The afternoon sun, like a passionate dancer, poured unreservedly onto the silver-white sand, each grain sparkling as if embedded with tiny gold flakes.
The waves, like lazy Pokémon, gently lapped the shore, making soft sounds as if humming a soothing lullaby.
However, in stark contrast to this pleasant beach scenery, Chen Kai stood with a look of utter despair on a relatively open sandy area, hands on his hips, gazing helplessly at the three problematic Pokémon before him.
The joyful and harmonious atmosphere of the morning had long since vanished like smoke.
First, there was Xiao Gao, the name Chen Kai had just given to the 'small' Exeggutor.
Chen Kai considered that he now had three Exeggutor at home, so he needed to name them to differentiate them.
Initially, Chen Kai had a flash of inspiration and thought 'Green' was a good name, catchy and fitting, but to his surprise, the 'small' Exeggutor shook its neck and head frantically, expressing its refusal.
Chen Kai, unwilling to give up, then came up with a series of bizarre names like 'Round Egg' and 'Long Neck', each more peculiar than the last.
The 'small' Exeggutor, upon hearing them, was probably thinking: 'No wonder it hasn't rained lately; it's because these names have rendered me speechless!'
After rejecting countless strange names, the 'small' Exeggutor, out of helplessness, had to choose the relatively normal 'Xiao Gao'.
But this name was just a minor interlude; what truly gave Xiao Gao a splitting headache was Chen Kai asking it to use a bunch of new moves it had just learned.
Xiao Gao, having just evolved, felt like a volcano on the verge of erupting within its body, surging with an unprecedented amount of power.
Information about various Grass-type, Dragon-type, and even Psychic-type moves that Alolan Exeggutor could master, like a rushing flood, unhinderedly washed over its consciousness.
Its three main heads plus one tail head, a total of four 'processors', were now like being caught in a frantic information storm, with massive amounts of new move data crashing and colliding between the four heads, constantly transmitting and sometimes even 'short-circuiting'.
And sure enough, before it could even use a move, Xiao Gao was already dizzy and disoriented, unable to train properly, looking at Chen Kai with pitiful eyes.
Chen Kai could only check on Dracovish first.
Chen Kai tried to give it an affectionate name, 'Xiao Yu', but Dracovish completely failed to grasp the situation; no matter how Chen Kai called 'Xiao Yu', it just continued playing on the beach as if Chen Kai was calling someone else.
It would only react when called 'Dracovish'.
Then, Dracovish's move usage was simply a 'random adventure'.
Chen Kai would tell it to use Tackle, but it would act like a mischievous child, using a random attack move entirely according to its mood.
This 'Tackle' command, when it reached Dracovish, might turn into Water Gun, or it might be Thrash; of course, if lucky, there was a one-third chance it would actually use Tackle.
The situation was the same when Chen Kai called for Thrash or Water Gun.
This was like 'Schrödinger's move'; before Dracovish fully executed the move, no one knew what 'surprise' it would pull out, including its trainer, Chen Kai.
Chen Kai was still not giving up and wanted to teach Dracovish the 'Protect' move, even specifically having Big Boss demonstrate it for it.
But Dracovish, throughout, tilted its head, looking bewildered, as if pondering, 'What exactly are you guys doing? I don't understand at all!'
At that moment, whether it was actually thinking was still a question mark.
Chen Kai had no choice but to have Zhou Zicheng command Rowlet to use Leafage on Dracovish, hoping to create a sense of danger and trigger Dracovish's 'Protect' move.
Chen Kai loudly commanded: 'Dracovish! Danger! Quick! Protect!'
Rowlet weakly flapped out a few leaves, looking like it was just going through the motions.
Dracovish, seeing the attack coming, its small eyes suddenly lit up as if it had discovered something fun.
Immediately after, it suddenly lowered its head and used its huge fish head covered in thick armor.
'Bang!'
Dracovish used Tackle, forcefully scattering those few pathetic leaves!
