“Let’s go to my place first…”
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A perfectly normal sentence felt incredibly awkward when spoken aloud.
However, seeing Lisanna’s eyes light up, yet restrained by the fear of scaring or hurting the Pokémon…
Edward knew she was telling the truth.
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She truly did love small animals.
And of course, Pokémon were indeed worth loving.
Because of this shared interest,
Edward’s already good impression of Lisanna improved further, though unfortunately, the favorability ratings on his panel didn’t apply to real life.
Edward soon returned to his tree hollow.
When Lisanna saw it,
She fell silent instantly.
The look she gave Edward suddenly turned to pity.
Even though she guessed Edward had it rough,
She didn’t expect it to be this bad.
Actually, she had gone through similar situations.
Being driven out of her own home by villagers.
Being loathed and expelled by people from other towns.
To the point that at such a young age, she already had experience wandering and sleeping in the wild.
But at least she had her brother and sister by her side.
Looking at Edward, on the other hand…
“Oh! You’ve come to play with me.”
“Mana~”
“It’s you.”
Edward noticed movement near the tree hollow.
Looking down, he saw a tuft of upright green grass.
Immediately after, a little green cutie ran over, its lower limbs moving so fast you could only see its feet and not its legs.
Edward crouched down and stroked that strangely-textured head.
It was none other than that little silly from the day before yesterday.
“Coming to play with me?”
“Naso, naso.”
Oddish nodded repeatedly.
Its tiny, bead-like eyes were bright and full of spirit.
In an instant, it melted the hearts of both Edward and Lisanna.
Pokémon had their own social circles, especially among Grass-types, where the barriers between species were very small.
This was because predator-prey relationships basically didn’t exist among them.
Their information network was very broad.
And Edward was so unique.
Finding out information about him couldn’t be simpler.
“Are you all alone?”
Edward didn’t know how to refer to them collectively.
Saying ‘one creature’ felt a bit impolite.
But saying ‘one Pokémon’ felt weird too.
So he decided to just treat them as people.
They were intelligent life forms anyway; there was no distinction of high or low.
“Mana, mana.”
Oddish’s first cry was accompanied by a shake of its head. This chapter was copied from novelping.com without permission.
The second cry was directed toward Edward’s home, the tree hollow.
There’s another little fellow.
Edward’s physical enhancement wasn’t all-encompassing.
Despite his physical fitness reaching an incredible level,
His five senses under normal conditions were similar to an ordinary person’s; he couldn’t see or hear too far.
Furthermore, even though his strength was astonishing and hadn’t been gained through his own hard work,
He never experienced instances of using too much force.
He didn’t know what principle this was based on.
But it was a good thing.
Edward didn’t dwell on it.
Otherwise, even the way he transmigrated couldn’t be explained clearly.
He couldn’t exactly dissect himself, could he?
…
Rustle.
In a momentary lapse,
A small figure stood before Edward.
It was a little thing with a somewhat fierce expression.
Below its large yellow head was a’scrawny’ body.
A bright green sprout on either side waved; those were its hands.
“Bellsprout?”
Edward was naturally no stranger to this Pokémon, which shared the same Grass/Poison typing.
In Edward’s memory,
This little fellow had also left a deep impression on him.
Aside from James’s final evolution, Victreebel, which would gnaw on him as soon as it appeared,
The Bellsprout at the Kanto League that used pure martial arts instead of skills had truly opened Edward’s eyes.
It had once again made the then-ignorant Edward believe it was a very strong Pokémon…
As for Victreebel…
It wasn’t too weak, but no one told him that Victreebel required a Leaf Stone to evolve!!!
Of course.
That was the game, and it was in the past.
Edward waved his hand in a friendly manner to the little fellow, who was likely Oddish’s bodyguard.
He smiled.
“Hello there.”
“Sipong!”
Bellsprout’s furrowed brow did not relax as it looked at Edward with wary eyes.
However, as its round mouth opened and closed, it still responded to Edward’s greeting.
The little thing was quite cautious.
But that wasn’t a bad thing.
Even in the relatively beautiful Pokémon world,
The wild had its cruel side.
They say wild grass has tenacious vitality.
That’s because humans only step on it, or at most burn it.
But Grass-type Pokémon didn’t have roots buried deep underground.
Instead, they grew flesh and blood.
Perhaps their vitality was still more exuberant and tenacious than ordinary Pokémon,
But they weren’t a case of ‘growing again when the spring breeze blows’.
“Haha.”
Edward had met similar Pokémon before.
He didn’t force things.
He only focused on treating them with sincerity. This story is hosted at g.com.
The rest he left to fate.
Most Pokémon were quite easy to fool—ahem, were very pure-hearted.
A so-called ‘pure heart’ was not rare among the Pokémon population.
“Tyrogue, Tyrogue, are you there?”
“Baru!”
From another tree hollow not far from Edward’s ‘home’,
Tyrogue rushed out with great enthusiasm.
In order to follow Edward and train,
It actually lived nearby.
But this was the first time Edward had called for it himself.
Tyrogue felt that its sincerity had finally moved the iceberg that was Edward.
He was going to take it as a disciple!
“Tyrogue, this is Lisanna. She wants to be friends with you.”
Be friends?
Does that mean she’s a junior fellow disciple?
Tyrogue tilted its head, using its golden eyes to curiously size up the female before it, who seemed to be of the same race as its master but looked frail and weak.
However, judging by appearances, Master wasn’t the type to show off on the surface like the Machamp Family either.
“Baru!”
Understood!
As the Senior Disciple, I will supervise her well!
Tyrogue nodded with a determined tone.
Lisanna looked at Edward in confusion.
Meeting for the first time, she couldn’t yet infer Tyrogue’s expression through its demeanor and tone.
In truth, Edward sometimes couldn’t understand this kid either.
After all, it was serious and earnest most of the time.
But he still affirmed,
“It’s saying ‘pleased to meet you’.”
“Oh oh, same here! Pleased to meet you!”
Lisanna folded her small hands over her skirt.
She bowed slightly in a very lady-like manner.
This immediately sent Tyrogue, who had just put on the air of a Senior Disciple, into a flustered state; it hurriedly bowed back, returning a clumsy, mismatched etiquette.
Edward found it quite amusing to watch.
This silly boy.
Besides Tyrogue, an Eevee and an Abra also lived as neighbors to Edward.
These two Pokémon were very interesting.
One never slept.
The other was always sleeping.
So Edward could only introduce the former to Lisanna.
As for Eevee’s lethality toward young girls, it goes without saying.
And so,
Lisanna played with Eevee, Oddish, and the others until the afterglow of the setting sun was about to vanish before she left reluctantly.
Her upbringing wasn’t strict.
Even without mentioning her childhood experiences, she was now a Mage with mission experience.
She was an existence capable of standing on her own.
It was just that in Edward’s worldview, she was still just a half-grown child.
So he shooed her back home.