Pokémon: An Encounter with You

"It's just two or three failures." At some moments, the power of words is too weak, but we still have to say, "It's not a big deal."

Shi Qiu calmly expressed that he didn't care: "It's great if you evolve. If you can't evolve, it's also good that I can hold you forever."

The choice that Shi Qiu made subconsciously alleviated Riolu's inner anxiety and fear about not being able to evolve to a certain extent.

"Let's go back first. We still have training in the afternoon."

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Two o'clock in the evening.

In the darkness, Shi Qiu quietly opened his eyes.

Riolu finally fell asleep. Shi Qiu breathed a sigh of relief and looked around the bed.

Since Aledo had evolved, the bed was even more crowded. Shi Qiu had to get up very carefully to ensure that he would not wake up the Pokémon.

He tiptoed to his backpack and fished out the forest ticket.

[The forest ticket has been activated. ]

[The character...the sprite...has been generated and is entering the simulation map.]

[Current simulation map: ***'s most popular and most crowded areas. ]

[You have entered the a-1 forest area. ]

In the dark room, the immutable stone accidentally fell out of Shi Qiu's pocket and hit the ground with a thud, which was particularly harsh in the silent night.

“(Ah~.)”

The foam squirrel closed his eyes and sighed helplessly.

Then, faint ringing sounds were heard in the air.

The elves who were about to be woken up, especially Zoroark and Riolu, fell into a deep sleep again amid the flowing fairy music.

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a-2 Forest area.

As soon as Shi Qiu entered the a-2 forest area from town a, he saw N waiting at the entrance.

"Mr. N, excuse me." Shi Qiu said.

N walked with him to the cabin: "Didn't we agree on this during the day? Don't worry about it."

In the wooden house, Zoroark was also waiting.

Shi Qiu's purpose of looking for N was to learn the language of the elf world.

After temporarily calming Riolu down, he found N and expressed his desire to learn N's special abilities.

"It was before, when you bewitched... persuaded Gengar to disrupt Riolu's ability." Shi Qiu chose his words carefully, "Was that presumptuous?"

Shi Qiu certainly knew that this request to learn other people's special abilities was very presumptuous, but if he could learn N's language bewitching skills that involved the spiritual mind, it might work on Riolu.

He can use this to slowly and slowly untie Riolu's knot through spiritual comfort.

Instead of being like now, we don’t even know why Riolu can’t evolve.

N was silent for a while, then shook his head: "Of course I won't be presumptuous. It's just that this ability is innate..."

He thought for a while and said, "It is possible for you to learn it, but maybe you need to start by learning a language..."

The language of the elves' original world.

So, with the help of Xiaomo, Shi Qiu started the branch quest of learning languages ​​without telling Riolu and N.

But the progress is... hard to describe.

"(Hello, world.)" N spoke in a gentle voice with a book spread out in front of him.

At Shi Qiu's signal, the simulator turned off its simultaneous translation. He frowned and tried his best to repeat the pronunciation from N's mouth.

"(You are, a pig.)" Shi Qiu said seriously.

N:……

Even he couldn't help but be choked twice.

"What I said was, hello world. What you said was, you are a pig..."

"In the language of the league, good pronunciations drop two frequencies in the third quarter..."

N explained patiently and repeated it twice.

Shi Qiu was horrified: "When will you be able to speak the language of the Huaxia District?"

Although there were still some pauses, the intonation and pronunciation were completely correct, and he did not sound like someone who had just come into contact with the Chinese language.

N sighed: "I bought a general knowledge book on the Chinese language and studied it roughly... It's not important, just study hard!"

"Yes!" Shi Qiu sat up straight, his attitude correct and serious.

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The reason why Riolu cannot evolve may be extremely ridiculous and absurd: he does not like his introverted personality and cannot express his inner ardent love like other Elf companions without any concealment.

The boy is willing to approach me, but I don’t know how to respond, or the response is too little.

This is actually just a simple psychological problem, and Shi Qiu probably felt it a little bit. So from the day Lalu Las joined the team, he said: I accept and love your personality traits.

If Riolu continues to lead a normal life, this problem will gradually disappear imperceptibly.

Unfortunately, the evolution of Elrod caused Riolu to consider evolving ahead of time.

When Riolu made the choice to evolve into Lucario and took the Unchanging Stone, due to the hidden psychological burden that had not yet disappeared, the first evolution failed by coincidence.

Then came the second failure, the third failure...

The original small problems began to run wild.

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Shi Qiu's brain works quickly. Even though his learning speed cannot be compared with N. Harmonia's, he can still speak a few words sporadically after a few days.

He did not directly talk to Riolu in the language of the elves' original world, as that would have been too deliberate.

He found the little gray mouse, and under the pretext of rehearsal and album preparation, he and the bubble squirrel enthusiastically sang a song for everyone every morning.

This special language, when combined with singing in a music venue, does have a different flavor and can greatly relieve the physical and mental stress of the peaceful elves.

From then on, the one who stayed in bed every day changed from Shi Qiu to the crybaby Zoroark.

"(Is this enough?)" The Bubble Squirrel stood on Shi Qiu's head, grabbed the boy's hair to stabilize his body, and watched him put away the musical instruments.

"That's enough." Bubble Squirrel could only see the back of the boy's head and couldn't see the expression on his face.

"Don't worry, we have to believe in Riolu." Shi Qiu sat in front of the window and looked out. "Everything that needs to be done has been done. What remains is Riolu's path. We just need to wait patiently by his side until he overcomes this hurdle..."

He looked listless, yawned, and nodded his head.

"(The matter in the B-1 area cannot be delayed any longer.)"

The foam squirrel jumped onto the table, hesitated for a while, and finally gently pushed him awake.

"(Originally you were supposed to accept the mission after the military training, but now it's been four or five days... What are you going to do?)"