Afterward, it even proudly shook its head; not only that, it tried to continue ramming the Rowlet that dared to attack it.
Seeing this, Chen Kai quickly stopped it, crying and laughing as he shouted: 'That's Tackle! Not Protect!!!'
After all this hassle, Chen Kai reluctantly concluded that he was truly unsure if Dracovish could use 'Protect', but he was certain that in Dracovish's mind, there seemed to be no concept of 'defense' at all.
In its perception, offense was the best defense; no matter what threat it encountered, enduring it with its body or using other methods to ram the threat away was what it understood as 'protection'.
After several hours of work, Chen Kai was exasperated by Dracovish and decided to put its problems aside for now.
Finally, he turned his gaze to the Slacking Swablu.
Chen Kai clapped his hands and shouted: 'Don't stop! Keep running!'
Speaking of this Swablu, Grandpa's execution ability was no joke; he thought of having Chen Kai help train Swablu in the morning and came to find Chen Kai at noon.
Chen Kai didn't take it seriously at first, thinking that since he was already training several Pokémon, one more wouldn't matter, so he readily agreed.
But in the afternoon, when he weighed Swablu, Chen Kai was truly startled.
A normal Swablu weighs just over 1 kilogram, but the one Grandpa raised was almost 4 kilograms, nearly 8 pounds!
It was four times the normal weight!
Its plump appearance made it truly the 'heavyweight champion' of the Swablu world.
Chen Kai told it to lose some weight first, flying around the guesthouse for 10 minutes.
As a result, Swablu flew for 5 minutes, hadn't even completed one circle around the guesthouse, and then just flopped onto the ground, panting heavily, unable to fly anymore.
Chen Kai looked closely and found that Swablu hadn't even broken much of a sweat; it was clearly accustomed to being lazy and simply unwilling to move now.
After all, Grandpa's so-called 'going for a walk' usually involved carrying a birdcage, ostensibly to walk the bird, but in reality, Grandpa himself was exercising.
So whenever Chen Kai turned to guide Xiao Gao or was busy communicating with Dracovish, Swablu would secretly stop flying and find a cool corner to rest.
When Chen Kai found time to come back, it would quickly flap its wings twice, pretending to be very diligent.
Chen Kai guessed it was thinking: 'Anyway, Chen Kai is just helping with the training, and he's so busy, so I'll just give his Grandpa some face and do enough to get by. After a while, once this person leaves, I, Swablu, will be able to live a carefree life again!'
So it was just trying to fool Chen Kai.
Facing these three 'problem children', Chen Kai felt at a loss for a moment.
He couldn't help but recall Xiao Mei and Grovyle, sighing: 'How did those commercial companies even grade Xiao Mei and Grovyle? They are both truly gifted, geniuses among genius Pokémon!'
So, taking the opportunity of naming, Chen Kai also wanted to give Grovyle and Seadra nicknames.
Chen Kai gave the name 'Green', which Xiao Gao had previously rejected, to Grovyle.
Grovyle, upon hearing it, thought the name was quite good; after all, its body was indeed primarily Green, which was very fitting, so it readily accepted it.
Miraidon shook its head upon seeing this, recalling a time when Chen Kai had suddenly thought: 'Chen Kai's naming of Paradox Pokémon is barely acceptable, but why are the nicknames he gives other Pokémon so unbearable?'
Xiao Mei also couldn't help but complain to Big Boss and Xiao Gao: 'As expected of Grovyle, it really is 'birds of a feather' with Chen Kai!'
Chen Kai then turned his gaze to Seadra, and just as he was about to say the nickname he had for it, Seadra seemed to sense something and interrupted Chen Kai in advance, pointing its mouth at Chen Kai and warning loudly:
'Seadra, Seadra!' (If you dare say it, I'll hit your face with Bubble Beam!)
Seeing this, Chen Kai smiled helplessly, thinking: 'It's better not to give Seadra a nickname, or else it might 'stir up trouble'.'
