The main theme of the farm should be relaxing.
Just like Natsume is now.
“Whew~”
Houndour breathed fire on the firewood, igniting them.
After the firewood caught fire, Natsume placed a grill on top.
He brushed some oil on it and placed the meat.
Sizzle~
The aroma of the meat wafted out with the sizzling sound.
In the evening breeze, under the setting sun.
In the fields, the baby bean sprouts had already grown.
Exeggutor lay beside them, guarding them.
Audino carried a small basket to the river to wash vegetables.
Bang~
In the empty wasteland next to it.
Minccino and Grookey were engaged in combat training.
“Cha-nay~”
In front of Grookey, leaves gathered.
“Mini~”
Minccino took a deep breath.
A whirlwind quickly formed and blew away the magical leaves in front of Grookey.
Minccino's level was simply too high compared to Grookey.
However, this was just training, so Minccino didn't use its full strength.
Natsume glanced towards Minccino and Grookey.
Natsume realized that Pokemon could gain experience points through combat and training.
Those with good talent would gain more.
Those with less talent, even if they trained hard, could only gain one or two experience points.
Ding-dong~
A message suddenly sounded on his phone.
Liu Qing Qing, the class monitor of class 1 of senior year, sent a message to Natsume.
Liu Qing Qing: Are you there? The teacher is asking everyone in the group to list their first Pokemon.
The last message in the group was Chen Xiao Ming @-ing Natsume.
Chen Xiao Ming: Natsume, you're not really farming, are you?
Natsume looked at the message and scrolled up through the chat history.
Zhang, the homeroom teacher of class 1 of senior year, sent a group message.
"Our school is currently gathering information on the first Pokemon of senior year graduates, please upload a photo of yourself with your Pokemon."
"Also, please don't forget the last time you return to school tomorrow, to return your meal cards and take graduation photos."
There are thirty-six people in class 1 of senior year.
Natsume looked at the Pokemon in the group.
Most of the girls posted pictures of Eevee, Glameow, or other cute Pokemon.
The boys had a wider range of Pokemon.
Natsume even saw someone in the group post a picture of themselves with a Koffing.
There were also two students who had starter Pokemon.
Besides Zhou Xun's Charmander, another student had a Tepig.
Zhang: Anyone else not posted their Pokemon yet?
Liu Qing Qing: Teacher, Natsume hasn't posted yet.
Zhang Yan: Haha, Natsume might be farming.
Zhang: ?
Zhang Yan explained: I asked Natsume out to play the day before yesterday, and he said he was going to the countryside to farm (facepalm).
Zhou Xun: Natsume always scores at the bottom in every test, he might not want to go to university anymore.
Natsume looked at Zhou Xun's message with a helpless feeling.
This world is very different from Natsume's previous life, so naturally the exam content is also different.
Moreover, Natsume had already graduated before he transmigrated.
Let alone taking exams in a parallel world.
Even if he went back to high school in his original world, he would probably be staring blankly at the test papers.
Chen Xiao Ming: Natsume, are you really farming?
Natsume took a picture of himself barbecuing in the fields and sent it: Yes, I just finished tilling the land.
Zhang Yan: This place, it feels a bit desolate.
Zhou Xun: You're too miserable.
Liu Qing Qing: Are you having a barbecue again? It looks pretty comfortable.
Chen Xiao Ming: Wait!!!
Chen Xiao Ming enlarged the picture Natsume sent.
In the lower left corner of the picture, Minccino was peeking its head out, staring at the meat on Natsume's grill.
Chen Xiao Ming: Can you tell me what this is???
“Mini~”
Minccino called out to Natsume.
“Open your mouth.”
Natsume picked up a piece of meat for Minccino, then replied in the group: This is my Minccino.
Chen Xiao Ming: Hahahaha, I knew it, this is... You actually, holy crap!
The group instantly became lively.
"Damn, it's really Minccino."
"Natsume, did you catch it yourself?"
Zhang Yan: By the way, is the one lying on its side Exeggutor? That's your Pokemon too, right?
Natsume: You guys are really using magnifying glasses to look at the picture, huh?
Bang~
“Roar~”
As Natsume was looking at the chat in the group, a roar suddenly came from the west side of the farm.
“This sound is…”
Natsume frowned and put down his phone.
“Roar!”
Houndour's body stiffened, its eyes instantly became fierce, and it let out a low growl towards the sound of the roar.
Natsume glanced at Houndour's state: "Is it those Delcatty?"
“Roar!”
Houndour nodded!
【Trigger mission: Houndour's Counterattack!】
【Mission introduction: Houndour, who once lost to a group of Delcatty, yearns to fight them again and win.】
【Mission reward: Rare Fire Stone.】
Natsume stood up from his seat: “Let’s go, we'll go over there!”
“Roar!”
Houndour quickly ran forward.
“Fwu~”
“Chwan!”
Minccino and Exeggutor followed immediately.
Grookey also ran over.
In the forest!
“Del!”
Five Delcatty surrounded a young-looking boy under a tree.
In front of him, a Machop was blocking.
However, it looked heavily injured.
“Del!”
The Delcatty leader let out a roar, and the remaining four Delcatty charged forward!
Just then, a scorching flame suddenly sprayed out.
The flames startled the Delcatty, and they hastily retreated.
Machop glanced at Houndour walking from the side and Natsume behind it, and it immediately relaxed, then fell to the ground.
Machop lost its battle capability.
"Machop, don't scare me."
"It's all my fault, I shouldn't have provoked that Delcatty."
Seeing Machop faint, its Trainer burst into tears.
“Don’t cry.”
Natsume walked forward, slightly speechless: “Machop is fine.”
“It’s just exhausted.”
Natsume said, reaching out to touch Machop's body.
The power of Constant activated.
A pale white glow emanated from Natsume's hand.
Machop quickly recovered under the healing of Constant.
"Mach!"
Machop called out to its Trainer.
“Who are you, why are you here?”
Natsume asked him.
“My name is Fang Kuo, I came here to hike.”
Fang Kuo wiped his tears: "Because I just graduated from high school, I wanted to do a solo hike as a graduation gift for myself."
“So I brought my Machop along.”
Fang Kuo looked genuinely terrified at this moment.
He poured out his whole experience.
“Then I saw a Delcatty just now.”
“I thought I might be able to catch it.”
“So I attacked it, but I didn't expect four more Delcatty to jump out at once.”
After listening to his story, Natsume understood what had happened.
“Del!”
The Delcatty leader glared angrily at Houndour and Natsume, making a sound of driving them away.
This area was their territory.
For the Delcatty, Natsume and Houndour were now intruders.
“Awooo!”
Houndour glared back.
This was clearly its territory before!