You are not allowed to date a trainer.

Chapter 7 People can’t, at least they shouldn’t

How to describe the situation at this moment?

Can't people? Or at least shouldn't they?
Because the head teacher intervened, Qin Zhen, who had ended his lunch break early, stood at the door of the classroom. In the classroom in front of him, a round-faced boy was sitting on a chair with his arms around Nuan Nuan Pig, their faces pressed together, looking like the set of a forbidden love story.

The round-faced boy and Nuannuan Pig also turned their heads to look back at Qin Zhen. They seemed not to have expected that someone would come to the classroom at this time, and they were also almost petrified.

This was really embarrassing. Qin Zhen was silent for a long time before he raised his hand and reluctantly said hello.

"Hey, are the two brothers kissing?"

"Damn it! Old Qin, stop slandering me!" Shao Bai threw away Nuan Nuan Pig as if he had been electrocuted, jumped up, and argued anxiously, "I'm learning English with Nuan Nuan Pig! If you don't believe me, come and see!"

"Is it necessary to hold her so tightly when learning English?" Qin Zhen stood still. "It's okay, Shao Bai. I've thought about dating Gardevoir before. I'll keep your relationship with Nuannuanzhu a secret."

"I've already said that my brother and I are innocent! He has a girlfriend! As for the hug just now... can you blame me? My brother has a body like a QQ sausage. If I didn't hold him, would he have seen the textbooks on my desk?"

This sentence was quite realistic. Qin Zhen lowered his guard slightly and carefully examined the table of the round-faced boy. After confirming that the books spread out on it were all English textbooks and exercise books, he breathed a sigh of relief and walked back to his seat and sat down.

"So diligent? What? Are you planning to take the entrance exam to Yanda University?"

"It has nothing to do with Yanda." Shao Bai patted his partner's sturdy back, his expression grave. "It just occurred to me: What if I become a Fire King in the future, representing Donghuang in a foreign battle? And then I run into a foreigner who can't even understand what he's saying when he's commanding his elves? Wouldn't that be the end of me?"

"What's there to worry about?" Qin Zhen leaned over the table and said, "You don't understand what the foreigners are saying, but they also don't understand your Chinese. If everyone is doomed, then no one is doomed."

"What if you happen to meet a hardworking and studious foreign superstar?"

"Then why don't you speak more quietly so he can't hear you?"

"There's such a solution!?" Shao Bai was shocked. "Damn it! Old Qin, you're so insidious!"

Qin Zhen closed his eyes and did not answer. At this moment, he had a kind of worry in his heart that he could not tell anyone. Although he boasted in front of the class teacher that he would go to register with Millerton tomorrow, in fact, Qin Zhen knew in his heart that Millerton did not clearly respond to his initial partner request.

What should I do if Milton refuses me when I talk about this tomorrow?
What if the school doesn't agree with me choosing a Pokémon other than the Starter Three as my initial partner?
Compared to the anxious Qin Zhen, Shao Bai, who had hooked up with Nuannuanzhu early on, did not have such worries. After making a plan to beat the foreigner, he immediately swept the English book on the table aside, sat down at the table in front of Qin Zhen, and brought up another topic with great interest.

"Oh right! Lao Qin, I just accompanied my brother to visit his girlfriend, the warm pig he said he wanted to introduce to you."

"Oh, what's wrong?"

"I showed your photo to someone, and that pig girl stared at it until her nose was burning with anger. I guess she really likes you."

"Ah."

"What does 'hmm' mean? Lao Qin, I like you very much, so please give me a definite answer."

"My sure belief is that I already have a favorite elf."

"That motorcycle lizard that lives in the carport? But didn't Old Chen come talk to you?"

Qin Zhen suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Shao Bai with a frown.

Being stared at by Qin Zhen, Shao Bai's face trembled, and he quickly pointed to the window. "I saw it when my brother and I were reciting the text!"

Qin Zhen sat up straight, turned his head and looked out the window, and found that he could indeed see the flower bed where he was sitting when talking with his head teacher from the classroom, so his frown relaxed slightly.

"Old Qin, why are you staring at that motorcycle lizard?"

Qin Zhen was silent for a while, then said nonsense casually: "Do you know Kabuda?"

"Oh, that robot special effects movie that was popular when we were kids? The one made by the Sakura Empire?"

"Well, I like Kabuda very much. Milton... that's the motorcycle lizard you mentioned. I think its eyes are very similar to Kabuda's."

