Not a trainer this time

Early the next morning, Naoki rode a motorcycle lizard, put on a straw hat and short-sleeves, dressed as an insect-catching boy in the forest, and went to Sunshine Town next door to watch the insect-catching convention in a very low-key manner.

When he arrived at the natural park south of Sunshine Town, a large group of trainers had already gathered there.

Among them were some boys and girls dressed similarly to him.

Looking at the teenagers holding insect nets, Naoki exclaimed in his heart: Appeared! The bug boy and the boy in shorts!

Zhi Shu blended in without any pressure and stood at the sign in front of the entrance of the natural park and read the detailed introduction written on it.

The Natural Park is a paradise for insect-type Pokémon and grass-type Pokémon. It covers a very large area and is home to countless wild Pokémon.

This place is somewhat similar to nature reserves in other areas.

However, in order to protect the Pokémon ecology in the natural park, it is not usually open to the public, and trainers are not allowed to capture wild Pokémon inside.

But in order to prevent the proliferation of wild insect-type Pokémon here, Sunshine Town holds two insect-catching conferences every year, allowing passing trainers to come and catch these insect-type Pokémon.

Further down, there are the types of Pokémon that live in this natural park.

Basic green caterpillars, hairy balls, orb silk spiders, Alidos, electric fireflies, sweet fireflies, white butterfly bugs, cute flies, bead spiders, bean crickets, and insect rollers.

As well as some relatively rare insect-type Pokémon.

Like Ultrasonic Larva, Heracross, Giant Pincer Mantis, Flying Mantis, Giant Armor, etc.

"It's a pity that there are no Pokémon like Kechu." Naoki felt a little regretful. Otherwise, he could have conquered some Kechu and brought them back to the ranch to help them make juice.

Ketu is a fermented Pokémon. The shell on its body can decompose tree fruits and ferment them into sticky and delicious juice, which is very convenient.

But if Naoki remembers correctly, there seems to be no Pokémon like Keke in the Padia region.

The crowd around was bustling, and the faces of the insect-catching teenagers holding insect-catching nets showed determination to win.

Some people also placed bets to compete with their peers on who could catch rarer and rarer insect-type Pokémon.

Some bad boys deliberately used insect-type Pokémon to scare girls who came with their companions to participate in the insect-catching convention, scaring the girls so much that they screamed.

Naoki looked at this scene speechlessly.

These naive children...

"Hey, the insect catching competition is about to start. All trainers participating in this competition are asked to come to the entrance. We will open the entrance to the natural park soon."

An announcement came from the venue's broadcast.

"In addition, please prepare in advance before entering the nature park and prepare enough hunting balls and snacks to attract Pokémon."

The crowd gradually flocked to the entrance of the natural park.

As the entrance opened, the enthusiastic insect-catching teenagers immediately dived in, then spread out to look for rare insect-type Pokémon in various places.

Naoki calmly walked to the counter in front of the entrance, planning to buy a few packs of Pokémon snacks from here.

The staff member responsible for selling snacks is the girl who went to his ranch to order tree fruits yesterday.

The girl recognized him and looked surprised: "Are you here?"

Naoki smiled and nodded, looked down at the empty counter in front of him, and asked, "Are there any snacks and hunting balls?"

"There's some left! Please wait a moment, I'll get it for you right now!"

After saying that, the girl turned around and got into the tent behind.

Naoki waited patiently outside. He reached out and touched the head of the motorcycle lizard next to him.

This time I went out, so Leden didn't follow me.

I don't know what happened. It has been in a state of lack of energy since last night. If you ask it what happened, it won't tell you.

This morning Naoki wanted to bring it here to play, but he never expected to be rejected by Gulton.

Naoki wondered in his mind whether it was because he said something about the Motorized Lizard when he was taking a shower yesterday, which made Gulton angry?

No, Luton is not the kind of character who gets angry easily.

It didn't look like it was angry, but rather like it was struggling with something.

Zhi Shu had never seen Gu Ledun like this before. Under the influence of Gu Ledun, he also looked lackluster today.

Recalling the way Gu Lerton watched the Motorized Lizard in trance from time to time last night, Naoki couldn't help but feel confused.

What is it struggling with?

Suddenly, a burst of exclamations came from the camp in front of them.

