Chapter 848

Motostoke.

An industrial city located in the central part of the Galar region.

The huge gears running with a rumble, the chimneys billowing gray-white steam, and the city districts divided into upper and lower levels are the biggest features here.

"This direction is... the Wild Area."

All Baimu stood in front of the gate leading to the Wild Area for a while, then turned and walked toward the location marked on the navigation.

Because there are only scattered human villages in the Crown Tundra in the far south, he had to transfer to a train after getting off the plane to successfully reach his destination.

At this time, there were still two hours until the train arrived.

With nothing to do, All Baimu, under the instigation of Mawile, decided to go and check out a Battle Café that was very famous online.

It's said there's an exclusive secret recipe for Alcremie-style puffs, and many food bloggers have come to check in, but you need to defeat the shop owner to get them.

——A strong sense of an internet-famous shop.

It's a pity that Motostoke Gym Leader Kabu doesn't have a match today, otherwise it would have been quite nice to take the opportunity to watch the famous Dynamax battle scene.

He took the steam elevator to the upper city district.

Along the wide stone-paved avenue, All Baimu saw from afar a two-and-a-half-story red brick house where a crowd had gathered, and the faint scent of cake filled the wind.

"Chi-doh!"

Mawile waved at its Trainer with slight excitement while trotting over.

A sweet-tooth is really a killer...

He hurriedly followed and saw two Pokémon fighting fiercely in a small battle field in front of the sunken steps.

Next door was the shop with the 【Battle Café】 sign and a Slurpuff cartoon logo, and a few bell-shaped wind chimes at the door swayed slightly.

Ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling~

"Welcome!"

The shop assistant's voice was clear, the shop was filled with a fragrant scent, and all kinds of different breads and cakes were placed in the glass counter for people to choose from.

And walking to the left through a door is the café itself.

"Chi~doh~"

Mawile's eyes were filled with bright little stars, and its voice became exceptionally sweet and greasy.

It suddenly turned its head and pointed to the counter, and what greeted it were two fingers and a firm, unwavering gaze.

The smile collapsed instantly.

The young lady puffed out her cheeks and used Intimidate—this wasn't very effective.

The young lady tugged at his clothes and swayed slightly, using Charm—this still wasn't very effective.

All Baimu showed a short video of a chubby Mawile—

Super effective!

The heartbroken Mawile looked dejectedly at the dazzling array of cakes and breads, and finally bit its lower lip and chose a Matcha Cheese Black Forest cake and a Matcha Baumkuchen.

This shop's specialty seems to be matcha flavor, and the chef calls himself a matcha master.

But it's a pity that All Baimu didn't find a Creamy Matcha Alcremie in the shop; he even asked specifically when checking out, but the answer was:

"Our chef doesn't rely on those crooked ways!"

How can relying on the power of Pokémon be a crooked way?

However, there are indeed many pastry chefs whose handmade, whipped cream is more delicious than the cream produced by Alcremie, and since the chef here dares to call himself a matcha master, he believes that the reputation is well-deserved.

All Baimu carried the cake box and came to the small battle field outside with Mawile, who was unsatisfied but still very happy.

The battle he saw when he arrived had just ended.

The challenger won.

A thin, blond man in a clean white chef's uniform with a brown apron tied around his waist smiled: "What a delicious battle! May I invite Slurpuff to present to you two—Mitchell's special fluffy soft puffs!"

The cute Slurpuff brought a string of four-colored puffs shaped like fluffy puffs.

The challenger was a couple; the boy knelt on one knee piously to present them to the girl after receiving them, and the surrounding crowd applauded in blessing.

Mawile was also infected by the atmosphere, its eyes shining brightly.

It once loved watching all kinds of romance dramas for a period of time; although it has now quit romance dramas, it still yearns for sweet love.

Hmm.

Just the kind where you knock back and forth and show a motherly smile.

It knows its own personality very well; only its Trainer can tolerate it, and it has made plans to be buried next to its Trainer after it dies.

"So who's next? This is the Battle Café! If you want the fluffy soft puffs, defeating me, Mitchell, is a necessary condition!"

Pastry chef Mitchell smiled and loudly invited a battle.

Mawile turned its head impatiently to look at its Trainer, grabbing his clothes and shaking them frantically in small, high-frequency bursts; it has always been extremely reserved when there are many strangers around.

All Baimu raised his hand helplessly and shouted: "Look here!"

It's been almost two years and you're still maintaining your wild young lady persona... You're no longer the illiterate you were back then!

"Oh? It looks like ours has become so popular that even big boys can't stop themselves!"

