Not a trainer this time

"Naoki?"

When she first heard the name, Yeci thought she had heard it wrong. Was it the Naoki she knew?

As soon as Dandi saw Yeci's expression, he knew that she really knew this person, "Yes, it's Naoki!"

In order to prevent duplication of names, Dandi added: "Besides King Leiguan, there is also a very powerful red Pokémon beside him. Its name seems to be Guluton? Both of them should be Pokémon. A Pokémon unique to the Dia region, right?”

Ye Ci: "..."

So Luton is indeed a Pokémon from the Padia region, but Raiden is not.

She had heard Naoki say before that King Lei Guan used to live in the Galar region and was regarded as a king by the people in that area, but was later forgotten in the long river of time.

And now, looking at Alchemy, it seems like he really doesn’t know that King Lei Guan is a legendary Pokémon in the Galar region?

Thinking of this, Yeci didn't know what to say for a moment.

After a short period of thinking, she gradually sorted out her thoughts.

——Naoki went to the Galar region last year to find the forgotten Lei Guanwang and conquered him. After that, he used Lei Guanwang to participate in a competition.

It happened that Dan Emperor was also there, but for some unknown reason Naoki withdrew from the competition midway. As a result, Dan Emperor was obsessed with this extremely powerful trainer and wanted to compete with him.

Therefore, he made a request to visit the Padian League and came to the Padian region.

only……

"Naoki is not a trainer of the Padian Alliance." Yeci told the truth: "He does not work for the Padian Alliance either."

Emperor Dan was confused: "What?"

Yeci looked at the cheerful and generous young man in front of him and explained to him:

"Naoki is currently running a ranch in a rural town in the Padia region. If you want to find him, I can tell you his specific location."

Hearing this, Emperor Dan was dumbfounded.

Shepherd, rancher?

Yeci was very familiar with this feeling. She smiled slightly and said, "When I heard about this for the first time, I was as surprised as you!"

"But later I learned that Naoki had traveled around in other areas before and returned to Padea last spring. Then he inherited his deceased grandfather's ranch and settled there with a group of Pokémon. Come down."

"No wonder!" Emperor Dan suddenly realized that this made sense.

Retired champion re-employed in the countryside? Just like his master Ma Shide bought an island and ran a martial arts gym on it.

Running a ranch leisurely with a group of Pokémon and living a new life is also a very good choice!

If that's the case, then he should go there and visit!

Seeing Emperor Dan's expression, Ye Ci guessed what he was thinking.

"Zhiqin Town, Zhishu's ranch is in Ziqin Town. When you get there, just ask the people in the town and they will give you directions. After all, Zhishu Ranch is very famous there! "Ye Ci said.

"Okay! Thank you!" Emperor Dan smiled heartily, then stood up and walked outside.

Yeci sent him to the door.

Dan Di took out the elf ball, and with a flash of white light, a strong, fire-breathing dragon with bright eyes appeared in front of the alliance headquarters.

Emperor Dan took out the map and carefully searched for the specific location of Zhiqin Town.

Ye Ci, who was standing behind him, saw this scene and couldn't help but remind him: "...Mr. Dan Emperor, you seem to be holding the map upside down."

"Ah? Oh!" Emperor Dan quickly turned the map over. After determining the direction of Zhiqin Town, he rode on the fire-breathing dragon and pointed it in the direction of its destination.

"Hooo!"

The fire-breathing dragon let out a majestic cry, then waved its dragon wings and flew into the sky.

Yeci stood on the corridor and looked at Dan Emperor who was gradually going away. She felt as if she knew why Dan Emperor came so slowly.

*

Time came again at night unknowingly, and Zhengyifa had fully recovered his strength after a good sleep.

Naoki was woken up from his sleep by it again.

"Flapping wings?"

He picked up the clock and glanced at it. It was already eleven o'clock in the middle of the night.

Therefore, Luton and the others were still in a deep sleep. They didn't know what they were dreaming about. They would smash their mouths from time to time, looking satisfied.

Zhiyifa stared at this human in the darkness with a pair of red eyes, thinking: Should he go hunting tonight? Otherwise, all the food will be eaten.

"Dream?"

Resigned to his fate, Naoki rolled out of bed, went to the kitchen, took out food from the refrigerator, and fed it to Zhinyifa.

But who knows that after eating, Zhenyifa still has no intention of giving up going out.

It floated around the room, looking anxious.

Naoki was a little confused. He turned around and looked outside and asked, "Do you want to go out?"

Flapping Hair nodded. The instinct in its body told it to go out to hunt, otherwise they would be hungry when the food was gone.

If you are hungry, you will lose strength. If other Pokémon take the opportunity to enter at this time, they will be in a very dangerous situation.

That's why Zhuoyifa was so anxious.

Seeing this, Naoki fell into deep thought.

He was a little confused about Zhiyifa's behavior. After thinking about it for a while, he decided to go out and see what Zhiyifa wanted to do.

Zhi Shu opened the door and followed Zhui Yifa outside.

