There seems to be something wrong with these Pokémon

"This match is a 3v3 Pokémon battle. Only one Pokémon can fight at a time. The battle ends when all Pokémon on one side lose their ability to fight."

Xiaogang stood on the beach as a temporary referee, and standing on both sides of him were the protagonists of this battle, Xiaoye and Xiaozhi.

"Then, let the game begin!"

Xiaogang raised his right hand and waved it downwards, then stepped back and sat down next to Xiaoxia and the others to watch the fight.

As soon as Xiaogang finished speaking, Xiaozhi couldn't wait to press down the brim of his hat, turned the hat half a circle and threw out the Poké Ball.

"Charmander, it's decided to be you!"

A completely red Pokémon with two feet on the ground appeared in the venue, standing straight and staring at the Poké Ball in Xiaoye's hand.

Kitazawa Reiyuu, who was in the audience, only took a glance from a distance and lost interest in the battle. Xiaoxia, who noticed all this, curiously leaned over and asked the boy who was lowering his head and writing and drawing some strange symbols on the beach.

"What's wrong, Kitazawa?"

"There's no need to waste time in this game where there's no suspense."

"Hey, how did you know that?" Xiaoxia's eyes moved back and forth between the battlefield and the young man holding the wooden stick, wondering if she had missed some important details.

"Judging from the teeth of that Charmander, it is a juvenile Pokémon like Nidoran."

Kitazawa Lingyou held the atlas in his left hand, observing the data and perspective three-dimensional images recorded on it after he borrowed Miss Joy's equipment to examine Psyduck's body in Prayer Town, and he kept thinking about something.

Ever since he left Qiyu Town, he has been thinking about Xiaoye's Psyduck, who is not good at psychic skills. After troubleshooting and correcting them step by step, he finally has some clues.

So he was unwilling to waste even a moment of his spare time, comparing the data shown in the atlas with what he deduced in his mind while answering the girl's questions.

"Therefore, when both sides are young Pokémon, the trainer's command is particularly important."

"Are you saying that Xiaozhi's command level is not as good as Xiaoye's?"

Brock, who had returned, also joined the conversation, sitting down next to Misty and saying, "Judging from the battle at the Nibe Gym, that's true. But Satoshi has grown a lot now, and I don't think he will lose."

"That's right." Xiaoxia also nodded in agreement, "We are all novice trainers with two badges. It's hard to say who will win or lose."

"You and Satoshi were traveling together, don't you know that?" Kitazawa Lingyou raised his eyes and paid some attention to the two confused people. He sighed and said, "The eyes of that little Charmander were full of sharpness that had never encountered frustration, and there were no new scars on his body. It must have been captured by Satoshi not long ago, and he hasn't even participated in a few battles yet."

Xiaogang and Xiaoxia widened their eyes and nodded in sync.

What he said was actually completely correct!

This Charmander was captured by Ash not long ago, and it has participated in less than three battles in total.

"But Xiaoye's Pokémon are different. They often train with each other under Xiaoye's urging, or fight with the group of children who always hold insect nets in the forest. With long-term accumulation, their tacit understanding will naturally be much better than Xiaozhi's."

"Therefore, he will definitely lose this battle."

After saying that, Kitazawa Reisuke ignored the two stunned people and was about to pick up the branch to continue writing data on the beach, but he saw a small four-legged rodent Pokémon appear on the field as Xiaoye raised his hand.

The next moment, he felt a Poké Ball on his waist stirring.

So Kitazawa Lingyou simply threw the Poké Ball out and no longer paid attention to any movement in the field.

"This is... Nidoran, right?"

Xiaogang recognized this pale purple and pink Pokémon, and naturally guessed the Pokémon that Xiaoye released, "Then Xiaoye's Pokémon should be Nidoran."

"Uh-huh!"

Xiaoxia noticed the ambiguous atmosphere spreading between the two Pokémon, and she held her chin with both hands, looked at the setting sun, and smiled with her head tilted.

“They might be a couple.”

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"Okay! Let us attack first!"

Xiaozhi waved his hand and shouted, "Charmander, Spark Attack!"

"Nidoran, charge forward."

Charmander did not rush to launch an attack according to the trainer's instructions. Instead, it squinted its eyes to determine Nidoran's movements before swinging its tail.

A large number of sparks like stars flew everywhere, and Nidoran dodged everywhere under the sparks.

"Great! The suppression at the beginning was successful!"

Xiaozhi grinned as he watched Nidoran dodging around in panic under Charmander's attack and continued to give orders.

"Don't stop, Charmander, keep using Sparks!"

"Nidoran, run and use double kick."

Xiao Ye naturally would not let Nidoran fall into such an embarrassing situation.

They could neither advance nor retreat without effective means of long-range attack.

