Training (Part 2) (Please Bookmark, Please Vote)

Eichi arrived early in Tokiwa City today. His destination: Lianfang Department Store.

He took the elevator straight to the fifth floor. The saleswoman greeted him with a smile as soon as she saw him. "Sir, your items are finished. Please follow me."

Eichi followed her to the counter, where she took out the things he had ordered from a backpack.

One was a black item resembling a small vest. Eichi touched it. It was not as thick as he had imagined, about as thick as an ordinary piece of clothing.

This was truly cutting-edge technology. Such a thin thing could actually generate gravity.

She then handed Eichi a black remote control with a small screen and three buttons beneath it: activate, increase, and decrease.

The saleswoman demonstrated how to activate it, put it away, and fit it onto Beedrill.

She also told Eichi that the Weight Training Device had extremely high defensive capabilities. Without the full-force strike of someone with the strength of a Gym Leader, it could not be destroyed.

Eichi released Beedrill and fitted it with the device. It somehow looked a little more handsome.

After putting it on, Beedrill swayed left, then right.

Eichi asked, "Beedrill, how does it feel?"

Beedrill sent back a signal: It did not feel like anything. It was the same as before and would not affect its movements.

Eichi continued, "Then I'll turn on the device. See how it feels."

Beedrill nodded. After getting its agreement, Eichi pressed the activation button on the Weight Training Device.

Beedrill, hovering in midair, suddenly began to descend. Just as it was about to hit the ground—

Beedrill stopped, then slowly rose back up. It sent a message: "This Weight Training Device... is... fine..."

Seeing that the device worked well, the saleswoman said to Eichi, "Besides the Weight Training Device, we have also prepared the needle guards for Beedrill that you asked us to make."

As she spoke, she took two black needle guards from a cabinet beneath the counter. These guards could also adjust gravity and train the power of its Twin Needles.

Eichi then paid for everything. The Weight Training Device cost about sixty thousand, while the needle guards cost twenty thousand.

He also bought three humanoid targets. These targets had plenty of uses.

He spent a total of one hundred thousand. Eichi's wallet shrank by more than half in an instant.

After putting everything into his backpack, Eichi headed downstairs and went home.

On the way back, Eichi carefully calculated how much money he still had.

By his rough estimate, after his last major shopping trip, he had had around one hundred eighty thousand left. Over the past few days, he had gradually spent around thirty thousand.

This time, these training tools had cost another one hundred thousand, leaving him with roughly fifty thousand.

That definitely would not be enough to buy TMs. Every TM was expensive.

So Eichi had to think of ways to make money again. However, he already had some ideas about how to do that.

Eichi brought Beedrill to the Small Woods and released it.

He took out the Weight Training Device from his backpack and fitted it onto Beedrill.

Then they began training. First came flying laps. Once Eichi felt it was about right, he activated the device, starting with one times gravity.

Eichi held a stopwatch and began timing Beedrill.

Under one times gravity, Beedrill's flight speed did not change much for the first five laps. But after the fifth lap, its speed began to drop.

After the tenth lap, Beedrill was already exhausted.

Eichi had Beedrill stop. This was its first attempt today, and it might not be able to adapt right away.

Eichi then said to Beedrill, "From now on, you may have to wear this Weight Training Device every day."

They would start with one times gravity. Once one times gravity no longer had any effect, they would continue increasing it.

Beedrill nodded, indicating that it had no problem with that.

Eichi then had Beedrill rest for a while.

After resting, they began today's skill training.

They had trained several skills yesterday, so today they would work on different ones.

The fifth training item was Focus Energy. Focus Energy was a skill in which a Pokémon took a deep breath and mobilized the Bug-type energy within its body to increase its accuracy for a short time.

This training was relatively simple. Beedrill just had to use Focus Energy again and again.

It had to mobilize the energy in its body and use Focus Energy in the shortest possible time.

In Eichi's plan, Beedrill ultimately had to reach one-second Focus Energy. It was still quite far from that goal.

At present, Beedrill needed six seconds to use Focus Energy. In those six seconds, it might already have been instantly defeated by someone else's Pokémon.

That was something Eichi could not tolerate. Beedrill repeatedly used Focus Energy, and yellow energy could clearly be seen continuously gathering around its body.

Once Eichi felt it was enough, he had Beedrill rest and prepare. In a while, they would use Focus Energy again and see how many seconds it took this time.

After Beedrill had rested enough, it nodded at Eichi. Eichi took out his stopwatch and called out, "Start."

Energy began gathering over Beedrill's body, then gradually faded away.

Once the last of the energy disappeared, Eichi pressed the stop button.

"Five seconds."

Eichi smiled and patted Beedrill's head. "Not bad, Beedrill. You improved by a whole second so quickly."

Beedrill raised one needle, indicating that it was nothing special.

Eichi laughed and scolded, "You little brat."

Next was the fifth skill training item: Agility.

But since Beedrill had just started wearing the Weight Training Device today, Eichi decided to forget it.

They went straight to the sixth item, Poison Jab. This skill condensed special venom and fired it at the enemy.

If it hit the enemy, the power of the move would increase.

Eichi felt this skill was neither essential nor useless, but it still needed training.

So Eichi had Beedrill face a tree trunk. A glob of venom quickly shot onto the trunk.

The trunk was quickly corroded. Its power was not bad.

Eichi gathered many more tree trunks from the woods, then had Beedrill continuously use Poison Jab.

By the end, Beedrill's Poison Jab had also improved considerably.

Next, it was time for Beedrill to try out the needle guards they had bought today.

Eichi fitted the guards over Beedrill's arms, then took out and set up a humanoid target.

He had Beedrill continuously use Twin Needles against the target.

Needle after needle stabbed into the humanoid target. It felt much like boxing in his previous life.

The needle guards could block the sharpness of Beedrill's Twin Needles, preventing it from damaging the humanoid target.

Beedrill could now let loose to its heart's content. Twin Needles rained down on the humanoid target like a storm.

The results were clearly quite good.

Eichi let Beedrill practice freely for a while. Once its stamina was nearly spent—

Eichi took Beedrill home.

That night, Eichi removed the Weight Training Device from Beedrill.

He cleaned Beedrill's body, then gave it a thorough massage.

After the massage, he had Beedrill put the Weight Training Device back on.