémon, the Alliance can't possibly take all the Kangaskhan into the Reserve to prohibit others from taking them in, so they came up with this solution, the Safari Zone lets them take them in, but as long as the Kangaskhan don't want to do so, then it's basically bound to not be able to take them in. Than again, this isn't exactly a no-win situation, so everyone is fine with it."
Rope opened his mouth to explain.
Safari Zone's existence itself is the result of compromise between all parties, or most things are the result of compromise between all parties, even Rope's identity as a professor is no exception, in addition to their own excellent research results, but also Professor Oak and even the Oak family with the alliance as well as other families to make the appropriate compromises and concessions.
After all, a 20-year-old Pokémon Professor not to say shocked the world, crying God. But it is also really counted as no one in the past, and there may not necessarily be a newcomer in the future.
Rope is probably the only Scorpion Poop.
It's not that easy to break the mold...
And in exchange Rope will be launched by the alliance as a new sign for researchers, which will then attract more researchers to the area.
That's a good thing, with Rope as a living sign, it doesn't matter if it's to lead newcomers to the path of research or to attract talent from outside the region.
Just like how Red was now being mythologized, aside from his own deeds being truly amazing, there were naturally other people pushing him.
"It's so complicated..."
Whitley listened to Rope's explanation, and also sensed that behind these seemingly simple things, there seemed to be very different causes...
"Life is like this..."
Rope said lightly.
[1] the Chinese name for Rapidash is '烈焰马', which means 'flame horse'