Pokémon: Trainers Start as Bounty Hunters.

The person in charge of the guard bowed slightly.

Without delay, he turned and left after getting the answer he wanted.

There was a moment of silence inside the tent.

Minglan looked up: "It seems like there's something you don't understand?"

He looked at Tetsuya, who had a puzzled expression, and asked him.

"Yes."

Zhe did not deny it, "Since there are so many monkey monsters here, why not hire more guards? That way, Senior Minglan, you wouldn't need to make a special trip to deal with them."

Even if a single Elite Four-level Pokémon leads a large number of Pokémon, sending the Gym Leader along would be overkill and an overestimation of their abilities.

“Sigh…” Minglan sighed, “Who would want to come to this godforsaken place?”

"Although the reward offered is not low, compared with the guarding income in some other places, the Rocky Mountain Wilderness is really too desolate."

He shook his head helplessly. "If it gets any higher, Hualan City's finances won't be able to support it."

Hiring a trainer, especially a powerful one, requires a lot of money.

For someone like Tetsuya, nowadays, an eight-figure Alliance Coin is just the starting price for a single mission, and it depends on whether he's in the mood to accept it.

Elite trainers are the backbone of the league, and the differences between them are very obvious.

Only one Elite-level trainer is called an Elite-level trainer. If there are five near-Elite-level trainers and one Elite-level trainer, then that is also an Elite-level trainer.

However, in terms of both strength and price, the latter is worlds apart from the former.

Oh, right, and there's also Cynthia's bug, which really comes at a different price.

Under such circumstances, hiring a team of trainers to guard the wild and suppress Pokémon uprisings would cost an astronomical sum every year.

It may not cost much to protect one place, but there are too many places around the city that need protection.

"Let's not talk about Mt. Tsukimi and the Viridian Forest."

Even compared to the nearby White Cape, the resources in the Rocky Wilderness are pitifully scarce, so naturally not many people would come for the simple reward of guarding.

Of the current 20 people, seven or eight are trainers who came from Cerulean City, which is why they are willing to stay here.

Minglan's face looked increasingly aged.

It's clear that he has put a lot of effort into Cerulean City and the Cerulean Gym.

Upon hearing his words, Tetsuya understood.

Take Tsukimiyama as an example.

Besides the normal reward, if anything is discovered in the process of stopping the elf riot, such as fossils or moonstones, this is a real source of income for the guards.

Compared to that, those rewards were just a small amount.

The rocky wilderness is a different story.

This godforsaken place is nothing but rocks and monkey monsters.

Let alone rare items, even common ground-type ores like star sand are scarce.

Trainers looking to make money would never come here.

"So, while I still have some strength, I should do more. The savings will come in handy someday."

Minglan also felt there was nothing to say to Zheye about these things, and changed the subject with a smile, "You don't know, my youngest granddaughter is very obedient."

She's also very talented at being a trainer; you could mentor her if you have time.

"Okay, I definitely will if I have the chance."

Tetsuya smiled and agreed.

Is it Xiaoxia, the female lead of the first generation?

He was also very curious about what the other person was like when they were a child.

I wonder if he's a bit silly like Gary and Ash.

An old man and a young boy were chatting inside the tent.

The sky outside brightened up again.

The Pokémon unleashed their Flash attacks one after another.

The guards were busy day after day.

After finishing the work, Tetsuya quickly returned to Cerulean City with Meilan.

He declined the old man's invitation to visit the Hualan Martial Arts Academy.

After restoring his companions at the Pokémon Center, the former pushed open the door to his "home".

Amidst the flashing red light, the elves each found their most comfortable resting spot.

"Beep—"

Pidgeon, leaning wearily against a backrest in an odd pose, flapped its wings.

We were supposed to have a vacation, but the whole afternoon was spent fighting.

Trainer, when will you finally be able to make your mouth more reliable?

"what--"

Tetsuya yawned. "Do you think I wanted this? It's all because that bastard kept causing me trouble. I'm already being nice by not secretly causing trouble for his boss. It's so annoying."

