[Species: Dratini]
[Type: Dragon]
[Level: Novice stage (Level 1, 0/100 EXP)]
[Status: Good, awaiting hatching]
[Potential: Elite Four-class]
…
Seeing this, the corners of Himeko's lips curled into a faint smile.
Elite Four-class potential, used as a Starter Pokémon, was quite good.
This Dratini—
Was her choice.
As for whether Dratini would acknowledge her—
On this point,
Himeko was not worried in the slightest.
Even though she had been reborn,
Her twenty years of experience as a Trainer were still there.
If she could not even get a Starter Pokémon to accept her,
She might as well have died for good.
Step by step, she slowly walked toward that Dratini's egg.
A confident smile hung on Himeko's face.
Out of the corner of her eye,
She kept sweeping over the Pokémon Eggs on the shelves to either side,
Roughly checking their information.
Sure enough, just as she had thought,
These were all weak, low-potential Bug-types and "hometown bird"-type Pokémon.
Even members of the starter trio were rare here.
And even when there were some,
Their aptitudes were utterly ordinary and low.
Not worth her attention.
However, all of a sudden—
Himeko's steps stopped.
The confident smile on her face
Instantly froze.
Then,
It was replaced with an expression of puzzled surprise.
Himeko slowly turned her head,
Looking at a Pokémon Egg on the shelf that bore red, flame-like patterns.
In front of her eyes, a string of data appeared.
[Species: Charmander]
[Type: Fire]
[Level: ???]
[Status: ???]
[Potential: ???]
What was going on?
Himeko's brows furrowed.
This kind of situation
Was something she was encountering for the first time.
Her Eye of Appraisal talent
Had never failed even once.
Even when it came to those Legendary Pokémon,
She had been able to read their information.
So how could it be that today she could not even read the info of an unhatched Charmander?
Her gaze shifted,
Falling on another egg nearby.
Caterpie's information appeared before her eyes, crystal clear.
Judging from that,
There was nothing wrong with her Eye of Appraisal.
Himeko moved her gaze back and tried again.
The result was still the same.
Aside from species and type,
Everything else was question marks; she could not see anything at all.
Strange.
Himeko was filled with doubt.
Anything this abnormal had to be hiding something.
Her intuition told her—
This Charmander
Was anything but simple.
She glanced at the Dratini egg,
Then looked again at this Charmander egg.
After weighing things for a while,
Himeko had already made up her mind.
She lifted her legs
And walked toward the Charmander without any hesitation.
In front of this Charmander's Pokémon Egg,
Quite a number of people had already gathered.
As one of the few members of the starter trio in the entire Breeding Center,
And a powerful Fire-type attacker at that,
Charmander had naturally drawn the favor of many people.
Inside the Pokémon Egg,
Hirata Shiko looked at the crowd of students gathered in front of him, all itching to try their luck,
A look of disdain and scorn appearing on his face.
He did not believe that among these people before him
There was anyone qualified to be his Trainer.
After all—
Once you became a Trainer's Pokémon,
What lay ahead of you was an endless succession of battles.
Certainly,
For a Pokémon,
Battling was the best way to gain experience, become stronger, and evolve and level up.
However—
The real Pokémon World
Was nowhere near as warm and gentle as in the anime.
Once a fierce battle broke out,
The danger involved could be enough to threaten your life.
Moreover,
In Hirata Shiko's opinion,
The experience gained from a day of fighting
Was not even as much as he got from lying flat like a salted fish for a day and completing his daily quests.
So,
Rather than becoming these people's Pokémon,
He would rather continue staying here in the Breeding Center.
One person after another stepped forward,
Touching the Pokémon Egg,
Trying to establish a good relationship with him and gain his acknowledgment.
Hirata Shiko could not even be bothered to respond to them.
He curled up inside the egg, getting ready to go back to sleep.
As a result—
His unresponsive attitude
Instead drew more and more people over to try.
Was this ever going to end?
Hirata Shiko finally lost his temper.
If he did not teach them a lesson,
They would really think he was easy to bully.
The moment he got angry,
The entire Pokémon Egg began to shake violently from side to side.
The flame-like red patterns on the surface of the shell started to flash with light.
Scorching hot waves of air
Erupted from within the Pokémon Egg,
Directly pushing the temperature of the spacious Breeding Center up by several degrees.
The Pokémon Eggs next to Hirata Shiko's egg
Hurriedly rolled far away, afraid of being roasted.
The few people standing closest to Hirata Shiko
Were knocked stumbling to the ground by the blast of searing hot air.
The hair at their temples and their eyebrows were already singed,
Giving off a faint, scorched smell.
"Hiss—"
Seeing this scene,
Everyone sucked in a breath of cold air, their faces filled with shock and surprise.
He was still inside the egg,
Yet he could already unleash such intensely scorching Fire-type energy.
This Charmander was clearly anything but ordinary.
He definitely had extraordinary talent and limitless potential.
For a moment,
Everyone's hearts itched even more.
However—
Itching was one thing,
But not a single person dared step forward again to try to establish a bond.
Anyone could see
That this Charmander's temper was extremely irritable and hard to handle.
If they did not manage him properly,
The one who would suffer would probably be themselves.
For the time being,
A whole group of people crowded not far in front of Hirata Shiko,
Standing there with tangled expressions,
Unable to advance or retreat.
In the distance,
Himeko, who had witnessed the entire process,
Had a clear light in her eyes—
And the emotion shining there
Was obvious joy.
(End of Chapter)
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