It looks like Rope's still able to hold this tea. I can't say about anything else, but Professor Carolina is sure of this. Of course if Rope did bring something generic, she could round it up for Rope.
That's the accumulated wisdom of an old person who has lived for so many years.
Wisdom to deal with people in the world.
But such thoughts instantly disappeared into thin air when they actually opened this gift box.
The moment they opened the gift box, a fresh fragrance leapt out of the box, and then forcefully yet lightly occupied all of their sense of smell.
In that instant, they felt like they had come to a thousand year old forest, strolling through it, with the fragrance of grass and trees between their noses, the wind singing and birds crying in their ears, and as far as the eye could see, all they could see was vibrant vitality.
Then, the illusion disappeared, and they were still in the institute. For some reason, everyone almost instinctively felt a trace of disappointment.
They followed the trajectory of the fragrance and looked towards the source.
In that modest gift box, there were two small cans of tea lying quietly.
It hadn't even been opened.
Professor Carolina, after coming to her senses, looked deeply at Rope, then picked up a can of tea and scrutinized it carefully. After a moment, she gently opened the jar.
Then an even stronger aroma than before leapt out, once again dragging everyone into the middle of the forest. The people, however, were willing to do so.
Rope was able to resist. Looking at them in this intoxicated state, Rope felt that she had probably succeeded in this visit.
A few moments later, Professor Carolina sobered up again. Satisfied, she looked at Rope and opened her mouth to ask, "Rope, what kind of tea is this?"
This sentence brought everyone back to reality. The girls all looked at Rope with great curiosity, also wanting to know what the origin of this tea was that it was so attractive.
Rope also wouldn't hide such a thing saying, "This is the leaves of the Tree of Life, I picked some of her leaves and fried them into tea."
The women present were however somewhat unfamiliar with the name Tree of Life. They didn't seem to have heard of such a tree before.
But there were still two people present who turned pale.
One was Professor Carolina, and the other was the very distinguished-looking researcher who had spoken at the beginning.
Her name was Brittany, and she was from Kalos.
"The Tree of Life, the name of the legendary giant tree that the god of life in the Kalos region, Xerneas, transformed into during his slumber. Symbolizes the life of the entire Kalos region."
She didn't look at Rope, but deadpanned at the tea.
"It's Xerneas' leaf!"
"Er, that's rather strange for you to say, though. But it's still a pretty accurate statement."
Rope felt that the phrase 'leaves of Xerneas' was rather strange.
After all, if one were hard to say, it would be more appropriate to say that it was Xerneas' fur.
The women couldn't help but let out a gasp in unison. They thought about the fact that this tea should be very golden. But in the end, it should still be buyable. After all, many of the girls here had rich and powerful families, so buying some tea was not unacceptable to them.
Furthermore, this is still in the hands of Professor Rope. If this was given to a certain tea master, the flavor might even be more outstanding.
Hmm, that's something Rope doesn't deny. His craftsmanship was quite hip.
But the value of the raw material is too high! What is this? It's the hair of the gods!
Compared to Rainbow Feather, Silver Feather...
Although the value is certainly not comparable to these special feathers with special properties. After all, it's not like you can just pluck a feather from Ho-Oh or Lugia's body.
But in a sense, they were indeed all feathers.
"Rope, this is so precious!"
Professor Carolina wasn't going to accept the gift, even though she loved it. Although she didn't know what effect this tea would have if she drank it. But the raw material itself already made Professor Carolina find it hard to accept.
Originally, she had thought that if something was bad, she wouldn't mind it. If something was good, she wouldn't lose her temper.
But when the stuff was so good to such an extent. She was really still shocked.
But there was also some heartache. How nice to use this kind of stuff for research! It might even be able to discover something new. Instead, it was used by Rope to make tea. Isn't this a waste?
When he looked at Rope, he couldn't help but bring a hint of resentment.
