Pokémon: Who let him leave Pallet Town?

Chapter 257 Flying Badge
Ash and Frost's battle is in full swing.

Natsume released the little ground squirrel outside the battlefield.

"Beep—"

"Beep—"

"Eek—"

The little groundhog stared wide-eyed at Natsume.

"Natsume, are we going to have treatment?"

Xiao Gang stepped forward, wanting to help.

“No.” Natsume shook his head slightly, then took out a stone from his pocket.

"this is for you."

Natsume handed the stone to the little groundhog.

"The Unchanging Stone, does Mr. Natsume not want the little ground squirrel to evolve?"

Jiaozi looked over curiously.

She was also aware of some of the little groundhog's quirks.

If it evolves into a tricornus, the symptoms of schizophrenia may improve.

"It has nothing to do with these things."

Instead of letting the little ground squirrel swallow the Everlasting Stone, Natsume took out a standard necklace, embedded it in the stone, and hung it around the little ground squirrel's neck.

"Beep?"

The little groundhog was puzzled. It opened its mouth and took a bite, but after realizing it couldn't eat it, it lost interest.

"I think Natsume wants the little ground squirrel to learn some skills before it evolves, since it's only being used temporarily!"

Xiao Gang realized what was happening.

Natsume nodded slightly, agreeing with the other party's statement.

He plans to teach the little ground squirrel how to split the ground before it evolves into a tridragora.

It's not that Diglett can't learn Earthshaker as it levels up.

Diglett can also learn Earthshaker on their own, but that requires level 54.

The groundhog only needs to be level 44 to learn it.

Before this, equipping Diglett with an Everstone will allow it to learn Earthshaker ahead of time.

After checking on the little mole's condition, Ash's battle also ended.

"Sigh, I got the Flying Badge."

Ash dejectedly raised his Flying Badge and high-fived Pikachu.

"Hey, hey, hey, you're still so unhappy after getting the badge? Someone picked up several badges for free back then."

Xiaoxia said sarcastically.

Surprisingly, Ash didn't argue with her as usual, but replied with some regret:
"It's a pity that Mr. Aso's Hidden Dragon has already fought against Natsume-san, so it can't continue fighting."

"I'd like to see who can breed an even better eagle than the other!"

As Xiao Zhi spoke, he looked to the side.

“Biga—”

Pidgeon nodded in deep agreement.

"Uh, actually, that Pidgeot was already beyond the difficulty of the gym's assessment," Brock reminded him.

"Hmph, I'm not some newbie!"

As Ash spoke, he proudly pulled out his Pokédex and dialed Gary's video call.

I have

"Five, that's right, five! Ash, how did you know I already have five badges!" Gary's voice rang out first.

"Clap!"

Without giving Ash any chance to react, Gary suddenly hung up.

"Squeak-"

Xiao Zhi clenched his fists.

"This guy is so annoying!"

"No, we need to get going right away and head to the next gym!"

After saying that, Ash took the lead and ran off into the distance.

"Hey, hey, hey, the road to Hinoki Town is this way!"

Xiao Gang waved quickly.
"Although Hinoki Town is a bit far, we still need to deliver the GS Ball to Mr. Steel there."

"This way, we don't have to take a detour, which saves a lot of time in the long run."

By the river, everyone was resting. Xiao Gang stood with his hands on his hips, extremely confident in his route plan.

However, no one paid attention to what he said.

"Boom boom boom——"

The man with the middle parting tapped his rice bowl as he approached Xiaogang, indicating that there wasn't enough food for him.

"Xiaogang, I want more rice too."

Xiao Zhi, his mouth full of rice, shoved the bowl over.

"Sigh, this is really a headache."

Xiao Gang gave the two of them extra food. "We're running low on food, we need to get to the next supply point quickly."

Xiao Gang muttered to himself.

Having traveled with the group for a while, Xiao Gang knew everyone's appetites very well.

