Not a Trainer This Time

Chapter 229 is in full bloom! (4k)

 Autumn, August 20, Year 198 of the Alliance Calendar.

 Early in the morning, Naoki received warm clothes and scarves made of wool from Madame Dantès.

This lovely old man put something in a handbag and handed it to Naoki, but his eyes were looking at the stretching motorcycle lizard not far away.

“The child doesn’t know you have prepared a gift for it, right?” she asked.

"Of course." Naoki said with a smile: "If it knew about it in advance, it wouldn't be a surprise."

Mrs. Dantès nodded slightly and said in a gentle tone: "Since you are ready, I will not disturb you. Say happy birthday to the Motorized Lizard for me."

"OK."

 After saying this, Madame Dantès turned and left.

　　After watching her figure disappear, Naoki returned to the house carrying the handbag.

 He looked at the two brothers and sisters with a smile and asked, "Are you all ready?"

 “Love.”

 The brother and sister nodded in unison.

Seeing this, Zhi Shu said: "Then let's start setting up! So I leave the Motorized Lizard to you, Luton. Take it outside to play and come back when the sun rises."

 “Ah gah hiss…”

 So Ledun thought that today is also its birthday, even though it has already experienced it once.

At that time, it was also taken out to play by Gulton. The Gulton also left it behind and ran away alone.

So Leden walked out obediently while recalling what happened next.

and after?

Logically speaking, it should have been very unhappy after being abandoned by Guluton, but it didn't seem too smart at the time and didn't think too much. It just happily returned home with a few flowers.

 Because Luton told it that Zhishu bought a vase and wanted to put the most beautiful flowers in the vase.

 When it opened the door with the flowers, it saw the surprise Naoki had prepared for it...

Now that he has become an outsider from an insider, Leden couldn't help but feel a sense of loss.

It came outside and found the Motorized Lizard rolling on the grass, and said to it: "Ah, geez." (Let's go find flowers.)

Motor Lizard looked cute: "Gah?"

Then, it seemed to realize that Gulton wanted to play with itself, its eyes immediately brightened, and it said happily: "Gah!"

　　　　　：“…”

It made it up in a serious manner: "Ah, quash?" (Naoki bought a vase and wanted to pick some flowers and put them in it. Do you know where I can find them?)

This statement is full of flaws. If there is anyone in the pasture who knows best where the flowers bloom the most and most beautifully, it is Naoki.

But the Motorized Lizard didn't think so much at the moment. It almost jumped up with joy, turned around and started to lead the way to Guledun: "Gah!"

So Leden followed it silently, and soon they came to the flower field in the southeast of the pasture.

 Mid-autumn is when these seasonal flowers bloom.

 The flowers here are blooming very luxuriantly due to the hard work of Sanbee and Bada Butterfly.

As soon as the Motorized Lizard arrived here, it jumped into the flowers, rolled around in them, and then poked its head out of the flowers to look at Gulton behind it.

 “Gah!” The Motorized Lizard tilted its head, a little confused: “Gah?”

 Aren’t you here to play with it? So why is Luton still standing there?

　　"That's so stupid." So Luton thought to himself, rolling around in the flowers, this is something only a childish Pokémon would do.

 It sighed silently and shook its head to reject the invitation of the Motorized Lizard: "Ah, geez."

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The Motorized Lizard looked at Gulton with a cute expression. Seeing that Gulton really didn't want to play, it didn't pay much attention and continued to play on its own.

The only regret for the Motorized Lizard is that there are no butterflies in autumn, so it can no longer play with butterflies.

Huluton stood aside and watched for a while, feeling his eyes irritated by the exposed belly of the Motorized Lizard.

It couldn't stand it any longer, so it sneaked away while the Motorized Lizard wasn't paying attention.

After a while, the Motorized Lizard realized that Gulton had left.

It shook off the petals on its head without thinking too much. It was about to play by itself when it suddenly thought of something.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　…

 So Luton seemed to have said just now that Naoki wanted the most beautiful flowers to put at home.

 In this case, let’s look for it carefully!

The Motorized Lizard turned around and pounced deep into the flowers, looking for the flowers it thought were the most beautiful.

   *

 In the living room, brother and sister Naoki and Ai Guanshi are decorating the room.

They hung the colorful ribbons and light **** on the wall, and left them to the flying Babu marquis to do the work out of the reach of a few people.

 In the cream workshop, the Cream Fairy is working hard to make delicious fresh cream.

 Even Olinio, who was usually lazy, was invited over by Naoki to bring fresh olive oil to the Motorized Lizard.

 Seeing that a few Pokémon were doing well, Naoki gave them all the tasks of decorating the venue.

 He himself returned to the cream workshop and started making today's birthday cake.

