Pokémon, but cultural invasion

"Snap!" He turned on the light.

Are you eating instant noodles... or are you chewing them dry?

Izumi's sudden appearance caught her off guard.

"I'm...hungry..."

Naz's eyes were glowing green; her sanity had clearly declined after eating only rice for several days.

"This tastes better when soaked in water with a seasoning packet."

Boiling water takes time, so Quanshu took an ice pop out of the refrigerator.

"How about we use this to fill our stomachs first?"

"..."

A few days ago, Naz would never have eaten food of unknown origin, but now she was starving.

A few minutes later, Izumi pushed the instant noodles covered with a fork in front of her.

"You can eat it in three minutes."

"Will you only eat rice after you lose your superpowers?"

With her rationality at its lowest point, Naz nodded: "It's all food, I don't think there's a problem."

Quanshu had a sudden thought: this might be a good opportunity.

He moved closer to the electric frog beside him and asked, "How have you been investigating that mysterious spirit these past few days?"

“I never saw Him in person, I only know roughly where He went.”

Naza counted on her fingers: "Evergreen City, Aster Town, Crimson Lotus Town, and a certain island in the sea where He often stays."

Izumi Tree feigned nonchalance: "Did He ever approach Golden City?"

"It flew over Golden City twice, and once it came very close to us."

As Naz spoke, she counted the time.

Three minutes later, she couldn't wait to open the lid.

After slurping up a mouthful of noodles, the complex aroma of the seasonings made Naz's eyes widen involuntarily.

"tasty--"

With each bite, a little more reason returned.

Her chewing and swallowing became slower and slower, and finally she looked at Izumi with embarrassment.

"Start eating normally tomorrow. I don't know when your superpowers will come back."

Sabrina put down her fork and hesitated before speaking, "Actually, I've noticed these past few days that the return of my superpowers isn't entirely random."

"When my emotions fluctuate, especially when emotions that I rarely have before surge up, the probability of my superpowers appearing increases significantly."

Naza thought to herself that this might be related to her first "anger" and subsequent attack by the mysterious elf.

"Maybe if I have enough emotional impact, I can regain my superpowers directly."

Izumi fell into thought. Being followed by Sabrina was also a troublesome thing. Since Sabrina believed that emotional shocks could help regain superpowers, she might as well give it a try.

"Why not try watching movies and experiencing other people's lives through images?"

Quanshu opened the Crazy Elf City poster on his phone and said, "Perhaps you can feel...love from it?"

love?

Naz pondered this word that was out of her reach: could she possibly experience love through a movie?

Chapter Ninety-Four: You Will Play the Role of a Knight

"You know you love me."

Inside the police car, facing Nick's taunts, Judy asked, "Did I know about this?"

"Okay, I guess I know."

As the movie ended, Naz sat expressionless in front of her computer.

The movie's dramatic plot was quite interesting, and she began to understand why the mysterious spirit had appeared at the premiere.

But that's all. The interactions between the rabbit and the fox were ordinary, and Naza couldn't understand how they developed feelings for each other.

If love can blossom from companionship and mutual help, then wouldn't trainers and Pokémon be soulmates?

"I've finished watching the movie, but I didn't feel the love you described."

Naza turned her chair and looked at Izumi, who was fiddling with her phone.

He did not go to the filming location the following afternoon.

Is romance too difficult for you? Why not try some small things in life that you've never done before?

Quanshu put down the five-hour video sent by Gurusha and gave examples: "Like eating a delicious meal, going for a run, making a friend... or something like that?"

"There are many activities that can bring you rich emotional experiences. You can find one that suits you and interests you to try."

A new attempt... Naz has a new plan.

Find an activity that has an emotional impact and repeat it around the spring tree.

Using his flashing psychic powers, he traced the movements of a mysterious Pokémon, pinpointed its location, and then joined forces with the Gym Leader and Lance to arrest it.

The ideal outcome would be to regain all superpowers and fight Him personally.

If love is difficult, shouldn't friendship be no problem?

"Roller—"

Naza jumped up and rolled her wheelchair a long way.

She went straight to the next room.

“Master of the Strange Tree Pavilion, become my friend.”

"Eh?"

A voice filled with utter surprise rang out: "Even if you say that..."

...

Quanshu re-examined the extremely long video sent by Guruxia.

Playing at double speed, he actually played the skiing adventure for five hours straight.

Although Izumi knew that Gurusha was a serious person, he didn't expect him to be this responsible.

