After putting all the pottery jars filled with liquor into the basement to wait for fermentation, Hakuya, just about to go upstairs back to his room, turned his head and happened to see the back of Lisia rushing to the bathroom with a flushed face holding a change of clothes, and couldn't help smiling.
It seemed that his training session just now had obviously brought quite a bit of stimulation to this Idol girl.
Shaking his head with a smile, Hakuya walked back to his room as usual.
"November 22nd, 2075, League Calendar. Hiyori Town Farm."
"Income: Berry sales total 50,000 League Coins"
"Expenditure: None"
"Today's arrangement: Picking berries and brewing wine"
"Remaining farm funds: 350,000 League Coins"
The berries picked with Dragonite in the mountain orchard this morning, apart from a portion used to brew fruit wine, a portion was stored in the basement as raw materials for making Poffins in winter, and the rest were all sold to Uncle Yoshino who came to the farm to collect goods.
After repeatedly confirming that the record had no omissions, Hakuya gently closed the logbook, raised his eyes to look at the Pidgey wall clock on the wall, and realized that the time had already reached 11 PM.
At this moment, the bright moonlight spilled in leisurely from the window sill.
Lilligant, responsible for warming the bed, that white silk girl in a princess dress, was sleeping on her side on the mattress. Breathing shallowly, her bright, moist buttock peaks like a moon disc loomed under the layered skirt hem. Meanwhile, Ariados, carrying the mysophobic Minccino girl on her back and secretly repairing spider webs in the corner, was hiding in the corner enjoying a wonderful sleeping time.
After gently tucking in the sheet for the green-skirted white silk girl on the bed, Hakuya pushed open the room door and walked down the stairs. Originally intending to go to the kitchen to drink a glass of warm water before sleeping, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a petite and exquisite figure curled up in a corner of the sofa just as he passed through the living room.
"Eh? Why are you still sitting here so late?"
"A bit hungry."
The living room lights suddenly lit up. This blonde girl in a sailor suit, sitting sunken in the sofa in a W-sitting posture with her head hanging low, replied in a tone without any ripples.
Because of being captured, she naturally anthropomorphized from her original Magikarp form into her current appearance.
A head of smooth, brilliant blonde hair draped over her snowy shoulders. Her exquisite nose was high and straight, her soft fragrant lips comparable to cherry blossom petals were lustrous and fresh, and her cheeks, smooth and white like porcelain, looked like snow and jade under the illumination of the incandescent lamp.
Shifting the gaze slightly downward, one could see voluptuous, full breast fat propping up the sailor suit slightly. Probably because the pleated skirt was too short, not only her fragrant, charming, soft knees, but also a considerable part of her snowy legs wrapped in white lace stockings were exposed.
"Here, these are Oran Berry flavored Poffins made this morning. Fill your stomach~"
A moment later, the blonde Fish Girl's gaze fell on the fresh-keeping box handed over by Hakuya, filled with crystal-clear cubic food.
Extending her plain white soft hand to take it, she didn't eat immediately. She just held the warm Poffins in her palms, her eyelashes lowered, long blonde hair strands sliding down her shoulders, gleaming with a soft luster under the bright lights of the living room.
For a while, only the sound of her extremely light breathing and the subtle friction of the fabric of her sailor suit remained in the air.
Seeing this, Hakuya simply sat down on the edge of the sofa armrest beside her, without any intention of urging her.
This familiar sense of déjà vu inexplicably reminded him of Feebas's equally indifferent and dull appearance before evolving into Milotic. It was just that this blonde Fish Girl didn't seem to be naturally emotionless and expressionless, but rather... a bit sleepy?
At this moment, after sniffing lightly with her exquisite nose for quite a while, the Magikarp girl took a small bite. Her movements were unhurried, chewing carefully with every bite, her cheeks bulging slightly with her chewing movements, like a pity-inducing little hamster.
"Is the taste okay?" Hakuya asked timely from the side, breaking the original silence in the living room.
The Fish Girl swallowed the food in her mouth, raised her eyes, still with that expressionless look, but her sapphire-like eyes blinked lightly under Hakuya's gaze. She nodded, the amplitude very small, her blonde hair tips swaying gently along with it.
"Mmn."
An extremely simple syllable escaped from her lips, clear yet flat.
And due to her movement of slightly raising her beautiful eyes to respond at this time, Hakuya finally saw this Fish Girl's face completely.
—Although her high exquisite nose was lustrous and superior to jade like white creamy agar, and her charming lips glowing with soft light were also moist as cherries, the fly in the ointment was that the bottom of her translucent silver eyes like pale snow was smudged with a circle of heavy black, completely staining the girl's face that should have been flawless with blemishes.
