Pokemon: Spiritual Master-Chapter 609: Through Fire and Water, Boss Giovanni!

"Little Leon, what's up?"

"Master, look quickly! Teacher Johan's exhibition match video at Blueberry Academy—he used Eevee!"

Above the cloudless skies of the Paldea region, Leon was holding his phone, somewhat excitedly calling Mustard.

"Little Johan? Eevee?" Mustard was stunned for a moment, then realized, "Is it that Eevee you've always talked about?"

"Yes."

Leon sat on Charizard's back, his cape flapping behind him, clenching his fist with an expression of finally having waited for this moment.

Ever since that battle with Johan by the seaside, Leon had been constantly thinking about having another match with Johan's Eevee.

But even at the "Youth Master World Championship," Leon had never seen Johan summon Eevee once.

Moreover, he had never heard any information about Johan's Eevee from anyone else. Leon was even starting to think... he had remembered wrong.

Until now!

Mustard looked through the video Leon sent, and when he saw Misty Terrain, Thunderbolt, and Thunder, Mustard couldn't help but scratch his smooth, bald head.

This Eevee...

Even Mustard was somewhat stumped.

It wasn't reasonable!

"Johan's Eevee seems a bit..."

Had Eevee undergone new "mutations" during his retirement?

After all, when he was still Champion, Eevee could only evolve into Vaporeon, Flareon, and Jolteon, but now Eevee had many more evolution forms.

"It's unreasonable, right?" Leon picked up Mustard's words. "I used to think so too."

But soon Leon smiled with relief: "However, since it's Teacher Johan's Pokémon, it's actually 'reasonable.' After all, there's also a shapeshifting Ceruledge and Urshifu."

"True enough."

Mustard nodded.

Young people these days are really getting more amazing one by one~~

"Master, there's one more thing," Leon added.

"What?"

"Could you help me contact that Flying Taxi driver? I... don't know where I am again."

Mustard: "..."

The exhibition match ended.

Johan had perfectly completed his "work," and next was watching Blueberry Academy students conduct their internal competition, deciding the strongest five to serve as Champion and Elite Four respectively.

Compared to the nervous students, Johan seemed very relaxed.

It was quite like... watching students nervously preparing for exams while he, as a teacher, didn't need to prepare—that kind of schadenfreude happiness.

It's great not being a student.

At this time, Briar, who had arranged the schedule, found Johan.

"Teacher Johan, about this exhibition match's compensation..."

"Hey! How embarrassing!"

Johan, who had been half-lying on the sofa, immediately sat up straight.

Briar: "..."

Seeing Teacher Johan's "expectant" expression, Briar couldn't tell if he was genuinely embarrassed or just pretending.

But regardless of what Teacher Johan thought, Blueberry Academy had to show their appreciation.

Then Briar took out a box, and when opened, it contained a complete set of "Evolution Stones"!

Briar smiled: "Considering your 'Eevee,' Teacher Johan, although we don't know what you'll evolve it into, we thought these Evolution Stones should be what you need."

This was a complete set of high-quality Evolution Stones that would be hard to buy even in the market, consisting of:

Fire Stone, Water Stone, Thunder Stone, Moon Stone, Sun Stone, Leaf Stone, Ice Stone, Shiny Stone, Dusk Stone, and Dawn Stone—ten in total!

Seeing these Evolution Stones, Johan's cheek twitched.

As a "heavy Evolution Stone consumer," he naturally knew the quality of these "Evolution Stones." Even the lowest-valued one would probably cost over a million on the market.

Not to mention rarer "Evolution Stones" like "Shiny Stone" and "Dawn Stone," which could cost over three million or even more!

This complete set of "Evolution Stones" definitely exceeded ten million Pokédollars, possibly around twenty million.

It was definitely a grand gesture, and Blueberry Academy was impressively generous, but...

Our "Eevee" is fake!

Johan was somewhat caught between laughter and tears.

But the value of this Evolution Stone set was truly high.

For just two exhibition matches, receiving such compensation meant...

His exhibition match appearance fee had nearly reached ten million Pokédollars per match?

Hiss—

After calculating the price, Johan quietly drew in a sharp breath.

With this net worth... he wanted to sell himself immediately.

