T-Ten thousand?!
Ten... ten thousand points?!
Kitahara Takeru’s pupils widened in shock.
Never in his life had the system been so generous.
Granted, he’d only been living this second life for about a year—but still.
Is… is she worth that much?!
One date with Katō Megumi, and the points reward matched what he got from going out with both Kasumigaoka Utaha and Sawamura Spencer Eriri—combined—plus bonus rewards.
He...
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“Takeru?”
Hearing someone call his name, Kitahara Takeru turned around.
Standing beside him was a well-dressed, strikingly handsome young man.
The sight of the newcomer brought a smile to Takeru’s face.
“Kato-senpai? What brings you here?”
“Family gathering,” Kato Kei replied with a grin as he sat down across from Takeru. “Thought I was seeing things. Didn’t expect it to really be you.”
“How have you been?”
Takeru put down his ...
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“Se–Senpai, are you… dating someone?!”
The moment Aki Tomoya heard that Kasumigaoka Utaha had gone out with another guy last weekend, even his smile began to falter.
“Wait, who was that guy who looked like Aki?” Before Utaha could answer, Eriri’s expression darkened as she grabbed Utaha’s wrist.
Utaha had originally intended to respond to Tomoya’s question, but when she saw the expression on the little blonde’s face, she smiled.
It was a smile fille...
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“I’ll take two servings of fried tofu, two sukiyaki pouches, two beef tendons, two kelp rolls, two eggs, and two chikuwa—please pack them separately. Thank you.”
Kitahara Takeru ordered everything in one breath.
When it came time to pay, he casually handed over a single 1,000-yen note.
What truly stunned Shijō Maki was that, despite how much Kitahara had ordered, the total didn’t even come close to 1,000 yen.
The old lady running the place even gave him chan...
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“No!”
Despite trying everything—pleading, explaining, practically talking himself hoarse—Kitahara Takeru still couldn’t get Shijō Maki to hand over Kashiwagi Nagisa’s phone number.
He was fuming.
Didn’t Nagisa say Maki considered him a friend now?
Since when can’t you even get a friend’s number from a friend?
He slammed the table. “Fine. That’s it for today. I’ve got other things to do.”
No number?
Fine.
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When Kitahara Takeru returned, Shijō Maki had already finished her call.
Seeing how long he’d taken, she frowned. “Takeru, where did you go? Why were you gone so long?”
He forced a strained smile. “Stomach issues. Took a while. Anyway, how did it go?”
“Ah, that… It was just… y’know…”
At the mention, Maki suddenly turned bashful, fumbling over her words, her tone vague and evasive.
“You confessed?”
Kitahara raised an eyebrow, choos...
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“Why did you encourage Maki to pursue Tanuma-kun?”
The moment the question left her lips, Kitahara Takeru’s guard shot up.
She’s not planning to have me disappeared, is she?
Honestly, you couldn’t blame him for thinking that way.
If he heard someone was egging someone else on to chase his girlfriend, he’d definitely consider making them disappear.
And with that terrifying thought, a bright red DANGER sign lit up in ...
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Shijō Maki stared at Kitahara Takeru for a long time.
Eventually, she looked away with a faint huff. “D-Don’t think just because you gave me flowers, I’ll forgive you.”
The moment Kitahara heard that, he knew—her anger had mostly passed.
All the better he’d gone out of his way to stop by the florist beforehand.
He understood tsunderes.
No one. Understood. Tsunderes. Better than him.
Years of dating experience had taught him well.
And here...
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“Is that… a Delibird?”
Gary eyed the bewildered Iron Bundle, looking skeptical.
“That’s Iron Bundle,” Larry corrected, standing beside him. “There’s a theory that it’s a product of some ultra-ancient civilization.”
“Ultra-ancient civilization?” Gary glanced up and down at the very sci-fi-looking Iron Bundle, full of question marks.
He’d been around with August enough to see true relics of ancient civilizations. But… this thing? If anythi...
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The call connected again, and on the other end was still Professor Turo—except this time, his attitude was completely different.
Turo’s face was grave as he spoke:
[Arven, don’t come to the Zero Lab!]
Arven was left completely baffled.
But Turo hung up after just that one sentence, and, as expected, Professor Sada called immediately afterward.
Sada:
[Arven, come to the Zero Lab—I’ll be waiting for you there!]
