Elf: Who told him to be an investigator!

Chapter 5: Gold Coin Drop?

"cough……"

Sweat choked on the salty, reddish seawater, feeling the cool licks on his cheeks and the slight pressure on his chest, and Ze Shu slowly opened his bewildered eyes.

His head was throbbing with pain, and his body felt like it was on fire, burning constantly. If it weren't for the cool air emanating from around him, he felt he might have died...

In the words of the Pokémon world: Sawaki is in a state of burns.

It was a particularly serious one.

Ze Shu was using the self-destruction technique against the masked man for the first time, and he didn't expect the side effects to be so severe.

but.

Ze Shu did not regret it.

He opened his eyes, saw the azure sky, and felt the sound of the waves crashing against the shore, and couldn't help but smile genuinely.

"At least I managed to escape."

"Bu-bu-ee!"

Ze Shu had already opened his eyes.

The ice-blue beast immediately let out a joyful cry.

Previously, Ze Shu's body had been convulsing and he had been unconscious, which had worried Ibu terribly!

Ignoring Zeki's burning body, Eevee rubbed its cute head against Zeki's chin and neck, bringing a soft and cool sensation.

"Bu-ee~ Bu-ee~ Bu~"

At this moment, its entire body pressed against Ze Shu's chest, continuously radiating cold air in an attempt to soothe Ze Shu's burning body.

It seemed that Eevee had been cooling him down for quite some time. Zeki noticed that the clothes on his chest, now dry and muscular, had stuck to Eevee's lower abdomen.

"My little Eevee is the most reliable..." he whispered.

"Eevee~" Glaceon's eyes narrowed happily.

As long as Zeshu is alright!

After a while.

"Where are we now?" Ze Shu asked.

"Buyi..."

Ice Eevee gently shook its head.

It doesn't know.

After Ze Shu 'self-destructed,' his body was thrown into the sea.

So they drifted at sea for a long time before finally arriving at this very, very far coast with the help of a whale king that happened to be passing by.

"Is that so... Anyway, at least we escaped."

However, the most pressing issue we need to address now is—

Resolve negative states within yourself.

Feeling the continuous high temperature inside its body, even the cool air emitted by Ice Eevee could not relieve it.

If he waited for the fever to subside naturally, he would have to endure the pain for at least another half month. In this situation in the wild, he couldn't afford to wait.

Ze Shu thought to himself.

He opened the system he hadn't looked at in a long time.

On the system's main interface, the "good deeds" he has done are summarized in a language that Ze Shu can understand.

[Accumulate good deeds: Accumulate 3 hours and 47 minutes of slacking off during training, take the Rainbow Feather and Silver Feather, thwart the Masked Man's plan, severely injure the Masked Man, and render him unable to move for a long time.]

[Good Deed Reply: Your escape successfully delayed the Masked Army's advance into Chengdu and also thwarted a man's plan to resurrect his 'lover'.]

Is what he's doing a good deed by fighting evil? No problem.

"That's truly a great kindness."

Ze Shu chose "Good Deeds Settlement".

I hope there will be a 'reward' to resolve his negative state.

Ta-da!

Like the reward sound of a cheap retro game, Ze Shu could see a dazzling light appear in his vision, and three treasure chests appeared out of thin air and floated in mid-air.

A bronze-colored, tattered treasure chest.

An exquisite treasure chest with a surface where silver and iridescent colors intertwine, occasionally interspersed with shimmering light.

There was also a treasure chest, its icy blue color interspersed with thick blocks of ice, as if it were formed from a collection of eternal ice.

The three treasure chests correspond to the three good deeds listed.

Ze Shu touched the bronze-colored treasure chest. This must be the result of his "good deed" of training to slack off; those three hours of slacking off were something Ze Shu had accumulated over half a year.

Suddenly, a faint, gray light flashed, and an item floated above the opened treasure chest—

Black glass whistle

[A whistle made of black glass that can produce a loud and piercing sound, attracting powerful Pokémon.]

Ze Shu: "Oh?"

It's a glass whistle again.

He had previously obtained a white glass whistle, but it was different from the black one. The white glass whistle attracted weaker Pokémon.

Zeshu was able to meet Eevee thanks to the white glass whistle.

When Zeshu blew the white glass whistle, a soft tone drifted out, and before long, a skinny little Eevee with messy, yellowish fur timidly poked its head out from the grass.

At that time, Eevee had just been born and had been wandering in the forest for many days without food.

Zeshu tried feeding it, and unexpectedly, it gained a reliable companion that has stayed with it ever since.

"Eee~?" As if feeling Zeki rubbing itself, Glaceon made a confused sound.

"I was thinking about you when you were little..."

Things from my childhood?

Everything about its childhood is about Ze Shu!

Glaceon squinted its eyes in confusion and happiness, nuzzling against Ze Shu's hand that was stroking it, showing great affection.

……

After rubbing Eevee for a while.

As Ze Shu touched the next treasure chest, a dazzling rainbow and silver light shone forth, and a bell gradually appeared.

【Sea Sound Bell】

[A bell that produces a tranquil sound. It seems to have stood the test of time; the sound it produces is somewhat faded, but perhaps it can awaken some longing within a Pokémon.]

Hai Sheng Bell?

In Ze Shu's memory, it seemed that in the game, one could summon the bell of Lugia, the legendary sea god. He noticed the phrase "some kind of Pokémon" in the item description, which suggested that Lugia must have a species.

I don't know what he can do with it; at least he doesn't need it now that he's sprawled on the ground.

Without further hesitation, open the next treasure chest, the one covered in eternal ice.

click -

The moment the treasure chest opened, a sound like ice cracking appeared, and a cuboid material materialized in front of Ze Shu.

【Icicle Slab】

Ze Shu: "?"

There was no introduction, but Ze Shu recognized him at a glance.

Isn't this the sheep... the Slate of Arceus?!

Where did the system get stolen from?

Why did Uncle Liu drop these gold coins?

Under the curious gaze of Glaceon.

A bluish-green stone slab, resembling a reversed flow of light, appeared in Ze Shu's hand. He felt it, and it seemed to only bring a slight coolness, and could not immediately resolve his current negative state.

Ze Shu: "..."

Ok.

After handing the "Ice Pillar Slab" to Glaceon, Zeki endured the pain in his body and thought with slight frustration.

I've opened all the treasure chests, but I still haven't found any items that can cure my "burn status".

We can only take it slowly...

Thinking this, he listened to the sound of the waves, propped himself up slightly, and wanted to take a step to soak in the seawater, at least to cool down a bit more.

Although the climate in this place, which I don't know exactly, seems to be a bit colder than in Chengdu, the scorching summer heat still lingers, and the air is still very hot.

But just then...

"Squeak, squeak?!"

An exaggeratedly surprised shout came from the woods behind Ze Shu.