So he gave the order when Charmander was getting tired and the sparks were not so dense.

Nidoran bent down and quickly moved his four legs, but the sparks from the sky soon blocked his way. If he continued to move forward, he would be hit.

"Two consecutive kicks, to the sand!"

Nidoran used the sand to brake, straightened up, and slid forward on his hind legs, raising a large cloud of dust.

The sand and dust blocked Charmander and Nidoran like a wall. Almost all the sparks were swallowed up by the sand and dust, and could not hurt Nidoran at all.

"Poison needle!"

Taking advantage of the moment when the dust obscured the opponent's vision, Xiaoye decisively gave orders.

Nidoran leaped high and released poisonous needles from the pointed horns on its forehead that glowed eerily in the setting sun, rushing towards Charmander, who had never thought of this method of evasion and therefore did not dodge.

“Charmander!” Xiaozhi looked at Charmander, who had obviously staggered, and then looked at Nidoran, who continued to run towards him on all fours. He gritted his teeth and shouted, “Don’t give up, keep using Spark!”

A faint purple hue appeared between the eyes of the called Charmander. It blinked its gradually blurry eyes and aimed at the color block in front of it, and sparks flew out in response.

Unfortunately, the speed and density of the sparks used by Charmander were greatly affected after being poisoned, and Nidoran simply turned a few corners on the sand to avoid the slow sparks.

"Nidoran, scratching."

Xiaoye gave the order again, and Nidoran gathered his strength and flew to Charmander, raising his right claw and grabbing it under its horrified gaze.

Xiao Gang sighed slightly and shouted to the Pokémon who was lying on the ground with three claw marks on his face.

"Charmander loses its ability to fight, Nidoran wins! Please change Pokémon, Ash!"

"He was completely crushed." Xiaoxia held Pikachu's chin in her arms, and said helplessly, "This makes us who gave him the gym badge lose face."

When Xiaogang saw Xiaoye turn around and take out a dose of antidote from the bag he was carrying and threw it to Xiaozhi, he stopped his hand that had been reaching into the backpack and discussed Xiaozhi's mistake with Xiaoxia.

"Have you discovered the problem between Satoshi and Charmander?"

"Well, it wasn't very obvious when we were traveling together, but it became particularly obvious when compared with Xiaoye." Xiaoxia grew up in the Cerulean Gym after all, and had seen many trainers fight. Of course, she could see that there was a problem with the tacit understanding between Xiaozhi and Charmander.

"Just like what Kitazawa said, Charmander didn't respond immediately after Xiaozhi gave the order, but habitually used his own thinking to fight. This led to Nidoran taking advantage of the breakthrough point to rush over several times when he could have achieved seamless suppression."

Xiaozhi's two travel companions looked at each other and saw a few big words in each other's eyes.

A long way to go!

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After winning, Nidoran looked back at his trainer, and in Xiaoye's puzzled gaze, he pointed at Nidoran who was sitting next to Kitazawa Lingyou and watching his every move.

"Would you like to share the joy of battle with Nidoran?"

Xiaoye smiled indulgently, took out another Poké Ball with his backhand and pressed the button in the center.

"Go ahead, and let it take over from now on."

After getting permission, Nidoran immediately ran towards Nidoran, threw himself on it and told it about his mental journey in this exciting battle.

From time to time, Nidoran raised his front paws to pat Nidoran's back and listened to its words very patiently.

"Oh, so sweet..." Xiaoxia turned her head to look at this loving scene, inexplicably fantasizing about the love that would come at an unknown time.

"Nidoran is awesome!"

Xiaozhi chuckled, not caring about this small failure. "But the next one is a very powerful Pokémon! Go ahead, Squirtle!"

Squirtle stretched out its limbs and flew out of the Poké Ball, landing on the beach with its hands on its hips, waiting for Xiaoye's next Pokémon.

"That's it over here."

Xiaoye threw the Poké Ball in his hand, and the yellow duck looked at the Squirtle opposite him with fighting eyes. The Squirtle was frightened by his gaze and took a small step back.

"Is... Psyduck?"

Xiaoxia couldn't help but recall the column of water that was coming towards her, and her originally growing stronger tone became weaker.

But soon, his love for water-type Pokémon overwhelmed the slight fear in his heart.

There is no such coincidence in the world, and this Psyduck is not necessarily the one that attacked him.

You can't just kill all the ducks with one blow, right? !

After figuring it out, Xiaoxia's face flushed and she suppressed her voice that was about to break and shouted, "How cute! I want a chubby Psyduck too!"

"Oh? Xiaoye's duck hair is pretty nice."

From the perspective of a breeder, Xiaogang noticed the smooth fur of the fish at first sight.

