Chapter 3: Who is that Pokémon

A closer look at the Catterpie reveals that this Catterpie is a bit old.

Hideshi used to running around with the Youngster Bug Catcher in the town, has learned how to tell the age of Catterpie and Weedle.

The age of this Catterpie is quite easy to see. There is a "Y" shaped antenna on Catterpie's head, and the intensity of colour on each Catterpie antenna is different.

The deeper the colour on the tentacles, the older Catterpie is and at a closer look this Catterpie shows that it is quite old.

Other Catterpies by now are almost forced to evolve into Butterfree by biological necessity at this age. The fact it hasn't evolved yet shows that it is either malnourished or has horrible potential.

Normally Catterpie and Weedle evolve into their final form after about 10 days. With the slowest taking a month.

The Catterpie in hand is at least a few months old and will hardly evolve anymore.

Hideshi pressed Poké Ball's release button to release Catterpie.

*A burst of white light*

The Catterpie jumped out with a dazed expression.

Catterpie,"?"

Hideshi pointed with his finger and said "Go"

Catterpie seemed to understand, he clicked and turned around and ran away. The billowing body quickly retreated into the surrounding foliage.

Hideshi sighed, and silently set up the trap again and continued to wait.

In these few hours, a few more Pokemon fell into the trap. Either Hideshi found Pokemon such as Pidgey and Spearow so couldn't catch them or he caught some and felt dissatisfied with their potential and released them.

This catching nothing good is lasting a long time, and I still haven't caught any Pokemon I am satisfied with.

Hideshi was feeling a little discouraged. He was hungry and planned to rest for a while before continuing. Then he took out a bit of dry food from his backpack and ate.

*Crunch*

"Yeah!"

To tell you the truth, this dry food tastes pretty good, but why are my eyes itchy again?

Hideshi rubbed his eyes, and his eyes flashed blue, which made Hideshi a little confused.

This time, he saw the azure rays of light flashing in his eyes, even though they flashed quickly.

I feel that my eyes are getting more and more itchy, so I try to rub my eyes constantly. Rubbing and rubbing until suddenly I felt something coming out of my eyes.

Following a tingling in his eyes, Hideshi hurriedly closed his eyes with a cry of pain.

Then the stinging disappeared. When his eyes opened, he rubbed his eyes and found that they didn't itch anymore. There was no change in the scenery before him.

Hideshi feeling very confused said, "What the hell is going on?"

Suddenly I saw some kind of green energy in front of me.

Yes, energy. It's like the special energy surging around the body of someone when watching a martial arts movie in his previous life.

This green energy slowly rushed in front of Hideshi, not far.

Hideshi walked in the direction of the azure energy surge, and the road ahead gradually became narrower.

There are weeds and grass all around half the size of an adult body, with no way to look over as the weeds around him became denser and denser until he came to a place where the grass is particularly dense, and with surrounding vegetation covering everywhere.

The energy lead into a pile of grass, and Hideshi squeezed in. He started to shovel the haystack for a while and finally saw a round object.

To be precise, it was a Pokemon egg, and then the azure energy hovering around the Pokemon egg suddenly disappeared.

"What is a Pokemon egg doing here?"

Still not fully certain as to why the azure energy disappeared, Hideshi cautiously carried the Pokemon egg out. Looking at this Pokemon egg carefully with excitement and curiosity.

"So this is what a Pokemon egg looks like?"

What Pokemon would it be?

I saw the Pokemon egg in front of me. It feels smooth and warm to touch. There are orange and brown moiré patterns on the top, and they are regularly arranged in circles.

Hurrying to take off his backpack, he cautiously put the Pokemon egg into it, and then carried it down the mountain feeling very excited.

Leaving the trap items Hideshi went home without taking care of them.

...

Going home, and closing the door Hideshi headed to the back of the room to take off the backpack. He carefully took out the Pokemon egg and started to observe it carefully. Hideshi is a little excited, this is his gonna be his first Pokemon.

I don't know what Pokemon it will be but I hope it will be a good one and be easy to feed.

He planned to wait for his father to come back at night and ask who has an incubator nearby.

...

It was late at night, when Hideshi knew his father was back when he heard the sound of the door opening.

Hideshi opened the door and saw his father take out dinner from his backpack. Normally, his father would buy something directly after work to eat if it was too late to cook dinner himself

During the meal, my father asked "How was today? Did you catch any Pokemon?"

Hideshi looked up and said, "Father, wait a minute, I have something to show you. After speaking, he got up and went back to the room to take out the Pokemon egg.

My father was quite surprised when he saw the Pokemon egg and asked: "Where did this Pokemon egg come from?"

Hideshi,"I found it in the Viridian forest today. Father, do you know anyone who has an incubator?"

My father thought for a while and said: "You know Aunt Keiko who works at the Day Care. You can ask her if she can lend you one tomorrow.""

"Okay, I will go to Aunt Keiko tomorrow," Hideshi says happily.

Aunt Keiko is a good friend of Hideshi's mother. She has a very good relationship with Hideshi's family. Even after Hideshi's mother passed away, she helped us grieve so she has always been close to Hideshi.

Aunt Keiko works at Day Care and has a degree that specializes in the breeding of Pokemon. In Pokémon's world, Day Cares are places dedicated to raising Pokemon.

Many trainers have more than six Pokemon, but they do not have enough energy to cultivate all of them.

So the most logical decision is that, you will choose to hand over your Pokemon to the Day Care for training, because in Day Care you can maintain your Pokemon's strength.

At the same time, the Day Care can also sell Pokemon. Most Rookie Pokemon trainers' Pokemon is either caught in the wild, or brought from a Day Care.

Of course, I'm talking about ordinary families, Rookies from Alliance families will have their parents arrange to get the three initial starters at the most famous Professor's Laboratory in the region.

Although getting Pokemon from the Day Care is not cheap, it is much cheaper than any of the three initial starters.

The same is true in the game. Put Pokemon in Day Care to train, and when you pick it up after a while, the level will increase.

So in the Day Care, there is definitely an incubator.

Lying on his bed at night, holding the Pokemon egg in his arms. Hideshi suddenly feels that the Heavenly Eye's eyes are getting very itchy (Translator: Yes that is what the eyes are called and yes it is a stupid name).

Not knowing what is going to happen Hideshi sees the azure energy that he saw earlier that day.

Why do I see that energy?

Why does that energy converge in the Pokemon eggs?

Why does the Pokemon egg have to do with the energy?

Is my cheat going to appear?

With many questions, Hideshi falls asleep in a daze.

...

In the dark, Hideshi suddenly lights up with a cyan ray, and then slowly starts to pour energy into the Pokemon egg.

This all happened without Hideshi's knowledge