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On the clean deck, the sea breeze blew leisurely. On the beach in the distance, a Gastrodon was crawling slowly. In the sky, a Wingull kept flapping its wings, staring intently at the sea surface. Seizing the right moment, the Wingull dived, plunged into the sea, and then popped back out with a constantly wriggling fish in its mouth.
Shauna stood by the deck railing, waiting for the Gastrodon on the shore to shrink.
"Huh? Why does it feel like the Gastrodon is still so big?"
Shauna took a sausage out of her pocket, took a bite, and asked in confusion.
Tomoyo: "Because the boat hasn't started yet."
Operation room.
Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. Fujino, Diantha, Gengar, and Gothitelle stared at the pile of buttons and the ship's wheel in front of them, falling into silence.
"Um—does anyone here know how to steer this?"
After a while, Lucas broke the silence and asked.
Everyone shook their heads.
Lucas looked at Gengar.
Why on earth would you think I know how to steer this thing?
"Fine, I can see I can't rely on you."
Lucas shook his head and dialed Rhys's number.
Before long, Rhys ran onto the boat. "Sorry, I forgot you guys didn't know how to steer a boat. It's okay, I'll help you steer."
"Thank you for your hard work."
Rhys chuckled.
Lucas led everyone back to the deck, and the yacht beneath their feet began to set off.
"Wow wow wow! We're setting off!"
Shauna stood at the railing, cupped her hands into a megaphone shape, placed them by her mouth, and shouted happily.
"Off to go fishing at sea~"
Diantha found a spot, stood there quietly, and felt the sea breeze blowing on her face.
She looked at the deep blue seawater beneath her feet. The waves kept crashing against the hull, bringing a faint scent of the sea. Not far away, the horizon connected with the sky, a vast expanse of one color. Many Wingull flew curiously around the yacht, watching this strange yacht.
"It's been a long time since I've been this relaxed."
Diantha squinted her eyes comfortably and said softly.
"Sha~"
Beside Diantha, a beautiful and elegant Gardevoir nodded gently.
"It seems like we haven't been out to sea in a long time."
Mrs. Fujino leaned on Mr. Fujino's shoulder, looked at the sea, and said gently.
Mr. Fujino held Mrs. Fujino's hand. "Yeah, it seems like it's been a few years. Ever since we had little Shauna, we haven't been out to sea."
Mr. and Mrs. Fujino looked at Shauna together. Shauna was standing on the railing, opening her little mouth, shouting non-stop.
Tomoyo, who was beside her, stretched out her hand to pull her, fearing she might fall into the sea.
"It looks like little Shauna is also very happy."
Mrs. Fujino looked at Shauna's flushed face and said happily.
Mr. Fujino didn't speak, just pulled his wife to a corner, quietly watching the sea and blowing in the wind, enjoying their world for two.
Anyway, with Gengar and the others around, little Shauna shouldn't have any accidents.
Lucas was already sitting on the armchair he had Gengar bring over, wearing shorts and a short-sleeved shirt, with sunglasses he snatched from Gengar on his face, leisurely blowing in the sea breeze.
"It would be great if there was a glass of iced sparkling water right now."
Lucas said regretfully.
"Gothitelle."
Wait.
Gothitelle said this and floated towards the kitchen on the boat.
The boat slowly stopped. Rhys walked out of the cabin and looked at Lucas sitting on the armchair. "Lucas, we've arrived. This is a place where I often come to fish. There are quite a lot of fish."
Upon hearing this, Lucas put down the sparkling water Gothitelle had made for him. "Received. Today, I will no longer hide my strength."
Lucas stood up, shook his arms. "Watch me catch that big-headed fish for you."
Big-headed fish? What kind of fish is that?
Rhys was a little confused when he heard Lucas's words, but he didn't continue to ask Lucas, thinking it was a type of fish with a very fat head.
Lucas asked Gengar to take out the fishing rods. They were dazzling, and Rhys was stunned.
"Wow, Lucas, did you actually buy so many fishing rods? And they are all suitable for sea fishing. Wow, you were willing to buy this? I remember this isn't cheap."
