I, the Pokémon Master, now resign

Seeing that Bai Chen insisted so much, Dafeng Youhui didn't say anything more. Since his benefactor had already said that, it was obviously wrong for him to continue persuading him.

"So, about the reward this time..."

......

"Oh...you're so enthusiastic...Although it's not a bad thing, but I still feel a little uncomfortable..."

After saying goodbye to Iron Island, Bai Chen and Mary boarded the nearest cruise ship.

Originally, he said that it would be fine to leave directly after receiving the reward, but Dafeng Youhui wanted to send them the last part of the way no matter what he said, but he followed them all the way to the pier behind before finally stopping.

"Because he is very grateful to you, Teacher Bai Chen."

Mary stood by Bai Chen's side, pressed against the railing of the ship's deck with him, looked at the bursts of waves brought up by the engine, and said so.

"I know too..."

Bai Chen changed his orientation, let his back lean on it, and then boredly took out something from the overstuffed backpack and threw it to Ma Li.

"Next, I have to think about how to deal with these things. Alas...Obviously I said that I will give you a little reward."

"Since you've said that, others won't be stingy..." After taking the things Bai Chen threw, Ma Li squinted at Bai Chen and muttered softly, "And your Worrying is too extravagant, isn’t it? If others know that you are distressed because you don’t know how to deal with these things, they will be annoyed instead?”

Lying in Mary's hands was a small, shiny black stone.

The stone as a whole looks very transparent, and it seems that you can see the scenery on the other side through it when placed in the sun.

Of course, this stone is not a stone that can be seen everywhere, but one of the precious evolution stones - the Stone of Darkness.

"really......"

Regarding Ma Li's complaints, Bai Chen seemed to be unable to find any reason to refute, so he could only respond in this way.

The Dark Stone, compared to the three common evolutionary stones, can definitely be considered a rare item. The Dark Stone has very strict requirements on the environment in which it is formed, and it cannot be found in ordinary mines.

However, in Iron Island, the resources of the Stone of Darkness are unexpectedly rich. According to Dafeng Yuhui, the mines of the Stone of Darkness began to form after the people who developed here were all gone. It can be regarded as a secret in their village, right?

However, people of the older generation don't seem to know much about this kind of stone, and only Dafeng Youhui in the village knows its value, so he gave Bai Chen a backpack full of the Dark Stone as a reward .

And if there is no accident, in order to revive the village and rebuild the steel island, Dafeng Youhui will most likely sell the dark stone mine there, and then use the exchanged funds to repair the forest and village.

I don't know if the dark stone reserve in that mine is enough to complete these.

"After you go back, you can evolve the Dark Crow. Its power has almost settled down now."

Bai Chen closed the zipper of the backpack again, not forgetting to emphasize this to Mary.

"Is it ready?"

Mary looked at the Dark Stone in her hand with a nervous expression.

In this way, it seems that she has not personally witnessed the process of the evolution of Pokémon, and Mary feels bursts of excitement for the upcoming experience.

"Are you so excited?"

Looking at Ma Li's joyful expression, Bai Chen couldn't understand it. After all, he was so excited after seeing the evolution of the rattan snake that he couldn't sleep the whole night.

It's just that after so many years, he can't remember the excitement of that first experience.

"Next, there is the last..."

Bai Chen walked to the side alone, and what he held in his hand was a wooden box, which contained the miracle seeds that the couple gave him back then.

Celebi...

Although the other party had already stated that there was no time limit when entrusting this task, it really didn't feel good to leave work unfinished.

As for Celebi's trace, although Bai Chen has nothing to do, but......

"The letter, it should have been delivered, right? If that guy can't do anything... There should be few people in the world who can find Celebi..."

Bai Chen sighed helplessly, then shook his head to put away all the unhappiness in his heart, and continued to enjoy the comfort of the sea breeze.

And at some point, on the other side——

Kanto region, Joban City.

"Bang Bang~!"

In the dark corridor, a staff member knocked on the door of the office.

"Hello, here is a letter for you."

"Just leave it at the door."

A calm and magnetic male voice came from inside the room.

"Yes, I understand."

