Pokémon: All About the Breeding House

Chapter 351 The Request to Capture Pokémon (5k)

Fang Yan took out paper and pen and made a detailed plan for the next steps.

The first thing to do now is to go to the Galar region and help Lugia deal with the problem of those three birds there. Fang Yan is thinking about whether he can bring those three birds from the Sinnoh region over and let them fight. Ideally, the Sinnoh birds should win. Then, following the method used to deal with the Zangoose and Seviper groups, he can have the victorious Sinnoh birds mock the Galar birds and hold an annual tournament to stop the Galar birds from causing trouble.

This round trip will probably take about a week. Before spring arrives and there aren't too many things piling up at the breeding center, let's go and take care of that first.

Next, I asked Officer Jenny to discuss with the Sinnoh League whether they could prepare more Pokémon eggs for my breeding center, so that trainers who are planning to travel in the spring could buy them.

Then attend the magnificent celebration, the Lily of the Valley Festival —

Sowing seeds, repairing the nursery grounds, and patrolling the forest —

After all this busy work, spring will probably be almost over.

"My old friend was right; spring is indeed a busy time."

Fang Yan said while lying down.

"Since it's already the 31st, let's have New Year's Eve dinner tonight!"

Fang Yan looked at Gengar and asked, "How's it going, Gengar?"

Gengar turned its head and looked at Fang Yan with a puzzled expression.

"Kou Jie?"

New Year's Eve dinner?

"It means we're celebrating the year we've spent together, which isn't quite a year yet, but it's close enough."

He said in a dialect.

"Kou Jie"

Okay, I'm fine.

"New Year's Eve dinner? I'll go prepare the ingredients now."

After Mrs. Fujino finished speaking, she stood up. Fang Yan thought for a moment and then said, "There's no need to make the preparations too elaborate."

Mrs. Fujino asked, puzzled, "Isn't the New Year's Eve dinner supposed to be a bit more elaborate?"

Speaking in dialect, "This is just the New Year according to the Gregorian calendar. We usually celebrate the Lunar New Year according to the lunar calendar. Oh, I mean, in our area..."

"The lunar calendar?"

Mrs. Fujino frowned slightly, then relaxed. "You mean the Lunar New Year in the East?"

Fang Yan nodded, "Yes, it's the Spring Festival. Anyway, it's not long before the Spring Festival arrives. We'll prepare something more elaborate on New Year's Eve, and then we'll just invite our own family members to have a reunion dinner together."

"I'll do as you say. I'll buy a new calendar and remember to write it down. I wonder if our local calendars include the Lunar New Year."

Fang Yan smiled and said, "It's okay, I remember, the 28th."

Mrs. Fujino put the clothes away and then looked at Fang Yan, "Shopkeeper, is there anything you need to buy today? I'm planning to go to Futaba Town. Little Shana told me today that she hopes I can pick her up from school." She'd be very happy if her mother could pick her up from school.

"I'm also happy to have time to pick her up from school."

Fang Yan laughed heartily, then wrote down some things he needed to buy on a piece of paper. He also went to the kitchen and wrote down some items that were about to run out.

"Let's prepare these for now. Thank you for your hard work."

Fang Yan handed the paper to Mrs. Fujino and said.

Mrs. Fujino took the paper and put it in her pocket. "Okay, then I'll be going now."

He nodded in dialect.

Mrs. Fujino rode slowly on the back of her goat toward Futaba Town.

Although the goat mount could run very fast, Mrs. Fujino seemed to prefer riding it slowly when she had nothing else to do.

Fang Yan stood at the door, watching her back, thinking that the Fujino couple had initially only helped with the work at the breeding house so that Shana could have more time to play there. However, as time went by, the family rarely returned to their house in Futaba Town anymore, and it seemed that they had come to regard the breeding house as their own home.

Fang Yan certainly wouldn't mind such a thing, since the Fujino couple helped take care of the animals at the nursery, making things much easier for them.

More importantly, the nursery now has little Shana and little Tomoyo who often comes over. These two children together bring a lot of joy to the nursery.

Although the nursery already has a bunch of problem children who are destined to never be quiet, it doesn't matter if there are two more extremely cute little girls. Even if it makes them even noisier, I still love them very much.

Anyway, he's not a little boy. Those who have raised children think that little boys of this age are simply demons.

