Pokémon: Start with an Admiral Crab!

"Sharptooth Fish~Have you been doing special training during this period of time?"

Wang Yao picked up the sharp-toothed fish from the water and observed it carefully.

"Lee~"

The sharp-toothed fish squinted its eyes, opened and closed its big mouth, and happily wiggled its tail in Wang Yao's hand.

"The muscles in the tail seem to have become a little stronger!"

There is not much effect in such a short period of training, but Wang Yao is much more confident about the self-awareness of the sharp-toothed fish compared to the timid insect!

"There happens to be a small river behind the mountain. You can go there and practice your speed."

This small pond is connected to a small river outside. With the strength of the Sharptooth Fish, there should be no need to worry too much about being harassed by wild Pokémon near Pallet Town.

After throwing the sharp-toothed fish back into the water, Wang Yao called out to the little fire horse that was galloping happily on the grassland.

This guy rarely returns to an environment similar to the ranch where he was born, and he seems particularly excited.

"Alright, alright... don't run too far. There should be a rock platform on the back hill. You can practice the Flame Wheel there later!"

The little fire horse has already mastered the small-power fire physical moves such as Charged Flame Attack and Flame Wheel, but has not yet mastered the high-powered Flash Flame Charge.

However, the skill tree of the little fire horse is basically related to "running". Sometimes you don't need a very high level, as long as you run enough, you will naturally understand it.

These are the training points that President Masuda mentioned when exchanging the little pony.

Because of this, Wang Yao always lets the little fire horse out to carry luggage... Maybe he can also master the [Hundred Thousand Horsepower] that the heavy mud draft horses in the Alola region are good at!

"Eh~"

The little fire horse shook the flaming mane on its neck and neighed spiritedly.

Wang Yao did not rush to let the little fire horse to train skills. Instead, he took out a brush from his backpack and carefully combed its mane.

This brush is specially made. The handle is made of artificial refractory material and the bristles are taken from the explosive, hard bristles on King Yanwu's tail.

This was also what Wang Yao bought by chance in a grocery store in Shenhui City after returning from Yuejian Mountain.

Since there aren't many Pokémon with high body temperatures and fur around Deep Gray City, there aren't many people who need this fire-resistant brush either.

The store had been stockpiling goods from the United States at high prices for a long time, so it also gave Wang Yao two bottles of leather care oil as a promotion.

Wang Yao's backpacks are all made of fabric fibers or covered with fire-resistant coatings, so the leather maintenance oil can be left to Arbok.

After combing the little fire pony's mane, making it shiny and smooth, the little fire pony shook its head and showed off in front of the giant crabs.

Wang Yao straightened up and stretched his body with difficulty.

“It was fun chatting with new friends!”

"——You coward! You are the main character of today's special training!"

Wang Yao picked up the cowardly bug who was having a "happy conversation" with the coconut tree.

This guy is more than half a meter long, but he is very light, except for his thick shell.

"What's hidden in the shell again... Really..."

Wang Yao shook it up and down a few times, and a few small pieces of stuff fell out from the cracks in the cowardly insect's back shell with a tinkling sound.

Although the cowardly bug does not have the picking-up characteristic, it has the habit of storing shiny objects, and often picks up metal bottle caps and coins for Wang Yao.

The cowardly bugs in the sea can sometimes obtain valuables such as pearls, so when they come ashore, they are occasionally robbed of their collections by greedy humans, or attacked by Murkrows and Meowths who also like shiny objects.

"What... Another bunch of useless bottle caps."

Wang Yao put aside his cowardly bug and rummaged through the garbage on the ground... Apart from the pull rings of cans, there were only a few metal beverage bottle caps.

“Gujigu!!”

After landing on the ground, the timid insect quickly covered the pile of scattered [treasures] with its body, and then used a few small insect legs to quickly dig a few times, trying to hide them back into its back shell.

"Stop, stop, stop! Can't I help you collect it?"

Wang Yao was a little confused. Hiding these things in the gaps of the back shell would affect the speed.

The cowardly bug will have to do special training for combat soon!

Under the nervous gaze of the coward, Wang Yao gathered the garbage together and put it into the side pocket of his backpack in front of the little guy.

"Hey... the things you collected earlier weren't lost!"

There were already a dozen bottle caps and a handful of coins in the side pocket of Wang Yao's backpack. In addition, there were also some flashing hairpins, plastic pendants, metal buttons and other things.

Fortunately, the cowardly bugs are basically only released when camping in the wild, otherwise in human towns... how much garbage would they have to pick up every day.

Wang Yao’s small backpack might not even be able to hold all the bottle caps!

"Guji..."

