Chapter 8: Pokémon Curry! Heartwarming Family! (5/5, Requesting Data)

The naturally ditzy Xiao Di placed the serving tray on the dining table, then, upon seeing Luo Ge appear, belatedly asked:

"Are you hurt?"

Luo Ge, unbothered, smiled: "I can run, I can jump, I can eat like a beast—nothing's wrong."

At the same time, he reached out to smooth out Xiao Di's messy hair.

Xiao Di blinked her big, adorable eyes, showing no reaction to Luo Ge's gesture.

Ma Qi beside her had long grown used to it.

In this filthy Meteor Street, few could truly trust another, let alone something as absurd as "family."

It was pure fantasy.

Yet despite only living together for a month, the trials they'd endured were enough to make them trust one another.

To become each other's precious "family."

Soon, their lunch was set on the table—everyone ate the same thing.

Curry rice and juice.

It sounds ordinary, but in truth, it was anything but.

Because both the curry rice and the juice were made using ingredients from Luo Ge's Pokémon World items.

It wasn't that they couldn't get food—it was that outside Meteor Street, there was no good food at all.

People generally ate only black rice porridge or black bread; the former smelled foul and had no nutrition.

The latter was absurdly hard—Luo Ge once tried smashing a rock with black bread, and the rock cracked.

Compared to that, this meal made from Pokémon World ingredients was like a full Manchu-Han banquet.

Many probably only know Pokémon World items used in battles, like 【Charcoal】 or 【Mystic Water】…

But in truth, Pokémon World has countless types of items.

Among the items Luo Ge acquired in the past month, after discarding useless junk, these food ingredients were by far the most numerous.

Such as various berries, sandwiches, toast bread, canned beans…

These ingredients mostly appear in the game 【Pokémon Sword and Shield】.

So even in the resource-starved Meteor Street, they could still feast every day.

Even if they mostly ate curry rice, they never grew tired of it—because different ingredient combinations made each meal taste entirely different.

Curry is an important dish in 【Pokémon Sword and Shield】, with 151 distinct curry recipes.

Each curry requires specific ingredients and berries to impart unique flavors.

By combining different ingredients and berries, one can make curry with sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, or astringent tastes.

And because the ingredients were delicious enough, Xiao Di didn't need any cooking skill—simple preparation was enough.

Today's curry rice, for instance, was made from 【Coarse Ground Sausage】, 【Instant Curry】, and several berries.

The juice was also made from berries.

Different berries tasted different.

Ma Qi preferred sweets, so she drank 【Peachy Berry】 juice.

【Peachy Berry】: shaped like a peach, sweet in taste, cures poison upon consumption.

Luo Ge and Xiao Di had similar appetites and no particular preference—they both drank 【Orange Berry】 juice.

【Orange Berry】: shaped like an orange, blue in color, restores some injury upon consumption.

Merging nature's bounty, flavors exploded in their mouths in wondrous ways.

Luo Ge also hadn't forgotten Nidoran.