Rhys picked up a very gorgeous-looking fishing rod and said in surprise: "I wanted to buy it at the time, but after looking at the price, it was too expensive, so I gave up."
Lucas looked at the pile of various fishing rods. "These were all bought by Gengar itself, just for fishing in the Lake area of the Breeding House."
When Lucas said this, he kept staring at Gengar. "It always uses my phone to buy some strange things online."
"Hahahaha, doesn't this just show that your relationship with Gengar is good."
Rhys laughed: "I see that many of these fishing rods haven't been assembled yet. Let me help you assemble them. Tell me which one you want, and I'll help you assemble it. Do you have bait?"
Gengar took out a few large cans of meat paste.
"This bait, it's so fragrant?"
Rhys swallowed his saliva. "Where did you buy this? I'll go buy some to try another day."
"I made it myself. If you want some, just have Gengar share some with you later."
Lucas said generously, anyway, it was all made from leftover food.
"Everyone, those who want to try fishing can come over and choose your own fishing rod."
Lucas shouted, and he was instantly surrounded by people.
"Uncle, I want that pink one."
"Uncle, blue."
"Then I'll take the black one."
"The Gardevoir-shaped one."
"Gen gengar"
"Lilli?"
Rhys was busy setting up the fishing gear for everyone. After watching them leave, he sat down on the deck with a thud.
"Almost couldn't keep up with the setup."
"Thank you for your hard work. You haven't used this fishing rod before, right? How is it? Do you want to take it and try?"
Lucas pointed to the gorgeous fishing rod and said with a smile.
"Is that really okay? It's quite expensive."
"It was bought to be used, don't worry."
"Then I won't be polite. Thank you, Lucas."
Rhys picked up the fishing rod and said thank you happily.
"You're welcome. Alright, you go find another place, don't disturb my fishing here. I've set a goal of one hundred fish for myself today."
Lucas stared intently at the float.
Rhys nodded, took the fishing rod, dug out a bit of bait, took his Floatzel, found a place, took out a small stool, sat on it, and started fishing.
"Lilligant, aren't you going to fish?"
Lucas glanced at Lilligant, who was sitting beside him, quietly watching him fish, and asked.
Lilligant shook her head with a smile.
"Lilli."
I'll keep you company.
"Then I'll trouble you, Lilligant."
Ninetales was lying at Lucas's feet, Lilligant was sitting beside him, and on the other side, Gothitelle was sitting on its chair, holding its own fishing rod.
Splash~
Gothitelle suddenly lifted the rod, and a blue-black fish with beautiful patterns was pulled up by Gothitelle.
"Lumineon?"
Lucas looked at the fish Gothitelle caught, read its name, and then looked at Gothitelle. "Not bad, Gothitelle, your strength is half as good as mine now."
Gothitelle ignored Lucas's words, just skillfully hooked the bait, and then flicked its little hand.
Plop.
It started to wait quietly for the next fish to take the bait.
After a few minutes.
Gothitelle lifted the rod again, and a Corphish was caught by it.
Lucas: ————
After a few more minutes, Gothitelle lifted the rod with force again.
This time it was okay, just a Magikarp.
Gothitelle disdainfully threw the Magikarp back into the sea.
After a few more minutes.
Gothitelle lifted the rod again.
This time it was a Carvanha.
Lucas: ————
Lilligant looked at the bucket beside Lucas, which contained water.
It ran to look at the bucket beside Gothitelle, which contained water, fish, and a lobster.
Lilligant hesitated for a second, ran back to Lucas's side, and in Lucas's happy eyes, picked up her little stool, ran to Gothitelle's side, and sat down.
"Lilli."
Good luck! Lucas.
Lucas: ————
Splash.
Lucas turned his head and found that Gengar had caught a huge Lanturn.
Lucas: ————
That's too much, hey—
Gothitelle's Lumineon is fine, but how can you also catch a Lanturn?
I remember these two Pokémon don't inhabit the deep sea area?
Then everyone on the boat began to show their skills.
Every few minutes, a fish would take the bait.
The boat was full of laughter and joy from catching fish.
And looking at Lucas.
