Enoki mushrooms had another name: "see you tomorrow." Generally speaking, the human body could not digest and absorb them, so they often came out the back end looking exactly as they had when they went in.
That had spawned an online joke about someone so poor he could not afford food, who bought a bag of enoki mushrooms and survived on them until payday. Heath thought that was pretty far-fetched, and basically impossible.
After all, even if the mushrooms themselves could not be absorbed, most of their nutrients would have been, so eating them again would not do much good.
So when Heath heard Brock say he had fallen into a cave with a bag of enoki mushroom snacks and struggled to survive, his mind inevitably went in the wrong direction.
"Didn't you bring a Pokédex?" Heath looked at Brock curiously. As a Gym Leader's son, Brock should have been able to get one. A Pokédex ought to have an emergency call function built in, and even if it did not, calling for help on a phone would have worked too.
"There was no signal. It took me ages to find a way out." Brock looked exhausted as he spoke. Heath gave him a sympathetic look. This guy really had terrible luck.
"But I found something really interesting in that cave." Looking mysterious, Brock pulled a fragment out of his pocket and handed it to Heath.
Heath took it and examined it in puzzlement. It seemed to be a piece of crystal, clear and translucent, and quite pretty. But crystal was not worth much. Heath remembered seeing a news story about an auction that had sold something extremely expensive.
A Diancie Ruby and Sapphire. A single gem had fetched an astronomical price that left Heath speechless. He thought he might