Pokémon: I have a game menu

After taking Charizard to a nearby Pokémon Center for treatment, Naoki and his Pokémon began to look for a place to eat lunch. There are many restaurants in Miare City. Naoki has lived here for so many years, and he doesn't know if he has visited even one percent of them.

In the end, Naoki, who suffered from decision-making difficulty, adopted the principle of proximity and chose a battle restaurant that was very close to the Pokémon Center. This battle restaurant was very popular. Even after lunch time, there were still many people in the store. People who dine here can compete for seats through Pokémon battles.

However, once Naoki's Pokémon was released, a bad atmosphere spread out, and no one took the initiative to challenge for a position. Naoki chose a pretty good position and had a delicious lunch with the Pokémon.

"Now that we have the Voltage Badge, we should go to Aroma City and challenge the Fairy-attributed gym."

Naoki's schedule had already been planned. He had originally planned to challenge the gyms in the order of the protagonist's schedule in the game. Now that the Flare Team had appeared, it was even more impossible to change his plan to go to Aroma City, where the Poké Ball factory was located. Based on the experience of the Miare Power Plant incident, Naoki felt that he might need to stay in Aroma City for a while. Of course, the Flare Team might also take action before he arrived, so he had to set off as soon as possible.

To get from Miare City to Aromatherapy City, you have to pass through Route 14, called Aromatherapy Forest Road. This road is intricately entangled, and the trails are covered by deciduous forests, making the light sparse. Most of the road is occupied by swamps. If you want to pass, you have to walk slowly in the swamps. The deeper the swamp, the slower the progress. Some places are even impossible to pass without water-attribute Pokémon.

There is a small playground on the south side of this road, and further north is a swampy road. There are a lot of water, ground, grass, and bug Pokémon living here. If you are lucky, you can also encounter the rare ghost Pokémon.

After lunch, Naoki walked through the connecting passage and came to Route 14. The trees on this road were very lush and it was very cool even at noon. If it was summer, this should be a good place to escape the heat.

"Naoki!"

Hearing a girl's shouting from behind, Naoki turned around subconsciously and saw Sana and Serena, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, jogging towards him.

"You walk so fast!" Shana stopped and said breathlessly.

"Huh?" Naoki was a little puzzled. Didn't he stop after hearing the shouting?

"We heard from the doctor that you were in Miare City and had challenged the gym, so we went to Citron to look for you. Citron said you had already obtained the Voltage Badge. Then we went to find Miss Joy and asked many passers-by before we knew you were here."

"..."

"What do you want to talk to me about?" Naoki scratched his head.

"Hehe, it's okay. Serena and I just happen to want to go to Aromatherapy City, so we decided to go with you."

"Aromatherapy City? Is there a gorgeous competition there?" Naoki thought about it and seemed like he had never heard of it.

"Naoki, you really don't understand anything! Aromatherapy City!"

"Are you going to buy clothes? The kimonos in Aroma City are quite famous." Naoki thought of the gym master, Miss Mashiro, the fairy-like beauty in the long-sleeved kimono.

"Naoki, you're not that stupid! Even though it's not completely right, it's almost there!" Sana said with a smile.

"Okay, Sana, it's time for us to set off. It's a long way from here to Aromatherapy City!" Serena pulled her best friend who was a little overexcited.

"Got it!" Sana stuck out her tongue to act cute.

The three of them walked into the scented forest road together. After entering the forest road, Naoki sent Lucario to explore the way. There are extremely dangerous poisonous Pokémon on this road, such as Arbok and Scorpion, which will attack humans without hesitation. The two girls also sent out their own Pokémon, namely Longtailed Firefox and Frog. Their initial Pokémon have evolved to the second stage, and their levels are close to level 30, and they are not far from evolving again to level 36.

The two girls' attitude towards wild Pokémon is reassuring. When facing dangerous Arbok and Scorpion, they will let their Pokémon attack without hesitation. When encountering insect-attribute Pokémon such as Gnat and Slug, they will increase their strength. They can be regarded as reassuring teammates.

As for the question of whether or not to catch Pokémon, Naoki would not ask. Such an uncute Pokémon probably would not be favored by beautiful girls.

"Why is there a house here?"

As the three of them were moving forward, they came across an old house built on the side of the road. Shana stopped and looked over with some curiosity.

"Could this be the legendary haunted house? I heard that there is an old man living here who likes to entertain trainers passing by and tell them ghost stories." said Serena.

"It seems very interesting! Do you want to go in and take a look?" Shana suggested.

"Huh?" Serena looked embarrassed. She must be the type who is afraid of listening to ghost stories.

"It doesn't matter. There are no ghosts in the world. Most of the legends about ghosts are just ghost-attribute Pokémon." Naoki shook his head indifferently. Ghost-attribute Pokémon may be dangerous to ordinary people, but for trainers, it's not a big deal.

"That's true." Serena seemed to accept this statement.

"Then it's decided!" Shana ran up and knocked on the door.

The person who opened the door was an old man, just as Serena had said.

"Are you a trainer passing by? Would you like to come in for a cup of tea?"

The three were invited in. However, the old man did not tell any ghost stories. According to the old man, his ghost stories seemed a bit outdated and children nowadays would not be afraid at all, so he did not tell them. At this time, Sana and Serena suddenly felt that they were stabbed twice in the back. They turned their heads subconsciously, and then screamed, hugging Naoki's hands on the left and right.

Naoki turned around and saw two Gengars making scary faces. Because of his own preferences, Naoki did not find them scary, but rather cute.

"Haha, sorry, sorry, these two Gengar are my Pokémon, and they love playing pranks." The old man laughed heartily, obviously doing it on purpose, worthy of being a bad old man who likes to tell ghost stories to scare people.