"Your Highness Raven! Lord Lyon is asking you to come over! He said he has something important to report!"
Raven was training his Dratini with electromagnetic waves by the river when he suddenly saw a knight in armor running towards him.
"Lyon?" Hearing the words, Raven was slightly stunned. He signaled Dratini to pause and then asked, "Where is he?"
"With Miss Lila!" the knight replied.
"I understand. I'll be there right away." Raven nodded.
Lila's place was not far, and it only took Raven a few minutes to reach the small wooden house standing by the river.
When he opened the door, he saw Lila feeding a bottle of potion to a small beast.
On the side stood Lyon, Simisear, and two other beasts Raven hadn't seen before.
That is… Patrat, Pidove, and Foongus?
"Your Highness Raven!"
When Lyon saw Raven coming, his eyes suddenly lit up.
"What are they?" Raven turned his gaze toward Foongus and Pidove.
Lyon replied: "These three beasts were adopted by Simisear. They live together in a cave. This Patrat had a fever, so I brought it back for Lila to treat it."
So that's how it is, Raven thought.
Some Pokémon really will rescue others on their own, and sometimes even adopt abandoned human children and raise them.
Simisear looked at Patrat with eyes full of worry.
"Alright, it has recovered." Lila put away the remaining potion in her hand, then said to the others, "Next, just let it rest well, keep warm, and eat on time, and it will be fine."
Hearing this, Lyon felt relieved.
He turned to Simisear and said, "Simisear, it's okay, you don't have to worry!"
"Simisear~"
Simisear's heart was filled with gratitude toward Lyon, and Pidove and Foongus beside her also became closer to him.
Lyon scratched his head, chuckled, and asked, "Simisear, now, are you willing to live with me?"
Looking at the Patrat whose complexion had returned to health, Simisear didn't hesitate this time and gave Lyon an affirmative answer.
"Simisear!"
He also has his own beast! Lyon suddenly felt ecstatic.
He immediately said impatiently: "Let's go, then I'll take you to see where we'll live in the future!"
At this moment, Lyon suddenly remembered Raven was still beside him.
He quickly turned around and said, "Your Highness Raven…"
Raven smiled and said, "Go ahead! Take Simisear around our territory!"
Lyon shouted, "Yes!"
After watching Lyon and Simisear leave, Raven casually opened the territory panel and found that the number of his Pokémon subjects had increased by four.
"If this keeps up, Pokémon will soon outnumber humans…" Raven couldn't help but mutter to himself.
However, no matter how much he complained, it was more important to get down to business.
Raven's mind moved slightly, and Simisear's details appeared before him.
Pokémon: Simisear
Attribute: Fire
Gender: Female
Ability: Blaze
Moves: Leer, Scratch, Incinerate, Yawn, Flame Burst, Flame Wheel
Friendship: 10
Background:
Year 135 of the Royal Calendar: Simisear was born.
Year 140: Simisear began to live alone.
Year 142: Simisear came into contact with a Fire Stone at the bottom of the hot spring and evolved.
Year 148: Simisear rescued three beasts and, moved by Lyon's sincerity, decided to join Raven's territory.
"Huh? This Simisear is actually quite strong!" Raven's eyes swept across the panel in front of him.
She had even learned powerful Fire-type moves such as Flame Burst and Flame Wheel.
Of course, at thirteen years old, she was already young-adult by Pokémon standards, so it made sense she had mastered these moves.
Lyon finally got what he wanted, Raven thought.
And for everyone in the territory, they now had a reliable Fire-type companion.
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"That person just now was His Highness Raven, the master of this territory. He's the one who proposed letting humans and beasts live together." Lyon introduced with a smile. "In short, His Highness Raven is a very powerful person!"
"Simisear~"
"Okay, the house in front is my home."
As he spoke, Lyon stepped forward and opened the door.
Simisear, Patrat, Pidove, and Foongus behind him all looked inside curiously.
The interior of the wooden house was not big. As a bachelor, Lyon's only requirement for the house was that it could be lived in, which made the layout very plain.
There was almost no decoration, just a bed, a table for eating, and a few small round stools made of wood.
But for Simisear and the others, even so, the environment here was far better than the caves they'd lived in before.
They walked in, looked around curiously, and examined the room.
Lyon followed and closed the door. He put firewood into the stone fireplace and lit it. Soon, the whole room began to warm up.
Pidove, Patrat, and Foongus's eyes suddenly lit up. They gathered in front of the fireplace and looked at the flames curiously.
Simisear watched this from the side and couldn't help but reveal a happy smile on her face.
"Hey, warm, huh?" Lyon took out a bag of candy from his bag and shared it with them. "This is the candy I brought from the royal city. Come and try some!"
When the candy entered their mouths, the beasts who had never eaten sweets were instantly stunned by the taste.
So delicious!
The atmosphere suddenly became lively and warm.
Watching this, Lyon suddenly had a premonition.
His life would definitely become more exciting with the arrival of these beasts.
However, there was still a problem.
The candies he had brought from the royal city were almost gone.
He had promised Simisear before that if she followed him, she could eat this sweet candy every day.
Lyon felt a little distressed.
It was at this time that Raven found him.
"Lyon, I hope you can talk to Simisear and ask her to use her flames to help fire bricks in the brick kiln."
"As payment for her work, I'll provide you with more food and sweets."
With four more beasts appearing all of a sudden, Lyon—who had never raised any before—might not be able to care for them all at once.
So, Raven decided to provide him with more food on top of the basic candy.
Although it still sounded a bit like exploiting Simisear… this was already the best reward Raven could offer for now.
Of course, all this depended on Simisear's own wishes. If she didn't want to, Raven would never force her.
As for the rest, they'd have to wait until the territory officially developed.