Sleeping until evening, Lucas opened his eyes, feeling a bit dazed.
Sleeping for too long makes one groggy and even sleepier; at this moment, Lucas was in a state where he just wanted to close his eyes and keep sleeping.
He turned his head to look and found that Lilligant and Gothitelle were still in the room with him, but they were already sitting up, playing Poker with Gengar and the other two Pokémon.
Gengar's face was already covered in paper strips.
"Ssh."
You're awake.
Noticing Lucas's movement, Ninetales opened its beautiful fox eyes and lazily inquired of him.
Yesterday, it had constantly squeezed the energy within its body, leading to extreme fatigue, so it had slept with Lucas from dawn until dusk.
Of course, ever since evolving into Ninetales, as long as Lucas sat down somewhere, there would always be a massive but not out-of-place Ninetales lying by his feet, sleeping.
Lucas reached out, and Ninetales extended its head toward him.
Lucas gave it a vigorous rub, wondering to himself if the reason Ninetales lived so long was because it slept for such long periods.
Sitting on the bed playing cards, Gengar and the others heard Ninetales' voice and turned to look at Lucas.
Gengar turned its head, but found it couldn't see Lucas.
"Gengar gargar?!"
What happened? Why can't I see Lucas?!
Lucas sat up, the blanket sliding down to his legs. Seeing the fussing Gengar, he sighed, threw off the covers, stood up, and went to the edge of the bed to help it tear off all the paper strips from its face.
"Gengar gargar~"
I can see Lucas again, hee hee.
Lucas smiled and pinched its cheek.
"You really are a clever little ghost."
Gengar's big fat face constantly changed shape in Lucas's hands, all while maintaining a smile.
"Lilli."
Gengar is cheating again, getting Lucas to help take off the strips.
Lilligant also had a few strips on her face; Lucas counted, only two.
As for Gothitelle, she didn't have a single one.
Hearing Lilligant's words, Gengar's eyes darted around.
"Gengar gargar—"
I didn't, Lucas took them off for me himself.
Lucas smiled and looked at Gothitelle, "Gothitelle actually doesn't have any strips?!"
Gothitelle gave Lucas a contemptuous look.
"Gothitelle."
Who do you think I am?!
Lucas had Gengar move over and sat down himself.
"So arrogant? Gengar, we're on the same team. Let's cover their faces in strips and then make them go downstairs."
"Gengar gargar!"
Okay!
Gothitelle and Lilligant looked at each other and nodded.
Reshuffling and dealing.
Gothitelle threw down a pair of threes, then signaled Gengar with her eyes to play.
Gengar looked at Lucas and placed the cards in its hand in front of him, asking how to play.
Lucas took a look: four Twos, a Joker Bomb, plus a sequence.
With a grand wave of his hand, "Pass!"
"Gengar gargar?! Σ(/)"
What did you say? Pass?!
"Trust me Gengar, we win no matter how we play this hand. Let them lower their guard first."
Lucas leaned into Gengar's ear and whispered softly.
"I don't believe they can finish us off in one turn."
Gengar listened to Lucas's suggestion and indicated a pass.
Lilligant noticed Gothitelle's gaze and shook her head.
Pass.
Lucas was still thinking about when would be the best time to finish the cards.
Then he saw Gothitelle toss the cards in her hand.
"Gothitelle."
Airplane (Sequence of Triplets).
A casual sentence made Lucas's guarantee a joke.
"Lilli?"
Lilligant looked at Lucas, her eyes blinking repeatedly.
Lucas: ————
He coughed twice, pretending not to care, "Trust me Gengar, they just got lucky this time. Next round, next round I'll lead us to win it back."
"Gengar gargar?! ( )"
Can I still trust you?
"I'm telling you, trust me and it's a guaranteed win."
Lucas thumped his chest loudly.
Only then did Gengar nod half-doubtingly.
Gothitelle skillfully shuffled and dealt the cards.
Lucas watched Gothitelle shuffle like a character in 'God of Gamblers,' then the cards slid smoothly in front of them one by one.
"So cool?! You're playing with fire."
Gothitelle ignored Lucas, just carefully looking at her cards.
Lucas glanced at Gengar's hand.
Oho, things are looking great.
"Trust me, bid for Landlord."
Gengar looked suspiciously at Lucas, but under his attentive gaze, it took the Landlord position.
A pair of Threes plus a Big Joker.
"See, I told you I was right."
The doubt on Gengar's face finally vanished.
"Pair of Threes!"
Gengar looked at Lucas. Break up the consecutive pairs to play?
"Trust me, you won't go wrong."
Gengar suspiciously dropped a pair of 3s.
Lilligant's dominance leaked out.
Four 2s!
"Gengar gargar?! ∑(/)"
We played a pair of 3s! Not four 3s.
Lucas's mouth hung open as he looked at Lilligant. Lilligant continued to blink her small eyes, looking completely innocent.
"Lilli?"
No hidden meaning, just literal.
Yan was furious, and ordered the Ghost to drop the two Jokers. The Ghost was confused but complied.
"Show off, huh? So what if you have four 2s? Do you see what this is? Joker Bomb."
Lucas stood up with hands on his hips, incredibly smug, "Are four 2s a big deal? To play Poker, you need to have cards in your hand."
Seeing Lucas's smug expression, Gothitelle suppressed her anger.
Pass.
Lucas stopped Gengar from wanting to dump all its cards, "Trust me, three Kings with a 3."
Gengar looked at the Airplane cards in its hand, then looked at Lucas in confusion.
What if they have a bomb in their hands?
Lucas shook his head and began to analyze for Gengar.
Except for the Aces, we have all the other cards. But if they had an Ace bomb, they would have thrown it out at the start to save the 2 bomb.
Gengar was fooled by Lucas again.
It broke up the Airplane and threw the cards out.
Lilligant shrugged.
Pass.
"See, Gengar, what did I tell you? I said they didn't have—an—Ace—bomb—"
Lucas watched the four Aces Gothitelle threw out and was petrified on the spot.
"Gothitelle."
Gothitelle shook her head and looked at Gengar with a face full of sympathy.
It wasn't my turn just now.
"Lilli~"
Lilligant watched Gothitelle dump all her cards and continued to chirp sweetly.
Gengar was so angry its big purple face started turning into a braised egg. It looked to its side to demand an explanation from Lucas, only to find that Lucas had vanished.
Click~
The Lilli of a door opening came. Gengar looked over and found Lucas was about to quietly leave the room.
Gengar narrowed its eyes.
"Gengar gargar"
Where do you think you're going~
Lucas swallowed, "I—I'm going to make dinner for you all."
"Gothitelle."
Don't trouble yourself with that, I can go down.
"I just wanted to thank you for yesterday's help—No, Gengar!!!"
"Gengar gargar—"
Dinner? Take a Lick from me first!
"Nu—Numbed—"
Gothitelle took Lilligant's hand and walked past Lucas and Gengar.
At the same time, she thoughtfully stuffed a Cheri Berry into Lucas's mouth, and then, under Lucas's terrified eyes, even more thoughtfully left a pile of Cheri Berries by his side.
"Gothitelle."
Keep it up, Master Trainer.
"Lilli~"
Keep it up, Trainer-sama~
Two different voices, yet Lucas wept on the spot.