"Just for this?" Shao Bai rolled his eyes. "Your choice is too willful. No wonder Old Chen is giving you trouble."

"A little bit, but didn't you choose Nuan Nuan Pig because it cooks delicious food?"

Shao Bai choked and was speechless for a long time.

Qin Zhen looked at the flower bed and suddenly said, "By the way, Shao Bai, when Lao Chen talked to me, he suggested that I become a professional trainer in the future."

"Oh, being a professional trainer is good. Not only is it a stable job with high allowances, but even the money for raising Pokémon can be reimbursed by the Alliance." Qin Zhen wrote down the information one by one, nodded, and changed his tone with emotion.

"But becoming a professional trainer isn't easy."

"Isn't that right?" Shao Bai nodded. "Only after you've conquered all eight gyms and earned all the alliance badges can you even qualify. I heard you'll have to submit documents and go through some qualification assessment. It's quite a hassle anyway... Damn it!"

The round-faced man suddenly let out a startled scream, seemingly startled by something, and jerked his body backwards. The dull thud of his head hitting the window frame soon added a touch of agony to his scream.

Qin Zhen turned his head in confusion and found that there was an eye on the window on the other side of the corridor, a huge electronic eye that flashed green and yellow light.

"Millarton!?"

Qin Zhen stood up in surprise. He pushed the door open and saw the giant iron lizard lying outside the door. Its huge body almost filled the entire corridor.

"Millarton, why are you here?"

"Gah-"

Seeing Qin Zhen show up, Milton let out a low cry. He glanced nervously at Shao Bai who was in chaos in the classroom and Nuannuan Pig who was eyeing them hungrily. He quickly turned his head, picked up something from his back, and put it in front of Qin Zhen.

"Is this... a sandwich?" Qin Zhen was suddenly stunned. He took the thing and looked at it back and forth. There was no doubt that this was a freshly heated instant chicken sandwich, and it was still a little hot to hold.

"Millarton, where did you get the money?"

Milton thought for a moment, then suddenly leaned forward and gnashed his teeth. He raised his tail and shook it violently several times, while two electronically synthesized dog barks came out of his throat.

"You mean the dog? The Catwoman? No! Teacher Chen? Did you borrow money from Teacher Chen?"

Milton nodded repeatedly.

"Why did you borrow money from Teacher Chen to buy this?" Qin Zhen was at a loss for words. "And you even sent it to me specially, so I could eat it?"

"Woo——"

Milton nodded vigorously, tilted his head and approached Qin Zhen, his big eyes like a dot matrix display screen flashed for a while, and finally, a strange pattern was refreshed: it looked like a regular triangle, but one corner was broken, which was quite eye-catching.

Qin Zhen leaned over in confusion, stared at the pattern carefully, frowning.

"Millarton, what does this pattern mean? Is it a warning sign? Are you warning me that some danger is approaching? Do you want me to run away after I'm full?"

Millerton shook his head.

"So what rare Pokémon did you find? If it's a triangle... is it Magneto Triple?"

Millerton became anxious. It reached out and snatched the sandwich from Qin Zhen's hand. It clumsily tore off half of the plastic film with its claws. Finally, it held the sandwich in front of Qin Zhen and let out a low cry.

Looking at the sandwich handed to him, Qin Zhen was stunned for a moment, then suddenly his body shook and his eyes slowly widened.

The moment Milton picked up the sandwich, Qin Zhen suddenly understood the true meaning of the pattern - it was not a warning of danger nor a stick figure of an elf, it was just a sandwich, a sandwich with a bite taken out of it.

This stupid lizard was just worried. It remembered that Qin Zhen only took a bite before handing it his sandwich. It was worried that he would be hungry in the afternoon, so it endured its fear and approached the trainer with the Pokémon, borrowed money from him to buy food, and finally sneaked into the teaching building to deliver food. Seeing this stupid lizard looking so panicked at this time, it was unknown how much fear and terror it had suffered along the way.

At this moment, Qin Zhen felt relieved, and all the heavy worries related to Milton disappeared.

"Hey, Milton!"

"Gah?"

"Would you like to be my starting elf?"

"Fuck, isn't this just like those scenes in those Sakura-style cartoons where the heroine is worried her boyfriend is hungry so she comes to bring him lunch?"

At this time, Shao Bai in the classroom finally came back to his senses. He looked at Qin Zhen and Millerton looking at each other in the corridor, and spat on the ground with envy or blessing.

"You still have the nerve to say that I'm in love with an elf, bah!"

(End of this chapter)