Qianqiu, who was completely exhausted, lay on the big steel snake, sucking the straw in his mouth, trying to enjoy his few leisure time.
Chuanshan King jumped up and down to Qianqiu and handed her a piece of glutinous rice dumpling.
"If you don't have an appetite, just eat it yourself."
King Chuanshan was not polite and divided the glutinous rice dumplings filled with bean paste into two halves and gave half to the gophers. The two elves ate comfortably.
The big steel snake curled up on the ground saw Kikuno walking not far away, and the tip of its tail twitched, causing Qianqiu to jump up and try to cooperate with the big steel snake as if he was training.
As one of Kikuno's successors, Chiaki's path to becoming an excellent ground-based trainer was full of hardships.
Many young people only see the handsome side of the trainer standing on the field, and few have a deep understanding of how much effort they need to make in order to become stronger.
To outsiders, Kikuno is kind and friendly.
Luther had met Kikuno several times and felt that she was a kind and courageous elder.
This ruthless man drugged Thester to death with his own hands, sending the ambitions of the mob to hell, and also helped Luther reduce the blood on his hands. Therefore, Luther has always had great respect for Kikuno.
But in Chiaki's opinion, Kikuno is too strict.
Since she followed Kikuno, she has been challenging herself all the time, and her self-confidence was even violently beaten by Kikuno.
The Big Steel Snake, Panshan King and Gopher all came together, but under their own command, they just couldn't defeat Kikuno's Super Armored Rhinoceros.
The hard training in the past year made her feel like a fool who had no progress and was extremely stupid.
She used many methods, including a frontal attack, a feint attack by two elves, a big steel snake to attract hatred from the front, and even thought of using her endurance to kill the super-armored rhinoceros.
However, Super Armored Rhino used brutal hard power to defeat Qianqiu's style of play every time.
The first assignment assigned by Kikuno was to break through the defense of Super Armored Rhinoceros, but a full year later, Qianqiu still failed to do it.
Qianqiu often thinks of Luther who sent the big steel snake.
After watching the Lily of the Valley Conference, she respected Luther very much and was eager to find a way to win from him. However, after practicing, she found that it was not suitable at all.
Qianqiu is fourteen years old this year. Others of the same age have already embarked on the road of travel, but here she is still fighting against the black, hard and hateful super-armored rhinoceros.
Luther traveled for a year and became a winner...but he kept standing still.
It's not like giving up, Qianqiu just started to think about whether he is really bad...
"Mr. Kikuno, may he have misjudged the person... Maybe the boy named Xiao Cang is more qualified to be the successor."
Seeing Kikuno coming over, Qianqiu couldn't help but sigh inwardly.
Kikuno glanced at Chuanshan King who was busy wiping his mouth, and it was clear that Qianqiu was just lazy.
She didn't say anything, she just said that there were guests, and then led Qianqiu back to the house.
Seeing the two people sitting on the sofa, Qianqiu's somewhat anxious expression disappeared and was replaced by joy.
"Hey, Xiao Qianqiu." Luther smiled and waved, "I heard that Kikuno said you were training, didn't I disturb you?"
Mai rummaged around and found a red envelope among the things she had purchased before, and handed it to Qianqiu.
"I really don't know what you like, so I discussed it with Luther and purchased a set of gift certificates that trainers will use when they start traveling. It includes sleeping bags, tents, simple cooking utensils, etc."
"You just need to use the code on the gift certificate to have the merchant deliver the goods to your door."
Seeing that Qianqiu had no intention of reaching out to take it, Mai thought she was shy, so she grabbed Qianqiu's little hand and stuffed it directly into her palm.
Qianqiu's nose felt a little sore. Seeing that Kikuno was still there, she tried to hold it back, then lowered her head and tried to suppress her feelings.
She really wanted to tell Luther and Mai that she was useless. She agreed that she would get something from Kikuno this year and enter the training time.
However, for a whole year, she has been standing still, making no progress.
The gift certificates that Mai carefully selected were probably wasted, because even she herself didn't know whether she would be able to successfully graduate.
"Boss Kikuno, give me some respect. Sirona and A'Du are both determined to go to the island to celebrate the New Year. Even Karuna sneaked over here during the busy schedule. It's not okay for you to stay at home."
Luther respectfully poured a cup of tea for Kikuno.
"Boss Kikuno" is a title invented by Sirona. After Wu Song spread it, it gradually became a common joke among acquaintances.
It is not difficult to see from this incident that Wu Song is really everywhere.
Seeing the enthusiastic expressions of Luther and Mai, Kikuno, who always liked to spend the New Year quietly, sighed: "Okay, okay, I will show up on time. What's the point of forcing me to go to the island before the house is built?"
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Luther touched his head in embarrassment. After all, in order to ensure quality, he told the two masters and the engineering team that work should be done slowly and carefully, and only for refinement and not speed.
In two months, so many people cooperated with the elves, and only Sirona's villa and Cattleya's small castle were built.
Kikuno glanced sideways at Qianqiu, who was still looking at her toes, sighed helplessly, and said something in Luther's ear while standing up.
Luther raised the corners of his mouth slightly and promised in a low voice: "Leave the little things to me."
Saying that he was going to answer the phone, Kikuno walked out of the room.
Seeing Kikuno go out, Qianqiu handed the gift certificate to Mai, said "It's too valuable, I can't accept it", bowed and turned around to leave the room.
"Stop." Luther called to Qianqiu, "It's almost the Chinese New Year. Is there any way to take back the gifts after giving them out?"
"There's something wrong with you. When I was a guest the last few times, you would sit around and ask questions. If possible, you would even want to have some privacy. This time, you are silent and don't even want a gift."
Luther's tone slowed down, he stood up and pulled Qianqiu to sit across from him.
Mai asked gently: "Tell your sister, what happened? Did Teacher Kikuno scold you?"
Qianqiu shook his head: "Teacher Kikuno is very good to me. As long as I want to learn, she will teach me. Even if it is a skill that she never shows others, she is willing to perform it for me."
"So training is very hard?" Although he already knew something, Luther continued to ask.
"Compared to other trainers who have no one to guide me, my suffering is completely happiness..."
Qianqiu knows very well how difficult her chances are.
The person who guides me is the former Sinnoh League champion, the ground type king who even Sirona finds difficult, and one of the best trainers in the entire Sinnoh.
Opportunities that many people dreamed of just hit her on the head. As long as she stretched out her hand, a bright future was right in front of her.
"But I see that you are very confused and sad now," Luther said.
After hesitating for a while, Qianqiu burst into tears.
"I feel that I am not worthy to be Mr. Kikuno's successor."