"Hummm~ Siesta, can you open the System Shop for me please?" I hummed, my eyes clothes as I thought about which gen of stadium I should buy.
Suddenly, a system window opened up in front of me, so I opened the building catalog and searched for "Stadiums" which had the shop display with multiple types of Stadiums. From battling, Pokemon Contests, etc. there were clearly a lot, so I had to thin out the list by sorting it to only show battling Venues for now.
The screen changed once again, as it showed only the battle Venues, from small ones like what I have on the back, to really big ones like for the Pokemon League battles.
I ended up locking my interest in one of the small-medium sized Battle Stadium with a relatively advanced protection for the audience.
It can even change the arena itself from small multiple ones to a single but large arena that's saved for the higher tier battles.
And of course, aside from that, there are also various facilities like bathrooms, canteens, resting rooms, etc.
So, without further Ado, I tapped on it and bought it. I also decided to buy a Pokemon Center building and a Pokemart building, which all of them combined, the points that I had saved up went down to a measly 43k.
It wasn't that bad but compared to the hundreds of thousands I had before, which passed half a million. What was left was merely a fraction.
My heart ached as I looked at my new tally of points, but I held myself back as I know that it's for a good cause.
What happened next is that three building tickets appeared in my inventory which I ripped apart with an aching heart.
The shop shook for a few seconds, and once it stopped, I got down from the second floor to find that the lobby had changed.
as the doors towards the Pokemart and Poke-Center had disappeared along with the growing World Tree, but I was not worried
Rahvin and the other three burst through the door as they ran towards me.
"What was that?!" Robin asked with a panicked face, which let me find out that it wasn't just the Shop that experienced the shaking.
I stopped them from saying anything else and hooked my finger, gesturing to follow behind as I walked out of the lobby.
And as I opened the door we were met with a very clear and sunny place reminiscent of a park but with only three buildings in sight.
Of which, the largest of the three is a huge circular arena that seemed to be made of a black material from where we were standing.
The other two are medium sized white buildings, with red and blue colored roofs respectively. I didn't need to explain what those two buildings were as they are obviously the pokemon center and poke-mart.
But the arena was another matter as the four asked in awe what it was, as it truly seemed majestic even though we weren't really that near in the arena.
I explained to the four what it was and their eyes shone before one of them, more specifically, Rahvin asked why they didn't see it back when they were outside.
Of which I responded with a mysterious smile and replied to him nonchalantly.
"Well, we are inside another pocket dimension silly"
I of course didn't need to explain what happened next, but I will anyway. In short, the four of them were slacked jaw at what they heard, and later asked a plethora of things, with questions mainly of "what?" and "how?"
Apparently they thought that the shop was merely in an unknown part of the world. They were only willing to believe that the Shop had achieved teleportation at best and that's what it used to send people from parts of the world into this place.
But I just shrugged and told them that.
"Some special Pokemon can control space and time travel at will, and some can even create something out of nothing. So this isn't that surprising."
Once again, their brain just shut down from the information I had just casually revealed but I just shrugged and left them standing there as I walked towards the sapling, located dead center in front of the four buildings.
Along the way, I asked Siesta if she wanted to check out the buildings with me, and she agreed as she just appeared mysteriously behind me without my senses even detecting her.
I yelped in surprise when I heard her voice behind me, but she just huffed in pride before looking at the World Tree which now looked like a smaller oak tree, but its bark is that of a pearly white color.
And of course the leaves were still super colorful like that of a rainbow.
"Look at you! You've grown a lot!" I praised the tree and its leaves swayed for a bit even without feeling a breeze pass by.
Suddenly, mew popped out his head from inside the tree hollow just above my head and waved at us with a smile.
"Hello Mew! I see that you have settled yourself in the word tree?" I greeted her with a wave of my own.
And Siesta had of course greeted the tiny pink feline as well.
"Hi mew!"
Siesta waved and Mew responded with a giggle as she flew down towards Siesta's head.
"Well then, I guess we'll be checking things out with Mew accompanying us." I voiced with a smile, and Mew nodded before she giggled again.