Rope was a little unsure, but still smiled and said, ''It's nothing, grandma, these are just a little bit of my heart. The leaves of the Tree of Beginning can't be used as tea because they are crystals. Otherwise I wouldn't have to go to Xerneas.
Good man, this is still picking and choosing.
The group of fellows also had the feeling of having their eyes opened. Who would have thought that research materials that were incomparably precious in their own eyes would be nothing more than ingredients in someone else's eyes.
"If you want it... perhaps you'd better change it. Just catching Xerneas a deer gripping isn't that much, why don't I turn around and show you if Jamie's flowers can be made into flower tea?"
It was atrocious. What had the little hedgehog done wrong again!
The researchers really did look like they were spitting, but Rope said it so easily and casually, and with his status, everyone seemed to be unquestioning of him making such a claim.
If Rope couldn't get his hands on these things, then presumably no one at League could either.
If the original Rope was more like a symbol representing genius to them, then now Rope's image in their hearts had completely changed.
It was a living legend.
Similarly, when Professor Carolina saw this simplicity in what Rope said, she didn't believe it at first. But in a whirlwind, she remembered what Cynthia had instructed herself last night.
'Grandma, whatever Rope gives you as a meeting gift you shouldn't be surprised oh.'
'What kind of world have I not seen before, your grandmother, can I still be surprised by a gift from a child like you?'
'That's good, by the way grandma, whatever gift it is you just accept it, Rope won't give you a gift with a swollen face.'
'Alright, I know, don't worry about it. Tomorrow is my conversation with little Rope. Don't worry I won't give him a hard time either. Otherwise just that old woman Agatha will definitely make it difficult to come back. Really, halfway into the ground and still playing such a petty tantrum with me.'
Combined with what Cynthia had said last night, Professor Carolina couldn't help but take a deep breath. She had thought about the things Rope sent being very good and precious, and also thought about the things Rope sent being only average.
But she didn't expect that she still flipped out even though she had already prepared herself mentally. This kind of 'God's body's sub-tissue' gift from Rope was still out of her expectation, and it could even be said that it scared her.
Professor Carolina also still didn't quite understand how on earth Rope had gotten it.
"Professor, why don't we make this tea?"
A researcher looked at the jar that Professor Carolina held in her hand. Tentatively, he opened his mouth and asked.
Everyone's eyes then converged on Professor Carolina. You'd have to say that people shouldn't open their mouths, and that's true, after all, this thing is so valuable that Rope can afford not to think of it as something, but they can't.
You'd have to say that people didn't want to take a taste, that's absolute bullshit! A blasphemous opportunity like this was basically like no other opportunity in their lives for normal researchers.
Who would want to pass it up?
Professor Carolina's first reaction was of course to refuse. After all, the preciousness of this thing was beyond imagination.
Just as she was about to open her mouth to scold and refuse, she suddenly heard Rope's light cough.
He turned his head to Rope and saw Rope pointing to the other jar of tea in the box. That can was obviously slightly larger.
Professor Carolina was old and smart, if he couldn't react after being pointed out by Rope then he would be slapping his own face.
So she opened her mouth and said, "Then let's give everyone a taste."
The ladies were first stunned, they didn't think at first that this request would actually be fulfilled. So they happily shouted out, and then went to prepare the things to make tea and their own small benches.
Rope shook his head even as he watched this excited demeanor of the girls. If you want to say how much these girls like tea that's not necessarily true. But this wasn't just any tea after all, even for those who didn't know about tea or even didn't like it, they basically wouldn't refuse a cup of tea like this.
Just like Rope in the original world, a lot of people obviously can't understand those modernist paintings, but just to save face will buy some modernist paintings, Rope's father has a friend like this. As for why they buy modernist ones...there are still always fewer people who can read them. So it's easy to pretend.
Whenever Rope's father was invited, he just smiled and didn't say anything.
Once again Rope asked, "Dad, everyone else is talking quite cheerfully, why don't you say anything?"
Rope, of course, knew his father's level, a typical man of science and engineering, appreciated the beauty and aesthetics of geometry. But had basically no sense of these artistic beauties.
