Seeing how eagerly everyone wanted this treasure, Julian felt quite pleased. He looked smugly at tagross and said, "See? Look at this! You didn’t want this treasure, but everyone else is fighting over it."
"Big Bro was thinking about the group, wanting to give this treasure to us, which is why he didn’t want it."
Arcanine, as tagross’s number one fanboy, imdiately stepped forward to defend it.
Moltres couldn’t help but roll its eyes at the scene.
"ta~"
tagross: "Using this thing will only turn you into a heartbreaker."
The Pokémon were confused, then all turned to look at their trainer in unison. Had their trainer been hiding so important information?
"Ahem."
Feeling slightly awkward under their collective gaze, Julian cleared his throat and explained the effects of Fragrant Mud.
"So, how about it? Isn’t the effect great? Once you use it, you’ll be a heartbreaker—no, I an, the most charming Pokémon in the world!"
Julian held up the Fragrant Mud, just like a street vendor selling fake antiques at a street stall, claiming sothing made just last week was a priceless relic from so ancient dynasty.
Of course, the effect of this Ultimate treasure was genuine—it had been verified by the Probing Eyes.
Julian had thought that once he explained the effects of the Fragrant Mud, his Pokémon would be thrilled.
After all, with this, they would never have to worry about finding a partner again.
"Just think about it. After using this, if your opponent on the battlefield is of the opposite sex, you could just give them a flirtatious look, and they would instantly fall for you."
"Victory without fighting—isn’t that the dream?"
Julian was passionately delivering his speech, his saliva nearly spraying onto Arcanine’s face.
"Hmph, only the weak rely on beauty to defeat their enemies."
Originally, a few Pokémon had been genuinely tempted, such as Salance, Garchomp, Duraludon, and Dragonite.
Hmm, why were they all Dragon-types?
Because Dragon-types tended to have stronger desires in this regard than Pokémon of other Typing.
Among the Egg moves of many Pokémon, one or two were often Dragon-type moves, indicating that one of their parents was a Dragon-type.
Of course, there was also the possibility of traits appearing after a few generation, though the further back, the lower the likelihood.
It was perfectly normal for Salance and the others to have such thoughts—there was nothing shaful about it.
They were all adult dragons—what was wrong with having such thoughts?
But after hearing what Kartana said, the expectant expressions on the dragons’ faces instantly froze.
Suddenly, Aggron spoke up: "Using this thing to attract mates—wouldn’t that an our charm isn’t enough, or that we’re ugly?"
"Look at my shiny armor, my thick thighs—with looks like these, I don’t even know how many female Aggron I would charm."
"Arf~"
Arcanine chid in: "Exactly! My looks are top-tier in the dog world. Last ti when master took to the dog park, a bunch of pretty female dogs were swarming around !"
"If he took to the salon for so fur grooming, I’d even be afraid of attracting the sa gender."
As it spoke, Arcanine glanced at Lucario beside it: "Vice-President, say sothing!"
Back at Imperial University, Arcanine was the president of the Dog Club, while Lucario was the vice president—though the title was more or less forced on it by Arcanine.
So ever since, Arcanine had been calling Lucario "Vice-President."
Lucario crossed its arms and said calmly, "My looks, as Lucario, speak for themselves."
If it weren’t for the fact that everyone, including Julian, knew this was Lucario standing right there, they would have thought it was Kartana—so full of itself.
But what Lucario said was indeed true. Among all Pokémon, its appearance easily ranked within the top five.
"The vice-president makes a fair point!"
Arcanine nodded in strong agreent. After all, this was its vice president—of course it had to support Lucario.
"What about you, stupid bird—oh right, I forgot, you don’t even have a gender," Arcanine said, its tone clearly mocking.
The dog really lived up to being a dog—one sentence offended all genderless Pokémon.
tagross shot Arcanine a slight glance, while Reshiram and Zekrom also turned their eyes toward it.
Luckily, the dog’s IQ had never been its strong suit, so none of the team’s big shots took it seriously.
Salance, Garchomp, and Duraludon all looked at Dragonite, their senior, urging it to speak up. If it didn’t say sothing soon, they would really have nothing left to say.
Dragonite looked at its juniors and suddenly realized that compared to them, it actually looked pretty good—just a bit round in the belly. But in the Dragonite world, a big belly was a sign of wealth and status!
"I think Arcanine is right. Natural charm is what matters."
"Only Pokémon who feel their charm isn’t enough would use sothing like this."
With that, Arcanine and Dragonite had basically sealed the argunt.
Now, if anyone still wanted to use the Fragrant Mud, it would an they felt their charm wasn’t enough or that they thought they were unattractive and needed this item to change themselves.
It was like using beauty filters on a phone cara—not only fooling yourself but also deceiving others.
"So none of you want it?"
Julian widened his eyes in disbelief.
All the Pokémon shook their heads. So genuinely didn’t want it, while others were too proud to admit they did.
Julian glanced at the more intimidating-looking mbers of the group.
"Tyranitar, you don’t want it?"
Tyranitar shook its head, looking slightly displeased. 'What, asking if I want it? Are you implying I won’t be able to find a partner in the future?'
"Steelix, what about you? Aren’t you always the most gluttonous one?"
Steelix indicated that it didn’t like eating mud.
"Pawniard?"
Pawniard: "My goal is to defeat my father, but my father is the sa gender as , so this thing is useless to ."
Damn—that way of thinking was a bit dangerous.
Well, a perfectly good Ultimate treasure was about to end up useless, and Julian was completely dumbfounded. Why were his Pokémon’s moral standards so high all of a sudden?
"Slowking, how about you?"
"Slow~"
Slowking: "Am I a junk collector? Everyone else doesn’t want it, and now you’re giving it to ? What do you an by this?"
Julian: ⊙0⊙
"No, no! I just thought you’re the only female mber on our team, so this item would suit you," Julian hurriedly explained.
If he didn’t smooth things over now, his days ahead would be tough.
Whether by coincidence or not, among Julian’s Pokémon, aside from the genderless ones, all were male. The only female was Slowking.
But his words clearly missed the mark.
Slowking’s face darkened: "Do you think I, Slowking, really have so little charm that I’d need to rely on this?"
Slowking was a female. Even though it was usually wise and composed, Julian’s words implied it was unattractive. Whether it was human won or female Pokémon, they all cared deeply about their appearance.
"Ahh, no, no! Slowking, that’s not what I ant. How about this—I’ll hold onto the item for now."
Julian instinctively took a step back and bumped into Magearna, imdiately positioning it in front of him.
Magearna: … (⊙_⊙; ) …
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