After receiving the invitation from Blueberry Academy, Mingyou read it over again, then replied by email to accept and confirm that he would arrive on time.
There was still a month until the open lecture, after all, which gave him plenty of time to prepare everything he needed.
He simply hadn't expected that someone like him, who hadn't even graduated from kindergarten, would one day be invited to teach at one of the world's top schools... The thought made him inexplicably nervous.
"So this is the upside of making a name for yourself. The Pokémon world runs on personal connections, after all. Maybe they want to build a relationship with me?"
Mingyou was sure they wouldn't have approached him for no reason. He wasn't some influential researcher, just an ordinary farmer.
The most likely explanation was his recent collaboration with the Paldea Region. Geeta was the chairwoman of Naranja Academy, and Blueberry Academy and Naranja Academy were sister schools, so there was a natural connection. Perhaps Geeta had put in a good word for him?
That was the only connection he could think of. He stopped worrying about it after that; some new fruit had ripened today, and he still needed to taste it and study its flavor. A month was plenty of time, anyway.
So he set down his Rotom Phone and went back to work in the orchard. He didn't tell Akari and the others about his trip to Blueberry Academy next month, intending to surprise them once he arrived...
With that settled, the ripe Ancient Oranges were all claimed over the next few days. However, no further cases of ancestral reversion like Jigglypuff's occurred, suggesting that the probability really was very low. It was also possible that most Pokémon simply didn't have such ancient bloodlines.
That meant