Another day passed.
In the early morning, Ye Chuan woke up from his sleep. After checking the time, he got up to wash.
He was brushing his teeth in front of the mirror when he suddenly felt that something was off.
After looking for a good while, Ye Chuan finally realized that the reflection in the mirror wasn't facing the same direction as him, which was why it looked so awkward.
At this moment, the "Ye Chuan" in the mirror also stopped and suddenly revealed a strange smile.
In the next second, a pair of pale hands stretched out from the mirror, seemingly trying to choke Ye Chuan's neck.
After seeing this scene, Ye Chuan continued brushing his teeth, too lazy to even move.
"That's too much! Why aren't you scared at all?!" Seeing Ye Chuan's reaction, the mirror rippled like the surface of a lake, and a head popped out, looking at Ye Chuan with puffed-up cheeks. Without a doubt, this was another prank by Gastly Youyou.
"Why should I be scared?" Ye Chuan rinsed his mouth and then started washing his face. He even handed a towel to Youyou:
"Hold this for me first."
"Oh." Youyou obediently held the towel and waited for Ye Chuan to finish washing his face.
A few seconds later, it suddenly realized, why was it helping Ye Chuan with this?!
"Wuu, my life is hopeless..." Youyou squatted in the corner, making whimpering sounds.
"Then go back to Silver Mountain Middle School," Ye Chuan said, wiping the water droplets from his face with the towel before walking out of the bathroom. He was starting to become immune to Youyou's scary pranks.
"No way, I won't give up so easily." Youyou floated out behind Ye Chuan.
"Speaking of which, isn't it tiring for you to maintain this form all the time?" Ye Chuan couldn't help but ask, looking at Youyou in her high school girl appearance.
"Actually, this form is my original form. Turning into what you call a Gastly is what's tiring for me," Youyou said.
"Hmm?" Ye Chuan looked at it with some surprise.
According to research, Gastly, as a Pokémon, is a life form created from the combination of poisonous gas and the resentment of the deceased. The League's Pokédex also states that Gastly's body is composed of 95% poisonous gas and 5% soul.
If what Youyou said was true, then it should be a variant of Gastly. Perhaps due to the strength of its soul, it maintained this human-like appearance.
So, this girl's appearance is that of a deceased person?
Ye Chuan thought about it and realized that it was indeed possible. However, he wasn't interested in how Youyou was born because, as someone who wasn't fond of Ghost-type Pokémon, he had no intention of capturing this variant Gastly.
Moreover, this guy appeared from time to time and disrupted his life rhythm.
After thinking for a moment, Ye Chuan suddenly said to Youyou, "Do you know why you can't scare me?"
"Why?" Youyou flew in a circle around Ye Chuan, looking curious.
"Think about it, it's like playing a game. You don't challenge the BOSS right at the beginning, do you?" Ye Chuan asked.
"Mmm-hmm."
"Don't you have to level up by defeating monsters and only challenge the BOSS when you have a certain level of strength?"
Youyou seemed to understand something: "Do you mean that I have to hone my skills first before I can scare you?"
"That's right. If your strength isn't enough, you'll never be able to scare me. Why waste your time?" Ye Chuan nodded, then reached out and patted Youyou's small head with the tone of an old father:
"How about setting a small goal? Start by scaring a thousand people?"
"I understand!" Youyou's eyes lit up, and then it burrowed into the wall and floated away. A few seconds later, it poked its head out of the wall as if it had forgotten something:
"I'm going to level up, wait for me!"
"Good luck."
Seeing Youyou really leave, Ye Chuan breathed a sigh of relief. He had finally managed to trick this guy into leaving. A goal of a thousand people wasn't that easy to achieve. It should give up when it couldn't do it.
Even if it succeeded, at a rate of one person per night, it would take at least two or three years to reach a thousand people.
Thinking of this, Ye Chuan stretched comfortably and went to have breakfast.
In the kitchen on the first floor, An Shiyu was busy preparing lunch for the two of 1 them, while breakfast was already laid out on the dining table: a simple meal of bacon, half-cooked eggs, and lettuce sandwiched in buttered and toasted bread.
"Good morning, Ah Ye." An Shiyu smiled sweetly when she saw Ye Chuan wake up:
"Go have breakfast."
"Shiyu, I've been thinking about something," Ye Chuan suddenly said.
"What is it?" An Shiyu finished arranging the food and sprinkled sesame seeds on the rice in the lunchbox, leaving a packet of unopened shredded seaweed. She closed the lid of the lunchbox and packed it up.
"It's just that after school starts, unlike when we were on vacation, it's a bit too tiring for you to prepare breakfast and lunch every morning like this," Ye Chuan said:
"Why don't we just eat lunch at the school cafeteria?"
"What's wrong? Feeling sorry for me?" An Shiyu raised her head and looked at Ye Chuan with a smile.
"Yeah, I do," Ye Chuan nodded seriously, which made An Shiyu's cheeks turn red.
"I've seen the food in the cafeteria. The chefs there like to use a lot of oil when cooking. If Ah Ye eats so much greasy food, he'll easily gain weight," An Shiyu said, holding up one finger:
"Besides, I don't think it's tiring at all. It's just making a meal."
Seeing An Shiyu's expression, Ye Chuan could only nod.
At this moment, the Rowlet on the dining table turned its head one hundred and eighty degrees and, while the two of them were chatting, gently touched Charmander's claws with its wing.
"Gaa." Charmander glanced at its owner and then secretly shared some of its food with Rowlet.
Rowlet turned its head, quickly pecked at the food with its beak, and then happily rubbed its body against Charmander: "Boo!"
After An Shiyu finished preparing the lunchboxes, she and Ye Chuan started eating breakfast together.
Looking at the Rowlet beside the dining table, Ye Chuan suddenly asked with some curiosity, "Has Rowlet gotten fatter again?"
At this moment, Rowlet's body was even rounder, like a ball.
"It's strange. I've clearly been controlling its calorie intake properly, so why isn't it losing any weight at all?" An Shiyu also looked confused. She took out her phone, opened a spreadsheet, and started calculating based on Rowlet's weight.
But no matter how she calculated, Rowlet shouldn't be gaining weight anymore.
"Rowlet, have you been secretly eating something?!" An Shiyu looked at Rowlet with a scrutinizing gaze.
"Boo!" Rowlet's feathers trembled, and it quickly shook its head.
An Shiyu thought carefully. It didn't seem very likely, after all, Rowlet hadn't been alone and had always been with her. How could it have had time to secretly eat anything?
"Let's take it to the Pokémon Center for a check-up," Ye Chuan said.
"That's the only way. Let's go take a look this afternoon," An Shiyu also said.
Hearing that its owner was going to take it to the Pokémon Center, Rowlet suddenly looked a little guilty and glanced at the Charmander next to it, who just looked helpless.
After finishing breakfast, Ye Chuan and An Shiyu returned to school and then parted ways to go back to their respective classes.
Arriving at Class 1 of the Pokémon Department, Ye Chuan had just entered when he noticed that many students were gathered around the class's notice board, seemingly looking at something.
Seeing this, he walked over curiously.