Lorelei and Red shared a history.

  At one point, due to ideological differehe Elite Four of Kanto joined forces against Red, leading to his entrapment in the icy fines of Mt. Silver, pg him in grave danger.

  However, during the New Isnd i, Lorelei provided signifit assistao Red, and their retionship thawed.

  What surprised Lorelei was that everyone in this group, including Red, was a rerainer!

  [Gold: Ah, it's really Aunt Lorelei!]

  The first message in the group chat hit like a thunderbolt, leaving Lorelei stunned.

  Aunt... Auntie?!

  A woman's age is always just sweet sixteen, okay!

  [Yellow: Gold, that's not a hing to say...]

  [Gold: Huh? But she was already part of the Elite Four when I was a kid!]

  [Member "Gold" has been muted by admin for one hour.]

  [Blue Oak: Quite a ce, we were just discussing your Perish Song Strategy.]

  Lorelei rubbed her temples, sing the member list with a headache.

  Both admins, Red and Blue Oak, were Champion-level.

  Group members were at least Masters, with a few Gym Leaders mixed in.

  All these people were followers of Natsume-sensei?!

  "I'm starting tret joining this group..."

  Sensing trouble, Lorelei sighed helplessly.

  [Lorelei: My Perish Song Strategy isn't as refined as Natsume-sensei's.]

  [Blue Oak: Hmm, true.]

  Lorelei's eye twitched.

  I was just being polite, and you took it seriously?

  So what if you're a Champion? Still single!

  The atmosphere turned awkward.

  Half an hour ter, the group owner came online, sending a fused message.

  [Natsume-sensei: New member?]

  Natsume stared bnkly at the chat interface.

  I just finished css, and now there's another Elite Four in the group?

  So, I'm the only non-Trainer here!

  But with the pret of World Champion Red, Natsume was already numb.

  Even if Giovanni were added to the chat group, Natsume wouldn't bat an eye.

  Probably.

  Anyway, the livelier the group, the better.

  Red, Lorelei, and other Kanto leaders usually exged ideas; this was just a new circle.

  Seeing no one chatting, Natsume opehe puter to check the reception of "Natsume-seeaches Battles 05: Perish Song Team."

  In just one day, the video had made it to the homepage.

  Besides surpassing a million views on Nico Dou, it also caused a stir on YouTube and other ptforms.

  The bad ma for tent creators clearly showed a follower increase: 237,240.

  You might not know what gaining 200,000 followers with one video means. We usually describe such people with one word.

  Terrifying!

  With just three videos, Natsume-sensei, with his deeply impactful dirty strategies, jumped from a small streamer with over 100,000 followers to over 800,000.

  Just oep away from the million-follower milestone!

  Several panies had already reached out to Natsume via bad messages, wanting him to do sponsored videos, including many well-known Pokémon shops.

  But Natsume preferred to maintain video quality.

  One pany even offered 100,000 Pokémon s, but Natsume firmly deed.

  After all, Natsume aimed to be a top tent creator.

  Today's 100,000 Pokémon s might equal a million iure; it's still too cheap for these capitalists.

  In the system, as the video's influence tio ferment, Natsume officially pleted a small goal.

  [Video Views surpassed 1M, BP Points +1000]

  [Video Shares surpassed 100K, BP Points +1000]

  [...]

  [Remaining BP Points: 11,720]

  [Spend 10,000 BP to exge for 'Protect' Teical Mae?]

  [Yes/No]

  "Yes!"

  System items were stored in a small space, but non-system items couldn't be stored there.

  Sieical Maes were reusable, the price of 10,000 BP was reasonable.

  Taking out the white USB drive from the system's backpack.

  Natsume pyed with it for a moment before calling astly, who was lig a textbook.

  "Do you know why I called you over?"

  "Gastly?"

  Gastly tilted its head in fusion, looking at the USB drive in Natsume's hand, then suddenly perked up.

  "Gastly!" (Got it, got it!)

  Natsume nodded with a pleased expression.

  Gastly held the USB drive in its mouth, plugged it into the puter, moved the cursor with its tongue, and skillfully opehe video file.

  Painfully skilled.

  But Natsume, having some rare free time, sat in front of the puter with Gastly to study the training of the "Protect" move.

  The trainihod was quite simple.

  Haunter gathered bck mist to form a fog shield in front of it, tinuously blog ining moves.

  The strength and range of the fog shield were limited by Gastly's own power.

  In theory, the "Protect" move could block attacks from all 360 degrees.

  But Gastly's strength was limited, and after several attempts, it could only form a narrow fog shield.

  This left the little one somewhat disheartened, slumping over the keyboard, almost seeping into the puter's fan.

  "Take it easy, we'll get there."

  Natsume took out an Oran Berry Block, waving it like a cat toy above Gastly's head.

  The listless Gastly zily g Natsume before relutly opening its mouth.

  "Gastly! (￣～￣)"

  After chewing for three seds, a smile slowly spread across Gastly's face.

  Gastly: (?′?`?)

  After f Gastly, Natsume turned back to the group chat.

  [Natsume-sensei: How do you train Protect?]

  [Gold: You 't even do such a simple move? Just do this, then this, and then that?]

  [Blue Oak: Mastering Protect is indeed challenging.]

  [Red: rategy?]

  [Natsume-sensei: No, just the basic Protect.]

  Red pondered for a moment, then uood.

  As they say, the simplest path leads to greatness.

  Even the most basic move, when traio perfe, surpass the power of Hyper Beam.

  Red greatly admired Natsume's tinuous learning attitude.

  [Red: I have some personal manuscripts, would you like them?]

  Natsume raised an eyebrow.

  Such good fortune?

  [Natsume-sensei: You're too kind, just DM me.]

  Witnessing this shady exge, Lorelei hugged her Lapras plushie, lost in thought.

  Is Natsume-sensei pnning to research more dirty strategies?

  He even got training manuscripts from Red...

  Doesn't that mean his uanding of "Protect" will reaew heights?!

  Meanwhile, Natsume pced the printed [Protect Manuscript] in front of Gastly.

  As if seeing a extbook, Gastly's rge eyes filled with a thirst for knowledge.

  "Slurp—"

  Watg Gastly drool incessantly, Natsume rubbed his and murmured.

  "Training Pokémon isn't that hard after all..."

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