 Zhi Shu has already memorized the process of making a birthday cake.

 Eggs, milk, oven…

 Add a little more emotion into it.

 This is the conclusion that Naoki discovered before. Putting emotion into cooking will make the effect better.

This time he didn't need to deliberately arouse his emotions, because the emotion between him and the Motorized Lizard had already been integrated into every aspect of his daily life.

Just thinking about these, those emotions naturally came out.

 A year ago, the Biker Lizard hatched from the egg.

 What does a newly hatched Biker Lizard look like?

Thinking of the carefree siblings he had seen in the form of babies before, Naoki's mind gradually emerged with the figure of a petite motorcycle lizard crawling out of the elf egg with a piece of eggshell on its head. .

  Regrettably, he was not able to witness the birth of the Motorized Lizard.

 The baby Motorized Lizard began to grow up and reached a normal size. Then it left its parents and was brought here by Mayor Thomas, who gave the Motorized Lizard to his care.

Thinking of this, Naoki sincerely wished the Motorized Lizard could live a healthy and happy life, everything goes well, and he is safe and happy.

With this mood, he put the cake into the mold and put it in the oven.

After waiting for a period of time, the fragrant cake dough was freshly baked. Naoki split it in half from the middle, then put the cut fruit pieces into it, and finally spread fresh cream evenly on top with the Frosted Milk Fairy. .

 At this point, the carefully prepared birthday cake is freshly baked.

Zhi Shu looked down, and the information about this cake came to his mind.

[Birthday cake (S): A cake made with rich cream and carefully baked cake base, and decorated with tree fruits, which contains the meaning of celebration.

 Cooking effect: A birthday gift, if you feed it to a Pokémon on its birthday, you will receive a blessing that can permanently increase HP, physical attack, special attack, speed, physical defense, and special defense.

　　Review: Give it to Pokémon as a gift! Maybe it will bring them unexpected surprises. ]

"Wow!"

Looking at this brand new birthday cake, Naoki thought that this was indeed the case.

"The cooking level has jumped directly from B to S, and the effect has changed from improving one item to improving all aspects. It's really exaggerated!" Naoki couldn't help but take a breath.

 But then, a new problem came one after another.

 The six major items that birthday gifts improve, are they racial values, effort values, or individual values?

  If it were an effort value, it would be a bit useless. Naoki felt that the lower limit of S-level cooking should not be so low.

So, what about the racial value?     If this is the case, it is an exaggeration!

The race value of the Motorized Lizard is 501. If it lasts for a few more years, its upper limit will exceed that of Bulbasaur and Water Arrow Turtle and Charizard.

If you eat it for decades or hundreds of years, catching up with Legendary Pokémon will not be a dream!

 But there is another problem. The real world is not a game, and humans cannot see the improvement of Pokémon’s race value with the naked eye.

And even if the racial value is high, it doesn't mean anything. After all, there are no examples in this world where low-level Pokémon defeat high-level Pokémon.

Zhi Shu couldn’t figure it out. After a brief moment of contemplation, he simply threw all these questions behind him.

  Anyway, he is not a trainer, and he does not need to fight. The most important thing now is to celebrate the Motorized Lizard’s birthday well.

At this time, Bada Huo, who was in charge of sentry duty, flew in from the window and informed that the Motorized Lizard was on its way back.

Hearing this, Naoki quickly returned to the living room with Cream Fairy and Olinio, holding the cake.

The scene has been decorated, the living room is decorated with lights, and there are various gift boxes piled on the sofa and wooden floor for decoration.

At this time, most of the Pokémon in the ranch have gathered here.

The Salt Barriers were huddled in the corner, the Big Milk Cans were standing aside, and the Dragons and Hackrons were also crowding together in front of the fireplace.

These are the Pokémon who were notified by Naoki in advance and came to attend the Biker's birthday party.

Naoki asked his younger sister to close the curtains, and suddenly the room fell into darkness.

 The group of people looked in the direction of the door, waiting for the Motorized Lizard to come in.

At this moment, the Motorized Lizard was walking on the wooden path paved by Zhi Shu.

 It held several flowers in its hands, and these were the flowers it thought were the most beautiful.

The Motorized Lizard was walking on the road holding the flowers without any distractions, but at this moment, it finally realized something was wrong.

The originally bustling ranch was surprisingly quiet at this moment, without a single sound.

 “Gah?!”

The Motorized Lizard was startled. It turned around and looked around, and was shocked to find that even the goats that always stayed in the sheepfold were nowhere to be seen!

The Motorized Lizard panicked. What happened when it was picking flowers?

Thinking of this, Motorized Lizard quickly quickened his pace, wanting to go back home and see Naoki.

