Chapter 1277: Special Cuisine, Everyone's Wishes!

“Oh, I see…”

Listening to Naoki’s words, Mew and Teddiursa both showed a sad expression on their faces.

What a poor Pokémon!

“So what do you plan to do next?” Naoki asked.

Mew and Teddiursa exchanged a glance, then began to rummage through their bags. Before long, they had found the remaining few Poffins and Berries.

The two Pokémon held the Poffins in their hands, looked around the castle hall, and called out to the surroundings:

“miu!”

“Oh!”

No response.

“miu?” Mew tilted its head.

Just then, Teddiursa spotted a big ear behind a stone pillar.

It immediately pointed its little paw at that spot and shouted loudly: “Oh!”

Victini’s ears twitched, and the next moment, it saw the two Pokémon appear in front of it.

For a moment, six eyes met.

Victini was startled.

“Ni Ni!”

It instinctively wanted to run away, and upon seeing this, Mew and Teddiursa quickly grabbed its arm with their little hands.

Using too much force eventually caused the three Pokémon to let out a startled cry and lose their balance, tumbling to the ground in a heap.

When they got up, the three Pokémon stared at each other’s dusty faces and then burst out laughing together.

“Oh!”

Mew also covered its mouth and chuckled: “miu～”

Seeing the two Pokémon in this state, Victini was full of curiosity: “Ni Ni?”

Teddiursa rummaged through the backpack and took out some unbroken Poffins, offering them to Victini.

“Oh!”

“Ni Ni?”

Teddiursa nodded vigorously: “Oh!”

“Ni Ni～!”

Realizing these two Pokémon seemed to want to play with it, Victini was very happy and cheerfully accepted the gifts from Teddiursa and Mew.

Mew and Teddiursa also each took out a Poffin, and the three Pokémon sat in the castle hall, happily enjoying the Delicious Poffin made by Naoki.

After the Poffins were finished, the three started chasing and playing around the castle, looking very joyful.

The video call hadn’t been disconnected yet, and Naoki watched this scene through Phone Rotom’s screen.

The sight of the three small Pokémon playing together was incredibly cute, and he felt his heart melt for these little ones.

Thinking that the Poffins might not be enough for the three of them, after ending the call, Naoki immediately contacted Dragonite and asked it to fly to the Unova Region with Poffins and Pokeblocks.

At noon, after finishing work at Levincia Gym, Naoki rode Koraidon back to the ranch, as usual.

On the way, Naoki pondered how to lift the barrier trapping Victini.

According to the anime’s plot, the Guardian Stone Pillar is crucial in maintaining the barrier. To break the barrier, you need to destroy the stone pillars first.

But in the movie version, Victini realistically did not want to leave Eindoak, because in the end, it didn’t leave with Ash, who saved it, but stayed there.

Because Victini was the Pokémon of the Old King, ever since the Old King lost his life due to excessive power consumption, Victini has remained there, guarding for over a thousand years through spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

This kind of emotion… is truly touching.

A Mythical Pokemon like Victini practically has an infinite lifespan, but as a human, the Old King only had a mere few decades.

Sigh.

Naoki couldn’t help but feel a bit complex.

Just then, Koraidon landed in the ranch, and Naoki jumped off, smiling as he greeted the others who came running to welcome him home.

Naoki walked toward the house, but when he opened the door, he did not see Lono inside.

“Huh? Where’s Lono?” Naoki asked.

“Indee!” Naoki’s sister Indeedee, who was preparing lunch, pointed outside.

So Naoki turned and went to the ranch, and sure enough, he saw Lono in the distance by the fields.

Besides Lono, there were Butterfree, Cyclizar, and Dugtrio.

They were all surrounding a crop, seemingly observing something.

“What are you looking at?” Naoki asked.

Hearing his voice, Lono quickly turned around and said: “Come over, this tomato is glowing! So magical!”

A glowing tomato?

Naoki was immediately intrigued. He strode over and saw, among the lush green crops, a tomato radiating rainbow light.

Special crop!

Naoki’s gaze locked onto the tomato, and the next second, information about the tomato surfaced in his mind.

[Wish Tomato: Special crop, when made into a dish, will have the effect of “Wish”.]

The description was brief, but the content instantly caught Naoki’s attention.

Wish? Is it what he thought it meant?

“What’s going on?” Lono asked curiously.

“In short, Gogoat’s energy caused a mutation in the crops here, and after mutation, the crops will have some special effects,” Naoki explained.

Special effects? Lono immediately thought of the Magical Cuisine Naoki had previously created, like the Translation Nuts Cake that allows understanding Pokémon speech.

Her gaze fell on the large field in front of her, and she let out a small gasp, exclaiming: “Do all the crops have such effects?”