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45 The Secret Ingredient
“Hey Scorch, what was that light just now?”
Scorch jumped. His trainer was finally back from training, and wanted to know what was going on.
Scorch did his best to pretend he didn’t know.
But he couldn’t hide the fact that there was a lot less curry there than before.
“Did you eat all this yourself?!”
Scorch didn’t say anything. His trainer was a good person, but he’d probably try to catch one of the Sobble if he knew about them, and Scorch didn’t want anyone to split that family up.
Besides, getting yelled at for making mischief was nothing new♫
“At least you left us enough for dinner... Huh?”
Stirring the rest of the curry, Scorch’s trainer fished something hard out of the pot. It was a Water Stone.
“Did you think this was a berry and put it in by mistake?”
This was the cause of Snowy’s sudden evolution. Normally, Sobble don’t evolve using a stone.
Perhaps Snowy’s unique genetic makeup had reacted to it in a way no one had ever seen before...