It came to the house, opened the door, and heard the sound of fireworks exploding, and colorful ribbons falling from its head like snowflakes.

 “Ai ugh~” my younger sister, Ai Guanshi, clapped her hands.

The Frost Milk Fairy stood on the salt stone barrier and happily put her hands on her hips: "Mama!"

 “Hey!” The mount goats also looked happy. They were quite fond of this Pokémon who often fed them grass dumplings.

Looking at the room full of Pokémon in front of him, Motorized Lizard was dumbfounded and just stood there blankly.

 “Happy birthday, Motor Lizard!” Naoki smiled and walked forward, pulling the Motor Lizard over who had not recovered.

　　Until he came to the cream cake with a candle inserted, the Motorized Lizard still didn't react.

Seeing this, Naoki said helplessly: "Have you forgotten? Today is your birthday. On this day last year, you hatched from a Pokémon egg."

The Motorized Lizard nodded with a cute expression: "Gah."

It opened its eyes wide and finally realized the current situation.

 Zhi...Zhi Shu and everyone, are you celebrating its birthday? !

"These are the clothes I specially entrusted Mrs. Dantès to customize for you." Naoki took out the handbag and placed the clothes in front of the Motorized Lizard: "With them, you won't If you feel cold, then you can play outside in the snow with everyone.”

The Motorized Lizard listened to these words blankly, and the sudden surprise almost rushed through its mind.

At this moment, it felt like its entire body was bathed in a sea of ​​happiness.

 “Gah, gaaaaa!” The Motorized Lizard made a silly cry and looked at everyone with emotion.

 Huluton: "..." I don't have the eyes to see it!

 “Blow out the candles!” Naoki led the Motorized Lizard to the cake.

 While everyone was watching, the Motorized Lizard puffed up its mouth and blew out the candle.

 “Pap-pap-pap-pap!”

 Sister Guanshi started to applaud again.

Led by it, the surrounding Pokémon let out bursts of cheers.

 After blowing out the candles, it’s time to divide the cake.

The Motorized Lizard couldn't cut, so Naoki came to help it.

 He cut the cake into small pieces and gave it to the Motorized Lizard to share the happiness with everyone.

Motor Lizard obeyed obediently.

Gulton on the side looked at this scene with a light in his eyes.

It knows that although the Motorized Lizard looks silly now, it will always remember everything that happened today and be grateful for it.

 At this time, the Motorized Lizard came to it holding a cake.

Huluton looked down at it, then stretched out his paws to take the piece of cake, and ate the long-awaited birthday gift into his stomach.

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 The Motorized Lizard was very happy to see Guledon eating the cake.

It didn't care at all that Gu Lerton just left it alone in the flower field and sneaked away.

 After the cake was divided, the Motorized Lizard picked up his share and started eating with everyone else.

  Feeling the taste of sweet cream in his mouth, Motorized Lizard couldn't help but have an idea in his mind.

 What a blessing!

   *

 On August 21, Naoki received a reply from the Padian League.

Yeci's voice came from the other end of the phone: "The application you submitted to enter the Padia Crater that day has been approved by the alliance. You need to go to Jinhui Town first, where there will be staff from the Padia Alliance to take you. Go to the zero area gate leading to the inside of the giant pit."

"However, he can only send you to the zero area gate, and everything after that will be up to you."

Thinking of everything in the giant pit, Yeci couldn't help but remind him: "The inside of the Padian Giant Pit is very dangerous. Even champion trainers must be careful there. I don't want to see the Padian Alliance lose it." A talent.”

 Naoki: “…”

Even though he didn’t know when he became a member of the Padian League, he still kept Ye Ci’s reminder in mind: “I will be careful, Your Excellency Champion.”

Yeci: "That would be best. When do you plan to set off?"

Hearing this, Zhi Shu turned around and glanced at the few Hackrons playing in the living room.

There is nothing urgent happening at the ranch at the moment. He has his caring brothers and sisters here. Even if he goes out for a while, the ranch will be taken care of in an orderly manner by them.

The only thing that needs his attention is the group of wild Pokémon that temporarily live in the orchard.

 They have not yet emerged from the shadow of that disaster.

Thinking of this, Zhi Shu said: "Three days later!"

 After three days, the wings of the electric petrel should be completely healed.

"Three days later?" Yeci nodded: "Okay, I will notify the staff of the time."

Naoki asked: "How should I find him?"

“This is simple.” Speaking of that person, Ye Ci’s tone showed a hint of helplessness: “He is Qingmu, the master of Jinhui Gym. You only need to go to Jinhui Gym to find him.”

“If he’s not there, go to a place called Bao’s Cafeteria in town to find him. He will take you to the zero area gate.”

　　　Not this time, not this time

 (End of this chapter)