"Yeah, give me more antidotes, and a few bottles of potions too. Even if I have to smash those bugs in Viridian Forest to death with medicine bottles today, I'm killing every last one of them!"
Inside the Poké Mart, Di Tian had just been driven nearly insane by that torturous poison mechanic.
He had practically spent every last coin he had earned from battling wild Pokémon, stuffing his bag to the brim before finally feeling a little safer and walking out of the shop.
Meanwhile, in another quiet corner of the internet café...
"What the hell is this Kanto region? There's green grass and glaring sunlight everywhere—not even a single snowflake in sight! It's scorching!"
Ice Empress irritably controlled the pixel character on the Screen as it wandered around aimlessly. "Boss Lu! Is there anywhere in this game like our Far North? I want to catch some ice-type soul beasts... no, Pokémon!"
"There is, but you won't reach it until the middle or later stages of the game."
As Lu Yuan wiped down the counter, which had been frozen over with ice crystals, he answered leisurely, "You won't encounter any Ice-type Pokémon early on. As the twin rulers of the Far North, I'd personally suggest that you two make do with Water-types first. Ice and water are practically family, after all."
"That will have to do." Sitting beside Ice Empress, Snow Empress elegantly lifted a cup of hot tea. Her stunningly beautiful face remained as calm and indifferent as ever.
Compared with Wang Qiuer, who was frantically catching rats in the grass, and Di Tian, who had been howling after getting poisoned by bugs, Snow Empress played like a textbook perfectionist.
There was only one Pokémon on her team—the Water-type Squirtle she had chosen at the start.
Yet that