The staff responded so simply, and then put the letter on the box hanging by the door, and left here without looking back, because he knew that the people in the house didn't like others crowding into his office the door.

"click~"

Not long after the staff left, the heavy door of the office was finally opened.

"Letter? Whose will it be?"

A middle-aged man with a cropped cut came out of the house. Although he was already middle-aged, he did not exude the typical decadent temperament of a middle-aged uncle. Instead, he revealed a kind of shrewdness everywhere. It feels capable, like a person who has a successful career.

He flipped through the surface of the letter left and right. Apart from the delivery address, there wasn't much information to look up. The man suddenly became a little interested.

And the next moment, when he opened the envelope and saw the signature inside, his vague interest finally turned into joy.

"Hehe, did you ask me for something? Anyway, the time is almost up, so let's go."

After saying this, the man returned to the office and closed the door firmly.

......

425 Street banter and baked sweet potatoes?

Whenever there are busy days, time seems to pass quickly. After returning to Random Town from Steel Island, a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

A month or so of vacancy has passed, and the bosses in the commercial street in the town have finally returned to their busy work. The popularity of public opinion that Sirona brought to the coffee shop has gradually subsided, although there are still some new faces every day. Come here to enjoy food and coffee, but at least the current coffee shop is relatively empty most of the time.

Although I finally returned to my free time, but...

"Oh... what the hell are you doing... It's been so long, why haven't the letters come yet?"

Looking at the deserted coffee shop, Bai Chen sighed deeply, remembering the express mail he had sent long before departure from Iron Island, and there was still no reply until today, and he felt full of boredom.

"I originally said that there was nothing wrong with catching up here, so I went to settle the first commission, alas..."

Bai Chen shook his head, looked at the time, it was already 4:30 in the afternoon, thinking that no one would come at this time, so he put the glass that he was constantly wiping on the counter, Passed through the back door connected to the master house, and came to the grass behind the store.

"Aura wheel!"

Before the door was opened, I heard Ma Li's enthusiastic fighting sound. After pushing the door open, it turned out that Ma Li was still training there every day.

"Mor!"

Morube, who was his turn to be commanded today, seemed to be full of energy. The moment Ma Li's voice fell, a golden electric current wrapped its whole body, and it was spinning rapidly.

On the other side of the grass, facing Molubeke, is the head of the crow that completed the evolution a month ago. Compared with the dark crow, it now has a larger body size, and its gestures are full of energy. The power that was impossible to have during the Dark Crow period.

Facing Morubeco, who was jumping with electric light, as if to prove his strength, the crow head did not choose to retreat, but set up its wings and swooped in the direction of Morubeco.

The wings were also shrouded in a dark gray mist one second before they collided with Morubeco, which was wrapped in electric light. Even in the face of the ability to restrain himself, the head of the crow showed no fear at all.

The wings slashed down in the air, and then the higher terrain, its attack power has also been improved.

Bang~boom——!

First, there was the muffled sound when Morubeco's head collided with the crow's head and wings, and then there was an explosion caused by the collision of the two skills.

The smoke spread between the two, and neither side could take advantage of the attack this time.

"Compared to a month ago, it's a big improvement..."

Whether it's Crow Head or Molubeke, the aura exuding from them is much stronger than before.

In just one month, Ma Li's current overall level in the team should be enough to support her to get a good result in the regional league competition.

Needless to say, Molu Beike and Crow Head who are in the battle, on the other side watching the battle, the Komadao Xiaobing, Hooking Eye, and the gangster crocodile are already much stronger than when they were subdued.

Needless to say, new skills and moves, they have already mastered a lot, and the rest is the question of when to evolve.

From Bai Chen's point of view, the strength of Ju Dao Xiaobing and the gangster crocodile have fully met the needs of evolution, but Ma Li doesn't seem to plan to let them evolve too early. When asked her why, she just said that she hopes they can accumulate more A little bit of experience and the like, her eyes were always dodging during the answer.

"Huh...? Stop it! Just come here today!"

After noticing Bai Chen who was on the sidelines, Ma Li stopped the two Pokémon who seemed to be planning to have a showdown.

