Celadon City is located in central Kanto. It is the most populous city in Kanto and the eighth most populous in the Pokémon world, surpassing even Saffron City in the east. The city has two entrances, one from the east via Route 7, and one from the west via Route 16. Celadon is the main place to spend money in Kanto, through the Celadon Department Store and the Celadon Game Corner. It is the home of the Celadon Condominiums, where residents of the city live, and the Celadon Hotel, where visitors can rest. Celadon is also home to Erika, the city's Gym Leader.
I have arrived at Celadon City with Aria we arrive he by Magnet Train at about 02.00 pm.
"Let's me show you around here, even if this is not my home city but it can be called my second home by how frequent I come here."
"Then why don't we start with lunch. I'm starving here."
"Then I just know the best place, it's located at the south part of the city. It's the only 5-star restaurant in this city. It's even better than the one in the Celadon Hotel. It is renown worldwide since even the crew of SS. Anne come here whenever they arrive at Kanto. I mean they sail all over the world so unless it's really special, they won't come."
"Is it OK, don't place like that usually need reservation."
"It's OK, today is not a holiday or a festival season so there is usually empty spot."
When I arrive there I realize that this place is the restaurant where I can receive coin case in the game. I look at my GBA Device and I saw that there is an avatar at one seat at the corner of the restaurant. Since the seat is empty I lead Aria to that seat and I secretly contact the avatar with my GBA avatar. I receive coin case, this way I can buy coin and I can exchange it with some very useful TM. Why don't I play the slot machine for the coin? I gave up a long time ago playing that game, it's too hard and waste too many time. I can't even cheat with it. The waiter come with the menu.
"Order anything you want it's my treat and while you're at it choose mine too since you're familiar with this place."
"Is it OK, this place is quite expensive."
"It's OK, I won a lot of money before. It's actually the second time I'm here but the first time I only visit the department store and the game center. I won a lot of money back then."
"Wow I guess you luck is very good, then I'll order the food."
The food is like in the French Cuisine in my previous world and I enjoy it a lot, of course we don't take wine, just a normal fruit juice.
"Since you already visit the Celadon Department Store I guess we don't need to go there. I don't think we have a lot of time for shopping anyway. We can visit the Celadon Game Corner after dinner so the next place I will show you is the Gym."
"The Gym, if I'm not wrong they are grass type gym right. What will we do there, I'm not strong enough to challenge the Gym right now."
"Of course you not, even I am not qualified to challenge the Gym. Celadon City Gym is similar with the Cerulean City that the Gym have a special side business."
"You mean they also perform pokemon show like in the contest."
"Similar but also different. The show of Celadon Gym is more focus on the Human while pokemon just perform a side role. Erika is the inheritor of a traditional form of dancing. Her family have been inherited for thousands of year already. So just to keep the tradition from dying her family has continue doing the dancing show till this day. That show is very popular."
"Now that I think about it I seem to have watch it on TV before."
"Erika is also a very famous perfume maker and she has her own brand, they also sell her perfume at the Gym. She also studies the field of botanist and she design the gym into a magnificent greenhouse. That is also one of the attraction of Celadon City."
After that she talk a lot about the Gym Leader Erika until we arrive in front of the Gym, she must have like her so much. The gym located at the south western end of the city and it cover a lot of ground. I guess it must be because there is a small forest inside the gym ground like what Aria just mention.
"It seems your lucky, there are a show scheduled tomorrow morning, since you never saw it live why don't we watch it tomorrow?"
"Yeah, I'm also interested after hearing you talk about it. Let's me buy the ticket."
"This is the Celadon Department Store. It is the largest building in the city, as well as the largest shop in Kanto."
"Now that I think about it there are a lot of tall building in this city."
"Yes, this shopping center has six floor and each floor is as high as a house. The other tall building you saw is the Celadon Condominium beside the PokeCentre. This city has the largest population among the city in Kanto so they need this kind of housing to support it."
"Let's go shopping tomorrow after the show."
"It's almost 06.00 pm, why don't we relax for a while at the hotel. After dinner we can go to the Game Corner."
"Sure, how about we meet again at 07.00 in the hotel Dining Floor. Tonight just follow my bet. I can't promise that we will win all but I can at least make us win most of it."
"OK, my shopping expense tomorrow will depend on your performance."
