Pokémon: Starting with a Pokémon Ranch.

Chapter 166 Caterpillar: You're Like a Simp

The next morning.

After bidding farewell to the reluctant wild Pokémon, Su Yu packed his things and set off again. This time, Gladion was added to his team.

After walking for a short while and seeing a cave in the distance, Gladio suddenly stopped.

He said with a grave expression:

"In that cave up ahead lives a very grumpy circle bear..."

"When Zubat and I were about to go there to pick berries, we were attacked by that Circular Bear. Its strength... is very strong."

Despite having two Pokémon with him, Gladion was running into obstacles everywhere in the forest, unable to find even a single piece of food. This suggests that the Pokémon in the vicinity are quite strong.

In the game, Gladion is like a rookie trainer who accidentally wanders into a high-level forest; it's already quite good that it didn't "collapse" immediately.

After hearing Gladion's words, Cori looked at the delinquent frog beside him and pondered:

"If it's a Ursaring... my Delinquent Frog probably can't beat it either. Let's just take a detour. It'll be a longer route, but at least it'll be safer."

Upon hearing this, Gladio nodded. However, Su Yu said something in response:

"Let's forget about taking a detour. If we wanted to, we'd have to completely avoid that circly bear's territory, which is too much trouble..."

"Let's go straight there. If we run into that circus bear, I'll handle it."

As he spoke, Su Yu patted the Poké Ball on his waist.

"Hmm, that's true... If we encounter that grizzly bear, your tropical dragon should be more than enough to handle it..."

Ke Rui nodded; he still had great faith in Tropical Dragon's strength.

So the three of them continued walking forward, and when they passed the cave entrance, the circle bear inside, having caught a whiff of their scent, immediately rushed out in a rage.

For the territorially-minded Circle Bear, Su Yu and his companions' actions were undoubtedly a provocation. Therefore, it roared angrily at the three of them:

"Guma!"

However, upon seeing the green caterpillar on Su Yu's shoulder, the Circular Bear immediately recognized it.

This green caterpillar...smells like the one that came to take my electric net practice every day a few months ago?

Back then, this Caterpie, taking advantage of its fast speed, bullied the slow-moving Pokémon Ursaring by constantly using its electric net to provoke it, often leaving Ursaring covered in electric shocks.

Instantly, the circly bear's eyes turned red. Now, all its old and new grudges combined, and it roared and charged again:

"Guma!!!" You better not run this time!

Seeing that Ursaring had already charged forward, and Su Yu showed no intention of taking out his Tropius Poké Ball, Ke Rui, standing to the side, became anxious and said:

"Su Yu, hurry up! The Circle Bear is charging at us!"

If you're not going to use the Tropius, are you planning to use that Caterpie on your shoulder to defend yourself? How is that possible? How could a Caterpie possibly beat a Ursaring?

However, the next moment, Ke Rui saw a scene that left him speechless.

Upon seeing the Circly Bear, the Caterpie actually went to meet it head-on. The Caterpie used to be able to toy with this clumsy Circly Bear, but now that its strength had increased significantly, it considered it even less of a threat.

Once the electric net was cast, it immediately trapped the Circly Bear. After being trapped, the Circly Bear tried to struggle. After all, based on past experience, this electric net was not actually very strong, and it could break free as long as it struggled hard.

This time, however, the resilience of the power grid exceeded its expectations. Not only could it not break free, it also tripped over itself and fell to the ground.

Ke Rui, standing to the side, was dumbfounded.

What... what's going on? A caterpillar just killed someone in one move?

This world is too magical! Facing this Circly Bear, Ke Rui felt that even if the Bad Frog and Poliwag teamed up, they might not be able to beat it. How come a Caterpie could kill it in an instant?

"How did you breed this green caterpillar? I have a feeling it's illegal."

Ke Rui asked, puzzled. What puzzled him most was why a green caterpillar could be so outrageous.

"Because... it was bred based on Rayquaza." Su Yu sighed helplessly in his heart, how am I supposed to explain this to you?

……

……

After struggling on the ground for a long time, the circly bear finally gave up. And having been trapped in the net for so long, its initial anger had completely dissipated.

Even if you give it an hour, it still can't break free from this electric fence...

Seeing this, Su Yu had Caterpie remove the electric net. After getting up, Ursaring appeared meek and submissive; faced with overwhelming power, it chose to submit to its instincts.

"Very good. Those who learn from others are wise. In the future, when you see a trainer entering your territory, don't be so irritable."

"Alright, you can go back now."

Su Yu patted the teddy bear's head and said this.

Upon hearing this, the Circular Bear lowered its head and responded with a sound, then carefully slipped back into the cave.

Ke Rui, still reeling from the shock, started plotting against the caterpillar after failing to get an answer from Su Yu.

He took out a bunch of high-level energy cubes he had bought outside and handed them to the caterpillar, saying:

"Brother Chong, how did you develop all these skills? Can you tell me?"

"Brother Bug, hey, iced cola, and the top-tier energy cubes—they're all amazing stuff!"

"Hey, Brother Bug, say something!"

However, the green caterpillar remained silent, only hopping back onto Su Yu's shoulder after it had done its business, and whispering in Su Yu's ear:

"Hiss..." This person seems to be a simp.

Su Yu: "..." That hurts, bro.

Fortunately, Ke Rui couldn't understand what the caterpillar was saying, otherwise, Su Yu really wouldn't know how to explain it.

He was just a bit outgoing, but he was a really nice person. After getting no results from asking the caterpillar, he stopped pressing the matter.

After that, the three continued on their way. Judging from the distance, they would be close to their destination in about another day. Therefore, they quickened their pace.

Meanwhile, at Su Yu Ranch...

After Su Yu left, since there was no Tropius to take him to the gym, Squirtle simply stayed at the ranch to look after it for Su Yu.

At this moment, it was tending to the crops in the field as usual. Meanwhile, its lambs were lying on the grass, leisurely basking in the sun.

The Growlithe chased butterflies by the flower field, the Farfetch'd hung up Su Yu's laundry to dry, and the Woolworths stayed inside watching TV.

Midway through the journey, Yang Hao stopped by to take a look and, seeing that everything was alright at the ranch, nodded in approval.

It seems that the ranch can still operate normally even without Su Yu.

(End of this chapter)