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Waking up at dawn and opening the window put him in a wonderful mood. Eichi teased Weedle awake.

Weedle: "Shu shu?"

Eichi said, "Weedle, starting today, while I'm at school every day, you need to stay obediently inside your Poké Ball."

After saying that, he took out a Poké Ball and placed it before Weedle.

Weedle understood and pressed the button on the Poké Ball with the antenna on its head.

The Poké Ball opened, and Weedle turned into a streak of white light and was drawn inside.

Then the Poké Ball closed again, and Eichi picked it up.

With a press, he released Weedle again.

He brought Weedle to the living room and prepared its breakfast—milk and honey—on the table.

The moment Weedle saw breakfast, it immediately crawled over and began drinking.

Eichi prepared his own breakfast and ate at a leisurely pace.

After breakfast, Eichi said to Weedle, "Let's go."

Weedle obediently waited for Eichi to recall it into its Poké Ball.

Taking out the Poké Ball, he recalled Weedle and said to it inside, "You'll have to put up with staying in there for now. I'll get you a better one later."

Then he went to school.

When he arrived at the classroom and took his seat, Aji showed up not long after.

As soon as he sat down, Aji asked, "Eichi, has your Pokémon Egg hatched?"

"It has."

Aji asked again, "What Pokémon was it?"

"Weedle."

"Oh, it's a Weedle. It's not as strong as my Mankey."

Hearing that, Eichi quietly said, "Who's stronger? We'll find out later."

After school, Eichi did not go home. Instead, he went to the Small Woods not far from his house. Though it was called the Small Woods, the forest was actually quite large.

People who had never been there could easily get lost.

Eichi found an open area and placed his backpack beneath a tree.

He pressed his watch. He had only bought it recently, mainly to keep time.

He released Weedle from its Poké Ball.

"Shu shu."

Weedle called out to Eichi, and Eichi roughly understood what it meant.

It was probably asking what Eichi was going to do.

Eichi crouched down and looked at Weedle. "Weedle, starting today, you'll begin training."

Weedle was full of energy. Hearing that it was going to train, it thought it would be something fun and immediately nodded.

"Good. Since you want to, let's begin training."

"First, we'll run three laps around these woods." With that, he started running.

Seeing its trainer start to run, Weedle followed behind him.

Weedle's body consisted of eight segments and had seven pairs of legs. With all fourteen legs moving together, it was not slow.

Among Weedle's base stats, everything else was fairly average, but its Speed reached 50.

So after one lap, Weedle was still handling it with ease.

By the second lap, Weedle's speed had already dropped somewhat.

By the third lap, Weedle could barely keep going and was only crawling slowly.

It was only with Eichi encouraging it from the side that it persevered.

After finishing the run, Weedle stopped moving altogether.

Eichi took a small cup from his backpack and poured in some honey water made with honey.

Weedle's eyes lit up when it saw the honey water, and it immediately crawled over to drink it.

Eichi rested beside it as well. He was quite tired himself. One lap around the Small Woods was roughly a thousand meters, so three laps made three kilometers.

In his previous life, Eichi had found three laps exhausting. Although people in the Pokémon World had excellent constitutions, he still only had the body of a ten-year-old child.

Eichi was not exceptionally gifted like Ash either. He was only a little stronger than a ten-year-old child from his previous life.

After Eichi had rested enough, he walked over to Weedle and said, "That was just physical training. Next comes move training."

Weedle cried "Shu shu." It was tired and did not want to train anymore.

It was acting cute with Eichi. Eichi patiently encouraged it, but Weedle was still unwilling.

In the end, Eichi promised it something delicious when they got back, and only then did Weedle agree.

"Weedle, use all the moves you know once, targeting this tree." Eichi pointed at the tree ahead as he gave the command.

Weedle first used String Shot, then used Bug Bite on the tree. Finally, it used Poison Sting with its tail.

After that, Weedle stopped. Eichi watched all the moves Weedle had used.

Other than Electroweb, Weedle knew every move a Weedle should know.

"Very good, Weedle."

Weedle was delighted to hear Eichi praise it. It cried out, "Shu shu."

Eichi first had Weedle use String Shot at a distant target to see the range of its String Shot.

Then he had Weedle keep using String Shot to test how many times it could use the move in total.

It could use String Shot seven times, with a range of five meters.

Eichi took out a notebook and recorded all the data.

Next was Bug Bite. Eichi took out a small wooden stick and had Weedle use Bug Bite on it to test its power.

The result was not ideal. It could only leave faint teeth marks on the stick.

Its power was not very high, probably because Weedle had only just been born.

Finally, he tested Poison Sting. Once he was done, Eichi recorded everything one by one.

Eichi then had Weedle continue using String Shot. After its String Shot was used up, it continued with Bug Bite, then Poison Sting.

The purpose of all this was mainly to improve its proficiency. It could even be said that he was forcing out Weedle's potential.

After training, Eichi took out Moo Moo Milk Brand milk for Weedle to drink.

Once Weedle had rested enough, he had it run another lap around the Small Woods.

Eichi followed behind Weedle. Seeing it crawl along slowly, he did not say anything.

Because Eichi knew that Weedle was already very tired.

Once Weedle finally finished the lap, it immediately crawled to the side and played dead.

Seeing Weedle like this, Eichi smiled and walked over to it.

"All right! Today's training is over. Let's go home and eat something delicious."

Hearing that it could have something tasty, Weedle immediately crawled up and cried out, "Shu shu!"

Eichi recalled the exhausted Weedle into its Poké Ball, slung on his backpack, and went home.

When he returned home that night, Eichi took out honey and milk.

He mixed some honey into the milk, poured it into a food bowl, and placed it before Weedle. Weedle, which had long been unable to wait, began wolfing it down.

After it finished eating, Eichi took Weedle to bathe.

After the bath, Eichi began massaging Weedle. Although he did not know any massage techniques,

giving a Pokémon a massage still had some effect. Most importantly, it felt quite comfortable.

The exhausted Weedle soon fell asleep during the massage.

After finishing the massage, Eichi placed it on the bed. Then he sat at his desk and went over the data he had recorded today once more, making a summary along the way.

After today's observations, Eichi could determine that his Weedle's Ability was Compound Eyes.

This Ability meant that when Weedle was hit in battle by a damaging move, any additional effects of that move would be negated.

After finishing his summary, Eichi went to bed.

After Eichi fell asleep, a stream of cyan energy slowly flowed into Weedle's body.