The cowardly bug finally felt relieved, and its two tentacles swayed slightly left and right, looking very relaxed.

"There are a lot of grass-type Pokémon in the back mountain, and there are also quite a few caterpillars and the like. This time you have to defeat at least ten... twenty opponents!"

Wang Yao has been actively trying to get the coward to fight, and now it seems to be showing some results.

"Gooji!"

I have a lot of experience in bullying weaklings and cowards.

When facing an opponent who is weaker than itself, it can already take the initiative to attack!

When encountering an opponent of equal strength, try not to run away.

As for encountering an opponent stronger than himself... the coward would hide behind the giant crab and challenge him.

Okay - at least he knows how to recognize a big brother.

"Come on! This is the first target for today!"

Wang Yao pointed at the walking grass taking an afternoon nap in the shade of a tree not far away and said.

……

Just when Wang Yao was commanding the coward to kill everyone in Dr. Oak's backyard.

Two regular visitors came to the institute again.

"Dr. Oak!"

"grandfather!"

The two little brats ran into the research institute one after the other.

"Oh... Xiaozhi and Xiaomao, didn't you go fishing in the open space by the river?"

Professor Oak put down the work at hand, turned around and asked his grandson and his biological grandson.

No... don't get me wrong - Hanako is the doctor's most outstanding student, and has always been treated as a junior by Professor Oak!

As Hanako's son, Xiaozhi is of course regarded as a "grandson" by Professor Oak.

"It's all Xiaozhi/Xiaomao's fault!" they both answered at the same time.

"What? I was about to capture that Magikarp!"

Xiao Mao crossed his arms and blew a breath at the hair hanging in front of his forehead.

"It's all your fault, Xiaozhi... You were so clumsy that the other party got the chance to run away!"

"What did you say--!"

Xiaozhi immediately retorted unconvinced.

"I clearly caught that Magikarp! If you hadn't held the fishing rod firmly, it wouldn't have gotten away!"

Xiaozhi was soaked all over and looked much more miserable than Xiaomao, whose only wet trouser legs were wet.

"Catching Magikarp? Xiaozhi, you look like...did you jump into the river?!"

Professor Oak's tone was surprised and a little stern.

"Uh...I..."

Xiaozhi finally reacted and scratched his head in embarrassment, not daring to face Professor Oak's questioning.

As expected of the Superman of Pallet Town, the nine-year-old Satoshi can already go into the water and fight Magikarp.

He is countless times better than Xiaomao who only knows how to swing the rod on the shore!

"Oh my... you are so brave!"

Professor Oak covered his head helplessly.

He has seen a lot about Xiaozhi's reckless personality over the years.

"Alright, alright! There's hot water in the institute, go take a shower first!"

Professor Oak doesn't dare let Satoshi go home like this, otherwise Hanako will nag him to death in the future.

You know, Hanako cares about Xiaozhi very much.

"Xiao Mao...go get some clean clothes for Xiao Zhi to change into later."

Professor Oak said smoothly.

"Got it, Grandpa."

Xiao Mao first agreed seriously.

Then he turned around and faced his rival with another attitude.

“Tsk…Alright, alright! Just consider it as alms from me!”

"Just be grateful! Hahahaha!"

It’s a pity that Xiaogang has already gone back... If you saw this scene, you might think that Wang Yao’s role-playing was not realistic enough.

……

Not long after, Xiaozhi, with steam still coming out of his head, came out of the bathroom wearing Xiaomao's clothes.

Although they are of the same age, Xiaomao is actually half a head taller than Xiaozhi...or it should be said that Xiaozhi is half a head shorter than his peers!

But because it's a summer outfit with short sleeves and sports shorts, it won't be noticeable even if it's a little big on the body.

"Grandpa, you seem to have some new research today?"

Xiao Mao noticed that Dr. Oak was particularly busy today, which was a little different from his usual step-by-step research mode.

"It seems so..."

Xiaozhi's reaction is always half a beat slow.

"Ah... Speaking of which - there's a new guest at the institute today!"

Professor Oak stopped what he was doing and introduced them to the two of them.

“诶——！！”——x2

The two little brats made a sound that sounded like they had never seen the world before.

……

"That's it...Ayao!"

Professor Oak somewhat embarrassedly interrupted Wang Yao who was directing the cowardly bugs to bully Magikarp.

"These two are my grandsons, Xiao Mao and Xiao Zhi."

"...They will both receive their starter Pokémon next year and embark on their journey to become trainers."

Professor Oak introduced the two little brats to Wang Yao.

"There are very few trainers from outside Pallet Town passing by... so I would like to ask you to help look after them for a while and teach them how to conduct Pokémon battles and training!"