Most importantly—

He did such a huge job, and he didn't get any reward at all!

Not right either.

At least the tasks provided by "Professor Oak" were real.

But is Zheyi the kind of person who cares about those millions now?

"Damn, I'll definitely try to squeeze some money out of the Rockets later, otherwise it would be such a waste of my time."

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and he swung his right hand violently.

"Snapped"

"Ow!"

The next moment, Tetsuya clutched his hand and cried out in pain.

Pang Yan Guai silently recovered from his resting state, walked to another corner, squatted down, and continued to rest.

How can you blame it? The trainer clearly bumped into it; it's like they staged an accident.

"rose"

"Ow"

The two dragon-type creatures tugged at Tetsuya's sleeve, reminding their trainer not to forget tonight's extra meal.

"I really am..."

Tetsuya's face looked like a mask of pain.

Fortunately.

Over the next five or six days, he and his companions were able to enjoy their vacation.

Every day, besides resting in the yard, I go to the beach to fish.

I occasionally visit the Hualan Martial Arts Hall.

It was under these circumstances that Tetsuya finally got to meet Kasumi, the first heroine from the anime in his previous life, the mermaid of Clarin.

Can......

"Help...help me..."

Looking at Misty appearing inside Gyarados's mouth, Tetsuya's mind went blank for a moment.

He originally thought that Ash and Gary had already gone too far, but he didn't expect Misty to go far beyond that.

That's a Gyarados!

Let alone putting it in your mouth, even a normal person would feel some fear just getting close to it.

Its intimidating nature is no joke.

Zhe could also tell that this Gyarados belonging to the Blue Gym Leader was somewhat confused.

I just took a nap, why did my own trainer's offspring end up in my mouth?

If the trainer finds out, wouldn't we be doomed?

The dignified near-champion Gyarados was so frightened that it didn't dare to move an inch.

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Tetsuya sighed softly.

He raised his right hand, and his superpowers extended outwards.

An invisible hand pulled Misty, who was pale with fright, out of Gyarados's mouth.

Upon seeing this, Minglan's Gyarados immediately sank underwater and pretended to be dead.

If you don't see me, then it has nothing to do with me.

It had met with Tetsuya in the past two days, so it wasn't worried that the other party would pose any threat to the trainer's offspring.

"Th...thank you."

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Tetsuya would have found it hard to connect the delicate little girl in front of him with the future Kasumi.

He was momentarily dazed, then smiled and shook his head: "It's alright, just be more careful next time."

"Okay... okay."

Xia's face was still somewhat pale.

Think about it too.

Regardless of what her personality will be like when she grows up, she is currently just a little girl in her early teens.

It takes a lot of mental fortitude to be rescued from being accidentally crawled into a Gyarados's mouth and not faint.

A brief silence...

Meilan, who had invited Tetsuya to visit, had to leave again due to an unexpected event.

Originally, it was planned that one of her three adult granddaughters would entertain Tetsuya, but due to the busy affairs of the dojo, the three sisters did not seem to have much free time.

Fortunately, Tetsuya didn't care about such things and simply started to wander around the Cerulean Gym on his own.

With the pass given to him by Minglan, he had no worries about not being able to enter any places.

Say something.

As one of the eight major theaters in the Kanto region, Clarion has truly excellent facilities.

In addition to the enormous arena used for gym battles, there are several other buildings of different shapes and sizes scattered around it.

According to staff, those are training grounds, performance venues, and breeding grounds.

Compared to Nibi, who specializes in Rock-type Pokémon, Cerulean, who is known for raising Water-type Pokémon, has no lower or higher requirements in this regard.

After all, rock-type plants are only slightly easier to care for than grass-type plants.

As long as there are rocks, one can be full; nutritional development is another matter.

Water-type Pokémon are different.

If the water quality in daily life is substandard, its vitality and outward signs will be very clear.

Tetsuya came to the Cerulean Dojo's training base with a learning mindset.

And then they happened to run into the reckless young Xia.

"that......"