"Flamethrower, Brick Break, Fire Punch..."
"Pecha Berry, Rawst Berry, Oran Berry..."
"Soft Sand, Miracle Seed, Magnet..."
The dazzling array of prizes made Ye Chuan wonder if Silver Mountain High School had a treasure vault. This method of both honing one's skills and exchanging for prizes was no wonder why so many students came and went.
"Flare Blitz." Ye Chuan's gaze also locked onto one of the TM learning devices.
TMs were devices invented by the Bai Corporation for Pokémon to quickly learn skills they had a natural aptitude for. The devices were also controlled and sold by the Trainer League. Generally, rare skills not only had low production but were also not easy to buy, often being available at a price but not in stock.
However, currently only the Bai Corporation possessed the technology to manufacture TMs, so there weren't many TMs circulating in the market.
"See anything you like?" Gu Qi asked with a smile beside him.
"Yeah, Flare Blitz." After saying that, Ye Chuan pointed to another device next to it:
"And Thunder Punch."
Charmander could learn Thunder Punch. When facing Water-type Pokémon, Steel-type Metal Claw and Fire-type Ember couldn't deal effective damage, so the Thunder Punch skill could just make up for some of Charmander's skill type weaknesses.
"Let me see, the points needed to exchange for these two skills are quite high." Gu Qi picked up the request in his hand:
"Want to try doing a request?"
Ye Chuan glanced at the time. "Now?"
"Of course, it depends on your schedule. I won't join you. I want to join a club early, preferably one with all girls." Gu Qi gave a thumbs up and smiled. "That's what youth is all about."
"Be careful not to let your grades slip," Ye Chuan smiled slightly. He always felt that it wouldn't be strange at all if Gu Qi, looking like that, got mistaken for a girl when he mixed into a group of girls.
"I understand."
Lunch break arrived. There were no classes today, so it was already time to go home.
Gu Qi said he was going to visit clubs and left alone. Ye Chuan stood at the stairwell on the first floor of the teaching building. After a while, the sound of hurried footsteps came. Ye Chuan turned his head and saw An Shiyu jogging over from the corridor in the distance. "Ah Ye."
"Planning to join a club?" Ye Chuan asked.
Hearing Ye Chuan's question, An Shiyu showed a conflicted expression. "What about Ah Ye?"
"Not for the time being. I plan to join the Silver Mountain Guild. It's a good way to train myself." Ye Chuan said, introducing the general situation of the Silver Mountain Guild.
"It sounds quite interesting." An Shiyu said, then seemed to remember something. "Ah Ye, do you need any TMs?"
"Charmander has quite a few type weaknesses, so I want to use skills to make up for them." Ye Chuan said with a smile:
"After all, I don't have the energy to train a second Pokémon for the time being."
"Is that so... Aside from Flare Blitz, I remember Thunder Punch isn't produced in low quantities. It should be relatively easy to buy." An Shiyu said, taking out her phone and looking at the Trainer League's official website. Her eyes immediately lit up:
"Got it."
"How much?" Ye Chuan asked.
"Quite cheap." An Shiyu said, pressing the purchase button with her finger, then looked at Ye Chuan with a smile. "Bought it."
"I'll transfer the money to you," Ye Chuan asked. "Can you buy Flare Blitz?"
"No."
"Then I'll do a request." Ye Chuan said, then his stomach suddenly rumbled, and he clutched it, saying, "I'm hungry."
"Then let's eat. I brought food." An Shiyu smiled, taking out a plastic bag from her schoolbag, which seemed to contain lunch boxes.
After heating the food in the microwave provided free of charge in the cafeteria, Ye Chuan and An Shiyu found a relatively quiet corner of the school to enjoy lunch.
The two sat on a bench and opened their lunch boxes. The aroma of the food that wafted out made Ye Chuan couldn't help but show a happy expression. "Being able to eat Shiyu's cooking even at school, life can't get any better than this."
"Is it that exaggerated?" An Shiyu looked at her own lunch box a little embarrassedly. "I actually feel like I made something very ordinary."
"Ga." Charmander sat on a chair and happily began to eat its own food.
"Hoo—" At this moment, Rowlet looked at Charmander's food with bright, sparkling eyes, almost drooling.
"What about Rowlet's portion?" Seeing this scene, Ye Chuan asked curiously.
He noticed that Rowlet had a scarf hanging around its neck with the words "No Feeding" written on it.
"It already ate beforehand," An Shiyu said. "Rowlet needs to lose weight now. Too much fat will affect its development."
Charmander, looking at Rowlet's pitiful eyes at this moment, turned its head to glance at An Shiyu and Ye Chuan who were talking. After confirming that they weren't looking, it grabbed a few Pokéblocks and secretly stuffed them into Rowlet's mouth.
"Hoo!" Rowlet happily flapped its wings.
"Your egg roll looks so delicious," Ye Chuan said, looking at the egg roll in An Shiyu's lunch box, unable to help himself.
The food An Shiyu made for everyone was customized. For example, Ye Chuan's lunch box had mostly meat dishes to replenish his strength in time, while An Shiyu's lunch box mostly contained vegetables and eggs.
"Isn't egg roll something you eat often?" An Shiyu picked up a piece of egg roll and held it to Ye Chuan's mouth. "Ah—"
Ye Chuan was stunned for a moment, then asked with a smile, "Does this count as an indirect kiss?"
"Mmm." A blush appeared on An Shiyu's pretty face. She asked with a smile that seemed to be putting on a brave front, "Eh, could it be that Ah Ye is shy? It's clearly just ordinary feeding, why are you being so picky like a child?"
The next second, Ye Chuan bit into the egg roll, then chewed it carefully while looking at An Shiyu whose eyes were wide and face was getting redder.
"Thank you for your patronage."
An Shiyu's face was like a red apple, even her ears turned red.
"Eh, could it be that Shiyu is shy? It's clearly just ordinary feeding, why are you being so picky like a child?" Ye Chuan looked at An Shiyu with a smile, repeating what she had just said in a slow tone.
"Mmm." An Shiyu, her face red, picked up a piece of egg roll and put it in her mouth, then turned her gaze away from Ye Chuan, her cheeks puffed out while holding her chopsticks.
"Idiot Ah Ye."
After finishing lunch, An Shiyu said she wanted to visit the clubs before deciding. Ye Chuan returned to the Silver Mountain Guild and accepted the request he had seen at noon.
"The request to solve the Rattata infestation on the farm has been uploaded. Please complete it as soon as possible. If the time limit is exceeded, the request will be automatically withdrawn and a certain number of points will be deducted." The teacher at the front desk tapped on the computer.
"Because this is your first time accepting a request, your points won't be deducted as a deposit, but you need to complete it as soon as possible after accepting."
"I understand," Ye Chuan nodded.
So, next he just needed to go and deal with those Rattata, right?