Pokémon: Starting as a Farmer Instead of a Trainer

Chapter 17 The First Customer

Hua Lan Dome, located in downtown Hua Lan, not only features an aquarium and swimming pool, but also a water park that is only open on weekends.

At the same time, this place also attracts many trainers who come to challenge the strong, because Cerulean Dome has another name, which is... the Cerulean Gym, which has been officially certified by the Pokémon League!

At that moment, the orange-haired girl sighed helplessly, sat by the pool, and began to mutter to herself.

"That shouldn't be the case..."

The girl stroked her chin, lost in thought.

If anyone else were here, they would immediately recognize her as Misty, the charming mermaid and the Gym Leader of Cerulean City! She is very popular throughout the Kanto region.

She looked at the Magikarp swimming in the pool with Psyduck, but she couldn't figure out where things went wrong.

This Magikarp wasn't her Pokémon; it belonged to a child who had been fostered by her. Her Magikarp had already evolved into Gyarados.

As the head of the Cerulean Gym, her duty and responsibility is to train the trainers who come from afar to challenge the gym.

Her status as a gym leader and her strength will also attract the admiration and affection of local trainers, or even some children who have not yet become trainers.

That's why a child who often visits the aquarium entrusted the Magikarp to her, a Water-type Pokémon expert, hoping she could help train it into a Gyarados.

For some reason, she readily agreed to the request and promised to get it done within two weeks. However, there were only three days left until the agreed-upon two weeks, making the timeframe extremely tight…

But to her utter surprise, this Magikarp should have already reached the evolution stage, and it was trying very hard to evolve, but it was stuck.

She didn't know what was going on. Because she was worried that Magikarp's personality would change drastically after evolving into Gyarados, she made a lot of preparations to help Magikarp regulate its emotions, but it got stuck at this last evolution step.

Perhaps it had tried for a long time but still couldn't evolve, and Magikarp in the pool was a little depressed, but suddenly it seemed to hear someone's voice, and immediately hid its emotions and cheered up.

"Sister Xia~"

A childish voice came from afar. Xiaoxia immediately stood up, looked at the little girl in the short skirt with two braids, and walked over.

"You're here very early today, Xiaoxin."

"Yeah, it's the weekend, no school today."

The girl called Xiaoxin walked up to her with a childlike smile on her face, but her eyes were trying to hide a hint of sadness.

But being just a child, her acting was still too poor, and Xiaoxia saw through it immediately. She lowered her voice and asked, "What happened?"

"Um……"

Xiao Xin gently bit her lip, forcing back her tears and forcing a smile onto her face. She walked to the edge of the pool, squatted down, and reached out to stroke the Magikarp that had swum over to her side.

Then, her voice choked with emotion, she said, "My father's condition has worsened again..."

"..."

Xiaoxia did not respond. In fact, she had roughly guessed it just now. Some time ago, Xiaoxin's father suddenly fainted while fishing at sea and was taken to the hospital by his companions.

The diagnosis revealed late-stage cancer, with less than two months left to live. This was undoubtedly a devastating blow to the family.

Although medical standards have improved a lot in this era, humans are still helpless in this situation. At most, they can only spend money to prolong the time, unless they find those legendary Pokémon to save them, but how could such a thing happen?

The carp king was a birthday gift that Xiaoxin's father caught when he took her out to sea.

When Xiao Xin received the gift, she happily said that she would raise Magikarp into Gyarados and then let Gyarados take her family out to sea to watch the sunrise.

After this happened, her family was powerless to help, but for the sake of her promise to her father, Xiaoxin could only bravely endure her grief and run to the Clarin Dojo to ask Xiaoxia for help.

After hearing about these things, Xiaoxia agreed without hesitation. After that, Xiaoxin would run to the Cerulean Gym to see Magikarp every day after school.

Now my father's condition has worsened, and he might not be able to hold on at any moment...

After spending some time with Magikarp, Xiaoxin stood up. She needed to visit her father in the hospital and couldn't stay there any longer.

She looked at the Magikarp in the pool, pursed her lips, forced a smile, and said, "Good luck!"

"Dulu!"

Magikarp's eyes were very determined; it had been working hard for this all along. As a member of the family, it would definitely help Xiaoxin fulfill her promise.

Then, Xiaoxin looked at Xiaoxia and bowed slightly: "Thank you for your help all this time, Sister Xiaoxia."

Hearing this, Xiaoxia crossed her arms and replied confidently, "Who do you think I am? I'm the world's most beautiful girl! Don't worry about me at all, just leave it to me!"

"Mmm~ Thank you, Sister Xia~"

A moment later, after seeing Xiaoxin off from the dojo, Xiaoxia suddenly changed her expression like a Sichuan opera character, clutching her head and becoming extremely anxious. She really wanted to do her best to help, but there was nothing she could do. Who could tell her what to do?

Back at the poolside, she slapped her forehead hard, a wave of helplessness washing over her.

She took out her Rotom phone with a Psyduck phone case, ready to swallow her pride and ask other water-type experts for their solutions.

Although she really didn't want this to happen, it was too embarrassing, but she really had no other choice...

The phone screen lit up, and a row of message notifications popped up. One of them was from Salty Fish King. Someone wanted a set of cosmetics that she had listed there and was asking her about it, so I clicked on it.

After replying to the message, she exited and returned to the homepage. Just as she was about to leave, her attention was suddenly drawn to a product recommendation on the homepage.

The message read, "Are you still worried because your Pokémon isn't evolving? Why not click in and take a look?"

There were four such titles in total, but her attention was focused on the one that could evolve Water-type Pokémon, "Water Well Mandarin?".

"Huh? Really?"

Looking at the seemingly photoshopped, deep blue tangerine, Xiaoxia hesitated for a moment, then lowered her gaze to the price of the three tangerines sold in a bundle.

"What's up... 648?! Are you kidding me? Do you know how many kilograms of tangerines I could buy with 648? I could fill a truck and go wholesale!"

Upon seeing the price, Xiaoxia couldn't help but swear. This thing is clearly a scam to fool idiots. Would anyone actually fall for it? It's a total scam!

Normally, she wouldn't have bothered to continue watching, but things were different now. Even though she knew it was fake, after hesitating for a while and calming herself down, she couldn't resist clicking on it.

After carefully reading the product description, she couldn't help but feel restless, and her fair little hands unconsciously clenched into fists.

As a professional Water-type Pokémon expert, how could I possibly believe that there's such a thing as a fruit that can accelerate Pokémon training just by eating it? It's utterly absurd and tramples on the efforts of Pokémon!

So she couldn't resist and opened a private chat with the seller, sending them the message...

Meanwhile, Mingyou, who had just finished breakfast with Munchlax at the manor and was still washing the dishes, suddenly heard a message notification from Rotom on her phone in her pocket, and subconsciously stopped what she was doing.

"So fast?"

Filled with curiosity and anticipation, he dried his hands, took out his phone, and clicked on the link. It was a customer with a Psyduck avatar on their phone, looking somewhat dazed.

But after seeing the message from the other party, the smile on his face vanished in an instant, and his lips twitched, revealing an expression of "I knew it."

I got scolded...

(End of this chapter)