Qing Wu knew that Snivy was an extremely tsundere Pokémon. He could not push it too hard, and could only open Snivy's heart and dissolve its hostility as if slowly boiling a frog in warm water.
Moreover, Ralts's heart had been hurt. If Qing Wu used violence to tame Snivy, it would cause Ralts to close off its heart completely. That was an outcome Qing Wu did not want to see.
The little interlude did not affect Qing Wu's mood. There was still some time, so he planned to turn the Berries in his backpack into Poffins.
When Qing Wu opened his backpack, he once again found that something was wrong with it. Some of the items inside were missing. When he checked the number of Poffins, he found that they had inexplicably decreased as well.
"Something's strange. Something is definitely strange." Qing Wu's heart skipped a beat. Without showing anything on his face, he first took the Pokémon Egg out of his backpack and put it somewhere safe.
He did not notice that a white Pokémon was flickering in and out of existence in his shadow, letting out a cackling laugh.
Qing Wu made Poffins while keeping an eye on the movement in his backpack. He saw that the Pokémon Eggs of Mudkip and Torchic were flashing with white light nonstop, and the movement coming from within them was growing louder and louder.
"Those Mudkip and Torchic are about to hatch." This was several days earlier than Qing Wu had estimated.
"That makes sense. Compared to Ponyta and the others, Mudkip and Torchic naturally have much better potential. On top of that, they absorb Nutrient Solution much faster than Ponyta, so it is normal for them to hatch early." The Nutrient Solution Qing Wu had only recently replaced yesterday