CH125 (739), Chatting With Friends

The breakfast with the not-a-pair-yet duo went pretty well and we went our separate ways after agreeing to meet up for lunch. Once I left the duo, I directly found a place to enter Utopia, after which I began to supervise the rest of everyone's morning training session. I noticed that something had changed while overseeing Kimura/Hitmonform's training, and a quick check confirmed that the battle as well as the message I gave him had been as helpful as I had hoped they would be. Kimura's parameters had grown, pushing his second round of limit-breaking to completion and starting the final/third round.

I shared the happy news with him and he gave me a genuine smile before he began to train even more enthusiastically. The success with Kimura had me check up on the others who participated in the Gym challenge once I moved over to them to supervise their training, but unfortunately, none of them showed an increase in their parameters, yet. I was sure that it would eventually happen, even if it took a week or two; At least I hoped it would.

Anyway, once the morning session was over, I asked them what they wanted to do until lunch and the most popular answers were me singing something for them, playing the ocarina, as well as watching funny videos on PoryTom or PokeTube. Since I honestly was not in the mood for music right now, I opened a little gate to the outside to get a signal so that I could connect to the net. Once I had the signal I opened PokeTube on my phone and projected the screen into the air so that everyone could see what was playing while spreading the sound to ensure they heard what was being said or played as well.

Since the majority wanted to watch funny videos, I opened a few of those funny accident videos which brought my Pokemon to laughter most of the time. Some of those accidents were the kind where I thought that just looked painful, not funny, but most were still quite amusing. An hour in, after around the 5th video I think, Hades/Gengar asked if we could switch to prank videos, which got a lot of support, so I did as requested and opened a prank video next.

Since Hades was the one to ask, the first video I opened had a bunch of ghost-types scaring people, by popping out of nowhere or making sudden sounds or moving stuff. You know, the classics, just more effective since it was actual ghosts (types) that were doing them. Thankfully, whoever made the videos was smart enough to not target very young and very old people since that could have ended very badly, though I guess I did not have to be worried about that with the laws we had since it would have been seen as a crime on his or her part.

Honestly, the fact that the producer did not get into trouble for some of the stuff they did made me think that they either staged the stuff or paid good money afterward for the permission to upload the scenes and not sue them for misuse of Pokemon. Either way, I kept those thoughts to myself and let everyone just enjoy/laugh at them. When the time for my lunch meeting with Kinji and Violet came close, I began to hand out lunch for everyone before giving my tablet to my Earth clone so that they could continue to watch the videos while I was outside.

With that handled, I left Utopia and went to the restaurant we agreed to meet up at. I saw Kinji and Violet waiting for me while holding hands, which put a smile on my face. Once we went inside and ordered something, Kinji, who was still holding Violet's hand, announced that the two had officially gotten together. I mean, I wouldn't say that I had not seen that coming considering how often the two had gone out during the last few days, so their getting together and establishing a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, was in my opinion just the next logical step.

Nonetheless, I naturally still congratulated them on becoming a pair before I asked them the one important thing that came to my mind now that they were together. I asked them if they were going to have a long-distance relationship, which was less problematic here thanks to teleportation, or if not how they were going to handle things. Kinji usually hung around Kanto and Violet being the Hoennesian that she was usually stuck to Hoenn.

Thankfully my question did not cause them to freeze up in shock or realization; Violet revealed that they had already considered and discussed the matter, which was very good. I gave them a thumbs up before asking what they had settled on, and Kinji revealed that he would stick around Hoenn for a year, which would allow Violet to take care of her job/commitments; Something he did not have. Kinji also said that it would allow him to be close by to show up to my Gym Battles to support me and allow him to get to know Violet's family at some point.

Violet's face turned pretty red when he said the last bit and I had to laugh a bit at that. I jokingly said that he was giving me diabetes, which confused him since he had no idea what that was, so I had to explain to him that they were just too sweet together. I forgot for a moment that these guys did not have diabetes, which could probably be attributed to a difference in constitution or in the way sugar was produced.

Anyway, we talked a bit about the stuff and after we settled the bill, they eventually revealed to me that they would travel to Petalburg City tomorrow since Violet had to deal with something in her hometown and Kinji was going along with her. We agreed to meet up for breakfast tomorrow, after which they would leave. We went our separate ways after that and I took a seat on the next bench I found. I pulled out my phone and shared the news of Kinji's new relationship status in our group chat.

