Many people found it very strange that, every year, people in Yun Province made the news after being poisoned by wild mushrooms and hallucinating, yet the people of Yun Province remained passionate about eating them. They were the sort who wanted to keep eating even after being poisoned. And even when they were poisoned, they often did not blame the mushrooms for being toxic, but instead wondered whether they had cooked them thoroughly. That alone showed how delicious wild mushrooms were.
In the worst year of the pandemic, fewer people in Yun Province died from the pandemic than from eating wild mushrooms. That showed just how deeply the people of Yun Province loved them.
So Heath could understand why the people of Pallet Town still loved eating See-the-Light-Die even though they knew it was poisonous and could kill them if it was not prepared properly. After all, wild mushrooms really were delicious, deserving to be called the finest mountain delicacy, seafood on legs, and their flavor was even considerably better than seafood. Still, the twenty-six lives lost to See-the-Light-Die made Heath a little more cautious. Although he felt that nothing should go wrong with his golden finger protecting him, Farfetch'd was only an ordinary Pokémon, after all, not a Snorlax with the Immunity ability. The latter might have no reason to fear problems like poisoning.
"But abilities... those really do seem to exist, though there seem to be some differences." Heath thought of his Farfetch'd. When he first got Farfetch'd, he had also received a chance to change its ability. He had used that chance to change Farfetch'd's ability to Wonder Guard, and that change had indeed proved very useful.
But Heath was not a trainer in the strict sense, so he had never really studied these abilities. A trainer