After a person becomes famous, the world seems to become smaller.
At least Kashiwagi didn't expect that Zhe would also know him, and the latter had a younger sister, who was also his fan.
"First... let's talk somewhere else."
Aware of the glances from around him, he decisively turned around and led Tetsuya out of the Pokémon Center's lobby. Rotom's announcement could be heard in his ears as he walked out.
"Please walk slowly Lotto~"
outdoor.
Thanks to Bonnie's presence, no one paid attention to these two pawns.
Kashiwagi took out a notepad from his pocket and wrote his name on it, then tore it off and handed it to him, "Is this okay?"
"Thank you so much!"
Zheya happily took the note, "Ah! If I could take another photo with you and Big Mouth Baby..."
He took out his cell phone and seemed a little embarrassed to say it. It was probably his first time doing something similar to being a groupie, but he suppressed his shame for the sake of his sister and made his request with a slight trepidation.
"Okay, but I also need your help."
Kashiwagi glanced in the direction of Bonnie.
The popularity of the Four Heavenly Kings is so high that even if he rushes over at this time, he probably won't have a chance to fight with one of them. It would be better to take a back seat and fight against Tetsuya, the former champion of the tournament.
Anyway, the Pokémon that will compete tomorrow have been decided. Just choose the three strongest among the remaining Pokémon.
When Zheye heard the promise, he agreed without hesitation, "Help? Please tell me whatever I can do!"
"Don't worry, I just hope to have a fight with you. You are the champion of the previous conferences, right? I have always wanted to fight a strong player like you."
Kashiwagi said softly.
Tetsuya was stunned when he heard the request for a battle, and then scratched his head in embarrassment, "A battle? Of course you can! But I don't deserve the term champion. I'm just the winner of the regional league conference."
"The winners are also amazing."
Kashiwagi responded while releasing the big mouth baby and whispered to it: "Take a photo for your little fan."
"嘁哚~"
The big-mouthed boy nodded in understanding, with a reserved and ladylike smile on his face.
It has already mastered the relevant business methods and can even accurately find the location of the camera. Even if Zheye's hand shakes like Parkinson's when taking selfies, the two big men can still be beautiful alone when their silhouettes are blurred.
"this……"
Zheye looked down at the photo with a troubled expression on his face, wondering if he should just use this one to make a deal?
"Leave it to me if you don't mind." Kashiwagi suggested, taking the phone and taking a clear photo as quickly as possible.
As someone who likes to keep all kinds of beautiful and silly photos of his Pokémon on his phone and camera, he has quite a lot of experience in taking photos.
Zheya looked at the clear group photo and was so happy, "I'm so grateful!"
Now that I think about it, if I took that photo back, I might have been bitten to death by my sister. Finally, I met an idol and asked for his autograph. The key photo turned out to be like that.
The two briefly chatted and decided on a three-on-three singles match.
But before starting, Kashiwagi said that he wanted to make an appointment to challenge the Zijin Gym. It happened that Tetsu was also waiting for his meow to finish treatment, so the time should be just right.
And on the way to Zijin Gym.
Kashiwagi asked Dazuiba if he wanted to buy him a smartphone. He remembered that he always seemed to be interested in taking selfies and taking pictures.
"嘁哚?"
Big Mouth Baby's eyes are slightly bright. He really likes to admire his beautiful photos, and often looks through the photos that Bai Mu took of him.
Unfortunately, it became a little frustrated when it thought that it couldn't operate this human creation at all.
Kashiwagi smiled and said: "What are you worried about? Have you forgotten the polygon? Just tell the polygon what you want to do, and it will unlock the functions you want."
"嘁哚!"
Big Mouth Baby suddenly realized that it had forgotten that one of its companions had an artificial intelligence "expert". So, could it own a mobile phone?
The happy big-mouthed baby couldn't help but move forward in small jumps. His hair and the giant jaw on the back of his head jumped up and down, just like a happy little rabbit, "嘁哚~偁哚~"
But after two jumps, it reservedly changed to its original small steps, because it felt the eyes of passers-by.
Ladies should remain dignified in front of outsiders.
ten minutes later.
Kashiwagi returned with Big Mouth and successfully met Tetsuya at the entrance of the Pokémon Center.
"Long wait."
"We didn't wait too long. Miao Miao has just finished treatment. King Bonny's teaching battle happened to be over. Let's start the battle at that venue."
"It's over!"
Only then did he realize that the melon-eaters who had been crowding near Central Park had dispersed.
So fast!
As expected of the Four Heavenly Kings, they beat ordinary trainers like scavengers.
