"Pawmi!" Pawmi was startled by the sudden "cheek rubbing" a out a surprised cry.

  "You smell nice!" Naoki said, taking a deep breath before releasing Pawmi.

  "It's just that you're a bit too thin and malnourished. Maybe you'll feel better once you gain some weight." Naoki made a mental o create a "nutritional supplement" pn for Pawmi, then put it down on the ground. "Okay, go py!"

  "Pawmi." Pawmi finally snapped out of its daze. It wasn't unfamiliar with Naoki's behavior. Pawmi often nuzzled and rubbed against each other, rolled around on the grass together, and pyed with each other. It was a way of expressing friendliness and affe.

  But this was the first time a human had treated it this way.

  Pawmi felt a bit shy, thinking: 'This human is so niot only did he take me in, but he's also so friendly.'

  bined with the warm bath it had just received, Pawmi felt much er and refreshed. Its fur was no longer dirty. Pawmi loved this feeling. Pis seemed to appear above its head, a sign of its growing affe.

  Realizing this awmi's first official day on the ranaoki po have Koraidon give it a tour and introduce it to everyone. But remembering how Pawmi had been afraid of Koraidoerday, he ged his mind and said to Cyclizar, "Cyclizar, take Pawmi around and show it the pce."

  "Cyclizar!" Cyclizar readily agreed, stood up, a with Pawmi.

  Naoki started his daily work.

  He took out a ball of grass dumplings for the Skiddo from the cupboard, and on his way to their pen, he checked on the bee.

  Early in the m, the three industrious bee had already begun colleg ar. When they saw Naoki, they didn't seem as wary as they had beeerday. Instead, they gently nded beside him and buzzed happily.

  "Buzz~!"

  Then, the three bee led Naoki to their hive and showed him the hohey were brewing iheir joyful buzzing seemed to say, "Just wait a little longer, and the honey will be ready!"

  Seeing this, Naoki leasantly surprised.

  He immediately recalled what the old man had said yesterday. The bee at the Pokémoer didn't need a Vespiquen. They would sider the rancher as the "Queehe leader of their y.

  The queen bee pyed the role of leader in a bee y. She raised the young and guided the other bee. The rancher who cared for them and provided food was, in some ways, no different from a queeo the bee.

  Therefore, they would work just as hard to collect honey for the rancher as they would for a queehese bee were also intelligent. They could think and had their own values. pared to living with a Vespiquen in the wild, this life of being cared for by a human and never having to worry about going hungry wasn't much worse.

  It rocess of mutual sele.

  Realizing this, Naoki stopped w. He reached out and patted the head of one of the bee, smiling and saying, "Thank you for your hard work! Let's do our best together!"

  "Buzz~"

  The three bee tinued colleg ar, while Naoki went to the goat pen and poured the grass dumplings into the feeding trough.

  Before he k, it was milking time again.

  He brought the milking bucket and skillfully began milking the Skiddo. The Skiddo's grazed on the grass, seemingly enjoying the process.

  Naoki touched the Skiddo's round belly and had a thought.

  "Have you gained weight?" he asked suspiciously.

  Skiddo: "Maa...?"

  Naoki pushed aside its wool and widened his eyes upon seeing the Skiddo's round body.

  "How did you get so chubby in just one month!"

  The Skiddo bleated ily, "Maa~"

  Naoki checked the other two Skiddo's and was surprised to find that they had also gained a lot of weight.

  This made him chuckle. "You guys have bee big fluffy sheep. Aren't you afraid of attrag a Mightyena to e a you?"

  It wasn't that he disliked their plumpness; it was just that overeating could easily impact their health ao various diseases.

  But the Skiddo looked fident.

  "Maa."

  The sed, green energy surged from their bodies, and almost instantly, the entire pen was enveloped in Grassy Terrain. The Skiddo's huddled together, with the ohat had battled Koraidon taking the ter position. The other two, one on the left and one on the right, performed a dazzling transformation in front of Naoki.

  They eaed uniquely shaped Leaf Bdes, thehem in their mouths, assuming a battle-ready stance.

  Although they didn't know what a Mightyena was, they were certainly not defenseless herbivores!

  Naoki: "..."

  "Alright, alright, calm dout away your powers!"

  If a wild trainer had withis se, they would probably have been terrified.

  Naoki waved at them helplessly, and the three Skiddo's obediently returo their normal state. Naoki was ed that their weight gain might ively impact their health.

  While pting whether to ask a Pokémon doctor to examihe Skiddo's, he said to them, "It's not that I'm forbidding you to eat, I'm just worried you'll get sick if you overeat."

  He eborated, using humans as an example. "If we get too fat, it lead to a series of problems, like high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and we're more likely to die from heart disease."

  The three Skiddo's stood in a row, listening ily, with fused expressions on their faces.

  "Maa?"

  Watg the anime in the past, Naoki had only paid attention to Ash and the Gyms, not really fog on the issue of Pokémoing sick. He only khat Pokémon, like humans, could catch colds, have fevers, and suffer from loss of appetite. Even though they were magical creatures that could breathe fire and water, they could still be in danger from these minor ailments.

  Just like in the anime, after Ash risked his life to deliver a wild Pokémon with a fever to the Pokémoer, Nurse Joy had said, "It would have been terrible if you had brought it any ter."

  So, what about obesity?

  Naoki fell into deep thought. For matters like this, it was best to sult a professional. It was better to address this sooner rather than ter, before any real problems arose.

  The first person Naoki thought of was Nurse Joy at the Pokémoer in Mesagoza.

  Looking at the three Skiddo's, Naoki decided to head into town after feeding the chis and the Nacli.

  But before that, he had to water the fields. Since Dragonite hadn't mastered Rain Da, watering had to be done manually.

  After watering the pnts and bidding farewell to Koraidon, Naoki rode Cyclizar to the town.