"Teacher Johan?" Seeing Johan spacing out, Briar waved her pale hand in front of him.

Johan came back to his senses, clearing his throat: "Well... your academy is really too kind. There's really no need to be so formal."

Although he said this, his movements were very skilled as he took the box, pried open Gengar's mouth, and stuffed it right in.

From taking the box to prying open the mouth to stuffing it in, the movements were smooth and seamless, so practiced that Briar couldn't even get a word in.

But Briar soon smiled with relief, saying: "As long as you're satisfied, Teacher Johan."

A complete set of "Evolution Stones" was just pocket change for Blueberry Academy.

After Briar left, Gengar immediately spat out the box and opened it, then with a tongue roll, immediately took the high-quality "Dusk Stone."

Throwing it in its mouth, it made "gurgle gurgle" rolling sounds, making it seem like it was eating candy.

Then Ice Ninetales took the "Ice Stone."

Ceruledge took the "Fire Stone" and "Dawn Stone."

Urshifu took the "Water Stone."

Tinkaton took the "Moon Stone."

Six of the ten "Evolution Stones" were divided in an instant. Seeing this, Victini glanced at Johan's twitching eye, then happily picked up the "Sun Stone."

Although Dragonite was curious about these "Evolution Stones," none really interested it much, so it didn't move.

Then Rotom quietly looked at Johan, then lightning-fast grabbed the "Thunder Stone."

Larvitar on the side seemed quite calm.

Not because it wasn't interested in these "Evolution Stones," but because...

"Yoji!" It waved magnanimously.

You pick first, I'll help digest whatever's left, nothing will be wasted!

So after everyone had chosen, Larvitar opened its mouth wide, preparing to stuff both the "Leaf Stone" and "Shiny Stone" into its mouth.

For Larvitar, "Evolution Stones" were also stones, just with different energy inside.

Since they were stones, they were within its menu range!

Only the Leaf Stone and Shiny Stone remained.

Seeing this, Johan quickly intervened.

"At least leave me one to sell for money!"

Finally getting ten "Evolution Stones," and you've divided them all—leave one for me to sell and buy your daily food!

While others might snatch food from a tiger's mouth, Johan was snatching food from a Desert Tyrant cub's mouth.

"Yoji..."

In the end, Larvitar only got one "Leaf Stone."

Having eaten branches from the Tree of Beginning, a mere "Leaf Stone" was nothing, and it could even strengthen its resistance to Grass-type moves.

Johan kept the relatively more valuable "Shiny Stone."

However, before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he noticed Mew's eager gaze after it had transformed back.

"Mew~~"

Everyone had chosen, so it naturally had to participate to fit in.

Johan smiled wryly, patted Mew's head, and stuffed the last "Shiny Stone" into its arms: "Here, saved this for you."

"Mew~! o(^▽^)o"

Mew immediately accepted it happily.

After all, the little one had contributed to this exhibition match.

And if it wanted it, could Johan really not give it?

Only, a whole box of ten "Evolution Stones" hadn't even warmed his hands—no, Johan hadn't even touched them—before they were all divided up by these "bandit-like" little ones.

Not one left!

Didn't even leave the room!

Johan looked up at the sky, feeling the sun above Blueberry Academy was particularly dim and gloomy.

Meanwhile, the guest room was filled with continuous sounds: "crunch crunch," "gurgle gurgle," "slurp slurp," "gulp gulp"—if one didn't know better, they'd think Teacher Johan was distributing snacks to his Pokémon.

"Draaa~~"

The only one who hadn't taken an "Evolution Stone," Dragonite, seeing everyone eating so happily, immediately took out a Dragon Scale from its little "pocket" and ate it like a crispy cookie.

"Draaa~~(ˊˋ)"

Happily flapping its little wings, squinting its eyes with a simple expression.

However, whether intentionally or not, when Dragonite took out its "Dragon Scale cookie," it let Johan see its little "pocket's" inventory.

Not much left.

Johan's heart ached as he silently took out a Leppa Berry Poké Puff and put it in his mouth.

He felt... the prize money from winning the "Youth Master World Championship," the remaining forty million plus, wouldn't last much longer.

