Chapter 7 – "Blue" Has Joined the Chat
"Hahahaha!"
"Ah RIP..."
All the usual lot of audience were commenting, and the group chat was filled with a happy atmosphere for a while.
[Fighter:... You can try throwing a Pokéball at it? 】
[Rikuno-sensei: Are you sure that after toss that ball, it won't attack me?]
[Fighter:...]
Red suddenly disappeared, and Rikuno puts down his phone, glared back at ghost.
"The hell you looking at?"
"Gasss?"
Just then, the phone buzzed again, and a somewhat familiar ID suggested it.
[Healer: Look at its eyes, it seems to like you very much!]
Rikuno thought about it for half a while, but he didn't remember who this ID was.
[Rikuno-sensei: Do you call this 'like'? It's obviously coming for my soul!]
[Rikuno-sensei: (Video)]
In the video, a ghost made of black mist, opens its eyes wide, as it happily licked the individual in front of it.
Rikuno wiped a handful of wet saliva from his face and shouted at Gastly, "Stop licking, smile for the camera!"
Stunned, Gastly flew to the camera and blocked its lens with its bulging eye.
Kanto, Viridian City.
Red, who was training at the Viridian City Gym, couldn't help but smile.
"Hey, let's start training!"
With spikey brown hair and a pendant on his chest, a handsome youth sat on the shoulders of the massive Rhyperior, as he folded his arms in front of his chest.
"What are you looking at, with that stupid smirk."
"A battle streamer I found recently." Red held the phone and smiled, "He seems to be planning to train a Gengar."
Blue jumped down from the shoulder of the Rhyperior, with hands in his pocket and glanced at the video, and he slightly nodded: "This Gastly's potential is not bad at all."
Red looked up in surprise and glanced at Blue.
Dr. Oak once said that the ability of Blue is "Training", which can maximize the potential of Pokémon.
If he approves, then the potential of this Gastly was definitely worth training.
"That's just a game streamer." Blue shrugged, "Why don't you just go Masters' tournament to watch a battle?"
"Although it is a game, his timing of command is much stronger than that of ordinary master trainers."
Red smiled, "Besides, the virtual image technology of the Lysandre Labs was used in the game?"
"Maybe it won't be long before we can battle online!"
"Huh." The Blue's eyes were sharp, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, "Even if it's a game, I won't lose to you!"
Haven't you lost enough yet?
Red said with some sense of awkwardness, "Let's stop talk about this subject and start training!"
"Vrr—"
Just then, his phone vibrates.
Red glanced down at the group chat and smiled, "He captured Gastly."
Blue folded his arms and suddenly said, "That group... invite me too."
"What?"
"An activity, just to pass time."
"... I thought you didn't watch live streams?"
"Shut up, just invite me!"
"Got it geez, why so mean all of a sudden?"
"Tch... Want to fight?"
"Just attack the trainers directly, right? Go, Pika!"
"Rhyperior, Earthquake!"
[...]
[You have a new message]
[Your friend - "Blue" has joined the chat!]
If you bump into a ghost late at night, generally there are three options.
A. Pretending not to see it, walk out of the elevator as if nothing happened.
B. Hold a conversation with them and say that trainers nowadays are too young, too simple.
C. If you're bold enough, take a maternity leave.
So Rikuno chose D—
"Demon, how dare you terrorize this place! Dawei Tianlong, Shizun Jizo (大威天龙, 世尊地藏)... eat my Pokéball!"
Ghosts like Gastly which often appear in horror movies, are still essentially a kind of Pokémon, so they are still scientific.
So, it still also obeyed the basic laws of the Pokémon universe, as it turned into a red light and flew into the Pokéball, that stopped moving after shaking three times.
Rikuno felt a sense of calmess as he picked up the Pokéball on the ground and breathed out long sigh of relief.
"Raising a Gastly, that's fine I guess." Rikuno's expression was strange, "At least Gengars are still quite cute... I guess?"
Honestly, Gengar in ACGN was cute, but what about in reality—
Opening the Pokéball, a pair of large white eyes slowly opened in a cloud of black mist, and the big mouth grinned from ear to ear revealing it red tongue and sharp teeth.
Gastly floated happily behind Rikuno, enveloping Rikuno's head in its mist-like body, emitting a loud laugh.
"Gasss Gasss!"
Rikuno looked up, just in time to see the Ghost's large mouth and sharp teeth, and Gastly's eyes closed into a slit and stuck out his long scarlet tongue.
Gastly: (*⊙~⊙)
"Lick-"
Rikuno wiped the saliva from his face.
"... It's cute. "
[Congratulations to the host for completing the achievement "I choose you!"]
[Achievement Notice: Catch any Pokémon as your starter and receive 500 BP points]
[Remaining BP Points: 720]
If he didn't look closely, the ghost made of gas like black mist along with those big white eyes are also within the acceptable range of Rikuno's aesthetics.
Although his plan for Eevee ended in failure, Rikuno can go out at night to scare others (crossed out).
But at least Rikuno has a way to turn into a horror game streamer now.
"Gas!"
The Gastly was still hovering happily in mid-air and the light of the elevator was returned.
As the elevator slowly rose, Rikuno returned Gastly to the Pokéball and fell into deep thoughts.
"If it can evolve into a Gengar, its combat ability is very strong."
"No, wait a second why would I even need to have a Pokémon with combat ability?"
"I got it, I can let Gastly act as the mascot of the stream..."
[You have a new message]
[The manager 'Fighter' invited 'Blue' to the group]
"Huh? Blue?"
Rikuno, who was confused by the notification, looked Blue's profile with a confused face.
"This... Wouldn't it be Kanto's champion known as the 'The Trainer'?"
"Holy shit, it's really him!"
In Pokémon Adventures, after succeeding as the gym leader of the Viridian Gym, in less than a year, Blue trained a team with average level 70 Pokémon.
Rikuno even thought that he must've been grinding with NPCs and wild Pokémon daily!
He must have livers of steel!
After Rikuno posted the video, the topic in the group suddenly turned to the training method of Ghost-types.
"Is Rikuno-sensei planning to train a Gengar focused on posion-type moves?"
"Wait a second, shouldn't it be better for Gengar to be better with ghost-type moves!"
"..."
[Group member 'Blue' has released a new document]
[The training methods of Gastly .txt]
"Holy shit, its actually him!"
"Even Blue is a fan of Rikuno-sensei!?"
"This is called a professional .jpg"
After releasing this document, Blue turned silent again.
Rikuno looked at the txt document in the group with a complicated gaze.
It's certain that, this traing manual written by "The Trainer" Blue is absolutely unquestionable in its professionalism and accuracy.
After a fierce mental debate, Rikuno sighed.
"I really didn't want to be a trainer!"
And subsequently, opened [The training methods of Gastly .txt].