"I don't understand it, so why say anything?"
Rope's dad also really spoke up.
Rope then scratched his head. After all, those uncles and aunts didn't understand either. Yet, they also chatted happily.
"Say it if you know it, don't say it if you don't." Deemer looked at his son and smiled elegantly, "To know is to know, not to know is to know."
Rope nodded his head a little confused at the time. But fortunately, he didn't turn into a humanoid self-propelled lifting machine in the end because of these words back then.
Kind of lucky for Rope, too.
The girls were still very efficient under the temptation of the tea, and in no time at all, they had finished the process of making tea.
Since Professor Carolina decided to take everyone to drink tea, she didn't hesitate to start brewing the tea.Professor Carolina's craftsmanship is very skillful, and her expression can even be described as solemn when brewing the tea.
Rope himself is a little sweaty, feeling that his own tea frying skills are not worthy of Professor Carolina's tea brewing skills.
But Rope actually understood. Such an attitude was not given to one's own craftsmanship, but to the raw material of the tea leaves.
That said, Diana Messenger reacted the same way yesterday when she made tea.
It didn't take too long to make the tea, and soon everyone had their share. Of course, they must have made their own share.The tea that Professor Carolina made was just for Rope and herself.
Professor Carolina looked at Rope across the table and opened her mouth to ask, "Does this tea have any special effects?"
Rope shook her head decisively and said, "There is no special effect. It can just play a role in replenishing some life force, and it's not very useful is all."
Professor Carolina was half convinced. Seriously, just from the aroma of the tea the moment it was opened, Professor Carolina didn't think that the effect of this tea was as simple as Rope said.
So she tried to take a sip.
And so the moment the tea entered her mouth. She then felt a surge of pure life force pouring into her body from the tip of her tongue. The entire body felt like it had been immersed in warm water, soothing and enjoyable.
Professor Carolina's brows instantly relaxed with a look of enjoyment. She could feel every one of her cells leaping.
It was just as well that she was old enough to qualify, or she would have started moaning in comfort by now.
Like she said, she was old enough and strong enough. But there were no more people of that age in this institute.
So moan after moan went up in the lab.
Rope's mouth twitched...
Was the reaction that bad? He remembered that Whitley and the others didn't have this reaction even after drinking it yesterday...
And at this time at home.
Whitley and Diana looked at each other and tentatively asked, "Last night, how did you hold back?"
Given the two of them speaking in unison, the scene was first quiet and awkward for a moment, but then it got better. Because since everyone was embarrassed, it was about as embarrassing as it could get.
"What else can I hold back...I can't really call it out in front of Rope...it's too embarrassing."
Whitley said blushing bright red.
Diana nodded as well, let's just say that tea was just too foul.
And Rope, who knew nothing about all this, was still lamenting that really these youngsters just couldn't do it, seeing as how Professor Carolina was just so calm.
I don't know that Professor Carolina is desperately trying to maintain her dignity as an elder.
In the middle of the morning, Professor Carolina was also sort of slowed down. Hurriedly put the teacup down. Clearing her throat and looking at Rope, she opened her mouth and asked, "Is Diana okay?"
Rope didn't expect the first topic to actually be this. But he also nodded seriously and said, "Diana should be doing quite well, I think I haven't treated Diana poorly."
Professor Carolina also nodded. In fact, Diana's recent situation Diana had already talked to her. Whether it was the research information given by Rope or the Pokémon given by Rope, she knew that if Rope thought that he hadn't treated Diana poorly, in the eyes of outsiders, this was simply to plot against Diana.
That's why a man like that is still too attractive.
"Diana I trained as a disciple at first."
Professor Carolina said seriously.
"But since she's doing well by your side even now, I'm relieved."
"When are you planning to get engaged to Cynthia?"
Rope had just taken a sip of his tea, then barely managed to spit it out.
But it was a question he'd prepared for.
So spoke up.
"I plan to..."