Chapter 18

For the next seven days, Dak, along with Darkrai, wandered outside and completed tasks.

Bon Clay was responsible for looking after the shop. With the Nursery's suppressive power, nobody dared to cause trouble.

Bon Clay has become familiar with the Nursery by now and could manage the shop all by himself without any issues.

In these seven days, about ten customers came, and many just opened the door and left without entering, probably because the unfamiliar environment or the suppressive force made them feel alert and uneasy.

Those people wouldn't know what they missed out on.

They might only have this one opportunity in their entire life to accidentally enter the Pokémon Nursery.

Among the ten customers who came in, there were no familiar faces to Dak.

All were some passerby characters not mentioned in the original story, with various identities, including ordinary farmers, pirates, businessmen, nobles...

One of the pirates who tried to rob was dealt with by Bon Clay.

As for the businessmen and nobles, they were judged not to have the right temperament to own Pokémon. After a brief exchange, Dak was certain they would not treat Pokémon well, so he directly sent them out.

The farmer was a kind and elderly gentleman in his sixties from an unnamed village in the West Sea, a place where even pirates are rarely seen.

But this elderly gentleman had no family, neither wife nor children, living a solitary life.

He didn't think too much, took out almost all of his savings, roughly a million Berries.

He could afford both the white and green eggs, so Dak picked out these eight eggs for him.

Among the 1 white and 7 green eggs, he immediately chose the white quality egg, which Dak did not inform him about the quality of the eggs beforehand, the old man chose it himself.

The egg was green, Dak guessed it might be Caterpie.

The old man said, the color of the egg looked similar to the vegetables he grew, which felt particularly dear to him, so he chose that egg.

Spending a hundred thousand Berries, Dak didn't even think of converting it to Poké Coins.

Dak asked if he wasn't afraid of being deceived?

The old man said he was already one foot in the grave and didn't care about being cheated, he just didn't want to be so lonely in the second half of his life.

The old man left joyfully with the egg, and Dak gave him a Pocket Token, telling him to come to them with the egg if there was any issue.

Although the old man was amazed by the function of the Pocket Token, he didn't dare to ask more and just nodded obediently.

This was the only egg sold during these seven days.

However, the gains of these seven days were not just that.

Dak and Darkrai also went to many places and marked many coordinates.

Most places were unimpressive, but one was very familiar.

The City of Water 7.

When Dak took Darkrai there, they could see the sea train being constructed.

He even saw Tom, Franky, and Iceburg, which gave Dak some ideas.

However, Dak quickly returned with Darkrai because that damn main quest was always incomplete.

[Quest System]

[Main Quest: Pokémon Grooming Second Lesson]

[Objective: Decorate and dress up a Pokémon, earning the heartfelt recognition of the Pokémon]

[Reward: Tree, Lake, Warm Lamp, Evolution]

At this moment in the shop.

Darkrai stood in front of a full-length mirror, clenching its fists in the reflection, furious.

Its 'white hair' was dyed red, bracelets on both wrists, a thick gold chain around its neck, and heavily made-up face, looking utterly like a disaster.

"How do you like it, Darkrai? This 'cool youth' look, do you like it?"

Dak and Bon Clay stood on either side of Darkrai, very proud of themselves.

Dak didn't know how to do makeup, so he called for Bon Clay.

But he forgot, Bon Clay didn't know how to do makeup either, even if he became a crossdresser in the coming years, Bon Clay still wouldn't know how to do makeup.

So, it was a disaster.

"Darkrai!"

Darkrai was angry.

It took off all the messy things on its body, threw them on the ground, washed its face with lake water, and then dived into the shadows of the eggs to sulk.

"Ah, this is hard."

Dak sat down on the grass, somewhat dejected.

He had taken Darkrai outside to find some beauticians, but the aesthetic differences between humans and Pokémon were just too great.

Of course, it could also be because Darkrai itself had a unique taste.

Anyway, Dak could never complete this task, unable to gain Darkrai's approval, causing the development of the Pokémon Nursery to almost come to a standstill.

As for the daily task of three attribute increases, it hasn't grown to the point where it could level up yet.

"If Darkrai doesn't like to dress up, then let's not do it."

Bon Clay looked at Dak somewhat incomprehensibly.

He couldn't understand why Dak was obsessed with grooming Darkrai, Dak didn't seem to be someone who was interested in such things, rather these past few days Dak seemed to be more into researching some strange little cubes.

"It's not that Darkrai doesn't like to dress up, he just doesn't like the way we do it."

Dak shook his head.

After all, they have been together for seven or eight days, he had some understanding of Darkrai.

Darkrai's personality is mostly casual, regarding dressing up, he neither likes nor dislikes it, it's just that the way Dak and Bon Clay do it is too ugly.

Ding-dong.

Just as the two were somewhat puzzled, the bell hanging above the door rang.

It was the sound of the door being opened.

The door curtain was lifted, and an old woman in a white coat walked in.

Though described as a white-haired old woman, she stood tall and firm, without the slightest panic due to entering another place, but the surprise in her eyes was unmistakable.

Upon seeing this person, Bon Clay instinctively stepped back, but he quickly remembered his changed status. Now, within this shop, there was no need to fear anyone.

"Hmm?"

The old woman seemed to notice something different about herself, clenched her fist, then relaxed and looked up to survey the shop.

Two young men in their twenties, small trees, a small lake, and... a collection of colorful eggs?

At that moment, the man lying on the lawn stood up, wearing a standard smile.

"Welcome, Madame Tsuru."

(End of Chapter)