Chapter 38

It happened shortly after Takumi left.

A huge, oppressive dragon shadow rushed straight from the Wind Dragon Ruins.

In the city of Mondstadt, panic broke out, and people were fleeing everywhere.

"Dragon!!"

"Run quickly..."

The confused Dvalin blew up destructive tornadoes in Mondstadt.

Traveler Lumine hurriedly stuffed the Pokémon egg into the incubator and put it in her space backpack.

Just like the plot of the original game, she was caught in a huge tornado and met Dvalin for the first time high in the sky.

After the dragon attacked the city and flew away, the chaos gradually subsided.

Amber took Lumine to meet Kaeya, the Cavalry Captain of the Knights, and then they went to the headquarters of the Knights together.

Acting Grand Master's Office

"...That's what happened." Amber and Kaeya looked at each other and explained.

Jean nodded and said, "Mondstadt welcomes you, travelers who come with the wind."

Lisa, the librarian, was also present.

Everyone roughly discussed the plan to resolve the dragon crisis, and then they all went off to their respective missions.

Takumi, who had just checked in at a hotel in the city, opened the window and looked at the road leading outside the city, murmuring to himself:

"Dvalin woke up later than in the original plot? Although I don't know the reason, it doesn't matter. The main storyline is unfolding as expected."

Takumi's expression turned strange.

Just now, the store manager's task log had suddenly been updated.

After the small target task of 100 million in sales, the next business task was for him to open a branch in Mondstadt.

"Sell 10 starter Pokémon in Mondstadt within two days."

"Mission Reward: Store Manager's Ten Consecutive Draws."

A limited-time mission?

Hold on... this was getting interesting.

Takumi glanced at the deepest part of the hotel street, where a store had appeared quietly, with the Pokémon House sign hanging above it. The corners of his mouth twitched subtly.

The efficiency of the system was really something...

But did this mean that the moment the mission popped up, the countdown had begun?

Then there was no need to stay in the hotel at all. Takumi summoned Cresselia, teleported to the Mondstadt branch arranged by the system, and slept on a soft bed for the night.

A New Addition to the Group Chat

A new person, or rather, a pair of partners, had been added to the illustrated group chat channel.

"Traveler Lumine and Paimon joined the group chat."

"Hu Tao, Xiangling: @Lumine @Paimon, spreading flowers to welcome the newcomers!"

"Traveler: Hey, are you all still awake this late?"

"Keqing: Of course. After getting Pokémon, everyone has been very excited and is racking their brains every day about how to train them."

In the Knights' room.

It was only during the day that Lumine and Paimon attacked and purified the three temples and calmed the tornadoes and hurricanes.

Now, they opened their eyes wide as they clicked on the photo albums and video files in the group chat.

All the Pokémon shared in the group, along with the pictures and videos, suddenly revealed a vast and mysterious world of Pokémon to Lumine and Paimon.

"This shark-like baby costs 50 million Mora!"

"Wow!"

"This strange Pokémon costs a billion Mora!"

Paimon was so overwhelmed by the huge numbers that she fell out of the air and onto the pillow.

The videos were even more vivid than the pictures.

During the day, Xiangling had uploaded a short video of her special training with Larvesta in the wild.

This time, in addition to fighting slimes, they had also unexpectedly encountered a group of Treasure Hoarders. From the video, it could be seen that Larvesta was extremely lethal against humans. When it charged, the members of the Treasure Hoarders fell back in disarray.

Childe transformed into the group chat's elemental reaction researcher.

The pictures and video materials he uploaded and shared were all about researching how to deepen the elemental connection with Ice Vulpix.

This was an eye-opener for Lumine and Paimon.

"Pokémon..."

"You can actually react with elements through your own connection!!"

Paimon quickly took out the egg incubator from the space backpack.

Surrounding the simple device with warm light that was many times larger than her body, looking at the Pokémon egg inside, Paimon's little face was full of hope.

Even her cute little face naturally showed an auntie-like smile:

"Eggs, eggs..."

"You have to hatch..."

"Hmm? If it's a pseudo-legendary, it must be worth 50 million Mora!"

Late at night, Paimon's murmurs in her sleep were all about 50 million Mora and a billion Mora.

Lumine tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep. Listening to this "emergency food" talking in her sleep, her big eyes flashed, and a thought suddenly came to her:

The club manager Takumi was so powerful.

Maybe he knew her brother's whereabouts better than Barbatos, the God of Wind.

The Next Morning

At the Knights' headquarters, in Jean's office, the lights were on all night.

"You've been up all night again, Jean."

Librarian Lisa came in with a cup of hot coffee, placed it on the desk, and looked helplessly at Acting Grand Master Jean, who was immersed in reviewing documents.

Jean smelled the coffee but didn't raise her head.

"Thanks."

"I am reviewing the documents for the repair and reconstruction of damaged buildings in Mondstadt."

"Well, I also need to calculate the expenditures in detail, create a budget for each plan, and then choose the most reasonable one."

Lisa held her forehead.

"Reconstruction cannot be completed in a day or two. Moreover, with Dvalin, the source of the dragon disaster, not yet resolved, isn't it too early to consider reconstruction?"

Bang!

At this moment, the office door swung open, and Amber and Kaeya came in hand in hand.

"Master Jean, have you forgotten the other thing Amber reported yesterday?"

Kaeya opened his hands as a reminder after entering the door.

"Are you referring to this?"

Jean solemnly took out a record document from the drawer.

"Takumi and the Pokémon Egg."

"Why? Did you come here so early with Amber because there's something you missed or didn't report?" Kaeya waved his hands with a strange expression on his face.

Amber also looked like she had seen a ghost.

"Just now, we were having breakfast at the Good Hunter."

"And we ran into Boss Takumi!"

"And entered his shop in Mondstadt..."