"I'm pnning to repair the Pokémoer first and start raising Miltank," Naoki said.

  He paused, then asked, "Do you have any other Pokémoed facilities avaible?"

  "Of course," Kora nodded with a smile. She turned and walked towards the ba. "e with me! The carpentry shop retly received a new batch of building materials. We ow build a greenhouse!"

  Naoki followed her. "A greenhouse?"

  Kora expined, "Well, it's simir to an ecological garden where you freely adjust the temperature, right? But a greenhouse is used to grow crops. It maintains a warm enviro all year round, allowing you to grow crops that are typically out of season."

  As they spoke, they ehe house.

  Kora pulled out a list from the ter and showed it to Naoki. It tained a variety of structible facilities.

  Greenhouses, Pokémoers, pastures, pens, fish ponds.

  In addition to these, the carpentry shop also sold furniture and ranch equipment, such as basic wooden tables, chairs, benches, lounge chairs, firepces, scarecrows, crab pots, gss fish tanks, deliers, floor mps, wardrobes, lockers, double beds, and more.

  Naoki was so excited seeing them that he wao buy everything at once, but he didn't have enough money.

  Building the Pokémon House alone would cost 50,000 Pokédolrs. Despite saving up 120,00 this period, half of it would be spent on the Pokémon House.

  As for the price of that greenhouse,

  Naoki took a look and excimed, "Wow, it costs 250,000!"

  Seeing his expression, Kora expined, "That's because the materials are different! Pokémon House are made of ordinary wood and stone, while greenhouses are structed with special materials equipped with temperature trol funs, allowing them to simute the enviros of all four seasons."

  "Okay," Naoki sighed. There was still a long way to go!

  "The's just build the Pokémon House this time," he said.

  Kora smiled and nodded. "No problem."

  After paying, Kora said she would bring the stru team to start work the m.

  Naoki hehe carpentry shop auro the town. This time, his destination was the department store in town.

  Although called a "department store," it was only five stories high, much smaller than the Goldenrod Department Store in the Johtion. But despite its size, it offered a wide variety of goods.

  The first floor was a clothing store where anyone, regardless of gender, age, height, weight, or size, could find suitable clothes.

  The sed floor sold Trainer supplies, mainly space bags, sleeping bags, camping gear, and a wide variety of Poké Balls. This was where he had bought his own Bag of Holding.

  The third floor was the eleics store, which was Naoki's curreination.

  They sold various appliances, including toilets, washing maes, color TVs, air ditioners, refrigerators, hairdryers, rice cookers.

  Naoki po buy an air ditioner, a TV, and a refrigerator all at once.

  He went to check their prices. There were many types of televisions, ranging from 7,000 to 100,000 Pokédolrs. The cheapest refrigerator cost 50,000, and the most expensive one was 200,000.

  Naoki wao buy the best one directly, but he was short on funds, so he had to choose options within his budget.

  TV - 9,000, refrigerator - 53,000.

  The cheapest air ditioner was 30,000. After buying the TV and refrigerator, he had very little money left, and he o save some for living expenses.

  "Fet it, summer is still over a month away, and the weather isn't too hht now. There's no rush for an air ditioner," Naoki thought.

  After a moment's sideration, he called a staff member to help him load the goods. The store offered delivery service, which would save him some effort.

  After paying, there were only 8,000 Pokédolrs left on his card, which was barely enough. However, Naoki wasn't worried because he would be able to harvest a batch of rock salt and goat milk in two days, replenishing his funds.

  When they returo the ranch, the department store had just delivered the TV and refrigerator.

  Televisions at this time were still quite old-fashioned. It was an old-style rear-proje TV with a small s and a bulky build.

  The refrigerator was a double-door model. The top partment was a fresh-keeping yer for st eggs, vegetables, fresh milk, juice, and other items. The bottom partment was a freezer, where the purchased pork could be frozen and stored for a long time.

  Naoki directed the delivery person to pce the refrigerator o the cupboard, then moved the video phoo the desk and positiohe TV at the foot of the bed.

  Alcremie, who had been pying outside, heard the noise and rao iigate out of curiosity.

  It looked up at the rge refrigerator and asked, "Alcremie!"

  Naoki took the eggs, berries, and goat milk out of the locker, put them in the refrigerator, and expined, "This is a refrigerator. It's used to store food. For example, if you put your cream in it, it be kept for a long time without spoiling. It also help make frozen cream cheesecake."

  "Alcremie!" Alcremie's attention was immediately captured, and it walked around the refrigerator, cheg it out.

  Naoki went over to the TV and started adjusting the els. The installer had just told him that to watch programs from all over the world, he o pay a subscription fee of 3,000 Pokédolrs per year.

  3,000 Pokédolrs a year was quite affordable, and Naoki had no objes. Sihe world hadn't fully ehe i age, this was the standard billihod.

  "We're really behind the times." Naoki couldn't help but pin. He didn't know how to assess the teology in this world.

  While it was advanced enough to create marvels like time maes and Space Bags , the television still resembled those from the 1990s.

  However, acc to the game's lore, the time mae developed by Professor Sada and Professor Turo was only possible due to the unique enviro deep within Area Zero. This meant that outside of that location, the time mae couldn't be used or replicated.

  "Koraidon, Miraidon, Terapagos. I wonder what the e is between these Legendary Pokémon."

  Whenever he thought about this, Naoki couldn't help but ment that he had traveled to the wrong time! He hadn't pyed the Scarlet and Violet DLC yet!

  He sighed silently and turned oV. Static filled the s for a moment, then a program appeared.

  It seemed to be a cooking show. A chef wearing a chef's hat and uniform reparing a dish.

  Naoki watched for a while. Although the s wasn't very clear, the image was still disible.

  He picked up the remote and ged the el, browsing through other programs. There were weather forecasts, TV series and movies, ercials for Moomoo Milk, news broadcasts, and even a program from outside the Paldea region - Professor Oak's Pokémoure.

  Looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar fa the s, one couldn't help but marvel: Professor Oak was truly famous!

  Naoki was satisfied. Thanks to television, he could stay informed about events happening in other parts of the world.