The bucket wasn't empty, there was a lot of water.
Lucas: ————
"I suspect that Gothitelle has caught all my fish."
Lucas said this sentence with an unchanging expression.
Gothitelle turned her head to look at him, glanced at the large bucket beside her, and then looked at Lucas's empty bucket.
"Gen gengar."
Admitting one's failure is not that difficult.
Lucas was furious! He stood up abruptly, and under Gothitelle's cold gaze, he picked up his bucket, shouldered his fishing rod, and moved to a different spot.
"Uncle, look, Little Tomoyo and I caught so many fish."
Lucas counted them; although they were all Magikarp, the number came to over twenty.
Lucas looked at his own bucket again and fell into silence.
"Huh? Strange, why is Uncle's bucket empty?"
Lucas put down his chair, expressionless. "Because Uncle released the Magikarp back into the sea; Uncle's goal was never Magikarp."
Shauna opened her mouth wide. "Oh~"
So that's how it is.
Seeing that Shauna and Tomoyo only had one fishing rod, Lucas asked in confusion, "Why do you only have one fishing rod? Does someone not want to fish?"
Shauna shook her head. "One fishing rod is enough. Little Tomoyo and I can both fish."
Shauna said crisply, "Little Tomoyo uses the fishing rod, I don't."
"Why don't you use—"
Before Lucas could finish, he saw Shauna use a small wooden stick tied with fishing line, break off a piece of the sausage in her hand, attach it to the line, and drop it in just like that.
"Little Shauna, you won't be able to catch—fish—that way—"
Looking at the Magikarp in Shauna's arms, Lucas's face turned as black as Gengar's backside.
"Why is it Magikarp again—"
Shauna looked at the Magikarp in her arms, sighed, and then threw it back into the sea.
"See, Uncle, I can fish too."
After throwing the Magikarp away, Shauna gave Lucas a cute, bright smile.
Hee hee.
Lucas turned his head away expressionless, staring at the float on his fishing rod.
Shauna leaned her mouth gently to Tomoyo's ear. "Little Tomoyo, do you think Uncle seems to be in a bad mood?"
"Maybe it's because Uncle didn't catch the fish he wanted to catch."
Tomoyo answered softly.
Shauna nodded her little head. "So that's why?"
Lucas's inner thoughts at this moment.
Why are there no fish yet—even a Magikarp would be fine—please, take the bait—
Just as Lucas was chanting internally, Gengar arrived beside him, carrying a huge Kingler.
"Gen gengar—"
Lucas, look.
Looking at that huge Kingler, Lucas averted his gaze.
How is it, how is it? Lucas, hurry and praise me, hurry and praise me.
Lucas pursed his lips tightly.
Lucas, Lucas, how many have you caught?
Gengar curiously looked at Lucas's bucket and couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"Gen gengar~"
Wahahaha~
You didn't catch a single fish, did you?
After Gengar finished speaking, it threw the Kingler in its arms away.
Kingler: ???
Don't I have any dignity? You just threw me back into the sea?
Gengar floated to its bucket, picked it up, and came to Lucas's side.
Lucas glanced at it.
The bucket was full of all kinds of fish.
Lucas gnashed his teeth in hatred. Why could a big fatty with short hands and short feet catch so many fish?!
Why couldn't I catch a single fish?!
I'm shaking with rage! Is even the Magikarp targeting me?
Gengar: If you say some nice things to praise me, I'll secretly hook my fish onto your fishing line, how about it?
Gengar: How about it, how about it? Do you want to, do you want to?
Gengar: Say something, Lucas, hurry up and say something.
Lucas was just about to open his mouth to praise Gengar with the words he had drafted, when he heard Tomoyo's exclamation beside him.
"Ah! Such a big fish!"
Tomoyo's fishing rod bent into a crescent moon, and Tomoyo was dragged forward by the force coming from the rod.
"Uncle—"
Tomoyo cried out in fear.
Lucas stood up and ran over quickly, intending to take the fishing rod from Tomoyo, but Shauna, who was beside Tomoyo, was faster. She grabbed Tomoyo's fishing rod directly, and her whole small body was dragged forward.
