Eevee Learned Sketch!

After briefly learning how travel raising worked, Qingyu soon thought of this use for it.

Adventuring in the wilderness was still too dangerous.

Especially for a Pokémon like Eevee, who had little fighting ability. What if it ran into a wild Pokémon it couldn't beat and got hurt?

Until Eevee got used to traveling, he might as well let it explore a big city and develop its interests.

Seeing how eagerly Eevee looked forward to the trip, Qingyu couldn't help smiling.

"Close your eyes first. Count to ten in your head, and you'll appear wherever you want to go."

"Vee!"

Eevee immediately closed its eyes and answered in a quiet, excited voice.

While it counted down, Qingyu focused his mind and entered the travel raising module.

When he opened it, a chibi bedroom appeared, much like the Travel Frog game that had briefly been popular in his previous life.

An adorable Eevee sat at the head of the bed with its eyes closed, eagerly awaiting its departure.

After he tapped Eevee's icon, a map of the Pokémon world quickly appeared on the screen.

It was identical to the one Qingyu had just taken out.

Once he pinpointed this trip's destination as "Kalos Region-Lumiose City-Lumiose Museum," a white light flashed.

Eevee, who had been lying on the bed a moment earlier, vanished immediately.

[The Pokémon Eevee has set off on a trip!]

"Vee?! Σ(*д)"

After silently counting to ten, Eevee opened its eyes and was immediately startled by the enormous, magnificent white building before it.

It quickly caught on. This had to be the place its trainer had mentioned.

Yet when it looked around, its trainer was nowhere to be seen.

Eevee sighed.

So my trainer really doesn't want to go outside?

Still, I don't know how I got here in an instant, but it must all be part of his plan!

All I have to do is trust him!

Having figured out its situation, Eevee immediately held its head high, puffed out its chest, and swaggered up the steps with the crowd.

"Huh? A Pokémon came here all on its own? What an adorable Eevee!"

Once it entered, Miss Guide, who was responsible for explaining the paintings, immediately spotted this "uninvited guest" and was won over by its adorable appearance.

"Vee!"

When Miss Guide crouched down to pet it, Eevee nimbly dodged aside, then trotted into the museum.

Though it was delighted by the compliment, Eevee was a Pokémon with principles.

You want to pet me without even offering a Pokéblock!

[Eevee has arrived at the Lumiose Museum!]

[Miss Guide called Eevee cute. Eevee is in an even better mood!]

[Admiring paintings by renowned artists has relaxed Eevee's body and mind, though it seems completely unable to understand their contents...]

As Eevee traveled through the Kalos Region, text updates from its side appeared before Qingyu's eyes in real time.

Sure enough, cute Pokémon received better treatment in human society. Nobody could possibly dislike an adorable Eevee.

It was wonderful that it could enjoy this trip.

The corners of his mouth rose unconsciously as he edited the tutorial video he had promised his viewers on his computer, looking forward to more news from Eevee.

Since he had ended his stream early, it was only seven thirty.

There was practically no time difference between Paldea and the Kalos Region, so he could let Eevee enjoy itself a little longer before the museum closed.

He would check on Eevee again in a while.

After wandering around the museum's first floor for quite some time, Eevee soon reached a conclusion:

I don't understand any of it, but it all looks impressive!

For instance, "Let It Go: Sunflora" looked so lifelike that it was as though Sunflora had really appeared before it.

Yet Sunflora always wore a smile, while the one in the painting looked unhappy.

Eevee couldn't understand it and simply committed it to memory.

After making a circuit of the first floor, it happened to reach the stairs, so it headed up.

Although far fewer paintings were displayed here, Eevee could faintly sense all sorts of wondrous emotions in those simple lines.

But throughout its walk, Eevee hadn't seen a single human.

Compared with the first floor, it was clearly much quieter here.

Just as it was puzzling over this, an old man suddenly appeared before it.

"After all these years, this painting still moves me the most..."

He stood before a painting, his gaze so intent that he failed to notice Eevee approaching.

Eevee stopped, sat obediently on the floor, and looked up curiously at the painting before the old man.

All it saw were rolling waves, and the scene looked very simple.

"Vee?"

Is that the sea?

Eevee cried out in confusion.

It had only heard its trainer talk about the vast, boundless sea. It had never seen it for itself.

Yet the sight of this painting instinctively brought the sea to Eevee's mind.

A sea that stretched beyond sight, yet felt so lonely.

As it admired the painting, Eevee unconsciously made a sound, alerting the absorbed old man to its presence.

After glancing around and confirming that it had come upstairs alone, the old man crouched down with a kindly smile.

"I'm terribly sorry, little guest. The second floor isn't open to visitors at the moment. Let me take you downstairs."

"Vee?"

Eevee didn't quite understand why, but it listened to the old man and turned to leave.

At some point, however, a canine Pokémon standing upright had appeared behind it.

"Smeargle? What are you..."

The old man abruptly stopped halfway through his sentence.

The moment he saw dazzling ultramarine emerge once more from the tip of the tail Smeargle held, he understood what his old companion had in mind.

After putting down its brush for so many years, it actually felt like painting again?!

"I'll get some paper right away!"

Wild delight instantly spread across the old man's face. As though he had suddenly grown twenty years younger, he raced off and returned in no time, carrying drawing paper over to Smeargle.

"Smear..."

Noticing Eevee's curious little gaze, Smeargle gave a low growl, then raised the tail it held.

For some reason, this Eevee's curiosity about its work reminded it of when it had first come to Lumiose City alone.

It also stirred long-dormant memories in Lumiose City's most famous painter of what it had felt while creating its first painting.

The loneliness of entering a big city alone and facing a sea of people rose in its throat with those memories.

Another Pokémon going through something like I did back then.

So, if it's this Eevee...

Watch closely. I'll only teach you once!

Using its tail as a brush, Smeargle began painting. With a faint smile, it deftly traced graceful lines onto the paper, the color of its tail tip rapidly shifting with its mood.

In just a few strokes, the outline of a breathtaking painting emerged.

"Vee? (д)"

You can use your tail like that?

Eevee froze, then turned to look at its own big, fluffy tail. The white heart at its tip was particularly striking.

I should be able to dye my tail all sorts of colors too, right?

If I learn to paint with my tail, could I encourage my trainer to come outside and sketch with me?

That really would be convenient.

Looking back at Smeargle as it painted, Eevee's gaze gradually grew eager, and it instinctively began imitating the movements with its own tail.

Stroke by stroke.

Time slipped quietly by.

"Phew... done."

Having finally finished editing, Qingyu stretched, uploaded the video, and promptly shut down his computer.

Once his concentration broke, system messages appeared right on cue, summarizing Eevee's experiences during this leg of its journey.

[Eevee went to the museum's second floor and met the curator and his Smeargle.]

[Eevee has become friends with the painter Smeargle!]

[By imitating Smeargle's special tail-painting technique, Eevee has learned Sketch!]

"???"

After scanning the key information, Qingyu was dumbfounded.

What on earth happened?

And Eevee can actually learn Sketch?

I-is that even legal?!

The readers actually saw it coming. Agh, Sketch, Sketch!