Chapter 340: This Isn't Lucky at All: The Huge Difference Between Shuckle Berry Juices

Luo Mu first closed the Fast Move secret manual for Dragonite to cultivate, then brought two bottles of juice in different-colored containers to Flatdisc Town, where he received private instruction from Nurse Joy at the Pokémon Center.

Fortunately, the Pokémon Center in Flatdisc Town had a relatively leisurely workload; if it were like those gyms with League certification or major cities such as Mesagoza or Levincia,

Nurse Joy would likely be so busy she'd wish she knew the Multi-Shadow Clone Technique, leaving her no time to provide Luo Mu with systematic knowledge instruction from scratch.

Although she had graduated from school with top honors in all subjects, Nurse Joy had harbored some complaints when assigned to this undeveloped small town; fresh out of school and in the prime of her youthful vigor, she naturally wished to achieve something, even to leave her name in history.

However, through interacting with the surrounding residents and providing free, unpaid treatment to wild Pokémon in the wilderness, Nurse Joy gradually grew to love this small town.

For Luo Mu, who like her had arrived halfway into his journey at this small town of Flatdisc, setting aside his Champion status, Nurse Joy also sensed a certain affinity from him, which was why she was willing to teach him medical knowledge from the beginning.

It certainly wasn't for that canister of black tea leaves!

The teaching session was just like private tutoring, lasting two hours from one o'clock to three o'clock in the afternoon.

The pace of life in Flatdisc Town was much slower than in international metropolises like Levincia; one could even call it a sense of relaxation unique to Flatdisc Town.

At this time, most people were napping at home, the streets were nearly empty, and only gentle, soothing healing pure music echoed through the Pokémon Center, with almost no one moving about.

Nurse Joy began teaching Luo Mu systematic medical knowledge right there at the front desk in the lobby.

As for the Chansey Luo Mu had brought to assist Nurse Joy, and the Comfey who hadn't encountered a single sick Pokémon, they ended up playing poker together with Chansey.

Comfey placed a card before Chansey using its vines.

"Comfey~" (A three~ reporting a single~)

Holding only two cards in its hand, Chansey wore an expression of difficulty.

"Lucky" (No)

Comfey's eyes lit up; it swiped the last card from the table and tossed it out with its vines.

"Comfey!" (A pair of sixes!)

Chansey looked as if it were wearing a mask of pain as it laid down the two cards in its hand.

One card was the Five of Spades, the other the Ace of Clubs; bound by the rules, even though its cards were higher than Comfey's, it could not play them.

Immediately after, Chansey shook its head frantically; although it had been the one to suggest playing poker, it now voluntarily chose to quit: "Lucky" (Not playing anymore, not playing anymore, I haven't drawn a single good card.)

Since its Ability was Serene Grace, why was its luck so terrible today?

This wasn't Lucky at all!

The God of Gamblers, Chansey, has fallen today!

Although Comfey knew the reason clearly in its heart, it said nothing and immediately began gathering up the poker cards with its vines.

Afterwards, Comfey glanced guiltily at Chansey, then looked at the seemingly empty space beside itself, wondering whether letting Victory Star, who had secretly followed, stay by its side counted as cheating.

At this moment, Luo Mu and Nurse Joy's teaching session seemed to have concluded; seeing the time approaching three o'clock, they called out to Comfey and Chansey, summoning them to their sides.

Chansey's body stiffened; almost instantly, it took the egg out of its abdominal pouch, hid the poker cards Comfey had gathered in the deepest part of the pouch, and then put the egg back.

Chansey's smooth, practiced movements showed at a glance that it was a habitual offender.

Under Chansey's repeated emphasis, Comfey made a zipping motion across its small mouth, and only then did the two Pokémon and one invisible Pokémon approach the front desk.

Just then, Luo Mu happened to take out two bottles filled with some kind of yellow liquid and placed them before Nurse Joy.

"Both the red bottle and the blue bottle contain freshly fermented berry juice; if you don't mind, could you taste them for me?"

Under Nurse Joy's puzzled expression, Luo Mu pointed to the two bottles with different-colored bodies and introduced them.

"I suppose I can," Nurse Joy nodded, her expression still somewhat confused, "but why do you use two bottles of different colors?"

"It is to make a distinction."

Luo Mu answered briefly but did not elaborate.

He simply took nearby paper cups and divided them into ten cups, first pouring the berry juice from the red bottle into five paper cups, then picking up one cup and handing it to Nurse Joy.

"Please taste it."

"Then I shall not decline."

Nurse Joy nodded slightly, took the paper cup, and since she had already demonstrated uprooting a weeping willow in front of Luo Mu, she stopped pretending to be a lady and boldly drained it in one gulp.

Immediately after, Nurse Joy's body shuddered; she curled up slightly as if enduring something, her beautiful features, carved from the same mold as other Nurse Joys, scrunching up without regard for image.

But at this moment, her eyes burst forth with dazzling brightness, and with trembling lips she said, "It's a bit sour, but delicious!"

"Especially after the sourness passes, a slight sweetness quickly appears on the tip of the tongue; I might never have drunk such delicious berry juice in my entire life!"

That sweet-and-sour taste seemed to dance on the tip of her tongue, like a summer breeze gently brushing against her cheek, making one unable to resist taking One Bite after another to savor it.

Every drop of berry juice seemed to concentrate nature's most perfect fruit fragrance, as if placing one right then and there in an orchard full of berry trees, utterly Tao Zui.

Nurse Joy did not hesitate to give an extremely high evaluation.

On the other side, Comfey and Chansey also took the paper cups handed to them by Luo Mu and began tasting somewhat hurriedly.

Their reactions were almost exactly the same as Nurse Joy's; although they found it sour, they both emitted sighs of admiration due to the deliciousness of the berry juice.

Seeing that Nurse Joy, Comfey, and Chansey had all drunk the delicious juice that made one's mouth involuntarily accelerate saliva secretion, Victini, who had chosen to turn invisible and secretly follow, grew anxious.

But it did not want to expose the fact that it had secretly followed right now, as that would surely cause Luo Mu to deduct its dinner tonight.

Victini could only watch anxiously as Luo Mu slowly lifted the berry juice and began drinking it as well.

After finishing tasting the berry juice from the red bottle, Luo Mu followed the same procedure, pouring out five cups of berry juice from the blue bottle and handing them to Nurse Joy to taste.

This time, it was as if the deliciousness of the berry juice had broken through the limits of Nurse Joy's cognition; she opened her mouth, momentarily unsure how to describe it with adjectives.

Nurse Joy touched her lower abdomen; she could feel that after drinking this cup of berry juice, a warm current even arose in her lower belly, flowing along her blood circulation to her limbs and hundreds of bones, causing her body, somewhat fatigued from two consecutive hours of teaching, to gradually begin recovering.

Watching Nurse Joy's reaction, Luo Mu sighed; even without her saying it, he already knew the result.

Clearly, shiny Pokémon in the game had no special differences, so why did this difference appear specifically on the Shuckle siblings?

Shaking his head, Luo Mu looked toward the empty space and shouted as if he had known all along: "I knew you followed long ago; if you want to drink, come out and drink, Victini."

(End of Chapter)