"Ugh!"
Ye Qing let out another long sigh, staring at the ceiling as though he had nothing left to live for.
If he told Infernape now that he had tricked him into doing those punishment lines, would he get so angry that they could no longer trigger the Bond Phenomenon?
He had brought this on himself in the end.
"Ha."
Haunter emerged from his shadow and sidled up beside Gardevoir, wanting to take a look at human writing too.
After some teaching, fortunately, the monkey proved to have no patience.
In less than an hour, Gardevoir's endless questions had driven Infernape to a complete breakdown.
He had no idea what those characters meant or how to pronounce them, so he could not answer any of Gardevoir's questions at all.
In the end, Haunter lured him away, and the two went off to watch cartoons together.
"Garde..."
Gardevoir held the pen, at a loss, and finally had no choice but to turn a pleading gaze toward Master Ye.
"I'll teach you!"
Ye Qing had been waiting for ages, but he still walked over to Gardevoir with an air of indifference. He could not let Infernape notice anything amiss.
To learn to read, they had to start with pinyin.
Only after mastering pinyin could they move on to learning characters and their meanings.
The days passed like that, with Ye Qing teaching Gardevoir to read during the day and training Haunter at night.
On the last day of the voyage, Gardevoir actually mastered pinyin thanks to that extraordinary intelligence.
Meanwhile, Haunter's strength had soared, breaking straight through to level 36.
That was also the day Ye Qing stepped off the ship.
This was the end of the sea route. After passing through a few more cities, he would reach the desert.
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