Chapter 159: Parting! Arbok
"What do you think?" Grandma Liu asked, looking at Kenji with a smile.
Kenji nodded and didn't hold back his praise. "It's very strong! If Arbok can master these pattern changes, its strength could easily double."
Grandma Liu nodded noncommittally, then said, "It will take at most five years for Grandma to help your Arbok master this secret technique."
"What? Five years?" Kenji was stunned and unconsciously repeated the time frame.
"Of course. Did you think this secret technique was easy to master? If it were simple, would Grandma here have spent over forty years researching it?" Grandma Liu retorted.
Not to mention other Arbok, even that S-Rank peak Champion-level Arbok with the best comprehension took a full five years to learn this secret technique.
"However, your Arbok is truly exceptionally unique. Perhaps the learning time will be shorter. Mastering the secret technique in two or three years isn't impossible," Grandma Liu added.
Kenji kept a straight face but was already complaining internally.
In two or three years, he'd probably already be the National League Champion.
Clearly, Grandma Liu was too conservative, or she didn't have a sufficient understanding of his Arbok's comprehension ability.
In Kenji's opinion, given his Arbok's comprehension, mastering this secret technique shouldn't take long—a few months at most.
He couldn't say for sure if it would be mastered before the National Collegiate League, but it should definitely be done before the National League Championship.
For the next few days, Kenji stayed in the courtyard house. His Beedrill and Arbok also started eating Special-grade Pokéblocks.
Long-term consumption of Special-grade Pokéblocks was not only greatly beneficial to a Pokémon's growth but could even influence its potential to a certain extent.
And that was the truly terrifying part.
However, for Pokémon with potential like Beedrill and Arbok, the potential boost from Special-grade Pokéblocks was negligible.
"This pile is my research manuscripts on the secret pattern technique over the years. This pile contains my insights on raising Poison-type Pokémon. This pile is research on different Pokémon toxins and poisonous herbs. And this pile..."
In the study, mountains of notebooks and manuscript papers were piled up. Thick notebooks were stacked together in a disorganized mess.
Kenji's eye twitched. Just reading through this pile once, let alone understanding and mastering it, would take an unknown amount of time.
"Grandma's life's work is all here. While I'm still alive, ask whatever you don't understand. Once I kick the bucket, you'll only have these notebooks to chew on," Grandma Liu said calmly.
For someone like Grandma Liu who had lived for 150 years, life and death were matters she viewed very lightly.
After all, friends from her era were basically all dead. Even their children and grandchildren were probably dying of old age by now.
Grandma Liu was a remnant of a bygone era. To her, death might be a different kind of liberation.
With the National Collegiate League approaching, Kenji couldn't stay long. He stayed these extra days to spend more time with Arbok.
After all, for the next few months, Arbok would temporarily leave the team and stay at Mt. Dreadmist with Grandma Liu to learn the secret pattern technique.
Arbok knew it was about to be separated from its trainer and became increasingly clingy.
Kenji rubbed Arbok's head. "Listen to Grandma Liu here and try to master the secret technique as soon as possible. Even if you haven't learned it, I promise to come back and pick you up in three months, okay?"
"Cha!!!—" Arbok nodded, still very reluctant, but even more determined to study hard and master the secret technique soon.
Over the next few days, Kenji spent his free time reading through Grandma Liu's notes.
The notes of a trainer who had raised a Master-level Pokémon and was also a master of making Special-grade Pokéblocks were truly priceless treasures.
Five days later, Kenji left Mt. Dreadmist. Before leaving, Grandma Liu gave him a spatial backpack.
Inside the backpack was a full stock of Poison-type Special-grade Pokéblocks.
This amount was enough to last Beedrill until after the National Collegiate League.
Besides that, Kenji also took a Pokémon Egg with him.
Gulpin (Unhatched)
Level: LV.0
Sex: Male
Type: Poison
Ability: Liquid Ooze (Damages attackers using draining moves)
Potential: S-
This S- potential Gulpin egg was an unexpected bonus, laid just three days ago by a Gulpin.
Kenji didn't intend to keep this Gulpin for himself. Although its potential reached S-, he wasn't interested in this Pokémon.
Neither Gulpin nor its evolved form, Swalot, were particularly appealing in terms of appearance.
This Gulpin was for Tyson Tang.
Although Tyson Tang hadn't figured out Arbok's pattern changes himself, Grandma Liu was introduced through him.
If not for Tyson Tang, Kenji probably never would have imagined that a former, former Regional Elite Four member was hidden in Mt. Dreadmist.
So, Kenji intended to keep his promise of an S-Rank potential Pokémon.
Leaving Mt. Dreadmist, Kenji released Ninetales and headed toward Wumeng City.
Outside Wumeng City, by a river, Kenji stopped traveling and released his Pokémon.
For Pokémon, a city full of humans and buildings was never as free and relaxing as the wild. So Kenji planned to have lunch here before taking his Pokémon into Wumeng City.
His flight back to Metropolis was the next day.
"Come out, everyone!"
Red lights flashed through the air, and six Pokémon flew out.
Plus Ninetales, who hadn't returned to her Pokéball, making exactly seven.
The usually clingy Arbok's sudden absence made Kenji feel a bit unaccustomed.
After preparing lunch for the Pokémon, Kenji sat by the river, organizing Grandma Liu's notes on raising Poison-type Pokémon.
"Biii!!!—"
Suddenly, Elekid let out a strange cry. Kenji paused and looked up sharply, only to see Elekid, who had been eating voraciously just a moment ago, clutching its stomach and collapsing on the ground.
Did it... get a stomachache from eating too much?
That was Kenji's first thought. While his mind raced, he jogged over to Elekid, asking about its condition and reaching out to touch it.
"What's wrong, Elekid?"
But just as Kenji was about to touch Elekid, it rolled away on the ground, dodging Kenji's hand.
"Biii..."
Elekid looked up and shook its head at Kenji, an expression of endurance on its face.
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