Naoki slept until seven in the evening.
After waking up, he casually had a couple of bites of food to get by, then eagerly opened his backpack and began counting the haul from this trip.
"Cling clang!"
Along with the crisp and pleasing sound of gold coins ringing out, the pile of shiny ancient Paldea gold coins formed a small hill on the floor.
All the surrounding Pokemon couldn't help but be drawn over, their eyes filled with shock.
"Pawmo!"
"Mama!"
Naoki grinned and scratched Pawmot's head, laughingly asked, "What do you think? Aren't these gold coins beautiful?"
"Pawmo!" Pawmot nodded repeatedly, its eyes reflecting the glimmering golden light.
"Why don't you go play on the side for a while, as I'm going to start counting the coins!"
Naoki rolled up his sleeves and began counting the gold coins in front of him one by one.
"One, two, three, four..."
Time ticked away second by second, and after some time had passed, the gold coin hill was finally moved piece by piece to the other side by Naoki.
"Seven hundred twenty-three, seven hundred twenty-four... seven hundred sixty-six."
"A total of 766 coins?"
Upon getting the count of the coins, Naoki immediately began calculating his current total number of gold coins.
"Aside from these coins, I've already collected 230 before, 230 plus 766 equals 996."
Faced with this result, Naoki couldn't help but widen his eyes and burst out with a curse.
"What the hell! Just 4 coins short of 1000?"
Are you kidding me?
Naoki doubted his life a bit, looking uncertainly at the coins in front of him.
Could it be that he counted wrong? Maybe he missed four coins?
Unwilling to give in, Naoki spent over half an hour re-counting the coins carefully and thoroughly.
In the end, he still found 766 coins.
Along with the coins he'd collected before, he had a total of 996 coins, just four short of 1000.
"..."
Naoki felt a deep sense of frustration, laying himself flat on the floor, starting to doubt his life.
Damn king! So many Golden Crowns, Gold Necklaces, and Golden Toilets. But not more gold coins!
Naoki covered his face and sighed.
"Pawmo?"
The surrounding Pokemon gathered around to check on him.
"I'm fine."
Naoki sighed, hoping that Geeta would help him collect the final four coins.
With this thought, Naoki revitalized himself.
Now, the most important thing is to give these coins to Gimmighoul and let it store them in the Treasure Chest.
Thus Naoki went to the Pokemon Tavern and brought back the Treasure Chest where Gimmighoul was hiding.
As if feeling itself moving, Gimmighoul silently lifted the lid of the chest a bit with its head to observe outside secretly.
Seeing that the person hugging it was Naoki, Gimmighoul immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"Ding-a-ling!"
Naoki glanced at it, saying mysteriously, "Are you ready? I've got a surprise for you."
"Ding-a-ling?!"
Hearing the word surprise, Gimmighoul's eyes immediately lit up.
Previously, Naoki surprised it with what it dreamed of—gold coins!
And now Naoki said there was another surprise, could he have found shiny gold coins again?
Gimmighoul's face was full of anticipation.
Naoki walked into the room.
When Gimmighoul clearly saw the pile of gold coins on the floor, it jumped up in excitement, flipping the lid of the chest.
"Go ahead!" Naoki said with a smile.
Filled with a sense of fantasy, Gimmighoul stared at the glittering coins, feeling like it was in a dream.
Only in dreams would something so wonderful happen!
After all, it was just a Normal Gimmighoul, always on the path of collecting coins but never achieving its dream.
But now... so many gold coins were truly laid out before it, Gimmighoul's immediate reaction was disbelief.
Instead of rushing forward, it uncertainly asked:
"Ding-a-ling?"
Understanding Gimmighoul's question, Naoki nodded with a smile: "That's right, they're all yours."
"Ding-a-ling!"
Upon receiving Naoki's affirmation, Gimmighoul jumped excitedly, leaping out of the chest and falling face-first onto the pile of coins.
Gimmighoul was filled with happiness, nibbling here and sniffing there, as if it were a fish swimming in a sea of coins.
"Whew..." Watching this scene, Naoki's face also showed a smile.
It was worth it, jumping into quicksand and running to the underground cavern already!
After the excitement, Gimmighoul began diligently moving the coins into its Treasure Chest.
Seeing this, Naoki joined in to help.
Who knows what the Treasure Chest is made of that it can hold so many coins, even though the volume of coins seems larger than the chest from the outside...
Yet the Treasure Chest was like a bottomless pit, swallowing all the coins.
Finally, Gimmighoul took a leap and jumped into the chest, half-submerged in coins.
Perhaps this is the magic of Ghost-type Pokemon? Naoki couldn't help but wonder.
As far as he knew, besides the chest form of Gimmighoul, Gengar also has storage abilities.
These Pokemon have bodies that are alternate dimensional spaces, able to hold many, many things.
It's said that before space backpack technology was invented, some Trainers would store their travel luggage inside Gengar's body.