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Chapter 90 - 90 – The Show-off Poliwag · Nov 11, 2026

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51 Chapter 51 - 51 – All According to Plan 2026-11-11
52 Chapter 52 - 52 – Birdbrain in a Bowl 2026-11-11
53 Chapter 53 - 53 – Comeback Against the Odds 2026-11-11
54 Chapter 54 - 54 – How Do You Even Lose That? 2026-11-11
55 Chapter 55 - 55 – Departure and Fishing 2026-11-11
56 Chapter 56 - 56 – Another Lucky Catch? 2026-11-11
57 Chapter 57 - 57 – A New Kind of Training 2026-11-11
58 Chapter 58 - 58 – Advanced Special Training 2026-11-11
59 Chapter 59 - 59 – Crabs Incoming 2026-11-11
60 Chapter 60 - 60 – Little Green 2026-11-11
61 Chapter 61 - 61 – Searching for Berries 2026-11-11
62 Chapter 62 - 62 – Nine Seconds for a Hundred Meters 2026-11-11
63 Chapter 63 - 63 – The Little Tadpole’s Resolve 2026-11-11
64 Chapter 64 - 64 – Three Companions 2026-11-11
65 Chapter 65 - 65 – The Juvenile Phase Passes Quickly 2026-11-11
66 Chapter 66 - 66 – The Krabby Attack 2026-11-11
67 Chapter 67 - 67 – The Three Krabby 2026-11-11
68 Chapter 68 - 68 – Half a Month Without a Smoke 2026-11-11
69 Chapter 69 - 69 – The Door Latch 2026-11-11
70 Chapter 70 - 70 – Molting 2026-11-11
71 Chapter 71 - 71 – Training ”Confusion” 2026-11-11
72 Chapter 72 - 72 – Picking Up Fish 2026-11-11
73 Chapter 73 - 73 – A Bountiful Haul 2026-11-11
74 Chapter 74 - 74 – Pidgeot 2026-11-11
75 Chapter 75 - 75 – Pidgeot Attacks 2026-11-11
76 Chapter 76 - 76 – The Charti Berry 2026-11-11
77 Chapter 77 - 77 – Scored a Major Windfall 2026-11-11
78 Chapter 78 - 78 – Little Green Gets Burned 2026-11-11
79 Chapter 79 - 79 – Caterpie Evolves 2026-11-11
80 Chapter 80 - 80 – Elite-Class Metapod 2026-11-11
81 Chapter 81 - 81 – Potential Boost 2026-11-11
82 Chapter 82 - 82 – Painting the Dream 2026-11-11
83 Chapter 83 - 83 – Another Krabby… 2026-11-11
84 Chapter 84 - 84 – Laying a Solid Foundation 2026-11-11
85 Chapter 85 - 85 – More Trouble on the Beach 2026-11-11
86 Chapter 86 - 86 – Lucky Again? 2026-11-11
87 Chapter 87 - 87 – A New Partner Joins 2026-11-11
88 Chapter 88 - 88 – Krabby’s Story 2026-11-11
89 Chapter 89 - 89 – The Giant Claw of Krabby 2026-11-11
90 Chapter 90 - 90 – The Show-off Poliwag 2026-11-11
91 Chapter 91 - 91 – Grim Prospects 2026-11-11
92 Chapter 92 - 92 – Dig and Ambush 2026-11-11
93 Chapter 93 - 93 – Butterfree 2026-11-11
94 Chapter 94 - 94 – Family Under Stormy Skies 2026-11-11
95 Chapter 95 - 95 – Fleecing the Beedrill 2026-11-11
96 Chapter 96 - 96 – Wingull and Krabby 2026-11-11
97 Chapter 97 - 97 – Watch Out for the Sneaky One 2026-11-11
98 Chapter 98 - 98 – Battle and Growth 2026-11-11
99 Chapter 99 - 99 – The Fierce and Brutal Overlord 2026-11-11
100 Chapter 100 - 100 – Discovered by Rhydon 2026-11-11

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”That’s it—your training is to lift your claw and keep it up for half an hour. Only then will it count as passing…”

Reiji took out the hourglass and explained to Krabby what time was—essentially the same amount of time Poliwag spent running laps.

”Krkk,” Krabby raised its claw and nodded at Reiji, as if to say, ”Got it.”

After breakfast, Poliwag resumed its running drills, while Krabby began its own workout—lifting its claw.

At first, Krabby couldn’t even last a full minute.

Gradually, it worked its way up to two minutes, then three. Reiji had it rest every half hour, just like Poliwag—drinking water and eating to recover energy.

Once the hourglass emptied twice, Krabby went right back to lifting again. With each attempt pushing its limits further, it eventually managed to hold its claw up for five minutes.

While supervising the two little Pokémon during their training, Reiji also prepared lunch. That way, as soon as their morning session ended, they could eat right away.

By noon, lunch was ready.

”Poliwag, Krabby—morning training is over. Time to eat!”

With a new mouth to feed, Reiji had grilled five extra fish today—for a total of fifteen, just enough to match yesterday’s fishing haul.

During lunch, he also grabbed some random seaweed from the shore and tossed it to Magikarp and Wishiwashi. Those two dummies didn’t need anything fancy—as long as they didn’t starve, seaweed would do.

After lunch, Poliwag napped in its water bucket, Krabby rested in a basin, and Reiji dozed off under the shade of the trees.

