Chapter 03: #3 - Am I beautiful, Moon Eevee?
Joy Saori wasn't scolding him; she just found it strange.
Why would a child, not so young, be completely ignorant of such basic knowledge?
Had no one taught him since he was little?
Could he be a runaway? Or… escaped from an orphanage?
“…Saori-nee, can you keep this a secret?”
Su Sheng's eyes darted around, then he lowered his voice with a serious expression.
Joy Saori was taken aback by Su Sheng's demeanor.
She nodded solemnly.
“Actually… I am a child born of a human and an elf.”
“Huh?!”
As a medical professional, Joy Saori was shocked.
Humans and elves can have children?
This was the first time she'd heard of it!
“My dad… he’s a bastard!”
Su Sheng slammed his little fist on the table, gritting his teeth, “After getting my mom pregnant, he put her in a Poké Ball… and while she was asleep, he threw her, along with the Poké Ball, into the forest.”
“Later, my mother gave birth to me in the forest, and I grew up with Pokémon, so… I don’t know much about the human world.”
Joy Saori was completely dumbfounded.
This story completely reshaped her worldview.
The Umbreon beside the seat also looked puzzled.
Doesn't understand the human world?
I saw you communicating with humans without any problems on the way to the Pokémon Center earlier.
“This, this is truly shocking. I never thought humans and elves could actually… Sheng, these many years, it must have been hard for you…”
Joy Saori’s sympathy surged.
“Don’t worry, Saori-nee, aren’t I doing pretty well now?”
Su Sheng apologized to his deceased father from his previous life in his heart.
He couldn't think of a better reason at the moment, so he directly used N's background.
But on second thought, N wasn't necessarily born from a male human and a female elf.
A male elf and a female human are also possible, right?
Like a large-rooted Gardevoir… after all, that guy is also a green-haired one.
Finally, under Joy Saori's sympathetic gaze, Su Sheng, the unregistered person, successfully completed his identity registration.
Although she didn't help him pay the ten years of taxes to become a registered trainer who could receive the starter Pokémon.
But with a formal identity, at least he could do much more than as an unregistered person.
Afterward, Joy Saori asked Su Sheng to return to his room to rest, saying she would help him find a host family tomorrow.
Upon hearing this, Su Sheng took advantage of Joy Saori's inattention.
The next day, Su Sheng got up early, left a letter expressing his gratitude, and left.
Usually, he would learn from Momosuke to act like a child to get some information, but actually living with another family and pretending to be a child for a few years? That would kill him!
Moreover, although Su Sheng didn't think Joy Saori was that kind of person,
he was always afraid that someone would take him for vivisection once she reported his “background.”
There was no other way. Having stayed in the world of deceit and rampant spies in One Piece for so long, Su Sheng always liked to consider the worst-case scenario.
Although he often used pirates and World Government dogs for experiments in his previous life, he didn't want to be used for experiments himself.
…
“I have a general understanding of this world, but the problem of money is still not solved.”
Su Sheng stretched, chatting idly with Umbreon as they walked down the street, “To help you devolve, I need to study your DNA composition, which requires a lot of professional equipment.”
“Syringes, blood collection tubes, blood routine examination instruments…”
“These things cost a lot of money, but I don’t even have money for lunch.”
“Eevee~ Eevee~ Eevee~”
Umbreon responded in the same casual tone.
And occasionally cast an incredible sidelong glance at this new master.
No, no, is he serious?
Not to mention the Eevee family, even throughout Pokémon history,
Umbreon had never heard of being able to devolve after evolving.
“Just because others can’t do it doesn’t mean I can’t. I’m very confident in this aspect.”
Su Sheng touched Umbreon’s round head.
“Tsk~ But no matter how many times I look at it, I think it’s so beautiful. This jet-black fur, these red eyes, plus a little golden pattern embellishment.”
Since Sylveon in his previous life became the most popular Eevee evolution in 《XY》, relying on its elegant and beautiful appearance, plus the best ability in the Eevee family, “Fairy Skin.”
But Su Sheng still thought Umbreon was the coolest.
It has a mysterious beauty.
Su Sheng’s praise stunned Umbreon again.
Is, is this how I look… beautiful?
You know, until she fell asleep in the Pokémon Center last night,
the fearful expression of her original owner abandoning her was still in her dreams.
The two continued to walk down the street.
Umbreon stole glances at Su Sheng more and more frequently.
She could feel it.
Su Sheng’s words were not comforting or coaxing her; he really thought so.
Why… aren’t you my first owner?
“Cyndaquil, use Ember!”
“Whoa! Rattata! Dodge quickly!”
Just then, a burst of children’s shouts came from ahead.
Su Sheng and Umbreon looked up.
They found two boys, about the same age as Su Sheng now, were having a Pokémon battle.
The Pokémon used were Cyndaquil and Rattata.
Well, the two had similar command skills as trainers.
But looking at the difference in Pokémon, the outcome was obvious.
Don't say “There are no useless Pokémon, only useless trainers.”
Or take Giovanni's Beedrill or Red's Pikachu as examples.
As a scientist, Su Sheng said, don't use individual cases as examples.
For example, Kaido's Azure Dragon Fruit and Hancock's two sisters' Snake-Snake Fruit, which one would you choose to eat?
Giovanni and Red are individual cases among individual cases, okay?
Why haven't you seen anyone else cultivate Beedrill or Pikachu, such common Pokémon, to that level of solitary invincibility?
If you transmigrators aim to become peak trainers without systems or other cheats, you should still choose Pokémon with a higher upper limit.
Didn't you see that Luffy's Rubber Fruit, because it couldn't keep up with the rhythm in the later environment of god fights, directly opened a cheat and became Nika?
“Yay! I won!”
In the end, Rattata still failed to rely on the divine skill “Dodge Quickly” to reverse the situation.
The Cyndaquil trainer won.
“As agreed, this bag of Pikachu chocolate cookies is mine.”
The little boy took a bag of cookies with Pikachu printed on the cover from the other party.
Seeing this scene, Su Sheng's smile gradually became perverted.
Oh dear, how could I forget how I made money playing games in my previous life?
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