On February 4th, in the Spring of the 198th year of the Pokémon League dar, the crops on the ranch finally reached maturity.

  In the m, after breakfast, Naoki ged into his blue work clothes, which he hadn't had time to wash, and prepared to head to the fields for the harvest.

  Just then, a familiar voice called out from outside the ranaoki turned and saw Yosuke walking towards him, carrying a rge travel backpack.

  From a distance, Yosuke waved and shouted, "Hey, Naoki! I finally found the pce!"

  Naoki paused his work and raised an eyebrow. "Have you finished expl the Pokémon around Casseroya Lake?"

  Yosuke nodded, a bit embarrassed. "Yeah, I met a few students from the Naranja Academy on the way, which deyed me a little."

  With a guest arriving, Naoki set aside his work and invited Yosuke in to sit for a while.

  But Yosuke shook his head, looking around the ranch with excitement. "Did you manage all of this by yourself?" he asked.

  fields and a wn - everything seemed so well-anized.

  "To be precise, Koraidon and Cyclizar helped a lot too," Naoki replied.

  "That's amazing!" Yosuke praised.

  Naoki chuckled. It didn't matter if the harvest was deyed a bit. He took this opportunity to show Yosuke around his ranch.

  "This is the Goat pen. The Skiddo produce valuable goat milk and are essential members of the ranch," Naoki expined.

  "They're the three you caught st time, right?" Yosuke asked.

  Naoki nodded. Just as he was about to say something else, one of the Skiddo stood up and zily shook its head.

  The sed, a strong green light enveloped its body. The light sank into the earth, transf the surrounding area into a vast green grassnd.

  Naoki was momentarily speechless.

  Yosuke's eyes widened. "Is that, Grassy Terrain? Why does it feel a little different from what I've seen?"

  Was it his imagination, or did it cover a rger area than any Grassy Terrain he had witnessed before?

  "It is Grassy Terrain," Naoki firmed, a bit dumbfounded.

  This Skiddo was being increasingly profit in using the move, almost turning Grassy Terrain into its own personal domain.

  These days, the three Skiddo's had been ing a rge number of Green Grass Dumplings every day.

  Long-term ption of this magical food kept the grass energy in their bodies stantly brimming, to the point that they felt unfortable if they didn't release it daily. pared to destructive moves like Sor Beam, Grassy Terrain posed no such s.

  Therefore, to vent the excess Grass-type energy in their bodies, the three Skiddo's would use Grassy Terrain for a period each day.

  At first, Naoki was a bit worried. He eveo the town's bookstore and bought a book on the subject, learning a professional term - "Energy Overflow." This meant that some Pokémon had too muergy in their bodies, making it difficult to trol, causing it to overflow and affect the surrounding enviro.

  For example, Mage, if they had too much electrical energy, could cause eleagic disturbahroughout the town, affeg unication signals and power systems. But it seemed the situation with the Skiddo was different because they could trol their energy.

  "This is incredible!" Yosuke was amazed.

  Naoki thought to himself that Yosuke hadn't seen anythi.

  'Sometimes, these three Skiddo's would evehe Grassy Terrain as a stage to daogether'! But he kept this thought to himself.

  "When I saw them fighting against Koraidon before, I didn't realize how powerful they were!" Yosuke murmured. "Did you give them any special training?"

  "No, maybe it's their own effort?" Naoki suggested. "Let's go. I'll show you how the Nacli are doing."

  Yosuke snapped out of his reverie, and the two tinued walking, soon arriving at the salt shelter.

  The door was wide open, and the Nacli inside were chasing each other and pying around the rocks on the floor. Seeing these Nacli that he had cared for for a few days, Yosuke couldn't help but smile and greeted them enthusiastically:

  "Hey, little guys! Long time no see!"

  The Nacli stopped pying and turned around, spotting the two people standing at the door. The sed, expressions of surprise appeared on their faces.

  "Nacli, nacli!"

  "Do you remember me?" Yosuke asked, pointing at himself.

  The Nacli gave an affirmative answer.

  Naoki stood aside, watg the se with a smile. Yosuke observed the physical dition of the Nacli and couldn't help but say, "It seems they're beiaken care of by you! That's great."

  "Yes!" Naoki also felt a bit emotional.

  At that moment, they heard Dragonite's cry from outside.

  Yosuke looked fused.

  Naoki expined, "That must be Dragourning."

  He said goodbye to the Nacli and turo leave the salt shelter. Sure enough, Dragonite was on the wn outside, wearing its little red bag.

  It slowly flew in front of Naoki, happily took out the money for the milk delivery from its bag, and ha over. "Roar~"

  Naoki took it and patted Dragonite's head. "Thank you for your hard wo py!"

  Dragonite ran off to ask Koraidon and Cyclizar for advi some moves. During these three days, it had already relearned Dragon Tail, but it still wao learn more, so it started pestering Koraidon and Cyclizar, both Dragon-type Pokémon.

  Yosuke watched Dragonite go, a little shocked. "Is that the Dragohat was sitting on the cliff looking at the moon? Did you catch it?"

  "Yeah!" Naoki nodded. "You could say that hard work pays off. It's now serving as a courier on the ranch, helping to deliver fresh goat milk to the town."

  "Deliver, milk?" Yosuke's eyes widened in disbelief.

  "Is there a problem?" Naoki asked, fused.

  "You're letting Dragonite deliver milk!" Yosuke excimed. "Oh my goodness! Do you know how rare that Pokémon is? Many people 't even enter one in their lifetime!"

  Naoki didn't think having Dragonite deliver milk had anything to do with its rarity. After all, as a Pokémon pyer, you could even use Legendary Pokémon like Arceus, Dialga, and Palkia to farm. Nothing they did was surprising.

  If there was a history of the Hisui regioing in this world.

  e to think of it, Naoki remembered that the history css at the academy had mentiohe Hisui region, including Professor Laventon and the in of the Poké Ball.

  The rest of the chi coop was unremarkable. The hens were still diligently incubating their eggs. Acc to the schedule, the eggs should hatch soon. By then, there would be many new lives on the ranch.

  After a walk around, it was already 8:30 in the m. The sun had risen, and the temperature was slowly increasing.

  Naoki brought Yosuke back to the , intending to pour him a gss of juice.

  In front of the wooden house, Yosuke noticed the Metapod hanging uhe eaves.

  His eyes were immediately drawn to it. "Is that, a Metapod?"