Tightening his belt...

"When will this end..." Johan sighed inwardly.

At this moment.

Beep beep—

His phone suddenly received a message. After a quick glance, Johan immediately sat up straight.

[Ten million Pokédollars deposited by Rocket Media Entertainment Corporation!]

The transfer also included a note.

[Storm Plan (winking emoji)]

Without question, the transfer was definitely from Boss Giovanni's assistant and general manager, financial director, marketing director, and operations director of Rocket Media Entertainment Corporation—Matori, who had just returned to Kanto.

The reason for this transfer was... Johan's compensation as temporary commander of Team Rocket members in the Unova region for settling the "Storm Plan" remnants.

Johan took a deep breath.

Indeed, Boss Giovanni understood him best. He loved this feeling of being corrupted by money...

Through fire and water, Boss Giovanni!

June 1st, Monday.

Johan finally returned to Kanaz City in Hoenn, which he had left for so long. When he left it was mid-April, and when he returned it was already June.

The Hoenn region's temperature had completely warmed up, at the transition between spring and summer, with quite pleasant climate and temperature.

Johan had stayed at Blueberry Academy for several days, mainly to let little Mew have a good time and enjoy itself fully.

After Mew left, he also took a plane back to Hoenn.

"Ka-kaah~!"

I, Gengar the Great, am back!!

Wearing sunglasses, Gengar stood outside the airport, excitedly shouting.

This trip to Unova was quite an experience.

Beside it, Larvitar, also wearing matching sunglasses like Gengar, held a branch longer than itself, eating it bite by bite, looking quite like it was eating... sugar cane!

Except it ate the "sugar cane" without spitting out the "pulp."

Johan walked quickly, pretending not to know these two particularly attention-grabbing little ones, immediately hailed a taxi—back to the café!

Fortunately, Gengar and Larvitar followed closely without being left behind.

The Café.

Although he'd been away for over a month, the café hadn't changed much from when Johan left. Even the upstairs residential area hadn't accumulated much dust, showing that the Indeedee siblings and Alcremie had managed the café excellently.

"Indeedee~!"

Receiving the gifts Johan had specifically brought, the Indeedee siblings and Alcremie were all very happy, especially the female Indeedee, who directly clung to Johan affectionately.

Then came the welcome ceremony—everyone together welcomed Victini's joining!

Although Johan hadn't used a Poké Ball to capture Victini, humans and Pokémon didn't necessarily need Poké Balls as a "medium."

"Crunch crunch——"

To welcome Victini, the male Indeedee and Alcremie specially made its favorite macarons—various flavored macarons, including cream macarons.

Johan looked at Victini sitting on the table, with cream and crumbs at the corners of its mouth, contentedly munching macarons, and smiled gently.

"Nii-mi~~"

Victini happily closed its eyes, the V on its head glowing with gentle light, seemingly radiating "victory" waves to all the Pokémon in the café.

Victini now felt that following Johan was incredibly happy!

So happy it felt like flying!

Gengar patted Victini's small shoulder, eyes gleaming cunningly as it spoke.

"Ka-kaah~~"

Don't rush, tonight I'll show you the empire I've built here!

"Nii-mi?"

Victini tilted its head, blinking twice.

Empire?

Johan was also considering something.

Now that he'd suddenly returned from Unova to Hoenn, where should his group of little ones train in the future?

It felt like the academy's training facilities and fields couldn't keep up with his little ones' progress...

He couldn't train near home, could he?

Forget about those powerful Normal-type moves the Unova League had given him—just a few kicks from Larvitar would destroy the house!

"If only I could have a small island..."

Johan was becoming increasingly interested in owning his own island and being an "island master."

He also had a rather bold idea.

What if, if, hypothetically... after befriending the awakened Groudon in the future, could he ask it to help create a small island?

Building islands... he'd probably need to discuss it with the fat fish too.

But thinking about those two guys... Johan felt quite a headache.

He didn't know when they'd wake up, and they were both hot-tempered creatures, not easy to communicate with.

"Forget it."

Johan temporarily set aside the thought. "Although the Pokémon world doesn't have this celebration, but... June 1st is Children's Day, we should celebrate properly."

Who isn't a "child"?

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