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>Anyway, he found Mom’s proposition disagreeable. He didn’t have to use the computer to know that houses cost more than Diamond teeth. But he did anyway and had his suspicions confirmed. He couldn’t buy a house. Stores were less expensive. He could buy a store if he took out a loan but he didn’t have any skills to sell out of a store. He didn’t know how to run one either. He also didn’t want to take a loan and end up in debt again. He wanted to be a Trainer.
>Investing in that seemed like it made the most sense.
>“I’m going to leave again, so before that I want to invest in my career.” He said.
>Lize nodded without hearing him, “You can do that too.”
>He felt the pressure to obey her mounting but disregarded it. He didn’t want to be shackled.
>He got on the phone and called Professor Holland, who was always helpful.
>“Hello.”
>“Professor Holland? . . . It’s Lotte.”
>“Hello.”
>“Is there um. . . a way to buy Pokemon?’
>“Yeah.” Her answer startled him, and he became less meek.
>“Oh! That’s – I thought it was unethical.”
>“It is.” He felt his heart drop into his stomach and was embarrassed.
>Then, “Well.” A pause. Holland was wobbling her hand back in forth in the air. He couldn’t see her doing it, but he could feel it, and listened intently.
>“Selling Pokemon is considered unethical, which is why they sell for such a high price. It’s not illegal, but it’s much more expensive to buy a Pokemon than it is to just go out and catch one. That’s because the Pokemon you’re buying has typically already been trained and a lot of care has been put into raising it.”
>“Oh.” That made sense.
>Holland continued, “Naturally the price varies between species, and whether or not they’ve been trained to battle, and so on. Just – various factors. You wanted to buy one?”
>“Yeah.” He answered back, waiting to be judged or told not to do such a thing. Waiting to relent.
>“Go on the Global Trade Station and look up the prices. You can order them directly from sellers on the GTS.”