"Alrighty then! But, since you'll be coming along with us, why don't we invite the others?" I said to them, after I had gotten an idea to invite the rest of the Pokemon.
But before I could take one step, Vikavolt, Onix, Ditto(Base form), and Surprisingly a Vespiqueen had appeared all around the World tree, confusion was apparent in their faces as they looked around, but they calmed down after seeing Siesta, Mew and Myself.
"Ahem, first of all, congratulations are due for Vespiqueen, so.. Congratulations girl! I'm proud that you have evolved to lead your clansmen"
I proceeded to go in front of her and pat her head, much to her delight.
"I'm depending on you to lead the other combee's okay?" I told her and she smiled and nodded.
"Piquen~"
I nodded back before I looked at Vikavolt and Onix and said.
"Same with the two of you, I'll be depending on the two of you to guard this place in the future okay? Be sure to look out for troublemakers!"
"Onn!"
"Vikavolt!"
The two of them did a mod as well, and I smiled and said.
"With this, I guess the three of you are part of this family forever!"
I decided to take the three of them in, forever. Unless of course they find trainers that they fancy more than me, but I don't think that would happen.
"And as for you, Ditto. Let's keep working hard! Even more so, because I'm advancing their arrival much sooner" I crouched down before patting his head as well before scooping him up and putting him in my left shoulder.
"Ditto!"
Ditto transformed into a hedgehog and scratched his head on my face.
"Alright, now let's check out the Stadium!" I called out, not worrying about the 4 unmoving young men.
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When we got near the Stadium, we were amazed by its sheer magnificence. The walls were made up entirely of some kind of black alloy, that's apparently super tough.
Onix drooled the whole time, so I had no choice but to promise him that I would feed him the same metal some other time. And it seemed that was good enough for him as he stopped drooling and smiled happily.
Moving on.
We finished checking the stadium in no time. Siesta went back to the second floor of the Shop first to take a nap, asking me to wake her up once the tournament commenced. I didn't really mind and agreed as I was gonna ponder about my plans for the future.
First thing to consider is that.
The constant switching from my Shopkeeper and Zeke persona will be really troublesome going forwards as I will without a doubt be pretty busy on both ends.
So I have decided to get myself a cloning skill or art. Of course, the cloning skill that I have set my eyes on is one where I basically control two separate bodies.
Which brings me to the second problem, and that is processing all the things my two bodies will do without having my brain fried. So that will be another skill that I will need to buy.
Honestly, why didn't I think of this sooner… but I guess it's too late to cry over spilled milk. So I'll just make do with what I have for now.
Second thing to consider is the potential ramifications of basically rushing the arrival of the Pokemon.
It took me a good while before I ended up on one conclusion. Fuck it.
Why? Because after a second look at the ticket. I found out that the Pokemon that would be appearing aren't like those of the Anime, friendly mons and all that.
Instead, most of them are purely like wild animals with powers. And only a few will awaken their self-awareness.
And by few, I mean those that have either developed it through bonding with a trainer, or those that have reached an appropriate strength.
There are some exceptions, with psychic pokemon at the very top as they are more often than not, pretty smart and empathic so awakening their self-awareness is rather easier than other types of mons.
There are also the legendaries which are born with their self-awareness.
So it wouldn't matter if some died, although I will still be actively stopping any attempts of mass slaughter on them.
Of course only if the pokemon wouldn't attack first.
The Shop's Pokemon is unique in that case as whatever hatched in the eggs bought from the shop automatically awakens their self-awareness, that's one of the reasons why I was greatly angry when that ex-customer of mine had slaughtered its own partner.
And as for the human side, There will be deaths, that I can assure, be it innocent or guilty people.
But I'm willing to shoulder that burden despite knowing all of those, as while some may die, lots of others will be given a new lease of life.
Berries were one, for example as they don't grow without the energy unique to those of the Pokemon world. Said energy will also come at the same time as the pokemon.
That's precisely why I was not worried one bit by selling berries as, for one, the berries I harvest in the farm automatically lose their chance of germinating outside.
