Pokémon: Start with an Admiral Crab!

"Where's my boat?"

At night, relying on their memory, Damp and Gurney rowed the boat back to the sandbar where the pirate ship had been docked.

But he found that Chenglong and his pirate ship were missing...

"It's here... Boss, look, our footprints are still there!"

Gurney pointed to the messy footprints on the ground to show that he was not going in the wrong direction.

"footprint?"

Danpu suppressed his doubts, walked up, and compared it with his own feet...

The size seemed to be right, but when he lifted his foot again, he noticed something was wrong.

"Fool!!"

Danpu cursed instantly.

"These are slipper prints! We were both wearing boots!"

Although he was poor, he could not lose the dignity of a pirate captain - the pair of worn-out boots on his feet would never be changed even in the hottest summer.

In order to maintain uniform dress among the team, Gurney also spent a huge amount of money to buy a pair of old boots.

"Oh, did I find the wrong place? This shouldn't be the case..."

Gurney nodded belatedly, then turned his head and looked around in the moonlight.

There doesn't seem to be any other sandbars nearby?

Thinking of this, Gurney lowered his head again and looked carefully at the footprints on the sandbar.

"Boss! There are boot prints too, that's right—my boots made them!"

Gurney said with some pride.

Because the sellers of his second-hand boots were two one-legged pirates, the styles were different.

Therefore, only he could make such asymmetrical boot prints.

"Huh...huh...huh..."

Damp covered his face with his hands, and a heavy gasp came from his throat.

He already had some guesses in his mind, but he just couldn't accept this ending.

"Ah! My ship—!"

Danpu fell to his knees instantly and howled to the sky.

"My boat... wooooooo..."

Then I was overwhelmed by the sadness that flowed like a river.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!"

Getting up from the ground and looking at the moon hanging in the sky, Damp ran wildly on the sandbar like a madman.

"——It's a curse! This is the curse that Yeli Island has placed on us!"

Recalling the rumors his younger brother had mentioned to him before landing on the island, Damp stopped and exclaimed.

"Boss! Boss, are you okay?"

Catching up with his captain, Gurney took a breath and asked cautiously.

"I'm fine—or I understand everything!"

There was a wise look in Damp's eyes.

"The God of Yeli Island is real! All of this is a test from Him!"

"As long as we atone our sins devoutly enough, the god of Yeli Island will surely have mercy on our suffering and return my ship to me."

Danpu muttered something mysteriously, then gave Gurney a warm smile.

"captain?"

Looking at the captain who suddenly had an epiphany and looked so amiable under the moonlight, Gurney suddenly felt a little frightened.

……

"Infernomon—stand up!"

The battle between Wang Yao and Kenta was fleeting.

"Roar……"

Infernape roared and got up from the ground as if it had regained its vitality.

The Fiery Ability is aroused along with the Pokémon's own fighting spirit, and the hair around Infernape's neck bursts into a powerful flame that shoots up into the sky.

"Great, that's it! Use ..."

Kenta tried to command Infernape to attack again.

"Crab Fist!"

But just as Infernape stood up, he was punched into the air by the Giant Claw Crab. After landing, he rolled several times on the beach and fainted instantly.

"Fire Beast!!"

Kenta hurried forward, picked up Infernape's head and observed its injuries.

But the opponent's circle eyes have already revealed the result of the game.

"Go play by yourself, giant crab."

Wang Yao did not take the giant crab back, but let it go to the beach to play in the water by itself.

"You have great fighting spirit. You have the potential to become a great trainer."

Wang Yao watched the other party using medicine to restore the strength of the Infernape Beast, and handed him a pomelo fruit.

"Thanks……"

Kenta took the pomelo fruit, broke it open and fed it into Infernape's mouth little by little.

"Don't comfort me. He was defeated in two moves..."

Seeing Infernape gradually waking up, Kenta finally had time to speak in frustration.

