Chapter 5

Chapter 5

“I have arrived!” I shout out as I enter the door to Grandpa’s lab. I giggled quietly to myself afterwards as no one here but me would get the reference but it was only for my entertainment anyways.

“Ah Frost, Gary! What a pleasure it is for both of you to visit my lab. Is there anything I can help you with?” Grandpa looks up from his desk and smiles warmly at us, not minding our intrusion.

“Well Grandpa, I wish to take some online courses to learn some skills, but they are rather expensive. I was wondering if you would be willing to pay for them...” I ask sheepishly, I know he is well off but I still feel bad because of the amount of money I am asking for.Alll latest novels at novelhall.com

“What courses do you wish to take?” He raises his eyebrow while asking. I don’t blame him, it’s the first time I have ever asked for anything like this.

“You see, because I want to become a trainer, I figured I should get some training on skills I might need. If I can be prepared for any situation that arrives I would be a better trainer. So, I want to take a martial arts course, a course on survival skills, first aid and if I can find one, maybe one on tactics.” I figured I could learn to cook myself from the Pokenet and pokemon care is something I would learn by working with Grandpa while raising Vulpix.

“Hmm, you bring up a good point. Being a trainer can be dangerous and if you become a league trainer you are essentially a military member.” He nodded his head at my words causing me to feel lighter, as if a weight was no longer on my shoulders. “Alright then, how much are the courses?”

I hesitate a little, trying to not look Grandpa in the eye. “From what I found most of the courses are only fifty to a hundred Poke each session, none of which cost over five hundred Poke total. The issue is with the martial arts...” I trail off, still hesitating.

“Those are quite reasonably priced. So young lady, how much is this martial arts course?”

“Five thousand Poke for the first year...”

Grandpa stares at me for a while before replying. “What type of martial art costs that much? I hope you didn’t find a scam.”

“It’s a obscure martial art from Snowpoint City in Sinnoh. From what I could tell, the cost is because most people don’t continue after a few sessions. If I wanted to take just a few sessions to try it out they were five hundred Poke each.”

“What’s wrong with doing a more common martial art? Surely there must be reason you want this one.”

I started to play with my ponytail as I attempted to justify what I wanted. “Well, it just kind of called to me. I tried looking into others but they just didn’t seem to click. It’s like its association with snow and ice was meant for me.” I blush at my flimsy attempt, hoping it was enough. The following silence spoke volumes about the situation. I glance at Grandpa just to see him smile warmly at me.

“Alright. I will pay for your courses. Just make sure that you study hard and don’t let my money go to waste.”

I give Grandpa a big smile before giving him a tight hug. “Thank you so much Grandpa! I will email you the details. I need to get back so I can start everything else as well!” With that I rush back out the door into the heat once again forgetting about Gary in my excitement.

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Name: Frost Oak

Age: 15

Bloodline: Heavenly Glacial Ice Phoenix (active)

Aura: Active

Pokemon: 1 Egg

Harem: 0

Gacha Spins available: 1]

I focus on the active portion of the Aura to see if I get any information. It seems like it is my lucky day as I get a brief message stating that my Aura can generate additional Ice elemental power through exposed skin. When I see the part about exposed skin I blanch slightly.

“This damn system is trying to make me an exhibitionist!” I complain out loud before sighing. I will need to see just how much I can wear before it gets uncomfortable again. For now at least, my little sanctuary will be much more comfortable for me. Well, not like I can do anything about it now, it’s part of me so I will just need to adjust to it. It is amazing what humans can get used to after all.

With that thought I figure I might as well try to gacha as well. You never know, I might get some amazing item. I mentally command the gacha to spin and before me a wheel appears with a bunch of different items, each one too small for me to read what it is before it starts to spin rapidly into a blurry of muddy colors. Eventually the wheel begins to slow down before finally falling on an option. Before the wheel disappears I notice that the option disappeared from the gacha as well. Does that mean I can only get an option once, or did I win something special with a one time win?

Once the wheel disappeared a dark blue book that seemed to cause the air to condense around it appeared before me. I reached out and grabbed the book, which felt cool and comfortable to the touch. It didn’t feel like any paper I have touched before, it felt silky soft almost like a feather. I glanced down at the cover and read the name before freezing slightly. I had to read the name a few more times to make sure I read it correctly. I sighed in defeat as I realized who could have named this book and the implications of it.

[Congratulations, host has received the Ancient Ice Phoenix Forbidden Divine Blue Ice Lotus Code cultivation technique.]

Only Yuna could have come up with this sort of name for a cultivation technique. I sighed again before opening the book to read what it is about but once I tried to read it, the words made no sense. It was almost like someone wrote something in one language before sending it through a machine translator thirty times to different languages before going back to the base language. I looked through the whole book and everything was the same. I shook my head in defeat and just looked off into space for a little while.

While my brain was rebooting I suddenly heard the sound of cracking coming from my desk and I looked over. The egg of my Alolan Vulpix was shaking and cracking like it was about to hatch. I quickly tried to stand up but ended up face planting as my legs were tangled and slightly asleep from sitting in the lotus position for too long. Once I could properly get up, the sound of cracking was getting louder and more frequent. I rushed over to the egg and picked it up before running out the door of my room. I made it to the stairs before remembering I was naked and flushed cherry red before dashing back into my room and throwing on a loose T-shirt and a pair of short denim shorts that have come to wear almost daily.

Now that I was dressed I resumed to rush as I ran towards Grandpa’s lab as quickly as I could. Thanks to my training and my now unlocked Aura, I practically flew across the ground leaving behind a few snowflakes in my wake that quickly dissipated in the early summer heat. It only took about two minutes to make it to Grandpa’s lab, normally it is a fifteen minute walk but I didn’t realize how quickly I was running. I threw open the door and rushed in seeing Grandpa sitting at a computer working on something.

“Grandpa! My egg! My egg is hatching!” I yelled out as soon as I saw Grandpa. I was practically vibrating with excitement. It was at this moment that the egg decided that it was time and began to glow brightly. A few seconds later a small white fox with a single white tail appeared in my arms. I looked down at it as it looked back up at me. From what I knew about Alolan Vulpix, they were pure white with ice blue eyes and blue inner ears and blue feet. My Vulpix was almost the same except the white fur seemed to gleam brightly and its inner ears were such a deep blue that it seemed purple. Its eyes were a deep purple as well.

It was a shiny Alolan Vulpix.