Kapitel 30: C030 - Meeting the construction team leaders
"Ahhh, this is life," Sophie moaned out as she floated on the hot water.
Jasmine's rosy cheek turned a darker shade of red as she heard her sister's lewd sounds. She meekly sat a good distance away from Pete and his floating pokemon.
"So Pete, who do you think is cuter in a bikini. Me or Jasmine?"
"Are you.. do you want me to answer that, honestly? You are identical twins, you both have the exact same haircut, and the only difference between your bikinis is the color of the seams," Pete answered in a weak voice.
He knew that wasn't an answer a woman wanted to hear, but Sophie has been trying to egg him on the last two days and he ran out of witty answers while Sophie was thick-skinned enough to brush past most of them anyway.
"Oh? You looked so hard you noticed the seams of my all-black bikini are blue, while Jasmine's seams are pink?"
"Jasmine's seams are red, and yours are leaf green," Pete responded absent-mindedly.
"Hehehe. See, sis? I knew he'd take a good look," Sophie whispered to her sister. She double-checked if Pete's eyes were still closed and asked another question when she saw they were closed.
"Do you think the bikini with red seams matches Jasmine's silver nail polish?"
"It does match her nail polish, but her nails are golden," Pete answered without thinking.
Jasmine's cheeks by now were crimson red, and it wasn't because of the hot water.
"Mhm, you have good taste, Pete. I have high hopes for your farm. Did you already decide on a design?" Sophie changed the topic on her own. She wanted to cause a little bit of trouble, not cause her sister to faint from embarrassment.
"Not really. Have you ever been to Professor Elm's lab in New Bark? I'd really love a glass dome or at least full glass front. The rest is not too important as long as it is big enough but not so big that I have to run five minutes to the bathroom," Pete mused as he finally opened his eyes.
Jasmine noticed how hot her cheeks were and hurriedly grabbed Azurill to gently play with it while facing away from Pete.
"Hmm, I hope this Luna lady is really good at her job then and has some directions for the design. Good thing I'm here and my taste is impeccable."
Sophie earned herself a wave of water to the face from Pete as she uttered those words.
"Ugh *cough*, you dare!?" Sophie shot up from her floating position and angrily looked at Pete as she coughed up the water she had just swallowed.
What followed was a five minute water fight that was only possible because the twins, Pete, and his pokemon were alone in the bath. They all lost horribly once the two Marill decided to join in on the fun. Water type energy was busted in a splash fight.
After the battle, they all went to their respective rooms to turn in for the night. Pete had used his psychic link to get in touch with Solosis during the bath. It was the first time they had used their link over such a distance, and the strain was bigger than usual. Still, it was pretty manageable because both Solosis' and Pete's training was going pretty well.
Since Solosis assured him that his pokemon were doing well and had been fed properly, Pete fell asleep with the Marill family in his bed.
It was just before dawn when Pete woke up without needing an alarm. The Azurill had rolled its body into Pete's hand, where it fit nicely. The little blue ball was snoring in a cute, high-pitch tone.
Pete managed to get out of bed without waking up any of the three pokemon that had shared his bed. There was breakfast for early risers like him, which Pete followed up by ordering breakfast for his full team and going to the pasture to look for his pokemon.
He was a little paranoid about the two color variants and rare Unova pokemon getting stolen out of the hotel pasture overnight, but apparently, the scary looking Exeggutor and fully grown Rapidash combined with the hotel security were intimidating enough.
When he arrived, Rapidash, the older non-shiny Miltank, and Girafarig were already up, same as Exeggutor.
He greeted the pokemon that were up with a warm smile and some scratches. Once he shared a short talk with his pokemon, Pete teleported to the lake with Girafarig and Exeggutor.
There were quite a few pokemon already active at the lake. Sadly, none of them were Girafarig from his pokemon's herd. Pete urged the normal/psychic pokemon to ask around if anybody had seen a Girafarig, but that turned out to be a bust. Not even the majestic Pidgeot who claimed to have flown all day last day had seen any living Girafarig nearby.
"Don't lose hope. How about we come here again tomorrow, and if there's still nobody from your herd showing up here, we will come again? Provided Exeggutor is okay with it, I don't see why we should stop," Pete suggested with a warm smile.
