"Ugh, too much, it's all coming out!"
An Shiyu fiddled with the Pokéblock-making device. It seemed like something went wrong, causing fruit juice to splatter all over her face as the machine operated.
"So sticky." An Shiyu touched her face, then licked the fingers沾着树果汁, looking somewhat displeased.
Afterward, the device stopped running. Ye Chuan saw small pink cubes being produced by the device and falling into a small dish.
"Did it work?" Ye Chuan picked up one and asked. The cube was translucent pink all over, looking a bit like jelly but hard. It smelled like peaches.
An Shiyu picked one up and chewed it thoughtfully. "It's probably because I put a little too much Figy Berry. Although it's not perfect, it does have an effect."
Then, she took a small box, packed the Pokéblocks into it, and handed it to Ye Chuan. "Here."
"Thanks." Ye Chuan looked at the palm-sized box and then said, "Let me transfer the money to you. The raw materials aren't cheap after all."
"No need." An Shiyu shook her head gently and said seriously, "You just need to promise me one thing."
"What?" Seeing her unusually serious look, Ye Chuan straightened up and adopted a proper attitude:
"Go ahead."
"Accompany me to the shopping center to buy things tomorrow afternoon." An Shiyu's eyes suddenly curved into cute crescent moons. "Be my bag carrier."
Ye Chuan immediately relaxed, looking speechless. "I thought you were going to ask me to do something else."
"Then what did you want to do?" An Shiyu looked at Ye Chuan, a playful expression appearing on her face. "Eh, could it be that Ah Ye was thinking of something lewd?"
"It's probably ten thousand times more lewd than what you're thinking," Ye Chuan said seriously.
An Shiyu's face immediately turned red. "Pervert Ye!"
After being chased out by the red-faced An Shiyu, Ye Chuan returned to his own home. He took a shower and stayed in the study, learning about Pokémon knowledge until late at night.
"The stronger a Pokémon is, the higher the success rate and number of skills it can pass down to its offspring."
"Skills inherited by Pokémon from their parents may be limited by their own strength, or special cases of hidden skills may occur, which will be relearned when their strength reaches a certain level."
Accidentally coming across Pokémon genetics, Ye Chuan's gaze fell on the Poké Ball placed on the table after seeing this line of text.
So, the skills Charmander inherited might not just be Dragon Dance?
However, this was just Ye Chuan's guess. There was no evidence to show that Charmander was in this situation.
Time flew quickly to twelve o'clock. He closed his book, washed up, and went to bed.
The next day.
Ye Chuan finished breakfast and went to the sports center.
After starting the daily warm-up with Charmander, Ye Chuan clearly felt that Charmander's stamina had improved a lot. It didn't pant heavily after running for two hours, only sweating slightly.
But despite this, Ye Chuan was still generous and took out a few Pokéblocks, feeding them directly to Charmander.
"Ga!" Charmander's body emitted a faint red light, and it instantly perked up.
"Such a strong effect." Ye Chuan couldn't help but be a little surprised. No wonder Pokéblocks were expensive and very popular in the market. It seemed there was a reason for their high price.
After warming up, he and Charmander went to the training room and began their daily skill training.
Because he planned to go the close combat route, Ye Chuan intended to have Charmander fully master the Dragon Dance skill.
With Charmander's current strength, it could probably only maintain Dragon Dance for about 15 seconds. After that time, its stamina would be completely depleted.
But skills have proficiency. The level of mastery between a frequently used skill and a newly learned skill is different, and the effects are naturally different as well.
If Dragon Dance was used frequently, the duration would naturally be longer, and the stamina consumption would also be less.
Ye Chuan took out his phone and opened the timer function. "Charmander, Dragon Dance!"
"Roar." Purple and red light intertwined around Charmander's body, and its momentum began to rise!
After a while, the light on Charmander's body dissipated, and it sat on the ground panting due to exhaustion.
Ye Chuan looked down. The numbers on his phone stopped at 23 seconds. Perhaps it was because Charmander had improved, or maybe it was due to just eating the Pokéblocks, but overall there was an improvement.
"Good job." Ye Chuan fed Charmander a few more Pokéblocks to help it recover its stamina.
A few minutes later, Charmander stood up, seemingly having rested enough. After confirming that everything was okay, Ye Chuan began to train its close combat abilities.
"Boom."
Another tattered wooden stake fell. Ye Chuan noticed that Charmander's Scratch had become sharper, even having a metallic sheen and glint.
"Could it be..." As if thinking of a possibility, Ye Chuan pointed to the new wooden stake beside them. "Don't stop, keep using Scratch like that!"
Charmander nodded and rushed towards the wooden stake. Its sharp claws swung repeatedly, and the wooden stake seemed as fragile as paper, easily torn apart by Charmander's claws. Not only that, the metallic sheen on Charmander's claws was incredibly bright, as if its claws were made of metal.
"It learned Metal Claw?" Ye Chuan finally confirmed his thoughts.
This skill wasn't Scratch. It was undoubtedly the Steel-type skill Metal Claw, otherwise it wouldn't have destroyed the wooden stake so easily. It seemed Charmander had good talent, so its skill learning speed was fast.
"Alright, Charmander, let's rest for a while."
The time reached twelve thirty. Ye Chuan looked at the sawdust all over the ground and spoke.
Charmander stopped, seemingly feeling tired as well.
"Let's just grab a bite at a nearby restaurant for lunch today." Ye Chuan had brought the Pokémon's food with him today. He planned to extend the planned training time to around six in the afternoon and didn't plan to go back for lunch.
However, since he had promised An Shiyu to accompany her to the shopping center today, Ye Chuan planned to train until around three o'clock and then go back.
Just as he was considering what to eat, his phone rang. Ye Chuan glanced at it and saw that it was An Shiyu calling.
Could it be that they were going shopping now? "Hello?" Ye Chuan answered the phone.
"Ah Ye, where are you at the sports center?"
"Over here at the Pokémon training room, just about to go eat," Ye Chuan had just finished speaking when the other end of the phone hung up.
Ye Chuan looked at his phone strangely. "Huh?"
What does that mean? Not understanding why An Shiyu suddenly hung up, Ye Chuan led Charmander out of the training room and saw a familiar figure standing at the trainer entrance, looking around.
Seeing Ye Chuan, her eyes lit up, and she happily jogged over, her waist-length black hair swaying slightly, as soft as silk.
"Why did you come over?!" Seeing An Shiyu actually here, Ye Chuan was stunned for a moment.