"Pichu!" Stro answered him happily.
Jia Xi smiled gently and stroked Stro's chin.
"Hey, Jia Xi, still bringing that little guy along?" His colleagues came over to greet him.
"Yeah. Are you heading out on a mission?" Jia Xi asked, standing up.
One of his colleagues said, "Yeah, we leave in ten minutes... Jia Xi."
"Hm?"
"Why don't you get a different Pichu?"
"What... don't joke about that!" Jia Xi frowned deeply.
"The higher-ups said that if you fail your next mission, you'll have to be tested again and replace all your Pokémon."
"Pichu..." Stro sat dejectedly in Jia Xi's room.
"Baa baa~" Jia Xi's Flaaffy, Bulong, walked over to Stro and hugged him comfortingly.
Jia Xi dried his hair and put down the towel. "Don't blame yourself, Stro. The mission failed because I made the wrong call."
"Next time, we'll prove to them that we're the best partners!"
"Pichu!" "Baa~"
"We're not sleeping tonight. Let's train!"
A few days later, Jia Xi went on another mission with the trainers on his team to subdue the Clefairy disrupting the fishing industry.
After catching fish, the fishermen would leave their catch at the Container Terminal before taking it into the city. All sorts of unclaimed Clefairy without owners lived at the terminal. They stole the fishermen's catch for food... and found ways to evade the trainers pursuing them.
"Jia Xi, pair up with A Feng and catch the ownerless Clefairy over there." The captain assigned the team their duties.
"Got it." Jia Xi rolled up his sleeves.
"Don't let them slip away again this time." The captain seemed to be hinting at something.
Jia Xi suddenly felt an immense weight on his shoulders. "Yes..."
They ran to the edge of the terminal and began searching. Before long, they found some Clefairy