Chapter 477:

[Congratulations, Host. Ho-Oh’s Happiness has increased from 5 to 45. Rewards: 10 bags of Special Grade Golden Fertilizer, 5 Special Rare Candies, 1 Sacred Feather.]

May 21st.

Inside the kitchen.

When the voice echoed in his mind, Kaede was momentarily stunned, but then a smile spread across his face.

Ha, looks like Ho-Oh really ate the liquor chocolate made from its own feather.

That’s great.

It rewarded him with another Sacred Feather.

Honestly, after seeing the incredible effects of the liquor chocolate made from the Sacred Feather, Kaede’s desire for it had grown immensely.

What a joke—forget the effect of raising Potential for a moment. He tried feeding an SSS-grade liquor chocolate to Tsareena, and its Potential rose from Blue to Purple, with all its IVs increasing by 1.

Feeding two of them raised Primarina’s Potential from Purple to Red. Feeding another Legendary-grade one raised it from Red to Gold.

The effect of this stuff was simply too insane.

In short, over the past couple of days, Kaede had managed to feed almost every Pokémon a piece of the liquor chocolate.

Even the Combee and Flabébé weren’t left out.

Moreover, after seeing Marshadow’s transformation from tasting one, and now receiving the Happiness notification from Ho-Oh, he had conceived a grand idea.

This idea was primarily aimed at Pokémon like Gardevoir, Serperior, Dragonite, and Salamence—those at Champion-tier or above.

Once at the Champion-tier, even Special Rare Candies had minimal effect. At this stage, the liquor chocolate replaced the function of Rare Candies.

When Gardevoir reached Level 99, it could also use this to break through its limit!

Thinking of this, Kaede couldn’t help but glance at Gardevoir’s stats again.

[Pokémon: Gardevoir]

[Gender: Female]

[Ability: Telepathy]

[Potential: Gold]

[IVs: ...]

[Level: 94–96]

[Moves: Growl, Confusion, Mystical Fire, Double Team, Misty Terrain, Disarming Voice, Psyshock, Draining Kiss, Moonblast...]

[Friendship: 100]

[Happiness: 60]

Hmm...

After reaching this tier, Gardevoir’s energy level progression had noticeably slowed down, but that was understandable.

After all, if converted to in-game power scaling, she should be at the level of a Battle Legend by now!

That’s the tier Red reached in the later stages, right?

"Gardevoir?"

Gardevoir, who was washing vegetables, sensed Kaede’s gaze and turned to look at him.

"Ahem, it’s nothing, nothing. Just looking at you."

Kaede coughed awkwardly twice for being caught "peeping,", then squatted down beside Gardevoir to help wash the vegetables.

Although Psychic could be used for washing, when not too busy, hand-washing occasionally served as a way to reminisce about life before having psychic powers.

They were currently washing eggplants, as he planned to make some grilled food for Blaziken.

The seasonal vegetables for late May were eggplants, luffa, and garlic scapes. Speaking of which, it was already late May. He had taken over the Breeding House in early July last year. Doing the math, it had been almost a year.

"Gardevoir..."

Hearing Kaede’s words, Gardevoir didn’t press further, merely thinking that Kaede was probably having a sudden emotional moment, hence the look.

This was normal. Although Kaede was now surrounded by so many Pokémon and could take care of them all, when you thought about it, he was still a teenager—occasional emotional surges were perfectly normal.

After washing the vegetables, Kaede saw Latias whom had transformed into human form, walked into the kitchen carrying a storage capsule, followed by Rotom.

"Rotom, we’re back from shopping~!"

Rotom announced the reason for their outing as soon as it entered the kitchen.

With such a large family of Pokémon in the house, although the Berry Plantation could now support feeding them all, they couldn’t eat just Berries, Energy Cubes, vegetables, and rice every day.

Meat was essential. Fish? That could be left for Alolan Ninetales to catch itself. But for meats like chicken, beef, and pork, they had to be purchased.

With so many carnivorous Pokémon at home—like Dragonite and Salamence, who were practically meat enthusiasts—and even Serperior was quite fond of it...

Previously, Kaede had done all the shopping himself.

Recently, however, a department store had been built just outside Aogiri Town. Although its scale wasn’t fully developed yet, it already carried a decent variety of goods.

So, Kaede assigned this task to Latias, mainly to let her learn more about the human world. To prevent any mishaps, he had Rotom accompany her in the initial stages.

"Good, good."

Kaede nodded, taking the storage capsule from Latias’s hand. He subconsciously asked, "So, what did you buy?"

"Bee... beef, po... pork..."

Latias counted on her fingers. Her tone was somewhat stiff, but she managed to get the words out.

This was precisely why Kaede wanted Latias to go out shopping—to let her learn human language, so she wouldn’t just go "Ooo..." every time she spoke.

And also, looking like "Kanon" all the time gave him a sense of guilt, as if he were "taking advantage" of her.

"Alrighty~"

Taking out the various cuts of meat purchased by Latias and Rotom from the storage capsule, Kaede, along with Latias and Gardevoir, began processing them.

Just as they were almost done, the sister Indeedee walked in from outside.

"Indeedee~" *(The construction team says the chicken coop is finished.)*

"Oh?" Kaede’s eyes lit up.

The chicken coop—this was something Kaede had planned to build a while ago.

It mainly came down to the meat-eating issue.

With so many carnivorous Pokémon at home, animals like pigs, cows, and sheep were too large and inconvenient to raise. But smaller livestock like chickens and fish could be raised themselves.

Earlier this year, he had already released quite a few fish into the reservoir. When they wanted to eat, Alolan Ninetales could go catch them itself. He had also set up nets at the junction of the river and the irrigation channel to prevent the fish he raised from escaping.

It also stopped Alolan Ninetales from always going over to Uncle Ryo’s place, just opening its mouth for fish.

As for fish food, it was simple. He specially made fish feed with culinary effects focused on making the fish meat more delicious and helping them grow faster.

Stepping outside the kitchen, the Captain of the construction team accompanied by a Machamp, was waiting there.

Kaede walked over and saw the chicken coop.