Not a trainer this time

On November 20, 202 of the League Calendar, the heavy snow that had been falling for several days finally stopped.

Early in the morning, when Naoki opened the door, he saw that the outside world was completely covered in ice and snow.

The thick white snow buried the roads in the ranch, making it inconvenient to even go to the town.

Pokémon of all sizes poked their heads out from behind Naoki and observed the situation outside.

Naoki looked back and saw this scene, and asked with a smile: "Do you want to go with me to sweep the snow?"

"Gaao..." Motor Lizard shivered.

This was not because it was afraid, but a stress reaction to the cold wind blowing on its body.

Babu Groundhog was not afraid of the cold. It patted its chest and flew out of the house.

Partner Eevee carefully stretched out its pads and touched the snow in front of it. The next second, a chill spread through its pads throughout its body. Partner Eevee shuddered and quickly retracted its pads.

"Buyi!"

"If it's cold, go play in the living room!" Naoki looked up at the sky: "The snow has stopped, and the sun is about to come out. It should be warmer at noon, so you can come out and play then!"

"Building snowmen, playing snowball fights, playing hide-and-seek in the snow maze, there are many games in winter that can't be played in other seasons!"

"Buyi!" The Eevees, led by their partner Eevee, nodded repeatedly, and they will come out to play then!

Seeing this scene, Wudao Bear Master sighed silently, and he didn't say anything. He turned around, picked up a shovel, walked outside, and started to help Naoki shovel snow.

Naoki looked at this scene with a smile. Wudao Bear Master is really reliable!

"Ah, gah!"

Gulton, who was standing aside, saw this scene and picked up a shovel and started working.

Naoki has long been accustomed to this kind of thing.

He took another shovel as if nothing had happened, and with the help of several Pokémon, he shoveled the snow blocking the road to one side, and shoveled out several roads.

One leading to the chicken house, one leading to the Pokémon house, one leading to the underground cave...

When everything was completed, Babu Tubo commanded Meltan to move a food box full of food from the house.

The Meltans were full of fighting spirit and worked seriously. There were four Meltans on each side of the box. They carried the box on their shoulders and moved forward. The leading Meltan stood on the top of the box and commanded the other eight Meltans.

They transported the food box to the stable, carried the black radish and ice radish inside and put them into the trough of the spirit horse and the snowstorm horse.

Then, the Meltans carried the food box to the shed of the mount goat, the hut of the big milk tank and the braided sheep, and the underground cave of the salt stone giant and the three shrews, and delivered food to them.

After all the work was done, the Meltans returned to the living room with a chattering sound, waiting for the meal.

The little sister Ai Butler brought them a large box of breakfast mixed with bottle caps and gold coins and placed it in front of the Meltans.

The group of Meltans immediately ate happily.

At the same time, in the ranch, Naoki had already started to use the shoveled snow to build a snow maze for the Pokémon to play hide-and-seek.

The maze was located in an open space. In order to build the maze better, Naoki specially found a spatula to tamp and flatten the white and soft snow, piled it together, and built a maze wall that was almost two meters high.

It took Naoki a whole morning to build this maze. Almost all the snow in the ranch and the surrounding snow was moved here by them.

At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the Pokémon who were warming themselves in front of the fireplace at home heard Naoki's shouting.

They ran out and saw that there was a beautiful snow maze in the ranch.

"Booee...!"

The Eevees all cried out in unison.

The playful Eruption and Sefer had already run up to observe excitedly.

"Okay, let's go play hide-and-seek inside!" Naoki said with a smile.

The Pokémon cheered, and then rushed into the snow maze that Naoki had spent a whole morning building, and started playing games.

"Would you like to play with everyone?" Naoki looked at the Martial Bear Master and Gulton beside him.

However, the two Pokémon thought they were big Pokémon and could no longer roll around in the snow like small Pokémon.

Therefore, Martial Bear Master and Gulton shook their heads and rejected the proposal.

And Naoki suddenly remembered that the two of them had been busy with him for a whole morning: "You are tired after a whole morning, right? Then let's go back and rest together! We can have lunch later."

He had already seen bursts of smoke coming out of the chimney.

Hearing this, Gulerton and Wudao Xiongshi readily agreed.

After returning home with two Pokémon, Naoki turned around and saw Qishu preparing lunch in the kitchen.

He quickly stepped forward to take over the work: "Didn't you say you wouldn't do this?"