Mitchell looked over upon hearing the sound, and at a glance, he saw the distinguished All Baimu and the cute, pitiful-looking Mawile with a red headband tied next to him.

Mawile has never participated in Pokémon Contests in vain; having won the victory crown many times, it knows very well how to show its best side, and this skill has also given it popularity exceeding that of the Shiny Milotic.

Mitchell smiled: "Please!"

All Baimu and the eager Mawile stepped forward.

A long time has passed since the battle with Drake, and with the Poryphone not yet released or popularized, there are plenty of people who don't go online.

Therefore, even though Mawile is wearing a well-known red headband, not many people in this "foreign land" of the Galar region recognize them.

The onlookers just looked curiously at this pair of partners with vastly different styles but inexplicably matching auras.

Then...

They were all shocked to the point of holding their own chins!

"This..."

Mitchell turned his head in disbelief, staring at the Flapple that was embedded halfway into the low stone wall, feeling his brain was a mess.

What just happened?

He shouted "start," and following a "whoosh," Mawile disappeared.

Then with a "bang," the Flapple in front of him became the Mawile that had just disappeared...

It was less than ten seconds!

Is Pokémon battling like this?

He is the Battle Café's shop manager, head chef, and ace Trainer!

Mitchell opened his mouth, unable to say a word for a long time, facing Mawile, who was smiling and reaching out to him for the puffs.

And similar reactions appeared among the crowd; until more than ten seconds passed, and as someone let out a cry, exclamations and surprises sounded one after another.

"Is it over?"

"It should be over, the Flapple isn't moving."

"Is that person a League Challenger?"

"Never seen him~"

In the noisy crowd, a Trainer wearing a baseball cap and black sunglasses quietly withdrew; he stood in a deserted corner and reported the situation he had discovered to his superior.

"Discovered a potential candidate..."

If All Baimu had seen that person, he would likely have recognized him as an employee of Macro Cosmos, the leading enterprise in the Galar region.

In order to discover battle talent as much as possible, Rose often sent his subordinates to appear in various places where Pokémon battles might occur, recording their battles and sending them to his superiors for review, and then to higher superiors until they reached him.

If he approved, he would issue a League Challenge recommendation letter to that Trainer.

Inside Macro Cosmos, it is called the "Star Search Department," and the people engaged in this work are called "Star Scouts."

But this Star Scout didn't know that his current behavior was poaching from a region that was in ruins.

And he was poaching the local future Champion.

Fortunately, his superior supervisor successfully recognized the person, or rather, few people in management didn't know All Baimu; this was the first Trainer to refuse Chairman Rose's invitation to date!

What a brave person!

Doesn't he know that Secretary Oleana hates it when people defy Chairman Rose?

After offending him, he came to the Galar region...

Tourism? Or is he giving in?

Regardless of what the answer is, it didn't stop him from reporting to his superior, while also letting the Star Scout follow All Baimu closely and not lose sight of him.

But when the Star Scout returned to the battle field, All Baimu and Mawile were long gone, and he regretfully and awkwardly replied to his supervisor with the news that he had lost them.

At the same time.

All Baimu, who didn't know his whereabouts had been discovered, was walking to a quiet street with Mawile.

It was too noisy near the Battle Café.

It wanted to find a quiet place to take some photos and upload them.

This is very important.

Because Mawile's persistence finally paid off; the blog, which originally only had two followers, now had its follower count rise to twelve thousand.

It can simply be called an epic surge.

There are nearly a thousand replies under every tweet, and likes can easily exceed ten thousand within twenty-four hours, even if it's just a photo of dinner.

The young lady felt that her luck had finally turned, and the sunshine was indeed always after the wind and rain.

Actually, only Porygon2 knew that this was the result of it getting the Trainer's consent and secretly promoting it in the Pokémon Contest support fan group.

The "cooling off" of several months made the once lively fan group have fewer and fewer people, with only a small number of die-hard fans struggling to support it.

It thought about simply diverting some traffic to fill up Mawile's deserted comment section.

It thought it had lit a bundle of firewood, but didn't expect it to burn the whole forest. The first batch of visitors called their friends and successfully pushed the follower count to over ten thousand in a few weeks.

These are all active fans!

If he took a few ads, he could immediately make a fortune!

And Mawile knew nothing about this, thinking that the photos or tweets had been swiped by people who had seen its Pokémon Contest, and that spontaneous promotion had attracted so many people.

Today, pestering All Baimu to buy the fluffy soft puffs was also for the sake of posting to the blog to please the fans.

It's not that it wanted to eat them!