After much hesitation, and adding some explanatory subtitles, Quanshu posted the video on Tingxiang's video account without cutting his hair for a second.

It's not that I'm too lazy to cut it, but rather it's out of pure respect for Guruchar.

The five-hour-long gameplay video appeared under the official account of the local government, which can be described as a performance art.

Everyone thought it was another great work from Tingxiang with rich content, but after clicking in, they found that Skiing Adventure was actually a simple little game with limited content.

"Is this video length a joke?"

"I jumped to the very end, and Gurusha gave me an extremely high score."

"This Ice-type Gym Leader from the Padia region is truly beautiful."

"Wake up upstairs, Gurusha is a man."

"I bet this is the video with the worst completion rate on Pixiv."

"This little game was released at the same time, and it's only 200 yen, which is so cheap."

The discussion is quite good. As a former professional skier and gym owner, Gurusha is very popular online due to her elegant and beautiful appearance.

Quanshu checked the backend and saw that cheap games sold out quickly.

"Calm calculation: The online game you requested has been completed. We have optimized the voice system according to the precautions."

The message that popped up at the top of the screen startled Izumi: the Metagross monsters' efficiency had increased. Was it because the game was smaller?

He sent over the next set of game requirements.

"Calmly consider: Before starting, could you ask what kind of game this is?"

Calmly calculating, he rarely raised a question, and Quanshu carefully chose his words to answer.

"Thoughts Like a Spring: You will play as a "Knight" and gradually uncover the truth of the world in the dungeon "Hall of Nest". It is a 2D action-adventure game.

"Calm calculation: ...cannot be calculated."

After calmly calculating for a while without receiving a response, Izumi instructed Polygon to transfer the online game code to the computer.

Goose and Duck Kill, a werewolf game that was popular for a while before Izumi's death.

The reason for choosing this mini-game instead of the standard Werewolf game is that the former has a lower barrier to entry, requires less logic, and is more suitable for ordinary players.

He had the idea of ​​gathering a group of dojo masters to play Werewolf a long time ago; it would definitely be very interesting.

Now that the time was right, Quanshu asked Leng Jing to calculate and produce the goose and duck slaughtering dish, while also making some localizations.

Next is the selection of the dojo master...

...

Frost-covered Mountain.

Gurusha stared at the fine snowflakes drifting up outside the dojo window, like salt crumbs being crushed by the wind, fluttering against the glass.

Before long, a hazy white mist spread across the world.

"Speaking of which, Izumi said yesterday that she would post the video online."

Gurusha didn't mind him doing this; instead, he was curious whether anyone would actually watch.

Ten million views?!

Looking at the number of views on the videos under Qingting Township's account, Guruxia sighed at how many idle people there were, and then opened it.

Skiing Adventure is a very simple game. You can jump and do somersaults by touching the screen, but there are no other controls.

The game begins on Penguin Peak, where a sudden avalanche destroys Seven's cabin, and he and his bed run away from home, sliding down the snow-covered peak.

At first, the bed couldn't be used for jumping, and it soon crashed into a rock and shattered into pieces. Seven, wearing skis, was born out of nowhere.

Gurusha maneuvers himself, leaping over rocks and sliding downhill, his score in the upper right corner increasing with the distance he skis and the coins he collects.

After realizing that somersaults could score points, Gurusha actively tried them.

He rode a snowman and a penguin through the snow-covered mountains, but because it was his first time exploring and he was unfamiliar with the area, Gurusha collapsed in a cave filled with icicles.

Amidst the dense barrage of comments in the video, Gurusha did not lose heart; he started all over again from the beginning.

Penguins, snowmen, eagles, and snowmobiles are all great gliding tools. Guruxia tried again and again, and his score got higher and higher each time.

Several thousand points, ten thousand points, twenty thousand points, thirty thousand points...

The number of comments gradually decreased, and the content shifted from encouragement and discussions about the game to teasing Guruxia about his five-hour gaming session.

Gurusha dragged the progress bar to the end.

"They really played for five hours straight; they're dedicated even for commercial orders."

"His expression didn't change much even after five hours. No wonder he's an Ice-type Gym Leader."

"Hehe, I won the bet with my friend."

Gurusha was puzzled. He just wanted to get a higher score. What was wrong with that?

Since he was the first person to play the game, he didn't know what score was considered passing.

In order not to disappoint the person who commissioned him and the people who made the game, Gurusha spent five hours improving his score.