She braced her feet against the railing at the edge of the deck, her whole body leaning back at a great angle, her face gradually turning as red as an Infernape.
"Gengar, go help out."
Lucas commanded Gengar to go help. Gengar nodded, and just as it was about to float over, Shauna burst out a childish roar.
"Ya!"
Her small hands exerted force suddenly.
A huge and ferocious Gyarados was pulled out of the sea by Shauna.
Gyarados looked at Shauna, who had pulled it out of the water: ???
Hey sister, you little shrimp, what did you eat? How do you have so much strength?
Lucas: ——
"Ahem, Gengar, I remember—Gyarados weigh at least 235kg, right—"
Gengar swallowed hard and nodded.
Lucas and Gengar exchanged a look, as if confirming whether they had ever bullied Shauna before.
They knew she was strong, but they didn't know she was this strong!
How old is she? Eight or nine years old!
Gyarados floated on the sea surface, energy beginning to gather in its mouth.
Little one, feel my wrath!
Lucas: "Whoa! Quite a temper! Gengar!"
Gengar held a Dark Void in its hand, ready to throw it at Gyarados, but in the end, it stopped and turned to look at Shauna.
Tomoyo came to Shauna's side, opened her arms, and stared angrily at the Gyarados. "You want to bully Little Shauna? You big bad guy! Little Dratini, let's go, use Thunder!"
The pink Dratini emerged from the sea, let out a high-pitched cry, and immediately, dark clouds gathered over Gyarados' head.
Gyarados had its Hyper Beam held in its mouth, looking at the dark clouds and lightning above its head.
Um—if I swallow the Hyper Beam back—is it still in time?
Rumble!
A clean Thunder, perfect hit.
Tomoyo clapped her hands and raised her little fist.
"Beat you up!"
Lucas and Gengar exchanged a look again.
Lucas opened his mouth, just about to speak.
"It's here!"
Mrs. Fujino's voice rang out. Lucas and Gengar turned their heads immediately, only to see Mrs. Fujino with one foot on the deck. Her other foot was raised high, stepping on the railing, and the fishing rod in her hand was constantly letting out and reeling in line.
Her posture was extremely heroic, her expression very serious, and her movements very skillful.
The entire yacht was being dragged by a huge shadow, swaying constantly.
"Gothitelle."
Lucas shouted. Gothitelle nodded, immediately flew into the air, and used psychic power to protect Shauna and the others.
At this moment, Mrs. Fujino's eyes were moving along with the direction of the fishing line.
Just as Lucas was about to ask if she needed help, Mrs. Fujino exerted force with her legs, lifted both hands, and shouted, "Come out!"
Splash!
Huge splashes of water sprayed up.
A huge blue-and-white Pokémon was pulled out of the water by Mrs. Fujino.
Lucas and Gengar exchanged a look for the third time.
Looking at this nearly twenty-meter Wailord being pulled out of the water by Mrs. Fujino, Lucas felt for the first time what it meant to have heredity.
"Gengar, by comparison, it seems Gyarados has become a minor problem."
"Gen gengar"
I think you're right.
So—can such a small fishing rod really catch a Wailord?
And—
Wailord, why do you like eating such a tiny bit of bait?!
"Ya! It seems I've caught something incredible."
Mrs. Fujino covered her mouth and said with surprise.
Mrs. Fujino, don't you think it's a bit late to start being surprised now?
"So it's such a big guy, no wonder I said the force was so great; it almost dragged me into the sea."
Mrs. Fujino said calmly without a change in expression.
Gengar: I clearly saw you looking calm and composed just now, not even panting; how come it looks like you did something very ordinary?
"So big—can it be eaten?"
Mr. Fujino expressed his confusion.
"Wow! Mommy is amazing! Mommy actually managed to catch such a big fish! Even better than Little Tomoyo! It feels like it could eat many, many Little Shaunas in one bite!"
Shauna came to Mrs. Fujino's side, her eyes showing no fear, only curiosity.
"No, no."
Mrs. Fujino stroked Shauna's head. "Little Shauna is also very amazing."