After taking the photos, Mawile licked them clean with relish to avoid waste.

"Chi-doh~"

Handing the stick to its Trainer to deal with, it prepared to eat the cake.

"Eat it on the train, the train is coming."

All Baimu stopped it decisively to avoid Mawile watching videos on the train and having nothing to eat, then coming to act cute and beg for snacks.

It's not that he can't afford to eat.

It's the problem of the daily intake significantly exceeding the standard.

He rarely has the opportunity to let his Pokémon do high-load exercise while on the road; Mawile's mouth is too loose, so it's bound to gain weight. Can't high-level Pokémon get fat?

There's no such thing!

"Chi~"

Mawile nodded reluctantly; it is a lady who understands the situation.

——

Not long after.

All Baimu successfully boarded the train to the Crown Tundra.

In order to have a good riding experience, he chose an independent cabin with two beds, not going to the seats in front to suffer.

After all, in the game, you only need to watch a simple train animation, but in reality, it's a six-hour train ride!

Six hours...

Let's look at the scenery outside the window to relieve the boredom.

All Baimu looked at the vast natural wilderness, looking forward to seeing Dynamax Pokémon.

Unlike the Dynamax Den setting in the game, in the anime, "Galar particles" appear out of thin air and enter the Pokémon's body, causing it to complete Dynamax or Gigantamax.

And under normal circumstances, such Gigantamax wild Pokémon will go on a rampage and cause disasters.

The Galar region was almost destroyed by this thousands of years ago, until the sister-brother pair Zacian and Zamazenta took action, finally allowing the Galar region to restore peace.

Of course.

The Dynamaxing in the Wild Area is generally not that dangerous; because the amount of Galar particles is too small, the wild Pokémon will soon return to their original state.

Therefore, it can become a characteristic tourist attraction during the journey.

All Baimu rested his chin on his hand; Mawile, who was sitting opposite him, didn't take out its phone, but unpacked the cake and shared it with its Trainer, also observing the scenery outside.

It actually didn't show that it was "addicted to the internet"; it just found something to do to kill the boring time when its Trainer was busy with other things and couldn't take care of it.

Now that its Trainer is by its side, how could it possibly invest precious time in TV dramas that it can watch anytime?

No matter how interesting the TV drama is, it's still not as real as the person in front of it.

"Chi-doh~"

Mawile pointed happily at the Wooloo outside that looked like large fluffy balls, silently hanging their heads and eating grass, as if it were a little girl seeing cute animals.

All Baimu went along with it, thinking that after returning from the Tundra, he would definitely find one to pet to his heart's content.

When he played the game in his previous life, he specifically kept a Shiny one and trained it to the max level without letting it evolve, for no big purpose, just purely craving its body that would roll around when camping.

Suddenly.

Accompanied by a sudden forward force, the train let out a harsh screech of brakes.

Emergency braking?

Did he actually run into such a low-probability event!

All Baimu opened the cabin door and looked left and right, but didn't see the train conductor walking by; there were quite a few people who came out to look with him.

The Poryphone said: "Should I go to the front and take a look?"

"Yeah."

He nodded, and the Poryphone immediately split into a clone; the clone turned into the shape of an airplane in a white light, and as Mawile pushed open the train window, it flew toward the front with a "whoosh."

Less than five seconds.

The Poryphone spoke: "A Gigantamax Pokémon is blocking the tracks!"

It displayed the scene seen by the clone on the screen.

All Baimu gasped.

Good guy!

He was just thinking about whether he could see a Gigantamax Pokémon in the Wild Area, and now his dream had come true, and that guy even blocked the road.

You have to look!

The Pokémon blocking the tracks on the screen is a Gigantamax... Metapod?

All Baimu was a bit speechless; Galar particles really aren't picky about their hosts, even a Gigantamax Metapod has come!

The Poryphone took quite a few photos; it was clearly very interested in the Gigantamax phenomenon and said: "They all say Gigantamax is a phenomenon unique to the Galar region, and Z-Moves originated in the Alola region, but they can be used in other regions too. What about Gigantamax?"

"Theoretically, it's possible."

Facing his own Pokémon, All Baimu didn't intend to hide anything, "There is something called a Wishing Star in the Galar region, which can help Pokémon achieve Gigantamax, and even the Dynamax Band is made with it as a raw material."

"Wishing Star?"

The Poryphone was slightly stunned, "Is it the one placed on Mount Silver?"

All Baimu shook his head, "No, that one is a genuine Wishing Star. The Wishing Star I'm talking about now is a mineral called a Wishing Star."