Especially in environments with a backyard and a bunch of Pokémon.

Even their homes can be demolished.

She didn't really like Pokémon originally.

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At that moment, Mr. Fujino's voice rang out.

"Since coming to the breeding center, she went from letting me take care of the Pokémon at first, to her taking over herself, and now she likes to ride her goat around Twinleaf Town and the breeding center all day long. It seems like she likes the Pokémon more than she likes me."

I could tell from the dialect that Mr. Fujino was complaining out of jealousy.

Fang Yan burst into laughter, "Then let Mr. Fujino go to Futaba Town next time?"

"Forget it, let her do it if she likes it. As long as she's happy, that's all that matters."

dialect:----

Damn it, I've been forced to eat dog food (a Chinese slang term for witnessing public displays of affection).

Fang Yan left the doorway and headed towards the dining hall.

"Nini?"

What brings you here?

When Monini saw Fang Yan and the Nine-Tailed Fox following behind him enter the dining hall, it quickly jumped off its chair, wearing a small apron, and ran to Fang Yan. It then nimbly climbed up Fang Yan's leg and into his arms.

Fang Yan hugged it and tapped its little red nose. "There wasn't much to do at the nursery, so I came to check on things. How's it going here? Are you managing?"

Monini nodded, "Nini."

My sister came to help me today, along with the other cats, so I had a very relaxing day.

Fang Yan glanced into the kitchen and saw Miss Goth preparing the necessary ingredients, and she was also making some simple dishes.

"Nini."

However, there have been far fewer orders recently.

Sensing the dejection in Monini's tone, Fangyan smiled and said to it, "That's because spring is coming soon, and many people will choose to go out to buy things and then make their own food."

Seeing that Monini was upset because she thought her cooking was unpopular, Fang Yan pinched her nose and said, "Don't worry, when spring comes and the snow melts, there will be more people on the Breeding Road, and then many people will come to the canteen to eat. Don't be too busy and cry then."

"Nini!"

No way! Humph! I'm not a child anymore!

Fang Yan laughed happily. After chatting with the Super Cats who were helping out in the dining hall for a while, he heard someone calling him from the breeding house. So he put Monini down, greeted Miss Goth and the others, and then walked back to the breeding house with Nine-Tails.

I found an adult sitting in the rest area with a little boy. Gengar was floating around helping Miss Skirt entertain them. I didn't see Mr. Fujino. He must have gone to the backyard to take care of something.

"Hello, is there anything I can help you with?"

Fang Yan walked over, sat down opposite them, took the milk tea pot from Gengar, poured them a cup of hot milk tea, poured one for himself, and left the rest to Gengar.

Gengar happily floated back to its seat with the milk tea pot.

"Hello, store manager, my name is Keli, this is my son, Xiang'an. I'm here today to ask you for a favor."

"Master Klee spoke up."

Fang Yan glanced at Xiang An. It was the dead of winter, and he wasn't wearing a hat. He was bald, and had a short buzz cut.

"If it's about Pokémon, then you don't need to be polite."

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Fang Yan took a sip of milk tea and said.

So sweet!

This Gengar always puts so much sweetness in its milk tea. It doesn't even know how to control the amount. Doesn't it worry about getting diabetes from eating so much sweetness? Seriously.

"Here's the thing, Xiang'an met a Pokémon last year and they became friends. With spring approaching, he wanted to travel with other trainers, so he asked the Pokémon if it would like to come with him. The result was that the Pokémon approved of Xiang'an, so it went with him."

Listen carefully to the dialect.

Klee continued, "Xiang'an didn't have a starter Pokémon, so he went to many trainers and borrowed some powerful Pokémon, but he failed every time."

"You lost them all?"

Fang Yan suddenly asked a question.

Klee hesitated for a moment, then shook his head. "No, it's not that. Once, we met a very strong trainer who lent his ace Pokémon Swampert to Xiang'an. Xiang'an won the battle, but the Pokémon still didn't accept Xiang'an and its attitude towards him got worse and worse. We didn't understand what was going on, so we thought we'd come and ask for your opinion."

I understood the dialect.

What that Pokémon wanted to see was Xiang'an's determination, but Xiang'an mistakenly believed that he could gain recognition simply by defeating it.

Fang Yan tapped the table where the milk tea was placed with her finger. This matter was simple in some ways, but complicated in others.