With three teary eyes, two in the front, one in the back, Girafarig nuzzled her front-head into Pete's palm. The other head nodded. Having an in-depth talk with the pokemon with two heads for the first time was a little weird, but Pete got over it quickly. It wasn't the weirdest thing he brushed over since coming to this world.
By the time some of his pokemon were awake to eat the hotel's breakfast, Pete had to get going for his meeting with Carl and his daughter Luna at the south gate of the city.
"Holy canoli, is that a huge Exeggutor," a voice Pete immediately recognized as Carl's rang out when Pete and Exeggutor teleported over.
"I'll assume you're Carl? We talked to each other over the phone yesterday? Hi, I'm Pete," Pete greeted as he looked toward a mountain of a man two heads taller than himself.
"You got that one right, hiya Petey-boy," the black haired man with more muscle than a Machoke greeted.
"Dad, please. Can you use your indoor voice if you're going to speak so much nonsense so early in the morning?"
Pete had to lean his head to the side because he couldn't look over Carl's shoulder to see who was speaking. What he saw was a young woman just as tall as Carl dressed in a no-sleeve crop-top, jeans one size too large, sunglasses, and black hiking boots that weren't properly tied. Her black was done in a pixie haircut.
The woman was clearly taking after her father because she too looked ripped. It was still a feminine look, but her bizep were bigger than Pete's, and her crop-top showed off part of her very defined abs.
"Uh, Luna then, I take it?"
"A smart cookie, are you?" The woman in question scoffed. "Sorry, it's just, I'm a little cranky this early in the morning. I'm no morning person. But my dad did agree to meet, so there was no way to cancel."
"Sorry about that, Whitney only mentioned to ask for you with no further explanation, and then laughed the entire meal when I told her about my call with your father," Pete said in apology.
"Don't worry. It's my old man's fault to begin with."
"Hey, I'm right here, homies," Carl shouted in dismay.
"Why are you like this, dad..."
There was a cafe right at the gate that Pete had called ahead for a spot. The cafe was very popular because of the wait staff. He ordered a tea and light snacks for the table and let the father-daughter pair order some drinks for themselves.
"So, what do you need us to do? Dad didn't write anything down and was very vague when I asked him last night after coming home from my training," Luna asked after practically inhaling half of her cup of coffee the second it was placed down by the Mr Mime waiter.
Pete took out his tablet and opened the map of Evergreen Meadow.
"I'm an assistant professor and researcher of Professor Elm's team, and I want to open a farm here. This is Evergreen Meadow next to-"
"Yeah, next to Ilex Forest. Everyone in Goldenrod knows the fields of war. Why would you want to live there? Right smack-dab in the middle of a never-ending turf war between a giant Ariados tribe and everyone else?" Luna showed a grimace. Like this whole thing was yet again too early in the morning for her.
"Well, I have a plan for a cease-fire. It would result, hopefully, in these regions becoming habitable once the scales tip in my favor," Pete answered without explaining too much. Parts of the map started to light up.
"If the terrain is anything like this map suggests, I want the house to be somewhere in the north of this patch of grassland circled in the forked river. I'll need a bridge here and here for the possible pasture and crop field plans, but I think I can manage to do that with my pokemon. I think I could do most of it, even if it won't be pretty, but electricity and plumbing is something I want professionals to do. Also, windows. I have no experience properly setting windows. In an ideal world, I want a tall glass dome looking at the gigantic lake right at the bay here," Pete pointed to the lake, "but I also want to be realistic. It's a farm. Functionality and frugality come first."
"Fru...gality? Mate, buddy, pal, Whitney already wired over P$280.000 as down-payment. If you can convince us we won't die a spidery death when working there and got a good grip on how to handle logistics, we'll build you a veritable glass palace," Carl said with a weirded out expression.
"She did what?" Pete frowned. Whitney didn't say anything about such a huge amount of money.
"Yeah, something about feeling bad about blackmailing you."
"Yeah, what was that about?" Luna chimed in.
"She didn't blackma- I mean she kinda did. But I was going to wring some benefits out of her one way or another. Definitely not in the range of P$280.000, though."
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