Pokémon: Starting with a Pokémon Ranch.

Chapter 155 Visiting the Stones, Stone Fanatic Daigo

What Daigo was referring to should be Rayquaza's own characteristics: the Airlock and Delta Stream.

The latter is Rayquaza's Mega Evolution ability, which reduces the damage dealt by types that are super effective against Flying-type moves. In other words, moves like Electric and Rock-types will deal half the damage to Flying-types under this ability's influence.

"Hoenn..." Upon hearing this word, Su Yu glanced at Daigo intentionally.

In response, Daigo coughed and said:

"Ahem... Because of my family background, I know quite a bit about the Hoenn mythology."

It's impossible that you would realize I'm the Hoenn champion just because I accidentally let it slip, right?

After visiting the Sky Tree, Su Yu took Daigo to explore the orchard, onion field, and flower field.

Daigo's reaction to these places was lukewarm; he merely praised Su Yu's ability to manage the ranch.

After all, it takes a lot of effort to manage a ranch in such an orderly manner.

However, when visiting Lake Moon, Daigo's eyes were immediately fixed on it. Looking at the rippling water, Daigo thought to himself:

"A lake with such abundant water energy... there must be many precious water-based gems nurtured at its bottom, right?"

Suppressing his urge to dive into the lake to retrieve stones, Daigo followed Su Yu and began to tour the medicinal herb field again.

During this time, Su Yu looked at Daigo with a puzzled expression, wondering what was wrong with the champion and why he seemed a little strange.

"Now that we've finished touring the ranch's facilities, why don't we go to my house and rest for a bit? It's almost lunchtime anyway."

"Cough... Well, that's fine too, I need to rest for a bit anyway," Daigo replied.

However, for Su Yu, this was just the beginning of the main event. After bringing Daigo back to the house, Su Yu made him a cup of tea. Then, he began to explain the structure of the entire house to Daigo.

"Speaking of which, there's also a collection room on the first floor that I use specifically to display my stones. It's filled with all sorts of stones that I've collected, and it's one of my most prized rooms."

Stone?

"Does Rancher Su also like collecting stones?" Daigo asked curiously.

Upon hearing this, Su Yu nodded, then shook his head.

To prevent the truth from being exposed later, he explained:

"I just have a bit of a collecting habit; the stones themselves don't really appeal to me."

"I see..." Daigo was greatly disappointed upon hearing this. He had thought he could find someone who shared his love for stones.

Although his father also enjoys collecting stones, Daigo rarely talks to Zivge Hibiscus. Besides, discussing hobbies with his father... is just too awkward and embarrassing.

Are you suggesting that two perverts get together and stare at a rock with silly grins?

Daigo shook his head, trying to shake off the shameful image in his mind.

"You seem to really like stones? Would you like to take a look at my collection?" Su Yu asked, pretending not to know.

For him, having to pretend he didn't know Daigo was exhausting. And he couldn't expose him directly, so he had to keep acting.

"I should probably go see Pippin to improve my acting skills," Su Yu thought to himself.

Upon hearing this, Daigo showed a very interested expression.

"Is that alright? Perhaps we could exchange some of our collections as a testament to our friendship," Daigo said with a smile.

"Kangjin." The Metagross, who was used to this, lay quietly on the ground and closed its eyes.

"Awoo~!"

However, at this moment, Growlithe came to Metagross's side and looked at it curiously. After all, this kind of rare pseudo-legendary Pokémon is rarely seen.

After staring for quite a while, Metagross finally couldn't stand Growlithe's gaze any longer. It helplessly used magnetism to levitate itself and looked at Growlithe with a puzzled expression, asking:

"Kang Jin?" What's wrong?

"Awoo~" Can you play with me?

"Growlithe asked innocently."

"Kang Jin..."

Turning to look at Su Yu and Daigo who were leaving, Metagross had no choice but to agree.

"Kangjin." ...Just consider it helping the ranchers here take care of their kids.

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Meanwhile, on the other side...

I took Daigo to the exhibition room where the stone collection was displayed. As soon as we entered, Daigo saw a lot of stones.

This caught his eye; it seemed Su Yu really did collect stones. Many of the stones were quite impressive even to his standards.

"This water stone... is of quite good quality. Where did you find it?"

Upon entering, Daigo was immediately drawn to one of the water stones. In his opinion, this water stone was the best quality among them.

"That one? Um... one of my Pokémon found it on my ranch."

"Speaking of which, it seems to be very lucky, often finding quite a few good things outside," Su Yu replied.

"I see..." Daigo nodded upon hearing this. Then, his gaze was drawn to a fragment of a meteorite.

"This is..." Daigo sensed an unusual fluctuation on the meteorite fragment.

"What's wrong?" Su Yu asked, puzzled. "Um... that... I got that from a rancher in the pastoral area. He said it was a meteorite that fell from the sky."

Daigo then took out a machine and scanned the meteorite, before saying seriously:

"Rural Manager Su, could you please entrust this meteorite to me for safekeeping? I think it might be related to a Pokémon that Devon has been searching for."

"Of course, I will also pay you the corresponding compensation; it's what you deserve."

Pokémon, meteorite?

Could it be Jirachi?

"Sure, but I have one condition. The results you obtain from your research on this meteorite... also need to be shared with me," Su Yu replied.

If it really is related to Jirachi, Su Yu wouldn't want to miss out on useful information. After all... Jirachi is so cute!

"That's natural," Daigo said with a smile.

After that, Daigo followed Su Yu on a tour of the exhibition hall. During the tour, Daigo saw many stones that interested him, and he immediately asked Su Yu to let him have them in exchange.

After removing these stones, Daigo said:

"Next time you come to Fengyuan... cough, next time you come to my house, I can also show you my collection."

"If I see any stones that interest you, I can give them to you as a gift."

Su Yu pretended not to hear Daigo's slip of the tongue, opened the safe at the back of the room, and said:

"Actually, I have one last major item in my collection. Coincidentally, this item... is quite a perfect match for you and Metagross."

"What collection?" Daigo asked, puzzled.

The next moment, a Metagross Mega Stone and a Key Stone appeared before him, gleaming with dazzling light.

(End of this chapter)