Lorze and his Pokémon wives spent day after day peacefully and happily. The field research activities advanced methodically, and during this time, Lorze's clothes also noticeably thickened.
His work as a researcher continued until the blizzard arrived. The howling gale mixed with ice crystals and snowflakes swept across the Kanto land like a white grim reaper, and the Tree of Beginning bore the brunt of it, so the blizzard here was exceptionally fierce.
This made it inconvenient to go out for research anymore, so Lorze comfortably gave himself a long vacation.
"Whoosh, whoosh—"
On December 27th, Lorze, who woke up early in the morning, stood by the window and looked out—the sky-obscuring blizzard made visibility extremely low, and the world outside was a dim, vast expanse of white.
The outdoors at this moment was both tranquil and clamorous—the tranquility of life, and the clamor of the blizzard.
This kind of weather had already lasted for several days.
Lorze stretched lazily and sighed, but his tone clearly carried a punchable sense of getting lucky—
"Ha, it's really impossible to work in this kind of weather~ It's not that I want to rest, but right now we can only stay at home."
The wives looked at their scummy husband with disgust: Your face clearly shows you're incredibly happy!
However, even in this kind of weather, one only needed to wear a thin piece of clothing in the treehouse love nest to get by.
Ever since winter set in, the fireplace in the treehouse was often kept lit, which both warmed the room and made it feel more like a cozy home.
—Actually, the wives originally requested Lorze to be completely naked when at home, making it convenient to have sex at any time. But the young man sternly refused out of male dignity, and the matter was dropped.
Staying at home, Lorze and his wives, besides having hearty sex, would also do other things, like everyone playing video games together on that console, or playing poker and the like. The laughter in the house was so powerful it could even rival the howling of the blizzard.
But today, things seemed a bit different...
"Thud—Thud—Thud..."
A sound of heavy footsteps crunching against the snow seemed to come from outside the room!
Everyone hurriedly gathered at the floor-to-ceiling window to look out. A group of figures about three meters tall was slowly moving forward in the blizzard.
Although their appearances could hardly be seen clearly, Lorze immediately judged from their body size—It seems to be Aurorus!
Different from other Fossil Pokémon, Aurorus couldn't be seen active at all a few days ago, but instead now, amidst the clamoring blizzard, the Aurorus herd seemed to have become active.
Is it because they are Ice-type Pokémon, so they are more energetic in snowy weather?
Lorze, who had rested for several days, also felt his hands itching. Isn't this a great opportunity to observe the habits of Aurorus!?
So he immediately put on thick clothes and snow boots, greeted his wives, and rushed out the door.
"I'm going to observe Aurorus and will be right back! It's too cold outside, you guys don't need to follow me!"
"Be careful, honey!"
"Mmhmm!"
The door was closed heavily, and Lorze rushed out of the house just like that.
"Big Sister Mewtwo... do we really not need to go protect Big Brother Lorze?"
"Mhm... since he said he doesn't want us to follow, let's not disturb him, right? Maybe he'd even be unhappy if we followed. If he doesn't come back in a while, we'll go look for him!"
After all, Lorze had always been reassuring when doing things. But they didn't anticipate that precisely on this solo trip, he indeed ran into some trouble.
Initially still carrying the residual warmth from the room and the excitement of the observation, Lorze, following behind the Aurorus, moved his hands and feet nimbly. Even with the snowflakes fiercely beating against his notebook, he persisted in recording.
But he still underestimated this fierce blizzard too much—after all, Lorze had no experience working exposed to a world of ice and snow for a long time. Doing this right off the bat, his body definitely couldn't handle it.
His body temperature dropped rapidly. When he realized something was wrong and wanted to turn back home, it was actually already too late.
Struggling in the blizzard for a while, Lorze's vision finally went black, and with a "crunch", he collapsed into the deep snow...
"Drip, drop, drip..."
What woke Lorze up was the crisp, pleasant sound of water. The young man slowly opened his eyes and found himself in a spacious cave.
Because of those self-luminous ores, it wasn't dim here, and... the temperature was much higher than outside; wearing these thick clothes was even a bit hot!
Then, he heard an ethereal cry beside him, a tongue-clicking cry identical to the anime—
"Trlu~"
Turning to look, that behemoth was guarding beside him—It's a female Aurorus!
Her long neck lowered, Aurorus's pair of large, clear, and beautiful eyes resembling ice crystals blinked, looking at Lorze very curiously.
"You're awake?"
"Mhm, may I ask where I am..."
Lorze could only recall that the last scene he saw was an endless blizzard obscuring his vision, and he knew nothing of what happened after that.
"You fainted in the snow. I happened to pass by, and felt it wasn't very good to leave you out in the snow... so I brought you here. Do you... feel any better now?"
"So that's what happened... Thank you, I'm much better."
Lorze patted his head somewhat in annoyance: I almost lost my life due to a moment of impulse. In the howling blizzard, even my wives with their immense powers would have a hard time finding me, right? I'm afraid I've made them worry...
Having no other choice, he could only turn his gaze back to the Aurorus in front of him, but was deeply captivated by her plump, fleshy torso.
—Her giant body, about three meters tall, looked chubby and very full. Those graceful curves were full of an allure unique to females towards males. The light, elegant fleshy fins extending backward from her head down her neck fluttered, looking as beautiful as the light blonde wavy hair of European women.
Seemingly noticing the human man staring at her body, Aurorus actually became a bit embarrassed, and a hint of a girlish blush dyed her cheeks.
"What are you looking at?"
"N-Nothing! Speaking of which... I was actually observing your migration before I fainted. Could it be... you got separated from everyone because you saved me!?"
Speaking of this, Aurorus became depressed, but shook her head, causing the thin fleshy fins on her head to flutter along.
"I was alone even before I met you. Um... how should I put it... actually, it's quite embarrassing to say. Even though it's the time for us to conceive offspring right now, no man has courted me..."
"Huh... why is that?"
"Because I'm relatively small... Men probably all think a small figure is very boring and not good for reproducing offspring..."
This matter seemed to open Aurorus's chatterbox, so she continuously muttered and complained, complaining that she was about to miss the Aurorus species' breeding season, complaining that no males in the herd appreciated her body.
Listening to her muttering and looking at this plump body, Lorze gulped. His hands involuntarily touched Aurorus's skin.
Even though it looked like the rough texture of reptile epidermis, Aurorus's skin was unexpectedly smooth, and of course also felt a bit cold.
If one looked closely, fine ice crystals could also be seen attached between the scales...
Could this be Aurorus's Ability—Refrigerate!?
"Kya! What are you doing!?"
Being stroked by a man's hot hands, Aurorus seemed to be startled.
But even so, Lorze didn't stop, still caressing her skin. He really, really wanted to try driving this big truck Aurorus.
"Um, Aurorus... although it's absurd to say this, but if you don't mind, could you let me try?"
"Trlu!?"