The "Tou" carrying Teddiursa finally disappeared into the blue sky. Naoki stood in the pasture, looking in the dire they left, feeling a little mencholy.

  'I really didn't expect that after traveling to the Pokémon world, I wouldn't be the oo travel, but instead, I'd send my Pokémon on their own journey.'

  `This feeling… is weird.`

  Teddiursa had left, but life had to go on.

  Naoki took a deep breath, returned home, and started ing the kit utensils he had just used.

  Before he k, it was already the end of February. The crops in the fields were almost ready to be harvested.

  `It's time to get busy again!`

  The m, Naoki po harvest the crops. As soon as he arrived at the farmnd, he leasantly surprised to find that the flowers he had pnted earlier were now in full bloom.

  Several types of flowers were mixed together, creating a colorful and bright dispy, filling the entire ranch with a faint floral fragrance.

  The flowers had finally bloomed, and the Pokémon living on the ranch were thrilled.

  A group of Pokémon, including Alcremie, Smoliv, Nacli, and Pawmi, were all drawn to the flowers.

  The little Alcremie pyed hide-and-seek with Nacli among the tall blooms.

  Smoliv found a fortable, shady spot aled there.

  Pawmi ran up to a flower in surprise and s its fragrance. However, it actally inhaled some pollen, causing it to sneeze several times in a row.

  'If I were to ask whiohe happiest,' Naoki thought, 'it would definitely be Butterfree and bee.'

  Early in the m, three hardw bee happily gathered in the field, flying above the blooming flowers and colleg ar.

  Butterfree also gently fpped its wings and nded on a flower.

  Wearing a straw hat, Naoki watched the se with a smile on his face.

  The ecological habits of these Pokémon came to his mind.

  `In the wild, when a Butterfree enters a bee, they usually pete for ar. But here on the ranch, Butterfree and bee don't fight. Instead, they coexist in harmony, w together with a sense of mutual uanding.`

  "You guys py here, I'm going to get to work," Naoki said to the Pokémon before heading over to the farmnd area to begin harvesting the crops.

  Koraidon and Cyclizar also came to help, pg the harvested tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, and other crops into the rge baskets Naoki had prepared in advance.

  `Because I'm worried I 't ha all by myself, I never expahe scale of my pnting,` Naoki thought, as he worked. `I've done all the tilling, pnting, fertilizing, pest trol, and weeding on my own.`

  He hadn't raised too many Pokémoher, since he was alone.

  `Once you raise too many Pokémon, you start to focus on the big picture and miss the small details. That leads to some Pokémon being ed, which put them in a bad mood and lower the quality of the products they help produce—resulting in the opposite effect of what you want.`

  But even with this careful approach, the work in the fields kept them busy for several hours.

  By noon, several rge baskets were filled, and Naoki was sweating profusely from exhaustion.

  Naoki wiped the sweat from his forehead, his gaze lingering on the vegetables and fruits he had just harvested.

  To be ho, the ine from agriculture was far less than what he earned from animal husbandry. But leaving such a rge piece of nd uncultivated felt wasteful. Besides, the crops he grew could be sold or used to feed himself and his Pokémon.

  The only downside was that these seasonal vegetables couldn't be stored for long.

  'It would be o have an ice celr,` Naoki thought.

  Crops like potatoes and turnips could be stored for a long time if kept in a low-temperature enviro. But building an ice celr would be costly and would require specialized refrigeration facilities.

  `These kinds e-scale refrigeratioups e a lot of electricity. If I really install one, I'll be paying a hefty electricity bill every month.`

  So, was there another way?

  The first thing that came to Naoki's mind was Ice-type Pokémon. But not just any Ice-type Pokémon—he needed ohat preferred to live in iviros, like Cryogonal, Avalugg, .

  `The ice celr could serve as a home for them, doubling as food ste. With their help, I could save both time and money.`

  Among these options, G was the one Naoki wao capture the most.

  `I've always dreamed of colleg all the Eeveelutions one day.`

  He could picture it: G living in the ice celr, Leafeon tending to the crops, Freon keeping everyone warm in winter, Jolteon providiricity, and Vaporeon occasionally helping Dragoh the watering.

  `When you think about it, the Eevee family is practically unstoppable!`

  But, in addition to these, Naoki realized he needed a Pokémon that could help with farming itself.

  He gnced over the farmnd and the crops he had just harvested, falling into deep thought.

  `For farming…` A particur Pokémon came to mind.

  `Calyrex.`

  Calyrex, the legendary king who once ruled over the Gar region in aimes. It was said to possess immense wisdom, capable of seeing everything from the past, present, and future.

  The reason Naoki thought of it was because this legendary Pokémon was also known as the "King of Bountiful Harvests."

  `Calyrex has the power to heal souls and make pnts flourish. It's said that with a wave of its right hand, flowers bloom and grass turns green; with a wave of its left hand, fields bee fertile and crops grow abundantly.`

  This is simply the god of agriculture!

  `If I could bring it to the ranch, it would be a perfect match, in a professional sense.`

  Thinking this far, Naoki couldn't help but ugh at himself. `I'm really letting my imagination run wild.`

  Not long ago, he had eaihoughts of doing something dubious to someone's horse, and now he was pting kidnapping a legendary Pokémon.

  'What a sin, what a sin,' Naoki silently prayed in his heart, 'Lord Calyrex, please bless my farm with a bountiful harvest every year!'

  He even began to wonder whether he should build an altar to worship the King of Bountiful Harvests, Calyrex.

  Acc to legend, Calyrex does respond to prayers.

  The only downside was that he didn't know whether the King of Bountiful Harvests in the Gar region could sehe faith ing from the Paldea region.

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  At the same time, in the far southern part of the Gar region, there was a snowy field where snowfkes fell year-round.

  A Pokémon, small and delicate in appeara exuding an air of elegand majesty, weakly opes eyes.

  Its gaze pierced through the vast spad time, fog on a human being who raying to it.

  Feeling the faint power of faith emanating from that person, the Pokémon stirred, gaining a bit of strength.

  If Naoki were present, he would have instantly reized this Pokémon as the legendary King of Bountiful Harvests, Calyrex.

  Calyrex had the unique ability to draw power from the faith of others.

  But i years, the faith provided by the people of the Gar region had dwindled.

  People in the modern era no longer believed in the King of Bountiful Harvests, causing its power to wane and its body to grow weak.

  Sensing the faint glimmer of faith, Calyrex murmured softly to itself:

  "I hought that in this era, there are still those who believe in me."