The congratulatory messages poured in not long after that and I jokingly wrote that Kinji was probably too busy with his new Girlfriend to check his phone so it would most likely take some time until he saw their messages and replied. They all sent laughing emojis and asked me from where I had gotten the news, which had me tell them about inviting Kinji over for something and him meeting his Girlfriend during his stay.

They did complain a bit when I told them I had already gained my 3rd Gym Badge without telling them, but thankfully they agreed with my argument the number of Gyms was too high to call them over each time, so they settled after I promised to inform them beforehand when I challenged a Major Gym. I mean I already gave a similar promise the first time around, so I didn't mind doing so again.

When no reply came from Kinji at that point, they began to grill me for information on Violet, and I told them about the stuff I learned so far. Her being a Hoenn native from Petalburg City, and what her parents/family was doing. Everyone agreed that it was a very lucky find for Kinji to meet someone like her who came from a background that made her share similar interests with him.

Anyway, just as I was about to say/write my goodbyes to everyone Kinji sent a message in which he thanked everyone for the messages before getting dragged into a grilling session by the girls which he easily sidestepped by writing that he didn't have that much time since he was still hanging out with Violet. He "left" after saying that he would add Violet to the group chat once things reached the next stage. That caused a string of Ooooos to be sent to the group chat, but Kinji did not react, possibly because he already put his phone away.

Still, with Kinji writing that before he left, Erza took the chance to tease Yu by saying that Kinji was already considering when to introduce his new girlfriend to the group but that he still had to add Sarah to their group after traveling together/around with her for so long. Yu tried to come up with some arguments that all got slapped down by the girls, though I was pretty sure that he had simply not thought of it. The fact that he had yet to actually pair up with Sarah probably also played a pretty big role, and when the poor guy brought that up, the girls were like Sharpedo or rather Carvanha who smelled blood in the water.

They began to question him why he had not asked Sarah to be his girlfriend yet when they were in fact practically acting as a pair would, which was not surprising considering that they had been traveling around for more than two years. Yu was eventually unable to withstand the pressure and stopped responding, causing everyone to believe that he "ran" away. He actually came back a bit more than 5 minutes later and wrote that he had asked Sarah out and that she had agreed.

Yu and Sarah were now officially together, and I had to laugh when I saw him write that. The girls had practically bullied my boy into asking Sarah out, but I guess that was okay since we all knew that Yu did like Sarah because he talked about her quite often. In fact, Yu went one step further and actually asked if they were okay with him adding Sarah to the group right now while everyone congratulated him on his new relationship status.

The go-ahead messages began to pour in along with the congratulatory messages and as soon as more than half of the group members had given him the okay, Yu went ahead and invited Sarah to the group chat. Resulting in another message chain, this time welcoming Sarah into the group. Some of them directly congratulated her on getting together with Yu before jokingly asking if she had been forced and needed help. I had to laugh when I read those especially when Yu complained and asked them what kind of person they thought he was which started another round of ribbing.

I nearly died of laughter when Sarah sent a message asking them to go a bit easier on Yu because they were about to make him cry, which had Yu send a "Hey! That's not true", causing everyone to send laughing emojis before promising Sarah to stop teasing Yu for today. I continued to chat with them for another 10 minutes before I informed them that I had to leave since I had something to do, which I did. I put away my phone and made my way toward Liliycove City for my meeting with the courier sent by Professor Oak.

As it turned out, the courier ended up being Peter; He arrived 5 minutes after I did and after exchanging greetings I led him towards a nice park close by where we exchanged packages next. The large package he gave me contained 4 eggs, while the small package I gave him contained a PokeBall with a Shadinja inside. Once the packages had changed hands, Peter and I talked a bit about the stuff we had been up to, with him sharing some of the things he had been doing at the lab while I told him tidbits about my journey. We talked for around 20 minutes before Peter declared that he had to leave since the Professor was waiting for his delivery. 

He sent a message from his phone, and a minute later Professor Oak's Alakazam came to pick him up. Alakazam greeted me and the two vanished in short order leaving me alone with my packet. I took a moment to consider if I should store the packet first and return to Brightwick City before entering Utopia, or if I should just enter Utopia with the eggs right now. I eventually decided to enter Utopia first, so I took the packet into my arms and entered Utopia after making sure no one was watching.

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