Reborn Into Pokemon With An Odd System - Volume 1 Chapter 34
Max was woken up by the smell of something cooking, he opened his eyes and found that the sun was already up, he yawned and began to stretch. When he looked around he found that Serenity was sitting down and leaning on the marked tree as she petted Charmander.
He stood up and turned around to the direction where the smell was coming from and found Lance sitting next to a fire with his spear which had a rat-like creature impaled on it and over the fire. Max waved at Serenity and walked over to the blue-haired servant, “Morning man, what’s that?”
Lance sighed and shook his head “Kid, don’t get lazy on me. Just because we aren’t training at the moment doesn’t mean that you get to wake up late. If it wasn’t for that assassin I would have kicked you awake hours ago.”
Max scratched his head and turned around to look at Serenity and worded out a ‘thank you’.
“Anyway as for your question about what I’m cooking its a squirrel, since Serenity didn’t let me wake you up to take some meat out of your storage then I had to hunt something. Honestly, after some time trying to find an animal I nearly decided to cook a Rattata but then I spotted a squirrel and made do with that.”
Max nodded and stood up and looked at Serenity “Since I said that we could go out on a date today how about we eat something at a restaurant and then we can do some shopping.”
The purple-haired servant gave him a big smile and nodded “Yeah I’d like that.”
Max gave her a small nod and turned back to look at Lance “You want to teleport to the city today? If you do you would have about 3 hours of alone time and then we would start getting the things that we need to get done.”
Lance yawned and shook his head “Nah, after I eat this I’ll just lay around and get some relaxation time. It’s been a while since I’ve had time to just chill and feel the sun and breeze. If you need anything just come and get me and we can do whatever crazy thing you have in mind.”
Max laughed and looked at Serenity and asked for her hand but she shook her head and looked at him nervously, “Do you think that we could walk to the city and not teleport there.”
He gave her a wide smile and nodded “Of course, I need the work out anyway hehe.”
He turned to Lance and bought out a pack of sodas next to him. The servant glanced at it and sighed “Come on brat I’m not a child anymore how bout bringing something like a nice pack of cold beers.”
Max laughed and shook his head “Nah man, you know that my abilities can’t simply produce the things I want out of thin air, I had to buy all the things that I bring out and if you haven’t noticed I’m not at the age where I can purchase alcohol haha.”
Lance nodded his head “Well thanks anyways kid, at least you got my favorite sodas.”
Max gave him a nod and began walking towards the city with Serenity by his side. After about 20 minutes of walking, they reached Celadon city and began looking around. They ended up finding a place called the Slowbro Grill.
They both ordered something to eat and Max brought out his laptop from his storage and pretended to get it out of his backpack. He started searching for the addresses of the places that he had to go to.
Max was happy that he found everything right away and with no trouble at all. He quickly put it away and smiled at Serenity “Sorry about that, I just wanted to make sure that I could find the information that I needed.”
She shook her head “Don’t worry about it, I know that out of all of us, you are the busiest one since neither I or Lance know much about business. Just you willing to spend time with me is enough.”
Max nodded and began to tell her about his childhood and how Lance had ‘tortured’ him every day. After waiting for a while the food finally arrived and they began eating. When they finished they entered the mall and began choosing clothing and looked over furniture that they might buy later on.
Time flew by when they were hanging out and soon Max noticed that he had spent 4 hours with her. He brought out Charmander and gave her a nervous smile “I have to go and pick up Lance, I’ll leave this little guy to keep you company. After everything is set we can go out again for the whole day without any interruptions.”
Serenity nodded and began petting Charmander “Don’t worry, it’s all fine.”
Max smiled and brought out 2 grand and gave it to her “Here I gave you money yesterday, but I have a feeling that you might have spent most of it on getting the clothes that you needed.”
She thanked him and they both went their separate ways. Max found an alleyway and teleported to the camp, when he arrived he looked around but couldn’t find the servant. Suddenly he felt something hit the tops of his head with a pinecone, he lifted his gaze and found Lance laying down on a branch of a tree.
He gave Max a mischievous smile “I thought that you had forgotten that you had other things to do today haha.”
Max scratched his head and laughed “I lost track of time, well I have the addresses of the places that we need to go to. Get changed into a suit so that you look professional.”
Lance sighed and caught his bag that Max had brought out, he began changing while Max put the camp away.
When preparations were finished they went to the Celadon Forest Management Offices. It was a small glass building that seemed to be about 6 floors high. Max entered first and was greeted by a receptionist who looked at him and gave him a small smile.
Max gave him a short nod and walked over to the bald receptionist”Um hi, we were wondering if you could tell us where we had to go if we wanted to purchase some land in the forest.”
The man looked at him for what seemed to be a whole minute and then he looked at Lance and gave him a questioning look to make sure that Max had been serious.
Lance laughed and nodded “Yeah, he’s telling the truth.”
He could tell that the man still had some doubts but he pointed to the elevator “The people that you are looking for are on the 5th floor. When you get there make sure to take a numbered ticket and wait your turn.”
They both nodded and thanked him before turning around and going towards the elevator. When they arrived on the fourth floor Max walked over to the ticket dispenser and grabbed a ticket with the number 34. He looked at the red clock looking thing on the wall that had the number 26 they sighed and sat down. After waiting for an hour and a half their number was finally called and they were taken to a soundproof room.
