"Sigh, cosplay~"
Dawn, who was learning from advanced experiences, suddenly heard Zoey bring this up. Her fair cheeks instantly flushed, causing the young girl's CPU to stop functioning again.
Because she had previously rejected Zoey's direct-ball-like offensive, turning instead to a more roundabout method to get the other party to initiate the attack.
And this included using one's own charm to captivate the other party, with the most effective and direct method being a cosplay.
"But Zoey, do you really have any experience in love?" Feeling that Zoey's methods were unreliable, Dawn finally turned her focus to the person herself.
"Of... Of course!"
Usually calm and composed, Zoey rarely showed a flustered expression, forcing a calm response.
"Hmm~~"
But no matter how slow Dawn was, she realized something was wrong and stared straight at the somewhat flustered Zoey.
Facing Dawn's suspicious gaze, Zoey, knowing she couldn't keep up the act, could only confess the truth.
"It's from my sister's notebook~" For the sake of her image in the other's mind, Zoey decisively sold out Sister Xiao Song, who was far away in Qiefeng City.
"You believe me now, right? This isn't just something I made up; it's a love notebook written by my sister's own hand~"
Having a new shield, Zoey regained her usual calm image and revealed a mix of true and false information to Dawn.
"This..." Dawn was still a bit suspicious because no matter how she heard it, it didn't sound very reliable.
"Don't worry, my sister is the Qiefeng City Gym Leader!" To dispel the hesitation, Zoey also pointed out her sister's identity, indicating that all of this was verifiable.
"I see~" The status of a Gym Leader was still quite deep in the young girl's heart, representing a certain authority.
Since Zoey had brought out the gold-lettered sign, Dawn had to consider the feasibility of it.
"Phew I knew I shouldn't have messed around"
Seeing that Dawn finally believed her, Zoey couldn't help but wipe the cold sweat from her forehead and take a deep breath to relax.
However, she believed that as long as Dawn was willing to follow the method she described, the relationship between the two would definitely take a step further.
After all, they were already in the stage of mutual affection; any action from either side would definitely break the current deadlock.
As an outsider, she could clearly sense that for the two to go further, it wasn't about the method, but about which side could take action!
Since that guy in the distance couldn't do it, she could only egg on this dense friend of hers!
And to all of this, Ash, who was still holding the clingy Chansey and watching Pikachu and the others' special training, was completely unaware.
And he himself was currently in no mood to eavesdrop on two girls whispering.
Only because his heart was bleeding, feeling cold and desolate.
The subjects of his training were still the eight Pokémon including Pikachu, Charizard, Sceptile... Suicune, Snorlax, and Scizor.
However, the training content was very different from before, shifting from combat confrontation to skill training.
After all, now that he had money, he definitely wanted to equip the Pokémon with Pokémon items and use a few more skill discs.
Previously, it was because he was poor and couldn't guarantee that every Pokémon would have a Pokémon item to boost their own attributes.
But now it was different; he had caught Darkrai, although the other party was currently still in Baiyang Town, guarding its own back garden.
But the bright 100,000 gold coins couldn't be faked.
Setting aside the 30,000 gold coins spent on exchanging for Tokiwa Power, there was still a huge sum of nearly 70,000.
So he immediately equipped Pikachu with the exclusive item Light Ball (4,000),
Had Pidgeot carry a Sharp Beak,
Had Sceptile carry a Miracle Seed,
Had Scizor carry a Metal Coat (2,000),
Had Suicune carry Mystic Water,
Had Aerodactyl carry a Hard Stone.
As for Snorlax, that lazy fellow who loved to sleep, it had already been equipped with Leftovers, and Charizard already had Charcoal.
So, spending a total of one Suicune's worth of gold coins, he gave six Pokémon a certain boost.
Looking at it this way, he should be happy.
But Charizard, with its stubborn temper, wasn't having it, saying how could it not have its share, even lying on the spot and starting to act like a rogue with him.
It reached out its hand, indicating it wanted one too, or else it wouldn't work.
"Don't mess around, wasn't your share given a long time ago!"
Charizard turned its head away, lying on its side with one hand propping up its head, stretching out the other hand like a beggar, looking completely shameless.
If it weren't for the little baby Chansey in his arms, he really would have wanted to fire an Aura Sphere at the annoying old Charizard to let it know who the real boss was.
"Fine, just this once. If there's a next time, I'll have the six of them take turns beating you up~"
Considering that Charizard had recently taken a beating, he had just gotten up and threw a red-colored gem from the exchange shop to Charizard.
"Roar~"
Seeing a familiar pulse, Charizard immediately stood up straight, took the stone handed over, and immediately gave Ash a goose-step, guaranteeing there would definitely not be a next time.
Then it looked happily at the gem in its palm, suddenly finding that this thing looked like the one on its neck, just with a different color inside.
This one was crimson, while the one on its neck was black and blue.
Ash smiled slightly at this; that stone was naturally the Mega Charizard Y Stone, which he had originally intended to swap out when the time came.
But who would have thought old Charizard would act like a rogue? He could only leave the Charizard Mega Evolution Y stone for Charizard to keep itself.
As for losing it, hmph!!!
A wicked smile couldn't help but appear on his handsome face, scaring the happy Charizard nearby, who quickly tucked away the mega stone, fearing Ash would take it back.
"Look at you, acting like that~"
Charizard's small movements were naturally seen by him, and he rolled his eyes disdainfully.
"Kuya~"
But at this moment, the Chansey in his arms suddenly moved, a short finger pointing at Charizard, then at itself, looking up at Ash with expectant eyes.
"Alight, here you go!"
Seeing Chansey follow suit, he couldn't help but glare at Charizard again, then took out a bell that emitted a wonderful sound, a Soothe Bell, and handed it to Chansey.
Anyway, this thing wasn't expensive, only worth 0.1 Suicunes.
"Kuya~"
Chansey happily took the Soothe Bell from Ash's hand and placed it next to the round stone in its belly pocket, looking like it wanted to treasure it.
Up until now, Ash's mood was still quite stable; after all, he still had 5.9 Suicunes of wealth in his pocket.
Until the skill training began, and the bad news truly arrived.
"These big spenders, why do they learn moves so fast!"
To expand their coverage and improve their output capability, he had each Pokémon learn many skill discs.
For example, Pikachu's Light Screen, Reflect, Surf, Substitute, Electric Terrain, Brick Break, and other skills.
Charizard's Shadow Claw, Rock Tomb, Brick Break, Flare Blitz, Substitute, Heat Wave, and other skills... each learned many new moves, and except for Snorlax and Suicune, every one of them seemed quite enthusiastic, even compressing their meal times to learn new moves.
At first, the enthusiasm of the Pokémon made him, as a Trainer, very gratified, and he tirelessly picked up skill discs and slapped them on their foreheads.
Until... [Gold Balance: 39,900]
The rapidly decreasing gold finally woke him up.
"Oh no, I wasn't paying attention and spent the portion for the other Pokémon in the backyard too!"