Meanwhile, Reed was busy at the berry market, buying berries. He bought a dozen Lansat berries for a price of 250 dollars. He also bought several bundles of Liechi berries and 1 super expensive Starf berry for the total price of 1,230 dollars. He then went to the Oaklore Berry center to mix some berries together to create berry blocks for his Minezumi and Tsutarja. He put in 3 Lansat berries, plenty of Liechi berries, and pressed the 'start' button and the machine started to operate. Reed patiently waited, giving his two pokemon a small snack of pokefood.
After about an hour, the machine stuttered, stopped, and spit out some white-colored cubes out the bottom, with yellow specks, and faint blue stripes.
"Oh! Cool! Here you go, try it!" Reed put the cubes in a bag, and gave both his pokemon a cube. Tsutarja ate some, and seemed to love it. Minezumi on the other hand, didn't seem to like it. It spit out the cube, and Tsutarja, seeing a wasted cube, ran over and ate it.
"Eww," Reed muttered.
"Reed!" Janith was gasping for breath at the door of the berry center. "I got a purple kitty!" Janith almost knocked over Reed, as she gave him an excited hug. Janith was jumping up and down, Mijimaru and her new Choroneko at her side.
"Um, okay, Janith," Reed said, dusting himself off. "That purple cat there looks great! Where'd you find it?"
"In the forest!"Janith spoke, a bit of brag in her voice.
"OK. Here. Have your pokemon try some of these berries that I made," Reed gave a berry block to Janith's Choroneko and Mijimaru.
Choroneko sighed after she swallowed the block. Then after a few mere moments, the purple cat barfed, and the remains of a Rattata meal and the berry was shown.
"Eww," Janith and Reed said in unison, edging away from the acidic barf. The janitor grimaced as he cleaned up the barf.
"Yeah. I don't think Choroneko likes that very much," Janith observed, stroking her cat.
When the janitor was finished, Mijimaru already had the whole bag of blocks in his paws. "Miji-miji!" It mewled and almost literally dived into the bag, gobbling up the berries. Seeing this, the enraged and jealous Tsutarja also dive-tackled Mijimaru in the bag, and soon, they were both eating up the treats.
"No..." Reed said helplessly. There was no stop to this. He had 2 bundles of Liechi berries, 1 Starf berry, and 9 Lansat berries left. What a waste. Pokemon weren't supposed to eat these all the time. They were only for contests. But he could always make more. "So, did you find the gym leader yet?"
"Oops. No. Too focused on catching pokemon," Janith scratched the back of her head.
"Then let's go find him now. I can also sign up for the contest, in a few days," Reed said.