Logically speaking, there should be absolutely no shortage of food.

But the man with the middle parting is unreasonable.

These past few days, it's been like a bottomless rice bucket, never getting enough to eat.

After finishing his own portion of food, the guy with the middle part would take his food bowl and ask each person and Pokémon for "food from a hundred families".

"If you don't have enough food, I have some here."

As Natsume spoke, he opened his backpack and took out a carton of milk.

"It's milk, we can make milk rice balls."

Xiao Gang took the milk, but saw that Natsume was still rummaging through his backpack, which seemed to contain something else.

Soon, Natsume pulled out a second carton of milk, then a third, a fourth, and a fifth.
"Uh"

Xiao Gang stared blankly at the milk spilled on the floor.

"Natsume-nii, why did you bring so much milk?" Ash asked curiously.

"Shouldn't the point be how this backpack fits so much stuff?" Xiaoxia covered her face.

But everyone was already used to Natsume being able to pull out anything from time to time.

"Because milk tastes good."

Natsume's lips twitched slightly.

Ever since he drank milk like crazy for almost half a month in the underground space of Mount Tsukigami, Natsume feels like he's turning into a little calf.

Upon returning to Pallet Town, he began searching online for various pre-made foods.

He discovered that there was no such thing as pre-cooked food in the world.

It's all cookies and instant noodles!

There are so many amazing people, and the technology is so advanced.

Isn't there any culinary genius who just had a flash of inspiration?
None of the emergency food available suited Natsume's taste, and in the end, he still wouldn't drink milk.

"Pica-"

The girl with the middle parting put down her clean rice bowl and, as usual, asked Natsume for a tissue.

"You really are a rat-shaped dung-producing machine."

Natsume's lips twitched.

It's only noon, but this is already the fourth time the middle-parted hairstyle has been pulled today.

Eating a lot and defecating a lot proves that the middle part of the head digests very quickly.

The man with the middle parting took the tissue and hurriedly ran towards the bushes in the distance.

Staring at the back of the man with the middle parting, Natsume raised an eyebrow slightly.

For the past two weeks, the person with the middle parting has had a much, much greater appetite since that fragment of divine authority was somehow absorbed by the other party.

It keeps talking all day long, and now it doesn't even want to sleep, just lying in its backpack drinking milk.

Conservatively speaking, the empty milk cartons in my system space could be recycled to cover the food expenses of the Rockets trio for a month.

However, the size of the man with the center parting did not increase significantly.

Most of the energy we get from food is used up somewhere.

Natsume didn't pay much attention to it.

To complete one's divine duties, one may need to draw energy from the outside world.

"Roar!"

A strong wind blew, and a fire-breathing dragon with a bow tie descended from the sky.

On its back rode a green-haired girl dressed as a dragon knight.

"Who are you? This is a fire-breathing dragon reserve. Lighting fires is not allowed here."

The green-haired girl jumped off the fire-breathing dragon and curiously looked at the group of people.

Why are fires not allowed in the Charizard Reserve?

Xiao Zhi asked curiously, not understanding at all.

"Because fire-breathing is seen as a provocation by the fire-breathing dragons."

The girl replied.

"My name is Xiao Gang. May I ask your name, madam?" Xiao Gang appeared in the blink of an eye.

"Uh, you can call me Ji Ke." The girl was taken aback.

"Miss Ji Ke, please look, I can also breathe fire—"

Xiao Gang knelt on one knee, picked up a burning cigarette, and put a mouthful of cooking wine in his mouth.

"Pfft-"

With a single breath, a raging inferno erupted.

"Bro, you're amazing!" Ash praised sincerely.

"Idiot, it's your Charizard!" Misty grabbed Ash's ear and straightened his head.

Looking back, Charizard opened its mouth wide, and a violent stream of flames swept past the fire poker that Xiao Gang had raised, heading straight for Ji Ke's Charizard.

(End of this chapter)