Pokémon: Starting with a Pokémon Ranch.

Chapter 46 Is your ranch... legitimate?

"Mount the lamb, use the grassy area!"

"Meow~!"

Upon hearing Su Yu's command, the little sheep immediately used the Grass Field technique on the medicinal field in front of it.

With the use of the grassy field, the grass-based energy in the surrounding land became abundant again, and the medicinal plants spread out accordingly.

However, after observing for a while, Su Yu frowned:

"It seems... it will take another month for these drugs to mature."

Compared to the ordinary agricultural products that Su Yu usually grows, this is a very long time.

In particular, to accelerate the growth of these drugs, he would bring his little sheep to use the grassy area every morning to replenish the soil with grass energy.

"Meow~"

After using the grassy area, the little sheep returned to Su Yu's side. Su Yu patted its head and fed it a piece of grass cake.

"Thank you for your hard work, little lamb," Su Yu said.

Looking at the time, Su Yu realized it was the day the electrician was supposed to bring his daughter to the ranch. He had already arranged with the electrician beforehand for his daughter to experience life as a rancher.

Several days later, just a few days ago, the electrician finally contacted Su Yu and made an appointment with Su Yu to bring his daughter to the ranch.

"It's getting late, looks like we should head back. The electrician should be here soon."

With that, Su Yu picked up the hoe and started walking back.

Meanwhile, on the other side...

Driving his private car with his daughter and electric dragon in tow, the electrician was on his way to Su Yu Ranch.

Along the way, the electrician kept instilling in his daughter the proper etiquette when visiting other people's homes, such as not touching other people's things, greeting them when you arrive, and not being impolite.

They also said that Su Yu was a very capable rancher, and that their daughter should learn a lot from him.

On the surface, Zheng Ya seemed to have taken everything to heart. But in reality, she was constantly complaining behind her back.

For Zheng Ya, this precious winter break during her first semester of junior high school was better spent training with her own kapok balls than wasting time at the ranch. Perhaps this would even help her achieve better grades on her entrance exams.

But she still had to listen to her father, so despite her reluctance, Zheng Ya came along.

"But they also say that being a rancher is a great profession, not necessarily worse than being a professional trainer?"

Zheng Ya was the one who disagreed most with this statement.

In her eyes, ranchers were just a group of weak trainers, most of whom were probably those who had failed to become professional trainers and had become ranchers instead.

Only becoming a professional trainer is Zheng Ya's dream job. Because professional trainers are powerful, glamorous, and enjoy extremely high social status.

The most powerful professional trainers, in particular, can be revered by thousands and have countless followers. They can also hold positions within the league, such as Gym Leader or Elite Four member.

Compared to them, these ranchers are far inferior.

"I wonder what this rancher said to Dad that made him so convinced," Zheng Ya thought to herself.

How can a rancher be compared to a professional trainer? There's no comparison...

Just as Zheng Ya was thinking this, the car arrived at Su Yu's ranch.

After stopping the car and opening the door, Su Yu was already waiting inside the small house for quite some time.

Hearing the car, Su Yu came out and greeted the electrician. The electrician seemed to be in a hurry, exchanging only a few pleasantries with Su Yu before getting into his car and leaving.

Before leaving, he reminded Zheng Ya to stay on the ranch and behave herself.

"Okay, okay, I know, you can go now," Zheng Ya said.

After the electrician left, Su Yu finally had time to look at the girl. She was strikingly beautiful; in a high school, she would probably score eight out of ten.

Especially considering this is without makeup. Such a high score is extremely rare.

But more importantly... this girl is so big, oops... so long.

However, Su Yu was a civil engineering graduate in his previous life, so he didn't have any particular feelings for this kind of girl. He'd already transmigrated to the Pokémon world and had Pokémon, so what was there to be smug about?

You have to be like Ash Ketchum, with no woman in your heart, to become a god in battle.

Um... cough, except for Gardevoir.

