Although Heath had some doubts about whether Snowman Snorlax could beat those Exploud in the future, life still had to go on. After washing up, he drove his food truck to the Indigo League's market to buy some ingredients.
Although the Indigo League was the largest and most densely populated city in Kanto, its market was not particularly crowded at this hour of the morning. Even so, there were far more people than in Viridian City.
Heath headed straight to the seafood shop to buy some crabs to take with him. These would serve as ingredients for Farfetch'd, whose new task was to learn how to make crab roe soup dumplings. While he was at it, Heath let Farfetch'd out to follow him and learn how to select ingredients.
Although this should not have been the season for crab roe, the Pokémon world was clearly somewhat different from his previous world. After asking around the seafood section, Heath actually found crabs that produced roe during this season. They were relatively expensive, though, since they had roe at this time of year.
Heath might have hesitated before, but now he had fewer reservations. The money from the Giant Purple Crab roe soup dumplings he had sold yesterday was enough for a little extravagance. Since Farfetch'd also needed practice, Heath bought ten kilograms of crabs in total. That might have looked like a lot, but it would not actually make that many crab roe soup dumplings.
"Yawn." Zorua lay on Heath's head and yawned, looking adorable with her sleepy eyes.
"You had a nightmare last night, didn't you?" Heath asked Zorua with a smile. The moment he saw the Nightmare Crystal clutched in her paws that morning, he knew the little one must have had a nightmare too. He just had no