Pokémon: My Online Friend Is Cynthia

Chapter 107: Chapter 107: Maylene Is Warming Up

The Great Marsh was beautiful, lush, and full of greenery, with abundant water plants everywhere. As soon as Julian got out of the car, he took a deep breath and immediately felt refreshed.

Maylene was extremely excited.

"The Great Marsh has such a good environment. The Pokémon in the Safari Zone must have grown up really strong!"

"I’m definitely going to choose the best Fighting Pokémon to catch!"

Julian reminded her, "Since you’re going travelling, don’t limit yourself to only catching Fighting-type Pokémon."

"As long as you feel a Pokémon suits you, you can catch it."

Maylene rubbed her fists together.

"Then I’m going to use all thirty Safari Balls!"

Julian turned his head.

"Paul, do you have any Pokémon you’re planning to catch?"

Paul shook his head.

"No. My standards for Pokémon are quite high. Although there are many Pokémon in the Safari Zone, they may not necessarily meet my standards."

Julian smiled and said, "The Safari Zone is very large. Maybe there’s a very rare Pokémon hidden away in some corner."

"It depends on whether our luck is good enough to meet it."

In the anime, Ash had only gone to the Safari Zone once, in the Kanto region.

He had been extremely lucky and encountered a mother-and-child pair of Dragonair and Dratini.

But perhaps because Ash caught thirty Tauros in a row in the Safari Zone, heavily damaging his confidence...

From then on, Ash never went to another Safari Zone again.

Julian did not know what rare Pokémon were inside the Great Marsh’s Safari Zone.

It was just that if the Kanto Safari Zone had Dratini, then the Sinnoh Safari Zone should have Gible too.

However, one Jangmo-o had already tormented Julian enough. For now, he had no intention of raising a Gible.

The three of them arrived at the entrance to the Safari Zone. Julian said to the ticket window, "Please give us three tickets."

The staff member smiled and said, "No problem. That will be fifteen hundred in total. You can only use the Safari Balls specially provided by the Safari Zone to catch Pokémon."

"There are many cameras inside the Safari Zone. If you are found illegally using Pokémon battles to catch Pokémon in the Safari Zone, you will be fined up to five hundred thousand."

"Alternatively, Officer Jenny may arrest you and send you to a detention room for reflection. If there are no other questions, please collect thirty Safari Balls at the entrance."

Holding their tickets, the three arrived at the entrance and saw a middle-aged cowboy standing there.

He had a cigarette in his mouth, though it was not lit, and a revolver at his waist.

"I’m the Safari Zone security guard. Name’s Octavius. Don’t let me catch any of you breaking the rules."

Octavius patted the revolver at his waist.

"Otherwise, don’t blame me for letting my old partner greet you."

Julian smiled and said, "I’m the provisional Gym Leader of Veilstone Gym. Please rest assured. May I ask where the Safari Balls are?"

Octavius did not change his attitude just because Julian was a provisional Gym Leader. He coldly pointed at the basket in the corner.

"Each basket has thirty Safari Balls. Take one basket each and go in."

They entered the Safari Zone carrying their baskets. After they moved away from Octavius, Maylene could not help complaining, "What kind of person is that? So rude!"

Paul calmly explained, "He’s just trying to intimidate Trainers entering the Safari Zone this way to reduce his workload."

"Five hundred isn’t expensive. Although thirty Safari Balls might not catch even one Pokémon, if you meet a Pokémon you like, you can completely spend another five hundred to buy thirty more Safari Balls."

Maylene’s eyes lit up.

"Then can I go back and buy thirty more Safari Balls right now?"

Julian smiled and shook his head.

"No. One ticket per day, and only thirty Safari Balls are provided per day."

Under normal circumstances, with thirty Safari Balls, as long as one’s luck was not too terrible, they should be able to catch one or two Pokémon.

Compared to the five-hundred entry fee, the price was practically absurdly cheap.

Ash catching thirty Tauros for five hundred was actually a huge profit.

Not far from the entrance was a lake, blue and clear like a mirror.

Before they even reached the lake, a Poliwag jumped out of the water.

Maylene’s eyes lit up. She grabbed a Safari Ball and threw it.

Her martial arts foundation from years of training allowed the Safari Ball to accurately hit Poliwag.

Maylene quickly grabbed a second Safari Ball. If Poliwag broke free, she would immediately throw it and absolutely not let Poliwag run away.

Perhaps Maylene’s throw had been quite powerful and knocked it dizzy, because the Safari Ball successfully caught Poliwag.

Maylene happily stepped forward, grabbed the Safari Ball, and struck a pose.

"I caught Poliwag!"

Julian smiled and said, "Poliwhirl needs a Water Stone to evolve into Poliwrath, and a King’s Rock to evolve into Politoed. It’ll depend on how you choose when the time comes."

"And you’ll need to obtain the evolution item yourself. Since you’re going travelling, I won’t keep providing help."

Maylene blinked.

"Poliwrath needs an item to evolve too?"

Maylene waved her fist.

"But it doesn’t matter. A little Water Stone won’t trouble me at all!"

Julian nodded.

"Having confidence is a good thing."

Several Rhyhorn were drinking water by the lake. Maylene observed them carefully, trying to find the strongest one among them.

Paul glanced at her.

"The one in the bushes eating Berries. You don’t even have basic eyesight, yet you still want to become a powerful Trainer."

Julian smiled knowingly.

Paul was cold outside but warm inside. His mouth was venomous enough, and with him travelling together with his little sister, not only did Julian not need to worry about Maylene’s safety, he believed Maylene could also learn plenty of Pokémon knowledge from Paul.

Maylene looked over. In her eyes, the Rhyhorn eating Berries was no different from the ones drinking water.

Maylene tried hard to widen her eyes, attempting to find what was unique about that Rhyhorn.

Julian sighed.

"Look at that Rhyhorn’s horn. Isn’t it slightly bigger and brighter? That shows it often fights with its horn and wins."

"Then there’s its gaze. Although it’s eating Berries, it has been observing the surrounding situation the whole time, and there’s intelligence moving in its eyes."

"As for those other Rhyhorn drinking water, you can see their irritability."

Rhyhorn had very small brains. They only knew how to charge around wildly and would even forget why they had started running.

If you were accidentally chased by Rhyhorn, as long as you disappeared from its sight, it would quickly forget that it had been chasing you.

"This Rhyhorn has a brain. I think it has value as a capture."

Maylene only heard the last sentence.

It had value as a capture.

She immediately took out a Safari Ball and threw it at Rhyhorn.

The Safari Ball did not even shake. Rhyhorn charged straight out.

The poor quality Safari Ball was directly broken by Rhyhorn’s struggle.

Rhyhorn looked at Maylene and snorted provocatively.

Maylene threw five Safari Balls in a row, and all were broken free from by Rhyhorn.

Rhyhorn’s eyes became increasingly mocking. It turned away disdainfully and left.

Maylene gritted her teeth.

"Brother, the Safari Zone only says we can’t use Pokémon. It doesn’t say Trainers can’t personally catch Pokémon, right?"

Maylene began moving her hands and feet.

Julian: "..."

Silence was agreement.

Maylene directly chased after Rhyhorn.

She blocked Rhyhorn’s path.

Rhyhorn stomped its feet, lowered its head, aimed its horn at Maylene, and charged straight ahead.

Maylene took her stance and grabbed the charging Rhyhorn with one hand.

Then she twisted her body, lifted Rhyhorn off the ground, and slammed it violently into the earth!

Rhyhorn’s four legs twitched.

It had already fainted.

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