His sister Ai Guanshi, who was helping out, was helpless: "Ai ah..."

It had already advised!

Qishu smiled foolishly: "It's not a hard job, eh? Why are your hands so red?"

Naoki looked down and saw that his hands were red like a big pig's hoof.

"I went to build a snow maze for the Pokémons. They must have been frozen by the snow, right?" Naoki didn't care much, anyway, he was in good health.

Qishu touched it and immediately exclaimed: "It's so cold!"

Afraid that the ice would hit her, Naoki quickly pulled out her hand, squatted down, and looked at the lava bugs eating tree fruits under the stove.

"It'll be ready after a while. It's okay. You can go and rest! Just leave lunch to my sister and me."

My younger sister, Guanshi, nodded in agreement: "Oh!"

It stepped forward to support Qishu, trying to help her sit on the sofa in the living room.

Qishu could only agree reluctantly: "Okay then."

After they left, Naoki started cooking lunch for everyone while humming a tune.

At this moment, the door was pushed open, and three petite figures flew in happily from outside.

Naoki turned around and saw that the Heroes expedition team, which had been traveling outside for several months, had finally returned to the ranch.

Naoki was not too surprised by their return, because Baby Bear had told him about it on his Rotom phone a few days in advance.

"You're back? Are you happy traveling outside?" Naoki asked.

"One!"

Baby Bear nodded happily.

Mew and Victini on the side were also very happy.

When they came back this time, they brought back a lot of gifts for Naoki!

My sister took care of the arrangement of the strange tree, then turned around and took out some honey buns, honey sweet tea, poffins and other snacks from the cupboard for the baby bears.

After running around for so long, you must be hungry already, right?

Sure enough, after seeing those snacks, the three Pokémon immediately started to eat them excitedly.

They hurried through the wind and snow, and now they finally returned to the pasture. Both Baby Bear and Dream felt relaxed all over their bodies at this moment.

Naoki put the ingredients into the pot, closed the lid and started to make the soup. Taking advantage of this moment, he came to the living room and watched Mew, Baby Bear, and Victini perform a mukbang show in front of him.

"Gift?"

"One!"

Baby Bear wiped his mouth, nodded his head vigorously, and took out his travel backpack.

There was some snow falling on the small travel backpack, and Zhi Shu guessed that they must have rushed back from the Hezhong area despite the wind and snow.

Baby Bear opened the zipper and began to take out the contents.

"One!" (This is a treasure I picked up in a cave!) Baby Bear said while holding a huge golden bead.

"Sure enough, the Pokémon that picks up special characteristics can't resist the golden jewelry!" Naoki thought to himself.

"One!" (This is the tree fruit given to us by the Pokémon we helped!)

Huge gold beads, tree fruits, glass marbles, round stones...

Baby Bear took out the treasures he picked up one by one.

During this time, Mew and Victini also joined them.

Mew held a plastic flower, and Victini held a large, brightly colored mushroom.

"miu!"

"Nini!"

This is the treasure they brought back!

Naoki: "..." Mew and Victini were also infected by the "picking up" of baby bears.

He glanced at it and found that Mew's one was an ordinary plastic flower, while Victini's hand was a poisonous mushroom.

[Poisonous mushrooms: Inedible ingredients, but the favorite of some poisonous Pokémon. 】

Naoki: "..."

"Miu?" Meng Meng was a little confused. Doesn't Naoki like it? This flower is very magical! It will never wither, so it picks it up!

Only then did Naoki realize that although this plastic flower looked ordinary, in Meng's eyes, this kind of flower that would never wither was probably very precious.

He took the flower and found a vase to put it in: "Thank you Dreamy, I like it very much."

"Miu!" Meng Meng was extremely happy.

Victini thought of the mushroom soup mentioned by Baby Bear and Meng Meng. It hugged the poisonous mushroom and said excitedly: "Nini!"

Naoki: "...Wait a minute, that's a poisonous mushroom. You'll faint after eating it!"

"Nini?!" Victini was shocked. He saw how beautiful the color of this mushroom was!

"The brighter the mushroom, the more poisonous it is." Naoki told Victini that there are no poison-type Pokémon in the pasture, so they can't use this mushroom.

However, this was Victini's wish, and Naoki accepted the poisonous mushroom in the end.

Baby Bear's gift wasn't over yet. He touched his backpack and finally took out an iron box from it.

