Pokémon: Starting with a Pokémon Ranch.

Chapter 16 Frost Milk Fairy Smuggles Her Way In (Please Read On)

After leaving the mobile phone store, Su Yu first went to a pharmacy and bought all the medicine he needed for his Pokémon's treatment. He had often visited this pharmacy when his previous incarnation treated people.

Therefore, Su Yu was quite familiar with the place. Moreover, he could get a significant discount when buying medicine at this pharmacy.

Afterwards, he went to the farmers' market and bought some rare ingredients that he didn't have at home.

The "Cooking" skill hasn't been used for a long time, so Su Yu plans to buy some more high-end ingredients and try it out sometime.

After buying a lot of tree berries, and also a bottle of oil produced by a special Pokémon called Orion, as well as chili peppers produced by Hot Chili Pepper, Su Yu walked out of the farmers' market.

As Su Yu rounded the corner, he saw a cake shop. After a moment's thought, Su Yu released Tropius from its Poké Ball.

"Please look after these things for me. I'll go into the store and take a look, then I'll be right back."

With that, Su Yu placed the items he had just bought next to the tropical dragon and then walked into the cake shop.

He looked like he was going in to buy a cake.

Just after Su Yu entered the cake shop... a Cream Fairy peeked out from a nearby alley.

It watched Su Yu walk into the cake shop, sniffed the air, and noticed the scent of pasture grass on him, which it liked.

After glancing at Tropius again, Alcremie gradually confirmed Su Yu's identity as a rancher. It leaned out and tentatively tried to communicate with Tropius, and the two Pokémon began to chat.

"Ma, Ma..."

"Huh? Huh~"

"Ma, Ma."

After exchanging a few words, the two Pokémon became somewhat familiar with each other. Then, Alcremie made its request.

"Ma, Ma~?" (Can I climb onto your back? I've always longed for a ranch, so I hope to go with you.)

"Huh?!"

Upon hearing this, the tropical dragon was quite surprised. After thinking for a moment, it recalled what Su Yu Ranch looked like.

There are Growlithe, Wooloo, Crabcrab, and Suyu there; it's a great place. Bringing Alcremie along would be a good idea, right?

And coincidentally, Tropical Dragon had previously heard Su Yu mutter that he wanted to raise an Alcremie so that he could achieve cream freedom.

Because Alcremie is a Pokémon that can produce sweet cream, similar to Orion's oil, Saltstone's salt, and Boozle's black tea, it is a Pokémon with special products, making it very suitable for ranches.

Thinking this, the tropical dragon nodded. It bent down and let the Alcremie climb onto its back, hiding under one of its leaves.

"Mmm, mmm~" (I ran away from the cake shop, don't let anyone find me, I'll just hide here)

Sommelier said this.

At that moment, Su Yu also walked out of the cake shop. He was carrying a dark chocolate cake in his hand.

Su Yu excitedly said to the tropical dragon:

"Tropical Dragon, the owner here has agreed to let me learn to make cakes here. We'll probably be coming here for the next few days."

"Huh? Really? There's such a good thing?"

"Of course it's true. Let's hurry back; I'll be very busy in the next few days."

Seeing this, the tropical dragon bent down and let Su Yu climb onto its back.

As it crouched down, Tropius observed Su Yu. It seemed Su Yu was completely unaware of the Pokémon hiding beneath its leaves.

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Riding the tropical dragon back to the ranch.

As soon as they landed, Growlithe came to Su Yu's side, wagging its tail and urging him on.

Seeing this, Su Yu said helplessly:

"Wait a minute, wait for me a little longer. I'll go with you after I'm done with my work, okay?"

As he spoke, Su Yu quickly walked into the house and put away the things he had bought one by one.

Afterward, he went to the fields and watered the crops. After watering, he had Tropical Dragon take him to Uncle Yang's house so that Uncle Yang could spread the word that he had started treating Pokémon.

Uncle Yang had a group chat called "Ranch Family" in the pastoral area. As soon as he posted in the group, the surrounding ranchers went wild.

Mareep Farm: Really? Su Yu has started treating Pokémon? That's wonderful!

Pidgey Ranch: My Tauros is sick, and I'm worried it might infect the other Pokémon. Well, I'll contact Su Yu right away.

Kangaroo Ranch: Su Yu is such a good person... Joey from town is away, so my Oliva is saved.

Normally, Pokémon do get sick, but due to their strong resistance, the chances of them getting sick are very small.

However, this is a pastoral area with a large number of Pokémon, so it's not impossible that multiple Pokémon might get sick at the same time.

After saying goodbye to Uncle Yang, Su Yu returned to the ranch. At this point, all the things he needed to do were finally finished.

"Sigh, there's so much to do now that the ranch is running smoothly, it's almost as busy as when we were cleaning up ashes."

Su Yu stretched and said this.

At this moment, the Growlithe, who had been waiting for a long time, also caught up. Seeing this, Su Yu said helplessly:

"Alright, alright, it's your turn. Let's go."

As he spoke, he led his Growlithe dog toward the lake on the south side of the ranch.

……

I brought my Growlithe to the lake.

Su Yu observed and offered suggestions on the training while letting Growlithe practice the "Spark" move on the lake.

After practicing for a short while, Su Yu found a place to sit down and started to slack off, letting the Growlithe practice on its own while he sat aside and watched.

At this moment, he resembled a drill instructor who wanted to slack off during military training.

However, Growlithe was quite self-disciplined; even while Su Yu was slacking off, it continued practicing. It seemed that being defeated by the Wooloos had dealt it a significant blow.

At this moment, Su Yu also noticed some changes in the lake in front of him.

"Huh? There seem to be more fish in this lake, and even more Pokémon?"

The lake, which was originally sparsely populated with fish, was now teeming with them. Among them, one could see many Pokémon such as Shellder and Magikarp.

Occasionally, you can even see starfish.

This is a huge change compared to the lake before. At least when Su Yu came to fish before, there weren't this many fish in the lake. There are more than three or four times more than before.

And the source of this change...

"Could it be because of the environmental modification fluid?"

Su Yu remembered the special liquid the system had given him before.

It seems that the effects of this modification fluid are long-term, continuously altering the surrounding environment to make it suitable for Pokémon to live in.

The Pokémon in the lake likely live in the streams and rivers upstream. They came to the lake because they were attracted by the environment here.

"In that case, fishing would actually be a pretty good job."

Su Yu thought to himself.

He came up with a peculiar way of fishing: he would ride on the back of a tropical dragon, cast a net into the lake, and then let the dragon pull the net up.

Using this method, we should be able to catch quite a few fish, right? And we can immediately have the tropical dragon carry the fish to the town to sell them.

Another day, he'll have to remember to go to town to buy a net, preferably a sturdy one.

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(End of this chapter)