Once the sun wasn’t quite as harsh, Reiji woke both Poliwag and Krabby.

In the afternoon, Poliwag continued its Water Gun training—and Reiji decided to have Krabby start working on Water Gun too.

Looking at Krabby’s skill panel and overall condition, it was clear this Krabby was underdeveloped—and it had even lost one claw.

[Krabby]

Type: Water

Gender: Male

Potential: 56%

Level: 6.85%

Ability: Hyper Cutter – 0.62%

Hidden Ability: Sheer Force – 0.53%

Known Moves: (Hammer Arm – 0.22%) (Leer – 0.43%) (Water Gun – 2.41%) (Harden – 4.34%)

Because Krabby’s body wasn’t in great shape, Reiji couldn’t let it do anything too physically demanding. Even for move practice, it was limited to Water Gun and Harden.

Forget about Hammer Arm—that’s a Fighting-type move requiring strong limbs. Krabby could barely lift its claw; expecting it to swing one was just wishful thinking.

The prerequisite for training Hammer Arm was simply being able to lift and move its claw in the first place.

It would have to build its body back up first. Once it grew stronger, the claw would just be another weapon it could use however it liked.

Still, Krabby’s afternoon shouldn’t be wasted. With Poliwag already a pro at hitting three floating targets with Water Gun, it could definitely help train a newbie like Krabby.

As for Reiji? Obviously—he was going fishing!

Not like he had anything better to do. If he could catch something for dinner, all the better.

”Poliwag, there are a bunch of floats here. Give Krabby one to practice its Water Gun. If it doesn’t understand anything, teach it.”

Reiji brought the two of them to the shore, reminded Poliwag to take care of the new guy, then headed off to yesterday’s fishing spot to continue his journey as a fisherman.

”Yo yo, yo yo,” Poliwag nodded, then led Krabby away.

Watching Poliwag’s back, Reiji called out again, ”Poliwag, keep working on hitting three floats!”

”Yo yo!” Poliwag responded as it waded into the sea with Krabby in tow.

”Krkk,” Krabby followed along in a daze, completely lost. Training? Water Gun? Floats?

It desperately wanted to understand what was going on.

”Yo yo,” Poliwag told it not to worry, just to watch and learn.

Pff pff pff—

Poliwag fired three Water Guns in a row, hitting three stationary floats.

Pff pff pff—

Then three more shots—this time hitting three floating, bobbing targets. It turned proudly to Krabby and asked, ”Pretty cool, huh?”

”Krkk,” Krabby’s eyes sparkled as it watched Poliwag show off. In that moment, it became Poliwag’s number one fan.

Poliwag’s Water Gun was amazing. Hitting the stationary targets was already impressive.

But hitting moving ones too? That was next level. Krabby was in awe—it wanted to learn how to shoot Water Guns like that.

”Yo yo,” Poliwag, flattered by the praise, got even more smug. It came ashore and pointed at the floats, then demonstrated: ”You aim like this, do this, and then blast the Water Gun out!”

Just like Reiji had taught it, Poliwag passed along the technique and had Krabby give it a shot.

Krabby, full of confidence, let out a Water Gun—and missed completely. First try, total whiff. It couldn’t help but feel disheartened—the gap between what it imagined and reality was just too wide.

But Poliwag immediately jumped in with encouragement, just like Reiji once had.

”Yo yo, don’t get discouraged! Take it slow—you’ll hit eventually!”

”Krkk.” Inspired by the encouragement, Krabby gave it another try—firing a Water Gun at the float.

Thwack—

It hit! Krabby’s eyes lit up with joy, its spirits instantly lifted. ”Krkk! Krkk!”

As the Water Gun training went on, Krabby became more and more excited. It couldn’t wait to become as skilled as Poliwag.

”Yo yo, yo yo!” Poliwag jumped up excitedly the moment Krabby landed the hit, shouting encouragement. ”That’s it! Keep it up!”

From a distance, Reiji saw it all—Poliwag coaching Krabby. His little tadpole had grown up—it was actually helping out the new guy now. He felt proud.

It was like a father seeing his kid finally making something of himself… though, well, he was still single. Thinking of it that way felt kinda weird.

As Krabby and Poliwag’s training hit its stride, Reiji opened up Poliwag’s skill panel again:

[Poliwag]

Type: Water

Gender: Male

Potential: 33.72%

Level: 14.72%

Ability: Damp – 1.13%

Hidden Ability: Swift Swim – 2.53%

Known Moves: (Mind Reader – 0.21%) (Ice Ball – 0.31%) (Refresh – 2.51%) (Hypnosis – 0.82%) (Double Slap – 6.12%) (Water Gun – 8.92%) (Water Sport – 3.21%)

Poliwag’s potential had stopped increasing—after all, they didn’t have any more Beedrill honey.

But its experience was still climbing steadily. It was nearly level 15 now.

Refresh, which cured burns, had seen a bit of progress too.

Reiji couldn’t help but laugh when he realized the move was used most often to treat Poliwag’s mouth.

Why couldn’t it just eat slower? Let the food cool off first?

Lastly, Water Gun was almost at 9%. After yesterday’s practice, it was nearly there.

Tomorrow, it would likely pass that threshold. Time to increase the difficulty—make it four floats instead of three.

Everything was moving in a good direction. And that… was a wonderful thing.

(End of Chapter)

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