Pokémon: Dreams Come True Starting in Sinnoh

Chapter 111 Nature Park, Familiar Figures

After a morning of travel, the cruise ship finally crossed the river that spanned the two places and arrived at the other side of the river.

Just as the cruise ship was about to arrive, Ash suddenly realized that he hadn't tidied his backpack for the past two days. The appearance of Team Galactic and the evolution of Aipom during the gym battle had distracted him. When he rummaged through his backpack again, he discovered that there were two more items in it.

—A hemp rope

—A small bag of star sand

It's not very useful, but based on these two items, Ash can at least be fairly certain that the things in his backpack are the items he had before he traveled through time.

......

The cruise ship docked at the shore. This place was not a city, but just a large park.

However, thanks to its reputation as the largest nature park in the Sinnoh region, it attracts many vendors. There are all kinds of shops in the nature park, and even hotels of all sizes.

"So, Hikaru, are you going to training now?"

"Ok!"

Xiao Guang nodded excitedly and said.

"The Yosuga City Tournament is about to be held! I heard this year's tournament is special, so I want to seize this opportunity to train hard and win the championship! Right, Piplup?"

"Poga!"

Bogarman straightened his chest in response to Hikaru's expectation.

"...But is it really okay to start training so early? If it's just a regular tournament, then it's fine. But since the organizers say that this year's format will be rather special, wouldn't it be better to wait for the official announcement before starting training?"

Xiao Zhi offered this advice based on his own experience.

Although if it were him, he would also start training without hesitation, since waiting is always the hardest thing to endure, no matter what the situation.

Xiaoguang has just received her first ribbon medal, and she is currently at the height of her fame, so it's understandable that she can't contain her excitement.

"No problem, no problem! The experience gained from training won't disappear anyway! So let's do it this way! You guys go explore first, and then come find me at the Battle Plaza later!"

After saying that, Xiao Guang quickly led Piplup to the battle plaza where many people were already gathered.

Watching Dawn's departing figure, Ash and Pikachu exchanged a glance and smiled.

Indeed, Xiaoguang's approach is probably the choice that most trainers would make.

But since Hikari isn't coming, Ash will have to...

"Huh? Where's Xiao Gang?"

I was just thinking of taking a walk around the neighborhood with Xiaogang, but in the time it took to turn my head, Xiaogang had disappeared.

"Pikachu?"

"Skin....."

Pikachu scratched its head, shaking it in confusion.

Clearly, even Pikachu couldn't catch Brock's disappearance speed, and Brock's ability to achieve this speed is usually only...

"Pickup!"

As Pikachu made a sound as if it had discovered something, Ash turned his head in response.

Not far away, in front of a stall, Xiao Gang was lying on his back, twitching uncontrollably. The scoundrel scoffed in displeasure and then dragged Xiao Gang by the leg of his pants into the bushes.

Ash/Pikachu: "......"

It seems they'll have to go explore on their own.

......

Meanwhile, in a corner of the nature park, at an ice cream stand.

The Rockets trio, who were working part-time, looked helplessly at the customers in front of them.

"Um... have you made your choice yet?"

"..."

"..."

Kojiro's question was so elegantly ignored. It wasn't that the customer in front of their stall was deliberately ignoring it, but rather that she was completely absorbed in choosing ice cream and could hardly hear what was being said around her.

"Hey... what are we going to do? She's been standing in front of our stall for 40 minutes... if this keeps up, it'll be an hour already!"

Kojiro lowered his voice and asked Musashi and Nyanko for their opinions.

In the past 40 minutes, he has asked her what she wants no less than ten times. Despite urging her so much, she still hasn't made a decision.

"Meow... Someone who can focus so intently on such a small thing must be no ordinary person, meow~"

Meow said this with a serious expression.

"Oh well, who cares? We didn't get any good spots anyway, did we? This corner location hardly attracts any customers all day, so it doesn't matter."

Musashi took it in stride. After all, they had no business whether or not they had this customer with decision-making difficulties. Since things were already so bad, they might as well just close up shop. Taking it so seriously would only make them more depressed.

"But...we've already received such a large sum of money, so why do we still have to come here and set up a stall?"

"There's nothing we can do, meow... We've accumulated so much debt... After paying off our debts to outsiders and our boss, we're almost broke... We have no choice but to do this for the sake of our future food supply, meow."

The reason they haven't organized a Pikachu capture operation for so long is because of the pressure of life. The feeling of being hungry is much worse than failing to capture Pikachu. For the sake of their own livelihood, the trio can only put their initial plan aside and become the working class of working class.

......

Meanwhile, in a corner of the park, Ash and Pikachu were walking along the street, each carrying a bag of snacks and a drink, eating as they went.

"I didn't expect the quality of the street food stalls here to be so high... The taste is in no way inferior to some famous snack shops."

"Pikachu~"

Pikachu nodded in agreement.

While it's good that the food is delicious, they've eaten way too much along the way, and now Ash and Pikachu's stomachs are a little bloated.

"Sigh, I should have been more restrained... Xiaoguang usually helps me share a lot of the workload, but I didn't expect to lose track of the amount when I was alone today."

"Pikachu~" (Of course!)

Pikachu nodded in understanding.

Just as Ash was wondering what to do and was about to go back to find Dawn, he suddenly noticed a familiar figure in front of an ice cream stand not far away.

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