The next day, four o'clock in the morning.
Xu Qiansu was silent as she watched little master Caidou roll in handsomely from the window.
"I woke up very early today...you didn't sleep?"
"The so-called men have a few days every month."
Caidou glanced at Xu Qiansu in confusion, but didn't care at all what he said and pointed to the bathroom behind her.
Xu Qiansu stood up and dressed silently, washed and brushed her teeth. Caidou looked at him quietly.
Then he climbed out of the window and down to the ground. Now that he had climbed down from the second floor, Xu Qiansu didn't even need to jump onto a tree branch to use force.
Morning exercise continued as usual. After 7:30, Xu Qiansu looked at Chirulian's three cubs who were fighting back and forth with Xiaozhi's three Pokémon. She immediately turned her head to look at Caidou and asked: "Can I teach Chirulian the fighting skills that Master Caidou taught me?"
Qilulian likes close combat, and Xu Qiansu will naturally not deprive her of her preference, whether it is to use this to improve her close combat ability... Now that she has gotten acquainted with Little Master Caidou, she brought it up, and I don't know if she will. promise.
"Chirulian learns fighting?" Caido tilted her head. After these days, she also saw Chirulian's good melee combat ability, so she was not surprised and nodded lightly.
Then he said: "But let's wait until you become stronger. With your current strength, even if Chirulian doesn't use skills and just fights in close combat, you are no match for her."
It seemed that little master Caidou had taken Xu Qiansu's task with his own strength to defeat monsters.
After all, Xu Qiansu's purpose in learning fighting was to target humans, not to arm-wrestle with Pokémon...
So Caido added, "I will also take time to teach Chirulian these days."
Xu Qiansu couldn't help but feel that the little master Caidou was really kind to him. He responded to his requests without asking for anything, but just because of Xu Qiansu's verbal request to become a disciple.
Presumably she would have agreed without hesitation if I had asked her to train Kirulian when I first became a disciple.
He wanted to do something for Caidou, but he didn't know this woman at all. He only knew that her obsession was to defeat the Dan Emperor...
Defeating the Alchemy Emperor... Ninety-nine percent of the trainers in Galar have this ambition, but in the past ten years, no one has been able to do it.
But as a trainer, Xu Qiansu couldn't help him much, not to mention that his strength was low and what he could do was extremely limited, so he kept this idea in his heart and discussed it later.
He led his cubs back to the room, took a hot bath, and went downstairs. Breakfast was already prepared... He sat down next to Miss Mary.
"Buyi~" Ibrahimovic squatted on Miss Ma Li's lap, looked at Xu Qiansu, and greeted happily.
The man in front of him made Ibrahimovic feel very close to him, as if... he had been with him when he was still in the egg.
Xu Qiansu pinched Ibrahimovic's face and immediately looked at Ma Li.
Miss Ma Li's expression was very calm, and nothing unusual could be seen. Apparently, she had no intention of mentioning last night's trip to the hot spring.
Lillie could tell something was wrong at a glance. As soon as Xu Qiansu appeared in her sight, she lowered her eyes, blushed, and said nothing.
She was naturally shy when a man she didn't know well saw herself wearing a bath towel.
She is inherently introverted, so she probably didn't sleep last night.
Should I not mention this to avoid arousing her shyness, or should I explain it to her clearly? ...Xu Qiansu looked at Lillie's dark circles and thought silently.
Sonia raised her face, biting the bread, and looked at Xu Qiansu and Lillie with an excited smile.
Twenty years old, about six years older than the other girls, she was always inexplicably sharp in some places.
After breakfast, he was about to take Lillie out to investigate, but Qilulian was directly left behind by Caidou.
Little Master Caidou is a decisive action person. He said he would help Xu Qiansu train Qilulian and would not delay further.
Although Kirulian is reluctant to give up, as the Pokémon that loves Xu Qiansu the most, she thinks that she is not only obedient, but also sensible. For the time being, she is a perfect and cute Pokémon in all aspects except for her strength.
When he finally learns how to cook and gains strength, he will definitely be able to leave that female human far behind.
Xu Qiansu and Lillie walked in the snow in tandem as usual.
Their Pokémon followed them on short legs.
Lillie held her hands in front of her, lowered her head, blushed, and followed Xu Qiansu silently.
The atmosphere is no different from before, cold and talkative.
Xu Qiansu would not talk to Lillie about meaningless topics, he would only talk like that in front of Miss Ma Li.
And Lillie didn't often take the initiative to speak.
After the two of them walked in silence for a while, Xu Qiansu suddenly said, "Liliae."
"yes!"
Lillie suddenly raised her head and looked at Xu Qiansu's back, her snow-white face flushed, and her jewel-like green eyes as if they were dripping water.
Xu Qiansu did not look back. He felt that if he looked at Lillie, she would probably be even more shy.
Anyway, it's not something shameful. There's no need to hide it or hesitate. It's better to explain it clearly to Lillie to save her from having to think about it.
"last night……"
"It doesn't matter! I didn't see anything!" Lillie said quickly before Xu Qiansu finished speaking.
Xu Qiansu sighed lightly. Lillie was very well-educated and never interrupted others. It seemed that last night really had a big impact on her.