Arven: “……”
...
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Only by comparison can you really see the difference.
When Zinnia heard Larry speak, she suddenly felt that getting knocked on the head by August didn’t hurt so much after all.
Even Gary found that, compared to Larry’s suffering, the “training” he’d endured from August was almost bearable.
Larry: “?”
Watching the looks on Gary and Zinnia’s faces, his corporate-drone instincts kicked in—wait, am I the bad example here?
…
Under Ge...
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Though Penny was a genius hacker—capable of breaching the Rotom Phone Company and the Paldea League systems—offline, she was just a shy, socially anxious girl.
Now that August had exposed her, she completely panicked.
Noticing Penny’s nervousness, August just kept smiling at her, saying nothing.
But his silence only made the pressure worse.
All she’d done was pause for a moment when she saw a cute Eevee, and now she’d ended up in this situation. Penny’s tho...
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Nemona: Paldea’s Champion-level Trainer and Student Council President of Naranja Academy.
Hearing the cheers of the academy students around him, Gary Oak’s spirits lifted.
Finally, a real heavyweight’s shown up?
He looked up, meeting Nemona’s gaze.
The moment their eyes met, Gary was startled by the intensity in Nemona’s stare.
Whoa—why is she looking at me like she’s about to eat me alive?!
Just as Gary was reflecting on whether his ...
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Just as Zoroark, carrying her mounting anxiety, was about to hurry straight to the clan—
Suddenly—
A fleeting flash of white in the distance caught her attention.
Is that… a Zoroark?
Even in the dead of night, standing out on the frozen tundra, Zoroark could still recognize one of her own kind at a glance.
But aside from herself, why would there be other Zoroark out here?
She remembered giving strict orders: no one from the clan was to roam o...
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Huff… huff…
Having run the entire way, Glaceon’s body rose and fell with heavy breaths.
Even so, she still twisted around, straining to point toward her own back.
“Buu, bui~”
Hearing Glaceon’s cry, Elias became more certain of his guess.
—This letter really was meant for him.
With that in mind, Elias gently pulled the note from Glaceon’s back.
He deftly opened the envelope and was greeted by Irida’s graceful handwriting.
...
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“The weather’s gotten so awful.”
By the window, Zoroark gazed at the cloud-choked sky, a vague irritation weighing on her chest.
Recently, the space-time rift atop Mount Coronet had widened even further.
All across the Hisui region, distortions in space and time were happening far more frequently than before.
All these strange phenomena—there was no doubt that something major was about to happen.
And for reasons no one quite understood, large numbers of G...
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[By the time you and Zoroark return home, night has fully fallen.]
[After a long day, fatigue settles in.]
[You eat a quick meal, go over the day’s events, and then gradually drift off to sleep under Zoroark’s illusion.]
By the edge of the futon, Zoroark watched Elias sleep, a subtle smile curling at her lips.
Life lately—aside from Elias overworking himself, which irked her a litt...
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“You’ve all seen the rift in space-time at the summit of Mount Coronet, haven’t you?”
With all the Zoroark gathered before him, Elias pointed to the distant sky as he spoke.
The Zoroark nodded in unison.
Living in the wild, they were more sensitive to changes in their environment than most.
That space-time rift—of course, they’d been watching it, too.
Scanning their faces, Elias nodded, satisfied.
“Lately, the rift’s been expanding. It’s n...
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“............”
Truth be told, Kaiba’s first livestream on Poke-TV went… a lot worse than he’d imagined.
He’d originally thought that with the “[Dragon Dance] + Gible” gimmick, he’d instantly grab the attention of every Pokémon battle fan out there, shoot to stardom from his very first broadcast.
Just blow up overnight.
Within thirty minutes, maybe an hour, he’d be breaking a hundred thousand viewers, with his follower count rocketi...
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That year, it was the 2024 Pokémon World Championships.
In Galar’s largest stadium—Wyndon Stadium.
On the grand stage of the semifinals.
The contenders: Sinnoh League Champion Cynthia, facing off against Galar’s own Champion—Leon.
Two top-tier Champions, bringing out everything they had, their ace Pokémon clashing in a match for the ages. After a long, intense battle, the score was tied: 5 to 5.
Everything came down to the final Pokémon on each side.
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To be honest, [Dragon Dance] and Gible didn’t create quite the earth-shattering chemistry he’d hoped for.
