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"Then I will entrust the Totodile to you."
Lucas handed the Totodile egg to the little girl in front of him and said with a smile.
"Mm, I will take good care of it."
The little girl looked at the pokémon egg in her arms and said in a crisp voice.
It would be better to say "accompany it well" instead.
Lucas thought to himself.
After sending the little girl and her family out of the Breeding House, he returned to the rest area.
Just as he lay down, a pair of hands rested on his shoulders, massaging them.
Lucas squinted his eyes comfortably.
"Lilli?"
Close the door? Or wait a little longer?
Lilligant's voice made Lucas open his eyes. He glanced at the time. "It's so late, no one should be coming to buy a pokémon egg anymore, so let's close up and have dinner."
Lilligant nodded, then ran to the door to take back the "Open" sign. She carried all the wooden plaques back into the Breeding House, called out to Mime Jr., and after Mime Jr. brought the Meowstic siblings running back from the Canteen, she closed the door.
"Uncle, when can we go watch the competition?"
Shauna asked Lucas, her cheeks stuffed full like a marmot.
"The competition? The Lily of the Valley Conference?"
Lucas drank a bowl of mushroom soup; it was incredibly fresh. After exhaling, he said, "Let's see how business is in the next two days. If it's a bit more stable, we'll go watch the competition, how about that?"
"Okay!"
"Mm."
Shauna and Little Tomoyo lowered their heads and drank the mushroom soup sensibly. Seeing this, Lucas smiled inwardly.
Let's hurry up and finish our work so I can take them to see the Lily of the Valley Conference and let them experience it in advance.
He had originally wanted to watch the opening ceremony of the Lily of the Valley Conference on TV, but the power only came back on last night, and it was already late at night after they finished working.
What a pity.
Should be able to catch Ash and the others' battles, right?
Lucas thought to himself while drinking the mushroom soup.
The spring bamboo shoots and mushroom soup are truly fresh — — — —
Everyone in the Breeding House and the Pokémon were all silent, heads down, eating their meal.
After finishing dinner, Lucas sat in the rest area, watching the replay of today's Lily of the Valley Conference with Gengar and the others, along with Shauna, Little Tomoyo, and Mr. and Mrs. Fujino.
The originally empty rest area was suddenly packed with figures.
All the Pokémon from the backyard of the Breeding House had come over.
The Lapras Siblings, Golduck, Gliscor, Azumarill, and even Miltank and Gogoat had come over.
Little Tomoyo held Munchlax in her arms, Munchlax held the Dratini egg in its arms, and Shauna held Snorunt in her arms, all staring intently at the TV.
Alcremie and the female Female sensibly brought out a large pile of snacks from the kitchen and distributed a little to everyone and every Pokémon.
The sound of crunching was incessant.
"So they are watching the replay now?"
Cynthia said on the screen.
"Yes, I didn't expect them to like the Lily of the Valley Conference so much. Especially yesterday's opening ceremony; the power only came on in the middle of the night, and they waited until the middle of the night, and then watched until the next morning before they were willing to go to sleep. Thank you."
Lucas said, taking the honey water handed over by Alcremie, and smiled as he said thank you.
Cynthia couldn't help but chuckle, her laughter as melodious as silver bells.
"When you're done with your work, bring them over to watch it. I've saved seats for you."
"I will."
Lucas nodded, glanced at the TV, and asked, "Is it the Round of 64 today?"
"Yes, tomorrow is the Round of 32, and then it won't take long to find the final four."
Cynthia said.
"Which four do you think will enter the semi-finals?"
Cynthia suddenly wanted to hear Lucas's opinion and asked.
"Ash, Gary, Paul, and that guy called — — — — Tobias, right?"
Lucas looked at the screen where a man was commanding Darkrai to shut out his opponent, and said without hesitation.
"You really are without hesitation. Are you that confident in them?"
Confident? No, this has a script.
"Tobias — — — — I remember he is the Trainer who uses Darkrai, right?"
"Mm, he also has a Latios, a little Blue plane."
"Latios? How do you know?"
Cynthia looked at Lucas suspiciously.
Lucas took it for granted, "You forgot, his sister is with me."
"Oh, Latias's brother is that Latios? So that's how it is — — — —"
Cynthia remembered that Latias had told her about her brother Latios, so she quickly accepted Lucas's explanation.
Latias on the side: ? ? ? Did I say that?
Should be, right? I don't remember clearly.
Abominable brother, when I find a chance, I must beat you up!
"Uncle, that Pokémon is the same as the Pokémon that often comes to play at our Breeding House."
Lucas followed Shauna's finger and found that it was pointing at Tobias's Darkrai.
"That Pokémon is called Darkrai. Except for the one that comes to visit our Breeding House which you can approach, you must stay far away if you encounter other Darkrai outside, otherwise, you will have nightmares."
"Oh."
Shauna said "oh" in a crisp voice.
"Then why will there be nightmares?"
Little Tomoyo asked.
"Mm — — — — this is its ability, it will make people and Pokémon fall into a state of having nightmares, so it is also known as the Nightmare Pokémon."