After putting them all back into the Pokémon ball, Ma Li ran to Bai Chen's side and asked:

"Is today over?"

"Well, the time is almost up, there should be no guests coming today."

Bai Chen rubbed his stiff shoulders. To be honest, standing at the counter for an afternoon was tiring enough.

"After locking the door, I have to go to the shopping street to buy the vegetables I need to eat these days. Do you want to go there with me or go home first?"

"Together!"

Ma Li answered without the slightest hesitation, with a sense of joy, as if Bai Chen moved his steps now, and she would immediately follow.

"Ah... um... okay, it's just going to the shopping street, why are you so excited..."

Bai Chen turned around without knowing why, of course he would not understand Ma Li's current mood as he was walking in front.

After all, ever since she came back from Iron Island, Mary has understood how weak she is now. In order to at least fight Darkrai for a few more rounds, she has basically been awake for a month. I'm training with my Pokémon.

Train three Pokémon a day, and command them in turn, and the rest of the Pokmon are as opponents, relying on fighting instinct to fight her.

Although this kind of training method existed in the past, the previous training effect was not very good, but after new companions joined, Marie clearly felt that the team's fighting style was undergoing drastic changes.

In the past, the situation of being unable to respond without receiving instructions has happened less and less now. Perhaps the rogue crocodile still maintains its habit when it was the boss. , it will come forward to correct it.

However, this kind of self-confessed boss behavior will also cause dissatisfaction with other Pokémon, especially the irritable Komadao Xiaobing who likes to fight. He once launched a battle against the crocodile because he was dissatisfied with the command of the gangster.

But the more experienced gangster crocodile is indeed better than it in all aspects, and several challenges to the koma knife soldier ended in failure.

And the crocodile's corrective behavior did help Ma Li a lot, perhaps because of the role of competition?Mary has reminded countless times of things that are useless, and the gangster crocodile only needs to be reminded once.

For the past month, Marie and her Pokmon have spent every day in this kind of training. Although she didn't say it clearly, Marie did experience a lot of fatigue.These days, in order to relax, Ma Li wants to go shopping with Bai Chen many times, but Bai Chen seems to be avoiding her, unwilling to disturb her training, whenever Ma Li finds him, He said something first--

"It's just buying ingredients, just leave it to me! You can train with peace of mind!"

Every time he was rejected like this.

Out of face, Ma Li was embarrassed to take the initiative to find him again, so Ma Li was so excited when Bai Chen took the initiative to bring up this matter today.

......

The sunset came as promised.

Compared with winter, the sunset time has been significantly delayed now, at least around 6 o'clock, the sky has not yet completely darkened.

Although the sky was still dimly lit, all the street lamps on the streets of Random Town had been turned on. The afterglow of the setting sun and the light of the street lamps interacted with each other, illuminating the street.

Bai Chen and Ma Li walked side by side, and they each carried a bag full of things. Although it looked like a lot, in fact, it only contained ingredients for the next three days.

If it were simpler, just buying one bag would be enough to eat for three days, but Bai Chen's dignity as a half-cook did not allow him to prevaricate the matter of eating so easily.If he used to live alone, he could even last a week with noodles in clear soup and fried eggs, but after all, there is still Ma Li waiting for him to feed him. Considering Ma Li's growth needs, of course Bai Chen Make the dishes as rich as possible.

only......

"By the way, are you fatter than before?"

As he was walking, Bai Chen suddenly realized something was wrong, so he turned his head and asked Ma Li.

Mary: "???"

I was in a good mood at first, why did you suddenly ask such a question?

"Yes...is there...should, no?"

No matter what the facts are, let's refute them first.

But if you think about it carefully, maybe you really gained weight... Especially in the past month, Bai Chen has not received any new commissions, and he needs to go on a long trip, and the business of the coffee shop is not as good as it was before going to Iron Island. Exploding fire, you need to run around busy every day.

And the rest of the time...

Eat, sleep, command battles.

It seems that there are only three things left to do?

If you command the battle, it seems that you don’t need to walk or do anything by yourself, just stand still and move your mouth... Although this is also tiring, it is mental work, and it improves the amount of exercise... .