Hearing Xu Qiansu sigh, Lillie lowered her eyes again, pursed her lips tightly, and then whispered: "I'm really sorry for last night..."
"Why are you apologizing?" Xu Qiansu was slightly startled and looked back at her.
"Because I was the one who proposed to go to the hot springs... If we fight, it will disturb you two..." Lillie hesitated, still not embarrassed to say the word 'date'.
"Excuse me?" Xu Qiansu thought for a while before he understood that Lillie thought that Xu Qiansu and Ma Li were having a tryst at the hot spring... He shook his head and said, "You misunderstood. Although Miss Ma Li and I are a match made in heaven, , but it’s not the relationship you imagined, there won’t be any tryst.”
Lillie blinked. This was the first time Xu Qiansu said such slightly frivolous words to her.
Oh... He's not frivolous towards her, he's frivolous towards Ma Li. He would only speak like this when he mentioned Ma Li.
Lillie was keenly aware of this.
"Ibrahimovic was born last night, so I ran to the female hot spring..." Xu Qiansu looked away, looked forward, and whispered: "I scared you, I'm sorry."
After apologizing to me... Lillie looked at Xu Qiansu's back, then pinched the corner of her clothes, smiled and said, "It's okay."
"Yes." Xu Qiansu nodded and explained clearly, so that Lillie would stop thinking about it.
He stopped talking, took out his cell phone, looked at the map, and walked silently towards his destination.
Lillie looked at his back, then lowered her eyes and looked at Xu Qiansu's footprints in the snow. She stepped out and stepped together with Xu Qiansu's footprints.
One step, two steps...
Lillie pursed her lips and smiled.
There was one thing she didn't say.
The reason why she suggested going to the hot spring was because when she was in the living room, she learned that Xu Qiansu would go to the hot spring after training.
It wasn't out of any idea, it was just that I wanted to follow Xu Qiansu's footsteps and do the same thing as him.
As for being exposed... thinking about it, Lillie's face turned red again, and she stepped on Xu Qiansu's footprints harder.
In the wooden house, after training, during a short break, Chilulian sat on the wooden roof to bask in the sun.
The cat boss brought back by Dr. Kukui last night climbed up the eaves and found Chirulian.
"What?" Kirulian asked, tilting her head.
"Thank you for giving us the chance to go home!" Meow Boss looked cunning, with intelligent eyes. He looked very unbeatable, but the gratitude in his words was very sincere.
"Oh...you're welcome."
Qilulian didn't care, it was just a piece of cake anyway. Rather than hearing the thanks from the meow leader, she wanted to know what Xu Qiansu was doing now and whether he missed her.
"I have brought all the good things I have collected in recent years. I hope you can accept them." After the meow leader said, two meows climbed up carrying the package, opened the package, and placed it on the eaves.
"Dr. Kukui is the one who will take you home. You might as well give it to him." Kirulian shook his head slightly and said.
She really thought so and felt that she had done nothing.
The Meowth leader scratched his head. You could say that Kirulian is kind. She beat the Pokémon so hard that she almost sent the Meowth leader down. You could say that she is not kind, but she is very sensible in this regard.
The cat leader who couldn't understand was too lazy to care about such things, and said, "Then you pick something... I will give the rest to Dr. Kukui."
Kirulian glanced at it, thinking that she could just grab a few things and forget about it. She still had to practice... so she turned her attention to the two packages.
It's not like she had never seen these things in the Meow Boss's cave before, and they were no strangers to her. Apart from the Fire Stone, there were no other good things worth noting... She dug around casually and took one out of the miscellaneous items in the sun. A dazzling little accessory.
"Do you want a badge?" asked the cat leader, and as he spoke, he took out several badges of different styles from the package.
"badge?"
Chirulian took it. She didn't know what the badge was. She just thought it was pretty and could be used as an accessory.
"Humans challenge something called a gym in various areas. After winning, they can get badges." Meow Boss scratched his head and explained.
Now Qilulian understood. Under the influence of Xu Qiansu and Ma Li, she was not unfamiliar with gymnasiums and knew that there were gymnasiums in every region.
Thinking about it, she was stunned, looked at the brand-new badge in her hand, tilted her head and asked: "This badge is so new... When did you get it?"
"Just the past few days." A meow said, "A few days ago, there was a human wandering in the forest, carrying a bulging backpack, muttering about how annoying winter camping is, and that he wanted to sleep, not survey, etc... We were too lazy to worry about winter camping or anything like that. We just thought he must have some delicious food in his backpack, so we gave him a little scare..."
"Yeah." The cat leader continued, "When he took out the red and white balls and released a grass toad that I had never seen before, a box fell on the ground, and the badge fell out... That grass toad was really It's awesome, we can't defeat it at all, but after coming, we can't leave empty-handed, so we just took the badge with us when we ran away..."
"Let me tell you, I shouldn't have worried about him being a human and just snatched his backpack. How could there be so many things..." The cats talked about their original mistakes.
Chirulian held the badge tightly in her hands, thinking...
The gift he gave to Xu Qiansu was finally found.
By this fateful coincidence.
(End of chapter)
