Breeding House, backyard.
Colorful gracidea flowers were dancing wantonly in the evening breeze, and bursts of floral fragrance permeated the entire Breeding House and the backyard.
In Vespiquen's eyes, every bend of the gracidea flowers released a scent the same color as her own petals, purifying the pitch-black odor wafting out from the Breeding House.
"Bi?"
Did they go to play with poop?
Vespiquen looked at the Breeding House with disgust. She had originally wanted to go over, but she stopped flapping her wings. After hesitating repeatedly, she finally followed her heart's decision and turned to fly toward the hive.
Lucas, who had just finished showering with his hair still wet, walked out into the backyard and saw that beautiful golden figure at a glance. Seeing Vespiquen preparing to fly back to the Forest Area, Lucas quickly called out: "Vespiquen, wait a moment."
Hearing Lucas's words, Vespiquen stopped her movements, turned around, and looked at Lucas, discovering that he was running toward her.
Vespiquen quickly retreated.
Lucas: ???
"Why are you hiding from me?"
Lucas stopped in his tracks, his head full of question marks.
Vespiquen covered her nose with one claw and pushed toward Lucas with the other.
"Bi——"
Playing with poop, it stinks to death, stay away from me.
Lucas: ——
"I wasn't playing with poop! I went over to handle things!"
Vespiquen tilted her head: Cleaning up poop?
"Sort of——Pah, I already said it wasn't poop, it was a pile of trash and a bunch of Grimer and Weezing."
Vespiquen's disgust deepened: Eww——playing with Grimer is even worse than playing with poop——
Lucas: ——
"I wasn't playing! It was handling business!"
Lucas gritted his teeth, then strode with his long legs, continuing to walk toward Vespiquen.
Vespiquen, who usually paid special attention to her figure and hygiene, looked at Lucas with a very disgusted expression, but she did not continue to retreat.
When Lucas reached her, she closed her eyes and held her breath.
Lucas: !!!
I——
"I've finished showering! If you don't believe me, smell it!"
Lucas's voice was vaguely exasperated.
Damn Grimer! If I had known, I would have let Ninetales use Flamethrower to roast you into dried poop!
It was fine that Shauna, Tomoyo, Meowstic, and Alcremie were disgusted with me when I came back, but now even Vespiquen is disgusted with me.
Hearing Lucas's words, Vespiquen opened her eyes, looking at Lucas with bee-suspicion, but she still held her breath.
"Bi——Bi?"
Re——really?
Lucas nodded, "I would never lie to you."
Upon hearing this, Vespiquen finally resumed breathing, greedily inhaling the air.
I almost suffocated.
Huh? It seems it really doesn't stink anymore? It's even a bit fragrant.
Vespiquen pressed her face toward Lucas, sniffing hard on his face and body.
Lucas let Vespiquen sniff him until she retracted her head with satisfaction.
Vespiquen nodded with satisfaction, floating in the air, her scarlet eyes staring at Lucas.
"Bi."
Speak up, what do you want with me? I can't help with big things, and I don't want to help with small things.
"Watch less TV."
Lucas said helplessly, "Help me transplant a few gracidea flowers; I'm planning to plant them on my room's balcony."
Vespiquen did not refuse Lucas's request; on the contrary, she was very generous.
No problem, who else but me is so beautiful and kind-hearted.
Lucas took Vespiquen to the warehouse to get a few flower pots, then came to the flower garden. Lucas picked a few gracidea flowers of different colors: purple, blue, red, and yellow.
After Lucas finished picking, he turned back to grab the shovel he had placed behind him. Turning back to dig them out, he discovered that Vespiquen had already used her glowing white claws to dig out those gracidea flowers, along with the soil, square and neat.
Lucas looked at the gracidea flowers Vespiquen had placed on the ground, then looked at her claws, and then at the shovel in his own hand. Lucas casually tossed the shovel behind him.
It hit a passing Graveler.
Graveler: ???
This is——are you dissatisfied with me?
Was my Slack Off discovered? If I had known, I wouldn't have slacked off.
Graveler quickened his pace toward the front desk, grabbed the delivery order, and rushed toward Twinleaf Town.
After putting the gracidea flowers into the pots, Lucas bid farewell to Vespiquen and carried the flower pots toward the Breeding House.
Plant a few gracidea flowers in the room and purify the air properly first.
Vespiquen watched Lucas's back, her figure stopping in the air as she spaced out.
Strange, what was it I wanted to find Lucas for just now——
Oh, I remember! honey!
When Vespiquen remembered why she was looking for Lucas, she hurriedly flew back to the hive to get the sweet honey she had prepared in advance.
Lucas carried the flower pots back to his room. Lilligant, Gothitelle, and Roserade were still cleaning themselves in the bathroom. For them, who were extremely clean, this mission would likely leave an indelible memory in their hearts.