"It's you, uncle!"

Xiaozhi showed a surprised expression.

"Look! Xiao Mao - this is the person I bumped into on the road. I told you but you didn't believe me!"

Because he was a little late for the agreed fishing time, Xiaozhi attributed the problem to bumping into someone on the road...

In fact, the fundamental reason was that he left home too late, otherwise he would not have to run all the way to the open space by the river, and he would not have bumped into Wang Yao.

"You idiot! We are the ones asking for help now!"

Xiao Mao knocked Xiao Zhi's head with some disappointment.

"no problem!"

Wang Yao agreed immediately.

"My Pokémon are doing special training right now! You guys can come and watch!"

To have the opportunity to be the temporary mentor of the future protagonist...how should I put it - it's a somewhat incredible feeling!

"Great!"

"Then I'll leave them to you!"

Professor Oak finally got rid of the two noisy little guys and could do his research with peace of mind.

Before studying Wang Yao's special Steelix, he had to look up all the relevant information and understand the relevant reports in the academic community in advance.

After Professor Oak left, Wang Yao and his duo of rivals were left in the backyard.

"These are some of my Pokémon..."

Wang Yao first introduced the giant crab and the little fire horse to the two little kids.

"Be careful! The flames of the little fire pony are very hot to strangers...but my little fire pony has been able to control this well."

Xiaozhi reached out his hand as soon as he came up, luckily Wang Yao's little Pony was not shy, but after being touched a few times, he still felt a little uncomfortable and ran away a few steps.

"What kind of Pokémon is this...it's so huge!"

Xiao Mao is more concerned about Steelix, after all, its size and appearance are particularly eye-catching.

"This is Steelix... my new Pokémon. It's not very obedient yet, so just take a look at it."

Wang Yao reminded the two of them.

"Ah..."

Steelix opened his eyes lazily, but fortunately he didn't move.

"Eh... is there such a thing?"

Xiaomao has not officially become a trainer yet. Although he is much more mature than Xiaozhi, when it comes to capturing Pokémon, he is still at the stage of "as long as it can enter the Poké Ball", and he is still at the stage of "as long as it can enter the Poké Ball".

"Many Pokémon that evolve in the wild and are very powerful have their own tempers. If you are a beginner, I suggest you start by breeding an unevolved individual."

"... like a coward like me."

Wang Yao pointed at the inconspicuous coward lying on the ground.

"Another Pokémon I've never seen before..."

Xiaomao and Xiaozhi saw a lot of Pokémon that are not found in Pallet Town at Wang Yao's place today.

"Just like Magikarp evolves into Gyarados... an ordinary coward can also evolve into a powerful armored warrior."

Wang Yao gave them examples.

"Ah! Gyarados, I know!"

Magikarp can evolve into Gyarados, which is one of the few evolutionary chain types that Ash knows about.

"Of course—after all, Grandpa has one..."

Xiao Mao had seen Professor Oak's Gyarados before. It is now kept in the river behind the mountain. However, it usually hides in deep water and sometimes goes out for patrols on its own.

"But the cowardly bugs usually live in the cracks of rocks at the seaside... They are not found in ordinary small rivers."

Wang Yao introduced.

"If you're going on a trip next year... you can start raising a Magikarp now!"

Wang Yao squinted his eyes and smiled and said - he was ready for the whole job!

"...In the future, we can still compete to see whose Magikarp will evolve into Gyarados first!"

The two people, who had previously engaged in fishing more to kill time and had little interest in breeding Magikarp, instantly became motivated when they heard they were going to compete with each other!

"Okay - I will definitely win this time!"

Xiaozhi has already begun to imagine a bright future with Xiaomao under him.

"Don't dream! I will definitely be the first one to make Magikarp evolve!"

Xiao Mao was not willing to be outdone and was confident that he would not lose to the reckless guy in front of him.

"You are really motivated... If that's the case..."

Wang Yao took out two red and white balls and stuffed them into the hands of the two men.

"I see there are quite a lot of Magikarp in the creek behind the mountain..."

"Before it evolves, it can only do water splashing. If it doesn't have the ability to fight, it can't be considered an initial Pokémon!"

Wang Yao lowered his voice... and gave the two of them some bad ideas in a mysterious way.

"You guys should hide the Poké Balls and release the captured Magikarp to the riverside and keep them as pets!"

"… I'll pick him up next year when we travel! Professor Oak won't find out!"

Wang Yao was like an elf teaching a child how to steal and hide candy.

"Isn't this...not good?"

"But Grandpa said..."

Xiao Mao and Xiao Zhi were obviously moved.