“Shelly, this is for you. Be careful, the porridge is very hot.”
“However, do you want to go upstairs and eat alone? That situation might…”
Kain asked gently.
After all, when Shelly ate those things, something was bound to happen, and it might be the same as last night.
Eating it resulted in her clothes bursting off.
“Um, I think I’ll go upstairs after all.”
Shelly thought about it and chose to go upstairs.
Although she was already captivated by the deliciousness of the porridge, she still had no intention of exposing her truest side.
Especially since eating food would cause her clothes to burst off—not even the closest people would usually do such a thing.
“Alright, I’ll help you carry it up. Gyarados, Dragonair, you two eat properly and don’t eat my food.”
With that, Kain went to open the steamer.
Swish!
A flash of light lit up.
Shelly: “??? ∑(;°Д°)”
“It’s glowing? I didn’t see it wrong just now, your food is glowing.”
Shelly asked anxiously.
“That’s right, you didn’t see it wrong. The food is indeed glowing. It’s just a normal, trivial matter.”
Kain waved his hand slightly in reply.
What’s there to make a fuss about?
Cuisine that can’t glow is not good cuisine.
“Ah? Is this a trivial matter?”
It was Shelly’s first time understanding the definition of the words ‘trivial matter’.
Cooking food so that it glows, how is that even done?
If this matter were exposed, there’s no telling what kind of uproar it would cause.
“You didn’t add some kind of fluorescent powder, did you?”
“Fluorescent powder? Don’t frame an innocent person. Why would someone as good as me add fluorescent powder? This is just a normal phenomenon when a skill reaches its extreme.”
“If other people can’t make their cooking glow, then that’s their own problem and their culinary skills aren’t up to standard.”
Kain refuted Shelly’s words, picked up the food, and walked towards upstairs.
“Let’s go, hurry up. Once you finish eating, I can go do some digestion exercise.”
“Oh oh~”
Shelly, whose worldview was refreshed once again, could only follow Kain in a daze.
Her mind kept thinking about what Kain had just said.
A chef who cannot make glowing cuisine simply lacks sufficient culinary skills.
So that’s how it is.
It’s just that those people’s culinary skills aren’t up to scratch.
By the time she came to her senses…
She was lying on the bed with a flushed face, a trace of meat filling from the steamed bun still lingering at the corner of her mouth.
The seafood porridge on the table had already been drunk clean.
“What just happened to me?”
Shelly had an expression of remembering nothing at all.
She only remembered that after Kain placed the delicious food down, he left.
As for her, she took a bite of the bun, drank a sip of the seafood porridge, and then didn’t remember anything else.
It seemed the taste was too exhilarating, too amazing, causing her to lose herself.
“This thing is even more exaggerated than an aphrodisiac.”
Recalling certain scenes, Shelly evaluated it as such.
Good thing this stuff was made by Kain, a gentleman; otherwise, if someone else got a hold of it, there’s no telling who it would harm.
“Shelly, are you done eating?”
“I’m done eating. If you’re going to work out, go ahead first. I’ll wash the bowls and chopsticks.”
Shelly answered listlessly; she still hadn’t recovered from the exhilarating feeling.
“Actually, you don’t have to wash them yourself. There’s a machine downstairs; just put the bowls and chopsticks in, and it will wash them automatically.”
“Okay, okay, I know.”
Listening to the receding footsteps, Shelly breathed a sigh of relief, then went to change into a set of clothes.
“However, why are there so many girls’ clothes in the home of a grown man?”
Looking at so many girls’ garments inside the wardrobe, Shelly also felt surprised.
“Could it be that some girl used to live here before?”
Shelly could only think that way; otherwise, it couldn’t be explained.
Surely Kain wasn’t some pervert who liked collecting girls’ clothes.
…
Shelly thought about going outside to bask in the sun and incidentally see how Kain trained his Pokémon.
Then she saw a scene that shocked her.
What did she see?
She actually saw Kain and Gyarados fighting.
His bare hands could block Gyarados’s Aqua Tail attack.
Kain even dared to charge directly into Gyarados’s Hydro Pump, then rush out completely unharmed.
This scene made her doubt her life.
Was she dreaming?
She actually saw such an exaggerated scene.
But there aren’t any Fighting-type Pokémon around here either.
Bang!
Watching Gyarados being grabbed by the tail by Kain and then flung aside, both sides also ended the battle.
“Comfortable! Gyarados, Dragonair, you guys need to step up your game. I can already beat you both.”
Hearing this, Gyarados and Dragonair exchanged glances, filled with a myriad of emotions in their hearts.
It wasn’t that they didn’t want to grow stronger; it’s just that a Trainer’s improvement speed seemed to be even faster.
They clearly saw him doing a thousand push-ups, a thousand squats, and running three laps around the island every day.
Yet in just one month, he became even more powerful than them.
There was simply nowhere to reason about this!
There was no reasoning with it either.
After all, the things they ate were truly good things.
Having eaten those foods and Berries, they were growing stronger rapidly and even learned quite a few moves.
Yet, they were still no match for their Trainer.
They were also quite helpless.
“Shelly, you came out? Do you need to bask in the sun for calcium?”
“Yeah, coming out for some fresh air. Kain, is this your training method?”
Shelly asked Kain calmly.
“That’s right. I know this training volume is a bit small, but everything has to be done step by step, right? Just build it up slowly.”
Kain thought Shelly meant that his training volume was a bit too low.
“No, no, no, this is already great for you.”
Shelly hastily replied.
Very few people could be like him, engaging in close-quarters, blow-for-blow combat with Pokémon.
She only knew of one person who trained with powerful Pokémon every day, and that was the Kanto region’s Fighting-type Elite, Bruno.
“Shelly, there are so many Pokémon in the world, do you also know how to command Pokémon?”
Kain began consciously inquiring about other information.
His understanding of this world was still very little, and he hoped to get some news.
Just right, Shelly said she was a scholar, so she definitely knew a lot.
“I do too, but my Pokémon generally don’t go into action easily.”
“You mentioned before that you encountered a shipwreck. Since you encountered one, couldn’t you have used Pokémon to help?”
“About that, the shipwreck we encountered was caused by two powerful Pokémon. They triggered a tsunami and overturned the ship. I also narrowly escaped with my life and was saved by you.”
Shelly’s words made Kain feel that this world was truly terrifying.
Two Pokémon could trigger such a huge incident.
As expected, hiding here was the right choice.
“Gyarados found you, otherwise I wouldn’t even have known.”
Kain pointed at Gyarados, who was still playing with Dragonair.