Even if Gible was a top-tier pseudo-legendary Pokémon, the phrase “late bloomer” existed for a reason.
In other words… as a starter Pokémon, Gible really wasn’t much stronger than most other baby Pokémon.
To put it plainly—
Most of the usual Fire-, Water-, or Grass-type starters started out with base stat totals around 310...
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“Let’s check out the leaderboards first, see what tips the popular streamers have up their sleeves.”
Kaiba made his final preparations before launching his own battle livestream.
When it came to the most popular streams on Poke-TV, a few always topped the charts.
Of course, there was Miss Iono, the Gym Trainer and influencer from Levincia City in Paldea, with her Electro-Electro Stream.
And in Galar, Raihan—the Hammerlocke Gym Leader, famous for his Dr...
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[Dragon Dance] plus Gible—is that even a thing?
Of course it is!
To Kaiba, this combo is right up there with “Groudon learns [Fly],” “Kricketune Hero,” and “Charizard, Charizard: can’t actually breathe fire, not even a real dragon”—those legendary memes that set the whole Pokémon fandom ablaze.
Who wouldn’t want to see a Garchomp that could use [Dragon Dance]? Or a Groudon that, at long last, co...
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Wu Yao turned to Gengar and suggested, “Gengar, with your strength, nobody here could possibly stop you. We could just snatch the target and go. One more late night and I’ll turn into an old hag.”
"Geng (No)!"
"Geng, gengar (That would draw too much attention)."
"Geng, gengar, geng (Midnight’s perfect—once they’re all fighting, I can slip in and get our target out without anyone noticing)."
Gengar shook his head, firmly rejecting ...
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“Uncle Ye, it’s fine,” Su Qingxue said. “When the time comes, I’ll just disguise myself—no one will recognize me.”
But Uncle Ye was unmoved.
“No way!”
“Miss, if you want to leave, you’ll have to step over my dead body first.”
He was getting stubborn now. Since persuasion hadn’t worked, he could only dig in his heels.
“You—!”
Su Qingxue was so exasperated by Uncle Ye’s attitude that she was momentarily speechless.
“A...
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“Don’t worry, Teacher, I won’t slack off when it comes to training,” Su Qingxue assured him. “And I’ve already asked my family to start searching for a top-grade [Moon Stone].”
As for the [Moon Stone], Su Qingxue’s mother, Ye Qing, had already begun making arrangements.
After all, what parent doesn’t want their child to have the very best?
But, evolution stones of that highest grade were always rare and hard to come by.
...
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After lunch, Su Qingxue couldn’t wait any longer and hurried to discuss with Guo Yi.
“Teacher, what should my second Pokémon be?”
“Should I pick one of the three starters unique to the Dragon Nation—Charmander, Squirtle, or Bulbasaur—or maybe a pseudo-legendary like Dratini or Bagon?”
Wow!
She really was the heiress of the Azure Dragon Society.
Even her baseline choices started with the starters.
But Su Qingxue truly did have the res...
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“Teacher, you’re here.”
The moment Su Qingxue saw Guo Yi arrive, her face broke into a bright, radiant smile.
After spending this time together, she’d come to realize that her teacher was like a hidden treasure.
No matter what questions she asked, he always answered with confidence and ease.
Even if her questions had nothing to do with Pokémon, he could still speak knowledgeably, as if there was nothing he didn’t understand.
So, by now, Su Qingxue had ...
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Noticing Sucrose’s gaze, Jiang Bai looked over. Sucrose, caught as if she’d been doing something wrong, twitched her ears and buried herself in her food, nearly dipping her whole face into the bowl.
Jiang Bai tilted his head in confusion. Do I really look that scary? Maybe this was just how Sucrose was.
Albedo, seeing Sucrose almost disappear into her bowl, explained to Jiang Bai, “Sucrose isn’t very good with people. Don’t take it personally.”
“I don...
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“They are edible. I just improved some of their traits—strengthened their best qualities—without changing their essence.”
Talking about her research made Sucrose much less nervous.
“For example, this Sweet Flower—it’s the Type-9, Variant 19, bud-specialized version. I enhanced its genetics so the bud is much larger, and it can store even more nectar.”
Jiang Bai’s eyes lit up instantly.
A Sweet Flower with more nectar!
“Can it be planted?”
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