Naoki saw the words "Feiyun Ice Cream" written on it at a glance.

"One!"

The baby bear was quite excited. He opened the lid and revealed the cloud-like white ice cream inside.

This is the gift they prepared for Naoki! Feiyun ice cream, a specialty of the Hezhong area, is said to be a treasure that cannot be found in other areas!

They heard about this from the local Pokémon in Feiyun City!

At this time, Naoki also saw the information about Feiyun Ice Cream.

[Feiyun Ice Cream: Ice cream, a specialty of Feiyun City in the Hezhong region, can cure all abnormal conditions of a Pokémon. 】

"Eh?" Feiyun ice cream really has such a magical effect? Naoki was a little surprised.

If he remembered correctly, it was not easy to buy this kind of ice cream, because even in Feiyun City, its purchase was restricted. It was said that each person could only buy it once a day.

It seems like Baby Bear has put in a lot of effort!

"I like this gift very much." Naoki reached out and touched the baby bear's head.

"What~"

At noon, in order to celebrate the return of the expedition team, Zhishu prepared a very sumptuous lunch for them.

After lunch, the long-term uninterrupted travel made Baby Bear and Dream exhausted, so after filling their stomachs, the three Pokémons nestled on the sofa and fell asleep.

Zhishu sat aside and watched this scene. For some reason, he suddenly remembered the first time he saw Baby Bear.

"Baby Bear is the Pokémon that has changed the most in these years." Zhishu said.

Qishu, who was standing by, looked over: "Huh? Didn't they look like this before?"

Zhishu hummed: "Before I met Baby Bear, I heard about its name from other ranchers. At that time, Baby Bear was very cunning. It often used its cute appearance to cheat other ranchers for food and drink, and stole their honey collection when they were not paying attention."

Qishu was stunned. She had never heard Naoki mention this before.

"What happened later?" She couldn't help asking.

"Later, Baby Bear came to my ranch... After some things happened, I adopted it. Baby Bear is actually very kind-hearted. At a festival held by local ranchers, it apologized to those ranchers."

"Later, it met Mew, and then formed a great hero expedition team with Mew, and began to help those Pokémon in need."

Speaking of this, Naoki couldn't help but feel very emotional.

"The relationship between humans and Pokémon is really magical."

Qishu heard what he meant, smiled and nodded, "That's right! Pokémon is the best creature in the world, and many of my fans have been saved by Pokémon!"

The couple silently looked at the sleeping Pokémon in front of them, and no one spoke again, but the same idea emerged in their hearts-

It's great to meet them.

After the heavy snow, Naoki began to prepare for this year's New Year's goods.

On a sunny day, he drove his old pickup truck and took Gulden to the town of Ziqin to make a lot of purchases.

Vegetables, steaks, New Year gifts from Pokémon, new clothes for him and Qishu, and baby products for their soon-to-be-born baby.

Milk powder, diapers, small quilts, cribs, etc.

Because Qishu's due date is between December and January, it will be too late to prepare by then, so they have to prepare all this in advance.

Naoki started to rush back after everything was ready. As soon as he sat in the driver's seat, he heard the Rotom phone in his pocket ring.

Naoki took it out and found that it was Yeci who called. He pressed the answer button and Yeci's face appeared on the other side of the screen.

"Happy New Year! Naoki!" Yeci greeted him with a smile.

Naoki raised his eyebrows: "It seems that it's not the New Year yet?"

"Blessings in advance, I'm afraid that the Padya Alliance will be very busy and have no time. You know, the more things happen at this time." Yeci sighed helplessly.

Naoki: "Thank you for your hard work!"

"By the way, if you calculate the time, your and Qishu's baby should be born soon, right?" Ye Ci asked.

Hearing this, Naoki was a little surprised. How could Ye Ci remember it so clearly?

"The reward I promised you before is ready! But I see that you don't need anything, so I plan to keep it for your child as a talisman."

Amulet? This aroused Naoki's curiosity.

"What is it?"

However, Ye Ci smiled and said: "Keep it secret, you will know when the time comes!"

Naoki: "..." Mysterious.

Ye Ci seemed to be very busy, because Naoki saw Xin Li hurried over and handed her a stack of documents.

Ye Ci turned around and said a few words to Xin Li, and then said to Naoki:

"That's it for now. Remember to tell me as soon as the baby is born! I will definitely rush over to visit you immediately."