"ah!"

The Motorcycle Lizard instantly became alert: "Gah?"

Naoki also came to his senses, thinking something bad had happened, and quickly broke into the camp.

A huge Kirby beast was lying in the huge tent. The Kirby beast fell on the ground and fell asleep, its paws in its sleep contentedly caressing its bulging belly.

Next to this Kirby beast, there were several destroyed empty boxes.

Naoki was slightly startled: "This is..."

The girl was very angry: "It's Kirby! That Kirby stole all the fruits from our trees the day before yesterday. Damn it! Now it's eaten all the Pokémon snacks we prepared!"

Kirby:zzZ

The girl went a little crazy: "Ahhh! You glutton!"

She angrily patted Kirby's round and elastic belly.

Kirby:zzZ

Naoki: "..."

Facing such a Pokémon, the girl couldn't use her strength. She took a deep breath helplessly, turned around and said to Naoki:

"I'm very sorry, Mr. Rancher, there are no more snacks for the conference..."

Naoki had no interest in catching insect-type Pokémon and was just here to join in the fun. He didn't pay attention. Instead, he looked at the Kirby in front of him with great interest.

"Is this Kirby a Pokémon tamed by a trainer?" Naoki asked.

"Eh?" The girl was stunned for a moment, then shook her head and said, "This child doesn't have a trainer... It has always lived in this town."

As the girl spoke, she recalled: "It was about three months ago, right? The weather was still very cold at that time, and this Kirby came to the town."

"It was very hungry at that time. People in the town saw that it was pitiful, so they gave it a lot of food. Since then, Kirby has lived in the town and lived with everyone, but because of The gluttonous habit brings a lot of trouble to the people in the town almost every day.”

"We once asked trainers to see if they could tame this Kirby beast, but the result was not satisfactory..."

"Some trainers can't hit this Kirby. Even if they attack with all their strength, they can't wake up the Kirby and put it into the Poké Ball."

"Although some trainers have subdued them, they don't have enough food to raise the Kirby beasts, so the trainer who has eaten all the food has sent the Kirby beasts back."

"Although there are still some trainers who can provide enough food, this Kirby sleeps almost twenty-three hours a day and does not help the trainers to fight at all, so..."

So this trainer also sent Kirby back. Naoki automatically added what the girl had not finished saying in his mind.

He looked at the Kirby in front of him and felt that it suited him extremely well.

It just so happened that when he was learning energy cubes, he got a Big Stomach Energy Cube formula from Ikue, and used that formula to develop special delicacies for little Kirby.

Only one of this special energy cube is needed to keep the little Kirby full.

Although Kirby is the evolved form of Little Kirby, as long as you feed it a few more pellets, it will definitely be able to fill its stomach.

And he is not a professional trainer, just a rancher, and there is no need for Pokémon to fight in the ranch.

Of course, what makes Naoki even more excited is the stomach of Pokémon like Kirby.

As the famous Pokémon with a big stomach, Kirby's stomach can digest anything.

It has a strong stomach, and it can eat even some moldy food without worrying about it, and it will not ruin its stomach at all, because the digestive juice in the Kirby's stomach can digest any poison, even if it eats food that falls on the ground. There is no problem with the stuff.

What's even more exaggerated is that even the poison of the smelly mud is just a seasoning for Kirbymon's tongue.

There happened to be a lack of food tasters in the ranch. Thinking of this, Naoki's heart moved: "Are you still looking for a trainer for this Kirby?"

The girl nodded, and then suddenly realized: "Are you planning to conquer this Kirby?"

Naoki hummed, "I want to take it back to my ranch."

"Of course!" the girl said quickly, "Then it's up to you!" She looked like she couldn't wait to send this Kirby away right away.

Naoki: "..."

This idea is understandable. After all, in ancient times, Pokémon like Kirby were regarded as natural disasters.

Because in ancient times when productivity was backward, Kirby beasts would suddenly appear in villages and wipe out the rice warehouses in the blink of an eye.

It is only now that humans and Pokémon have gradually merged, productivity has improved, and there is no need to worry about starvation, and Pokémon such as Kirby have begun to be accepted.

"But... how do you plan to conquer Kirby?" The girl hesitated again, because she knew very well how difficult Kirby was.

