Crawdaunt is unable to battle!
"Yay! We did it!" Xiao An excitedly high-fived Gliscor, celebrating their victory.
Xiao Mao put away the look of surprise on his face and returned Crawdaunt to its Poké Ball.
"Hmph, you've improved."
Upon hearing this, Xiao An was displeased: "Hey! We clearly won, okay? You're acting like you won! Just you wait, once I perfect this battle strategy, Gliscor and I will take on six Pokémon at once!"
Substitute, Toxic, Spikes, Toxic Spikes, Stealth Rock, Roost, plus Toxic Orb, Swords Dance, and Earthquake—he had all the means, recovery, and battle power he needed; he simply didn't know how he could lose!
Mr. Kawaki is truly a good person!
He only charged him so little for such a perfect strategy.
Since that's the case, he definitely wouldn't let Mr. Kawaki down; he would bring this invincible strategy to Gym battles and even the alliance conference!
However, at this moment, Xiao Mao had already reacted.
"Although I don't know where you learned this strategy, it can be broken with just one move: Taunt," he said, cutting straight to the point.
"Then we'll use Taunt too!" Xiao An retorted, unwilling to show weakness.
His Taunt would prevent the opponent from using Taunt, allowing his Substitute and Toxic strategy to unleash its full power!
"Then I'll look forward to it." Xiao Mao wasn't sad about losing this battle; he smiled as he looked at his rival, who had finally grown, and said to him, "This way, I don't have to worry about you falling behind me."
After speaking, Xiao Mao adjusted his hat brim and turned to leave.
Only Xiao An and Gliscor remained comfortably in place, seemingly pondering the meaning of his words.
But soon, a brilliant light burst forth in his eyes, and at the same time, he made up his mind:
Just you wait! We won't disappoint you. The next time we meet, let us show you the power of a fully realized Gliscor!
"Gliscor, our next goals are to learn Taunt, Spikes, Toxic Spikes, Stealth Rock, and Roost, and to collect a Toxic Orb along the way!" Xiao An said.
Gliscor happily chirped twice.
The Trainer and Pokémon were both full of anticipation for their future.
*
"Guest, your total for this visit is twenty-three thousand seven hundred alliance coins."
Inside the Breeding House, Kawaki spoke to a young female Trainer in front of him.
The girl took money from her bag to pay the bill, then took her Pokémon and left the Breeding House, continuing her journey. It was morning, and the Breeding House was bustling with activity.
With no guests arriving, Kawaki went to the backyard and stood on the grass, looking towards the shed.
On the way, Kawaki saw Bulbasaur and Oddish tending to the vegetables, and Castform watering them.
His gaze passed over them, finally settling on the Chansey on the grass.
As of now, Gastly and Bulbasaur had gradually begun to open up and slowly integrate into the daily life of the Breeding House.
Under Kawaki's and Clefairy's careful care and companionship, the two Pokémon had also become much more cheerful and were no longer afraid of people as they were initially.
But aside from them, the psychological trauma of the other Pokémon was still very severe.
Ralts, Abra, Ditto, Chansey.
According to Kawaki's observations, he found that Ralts's condition was the most severe, Ditto's and Abra's were slightly better, while Chansey had always acted as a protector, taking care of them.
Although it appeared fine on the outside, in reality, Chansey still subconsciously harbored a sense of rejection towards humans.
Kawaki guessed that this might be because it had been disciplined too many times by those Pokémon Hunters when it tried to protect Ralts and the others.
Continuing like this was not a solution; if psychological trauma was not treated promptly, it could very likely become a lifelong shadow for them.
Regarding the future of these Pokémon, it shouldn't continue like this.
Whether they wanted to travel with a Trainer in the future or stay in the Breeding House for a stable life, Kawaki was willing to respect their choices.
However, the most important thing now was to try to get close to these Pokémon.
"Gengar?"
Gastly floated over from somewhere, looking in the same direction as Kawaki.
Seeing Gastly, Kawaki suddenly realized that he might be able to use Gastly to approach the other remaining Pokémon and help them resolve their emotional knots!
"By the way, Gastly, before you met me, were you always with everyone?" Kawaki asked.
"Gengar" Gastly recalled past events, then nodded its head: "Gengar!"
"Then do you know if Ralts and the others have anything they want to do, or any unfulfilled wishes?" Kawaki asked again.
These words made Gastly fall into recollection and contemplation.
"Gengar—"
It remembered that when they were in that cell, everyone would talk about the past.
At that time, it remembered that Ralts's wish was to go home, back to its mother and sister.
But Gastly, who had been alone since birth, living alone, and growing up alone, couldn't understand what 'mother' and 'sister' meant.
Kawaki patiently waited for Gastly's answer.
Soon, Gastly seemed to have thought of something and replied: "Gengar Gengar!"
Kawaki looked at it.
The Trainer and the ghost-type Pokémon stared at each other.
Kawaki: "..."
He couldn't understand at all!
Wanting to help Pokémon resolve their emotional knots but being unable to communicate with them was quite a problem.
Looking at it this way, the matter of helping the wild Pokémon in the forest and obtaining Viridian Power Shards from them also needed to be put on the agenda.
In that case, perhaps he could reapply to the Fallarbor Town Forestry Bureau to become a forest ranger for this area, just like his original parents.
By then, this entire Fallarbor Forest would be under his jurisdiction.
The work of a forest ranger included protecting the forest's ecosystem, preventing hunting incidents, treating nearby wild Pokémon, and so on.
These happened to coincide with his original goals.
Moreover, after becoming a forest ranger here, he would also regularly receive supplies and financial support.
This income would also be a bonus for the Breeding House.
What's more, the Breeding House was currently acquiring Moon Stones in large quantities from outside; just yesterday, a Trainer who had explored Meteor Falls sold them over twenty Moon Stones.
These stones cost Kawaki a lot of money.
Adding the Moon Stones exchanged with Steven before, and those acquired yesterday, the Breeding House now had quite a few stones.
But judging by the Clefairy's appearance, a significant number of Moon Stones were still needed to launch the spaceship.
The matter of obtaining Evergreen Power, the Clefairy's matter, Ralts's and Chansey's matter, Growlithe's and Oddish's matter of improving their strength, the wild Bagon's matter, Steven's matter, and Latias's and Latios's matter.
"Phew, it seems there's still so much for me to do!"
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