A woman was waiting for them as soon as Max saw her he started fearing the worst, and his fears were right on the money since as soon as Lance sat down he broke the silence, “Wow if I knew that there was such a beauty here I would have come to try to purchase some land here a lot earlier.”
Max was tempted to slap Lance senseless, he could tell that the woman did not like the stupid lines so he quickly began to speak before things got worse, “Hi ma’am, what my father meant is that we wanted to start a business, we are here because we want to buy some of the land in the forest so that we can begin to build.”
She looked at him surprised and before she had a chance to ask Lance he continued, “I understand that it’s probably awkward to talk with someone my age about this, the thing is that my father wants me to learn about the steps at making a business step by step. He told me that the only reason that he would talk business at all when I was present is if I made a mistake.”
The woman looked at him and smiled “If that’s the way it is then let’s continue, my name is Lisa and I will be the one that makes sure that all the paperwork gets done correctly and that the payment is received.”
He smiled back and gave her a handshake “Hi Lisa, my name is Max”.
She nodded and began typing on her computer and then turned the screen towards Max, it had a map of the forest that surrounded Celadon City, “Max use the touch pen that you have in front of you to draw the border of the land that you want to buy, as long as the area is green you can buy it but if it’s red then it means that it already belongs to someone else.”
He nodded and began to draw around the area that he remembered Lance showing him the night prior, once he had finished it he turned around to look at Lance, “Father does this seem correct?”.
The blue-haired servant looked at the screen closer and nodded “Yeah you got it right kiddo.”
Lisa turned the screen back towards her and nodded, the selected area is roughly 21 acres, that value of that land is 588,000 dollars. Do you still wish to purchase it?”
They both nodded and Lisa handed Lance a stack of paperwork which like usual he tossed over to Max.
Lisa smiled and looked at him “Max I’m going to need you to return as soon as you can with the paperwork finished, well save the land that you chose for a week but if you take longer than that to deliver, then it’s going to be fair game for everyone else.”
He nodded and they walked out of the building, Lance yawned and looked at Max over his shoulder “Okay, now that we have that done what’s next?”
Max sighed as he looked over the paperwork and looked at the servant “Well the next stop is the Foodlax factory.”
The servant looked at him confused “The foodlax? That name sounds pretty unique hehe.”
Max nodded and laughed “yeah their logo is a Snorlax with a chef hat and apron. They are still a pretty small company so I decided that we could make a pretty good deal where each one of us will be on equal footing.”
They got on a cab and rode to the factory, when they arrived they were stopped by security that wouldn’t let them in. Lance told them that they wanted to talk with the managers to try and come up with a business deal.
After persisting for some time the men decided to contact the managers. After a few minutes a tall middle-aged man with long black hair walked out of one of the buildings and waved at Lance, “Hi, I was told that you want to talk business?”
Max quickly walked forward and nodded “Yes that’s right my father is opening a business and we will need a lot of pokémon food. We were hoping that we could talk with the company owners to schedule a meeting and talk it over in a business dinner.”
Max had gotten a bit angry when he was being ignored and he was getting even more pissed now that he was being looked at by the man who had an annoyed expression. The tall man shook his head and sighed “Stop wasting my time, if you don’t have anything ready yet then just buy food in stores like everyone else. Come to me when you have the business ready and you know for sure that you’ll buy a lot of food.”
The man turned around and began walking back to the business. Max was about to jump and beat the crap out of the arrogant man but he was stopped by Lance. The blue-haired servant looked at the security guards and smiled “Is the CEO of this place as grumpy as this man?”
The 3 men shook their heads with angry expressions as they saw the man walking away, “That man is an ass, he treats us worse than trash but whenever the owner is here he acts completely different.”
Lance nodded and sighed “Have you guys reported him?”
All three of them shook their heads “No, he is the son in law of the owner and we are simple guards, it’ll be our word against his. Unlike him, we need our job and we can’t risk losing it.”
Max and Lancer nodded and turned around and began to walk away. Lance was whistling but stopped after they were out of hearing range from the men “So what now? Do we try someone else?”
He shook his head and gave him a mischievous smile “Nah that dude has to pay, I can’t let an ass like that go freely. Besides if we tell the owner the way that we were treated I imagine that they would be grateful, I mean imagine how many possible business offers he kicked out the door already. I’m also going to ask for an even bigger discount from them for the treatment we received and the help I gave them. If they still don’t kick the man out then I gotta find some way to take over the company.”
Lance burst in laughter and patted Max on the back “Your cheap side reappears once again haha. Do you even know how a food business like that is ran?”
Max shook his head “Nope but one learns from their mistakes, anyway I’m going to need you to go and have a look at the man’s phone. I’m sure that he will have the contact information from the owner.”
Lance nodded and they began walking through the city to find an empty alley, while he was thinking about the future Max felt a pat on the right side of his shoulder. When he turned around he found Lance pointing at one of the alleys, when he looked at it he saw a man cornering a couple. There was also a Houndour showing it’s chompers as it threatened the man that shielded the woman.
The blue-haired servant laughed quietly and whispered into his ear “Like always brat you have some good luck, looks like you get to release some steam haha.”
Max sighed and shook his head “Man don’t make it sound like I’m some sort of serial killer, but yeah I just gotta pretend that he’s that asshole. Let’s not hurt the pokémon tho, Serenity might enjoy the company once we get him trained properly hehe.”
