Presumably, the phone was very moved too.
Following the direction Lilligant had gone, Shen Qi spotted a graceful figure wearing a large flower headdress beside the lake, beneath an old streetlamp outside the forest.
"Lilligant."
'Hm?'
"Become my Pokémon."
Shen Qi stood before Lilligant and extended his hand in invitation.
Lilligant reached her leaf-blade hand forward, but just as she was about to place it in Shen Qi's palm, she suddenly pulled it back.
'No!'
For a moment, Shen Qi felt a sense of hurt, as though the world line had shifted.
"Why are you rejecting me?"
'You have some serious issues!'
["Pokémon Strategy and Raising" ends here]
Closing remarks
Another Pokémon novel has come to an end! Writing in this genre really is comfortable. The words flow smoothly, and I never get writer's block.
If I managed to give you readers even a brief moment of relaxation, that would make me very happy.
This book ends here, and there certainly are quite a few regrets. For instance, some readers mentioned that the racing and battling events could have been explored further, perhaps with a dual T1 achievement or something along those lines.
After all, the main focus was on progressing through emotional scripts, with individual Pokémon's little stories at its core. Increasing the proportion of competition would have upset that balance. Some readers really didn't like the racing plotlines or couldn't get used to my revised version of battling, so I could only keep those proportions under control.
If I really tried to write all the way to dual T1 while keeping competition at this proportion, I'm afraid even six million characters might not have been enough. That would have been far too much.
Anyway, I wrapped things up at a point where the story could reasonably pause, while