Food Temptation Technique!

Picking one out of a hundred was harder than Heiduo had imagined.

Especially when there were a full two hundred and thirty-one little cuties.

"Have you picked yet? I feel like they're about to glare holes through us!" Umbreon grinned mischievously at an enraged Larvitar. This little fellow had quite the temper, just like its final Evolution.

Come to think of it, it was pretty strange. Pokémon like Tyranitar were clearly all hotheaded brutes, so why was Giant so gentle and steady?

Heiduo shook his head. "I've got twelve that I'm fairly interested in. It's hard to decide right away."

"Twelve?!" Umbreon was startled. "You aren't trying to collect the twelve zodiac animals, are you? Twelve really is way too many!"

It was a lot, and he couldn't approach every one of them to persuade them.

Wild Pokémon had their pride too. If Heiduo did not approach one first and extend an olive branch, but instead came to it third or fourth, it might very well hold a grudge.

In Heiduo's estimation, if he went one by one, he would probably only get three chances to extend an olive branch to these Larvitar.

If all three failed, then he would either have to use food and shameless persistence to fool some more gullible one, or simply call it quits.

Besides, Tyranitar was watching from the side. The clan chief who had pondered for days before agreeing to let Heiduo come recruit its clansmen surely would not sit by and watch some "useless fool" who could not even persuade a child take away its people.

"It really is hard to choose." Heiduo felt somewhat melancholy. If there had not been so many Larvitar for him to choose from, he would have felt much more relaxed. The problem was that there were