Tears of the Modifier: The Gecko Is Forced to Hustle Again Today

“Pokemon: Helping Sobble Happily Embrace the Grind to Become the Strongest”

[A hell-mode start? No, it's a prankster's dream!]

On my first day after transmigrating, I stare at Sobble, slumped in the corner and refusing to do anything, and fall into deep thought. Ordinary potential? Low spirits? Perfect. That's exactly the kind of subject my technical Trainer's makeover aesthetic calls for! I whip out the all-purpose modifier and crank its “growth potential” into an upward-trending EKG, while grinding its “stats” into a perfectly balanced powerhouse. The despair in my opponents' eyes confirms it: giving up? Not a chance. The greatest grinder of this century is about to be born!

[The Romance of a Straight-Laced Guy]

The System suddenly pops up a notification: “Host's straight-guy talent detected: MAX. Passive skill unlocked: [True Iron Will], Steel-type resistance +3, Fighting-type weakness removed!” Before I can laugh at this useless skill, the Crystal type makes its debut: harder than steel, fourfold resistance to Water, Grass, and Flying, with Ground as its only weakness? Watching Aggron don rainbow crystal armor and Metagross transform into a Cybertronian, I suddenly understand: the true essence of Pokemon battles is... using magic to defeat magic!

[When an Armed Cop Storms into the World of Pokemon]

When I discover that gunpowder and firearms don't work in the Pokemon world, I haul out the System's custom portable electromagnetic-pulse sniper rifle. “Darling, ever heard of a glass railgun? One shot turns your skull into a work of art, with painless cremation included~” Salamence tries to roast me with Flamethrower? Crystal Rhyperior counters with a Diamond Storm to teach it a lesson. This crossover double act of physical exorcism and Pokemon battles leaves the outlaws crying, “Dodge bullets first, then battle Pokemon? Trainers these days have no rules...”