As for Gengar——
He was left in Spirit Town to cooperate with Jenny to deal with the placement of the Grimer and Weezing.
Gengar: Damn Lucas! Making me stay here to handle the rest of the business! Damn it!
There was no other way. When the Grimer woke up and saw that the trash mountain was gone, they fell into anger and panic. Once the large number of Weezing and Grimer spread into the town because of their anger, the consequences would be unpredictable.
It just so happened that they regarded Gengar as their boss, so Lucas took this opportunity to let Gengar stay there to appease them and prevent them from going on a rampage and destroying the town.
The effect was obvious. Under Gengar's appeasement, the Grimer and Weezing all calmed their anger and agreed to let Jenny and the others take them back to the wild.
Gengar sat in the air, holding a small flag in his hand, enduring the foul-smelling odor, and boredly stared at the Weezing and Grimer in the open space.
Avoiding any stragglers from escaping.
Gengar: So stinky——————so boring————
"So fragrant————"
Lucas looked at Lilligant and Roserade sitting on either side of him. The stench on their bodies was gone, replaced by a reassuring fragrance.
Lucas was also holding Ninetales's tail in his arms. After the bath, Ninetales's fur was incredibly fluffy and felt very good. Lucas buried his face in Ninetales's tail, and his nose was instantly surrounded by the scent of body wash and an alluring fragrance, making Lucas unable to help but get lost in it.
The TV on the wall was still playing; it was Gengar's favorite cartoon.
"That's right, after the double torture of mind and body, only this can soothe my fragile heart————"
After sniffing Ninetales's tail for a long time, Lucas slowly raised his head, his face flushed.
Watching the cartoon playing on the TV, Lucas frowned slightly, "Strange, why does it feel like I've forgotten something?
"After the last Grimer was sent away, Gengar floated in the air."
Wasn't it agreed that you would come to pick me up?
Where is everyone?!
(•") /????
"What exactly was it again————ah, right————"
"Bi."
Lucas.
Vespiquen flew in, interrupting Lucas's words, "What's wrong?"
Looking at Vespiquen who had flown in front of him, Lucas asked curiously.
Vespiquen directly handed a few jars of sweet honey to Lucas.
Vespiquen: New honey.
"Did you brew this? There's new sweet honey so soon? Let me see."
After Lucas finished speaking, he opened the lid of a jar of sweet honey, and instantly the entire Breeding House was enveloped in the sweet scent of the sweet honey.
"Wow! So fragrant!"
Unlike the previous sweet honey, this time the sweet honey had an overflowing fragrance, vaguely with a hint of floral scent.
[sweet honey (gracidea flower): sweet honey brewed using the nectar of strengthened gracidea flowers. Unlike sweet honey brewed from ordinary flowers, the fragrance of this type of sweet honey is more obvious and alluring, accompanied by bursts of the fresh scent of gracidea flowers. It has the effects of other sweet honey brewed by Vespiquen (some sweet honey is not included), and at the same time has effects that other sweet honey does not have.]
[Evolution: gracidea flowers themselves have a purifying effect, and sweet honey brewed using their nectar also has this type of effect, except the effect of the sweet honey is stronger. After being fed to a Pokémon by a Trainer, it will maximize the Pokémon's friendship, allowing Pokémon that need to evolve based on friendship to instantly meet the conditions required for evolution (including so-called friendliness).]
[Purification: Because the owner who brewed this sweet honey seems to have dissatisfaction with a certain Pokémon with Ghost and Poison types, the sweet honey brewed will cause Pokémon of these two types to lose their ability to battle after consumption, creating an illusion of being surrounded by happiness for them, and it also seems to have other effects.]
[Effect 1: "Eat My Attack!!", for Ghost-type Pokémon, after consuming this sweet honey, within five minutes, all moves will be able to hit Ghost-type Pokémon, including Normal-type and Fighting-type moves.]
[Effect 2: "You Dare Poison Me?!", Pokémon that have consumed this sweet honey will significantly increase their resistance to poison within five minutes and be able to remove their own Poison and Toxic effects.]
[Effect 3: "Super Effective", for Pokémon that have consumed this sweet honey, within two minutes, the effect of Bug-type moves on Ghost-type and Poison-type Pokémon will be reversed, transforming from being resisted by two times to being super effective by two times.]
[gracidea flowers are beautiful, give it to your favorite Trainer (Pokémon) Vespiquen]
[Gengar!!! Eat my attack!!! Vespiquen]
[You stole my honey! And you dare to poison me!! Go to hell—— Vespiquen]
[I am really wronged——————that was an accident Gengar]
[I really didn't expect Acid Spray could also make you fall into a poisoned state—— Gengar]
[Ghost, poison, Gengar, hate! Give me back my honey Vespiquen]
[Evil spirits begone! Begone! Begone! Begone—— Vespiquen]
Looking at the entries in front, Lucas was incredibly shocked.