"Xiang'an, may I ask you a few questions?"

Xiang An paused for a moment, then nodded.

"Please ask."

Fang Yan smiled and asked, "Xiang'an, what does it mean to you?"

Without hesitation, Xiang'an exclaimed, "My partner, my best partner! We'll become the greatest Pokémon trainers together!"

Xiang An clenched his fist, speaking clearly and confidently.

Another top Pokémon trainer?

Fang Yan's smile remained unchanged. "Very good answer. So, the second question is, why did you choose to use someone else's Pokémon to defeat it?"

After thinking for a moment, Xiang An replied, "Because I want its approval, I must defeat it."

"Yes, that's a perfect answer, but Xiang'an."

Fang Yan looked at him and continued, "Then why do you need to borrow someone else's Pokémon?"

"Because I don't have any Pokémon."

Xiang An answered instantly, then looked at Fang Yan with a puzzled expression, not understanding why Fang Yan would ask such a simple question.

dialect:----

"Xiang'an, do you know why you defeated it, yet still failed to gain its approval?"

"I don't know, so my dad brought me here. He said you might have a solution."

Xiang An lowered his head in frustration, then raised it again, looking earnestly at Fang Yan, "Brother Fang Yan, can you help me? I really like it, I really like it, I want to travel with it."

elder brother----

Fang Yan raised her head and wiped her wet, hot eyes.

I haven't heard those two words in a long time —

It turns out I still belong to my older brother's generation —

Fang Yan looked at Xiang'an with a firm gaze.

I'm definitely going to help you with this! Nobody can stop me, not even Arceus himself, I'm telling you.

"Xiang'an, but those are someone else's Pokémon, their power belongs to someone else."

Xiang'an's small face was full of doubt.

"I'm guessing it was your Pokémon that fought on its own, right? You weren't giving any commands."

"No, because I'm not their trainer, and I don't know how to command them."

"Is that why it no longer approves of me and is unwilling to talk to me anymore?"

Xiang An lowered his head and said in a low voice.

He realized something—

Just as he was feeling sad, a large, warm hand covered his head. He looked up and saw Fang Yan looking at him tenderly.

"Xiang'an, try again. Try to use your own strength. I'll have the Pokémon in the nursery help you. Try to fight it with your own strength."

"But----"

Xiang An was interrupted before he could finish speaking.

"I know, try again. If that doesn't work, I'll help you find another way."

Looking at Fang Yan's gentle smile, Xiang An clenched his fist and said, "Mm."

Fang Yan nodded with satisfaction, then went to the backyard to explain things to Mr. Fujino before riding Ninetales, leading Gengar, Miss Skirt, Miss Gothic, the invisible Latias, Klee, and Xiang An towards Twinleaf Town.

Oh, right, and the queen bee too. She heard the dialect say she was going out for a while, and she insisted on going with it.

Fang Yan looked at the queen bee flying beside him and secretly smiled to himself.

Sure enough, in winter, all it takes to get a woman to go out is a single sentence.

That means your waist is almost as strong as Dali's.

The enormous nine-tailed creature slowly walked into Shuangye Town, and the people of Shuangye Town greeted Fang Yan.

They returned the greetings in their local dialect.

Leaving Twinleaf Town in another direction, Fang Yan arrived at a cave and spotted a blue Pokémon in the distance.

Huh? Twinleaf Town has this Pokémon too?

Could it be it?

The dialect was somewhat shocking.

Xiang'an ran over and shouted to the Pokémon, "I'm here, Riolu!"

It really was it.

Riolu raised its head and looked coldly at Xiang'an, as well as Fang Yan, Gengar, and other Pokémon behind Xiang'an.

"Europe."

Did you ask for help again?

Riolu's voice was cold.

Fang Yan narrowed his eyes slightly and waved to the Queen Bee. The Queen Bee flew over, and Fang Yan whispered a few words in her ear. The Queen Bee nodded, indicating that there was no problem.

Xiang An turned to look at Fang Yan, who smiled and nodded at him.

"I'll lend you the Queen Bee. Go and fight, Xiang'an. Earn her approval through your own strength."

"Um.

""

Xiang'an nodded.

"But didn't you, Manager Fang, say—"

Klee was getting anxious, but Fang Yan reached out to stop him, saying, "Trust me, and trust him too."