Clearing his mind of the jumbled thoughts, Su Yu straightened up and looked at Zheng Ya, saying:

"Come with me, I'll show you around this ranch first, so you can get familiar with it."

Coincidentally, Zheng Ya was also very curious about this ranch. She wondered what kind of ranch it was that her father praised it so highly.

Their first stop on their tour was the area where the Woolblades and their riding lambs played. Su Yu introduced the Woolblades' personalities and characteristics to Zheng Ya, while Zheng Ya observed the group of lambs.

"They look like just ordinary lambs, nothing special, right?"

"These sheep should be found in the vast majority of ranches."

Zheng Ya commented as follows.

However, as they watched, the group of lambs suddenly started fighting amongst themselves. The riding lambs used their charge attacks on the braided lambs beside them, while the braided lambs calmly and methodically buffed themselves first.

It becomes round, the cotton defends, and then it crashes in.

The Woolblades, having already applied defensive buffs to themselves, moved with ease and appeared quite relaxed. Meanwhile, the mount's charge attack had just reached the Woolblades.

The two sides collided violently on the spot, and unsurprisingly, the little lambs were the first to be thrown out. But even after being thrown out, the little lambs were not discouraged.

After regaining their footing, they unleashed a barrage of attacks on the woolly sheep, including vine whips, parasitic seeds, and seed bombs, with so many moves that Zheng Ya was overwhelmed.

Some of these moves were ones they had just learned in the last few days. Since arriving at this ranch, Su Yu had been feeding them several pieces of grass cake every day, which was why they were learning the moves at a similarly fast pace.

Zheng Ya was somewhat shocked by this. Were all the sheep on this ranch this amazing? They had actually learned so many moves!

Moreover, the proficiency and power of their moves are impeccable, at least at the level of an average high school graduate. And this... is just an ordinary little lamb on the ranch!

Zheng Ya felt that she didn't have that kind of strength right now. The number of moves her Kapok Ball had learned was probably less than the number of the little sheep mounts in front of her.

"What are these...?" Zheng Ya asked in confusion.

Upon hearing this, Su Yu explained:

"Oh...they're just playing."

"Life on the ranch is a bit too boring for them, and I've forbidden them from watching too much TV. So in their spare time, they fight each other to pass the time. This is also one of the ways they get stronger."

Come to think of it, our ranch is quite strange; almost all the Pokémon there seem to have a drive for power. Even Wooloo and our mount sheep are like that.

Sometimes Su Yu felt like this wasn't a ranch, but rather the backyard of some battle-obsessed trainer.

Seeing Zheng Ya's shocked expression, Su Yu feared that she had a misunderstanding of ranches and thought that all ranches were like that.

If this leads the electrician's daughter astray and causes her to misunderstand the ranch, then Su Yu will have to take the blame.

So Su Yu quickly said:

"Don't assume this is the norm on a ranch. It's just that my ranch is a bit special. If you put these lambs on other ranches, they'd be considered oddballs."

"The primary task of a ranch is to produce various products. Almost all ranches rely on this method to maintain their operations. Therefore, other ranches do not have these aggressive sheep."

"Ah... I understand, you don't need to explain so much."

Upon hearing this, Zheng Ya nodded, indicating that she understood.

After all, these sheep wouldn't be considered normal no matter which pasture they were on, right?

What ordinary sheep would use so many tricks?

They can calmly and methodically apply defensive buffs to themselves, and the proficiency in doing so clearly indicates extensive practice. While it may seem slow, it's actually because they are completely at ease. They know they can apply their buffs before the opponent's attack arrives.

Such a high level of proficiency was something even Zheng Ya had never seen among the top-ranked students in the combat department, who were so calm and composed during battles.

This skill can only be achieved through frequent practice and matches.

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I changed the electrician's daughter's grade to 11th grade instead of 12th grade, mainly because it feels weird to have a 12th grader wandering around outside...

Secondly, there's no female lead. What do you need a female lead for in Pokémon fanfiction?! (Outrageous statement)

(End of this chapter)