Proving the Fairy type to his grandparents

"Then tell your grandpa, what else did you just happen to discover?"

"Mega Evolution!"

"Didn't I already demonstrate it for you?"

Grandpa Chen paused. Oh, right, he had.

His grandson really had developed Mega Evolution, but it was far too important to tell anyone about it yet.

"Anything else?"

Chen Shi scratched his head and decided he still shouldn't keep it from his grandparents.

"A completely new type!"

"Oh, just a completely new type." Grandpa Chen nodded.

Then he shot to his feet, his voice suddenly rising several pitches.

"What did you say?!"

Chen Shi hurried forward to steady him. "Oh, good heavens."

"Please don't get so worked up. What if you fall and hurt yourself?"

Grandma Chen's hands were trembling too, her eyes filled with disbelief.

"Shi, you can't joke about something like that."

"This is an enormous matter. You're really not lying to your grandma?"

Chen Shi wasn't happy to hear that.

"What are you saying? Even if I lied to anyone else, I would never lie to you."

"Besides, just listen to my name. Chen Shi-sounds like 'honest,' doesn't it? I'm an honest person."

Grandpa Chen ignored his grandson's antics and gripped both his hands tightly. "How did you discover it?"

"Do you have anything that can prove it?"

"I do," Chen Shi replied.

"Togetic and Florges are both Pokémon of this new type."

"As for how I discovered it..."

Chen Shi pondered for a moment before saying, "While I was traveling, I developed a new kind of Pokéblock."

"Florges and Togepi both loved eating it. I found that the Pokéblock suited them pretty well, so I never switched to anything else and kept feeding it to them."

"Then, a little while ago, I noticed a completely new kind of energy gradually building up inside them. They also learned some unknown moves."

"After testing it repeatedly, I concluded that it had to be a completely new type."

"I call it the Fairy type!"

The two elders immediately lost their composure. What kind of fantastical experience was this?

Did he think he was filming a TV drama?

Grandpa Chen calmed down and asked, "Does this new type need Pokéblocks to replenish the energy inside their bodies?"

"Did nobody discover it before because nobody had made your kind of Pokéblock, Shi?"

Grandma Chen thought that explanation made sense too.

Still, to think there was a type in this world that required a specific kind of Pokéblock to awaken.

Pokémon really did hold countless secrets.

She suddenly understood those obsessive researchers a little better. Uncovering the secrets hidden within Pokémon really did feel wonderful.

But Chen Shi rejected his grandfather's theory and offered an explanation.

"This new type doesn't need Pokéblocks to awaken."

"Let me give you an example."

"What do you think would happen if all the Ghost-type energy in the world disappeared?"

Grandpa Chen fell silent for a moment before replying, "Then all Ghost-type Pokémon would no longer be able to absorb Ghost-type energy from the air."

"Over time, they would stop being able to use Ghost-type moves, and then the Ghost type would disappear from the world."

Chen Shi smiled. "Then what if I gave one of them a Ghost-type Pokéblock at that point?"

Grandpa Chen abruptly turned to look at his grandson. "You mean...?"

"Exactly."

"The reason the Fairy type wasn't discovered before is that all the Fairy-type energy in the world had disappeared."

"And now, Fairy-type energy is gradually returning."

"Right around that time, I happened to stumble upon a way to make Fairy-type Pokéblocks."

"That's why Florges and Togepi awakened their Fairy type."

"Even if I hadn't developed Fairy-type Pokéblocks, the Fairy type would have been discovered eventually."

"Because the Fairy-type energy in the world is returning."

His grandparents were stunned for a moment.

The news their grandson had shared today was simply too shocking.

The Fairy type hadn't been discovered before because Fairy-type energy had disappeared from the world.

Now that energy was slowly returning, and the Pokémon world was about to welcome a completely new type.

If those words hadn't come straight from their grandson's mouth, the two elders would surely have thought the speaker had lost his mind.

A moment later, Grandpa Chen came back to his senses.

"How can you be certain that it's the world's Fairy-type energy returning?"

"And not your Pokéblocks causing Florges to awaken?"

Chen Shi gathered his thoughts and explained, "First, there's the timing."

"I caught Florges seven months ago, but I only caught Togepi three months ago."

"Florges started eating these Pokéblocks as soon as I caught her."

"In other words, Florges had been eating them for seven months, while Togepi had only been eating them for three."

"And Florges is also in her final evolved form."

"Logically, Florges should definitely have awakened before Togepi. Wouldn't you agree?"

His grandparents both nodded, accepting his reasoning.

If that was the case, Florges should indeed have awakened first.

Then Chen Shi continued, "But Florges and Togepi both awakened on the same day."

"They learned some unknown moves at the same time."

"I don't think that was a coincidence. Something must have changed in the world, and Fairy-type energy was returning."

"That's why Florges and Togepi awakened on the same day."

The two elders thought that made sense as well, but words alone weren't proof.

Grandpa Chen still wanted to see it for himself. He wouldn't be at ease until he had personally confirmed it.

Chen Shi understood too. Until his grandparents saw Fairy-type energy, they would still harbor some doubts, even though they believed him.

So he took his grandparents outside and found Florges in the garden.

"Florges, sorry for the trouble, but could you gather some Fairy-type energy for my grandparents to see?"

"Flor~"

Without any fuss, Florges controlled the Fairy-type energy inside her body and gathered it in her hand.

The two elders stared in amazement at the purple energy in Florges's hand.

"It really is an energy I've never seen before. It doesn't match any of the other seventeen types."

"Yes. Who would have thought Florges wasn't a Grass-type Pokémon, but a Fairy-type one?"

After seeing this completely new energy, his grandparents let go of their last lingering doubts.

Grandpa Chen looked at his grandson standing before him and suddenly sighed.

This wasn't a genius.

He was a freak of nature!

I really like this picture.