Pokémon: Starting with a Pokémon Ranch.

Chapter 37 Enlightenment Black Tea

After dinner.

Alcremie, Caterpie, and Growlithe started playing in the house.

Now that there are lights inside, and it's no longer so dark around, they naturally no longer want to go out to play, but instead hide inside.

What they were playing was a board game that Su Yu had bought for them from the department store during the day.

"Mama~!" (6!)

With a roll of the dice, Alcremie rolled another six, sending one plane into the air. Now she had three planes in the air.

On the other hand, Caterpie and Growlithe are in a different situation. Caterpie managed to take off with one plane, while Growlithe hasn't even launched a single one yet.

"Woof!"

Next up was Alcremie's turn, and then it was Growlithe's turn. But Growlithe didn't have hands, so it couldn't roll the dice. It could only nudge the dice with its nose, revealing a four.

"Woof..." How can I play like this? I haven't even taken off a single plane.

When it was the caterpillar's turn, it tossed out a "six" with its short abdominal legs.

Growlithe immediately realized the game was over. "You've all taken off with at least two planes. Once they're off, they can start moving."

As for me, not a single plane can take off, and I can't do anything.

Seeing this, Su Yu, who was standing to the side, laughed:

"Alright, I'll go buy an automatic dice-rolling machine tomorrow. You guys really can't play like this."

Upon hearing this, Growlithe nodded in satisfaction.

Beside Growlithe, Farfetch'd was cradling a green onion in its arms, leaning against the wall with its eyes closed, seemingly resting.

It seemed to really like the outfit of the straw hat and raincoat, and had been wearing it ever since it was bought.

Seeing this, Su Yu planned to go over and chat with it for a bit. However, before Su Yu could take a few steps, the Farfetch'd suddenly opened its eyes.

It gripped the scallion tightly in its hand, its eyes sharp, as if some enemy was nearby.

And it also had a premonition that this sword technique, which it had just comprehended in meditation, once unleashed... seemed capable of cleaving down stars!

"Gah!"

Big Green Duck swung his sword, creating a gust of wind that startled Su Yu.

Although the sword strike missed Su Yu, it still gave him a fright. After all, Pokémon moves are no joke.

Seeing this, Su Yu said fiercely:

"Hey, are you trying to murder me? Don't you want the room and board anymore?"

"Gah...(д；)" No, duck, I just wanted to practice my sword skills~!

Immediately, the big green duck flapped its wings and gave Su Yu a long explanation.

Seeing this, Su Yu was also quite helpless. After warning the big green duck not to practice swordsmanship in the house, he turned around and went to the kitchen.

"Luckily, it didn't hit the floor or walls, otherwise the fireproofing materials in this house might not have been able to stop it."

"They almost wrecked my house again, honestly... I haven't even lived here for very long!"

Su Yu thought to himself.

Back in the kitchen, he glanced at the ingredients he had bought during the day and thought that it had been a long time since he had cooked anything new.

The last thing I made, I think, was a grass cake?

Immediately, Su Yu started preparing new dishes in the kitchen.

He first brewed a cup of black tea. Before brewing it, he specifically asked Soap Milk Fairy for a guide on how to brew tea.

After all, the taste of the food seems to affect the final result. Therefore, Su Yu now consults Alcremie almost every time before cooking.

The tea leaves used to brew this black tea seem to have come from leaves that grow on the budding deer antlers, and the brewed tea is quite mellow and fragrant.

After taking a sip, the effects of the black tea became apparent to Su Yu.

"Refined English Black Tea: Made with milk and sugar under the guidance of Alcremie. It has a mellow and smooth taste and is said to relieve fatigue, improve learning efficiency, and enhance insight."

"Enhancing one's ability to gain sudden insights? Does such a thing as sudden insight really exist?"

Su Yu was puzzled; he didn't understand what this sudden enlightenment meant.

If we really have to say, does Wu Jian count?

Su Yu looked at the giant green onion duck not far away.

When it comes to Pokémon related to comprehension, the only one Su Yu can think of is Farfetch'd. It's said that within the Farfetch'd community, even the way they use leek is divided into various schools, much like sword cultivators in fantasy novels.

So, Su Yu brought the green onion duck outside and gave it some Enlightenment Black Tea.

After the leek duck drank the Enlightenment Black Tea, Su Yu said:

"Try using moves on the ground and see if the power of the moves increases after drinking the red tea."

Upon hearing this, Farfetch'd did as instructed. It used its Leaf Blade to slash at the ground, carving a deep gash. However, this gash seemed no different from those it had created when using Leaf Blade in the past.

"Gah..." It's not much different from ducks.

"What about the other moves?" Su Yu asked.

Upon hearing this, Farfetch'd tried other moves, but all yielded the same result.

"That's strange. Does this black tea have no effect whatsoever?"

As he spoke, Su Yu walked into the house, wanting to carefully consider the properties of this black tea.

After Su Yu left, Farfetch'd remained where it was. It looked at the sword marks on the ground, sensing the lingering sword intent within them, wondering why Su Yu had summoned it out.

Suddenly, it seemed to have grasped something from the sword intent, and its sword techniques, continuous slashes, and multiple strikes...

Farfetch'd used the combo attack on the ground again, unleashing several sword strikes in succession. Surprisingly, the power of the combo attack was much greater than before, even with the same number of strikes, which greatly shocked Farfetch'd.

Sword enlightenment... can it really be done like this? The progress I've made in this sword enlightenment is equivalent to the results I achieved after two or three previous attempts at sword enlightenment, which were gradually accumulated.

And this time, the progress in sword enlightenment is so exaggerated...

"Gah...!"

Could it be the cup of black tea that Su Yu just gave it?

Farfetch'd had already learned from Tropius and the others that Su Yu's cooking contained powerful energy that could help Pokémon become stronger.

But seeing is believing, and this was the first time Big Green Duck had witnessed the effects of Su Yu's cooking. In the past, when eating Grass Cake, besides feeling the rich grass-type energy, there were no other special effects.

"Gah!" Staying in this ranch can actually help me improve my sword skills and become stronger?

Now, Farfetch'd was starting to not want to leave the ranch. The Pokémon on the ranch were so kind to it, and Su Yu was also very good to it. And staying here was even helping it get stronger.

What if, after it finishes teaching the tropical dragons and the free room and board ends, Su Yu doesn't want it anymore? What will it do then...?

With its two wings rubbing its head, Farfetch'd was troubled for the first time, afraid that Su Yu would kick it out.

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(End of this chapter)