The pasture was silent in the middle of the night, except for the occasional buzz of insects in the grass, there was no other sound.

The moonlight shines down, and the night is illuminated extremely brightly. Although it is not as clear as during the day, you can barely see the nearby things clearly.

In the middle of the night, Snowstorm Horse has fallen asleep, but Lingyou Horse has not yet fallen asleep.

Three horse goats lay in the shack, sleeping peacefully on the soft green grass.

The three bees got into the hive and had sweet dreams in the wooden cabin full of sweet fragrance.

Bada Butterfly fell on the branches of the World Tree and fell asleep standing there.

Zhi Shu followed Zhi Yifa, and saw Zhi Yifa looking around, and then started to float towards the outside of the pasture.

He reluctantly lifted his heels, and one person and one Pokémon came to a dense forest.

Fluttering hair floated in the place shrouded in shadow, then looked back at Naoki who was walking carelessly on the road, and couldn't help but feel very confused.

——How on earth did this human being catch so many prey? If you run outside like this, the prey will be scared away.

Naoki finally couldn't help but asked: "What are you doing?"

At this time, there was a rustling sound in the grass ahead.

Flicker's attention was instantly attracted, and it turned its head, ready to start catching prey.

Seeing Fei Yifa's actions, Zhi Shu instantly understood what it was thinking.

It is hunting!

This is the survival instinct of fluttering hair! The ecological habits of primitive ancient species that have been cultivated for a long time!

"Can't!"

Seeing that Fluttering Hair was about to attack the bean cricket that had emerged from the grass, Naoki quickly stopped it.

The bean cricket was alarmed when he heard the sound. He quickly used his super jumping ability to jump ten meters high and ran away in a panic.

The hunting operation was stopped, and Fei Yifa was not angry at all, but looked over with confusion.

Seeing this, Naoki asked: "Were you catching prey just now?"

"Dream." Zhan Yifa nodded.

Naoki shook his head and said: "No, there is no need to catch prey now. I told you before that I will feed you, which means that I will provide you with food, and you will no longer have to go out to hunt by yourself."

Zhuoyifa was still a little puzzled.

Naoki didn't say much, but took Fluttershy Hair back to the ranch, returned to the living room, opened the doors of the storage room and refrigerator, and showed it the full of food inside.

Looking at the mountain-like pile of food, Zhanyifa opened his eyes wide in shock.

"Dream……!"

This human’s hunting ability is amazing!

It looked at Naoki with great admiration.

Naoki: "...It seems you haven't understood the meaning of trainers and Pokémon."

It happened that at this time, several Pokémon were awakened by the sound of their voices and came out one after another.

Naoki looked at them and explained to Zhineifa: "For a Pokémon, its trainer will be its most important partner, friend, and even family member in its life."

"After living with a trainer, Pokémon no longer need to go out to get food, because the trainer will prepare a variety of delicacies for them to feed and nurture them."

In the darkness, Naoki looked into Fluttering Hair's eyes and said to it: "You have become my Pokémon, so I will take care of you like that."

Zhan Yifa seemed to understand what he heard. After Gu Ledun's introduction in the past two days, he had a certain understanding of this completely different world.

For example, there are humans in this world, and humans will live with Pokémon.

It's just that it still doesn't understand. Where do humans who can't fight or hunt get their prey?

Naoki roughly guessed what fluttering hair meant.

So he took it outside to the orchards and farmland: "Food will grow from these places. As for the meat, I will go to the town and buy it with money."

Zhi Shu felt that Zhui Yifa might not understand these things, so he explained in detail and patiently:

"To be precise, it's an exchange with other people. For example, if he only has meat but needs tree fruits, I can use these tree fruits growing from the ground to exchange for meat with him. Do you understand now?"

Zhiyifa only felt that these things were very complicated. It felt dizzy listening to them, and in the end, it didn't understand anything.

Naoki: "..."

He took a deep breath, and then said to Zhan Yifa:

"Nothing else matters. You don't need to understand. I'm here for everything."

"You just need to remember that I am your trainer and I will provide you with prey from now on."

"And all you need to do is sleep well and have fun with Gulton! Do you understand?"

"Dream……"

Zhanyi looked at the human in front of him in a daze. He still didn't understand what a trainer was.

Are trainers humans who hunt Pokémon specifically? So what are they for?

Flapping Wings couldn't understand it. From its perspective, human beings were really strange creatures.

Naoki noticed Zhuoyifa's confusion, thought for a moment, and then said to it under the moonlight:

"Human trainers do these things because they like Pokémon and want to live with them."

like? What is like?

Naoki continued: "I don't know if you know what liking is. For us humans, liking means being able to do anything for the other person."

Hearing this, Zhen Yifa's mind suddenly recalled the "ghost" who was just trying to protect Gu Ledun when he first met him.

That ghost... also likes Gullerton?

So, is it protecting Gulton?

Zhan Yifa began to think for the first time in his life.

At this moment, it felt that it understood the meaning of trainers and Pokémon a little bit.

