Pokémon: Trainers Start as Bounty Hunters.

In addition to water quality, temperature, and season, there are also certain requirements regarding the potential and age of the sun coral itself.

Not to mention the problems caused by individual differences.

Tetsuya was secretly astonished upon hearing this.

He knew before that the seven-colored branch was rare, but he never imagined that it would be so difficult to grow.

However, the fact that so many relevant conditions could be found is a testament to the strength of Devon Corporation.

"That's absolutely fantastic."

Daigo played with the rainbow branch, praising it highly.

"The only drawback is that there's only one, but..."

He sighed casually.

Before he could finish speaking, Tetsuya interrupted him.

He'd been waiting for those words.

"It's okay, it's okay, I still have some."

Tetsuya reached into his backpack.

To Daigo's astonishment, the seven-colored branches were lined up in a row on the table.

The vibrant colors created an exceptionally atmospheric ambiance throughout the room.

Daigo fell silent.

No, can this be sold wholesale?

He picked up a colorful branch in disbelief and examined it.

Based on Daigo's understanding of rocks and spirits, this is actually true.

He pressed his forehead, feeling a headache coming on.

Are the guys in my company just sitting around doing nothing?

They couldn't even produce a single thing that any trainer could pull out from a pile of items.

"If you could, could you tell me where you found these colorful branches?"

Daigo asked.

He was very curious.

"It wasn't that I looked for it. I just ran into Suicune last time and talked to it. I also asked for some Rainbow Branches."

That's what Tetsuya said.

"Suicune~"

Daigo breathed a sigh of relief; no wonder.

Not right either.

His gaze toward Tetsuya became somewhat strange and eerie.

What kind of trainer would want Suicune instead of trying to catch it or battle it?

It's something that only suits human tastes and is useless to elves.

Tetsuya remained completely calm.

Can he say that he just impulsively agreed to Sui-kun's suggestion on a whim?

No, that's impossible.

"alright."

Daigo sighed helplessly, "I could take them all, but as for the price..."

"Price is not a problem, I can give you a 30% discount."

Zhe was also very decisive.

He never expected Daigo to agree so quickly.

He even came up with a whole bunch of ways to persuade Daigo.

For example, operations such as using seven colorful branches to create seven different color changes by adjusting the angle of illumination.

No wonder he's the son of a big company.

It means being generous.

"30% off..."

Daigo pondered for a moment and felt it was still quite suitable.

He immediately wanted to agree.

"Also, I wonder if it's possible to exchange it for equivalent training materials needed for the Pokémon."

At this moment, Zheye rubbed his hands together and made another request.

"Even if the value is slightly lower, that's acceptable."

He added something else.

There's no way around it; it's just too difficult to sell so many colorful branches.

Even if he extends the time frame further, the value will inevitably decrease significantly.

All things considered, taking practicality into account, selling it to Daigo at a 30% discount actually made him the better player.

"Sure, of course, no problem."

Daigo agreed unusually readily this time.

Anyway, it doesn't make much difference to him.

As for the price difference, there's no need for that; it's just a necessary expense to cultivate a good relationship with a rising star trainer.

Send me a list of the materials you need, and I'll have someone prepare them and send them to you.

If there's anything specific you need, please mark it down, and I'll try my best.

Daigo put away several of the seven-colored branches, leaving only one outside, and then said to Tetsuya.

"Okay okay."

Tetsuya nodded repeatedly.

If nothing goes wrong, this deal should be enough to sustain me for more than six months.

He was stunned.

They then recalculated it again in disbelief.

That's right, it's still more than half a year.

To be precise, it was less than eight months.

The problem lies with Ralts and the Ice Vulpix.

Note that this conclusion was drawn without considering the high-quality Ice Stone required for Vulpix's evolution.

Tetsuya had originally planned to buy this with his existing funds.

However, with two more Pokémon, one of which is a Psychic-type, the cost of training his team suddenly increased by nearly a third.

The main problem is that the progress of Pokémon is so rapid that the cost of training them is also rising exceptionally fast.

This is probably the trouble of happiness.

Tetsuya felt that, compared to himself at this time last year, although he had become stronger, there had been no change in his finances.

I'm still just taking it one day at a time.

No.

He thought to himself.

We must finalize Ah Bi's deal as soon as possible, so that we won't have to worry too much about money.

"Oh, by the way, Mr. Daigo, do you have any high-quality ice stones?"

Just as Tetsuya was thinking about Vulpix and its evolution, and with a stone collector in front of him, he certainly wouldn't let this good opportunity pass him by.

Evolution stones are stones, so Daigo must have collected quite a few high-quality evolution stones.

I just don't know if they have Ice Stones anymore.

"The Ice Stone of Alola?"

Daigo, who was observing the Coral Branch, immediately looked up after hearing Tetsuya's question. "It's a pity, I haven't been to Alola yet, so I don't have this kind of evolution stone."

You've reminded me; if I have the chance in the future, I definitely want to go to a new area and dig up some stones.

Tetsuya sighed regretfully.

There's nothing we can do; who knows why Ice Stones have only been found in the Alola region so far?

If Vulpix could evolve without using an Ice Stone, he would be in a real bind right now, having to prepare an Everstone for Vulpix to carry around.

He didn't want the Ice Vulpix to miss an opportunity to potentially enhance its potential.

"However, if you know someone, I suggest you ask Cona."

Daigo offered a different suggestion.

"King Kona?"

Tetsuya raised an eyebrow in surprise.

"Yes, she might have the Ice Stone."

Daigo's words were somewhat ambiguous.

As the regional champion, he also knew something about the relationship between Lorelei and the legendary Pokémon Articuno.

However, this information cannot be directly presented to the general public.

He wouldn't directly state this unless he was absolutely certain whether Tetsuya knew or not.

Tetsuya reacted quickly as well.

After all, he had fought alongside Kona before.

Although we didn't see a single person during that operation.

But at least I could sense Articuno's imposing presence.

With Suicune's example as a precedent, he could roughly imagine why Lorelei would have an Ice Stone.

Simply put, evolution stones are generated because the concentration and quality of the surrounding environment's elemental energy are too high.

And how many places in this world would meet this condition better than the place where the divine beast has lived for a long time?

"Okay, thank you very much for the reminder."

Tetsuya thanked Daigo excitedly.

This solved a big problem for him.

Daigo narrowed his eyes.

It seems that Tetsuya knows far more than he imagined.

This shows that the Kanto Alliance had a very high opinion of him.

They also withheld some of the information from their own company.

But Daigo got used to it.

After all, different regions have different interests and conflicts of interest.

We can have our own intelligence department re-plan it later.

It's never too late to know.

"By the way, speaking of Alola, that rock we just saw is related to that place."

Daigo suddenly brought up something Tetsuya had asked him before.