And the second is that they wouldn't grow if there is no T.E available.
I guess that's one more thing unique about the Pokemon hatched in my Shop, they are unique in that they can use their moves in this world even if there are no T.E here yet.
Huh, what do you know? The eggs were more special than I thought. Maybe I'll tweak the prices in the near future. Once the Pokemon arrive.
And if the governments of the different countries have anything to say… I will let them talk to my guardians… which I will also accept after the pokemon arrives.
Plus, they need to worry about their territories more as I am pretty sure there will be hordes of Pokemon that will try to attack.
Not on their own of course. But because some stupid person will provoke them to do that one way or another.
And the government won't be able to prevent that, because again, nukes will disappear and any attempt to make them will be for naught as those elements will basically be disabled.
"I'm pretty sure people will blame me for whatever tragedy will befall in the future… But well…if that were to happen then it will be their own fault as Pokemon wouldn't just start killing people wantonly" I shrugged before I stood up from the commentator seat in the stadium, overseeing the entire arena.
"They're earlier than I thought. Figures, Adelaide is pretty insightful, which makes sense considering she's a bonafide monarch" I mumbled as I walked down the stairs.
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'Wah…It's surprising…' I thought as I looked at not just Adelaide's clique, but even the various trained individuals by the Beehive Gang, Alex's family's Cartel, the Ichijou Yakuza clan, Satou Conglomerate(my family), The Chinese Triad Char Siu and even the Japanese police department had arrived one after another.
Each group has sent 3 talents each except for one. And among them, I was more familiar with the leader of Beehive gang, Ichijou Clan, and lastly, the JPD's leader. as they were none other than Chitoge along with Tsugumi,Raku and Marika as well as None other than my older cousin, Ryuuko who was leading the Satou Conglomerate representative.
Of course second to them is Alex's family who sent Alex as the leader of their representative. As well as Rahvin and his two other friends and his one rival.
There's also Jason and even Andre!
The rest, I have forgotten their name or rather I'm not really that acquaintanced with all of them as more often than not, Siesta actually sold the majority of the Pokemon.
While I took care of the farm as well as training Ditto.
One thing is for certain… it's that the underworld families greatly outnumber those of the opposite side.
Heck, it's a miracle that they aren't even starting a fight. Well…there's also the fact that those of the underground families/group are wearing masks to hide their identities.
The Beehive group wore black tuxedo suits and masks except for Chitoge who wore a white gown and a silver mask.
Alex's gang wore what seems to be Mexican wrestlers outfits, complete with the mask and all that.
The Ichijou Clan wore black hakama with lower black masks while Raku wore a white Hakama and mask.
'These two are really destined, huh?' I thought wryly as I looked at the two rather similar but also different outfits of the Beehive gang and the Ichijou Clan.
Last but not least, the Char Siu clan leader wore a short qipao while the other two male members wore red Tang suits as well. The only difference is that the leader of the Char Siu clan wore an intricate porcelain mask while the male ones wore what seems to be that of a Dragon and a Lion.
In comparison, The group led by Adelaide herself wore what seems to be black military suits with Green,Blue, and Red armbands respectively.
Meanwhile, The JPD representative led by a higher ranking officer wore a pretty standard Police academy uniform.
Lastly, the Satou Conglomerate representatives… Ryuuko was the only one wearing a mask… a white Kitsune mask with flower details, while she also wore a white kimono with pink accents and cherry blossom designs.
Her hair was tied in one bun which was supported by a Sakura themed hair stick.
Meanwhile, her sole member..? Wore normal corporate attire and a black cat mask.
'Wait, why is it only one?' I muttered before my eyes widened at the possibility of what I was thinking.
I hurriedly took out the Rotom-phone from my inventory and saw that there were indeed multiple missed calls by my aunt's and uncles, as well as both my grandparents.
'Fuck….this is precisely why I need that cloning/multiple body skill' I thought before I looked back at the contestants.
*Cough* " For now, everyone should prepare themselves, and wait in the stadium. I will be back once the event formally starts." I muttered before I excused myself and entered the Pet Shop and went straight to the second floor.