Zheye said guiltily: "I happened to meet Bonny King in the food court earlier, and in a moment of excitement, I made a request for a battle. I didn't expect that it would cause her so much trouble."
"food court?"
"Hmm! King Bonny ordered the Purple Pancake Assorted Noodles, a very large bowl, and the bold gesture of finishing the meal in a short time is really impressive!"
"Extra large bowl..."
Kashiwagi recalled Bonnie's appearance and attire, and could not imagine the elegant lady-like ice beauty holding a large bowl of steaming assorted noodles and eating enthusiastically.
If you come here early, you might be able to see it.
He felt a little regretful for no reason.
When they arrived at the battle site, there were many trainers scattered around who were either still unfinished or regretful that they were not in the queue. After seeing Tetsuya, they all looked over.
And when they saw Kashiwagi and Tetsuya standing on the trainer's seats on both sides, they gathered around them in unison.
I didn’t have to watch the battle between the Four Heavenly Kings, but the battle between the previous generation tournament winners was also quite interesting.
Suddenly.
An Aerial Rotom flew from a distance.
"Let Rotom be the referee for this battle, Lotto~" it made a condescending voice.
The two people who were about to compete looked at each other with blank expressions.
"Did you call me here?"
"No."
Tetsuya shook his head crazily. Although he was a local of Zi Jin City, there was no way he could call Zi Jin's flying Rotom to be the referee.
Fortunately, Rotom himself gave the answer, "Passenger, I will prove to you that Rotom is not a troublesome Pokémon, but a powerful Pokémon, Lotto!"
It said loudly to Kashiwagi.
"It is you!"
Kashiwagi quickly remembered the guy he met when he came in. Unexpectedly, this guy not only chased him, but also turned into an aerial shot of Rotom.
But since you are a referee...
He touched Porygon's Poké Ball, but the latter showed no response. He didn't know whether he was resting or didn't hear anything.
"Then it's up to you."
he responded.
The aerial shot of Rotom showed a smile, "Just leave it to me, Lotto~"
——
"What is about to take place is a three-on-three singles battle. Please choose the first Pokémon to play."
The sound of aerial shots of Rotom echoed over the park.
Kashiwagi and Tetsuya each took out their pokeballs.
"You don't have to be merciful, just fight me with all your strength, please."
"Don't worry, I never know how to release water."
While the two were communicating, Rotom gave instructions.
"start!"
The two elf balls flew forward together.
Bang bang!
The light flashes.
"Chirp!"
The dark green humanoid lizard landed on the ground, its bush-like tail was huge and lush——
Jungle Pokémon, Lizard King.
It raised its head and looked at an ordinary gray-white round stone falling in the distance, and a question mark flashed on its forehead.
This...this is also a Pokémon?
"It is the sun coral of the Galar region, with ghost properties! Don't let your guard down!"
Tetsuya took the illustrated book, relayed all the information displayed on it, and gave the order, "Move at high speed!"
"Chirp!"
The Lizard King's eyes were sharp, and he leaned forward and stepped forward.
Whoosh!
dusty!
It suddenly burst out through high-speed movement, showing extremely terrifying high speeds. It even formed afterimages behind it as it moved, and it crossed a distance of more than ten meters to reach the Sun Coral in just one breath.
"Leaf Blade!"
The Lizard King raised his arms, and the two blades on his elbows merged into one and emitted a dazzling green light, turning into an emerald green light blade. When he waved it down, it caused the air to scream like it was being torn apart!
Kashiwagi calmly ordered, "Hold."
The stone-like sun coral slightly opened its red eyes. While its body was suspended, its smoke-like tentacles poked out, and an aqua blue spherical light shield appeared naturally, blocking the emerald green light blade!
Zhiga——
The light blade collided with the spherical light blade, and the flashing current exploded between the two!
"Hasn't it been defeated?"
Kashiwagi looked at this scene and had a rough understanding of the Lizard King's physical attack capabilities.
The animation's [Defend] move is different from the absolute defense in the game, and will be broken by moves with sufficient power - the lack of absolutes is a special key point of the animation.
Therefore, he did not issue the command immediately, but decided to test the Lizard King's attack ability by holding it first.
Unexpectedly... the main force of the conference champion was unexpectedly "weak"? Or maybe this Lizard King is more focused on special attack?
He continued: "Black mist."
Shou Shou and Ye Ren were in a stalemate, and eventually both faded away.
The Lizard King suddenly jumped back and took a big step to distance himself from Sun Coral, only to see the latter tremble slightly, and a majestic black mist spurted out from the large and small holes in its body, instantly submerging most of the venue.