"I know." Shauna raised her hand, "Uncle Lugia was also called the Sea God by Uncle, then Uncle, is the Nightmare Pokémon stronger or the Sea God?"
Lugia — — — — Uncle?
Lucas tried hard to hold back his laughter; this is very Shauna.
Then he answered seriously: "If it's that Darkrai on TV, Lugia can beat it up. If it's that Darkrai that often visits our Breeding House, Lugia should be stronger."
"So Uncle Lugia is that strong. I thought it only knew how to brag."
Shauna muttered.
Cynthia on the screen heard Shauna's muttering and laughed until she was out of breath, "Won't Lugia be angry if it knows it's being called Uncle?"
"It dares to!"
I've been called Uncle, does Lugia still want to escape?
After chatting with Cynthia for a while, Cynthia prepared to hang up the phone to take a shower.
"By the way, Grandma likes the Moomoo Milk and goat milk from the Breeding House very much. If there is any extra, can you sell her some more?"
"That's no problem, I'll have Staraptor deliver it tomorrow for Grandma to drink."
"No need, it's not like you don't know Grandma's personality. If you give it to her, she definitely won't take it."
"That's true."
"Then I'm going to take a shower."
"So distant?"
Cynthia stopped her movements upon hearing this, her right index finger resting on her chin, hesitating.
"Mm, how about — — — —"
Lucas swallowed.
Could it be — — — —
"You ask them?"
Then the screen shook, and two faces suddenly appeared on the screen.
Garchomp and Lucario.
"Awoo?"
"Kao?"
Lucas swallowed again, "Then let's do that for now, I'll go milk the cow for Grandma first, bye-bye."
Lucas hung up the phone at light speed.
"Coward."
Cynthia looked at the hung-up phone and said.
After hanging up the phone, Lucas reached out and grabbed Ninetales's tail, started stroking it, and then looked at Munchlax on Little Tomoyo's lap, really afraid her legs couldn't take it.
But looking at Little Tomoyo's little face, it was unchanged; she could even lift Munchlax up a bit. Although not as good as Shauna, it was extraordinary nonetheless.
Shauna and Gengar and the others all made an "oh" sound.
Lucas looked at the TV and found it was Ash's battle.
So he snatched the sausage Gengar had just gotten, broke it in half to feed Ninetales, and ate the other half while watching Ash's battle.
Gengar looked at its empty little hand and was stunned for a moment.
? ? ?
You are really not human!
Then it snatched the sausage from Pinsir and ate it happily.
Pinsir: ? ? ? Furious!
It looked around to see if it could snatch someone else's sausage. After looking around, it silently shrank back to its seat, licking its own fingers.
I don't like eating sausages at all!
Hmph!
Except for the kitchen team it could snatch from, it couldn't beat any of the remaining Pokémon.
But it didn't dare to mess with the kitchen team either — — — — not to mention anything else, if it dared to snatch, it would dare to go hungry for a day tomorrow.
It had experienced this kind of thing.
"Ya, Ash should be able to win, right?"
Mrs. Fujino looked at Tauros on TV being defeated and was a bit worried; the action of petting Zorua in her arms also stopped.
"Ash's battles are always like this, always relying on the last one or two Pokémon to turn the tide. Don't worry."
Lucas comforted Mrs. Fujino.
Sure enough, Ash won against the opponent by relying on the returning Heracross and Pidgeot.
Everyone in the Breeding House and the Pokémon didn't have time to cheer because the next match was Paul's battle, and the one after that was Gary's.
Gary, like Paul, defeated his opponent simply and clearly.
At this moment, Lucas's phone rang.
Seeing all three win their battles, the Breeding House cheered.
Pinsir was so excited that it suddenly punched the wall.
Lucas, who was answering the phone, saw this scene, and his heart almost jumped out.
"Stop it!"
Lucas reached out.
But fortunately, Gothitelle reacted quickly, came in front of Pinsir, and opened a psychic power shield.
Even though Pinsir restrained its strength, it still punched Gothitelle flying under the shield Gothitelle opened.
Lucas breathed a sigh of relief, thank goodness, thank goodness.
No! Gothitelle!
Lilligant and Roserade arrived at its side for the first time and found that there was no serious injury.
"Pinsir, now, go out and face the wall for two hours!"
Lucas pointed to the backyard.
Pinsir lowered its head.
"Nike."
Yes.
"— — — — Forget it, never mind."
"Nike."
No, I'll go.
"Then half an hour."
"Nike."
Okay. The rest of the people and Pokémon just glanced at it and then focused back on the TV.
Only then did Lucas have time to continue talking to Steven on the other end of the phone.
"Lucas, did something happen at the Breeding House?"
Listening to the inquiry from the other end of the phone, Lucas sighed wearily, "It's nothing big, it's just that Pinsir was so excited while watching the Lily of the Valley Conference that it almost tore down the Breeding House."
Steven on the other end couldn't help laughing after hearing this, "The League Conference always makes people excited, doesn't it?"
