"Bang!"
The fist wrapped in Steel Type energy pounded on the block of iron below again and again, producing a crisp sound from the collision of metals.
Tinkatink was focused and serious.
Gradually, under its pounding, the iron filings and nails slowly integrated, transforming into a metallic block exuding a silvery sheen.
Tinkatink stopped and picked up the metal block, examining it from side to side, with a slightly furrowed brow, seemingly dissatisfied with its work.
It placed the metal block back on the ground and continued hammering away.
Naoki observed this scene from the side; he could only call Tinkatink's skill of hammering in the void miraculous.
No high-temperature melting, no cooling solidification, just beating the iron into the desired shape by brute force.
This entirely contradicted the physics knowledge Naoki understood.
"Could it be because of the Steel Type energy?" he guessed wildly.
Tinkatink hammered for a while longer, seemingly a bit tired, and stopped to rest with a weary face.
At this moment, Tinkatink turned its head and was startled to see Naoki standing behind it.
It thought Naoki had already left, so why was he still watching here?!
Naoki, filled with curiosity, asked, "Have you ever forged a hammer before?"
"Ooo wow!"
When talking about hammers, Tinkatink's eyes lit up as it nodded.
Once upon a time, it had a hammer, made from metal it collected from an abandoned cabin in the wild!
That hammer had accompanied it for a long time, and it even used that hammer to chase away several metal-eating Pokemons.
Unfortunately, during a previous escape, it accidentally left the hammer in the fire and lost it.
Thinking of this, Tinkatink's expression turned very sad again.
Naoki thought it was feeling sad because of losing the hammer and comforted, "Don't be sad, if you could forge the first one, you can forge the second one!"
Tinkatink thought it over carefully and realized this was indeed the case.
Its small face immediately filled with determination, and it clenched its fists: "Ooo wow!"
"Then keep busy, I won't disturb you." Naoki patted Tinkatink's head, bid it farewell, and turned back to the house.
Soon after, the crisp sound of hammering echoed again in the ranch.
Naoki stood in the living room listening for a while, then returned to the bedroom and took out a book from the desk.
It was a biography describing the wild Pokemon ecology in the Paldea Region, which he previously bought from the town bookstore.
Naoki recalled it contained detailed records about Pokemon like Tinkatink.
He flipped through the book and indeed found content related to Tinkatink inside.
"Tinkatink is a very special Pokemon, like Miltank and Tauros, it is a single-gender species."
"This matches what I know." Naoki still clearly remembered some Pokemon information from his past life.
"People think Tinkaton is a solitary living Pokemon, but that's not the case; they're genuinely communal Pokemons."
"The Tinkaton live with Tinkatuff and Tinkatink in places filled with scrap metal, possibly ancient castle ruins, or abandoned human ruins."
"There's metal everywhere in these places. Tinkatink, lacking strength, collects iron filings and metal pieces to forge hammers."
"When they evolve into Tinkatuff, these rusty metals can no longer meet their requirements, so they actively search for Bisharp to collect tougher metals from them."
"And when Tinkatuff evolves into Tinkaton, they seek higher strength metals by attacking the poor Corviknight, collecting feathers of the same material as steel to create the Final Hammer."
"The strength of Tinkaton is tremendous, ordinary hammers can't satisfy them. Researchers found through investigations that the hammer of every Tinkaton weighs no less than one hundred kilograms."
"Despite being so heavy, Tinkaton can easily swing it, showing their immense strength and truly being Huge Power."
"Thus, as Tinkatink evolves, the requirements for their hammer materials gradually increase," Naoki thought to himself.
From ordinary scrap metal, to the metal on Bisharp, and finally the steel feathers of Corviknight.
The reason Naoki was researching this information was that he wanted to make a hammer for his Pawmo.
Then letting it electrify the hammer, paired with that red cloak, all the props for Pawmo to cosplay as a Thunder God would be ready.
He hadn't had the chance before, but now Naoki saw the possibility in Tinkatink.
Could he request Tinkatink to forge a hammer for Pawmo?
Naoki fell into deep thought.
Perhaps he could help Tinkatink collect some Corviknight feathers in advance.
Some could be given to Tinkatink as payment for forging the hammer, and the rest to make Pawmo's Mjolnir.
"Conveniently, there are plenty of Corviknight residing in the Galar Region, I could try collecting some on my visit," Naoki thought to himself.
The Galar Region and the Paldea Region are different; Tinkaton is absent there.
Without natural enemies, Corviknight are unmatched in the skies of the Galar Region, and everyone can see them soaring freely through the sky.