Lu Zhengjie shook his head helplessly, then pulled out another bottle of healing spray and, with a hint of心疼, sprayed it on Sirfetch'd.
Today's battle had cost him a whole week's wages.
"Alright, it's getting late. Let's go get them treated together."
"Mm, sure."
When Baloon groggily managed to stand back up, Lu Ze checked the time, then turned to Lu Zhengjie.
"Wait — after the treatment, let's grab a meal together. Let me show off my cooking for you and your Pokémon."
Lu Zhengjie had just put his Pokémon back into their Poké Balls when Lu Ze said this.
Immediately, he gave Lu Ze a strange look.
"Bro, are you sure? You won't embarrass yourself, will you?"
"Don't trust your brother, huh? Your brother here is in the breeding department, you know. Cooking is a piece of cake."
Lu Ze said, throwing an arm around Lu Zhengjie's neck.
Lu Ze's one-meter-eighty-five height happened to put him perfectly at neck-level around Lu Zhengjie, who was one-meter-seventy-seven.
Lu Zhengjie laughed. "Alright, I'll look forward to your cooking then."
"Just you wait and see."
Lu Ze then called out to Crobat and Charizard. "Crobat, Charizard — go get that black bag from the kitchen. It has wilderness cooking tools and food inside."
After giving Crobat and Charizard their instructions, Lu Ze turned to Snorlax, who was lying there happily eating Energy Cubes, and told it.
"You guys wait here. I'm going with Lu Zhengjie to get his Pokémon treated. We'll be right back."
"Bikka～"
Snorlax nodded at Lu Ze, then squinted its eyes and kept eating its Energy Cubes.
Watching Snorlax eat so happily, Little Red stood to the side, staring with longing eyes.
But her current identity was human. In order to keep Lu Ze from learning her true identity, she had to hold back her appetite.
After his instructions, Lu Ze threw his arm around Lu Zhengjie and walked toward the school's treatment center.
Lu Zhengjie also turned away from watching Snorlax and the others.
Snorlax, Crawdaunt, and Sirfetch'd clearly didn't need the treatment center.
After all, in three battles, only Snorlax had taken any damage.
But Snorlax had used Rest after its match, and between Lu Ze's healing spray and the energy from the Energy Cubes, it had recovered quickly.
As for the rest — Crawdaunt and Sirfetch'd — Sirfetch'd had taken a punch, but since it was still training away as lively as ever, it was obviously fine.
And Crawdaunt was even better off. It had won cleanly and hadn't taken a scratch.
While waiting outside the treatment center, Lu Ze suddenly asked.
"By the way, what's your Aura's special ability?"
"Aura's special ability?"
Lu Zhengjie's face was pure confusion. Wasn't the Aura itself the special ability? What other special ability was there?
"You know — the Aura's secondary trait."
Lu Ze explained to Lu Zhengjie. "Like, my grandpa's trait is Depth. It makes it really convenient for probing and sensing things."
"My dad's Aura trait is range. Basically, his can cover five or six of our Auras combined."
"Five or six!?"
Lu Zhengjie sucked in a breath. Five or six? That meant standing at the Imperial Palace, he could cover the entire Inner Second Ring Road?
"Yeah, exactly. Not very useful, but the range really is something else."
Lu Ze nodded, speaking plainly.
After all, Lu Dad's Aura ability being useless was a household consensus.
Lu Zhengjie was speechless. Such a huge range, and it was still nothing special?
"What about yours?"
"Mine…"
Lu Ze laughed wryly. Actually, I don't have a special ability. Sure, my old man has nothing useful, but at least he has something.
But that's what he thought to himself. Obviously, he couldn't say that out loud.
Since everyone currently defined Lu Ze's ability as Detection — the ability to directly scan information about items, and even Pokémon and egg data.
"Mine is Detection. I can see information about certain Pokémon or items."
"That's… that's amazing."
Lu Zhengjie exclaimed. He didn't know the specifics, but just hearing about it, it sounded incredibly useful.
"Though, I don't think I have any special ability."
Lu Zhengjie was a little disappointed. Of the four people he knew who possessed Aura, three had special abilities and only he didn't. Of course he was a little disappointed.
But if Lu Ze had known what he was thinking, Lu Ze would have been sobbing into his chest. Because Lu Ze didn't have a special ability either.
Waaah waaah～
"Say, could your special ability be buffing your Pokémon?"
Lu Ze suddenly thought of something. He rubbed his chin and said to Lu Zhengjie.
Lu Zhengjie paused. "Huh? Maybe."
"So really, you have a special ability too, right?"
At that, Lu Ze instantly got excited.
"Can your buff work on your other Pokémon?"
"No."
Lu Zhengjie shook his head. Ever since he'd learned his Aura could amplify Lucario's Aura, he'd also tried using it to amplify Machamp and Lopunny.
The result, as expected, was failure.
So he could only amplify Lucario and no one else.
"That means your Aura's special ability probably isn't buffing."
Lu Ze said with a regretful shake of his head.
Their family's Aura could amplify Lucario — not just Lu Zhengjie, but also Lu Xingguo and Lu Dad could all do it.
Lu Ze couldn't, because he didn't have a Lucario.
And in the family records, there was also a Lu family ancestor whose special ability was amplification — not only could he amplify Lucario, he could also amplify his other Pokémon.
On top of that, when amplifying those other Pokémon, he could also share the observational abilities that came with Aura.
So if Lu Zhengjie's Aura couldn't amplify Machamp or Lopunny, then his trait probably wasn't amplification.
"It's fine if it's not. It just means your Aura still has a lot of room to be developed, right?"
"True. Dwelling on it doesn't help."
Lu Zhengjie nodded. Then, seeing Blissey push a little cart out, he stood and retrieved the three Poké Balls.
"Thank you~"
"Happy happy~"
Blissey gave Lu Zhengjie a bright smile, then pushed her cart back inside.
"Let's go."
"Yeah, let's."
Lu Ze said, and the two of them walked out together.
"By the way, interested in a part-time gig at the research institute? Aura's pretty helpful for research."
"Could I?"
"Don't worry, it's no problem."
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At the airport, a plane from America had just landed.
Ten people stepped out of the aircraft.
"Shangqing, go give them a proper welcome."
The freshly-landed Skorelsky's eyes blazed with mania as he spoke.
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