"It can be seen that it has been carefully nurtured by the trainer!"

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"Squirtle uses water gun!"

Xiaozhi took the initiative and quickly gave the command.

However, facing the water gun that was like spraying water, Psyduck turned its head away with disdain and just took a small step back to avoid the attack, without even getting its webbed feet wet.

"Psyduck, fire back with your water gun."

Psyduck is determined to show Squirtle what a "water gun" is.

As it inhaled air, its belly swelled. The next moment, a column of water bigger than Squirtle knocked it away. It fell on the beach, dripping wet, and looked at the yellow sky in confusion.

"Squirtle!"

Squirtle struggled to turn over and stand up on the beach, raising his hand to signal to Xiaozhi that he was fine.

"This isn't just 'water gun' versus 'water gun', this is definitely 'water gun' versus 'water cannon'..."

Xiaoxia swore to God, she had seen so many water-type Pokémon, but few could release water guns with such amazing power like this Psyduck.

This made her wonder and she murmured, "Is this Psyduck really using a water gun?"

“It looks like a real water gun.”

A drop of sweat slid down Xiaogang's forehead, and he suddenly thought about what would happen if his Onix was hit by this attack.

I'm afraid he has lost his ability to fight?

"Squirtle, if your water gun can't beat us, let's attack you at close range. Get close to Psyduck and use impact!"

"Xiaozhi, idiot!"

Misty, who knows the most about water Pokémon, held her head in her hands, grabbed her long orange hair and shouted in despair, "There's no way Psyduck would give you a chance to get close to him. Let Squirtle charge straight ahead and he'll be a sitting duck!"

Just as he finished speaking, Squirtle drew a graceful parabola in the air and landed on the beach which was soaked and hardened by water. He stared at the trainer's face which was getting bigger and bigger with stars in his eyes.

"Squirtle loses the ability to fight, Psyduck wins!"

Xiaogang spoke at the right time and said to Xiaozhi who was half-crouching and holding Squirtle in his arms.

"Ash, it's time to battle the next Pokémon."

"That's it for now."

Pikachu, who was rubbing his hands ready to fight, was suddenly stunned. The scattered electricity in the battery bag stagnated in the air. He looked at Xiaoye who was clapping his hands and walking towards him.

Xiaoye squatted down and sprayed the medicine evenly on the injured area of ​​Squirtle, and said to Xiaozhi, whose expression could not be seen under the brim of his hat.

"Let's call this a draw. The Pokémon are already very tired."

Xiaozhi raised his face and opened his mouth to say something, but was interrupted by the boy in front of him.

"Plus, it's already dark, so let's save the rest of the battle for later."

Xiao Ye clapped his hands and stood up, then walked without stopping to Charmander who was sitting on the ground recovering his strength. After checking the effectiveness of the antidote, he used the remaining medicine in his hand to treat some of Charmander's minor scratches.

"Huh, that's about it." Xiao Ye raised his arm to wipe the sweat off his forehead, and smiled at Xiao Gang and the others who were walking slowly towards him, "All we need is a night's rest to fully recover."

Xiaozhi, who had regrouped at this time, came over holding Pikachu, who was still not satisfied, and stood next to Charmander, who looked visibly relieved, and said.

"Okay, let's have another fight when we have a chance." Xiaozhi nodded and stretched out his right hand wearing a fingerless glove and placed it between the two of them.

Xiaoye nodded and stretched out his hand to shake hands.

"Next time, it won't end so hastily."

"Well, we have to decide the winner!"

Xiaozhi withdrew his hand and just turned around to say something to Xiaogang and Xiaoxia when a "gurgling" sound suddenly echoed in everyone's ears.

Misty closed her eyes helplessly, holding her forehead and said, "As expected of Xiaozhi, he doesn't remember anything during the battle, and he will hold his stomach and scream as soon as the battle is over."

"Okay, okay, it's time to eat." Xiaogang smiled and joined Xiaoxia and Xiaozhi, and called Xiaoye to go to the tower. "Why don't you go to Dr. Zhenghui to rest for a while? We have already told him about your situation in advance, and he doesn't seem to care. Just let us help arrange it."

"Dr. Masaaki...?"

Kitazawa Reiyuu sighed regretfully as he couldn't see the words written on the beach because it was getting dark. Just as he walked over, he heard a familiar name.

"Do you know Lingyou?" Xiaoye heard the hesitation in Kitazawa Lingyou's tone and asked.

"I've heard of him a little bit." Kitazawa Lingyou nodded and explained, "He was once famous for Pokémon and computer technology, but he suddenly disappeared a few years ago."

"Many people wondered where he had gone or if he had met with any misfortune."

"It was not until two years ago that he publicly announced his new research project, which was about a mysterious Pokémon."