Even if Kenta shouted louder than Xiaozhi during the battle... the double suppression in level and attributes cannot be compensated by fighting spirit.

"I said young man~"

Grandpa Jiang, who was watching the fight, shouted.

"Being able to take two hits from the main Pokémon of the previous Quartz Conference champion head-on despite being at a disadvantage in attributes... is already a good result."

"Ayao, you too - can't you be a little gentler with a child?"

As soon as Grandpa arrived, he exposed Wang Yao's past.

"I won't underestimate the duel just because my opponent is a kid. There are many talented trainers who can win the championship after traveling for only one year."

Wang Yao crossed his arms across his chest, putting on a serious attitude.

"what?!"

Kenta was stunned for a moment.

"Brother Yao, are you the champion of the Quartz Conference?"

When it comes to addressing Wang Yao, Kenta is much more polite than Xiaozhi.

"Oh yeah—I remember now!"

In fact, Kenta had watched the live broadcast of the Quartz Conference competition, but Wang Yao was wearing a straw hat when he was interviewed.

And the way she was dressed was a little different from today, so he didn't recognize her at first glance.

"Brother Yao, can you let me see your Zapdos?"

Kenta requested a little excitedly.

Compared to the Giant Crab, the image of Wang Yao commanding the Zapdos in battle is obviously more deeply rooted in people's hearts.

"This, I left it in Kanto."

Wang Yao spread his hands. There was no Pokémon Center on Noli Island, so he couldn't fulfill this request.

"why is it like this……"

Kenta suddenly felt a little discouraged.

"Well, it's nothing to regret. If you have time, you can come to Kanto Palin Town to find me."

"Then let the lightning bird take you for a spin in the sky."

Wang Yao promised casually.

"Really? That's awesome!"

Kenta immediately put his regrets behind him.

The image of a cute girl with aqua blue hair immediately emerged in his mind.

"If I could ride on Zapdos and fly up to the sky with Marina..."

Kenta couldn't help but start fantasizing.

"Why don't you hurry back to the dock, the ship will leave soon."

Wang Yao reminded.

Isn't it just letting the lightning bird grab the opponent and fly around for a few circles?

You don't have to keep smiling like this...

"what--?!"

Kenta turned around and saw the small boat carrying tourists leaving the pier and heading towards the cruise ship docked in the deep water.

"Wait! Wait for me!"

"I haven't even boarded the ship yet!"

Kenta hurriedly put Infernape, which had recovered some of its strength, back into the Poké Ball and hurriedly ran towards the dock.

"I remember it - Kanto Palin Town! I will definitely go there!"

Kenta turned around while running and shouted to Wang Yao.

"What a reckless boy..."

Putting his grandfather's hands behind his back, he looked at Kenta's receding figure and shook his head.

"If you want to be a great trainer, you sometimes have to be a little reckless."

Wang Yao feels that Kenta and Xiaozhi are more alike.

"Where does this nonsense come from... Hmm... It seems to make some sense."

Grandpa instinctively refuted, but when he thought about it carefully, it seemed that A Yao felt the same way at that time.

Although he is just a fledgling trainer, he dares to take Zapdos alone to avoid being hunted by the Hunter Organization.

Isn’t this also quite reckless?

"Where's Uncle Toshikawa? Hasn't he returned to Kanto yet?"

Wang Yao naturally didn't pay attention to the other party's thoughts.

"The waves in Yeli Island are usually better than those in Binu City, so I stayed there for a while longer...but it's about time for me to go back next week."

Grandpa was interrupted from his thoughts and answered.

"That kid's current level is no less than mine back then... I think he should be able to succeed in this challenge."

"Although he is twenty years late, he may be the next legendary surfer..."

Grandpa sighed as he looked at Minchuante riding on the surfboard with Pikachu.

"I think he can succeed, too. After all, it's rare to see a Pikachu that can surf..."

Wang Yao doesn't know how to surf, but he knows a little about Pikachu.