"What do you think of Erika?" Misty asked Ash, seemingly casually, on the way back to the Pokémon Center.
"Very good. She is beautiful, talented, and strong." Ash didn't react for a while and said truthfully, according to his own thoughts.
"Yeah.....she's pretty good...." Misty's face froze, and she clenched her fists secretly. She didn't have much confidence when facing Erika, but now, after hearing what Ash said, she felt a little uncomfortable.
"Pika...." Pikachu, standing on Ash's shoulder, saw Misty's face and quickly pulled Ash's hair, motioning for him to look at Misty.
"But of course, she's not as good as Misty! Misty is the most beautiful girl in the world!" After receiving Pikachu's signal, Ash quickly looked and found that Misty's face wasn't looking good, so he said this quickly.
"Forget it, I still have self-awareness, but I believe that in the future, I will never be worse than Erika!" Although she heard Ash's compliment, Misty still had self-awareness, and she quickly cheered up.
Seeing that the crisis was over, Ash couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief. He then noticed that Brock was looking at him, so he smiled at Brock.
After everyone returned to the Pokémon Center, they took a short rest and then went shopping in the Shopping District again in the afternoon.
On the way, Brock went to Beauty Street to look for Vivi but found that her store had closed. There was a sign on it saying she had to go out for training and wouldn't be back for a while, which made Brock very frustrated.
At night, Ash came to the battlefield outside alone to let the evolved Pidgeot meet the other Pokémon. After seeing the evolved Pidgeot, all the Pokémon congratulated it, and some envied Pidgeot.
For example, Haunter.
Haunter was originally the last to join the team, squeezing Beedrill out. So, after joining the team, he worked very hard, hoping to catch up with everyone else.
Ten days of joint training allowed Haunter to see the strength and hard work of his companions, so he was also very diligent. But while he was diligent, other Pokémon were also training hard. The gap between them did not close by much.
Pidgeotto and Haunter were originally at the same level, and their strength was almost the same, but now Pidgeotto had evolved. In the past ten days, it had also shown new moves, which made Haunter very envious.
While the other Pokémon were training, Haunter found Pidgeot and wanted to learn the two new moves from it.
Ash didn't stop them after seeing this scene but wanted to see if, under normal circumstances, it was possible for a Pokémon to learn the secret skills Aerial Ace and Ignorant Triple Thrust.
If they could be learned, it would greatly enhance the team's combat ability, which would be a good thing for Ash. This would eliminate the need to obtain inheritance through lottery draws; after all, the number of lottery draws was too small.
The training of Ash's Pokémon naturally attracted the attention of other trainers. Some trainers came forward to try to trade with Ash, but they were all rejected. He then battled against some trainers. After winning five battles in a row, he left to go back and rest.
The next day, after their usual morning exercise, Ash and his group packed their luggage and prepared to leave Celadon City for their next destination, Fuchsia City.
The route from Celadon City to Fuchsia City was more complicated. There were two roads to choose from. One road was to start from the west exit of Celadon City and follow Routes 16, 17, and 18 to reach Fuchsia City.
The other road was to return to Vermilion City, exit from the east side of Vermilion City, follow Routes 11 and 12, and arrive at Fuchsia City after passing Route 15.
If neither of the two walking options was desirable, then they could only go through the wilderness, which was the shortest distance, but the wilderness was too uncertain, and no one would choose it unless they had enough confidence in their own strength.
Naturally, Ash and his party would not choose to go through the wilderness, so starting from the west exit of Celadon City, this road was relatively short. If there were no accidents, according to Ash and the others' pace, it would only take half a month to reach Fuchsia City.
After leaving Celadon City, they went forward along the road and met some trainers on the way, but Ash did not agree to their challenges. It wasn't until noon that they found a place to camp and rest.
"This tent—isn't it too luxurious?" Misty couldn't help but marvel at the appearance of the tent that Ash took out from his backpack and pressed the button to automatically build.
This tent was truly too big, like a small house. It had a living room of about ten square meters, a bedroom of about five square meters, and a shower room equipped with a Scald system, which was extremely luxurious.
"The price of this tent must be at least 200,000 pokes..." Brock estimated the value of the tent and exclaimed.
"How about this, Misty can have the dormitory, and Brock and I can make the floor and use sleeping bags in the living room." Ash looked at the three of them; it wasn't suitable for him to live there alone, and with Brock, it was fine. He would ignore Misty, so he just made that decision.
"Is it really okay?" Misty hesitated; after all, this tent belonged to Ash.
"Of course it's okay, and Brock, is that alright with you?" Ash nodded. He used to have no problem sleeping in a simple tent, but now he had this living room, which was pretty good.
"Of course!" Brock didn't object.
After tidying up, everyone went outside to prepare lunch. Ash and Misty distributed food to the Pokémon, and then Ash noticed a yellow Pokémon not far away, staring at them from under its head, seemingly fixated on them.
The appearance of this Pokémon was very familiar to Ash. It was the famous duck god, Psyduck.
As the name suggests, Psyduck had the appearance of a normal duck, with a yellow body, small pupils, a flat mouth, and three black hairs on its head.
The reason Ash recognized this Psyduck as the duck god was naturally because it was holding its head at this moment, looking stupid.
Not all Psyducks had this goofy look; only Misty's Psyduck seemed to have had some brain damage that caused it to behave like this.
But it was also because Psyduck's brain had been traumatized that its spirit was abnormal. When experiencing severe headaches, Psyduck's psychic power greatly increased, even surpassing some actual Psychic Pokémon.
At this time, Psyduck was staring blankly at Ash and his group, or rather, at the food that the Pokémon were eating, smacking its lips with a greedy expression.
"Misty, look..." Ash touched Misty beside him with his left arm, and after Misty looked over, he motioned her to look in the direction of Psyduck.
"This is... Psyduck?" Of course, Misty also knew Psyduck, and her eyes lit up when she saw it because Psyduck was also a Water-type Pokémon!
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