Hearthome City.
"Truly a grand scene—"
Wallace, who came after hearing the news, crossed his arms, sighing emotionally.
Honestly, even he rarely saw such a grand occasion.
At sunset, the sales building was still crowded with a dark mass of people.
An adventure suit Trainer was pulled by the hem of his clothes by Munchlax, squeezing into the front row with a helpless face. A Coordinator girl with Beautifly standing on her shoulder stood on tiptoes looking around, gaze flowing between shelves, seeming to search for food items that could improve beauty condition. And usually strict Breeders held newly purchased Choice Dumplings, unable to help clicking their tongues in wonder for a time.
Not long after, the special area shelves were more than half empty, enough to see Trainers' pursuit of these novel, high-quality Pokémon specialty foods with special effects.
"Didn't expect Hakuya you are not only a powerful Trainer but also an excellent entrepreneur~ Rarely see scenes of Trainers rushing to snap up like this..."
Wallace withdrew his gaze, looking at the black-haired youth squeezing out from the crowd not far away, late arrival.
"Mmm... I think this situation also depends on Miss Alexa's promotional reports these days."
Regarding this, Hakuya shook his head with a light laugh.
After receiving the call from Secretary Miss Oleana, he cleaned up the room messy due to finishing the big orgy, then rushed to the sales building here at the fastest speed.
Although spent some money on large-scale advertising promotion in the early stage, neither Hakuya nor Oleana expected customer purchasing grandeur to far exceed expectations. One round down, food goods stocked in advance by factory production were almost about to announce sold out.
However, before Hakuya prepared to catch a few Trainers to ask the reason curiously, he was surrounded by a large group of enthusiastic Trainers just after pushing the door to enter. Forced to operate taking photos and signing dozens of signatures, Hakuya finally got the answer from this group of Trainers.
—Many people came because of the report written by Alexa interviewing him a few days ago.
Mmm... sure enough, choosing to fleece (take advantage of) before was a correct decision. Letting a famous journalist in the press circle help him promote is much simpler and more effective than doing it himself. Just today alone, conservatively estimated turnover broke one hundred and fifty thousand!
Hakuya nodded thoughtfully.
He was already thinking about how to swindle that conscientious journalist lady to continue advertising for him next time seeing her.
And at this time, Lisia standing beside heard Hakuya's reply, but puffed up her cheeks muttering slightly.
"Although Miss Alexa's promotional report played a big role, true, Mr. Hakuya is too modest~"
After the duel competition in the Wallace Cup, this beautiful girl with a head of emerald-green long hair regarded Hakuya as a lifelong rival. Not only paying attention to Hakuya's movements at all times but also curiously checking his past experiences.
Single-handedly destroyed the most famous poaching gang in the Sinnoh region, faced wild rioting Pokémon groups alone, gained recognition from multiple Legendary Pokémon like Articuno and Suicune... Every deed seen made Lisia widen her beautiful eyes involuntarily. Admiration and worship for Hakuya in her heart also became more intense.
"After all, in the final analysis, everyone came for your name, Mr. Hakuya~"
The girl tapped her lips lightly with jade fingers, explaining.
"A Trainer with strength rivaling Elite Four Champions, even obtained recognition from several Legendary Pokémon, recently operating a company selling Pokémon food... Presumably no one would not be curious after seeing Miss Alexa's report, right?"
"There are even rumors saying the reason why Mr. Hakuya can breed such powerful Pokémon is because of feeding these Pokémon foods with special effects every day..."
Speaking of this, shiny little stars appeared in Lisia's eyes.
"That is purely hearsay rumor."
Looking at the girl's appearance of believing it firmly, Hakuya corrected helplessly.
Gardevoir and others did eat specialty foods like Choice Dumplings, true, but strength far exceeding other Pokémon of the same species was largely inseparable from opening big orgies and equipping attributes. Wanting to replicate was absolutely impossible.
However, because Hakuya's displayed combat power was really too amazing, at this time not only Lisia thought so, even Wallace, this future Hoenn Champion, vaguely agreed with this guess.
Pokémon's combat power was not only linked to Trainer's battle command but also closely related to daily breeding.
Nowadays, the number of high-level Trainers overwhelmingly surpassed the number of high-level Breeders.
On one hand, breeding knowledge was far more profound than battle command. Battle Trainers allowed varied styles.
Could memorize all type restraints and moves, taking precision tactical flow like a computer, or understanding nothing like a rash youth rushing from beginning to end, relying on the bond between Trainer and Pokémon to win.
But Breeders couldn't be like this. Any rash behavior would cause irreversible harm to Pokémon.
Besides considerable learning costs, compared to Breeders ignored behind the scenes, many people often liked Battle Trainers glamorous and showing faces on stage. Therefore, Breeders in recent years also had signs of lacking successors...
But the key problem was Trainer's Pokémon strength would be shackled by breeding level. So the reason for this rush buying was not only Alexa's report and Hakuya's star effect but also linked to the variety and excellent quality of specialty foods sold here.
"Hakuya, wonder if you are interested in cooperating with our Sootopolis Gym?" Wallace thought for a moment, asking, "The Gym recently recruited a batch of rookie Trainers as apprentices. Their Pokémon breeding level is still slightly lacking... If possible, hope you can provide a certain amount of MooMoo Milk, Choice Dumplings, and other foods for Sootopolis Gym regularly here. Purchase price according to normal market price; what do you think?"
"Of course no problem."
At this time, Hakuya agreed without hesitation.
Every Gym didn't only have the Gym Leader as a bare commander; there were also a considerable number of Gym Apprentices below. And Gym Leader, besides maintaining city security and accepting traveling Trainer challenges, an important duty was also cultivating this group of rookie Trainer apprentices, improving the Trainer combat power level of this town.
After agreeing to this Sootopolis Gym Leader's request, he suddenly remembered another important matter.
"By the way, do you still have Damp Rock here, Wallace?"
"Mmm?"
Wallace froze slightly, but as a Coordinator Master, he quickly understood Hakuya's meaning.
Although Damp Rock currently detected by researchers had the effect of extending Pokémon's Rain weather time after carrying, long-term nourishing contact seemed to bring good effects to Pokémon's Water-type move power too.
"I don't have any on hand."
Wallace pondered, a smile appearing on his face.
"But I remember Steven once dug several sets as treasures. If you really need, with my relationship with Steven, letting him painfully part with a few more pieces is also no problem."
Reciprocate a peach with a plum, invest and place bets.
This is a truth applicable everywhere; the Pokémon world is no exception.
Not only him, presumably that guy Steven would also be very willing to make friends with such a Trainer having impressive attainments in battle command, gorgeous coordination, and Pokémon breeding, strength considered heaven-defying—
"I remember Hakuya you operate a farm in Hinata Town, right. Should be mailed via express delivery later. Remember to sign for it... don't worry about the price; purely making friends with each other."
"Ah, that's really appreciated."
Hakuya was overjoyed immediately.
Not because of getting a few precious Damp Rocks for free.
After all, he wasn't the poor boy just taking over the farm now. Farm construction and factory agricultural product processing and sales had already brought him high income. Buying a few pieces completely had no psychological pressure.
Just purely because after getting them, Milotic could also become stronger like Suicune. Thinking that mermaid girl would also be very happy after receiving this gift—