Master Craftsman of the Elven World

Chapter 154 Giratina's Apple Orchard
"Gah! (Hey, mantis planting trees, there are pests and diseases here, hurry up and deal with it!)"

Giratina looked at the "escape" of the apples in confusion, and its expression became very serious. It had once seen human farmers dealing with pests and diseases in the destroyed world. If they were not curbed, the apples it had worked so hard to pick would be eaten by these bugs!
The giant mantis in the distance was still diligently planting trees. When it heard Giratina's call, it pointed at itself in confusion:

"Haas? Ha! (Let me deal with pests? I am a bug!)"

The mantis with giant claws, which had never heard of letting bugs deal with bugs, raised its claws, flapped its wings to speed up, and ran to the side of the apples rolling around with heavy steps, stared at one of them, and used its metal claws!

It caught an apple that was about to escape! It was a green apple!

"Crack!"

The apple let out a panic cry, and the giant mantis was startled and stared at the two big eyeballs that popped out of the apple. Then the apple that was parasitized by the "bug" let out a strange cry!
A faint ghostly wave suddenly rose up, scaring the giant mantis!
"Ga? (Move 'Scare'?)"

Giratina was quite surprised when he saw the move performed by the captured green apple.

Could it be that these bugs were born under the influence of the power of the reversed world? Wasn't that a ghost-attribute trick just now?
"Has?" The giant mantis was very unhappy with the insect that scared it. It clamped the exposed "tail" of this guy with its giant pincers and then pulled it out with force!

"Crack! Crack!" The bug hidden in the apple was very panicked. Its eyes showed a look of pain. It kept shaking its big eyeballs to beg the giant mantis not to do this! The wailing of the bug hidden in the green apple attracted other apples that had rolled away. Soon, those apples gathered around. They jumped and jumped, constantly using scares, making the giant mantis look around!
Hey, these bugs are about to attack me!

The giant mantis raised its pincers and placed them on both sides of its head. A terrifying atmosphere suddenly arose, and the other "apples" that had come to scare the giant mantis were suddenly frightened instead. They almost scattered in all directions, and some even fainted from fright!

Gigantic will raise its pincers with eyeball patterns to intimidate its opponents, making it look like it has three heads. Timid Pokémon can easily be frightened or even faint!

"Crackle" Green Apple's eyes drooped and tears welled up in his eyes!
No, don't destroy your own apple!
The giant mantis looked at the green apple with tearful eyes and suddenly lost its desire to attack.

It's like it's bullying the weak. It wouldn't even look at such a weak Pokémon in the forest.
"Ga!" Giratina has been observing these "bugs" for a long time, and now he finally realizes the difference between these little things.

It doesn’t seem to be a pest, but some kind of Pokémon?
But they ate their apples anyway!
Giratina couldn't recognize this strange Pokémon, so he decided to seek the help of Light Moss. It called out in its heart
[What should I do if my apple tree is infested with pests and diseases? Those bugs look like Pokémon, but I have never seen them before. What should I do now? ]

The soul echoed and received a response soon.

"A Pokémon that lives in an apple? Is it a fruit-eating worm?"

[Fruit worms? So they are pests and diseases. Should we pull them out of the apples? ]

"No, the Fruit Gnawer Pokémon hides in apples when it is born and spends its entire life in the apple, eating the flesh as it grows. It uses its body fluids to increase the strength of the apple's skin and prevent the apple from rotting. But if it loses the apple, the water in its body will be lost, and it will gradually become weak and even die."

"While normal pests and diseases should be treated with insect sprays, fruit-biting insects are actually beneficial to the growth of apple trees. They have a trait called 'ripening' that can quickly ripen the fruit and make the fruit twice as effective."

【so good?!】

When Giratina heard this, his attitude towards the little bugs biting the apples suddenly changed!

"Ah, but they also have a trait called gluttony, which is that they will eat the fruits in advance, so it's a bit troublesome. Well, but I can deal with this trait of theirs. I just need to feed them more energy cubes."

"And they have a move called recycling, which can quickly regenerate the berries they eat. Although fruit-eating insects that master this move are very rare, I have a way to make them all master this move. All I need to do is use Celebi's sculpture!"

Giratina was very surprised, and immediately started to think. It glanced at the fruit-eating bugs lying on the ground, and came up with the idea of letting these little bugs live here and help it plant trees!

"Gah! (There's no need to deal with them. They're a special Pokémon. Mantis, please release your claws!)"

"Has." The giant mantis reluctantly loosened its claws, and the green fruitworm fell to the ground with a "pop."

The other fruit worms around immediately ran over and protected the green apple among the pile of apples, but every fruit worm was trembling at the sight of Mantis and Giratina!

What a huge monster! So scary!

(I am Giratina, the master of this world. This is a destroyed world, also called the reverse world. Why did you appear in the apple tree I planted?)

(Those apple trees belong to me, and you have eaten the apples without my permission, causing me trouble.)
Giratina first brought up a topic, which made the fruit gnats feel guilty and panicked, and they responded tremblingly:

“Kajikaji!?”

(We didn’t know it! When we woke up, we were already in the tree! Don’t eat us!)
Huh, a naturally born Pokémon?

Giratina was confused.

How could such a thing happen? The reversed world is not the real world where Arceus takes care of us!

"Has." The giant mantis spoke at this time, saying that the feeling of pulling the tail just now was not right.

It doesn't look like a bug-type Pokémon!

Giratina was confused once again.

If it's not a bug type, could it be a grass type?
"The Gnawer is a Grass-type and Dragon-type Pokémon."

The voice of Light Moss's soul echoed in Giratina's soul, and Giratina now knew how these Pokémon appeared!

Most Grass-attribute Pokémon have some plant-like characteristics, which means that these guys may have originally existed in some form on the apple tree, and were later brought into being by the Light Moss Pokémon. Then, when the apples came out, they were automatically born and drilled into them.

The reason why it feels wrong is because these guys are actually "dragons"?!

How can there be a dragon that looks like this! (Д`)!

“Gahhhhh~”

Giratina twisted its body in the air and said to the fruit-eating insects:
(Since you have entered a ruined world, why not settle down here? I am cultivating high-quality apples, and you seem to have the power to ripen apples quickly? I want to borrow your ability!)

(Work for me. As a reward and exchange, I will share some of the delicious apples I grow with you! Let’s turn this place into an apple orchard!)

The fruit-gnawing worms looked at each other and discussed with each other for a while.

Green Apple: "Kaji (This big monster looks like a demon king, so ferocious)~"

Red Apple A: "Kakiji (Are we being kidnapped? I don't want to be eaten)~"

Red Apple B: "Kaki! (You're going to be forced to work for this demon king! If you don't want to be eaten, you can only offer apples to it.)"

Red Apple C: "Kaki. (But the apples here are really delicious. If I can eat them every day, I can work there.)"

Red Apple C's words aroused unanimous agreement from everyone.

Although this giant beast looks dangerous and the three-headed humanoid monster is also scary, the apples here are really delicious!

It has a rich flavor even before it is ripe, and it will definitely taste even better once it is ripe! For delicious apples, just agree to it!
We have nowhere else to go anyway!

(End of this chapter)