"By the way Steven, is there anything you called me for?"
"I'm back from Kalos and am preparing to come over to the Breeding House to rest. May I?"
"No problem, you can come over anytime."
"Then thank you, Lucas. I was wondering what to do if you weren't at the Breeding House during the Lily of the Valley Conference. It turns out you aren't going to watch the Lily of the Valley Conference?"
"It's not that I'm not going, it's just that these few days are the peak of the spring travel season, and the Breeding House is too busy. I'll go once it's a bit more leisurely."
"So that's how it is."
"Actually, you can come over whether I'm at the Breeding House or not, as long as you want to come over to rest. The premise is that you don't mind the wild Pokémon in the backyard of the Breeding House being very noisy."
"Look at Lance, and Lucian and the others, it makes no difference to them whether I'm at the Breeding House or not. They come over when they want to come over; anyway, they are all here to enjoy time and drink tea. Whether I'm here or not is fine. It's better to say they are here to enjoy their own time rather than visiting the Breeding House."
"Besides, the Breeding House has Alcremie and the others, and that's enough for them."
"So that's how it is."
Steven on the other end laughed, "After all, Alcremie's desserts are truly unique."
"Exactly, so come over next time you want to. We are friends, aren't we?"
"Then I will gladly accept."
After finishing speaking, the sound of landing came from Steven's side, "I've arrived, Lucas."
? ? ?
Lucas got up and opened the door, and saw Steven, with Blue hair and wearing a suit, maintaining the posture of answering the phone.
"So you were already on your way here."
Steven smiled appropriately.
"Always have to say hello in advance."
"Then you are way too early, you only called when you arrived."
Steven laughed.
Lucas welcomed him and Metagross in.
"Uncle Steven!"
Shauna still remembered Steven; after all, Steven gave her an evolution stone for her birthday, a Mega Evolution stone for Chimecho.
Steven — — — — Uncle — — — —
Steven suddenly felt his heart ache.
Am I already old?
"Lilli~"
Tea~
"Thank you, Lilligant."
Steven took the tea handed over by Lilligant and sat beside Lucas, "Is this a replay of the Lily of the Valley Conference?"
Lucas nodded, "No time to go there, can only watch the replay."
Steven nodded and drank the tea.
"Did Uncle Steven dig up any rare stones in Kalos this time?"
Hearing Lucas call him uncle, Steven said helplessly: "Don't mess around."
"It's a pity, they are all ordinary stones this time."
Steven said: "Do you want them? I can give them to you, evolution stones."
"Can you?"
"They are all some very ordinary evolution stones, but you can take them to sell. Anyway, I don't need them. If you want them, I'll give them all to you."
After speaking, Steven poured a pile of evolution stones from his bag.
Fire Stone, Thunder Stone — — — —
More than a dozen.
Lucas: — — — —
As expected of a rich second generation — — — —
"This is not very good, is it?"
Lucas looked at so many evolution stones, his mouth a bit dry.
"Don't want them? If you don't want them, I'll take them back and give them to someone else."
Steven reached out to take back these evolution stones. The next second, a pair of hands faster than his collected all the evolution stones.
"Gengar~"
I won't be polite then~
Steven smiled helplessly.
"Ka."
Munchlax felt the pokémon egg in its arms shake, and it looked nervously at Little Tomoyo who was holding it.
Little Tomoyo: ? ? ?
Munchlax pointed to the Dratini egg in its arms, "Ka."
It moved.
Hearing Munchlax's words, Lucas looked over and found that the pokémon egg in Munchlax's arms shook. He walked over.
"Congratulations, Little Tomoyo, Dratini is coming out."
Lucas rubbed Little Tomoyo's little head, then took the pokémon egg from Munchlax's arms and placed it on the counter.
As soon as they heard that Dratini was about to hatch, everyone and the Pokémon had no intention of watching TV anymore and all surrounded the counter.
Even Steven was infected by this atmosphere and surrounded it.
Gengar floated in the air, holding the camera, and turned on the recording function.
The pokémon egg shook.
Stopped moving.
Shook again.
Crack~
A crack appeared.
The crack got bigger and bigger.
Little Tomoyo held Shauna's hand tightly, and Shauna patted the back of Little Tomoyo's hand to comfort her.
Crack —
A pink Dratini drilled out of the shell and looked at Little Tomoyo and the others shyly.
"It's pink."
Shauna opened her mouth wide and said in surprise.
Pink Dratini? Shiny Dratini?!
"Shiny?"
Steven was also a bit shocked.
Little Tomoyo looked at the pink Dratini that had hatched; it was cute enough to reach her heart.
"Say hello, Little Tomoyo."
Lucas's voice rang softly in Little Tomoyo's ear.
"Hello, Dratini, my name is Tomoyo, please take care of me."
"Dra~"
Nihau~ (^ o ^) /
Can you hatch a Shiny on the first try?
Lucas looked at Little Tomoyo and Shauna.
One Shiny Rapidash, one Shiny Dratini.
One person, one Shiny Pokémon each?