Pokémon: Start with an Admiral Crab!

"came back?"

Wang Yao stretched and stood up from the recliner.

The young kitchen helpers had been picking mushrooms for so long that he thought they had gotten lost in the forest.

"Lucky~"

"Wang!"

Charmander and Dalupe who went out to pick mushrooms, as well as Gull and Chansey, returned to the camp one after another.

"Let me see what kind of mushrooms you brought back..."

As a professional food critic, although Wang Yao does not need to cook himself, he still has strict control over the ingredients.

After saying that, he picked out a gray mushroom from the small schoolbag behind Charmander.

"Well, although this is not poisonous, the taste is so-so...it's okay for making a mushroom pot."

After careful selection, Wang Yao was pleasantly surprised to find a few colorful mushrooms he liked in the mouth of a toucan.

"This mushroom is great! Although it has a slight numbing effect, the texture and flavor are top-notch!"

Wang Yao held up the colorful mushroom and showed it to several other new kids in the team, introducing it seriously.

"Remember this from now on. When picking mushrooms, pick ones that look good and taste good."

Anyway, everyone gets a peach fruit after dinner. It doesn’t matter whether it’s poisonous or not, as long as it tastes good, that’s all that matters!

……

After nightfall, the campfire in the camp continued to crackle.

"I feel like I'm too full..."

Shizuka rubbed her slightly bulging belly, her mouth still savoring the taste of wild mushroom risotto.

"Yeah dong~"

"Thank you~ You've worked hard. Daidai, you should go and rest first."

Taking the delicious water handed over by Daidai, Shizuka walked to Wang Yao and sat next to him on Arbok.

"Why are you still watching videos?"

Wang Yao lay on his side on Arbok, his back leaning against the broad snake's back, while a battle analysis video played on his tablet.

"Do you still remember the trainer named Ajie?" Wang Yao looked up and asked.

Shizuka sipped the delicious water, looked at the tablet screen, and thought: "Ajie? I have some impression of him. I think he was the opponent you faced in the elimination round..."

"Yes, his strength is actually quite good. If he hadn't met me so early, he might have had a chance to make it to the main competition."

Wang Yao recalled the opponent's fast-swimming frog full of fighting spirit, and there was still a hint of appreciation in his tone.

If Ah Ji had worked half as hard as his opponent, he would have become the champion of Guandu long ago.

After a pause, Wang Yao continued.

"Now, Ajie has given up his career as a trainer and returned to his hometown of Golden City. Together with his good friend Wei, he has established a commentary program focusing on tournament battles."

"It's only been a year, and he already has hundreds of thousands of followers. I heard he was even specially hired by the league to be a guest commentator for the Quartz Conference this year."

Wang Yao shared the tablet screen with Jingxiang and pointed at the avatar wearing a straw hat in the corner of the screen.

Shizuka blinked, then looked closely at the narrator's face and said, "Really? And he's still wearing the straw hat you gave him."

"Yes, their current group is called 'Straw Hat Brothers'."

Wang Yao clicked on another battle analysis video, and the protagonist in it was actually an old acquaintance - Boss Sakaki.

He didn't expect that this old guy had also participated in exhibition matches.

Although this is an old video from four years ago, the other party in the battle is still the veteran Four Heavenly Kings, Granny Kikuko.

Sakaki's fighting style is very old-school, and his play is steady and solid, making him worthy of the name "Sakaki of the Earth".

Because it was an exhibition match, each side only sent out two Pokémon.

Sakaki's starting Rhyno easily defeated Kikuko's Arbok, but was later defeated by Gengar's Hypnosis.

Then it was the battle between Metamorphosis and Gengar. Although Metamorphosis relied on its willpower to resist the attack of hypnosis, it was still eliminated by Gengar's continuous Shadow Balls.

To be honest, this game was not very exciting.

It's just that Ajie is making an exclusive commentary video about the Gym Leaders of each major gym. Since Sakaki rarely appears on screen, there is not much material to use, so he can only use some old videos to make up the number.

"Master Sakaki seems like a very serious person."

Jingxiang's little head tucked behind Wang Yao's shoulder, and she watched the battle commentary with him.

"It's okay. After getting to know him better, I realized that he's actually quite warm-hearted." Wang Yao muttered softly.

"Oh, yes. I remember you were the acting gym leader of the Viridian Gym."

"How does it feel to be a gym leader?" Shizuka asked curiously.

“Of course it’s very hard~”

Wang Yao said boastfully.

"You have no idea how hardworking I was back then. Not only did I get up early and work late every day to fight, I also insisted on increasing revenue and reducing costs. That's how I managed to run the gym so smoothly!"

"You just know how to brag." Jingxiang snorted and nudged Wang Yao's ear with her head, completely disbelieving his big talk.

Given the other party's lazy nature, he might still be sleeping when the challenger arrives.

"Guji~"

The giant crab crawled over unsteadily.

It had just finished washing the dishes and came over when it heard the conversation between the two.

"Guji~"

That's right!

It proves that the trainer is not lazy.

If you are even a little bit lazy, you won't be greedy.

……

Two days later.

Standing outside the Golden Gym, Wang Yao scratched his head and spoke.

"Are you sure you want to challenge Nancy now?"

Shizuka looked eager to try and asked, "Do you think my strength is not enough?"

Wang Yao thought about it seriously and said, "Hmm... you have Psyduck, Swamplord, and Jigglypuff, so that's enough, right?"

Shizuka’s strongest Pokémon at the moment is still the Psyduck given to her by Wang Yao. Especially after the extreme training, her talent for super powers has been fully stimulated.

As early as a year ago, Psyduck was able to defeat Nancy's Alakazam.

This time, it does not need the energy-charging golden hoop, it can also launch a telekinetic attack that is comparable to a mental blow.

Now with the addition of the special defense and invincibility of the Chansey Egg, it should be more than enough to defeat the Golden Gym.

"A year has passed. I wonder how that guy has dealt with his negative personality. I hope he doesn't go crazy and destroy things after losing." Wang Yao was not worried about whether Shizuka could win.

"Then I'll go, wish me good luck!" Shizuka held the Poké Ball and walked to the battle registration office outside the gym with full fighting spirit.

She was lucky that there were not many challengers today, so she only had to wait for more than an hour to enter the competition.

But just waiting was boring, so the two of them decided to buy tickets and enter the venue, intending to be spectators for a while.

After entering, the two found a seat in a corner.

Seeing the mobile snack vendors in the audience, Wang Yao stood up and said.

"Just watch first, I'll go buy some food."

……

"Two cups of popcorn and a bottle of soda..."

"No? Then let's switch to juice. What flavors do you have?"

……

Two minutes later, Wang Yao returned to his seat with two cups of popcorn in his hands and the mini dragon floating behind him carefully rolled up two opened coconuts.

"?"

Shizuka took the coconut with a puzzled look on her face.

Is this thing really sold by the vendors in the spectator seats?