Naoki was almost exhausted.

He yawned and waved his hand: "Okay, let's go back to sleep!"

The Motorized Lizards and the others went back one after another. Zhi Shu turned around and looked at Flapping Hair, but saw that it had no intention of going back to sleep.

"..."

Forget it, let it go for now! I'll go back and buy some coffee to see if I can make a refreshing drink. Then I'll help Zhu Yifa adjust his schedule to the same as everyone else's.

In order to prevent accidents, Zhi Shu said to Zhen Yifa before leaving:

"Don't hurt other Pokémon. If you are hungry, you can open the refrigerator and storage room and get food from there. If you still don't understand, just use your eyes to see, okay?"

As he spoke, he reached out and touched Fluttershy Hair's head for the first time.

Zhan Yifa looked at him blankly, but did not resist.

Naoki thought of the ability of the golden right hand he had acquired during the day, and activated that ability.

However, there was no response from the fluttering hair.

Seeing this, Naoki thought to himself: "...Sure enough, this ability has no effect on Paradox Pokémon!"

He retracted his hand, said goodbye to Zhan Yifa, and turned back to the room.

Fluttering hair was bathed in the moonlight, silently watching the retreating figure, and murmured: "Dream..."

*

The next day, life in the ranch returned to its usual calm.

Today's weather is very good, it is a bright and sunny day. After eating breakfast, Naoki devoted himself to the work of the ranch.

At the same time, in Zhiqin Town, Dandi and Charizard, led by a team of Angry Parrots, finally arrived at this rural town by the sea.

They encountered this fleet of angry parrot taxis yesterday afternoon.

When they met halfway, the enthusiastic driver said hello to him. After learning that he was an unfamiliar place and that his destination was Zhiqin Town, he immediately said that Dan Di could come with them.

Dan Emperor was well aware of his nature as a road idiot. In order to avoid running to the wrong place again and to fight the trainer as soon as possible, he followed the convoy honestly.

Under the guidance of the driver, he finally did not get lost on this trip and successfully arrived at Zhiqin Town.

Charizard also breathed a sigh of relief.

After landing, Dandi said goodbye to the driver, put the Charizard back into the Poké Ball, and then found a passing uncle on the road and asked politely:

"Hello, uncle, where should I go to Zhishu Ranch?"

"Zhishu Ranch?" Hearing the name, the uncle looked excited: "Did you also come here for that legend?"

Emperor Dan was confused: "What legend?"

"Of course it's the legend of the King of Plenty!" The uncle happily introduced the legend circulating in Zhiqin Town to the outsider.

"It is said that Naoki has a close relationship with the legendary Pokémon Raiguan! The people in Ziqin Town believe in Raiguan, and it's thanks to Naoki!"

"King Lei Guan?" Dan Di was even more puzzled. The big-headed Pokémon he had seen in the game came to his mind. Is there any legend about it?

Why do people here respect it so much?

"Hey! You don't even know this, do you? King Lei Guan is very famous in the Padia area recently!" said the uncle.

Emperor Dan: "...To be honest, I am from Galar and I just came to Padia not long ago."

"No wonder!" The uncle looked stunned: "Since you don't know, let me tell you!"

"Legend has it that there is a legendary Pokémon named King Leiguan living on a certain land. It is a Pokémon that can bring fertility to the earth. In the past, humans once affectionately called it the King of Fertility. king."

"It's just that after a period of time, people gradually forgot about the king, causing him to lose his beloved horse and wander alone in the cold snowfield."

"One day, Naoki discovered His records from ancient books and firmly believed in the existence of the King of Plenty. His belief was felt by the King of Plenty. Since then, his pasture has been favored by the King of Plenty."

"Later, Naoki told the people in the town about King Lei Guan, and people began to trust King Lei Guan."

"Perhaps King Lei Guan felt all this? He came to the Padia region and performed a miracle in a mountain forest that was burned to ashes by fire not long ago, restoring the mountain to its original state in an instant."

"Because of this incident, the Padian Alliance built a shrine for him on the back mountain! And it is said that the current King Leiguan is wandering on the back mountain and will appear in front of devout humans."

"What...is there such a thing?" Dandi's eyes widened in disbelief. The legendary Pokémon named King Lei Guan was so powerful!

The uncle was a little surprised: "Don't you know? I thought you were going to Zhishu Ranch to learn more about the legend of King Leiguan from him!"

Emperor Dan: "...I came here for another matter."

"Okay." The uncle nodded, and then told him the location of Zhishu Ranch.

Emperor Dan thanked him, and just when he was about to turn around and leave, the uncle suddenly called him again.

Emperor Dan looked back.

I saw the uncle pointing at a handicraft store. Dandi looked in that direction, and then saw rows of Pokémon statues on the shelves of that store.

And that Pokémon was clearly the one he had seen next to Naoki in the competition!

An honest smile appeared on the uncle's face: "Buy a small wooden sculpture, and the King of Fertility will bless you!"