Klee focused his attention on Xiang'an.

"Europe."

Come on over, and after this, I'll leave this place.

Fang Yan's eyes narrowed slightly upon hearing Riolu's words.

Fortunately, it's not too late, there's still time.

Leo's words mean that Xiang'an has one last chance.

A blue orb of light gathered in Riolu's hand.

Staring at the queen bee floating in the air.

"I'm leaving it to you, Queen Bee."

Xiang An pointed at Riolu and said.

Riolu kept its Pokémon in its hand, constantly watching the Queen Bee, wondering what move she would use.

But after waiting for a long time, the queen bee flew in the air without making any move.

Riolu: ?

What does that mean?

"Brother with dialect————"

Xiang An turned to look at Fang Yan, who was sitting on the Nine-Tailed Fox with a serious expression.

"Xiang'an, didn't we make a promise? You'll use your own strength to gain its recognition. You've chosen to fight, so use that fight to defeat it."

"But the queen bee—"

"Because you didn't give any commands. Battles require trainers to give orders, not just Pokémon. If you only rely on Pokémon, then it means—that's not your power."

"But I've never commanded before—"

Fang Yan did not answer him.

He just told the Bee Queen not to take any action unless Xiang An gives the order.

They might take a few more hits.

The queen bee said she was fine.

After waiting for a while, Xiang'an realized that Fang Yan was no longer paying attention to him. He turned around and looked at Riolu across from him and the Queen Bee in front of him.

"Give the order—Understood, Queen Bee, use silk-spinning!"

The queen bee did not take any action.

Xiang An turned to look at Fang Yan.

The queen bee also turned around and stared at Fang Yan.

Queen Bee: Me?! Spinning silk?! A bee spinning silk?!

Fang Yan tried his best to keep his face tense. "You have to consider whether the Pokémon can use that move."

Fang Yan thought for a moment and then said, "Moreover, command involves more than just move commands."

"Think about it, Xiang'an, how exactly do you gain its approval!"

The voice, spoken in a louder dialect, shouted.

Riolu looked at Fangyan and seemed to understand what he meant. It nodded to Fangyan in gratitude.

Fang Yan smiled slightly.

What an adorable dog!

Riolu turned its attention back to the battlefield and threw the Pokémon at the Queen Bee.

Let me see your true determination!

The queen bee instinctively tried to dodge, but remembering Fang Yan's instructions, she stopped and took the hit of the missiles head-on.

"Compare."

This queen is in so much pain!

Fang Yan coughed, not daring to look the Queen Bee in the eye.

"Kou Jie Yi"

We should be fine once it gets back to the nursery, right?

"—Surely not?"

"Laji~"

"You can't swear, Miss Skirt."

"Laji~"

No, I didn't! (Sweet smile)

Riolu conjured a bone club in its hand and charged towards the Queen Bee.

Should I hide or not?!

The queen bee hesitated for a moment, then gritted her teeth and closed her eyes.

"Compare!"

You're dead meat, Fang Yan!

Fang Yan closed his eyes, refusing to look at the queen bee being attacked by Riolu.

Xiang An watched with great anxiety as Riolu relentlessly attacked the Queen Bee with its bone club.

"Riolus, this time, I'll definitely earn your approval. Although I'm not good at commanding or battling, I believe we'll become the strongest trainers. That's the promise we made from the beginning!"

Xiang An's words were incoherent due to nervousness.

"Queen Bee, use the cross-cutting shears!"

Xiang'an recalled the battles he had watched and shouted.

The Queen Bee opened her eyes, opened Riolu's bone club, and her claws glowed.

"Compare!"

It should have been done a long time ago.

Then the Phillips clippers cut towards Riolu.

Riolu looked at Xiang'an, whose eyes were filled with determination, and recalled the promise they had made.

He opened his arms wide.

Before it fell, the corners of its mouth curled up.

What I've always wanted is your determination —

Regardless of your skill level —

I believe that if we work together, we will definitely become stronger.

But when I learned that you used someone else's Pokémon to come over, I was sad and also looking forward to it, looking forward to your command, but why did you just watch and not give any command?!

I'm so disappointed! Xiang'an!

Today was supposed to be the last day, and if you continue like this, I will leave immediately.

Xiang'an, you haven't forgotten our promise. I felt your determination, so let's go together.

Riolu closed his eyes.

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