It can make Pokémon that need friendship to evolve instantly reach the critical point with their Trainer? So strong!
Then couldn't I start a business in the future to help evolve Pokémon that need friendship to evolve?
Looking further, the more Lucas read, the tighter his lips pressed together.
Ahem————
Ghost, poison————which Pokémon could it be————it's so hard to guess————
Looking at the sentence written on the text "have dissatisfaction with a certain Pokémon with Ghost and Poison types", a certain Pokémon automatically appeared in Lucas's mind.
It's too hard to guess.
This is full of targeting.
Especially those three effects.
It can allow Normal-type and Fighting-type Pokémon to have the ability to attack Ghost-type Pokémon for a short time? And it's "Super Effective"? Double damage? How scary————
Another one, remove the poisoned state, and at the same time significantly increase poison resistance? Does that mean after removing the poisoned state, even if falling into a poisoned state again, the HP lost will be less?
[In the poison resistance state, whether it is poisoned or severely poisoned, the HP lost per turn will be fixed and locked at 1/32.]
Then what is the difference between Toxic and Poisoned?!
As for the third one, wow!
Gengar, oh Gengar! What on earth did you do to make both heaven and man angry————
Bug-type moves directly become two times effective, oh my god! It's a good thing my sweet honey is only for my Breeding House to eat, otherwise, if I told someone, I might be arrested the next second.
To be able to make Vespiquen brew such targeted sweet honey.
Vespiquen looked at the rapidly changing expressions on Lucas's face, tilted her head, and asked Lucas suspiciously:
Is it not good?
Lucas came back to his senses, looked at Vespiquen, and clicked his tongue secretly.
It's a good thing I have never made Vespiquen angry————
"It's quite good, but some things need to be tested."
Hearing Lucas's words, Vespiquen nodded, relieved.
Vespiquen had actually discovered her changes a long time ago. It seemed that the honey she brewed would carry some magical effects, but she only had a rough feeling and didn't know the specific effects, so every time she would give the new sweet honey to Lucas, and Lucas would conduct experiments and then inform her.
Except for the Winter Version sweet honey, which did not need Lucas to experiment, she knew the effect of the Winter Version sweet honey in her heart from the moment it was brewed.
Lucas looked at Vespiquen in front of him and couldn't help but sigh that she was worthy of being the Vespiquen with "incredible brewing ability" recognized by the Golden Finger. The sweet honey she brewed was more effective than some conventional battle items, mainly because her sweet honey would not occupy an item slot, only needing to be consumed in advance.
In the Breeding House, the only ones with such magical abilities were her and Gothitelle. The herbal medicine and herbal tea researched by Gothitelle also had some magical effects, but herbal medicine and herbal tea ultimately belonged to medicine, so the effects were mostly for nourishing the body and recovering from injuries.
He handed the sweet honey back to Vespiquen and asked her to help take it to the honey area in the kitchen for storage, thinking about letting Gengar try the new sweet honey when he returned. He had indeed worked hard today, and by the way, let him test the effect of the new sweet honey.
Right, where is Gengar?
Lucas looked at the screen on the TV and suddenly stood up.
"Oh no!"
The people and Pokémon around were all startled by Lucas.
"Gengar!"
"I left Gengar there!"
Lucas scratched his head, "I said I seemed to have forgotten something, it turned out to be Gengar. It's over, I'm going to be scolded to death now."
After Lucas finished speaking, he hurriedly opened the Distortion Channel and ran forward.
Lucas walked out of the Distortion Channel and happened to see Gengar sitting in the air, puffing out his mouth.
Oh ho————
Family, do you think I can still survive?
Lucas looked at the quiet open space around, and his heart went cold.
"Gengar~"
Lucas smiled and called out gently.
Gengar turned around in the air, letting his big butt face Lucas.
Hmph!
Is there any kind person who can tell me how to coax him now?
"Lucas?"
The voice of Jenny from Twinleaf Town sounded, "You're here to pick up Gengar?"
"Sister Reese? You haven't returned to Twinleaf Town yet?"
Lucas was a little surprised.
Jenny from Twinleaf Town pointed at Gengar in the air, "He was very looking forward to you coming to pick him up, but it seems you didn't come for a long time. I said I would go back with him, but he refused. Now it looks like he is throwing a tantrum."
Lucas: ——
The moon slowly rose, and Lucas's voice echoed everywhere in the open space.
"Gengar~"
"Acknowledge me, Gengar~"
"Let's go home and eat, okay?"
"I will buy you whatever you want, cook whatever you want to eat, and play whatever you want to play, okay?"
"Gengar~"
Hmph!
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