Wrapped in black mist, the speed it had strengthened at the beginning instantly returned to its original state.
What a fast move connection speed!
Not being able to see clearly what was going on inside the venue made Tetsuya's scalp tense, and he quickly said: "Use the Flying Leaf Storm to sweep away the black mist!"
"Chirp!"
The Lizard King responded, and a hurricane surrounded by fluorescent green leaves rolled up from the ground to disperse the surrounding black smoke. It quickly gathered on its tree-like tail, sweeping around the venue as it flicked its tail left and right.
However, even though the black fog was dispersed, the sun coral seemed to have disappeared without a trace.
"Watch the shadowy areas!"
Tetsuya yelled that ghost-type Pokémon generally have the special ability to become invisible in the shadows, but as long as the shadows are removed, these guys can reveal their whereabouts.
It's a pity that Kashiwagi is not the gym leader and will not give Tetsuya and the Lizard King a chance to search carefully.
"Will-o'-the-wisp."
Sun Coral emerged from under the very small amount of black mist that remained, with a layer of fiery red light attached to its body. Nine blue spherical flames ignited out of thin air, and suddenly shrank in front of them and spun towards the Lizard King. go!
"Behind you!"
Tetsuya shouted in time: "Use see through to dodge!"
"Chirp!"
The Lizard King quickly turned his head and his eyes lit up with blue light. Facing the flying spherical flames, he dodged left and right with great dexterity. He successfully dodged all nine will-o'-the-wisps while jumping back and forth.
The melon-eating crowd watching could not help but applaud the ghostly figure of the Lizard King.
However, the will-o'-the-wisp failed, but Kashiwagi not only showed no disappointment or any moves, but instead smiled and said, "Curse."
"voice……"
Sun Coral let out a long sigh, and the dark energy surged under itself, turning into a ferocious ghost figure and rushing toward the Lizard King with its claws and teeth.
"Leaf Blade!"
The Lizard King raised the emerald green blades on his arms and rushed towards the ghost without fear.
The blade cuts down——
Whoosh!
But unfortunately it came to nothing.
It looked in disbelief at the ferocious ghost figure that suddenly turned sideways to avoid the blade, and the latter rushed into it with a scream and great joy.
"Chirp!"
The Lizard King half-knelt down with a pained expression on his face. The curse would reduce its physical strength every moment, greatly affecting its combat effectiveness.
Tetsuya raised the elf ball decisively, "Come back, Lizard King——"
"Tidal wave!"
Kashiwagi quickly ordered.
Amidst the huge rumbling sound, a bright blue inverted triangular vortex of water instantly formed above the head of Sun Coral. As it rushed forward, it flew out, suddenly submerging the Lizard King and scattering the red light emitted by the Poke Ball!
Bang!
"Chirping——"
The Lizard King, who was hit by the water flow and cursed, screamed in pain.
The response was too fast!
Tetsuya clenched his back molars and shouted: "Lizard King! Get out of here! You can do it!"
Before the game, he had thought that Kashiwagi, as a coordinator trainer who had become famous through the gorgeous competition, probably had considerable strength in battle, otherwise he would not challenge the gym.
But I never expected it to be so powerful!
I was completely suppressed and beaten!
Fortunately, they have a foundation gained from years of training and a tough will developed through long-term battles.
So under the shouts of the trainer, the Lizard King suddenly flapped his tail towards the ground, and used this force to successfully break free from the tidal whirlpool.
He quickly fell into another hell.
"Will-o'-the-wisp."
Nine blue spherical will-o'-the-wisps rotate around the Sun Coral, rushing towards the Lizard King one after another as if they are alive.
Tetsuya shouted anxiously, "See through!"
The Lizard King's eyes lit up with blue light, but before it could see clearly the attack route of the will-o'-the-wisp, these blue flames hit it one after another.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Fireworks splash.
By the time the last flame hit the Lizard King, there were already many black burn marks on the guy's body, and gunpowder smoke was constantly rising.
Since the curse, the Lizard King has entered the burnt state again.
Fortunately, Tetsuya finally took the opportunity to successfully put it back into the elf ball. Although the space inside the ball could not remove its burnt state, it could stabilize its current injury.
Kashiwagi couldn't help but feel a little regretful when he saw this.
"I lack the ability to make the final decision..."
If it had been any other Pokémon just now, given the opportunity given by the Lizard King, it would have been killed long ago.
Unfortunately, Sun Coral's output capability is limited, or the path it takes is continuous attack, so we can't expect it to burst out with too strong attack capability.