Ron fell silent upon hearing this.
After a long while, he took a deep breath and asked, "Are they—that gossipy?"
"There's nothing else to do in a small town anyway, ow," owth pondered for a mont, answering while drinking water.
"Indeedee! Indeedee!" Indeedee eagerly tried to chi in.
"You don't need to translate that," Ron said. He turned and walked out of the cabin, heading straight for the nearby coop.
"What's he going to do, ow?"
"Indeedee, Indee."
"Looking for a Rabbit's Foot?" owth's drinking action paused. "Will it grow back if it falls off?"
"Indeedee?" Indeedee tilted its head, thought for a mont, and shook its head. "Indeedee."
"You don't know either, ow." Hearing this, owth looked down at its own paws, suddenly feeling an inexplicable chill on them. It jumped down from the chair. "Then I'll head back too, ow—"
"Indeedee."
After saying goodbye to Indeedee, owth slowly walked toward the house where it lived with Jessie and the others.
Before it could even open the door, it heard an unbelievable murmur from insidem "It's really healed."
"What is it, ow?" owth pushed the door open and saw Jas lifting his shirt at that mont, repeatedly examining his back in the mirror.
"What's wrong, ow? Didn't you guys go for a physical today, ow?" owth asked while yawning and walking toward its little bed.
"Right, the doctor at the Pelican Town clinic, I think his na is Harvey." Jas turned toward owth, showing his back to it. "Look here, this is the scar I got when we got blasted off last ti and got snagged on a tree branch. It's completely gone!"
"ow?" owth paused its movents and turned its head to look at Jas.
"And this one, this was from the Team Rocket assessnt—" Jas pointed to his back. "It's healed too, not a single mark left."
owth actually knew about this.
It vaguely rembered that Jas was wrapped in bandages almost all over his body back then, and it had left behind so scars that couldn't be repaired.
"The dicine from this morning, ow?" owth leaned in to examine it. "Then the effect is really amazing, ow."
Jas looked again and again, then finally let his shirt down. "And it was free, too."
The concept of free dical care hardly caused any ripple in owth.
After all, no matter where they were, as long as it was a Pokémon, if it got injured, it just had to run to a Pokémon Center. As long as it didn't expose the fact that it could talk, ninety-nine percent of Nurse Joys would help treat it.
Moreover, because of a Pokémon's unique physiology, it had never been left with any scars. Even that ti Jessie was baking bread and accidentally burned its paw, it just went to the Pokémon Center once and was completely healed by the next day.
However, it still followed up with a sigh of emotion: "Then that's really incredible, ow."
Jas nodded and sat on the bed.
"Should we go back?" Jas suddenly said.
"Go back, ow?" owth plopped its butt down next to him. "Actually, owth also thinks it's better to leave early—unless—"
It didn't finish, but Jas instantly guessed what owth was going to say.
Unless—they quit Team Rocket and stayed here.
Just like Butch and the others, officially leaving Team Rocket.
"owth doesn't know, ow." owth tilted its head back, lying on the bed and staring at the ceiling. "By the way, Jas, why did you join Team Rocket again, ow?"
"—I don't rember." Jas lay down too, also looking at the ceiling. "What about you, owth?"
"I—wanted Boss Giovanni to value , ow." owth padded its paws behind its head, only saying this after a long while.
But now, it seed like it had been a long ti since it last dread of being valued by Giovanni.
On the contrary, its dreams had started to include Sailor, Indeedee, Maru—it had new, beautiful dreams.
"I see."
The room fell into a brief silence once again. Before long, owth's purring sounded. Jas turned his head, glanced at owth, and reached out to pull owth into his arms.
When Jessie finished her shower and walked to the bedside, she saw the two of them snuggled together.
"Seriously—" Jessie sighed and sat on the edge of the bed. "Leave this place—or quit Team Rocket—"
Thinking this, she couldn't help but rest her chin on her hands, staring at the fluttering snow falling outside the window.
On the other side, Ron rummaged through the coop for quite a while before rembering that Shane seed to have found a rabbit's foot in the coop one day and handed it to him.
Rummaging based on his mory, unsurprisingly, he found that Rabbit's Foot in a chest.
"How did things end up like this—" Ron rubbed the rabbit's foot in his pocket as he returned to the cabin and lay down on the bed.
"Indeedee!"
"Good night," Ron said, closing his eyes.
The next day.
Maru ca to the farm early in the morning. To test her first Rotom-series robot, Ron had specially cleared a small patch of land in the greenhouse to test the robot's agricultural applications.
Because there were already sprinklers for watering, the robot's duties were more focused on sowing and harvesting.
Ron handed Maru the leftover Starfruit seeds from his last trip to Ginger Island, then casually handed her a freshly baked Hazelnut bread for breakfast.
It was the last of the farm's stock. Normally, based on the farm's hazelnut supply, they could just make more hazelnut butter when it ran out, but after Jessie specially made a stuffed bread for Evelyn last ti, these supplies were pretty much used up.
"Thanks," Maru took it.
It was freshly baked and still a bit warm. Holding it in her hands, she glanced around the greenhouse: "This greenhouse is really nice. It's so warm even in winter."
Saying this, Maru ate her bread while handing the Starfruit seeds to the Rotom robot's hands.
"Current task—Sowing, Roto!" the Rotom robot chirped, then cupped the seeds and walked over to the empty patch of land.
"Isn't it a bit slow?" Watching the Rotom till the soil and bury the seeds, she couldn't help but turn and look at Ron.
"It does seem a bit slow."
"Slow? Roto?" The Rotom raised its head, looking at Ron and Maru. Then, it turned its head back and sped up its movents.
"Current task—Accelerate, Roto!" the Rotom robot shouted, its hand movents growing faster and faster.
"This should be just right—" Maru stuffed the rest of the bread into her mouth, clapped her hands, and called out to the Rotom robot.
Before she could even finish her sentence, the robot over there continued to yell: "Too slow! Accelerate, Roto!"
Imdiately after, burnt sll drifted over from the Rotom robot's arm.
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