It appeared!
Brand new intelligence about that Latias!
Carver's heart was quite excited. According to this intelligence, it seemed that as long as he could make apple pie, the Swellow before him could help invite Latias and Latios siblings to the breeding house?
Obviously, this was an excellent opportunity to meet legendary Pokémon.
But those two Pokémon were legendary after all. With his current strength, trying to capture them would probably be harder than reaching the heavens.
Carver couldn't help but fall into thought.
However, he quickly thought of another approach.
Since he couldn't defeat them, he'd use delicious food to entice them to stay!
Although the success rate was low, it was worth trying, wasn't it?
Thinking this, Carver immediately said to the Swellow before him:
"You must come to the breeding house tomorrow morning. I'll make you more delicious Pokéblocks!"
Swellow nodded expectantly.
Today Swellow had already filled its stomach. It affectionately nuzzled this human's cheek, then flapped its wings and flew away.
Carver returned to the breeding house.
Before officially starting to make apple pie, he had one more thing to do.
Taking some medicine that supplemented nutrition and energy to the shed, that Bulbasaur had indeed woken up.
Seeing Carver approach, it was startled and instinctively wanted to hide.
But Gastly blocked its path.
"Bulba?!"
Bulbasaur turned back to see Gastly grinning at it.
"Gastly~!"
"You're getting bolder and bolder," Carver said, laughing at Gastly's behavior. "When you first came to the breeding house, you would hide in fear whenever you saw someone approaching."
Hearing this, Gastly felt somewhat embarrassed: "Gastly!"
Carver placed those Pokéblocks in front of Bulbasaur.
Only then did Bulbasaur look up at this human.
"Bulba..."
"Eat up, Bulbasaur." Carver smiled at it. "I've received your thoughtfulness, but you don't need to secretly tend to those vegetables in the field at night anymore."
"Bulba..." Bulbasaur was stunned at first—its actions had been discovered!
But not knowing what it was thinking, it quickly shook its head: "Bulba bulba!"
At this time, Carver saw a line of text in Bulbasaur's description.
[Bulbasaur wants to help here!]
Carver was slightly surprised, then raised an eyebrow and asked: "Do you want to stay in the farmland to help?"
Bulbasaur happily nodded: "Bulba!"
It felt awkward just freeloading here all the time, so it wanted to help with something too!
"I see..." Carver thought briefly, then continued: "If you really want to help, then work with Oddish to tend those vegetables from now on!"
"Bulba bulba!" Bulbasaur's eyes lit up.
This was the first time Carver had encountered a Pokémon that wanted to work voluntarily, but overexerting itself like before wouldn't do.
Therefore, he instructed: "But you can't do it like that anymore. Rest when you're tired. If you can't finish in the morning, continue in the afternoon. Otherwise, it would be terrible if you collapsed from exhaustion."
Combined with his assistance and timely nutritional and energy supplements for both it and Oddish, neither Bulbasaur nor Oddish would suffer physical deficits from overexertion.
This was one of a breeder's roles.
"Bulba~"
Bulbasaur happily agreed.
After these few days together, it had grown to love this place!
This way, it could consider this place home from now on, right?
Bulbasaur looked over hopefully.
"Welcome to the team, Bulbasaur." Carver reached out and petted this Bulbasaur's head.
Bulbasaur's joy level immediately began rising.
[Bulbasaur's mood improved. Joy Level +60. Received Bulbasaur's gift: "Vine Whip" TM.]
[TM (Vine Whip): Grass-type move. Attacks by striking the opponent with slender, whiplike vines. Uses remaining: 9999/9999.]
Vine Whip, huh.
For Grass-type Pokémon, this was quite a good offensive move.
"Gastly gastly!"
Gastly nearby also floated over—it wanted attention too!
Carver reached out and petted Gastly as well.
Only then was Gastly satisfied.
Not far away, Chansey watched this scene with gentle eyes, seeming happy for Bulbasaur and Gastly.
Ralts showed envious expression in its eyes but didn't approach.
Ditto blinked its little eyes, watching this scene while thinking unknown thoughts.
As for Abra...
Abra was still sleeping.
Carver looked at the several Pokémon here, then like a magic trick produced a batch of treats and Pokéblocks suitable for most Pokémon's tastes, placing them in front of them.
"Chansey, Ralts, Ditto, and Abra, this is dinner I prepared for you. Please enjoy!"
After speaking, Carver said goodbye to the several Pokémon and turned to leave this place.
He still had important business to attend to.
In the breeding house kitchen, under the watchful eyes of two chef Clefairy, Carver officially began making apple pie.
According to Carver's knowledge, apple pie in this world originated from the western Galar region. Unlike Hoenn region's Japanese-style cuisine, apple pie was full of western flavor. Apple pies came in different shapes, sizes, and flavors, such as caramel apple pie, French apple pie, crumb apple pie, cream apple pie, and so on.
Carver didn't know which specific flavor of apple pie that Latias preferred. After thinking briefly, he decided to make some of each type.
"Clefairy...?"
Chef Clefairy curiously watched Carver's creation process.
Carver smiled and introduced: "This is apple pie, a very distinctive dessert."
Starting tomorrow, he could add this "apple pie" to Bewear Inn's menu.
This dessert had very low costs, requiring only apples, flour, and butter to make, and the creation process was very simple.
With the Clefairy's intelligence, they'd probably learn quickly.
Soon, the first batch of apple pie was completed.
Golden crispy crust wrapped around sweet, soft apple filling, creating tempting deliciousness.
The Clefairy watched while drooling profusely.
"Try it first, and I'll teach you how to make it later." Carver handed the completed apple pie to the two chef Clefairy.
The freshly baked apple pie was still somewhat hot.
The two chef Clefairy ate somewhat carefully.
However, when they tasted the apple pie's flavor, their eyes immediately lit up.
"Clefairy~!"
Facts proved his cooking skills were quite excellent.
"Not bad, right?" Speaking of his cooking, Carver felt a bit proud.
Fortunately it was him—if it were someone else who didn't know how to cook, even knowing that Latias and Latios liked apple pie, they might not be able to seize this opportunity.
Looking at the apple pie before him, Carver's heart couldn't help but begin anticipating tomorrow.
Everything was ready—now he just needed to wait for Swellow's arrival!