Chapter 140: Chapter 140: Gold Coins in Hand, Ursaring Defies Fate
"You want to thank me?", Axel squatted down, took out the food that the pokemons hadn't finished eating last night and handed it to the Ursaring.
"I'll accept the gesture, but you've also seen it, I'm not lacking food here."
"If you have extra food, better store it for yourself."
"Rawr!"
The Ursaring shook its head vigorously, not touching Axel's food, both front paws fiercely scratching at the ground.
["Translator... he said... if you don't go, he won't eat..."]
"Alright," Axel agreed. He could tell this Ursaring truly wanted to thank him.
If he didn't accept the bear's thanks tonight, it would probably keep blaming itself.
"Then how about you take us there?"
"Rawe!"
A few minutes later, the Ursaring led Axel to a cave in a small grove.
The little fellow raised its head and puffed out its chest, stood upright on its front paws, and patted its chest hard.
"Looks like you're very proud of your collection, open it up and let us see?"
"Rawr!"
The Ursaring rubbed its hands together and pushed a stone aside with effort.
The next moment, a pile of items appeared in front of Axel.
Broken tempered glass, a bronze Pikachu statue, marbles kids play with... all shiny things.
Besides these, there were also various kinds of berries and nuts.
Axel smilingly patted the Ursaring's head and took a few marbles, "Can I take these? Consider it our friendship gift, and I'll leave you some healing medicine, so you can live more comfortably here for a while."
Actually, the Ursaring's things weren't worth much. The only somewhat valuable ones were the berries and the Pikachu statue.
But Axel considered the possibility that the Pikachu statue was the bear's "friend," and the berries were its food, so he chose the least valuable marbles.
"Rawr!"
Seeing Axel about to leave, the Ursaring quickly grabbed his pants leg.
As a Ursaring, his stash definitely wasn't just this little bit.
It was just camouflage to guard against bandit Fearows.
He burrowed into the cave a few times, expanded the entrance a bit more, and pushed another stone aside from inside.
The next moment, a burst of golden light gushed out from within.
Axel stared wide-eyed at the items inside the cave. A huge pile of strangely shaped gold coins.
There were three small circles in the center of the coins, and three symmetrical small circles around the edges.

If Axel wasn't mistaken, these were the gold coins of the Gimmighoul.
As long as one collected 999 of them, the Gimmighoul could evolve into a pokemon made of pure gold, Gholdengo.
In its fifteen-hundred-year lifespan, the Gimmighoul would roam everywhere to collect gold coins.
Also, once such coins were collected by a Gimmighoul, they would become part of its body and could never be separated again.
Precisely because of this, these coins were extremely rare on the market.
Usually, each one could be sold for several hundred thousand at a high price.
If a trainer's Gimmighoul happened to have over 900 coins, they'd typically pay even more to collect additional coins.
"You want to give me this?", Axel looked at the Ursaring with some anticipation. Last time at the little loli's lab, he saw a treasure chest nearly full of coins owned by a Gimmighoul.
If he got these twenty-some coins here, maybe in some time he could get a Gholdengo.
Ghost + Steel dual type brought three complete immunities, eight double resistances, and one quadruple resistance.
Plus the powerful exclusive move Gold Rush with 120 base power, it could be an extremely strong special attacker.
Compared to battles, Axel valued another property of Gold Rush more.
This move could actually generate gold coins.
Let's see who dares to make me take the soft route again then.
Seeing Axel so excited, the Ursaring nodded vigorously and proudly looked at him.
'Impressive, right?'
"Very impressive!", After the excitement, Axel quickly calmed down.
These 20+ coins here were conservatively worth tens of millions; it wouldn't be right to just take them.
"Ursaring, would you like to come with me? I'll help you become powerful."
The Ursaring froze for a moment, then shook its head.
It didn't like becoming strong, it just liked collecting things carefree.
"Alright... then do you want to become powerful just a tiny bit?"
The little eyes of the Ursaring immediately lit up.
It really wanted to become strong, that way it wouldn't be afraid of anyone trying to catch it.
"Okay, wait here, I'll go buy some things."
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One hour later, Axel returned to the Ursaring's home carrying a large pile of stuff.
Toxic TM, Protect TM, Substitute TM, Thunder Wave TM, Belly Drum TM.
Besides these, Axel also made a bunch of Poison-type and Normal-type food for the bear at the diner near the Friendship Store.
"Here, this purple biscuit is poison-type energy. You have to learn Toxic before eating it, or you'll get poisoned."
"And this normal-type food. Eat more of it, it'll help you evolve earlier."
After giving the TMs and food to the Ursaring, Axel sat on the ground and began teaching it how to battle.
"In the future, if someone or some pokemon wants to fight you, first hit them with Thunder Wave to paralyze them, then throw Toxic."
"If the opponent is tough, use Substitute and Protect to stall."
'If they're just average, hide in your cave and use Belly Drum."
"Got it?"
The Ursaring's eyes lit up.
'Sounds really awesome!'
Seeing how excited the Ursaring looked, Axel hurriedly reminded it again.
"But you have to remember, never take the initiative to attack humans or other pokemons, or you might accidentally kill someone."
The food Axel gave had a lot of energy infused. Preliminary estimate was that after eating, it could bring the Ursaring up to level 39.
That level was already very dangerous in the city, he had to instill the right values in the little guy.
Going any higher would be difficult, because this Ursaring had ordinary aptitude. Right now Axel had forcibly raised its limit close to Gym-tier.
If it were another trainer, even investing tens of millions might not raise the little guy to level 39.
"Rawr!"
The little guy nodded hard, remembering Axel's words in his heart.
"Then I can rest easy. Let's meet again if there's a chance in the future."
"But I'll be leaving very soon, probably for a long time... You have to behave yourself."
"Rawr!"
The Ursaring stuffed all the gold coins into Axel's pocket, reluctantly waving goodbye...
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