May also khat she didn't o ahe question , how could she not when the answer popped into her head immediately as it would any sane person. Yes , the answer was almost always going to be yes. There was nothing wrong with that at all , it is part of ones base instincts to try and preserve their existend avoid suffering. I ehe lesson there for the day as there was simply no way she could focus with such a heavy idea on her mind. For a kind person like her it was difficult to accept but necessary to move forward.-

  I wasn't bothered by May or Birch the day as for May she was still struggling to e to terms with her previous lesson while for Birch it was because he was aware of this. He obviously uood the logi what I had taught her but the flicted look he gave me showed his own inner flict with her learning this. It is holy amazing what a parent will accept if they think it's for their childs betterment. Still that left me with the whole day free and I was more than happy to use it to my advantage.-

  I of course did my daily exercises but on top of those I also practiced my spearmanship with my makeshift spear. I didn't move past the basics however as I wao set a strong foundation for my future teiques. Yes spears did indeed have teiques involved with them though they were admittedly just slightly modified versions of the basients. Things like angling the spearhead slightly while thrusting to strike tiny joints easier or using the pummel for attag. That was for the future though as for now I was fog oing familiar with the on.-

  May apparently settled her mind sometime during that day as she approached me after my workout to learn how to fight in ear. I chose a spot o the pond for us and began to spar with her. She was allowed to strike me as hard as she could but I made sure that I slowed my own hits to not be painful or cause injuries. With how sturdy my body was nothing she did had any effect at all save the surface level redhat quickly faded away.-

  She was sloppy aant with each of her strikes at first but after I seo the dirt every time she did she quickly got rid of it. The sloppiness was slow going for her to get rid of but I was helpful in pointing out her mistakes based on my own knowledge. She showed det amounts of improvement by the evening when the first truck showed up in the vilge. It air truck sent to fix and renovate the old abandoned house that Normans family was moving into. There was a rather funny moment when I got sized up by the pany mans Machoke-

  Machoke were the sed evolution of the Machop species that minus the skin color , arms and head all looked almost the same as a muscur human man. They had rouilian heads with grey three lined fins and sharp teeth. Their skin was a bluish purple color that covered their whole bodies. On their arms they had several thiripes in their skin. This wasn't for show but because of a unique fact about their anatomy. Those stripes were actually estic portions of skin that they had because their muscles when fully exerted caused their skin to stretd expand.-

  Without these stripes their skin itself would tear whehey went all out from the urained power of their muscles. The reason this particur Machoke sized me up was that it found my strength and physique impressive and wao pete. The pany man could only wat with an exasperated look as both I and the pokemon flexed to show off to the other. I was holy far too happy to pete with the thing in hindsight but pride is a funny thing like that. I won out in the petition though as my muscles were far more developed than it's were and thus looked more impressive.-

  That was when I learned an iing habit that the species had in that they mimicked the apparel of the person who beat them in one of these petitions. The Machoke went into the house with ara pair of my shorts that I generously gifted it after learning this and came out wearing them and gave me a thumbs up and a wide smile. Birch was thrilled with the knowledge though as it had obviously been a very rare occasion when a human won out in terms of physique with a Machoke and thus hadn't been officially doted till now.-

  This wasn't to say that I was strohan the pokemon , merely that my muscles were better developed and looked he pany man apologized for me having to give up a pair of my shorts to his pokemon and offered to buy me ara but I just waived it off. I enjoyed myself so I didn't mind the small loss on my part. It was iing to see how fast the man and his pokemon finished fixing and renovating the old house.-

  The truck they showed up in had all the extra materials they might have needed as well as the appliances intrinsic to the house like the oven and refrigerator. They repced any damaged or decayed pieces of the walls , rewired the whole house for the most moderrical model and checked the water lines aic situation all in under four hours. I found it crazy how effit the pany was at this job that might take purely humans a whole day or two normally. Still I gave the Machoke a wide grin and a pose when they packed up a after they finished up.-

  I wasn't even a little sorry for it at all as it was just too fun to see the enthusiasm the mon had when they left. I am pretty sure the thing was going to copy that pose whe could and cause it's owner a headache. I suppose it should also be mentiohat May received her starter at the end of this day si was deemed healthy by Birch finally. It arently league regution that any pokemon caught in the wild to be given out by a professional must undergo a sort of purification process that s out any hidden diseases or parasites keeping the rookie trainer safe.-

  I was obviously exempt from any deep checks since if my pokemon had anything like that I would have already caught it but since I hadn't there was no issue after a small check up. Still the process took a few days so May hadn't received the runt Treecko till now. Birch looked away in embarrassment after I pointed out the clear bias in his handing out that mon to his daughter. He seemed happy with his decision though so I didn't bring it up again.