After Wallace finished yelling, Roy's voice rang out again.
"Oh, right, I'm taking someone with me this time."
"Two people? Is Steven coming too?"
Wallace and Steven are also friends; they've known each other since they were very young.
When Devon Corporation was planning to open its first Devon Corporation Commercial Street in Sootopolis City, Steven's father Mu Jin, personally came to discuss it with his mentor, Adam. It was then that he met Steven.
"It wasn't Steven, that guy went to Sinnoh with Uncle Mu Jin."
"Not Steven? Then it can't be that you have a girlfriend, right?"
Tell me! Who's so blind as to fall for you?
Cynthia, who was pointed at, felt her cheeks burning and her heart racing for some reason.
"Never mind that, just tell me if you can bring people."
"Really? Okay, I'll pick you up when you arrive."
Roy immediately hung up the Communicator and said:
"Alright, that's settled. We'll go to Sootopolis City next week."
When Roy didn't get a reply, he turned around and saw Cynthia standing there in a daze. Roy gently poked her forehead with his finger.
"Ah?... Okay!"
Cynthia wanted to ask Roy why he hadn't denied Wallace's words earlier—did he acknowledge her?
But she hasn't even said yes yet!
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
A vibration sound came from the Spatial Bracelet.
Roy took out his two Communicators and discovered that the sound wasn't from the Communicators themselves, but from the Pokémon Egg incubator in Roy's space. Unbeknownst to him, two weeks had already passed.
The Pokémon Egg is about to hatch, and Roy, who has never hatched Pokémon Egg before, is instantly in a state of chaos, unsure whether he should prepare food first or help the Snorunt prepare the hatching environment.
Cynthia pulled Roy back to his room, telling Roy to relax. They said the Pokémon Egg would hatch in two more hours, so they should take it slow.
Roy placed the Pokémon Egg on the desk and waited quietly for it to hatch.
Inside the house
Roy paced nervously around the room, occasionally stopping at the table to watch the incubator's timer tick down from 5 minutes to 1 minute.
The Misdreavus, Drakloak, and Dusclops lined up behind Roy and spun around together.
Cynthia found the scene amusing; Roy looked just like an old father waiting outside the delivery room for his child to be born.
However, she had no recollection of looking like this when the Gible hatched.
Ding-dong!
The timer on the incubator went off.
By this time, all the nutrient solution in the incubator had been used up, and the time had finally reached 00:00.
Click~
A crisp sound came from the incubator.
Roy rushed to the incubator and saw a crack on the surface of the ice-blue Pokémon Egg inside.
With another "crack" sound, the crack continued to widen.
It's about to hatch! It's about to hatch!!
Roy stared intently at the Pokémon Egg in the incubator.
This was the first time he had witnessed the process of Pokémon hatching since he transmigrated.
Previously, in games, it was just a matter of pressing the directional keys back and forth.
But now he was about to witness a life appear before his eyes.
The top of the ice-blue Pokémon Egg was pushed open, revealing a pointed head, and then the surrounding shell cracked open as well.
A tiny Snorunt Shell Smash, with a cone-shaped body, round hands and feet, blue eyes and a wide-open mouth, its body covered by a yellow cone-shaped cloak with orange edges.
Misdreavus looked at the tiny creature that Shell Smash with great curiosity. Was this her future partner? One of only two female Pokémon in her group.
Snorunt appeared in front of Roy and a group of Pokémon, and even Primeape, who had been looking at the Communicator, came over.
Snorunt stretched out his little round arms, opened his eyes, and immediately met Roy's expectant gaze.
Next to Roy were Misdreavus, Dusknoir, Primeape, Lampent, Drakloak, and Dreepy on his head, all looking at him.
"Snow!"
She spoke; she spoke.
Roy clung to the bandages of the Dusclops and lay down in front of the incubator, observing the Snorunt inside.
The Snorunt's gaze immediately fell upon the broken eggshell. It opened its little hands, grabbed its own eggshell, and began to gnaw on it.
Crackling sound~
The sound is just like eating crispy rice crust.
After eating most of the eggshell, Snorunt looked up and found Roy still watching him. He reached out his little round hand, broke off a piece of eggshell, and handed it to Roy.
Snow (Do you want some?)
Roy Knob; why would he steal the Snorunt's eggshell?
Seeing that Roy wouldn't eat it, Snorunt put the eggshell into its own mouth.
The Dusclops had intended to secretly wrap a piece of eggshell with its bandages to taste it, but Roy discovered it and delivered a Dynamic Punch directly to the Dusclops's large stomach. Fortunately, it didn't cause any damage.
After eating all the eggshells, Snorunt opened his arms, wanting a hug from Roy.
Roy responded immediately, carefully reaching out to lift the Snorunt out of the incubator.
Even newborn Pokémon aren't that fragile, but Roy's movements were still very gentle.