Inside the villa, Cheng Tian sat on the first-floor carpet in his Gengar pajamas, working hard to teach Greninja how to hold a controller.
"Take your time. Look, Y is attack, holding B makes you sprint, and pressing X when you jump down from somewhere high lets you glide..."
Unfortunately, a Pokémon's body was different from a human's after all. Although Greninja was trying very hard to learn, it still couldn't handle the controls very smoothly.
On the sofa, Su Han was wearing a facial mask and video calling Lin Lin on her phone.
"Xiaohan, military training starts in a couple of days." Lin Lin pulled a miserable face. "I don't want to do military training. After we finished it in our first year of high school, I was as black as charcoal."
"It should be fine. Just put on sunscreen."
"But we'll be sweating the whole time. The sunscreen will run down with the sweat and get all sticky. Won't that be even more uncomfortable?"
"I don't want to do military training either." Just then, Bai Yun's voice came from the phone. The camera shifted slightly, letting Su Han see both of them in full.
"Huh?"
Su Han's eyes lit up. "Your matching couple pajamas look great!"
"Hehe, don't they?" Lin Lin happily swung her legs. "We went out specifically to buy these."
Lin Lin wore Pachirisu pajamas, while Bai Yun wore Rockruff pajamas. Sitting close together, the two looked very well matched.
"So what are we going to do about military training?" Bai Yun sighed helplessly. "I don't want to do it. Military training is so boring. There aren't even any classes. You just stand under the sun for all you're worth, doing nothing."
"You can't put it like that." Cheng Tian, who had been listening to the