We meet at dinner and then go to the Celadon Game Corner together. The inside of the game corner is just like the Casino in my previous world. It is split with the table type game like Roulette and Craps, card game like Poker and Blackjack and machine type like Slot Machine and Pachinko. Of course the best game to play with my cheat is Roulette, Craps and Big Six Wheel. I just need to save before the game, wait until I got the result and memorize it, load the game and bet on the winning spot. The other game need too much time and energy so it is not efficient for me to play.
"Listen here Aria, the game I'm good with is Roulette, Craps and Wheel, so I'll just focus on these game. I also prepare a signal on the game that I'll win so bet more on those and bet less on the game that I don't give the signal."
"Wow you talk like you can certainly win the bet. Why don't you just bet on the one you are sure to win."
"I don't want to bring suspicion on myself, if I won too much they might catch me for cheating."
"Wait, you're not really cheat right?"
"Of course not, this is all skill. The Game Corner have done everything possible to prevent cheating here. We can't bring pokemon, they also activate the device to prevent pokemon skill to be use inside. Even if they catch me, they won't find any evident of me cheating."
"So there's nothing for you to worried about if that's the case. Just win boldly."
"I just want to be careful, I heard some bad rumor about the owner of this Game Corner."
We play a lot of game, we try all of the game there and of course I lose in most of the game that I don't cheat. I make sure that we win more than we lose. After winning more than 10000$ we quit and left the Game Corner.
"This is the first time I have ever won this much. Thanks a lot Fey."
"Of course, without the right technique it's hard win consistently in such game."
"Then, see you tomorrow, we will watch the show in the morning, good night."
"Then good night."
The next morning, we had some simple breakfast and head to the Gym. There are already a lot people gathering there. Inside the Gym is a small forest, but it refreshing with pleasant smell and a lot of sunlight. The trees are colorful with a lot of flower and fruit and the tree itself had been groom to be aesthetically pleasing. In the middle of the forest is a huge clearing with a stage situated there. That is the place the performance will be held. We watch the performance with great attention.
The performance started with the Gym apprentice. The performance is very similar with Japanese dance in my previous life except that this world performance is monopolize by beautiful young woman, they don't wear much make up to emphasis the natural beauty of woman. They use some tool to assist the dance like fan, umbrella and even sword dance with grass type pokemon provide special effect and dance with the trainer. the climax of the performance is held by the Gym Leader Erika herself which show a mesmerizing dance along with soothing music. Even after the performance ended the audience still fascinated with the show.
After the show we go to the shop which sell the special merchandise there like perfume and souvenir. They even sell wooden sword and fan like use in the performance, we bought some for our family. There is restaurant open there which specialize in vegetarian food and we eat while admiring the scenery of the small forest.
In the afternoon we go to the Celadon Department Store. On the first floor there are Food Court where they sell a lot of verity of food. There are also the groceries market where they sell dry food ad fresh ingredient like fruit, vegetable, meat and fish. It, just like the general section of normal supermarket. The second floor is where they sell furniture and electronic device. The third floor is for entertainment and sport, they sell toys, game, book and sport equipment. They will cover all sort of hobbies like fishing, mountain climbing, skiing, surfing and many more. The fourth floor is the fashion floor, they have booth for a lot of brand of clothing, accessory, jewellery and many more.
The fifth floor is for health and beauty, they sell a lot of medicine for human and pokemon. There are also a lot of brand of cosmetic. This is where trainer can buy special food for strengthening their pokemon. The six floor is the open air rooftop as the relaxation zone. There is a huge stage in the middle, this is where they hold some special event. There are a lot of vendor selling fast food like burger, Sausage, ice cream, crepe, fried chicken and juice. There is children playground and binocular at the edge of the building where we can see the surrounding scenery.
We spend a lot of money here buying cloth, shoes, tablet, and food for pokemon. At night we spend our time in the Game Corner earning some easy money. In the game it shows that it will be expose that this is the Team Rocket Headquarters but I have search all over the place but I still haven't seen any way for me to go underground so maybe it's different from the game. I also think that it is still too early for Team Rocket Headquarters to be expose. On the third day we spend our time relaxing while visiting some other place like the fortune teller and the Celadon University which have given birth to many famous scientists like Bill and Celio. In the afternoon I receive the call from the Silph Corporation. I guess my vacation has ended and I say my goodbye to Aria.