The Spirit Woman of the Lonely Mountain

They made their way through the jungle.

Zweilous scouted ahead, one head looking around while the other sniffed the ground. Every so often, it raised a head and called out.

It was searching for the herbs used to make Fragrance Essence.

Its sense of smell was not keen enough for it to learn Odor Sleuth, but it was a Pokémon that had once relied entirely on smell and touch to detect enemies. Finding herbs with a particular scent in a forest should not have been too hard for it.

Besides, it had two heads!

Surely two noses searching for scents would turn up something?

As it happened, Zweilous really did have a knack for it. In just half an hour, it found quite a few medicinal herbs.

Following the herb-gathering guide he had bought, Baimu tried to avoid damaging the herbs at their roots and preserve as much of their potency as possible—

He had no choice.

Scent Sister's memories did not cover gathering herbs. To save money on ingredients and pick up another skill, he had bought a book and decided to figure it out himself.

He might not have a nose as good as hers, but he had Pokémon!

Whenever he encountered an herb he could not identify, he could have Porygon look it up.

Since entering his phone, Porygon had been able to use the camera like Rotom to photograph an herb, then search the internet for keywords or images that matched it.

The internet in the Pokémon World was generous with shared knowledge. Anything he needed to know was out there.

Unfortunately, there was one problem.

Perhaps Zweilous looked too fierce, but Baimu and his Pokémon had gone a long time without encountering any wild Pokémon. The one exception was a swarm of Beedrill defending their