"Master, you... care about my dark circles, right?"
The blonde Fish Girl lowered her eyelids again and said softly.
Because of the lack of sleep for a long time, she was now not only shrouded in heavy dark circles between her brows and eyes, but her whole temperament also revealed a thick decadence and alienation.
After noticing Hakuya's concerned gaze, a faint touch of emotion and warmth involuntarily surfaced in Magikarp's heart, but her face remained as waveless as dead water, her mouth unable to pull out a trace of a joyful arc.
"It doesn't matter. You don't have to pity me so much."
Her words were light and airy, like a sigh sinking into the bottom of the water.
But a moment later, this blonde Fish Girl realized that this response was too indifferent and heartless. Her fair, tender fingertips unconsciously twisting her skirt hem, she lowered her head and continued speaking leisurely.
"Mmn, what I said just now didn't mean that I dislike your concern, Master..."
"After all... I've long been accustomed to days without sleep..."
Counting the time, the Magikarp girl didn't know which year of insomnia this was for her.
Maybe some unknown years ago, maybe right from birth?
But what the Magikarp girl could be sure of was that whether it was the early morning when the sky just brightened, the noon with scorching sun, or the evening with lingering twilight, or even when she was in the dead of night when all sounds were silent, she couldn't sleep peacefully like other Magikarp, as if cursed by some special curse.
Of course, this curse naturally wouldn't just keep her from sleeping. After all, lacking sleep for a long time would definitely bring her body to the brink of collapse in the end.
As a maintenance of life, whenever this blonde Fish Girl was about to completely fail to hold on, a special power in the dark would restore vitality to her exhausted body.
Precisely because of this, she could leave other Magikarp in the river far behind, reaching level 40, approaching the second-line team of Gym Leaders. It was just that although her body's vitality was restored, the mental fatigue from her heart could not be eradicated.
"..."
At this moment, looking at the Fish Girl holding her knees with her head lowered, Hakuya was speechless for a moment.
There was a famous saying in his previous life that fit the current scene very well: the joys and sorrows between people are not connected, let alone the sleep problem between a human and a Pokémon girl.
But witnessing this Fish Girl's face looking calm on the surface, while the words drifting from her lips revealed a numbness of resignation to fate, Hakuya couldn't help feeling a bit of heartache.
Compared with the Feebas captured initially who hadn't evolved into the current Milotic, if the latter was a naturally emotionless girl—no mouth, no heart, no expression—then this blonde Fish Girl showed an attitude of indifference to everything due to long-term lack of sleep and mental fatigue.
However, as a Trainer, he seemed to have no way to solve this problem either.
Master-level Aura ability generally could only be used to sense and manipulate Aura energy, and the incomplete version of psychic power couldn't eradicate Magikarp's insomnia curse.
As for hypnosis moves that could make Pokémon sleep, the same was true. Whether it was Popplio's hypnotic song or Darkrai's Dark Void move, they had failed to make this Magikarp girl fall into a sleep state earlier.
Although it was unclear where the problem lay, to eradicate and cure it, he could only seek out that legendary omniscient and omnipotent Creator God—Arceus. But that guy was elusive. Even if Hakuya knew the plot of anime and games from his previous life well, in reality where the plot had changed now, it was impossible for him to find Arceus in a short time.
"Mmn... Sorry, I indeed haven't experienced insomnia, and currently have no solution... How about I give you a relaxing massage tonight? Since it's not too late anyway."
Hakuya reached out and placed his hand lightly on top of her head, deliberating after pondering for a moment.
He certainly wasn't so thirsty before sleep that he wanted a sex party. It was just that regarding this Fish Girl's inability to sleep, it probably couldn't be solved without finding Arceus.
What he could do currently was only to do his best as a Trainer, so that this blonde Fish Girl could suffer less from the drowsiness and discomfort caused by insomnia.
At this moment, feeling the warm touch of fingers shuttling and gently rubbing between her hair strands, although this Fish Girl's face was still dull and indifferent, a trace of imperceptible ripples quietly spread at the bottom of her eyes.
Besides the mental fatigue brought by long-term insomnia, her original daily life was also boring to the extreme like dead water.
—Due to the passive decadent and alienated temperament exuded around her, plus her temper occasionally becoming unusually irritable due to long-term insomnia, the Magikarp girl didn't even have a Pokémon that could be called a friend in the river before. Now, the only person she could talk to was Hakuya, her Trainer.
Not to mention that now it wasn't just conversation, but this kind of intimate contact she had never had before.
Massage, will it be effective?
The Magikarp girl didn't know much about it.