Naoki thought about it carefully, and then asked: "Have those trainers fought against this Kirby before?"

The girl nodded: "The Kirby beast has rough skin and thick flesh. Even if the attack hits its body, it can only tickle it. Those people use food to lure the Kirby beast into the poke ball."

"I know." If that's the case, then he should also be tempted by food.

Naoki looked around and happened to notice a fruit mixing machine here.

Recalling the previously developed Big Stomach Energy Cube formula in his mind, Naoki asked:

"Are there any tree fruits left here? I need two peach fruits, one orange fruit, one inkberry fruit, two eggplant fruits, and one banana fruit."

"Yes!" The girl nodded quickly. She rummaged through the cardboard boxes on the side and quickly found all the required materials: "These are the leftover tree fruits for making snacks."

Naoki reached out to take it, and then began to make the required energy cubes.

About half an hour later, a pot of steaming energy cubes came out of the oven.

[Elementary Big Eater Energy Cube (c+): With cooking effect, Big Eater is an energy cube that can bring satiety to Pokémon. Only one is needed to eat Pokémon like Kirby. full. ]

Done!

Naoki took out the six energy cubes inside.

He was about to turn around when he suddenly felt a huge black shadow covering him.

Naoki turned around and saw that the Kirby beast had woken up at some point and was looking at the energy cube in his hand with narrowed eyes.

"Want to eat?" Naoki asked, picking up an energy cube and handing it over.

Kirbymon looked down, then caught it with its claws and threw it directly into its mouth.

Chew chew chew.

The energy cube was bitten into pieces and swallowed into its stomach, and the compressed energy contained in it immediately expanded. Kirby soon felt a sense of relief from filling its stomach.

Its eyes lit up and it continued to look at the food in the hand of the human in front of it.

Naoki did not give it to it immediately, but stretched out his hand towards Kirbymon, wanting to touch it.

Although Kirby is lazy and greedy, it is not a fool.

Facing this scene, it stretched out an arm, hugged the human, held him in its arms, and let him sit on its arms.

Naoki was startled.

But he soon discovered that Kirbymon had no ill intentions.

The girl on the side also smiled and said: "Don't worry, this Kirby has a very docile temperament. It won't be angry even if the children in the town use its big belly as a playground."

"Open your mouth." Naoki demonstrated: "Ah!"

Kirbymon opened its mouth wide.

Naoki threw the energy cube in.

Kirbymon continued to chew.

After eating a few energy cubes, Kirby was a little full. It yawned lazily, rubbed its eyes, then sat down on the ground, lay on its back, and casually put Naoki on its belly. Then he continued to fall asleep.

Naoki: "..."

While Kirby was still asleep, he knelt down on its belly and asked, "Hey, Kirby, do you want to come with me? Come stay at my place, and I will make this kind of food for you every day. eat!"

Kirby:zzZ

Naoki tentatively asked, "If you don't say anything, I'll take it as your consent, right?"

Kirby:zzZ

The girl thought of Kirby's reaction just now and said with a smile: "It seems that it likes you very much! Kirby has never treated the previous trainers like this."

Looking at Kirbymon sleeping soundly, Naoki felt very complicated.

He took out an empty red and white ball from his pocket, and then tried to aim it at Kirbymon's forehead.

The next second, Kirbymon's hill-like body turned into a red light and was taken into the elf ball.

The elf ball shook slightly twice, then stopped.

This means that the conquest was successful.

Seeing that the Poké Ball stopped shaking so quickly, Naoki couldn't react for a while.

Is this how to conquer this Kirby beast?

Forget it, no matter what, as long as the conquest is successful.

Naoki stood up from the ground holding Kirbymon's Poke Ball.

The girl looked at the elf ball with some worry on her face: "Well, Mr. Rancher..."

"What's wrong?" Naoki noticed the expression on her face.

The girl pursed her lips, and then said: "This Kirby beast will eat a lot, and it may scare you. If you regret it by then, please don't release the Kirby beast into the wild. You must give it to us." Send it back.”

"Although it is very greedy and often brings a lot of trouble to people in the town. It will also break into shops and eat all the food inside, but no one wants to hurt it..."

Hearing these words, Naoki was slightly startled, then smiled and nodded: "Don't worry, I will take good care of Kirby!"