Pokémon: An Encounter with You

Chapter 174 Happy Birthday

While cooking, Diancie skipped around like an innocent little girl, came to the folding table where she was cooking, and looked around curiously.

She also slept with Shi Qiu and a group of friends yesterday, but the child was thin-skinned and had some reserve in her bones as a princess of the Mineral Country, so she slept quite far away from them.

However, she is a phantom elf of the rock and fairy type, so even if the weather gets colder and she has to sleep outdoors, she doesn't have to worry about catching a cold or getting sick.

"Good morning, Diancie. How did you sleep last night?"

Shi Qiu beat an egg in a bowl, and when he saw Diancie out of the corner of his eye, he took the initiative to greet her.

“It feels good!”

Shi Qiu nodded and pointed to a small... basin? Or a large bowl? on another table.

"If you're hungry, you can eat some mineral salad first. The energy cubes will have to wait a while."

Diancie, who was smiling happily at the curious baby, suddenly became expressionless.

Oh my god, why don't you give up this mineral salad?

Didn't you see the note the simulator gave it?

[A mixture of unknown minerals. ]

The word "lump" was used very well, and instantly made Diancie have no expectations of any progress or improvement on this bowl of mineral salad.

Diancie hesitated, taking three steps at a time, and finally picked up the bowl of salad, feeling extremely worried.

She thought hard, and finally carefully dug out a small pile of soil and fed it to the little pile bit by bit.

Small mound: yue～

......

After half an hour.

"time to eat!"

Shi Qiu called out to the elves who were gathered together and were not sure what they were doing.

The foam squirrel leaped over in three or two steps and caught his share of energy cube with his tail. Zoroark, who was sleeping soundly, finally woke up when someone called for dinner. He yawned, smelled the food, closed his eyes, and floated onto the table like a wandering soul.

“(It’s going to fall!)”

The vine snake looked at Zoroark in fear, and finally couldn't help but use the vine whip to catch it, and sent the little fox to the table.

Diancie was already extremely hungry, and he turned a deaf ear to everything else outside, only focusing on eating.

The boy's mineral salad can be considered a dark dish, but his skills in daily dishes and energy cubes are undoubtedly top-notch.

"Oh, by the way, I talked to the Minister of Diamond about the simulator, and they have agreed to move the sacred diamond into the simulator." Shi Qiu said while eating.

I won’t say much about other families, but here in Shi Qiu there is no rule of not talking while eating or sleeping.

Diancie was stunned for a moment and looked up at Shi Qiu.

"Are you tired, little princess? If you keep worrying about something every day, you won't grow taller."

Shi Qiu smiled and reached out to tap the pink diamond on her forehead.

"But now, you don't have to bear such great responsibility and pressure. Just go on as before."

Work hard, but without haze.

Several secret realms in the simulator have been completely frozen. Shi Qiu plans to use the secret power to open up space underground between Town A and the sea area of ​​Area B-1 to transfer the mining country.

"Will this lead to the collapse of the original secret realm?"

If so, what should the other elves living in the secret realm do?

After Diancie and Shi Qiu traveled together, they had a general understanding of the knowledge of the "secret realm" and knew the existence of the so-called "pillars".

"No." Shi Qiu shook his head.

"In other words, the reason why we didn't rush to implement this method before was because we were investigating the possibility of the secret realm collapsing."

"But after the secret realm descended and attached itself to the real world, the space became more stable and no longer relied on pillars. At the same time, the Tianxia Secret Realm is also special enough. The production of super evolution stones is ridiculously high. These special energies will help stabilize the secret realms where they are located."

What they dug out was just a drop in the bucket.

Speaking of this, I would like to mention something in passing.

During the days when Shi Qiu went to the Diamond Minister to discuss matters related to the sacred diamond, Tian En had already brought him Lucario's Super Stone.

Upon hearing this, Diancie finally felt relieved. When the vague pressure that was chasing her suddenly dissipated, her whole being suddenly felt relaxed.

"Thank you so much, Shi Qiu."

Diancie recited the boy's name carefully.

Shi Qiu curled his lips and said, "Tsk, how strange."

Diancie burst out laughing.

He is always like this, giving and caring unreservedly to partners he recognizes, and he is also too sensitive.

Diancie used the mineral country to hide her unwillingness to eat mineral salad before, and after that, she mostly used mineral salad to hide her real confusion and worry.

Shi Qiu could see that she was avoiding food, so naturally he could also see that she was unhappy recently.

So he, who was already very busy, rushed back and forth to the Tianxia Secret Realm several times, and finally nipped the terrible consequence of the possible decline of the mining country in the bud.

At 12 o'clock in the evening on December 30, Diancie looked at the boy's energetic appearance and suddenly felt something in her heart.

A beautiful pink diamond is concentrated in the hand.

......

On the night of the 30th, the elves and Shi Qiu all went to bed.

He didn't have any tradition of celebrating his birthday after midnight, so he just prepared to go to bed with pure anticipation.

In just one simple year, he went from being single to having so many partners.

The 16th birthday is not as widely respected as the adult birthday, but in Shi Qiu's heart, it may be extremely important.

He has some insomnia.

Time ticked by little by little, and finally, 12 o'clock came quietly.

Suddenly, Shi Qiu seemed to hear a very melodious and light bell sound.

Ding......

"(Happy birthday, Shi Qiu.)"

Shi Qiu turned and looked.

The elves who were originally asleep now all stood behind him in high spirits. Even the sleepiest Zoroark looked energetic.

Their faces all had the purest and brightest smiles.

Bubble Squirrel, Alola Ninetales, Riolu, Green Zoroark, Shiny Elledo, Serpentine, Pokemon, Zeraora, Manaphy, Diancie, Fiona, the three starter Pokémons, Catpocalypse...even Articuno emerged from the wind and snow.

"(Happy 16th birthday, Shi Qiu!)" they repeated again.

To ruin the atmosphere, Shi Qiu was actually mentally prepared for this scene. After all, they would never go to bed so early in the past.

But even though he was mentally prepared, when he actually saw his big family guarding behind him, the throbbing in his heart lasted for a long time.

Diancie placed the pink diamond carefully in his hand.

At the same time, subtitles are like a scroll.

【Happy birthday, Tian En Shi Qiu. 】