Pokémon Heart Journey

A trainer rushed in, holding his Pokémon.

"Excuse me, Miss Joy, can you treat my little Rada first?"

"Okay, please hand him over to me, I will treat her immediately." Seeing this, Miss Joy immediately got into work mode, reached out to take the other person's little Rada, and spoke to him gently.

This action naturally attracted the attention of Xiaozhi and the others, so they went forward to take a look, and found that the opponent's Rattata's fur was all burnt black, and it looked like it was dying.

"Miss Joy, what happened?" Xiaozhi asked curiously. He saw the little Rattata with a charred body, as if it had suffered an electric shock.

"Oh, this should be the trainers who challenged the Vermilion Gym and were defeated by the Electric-type Pokémon of the gym leader, Shiki." Miss Joy was obviously used to this.

Just at this moment, another trainer hurried in holding a Sandshrew.

Everyone who saw this scene couldn't help but look at each other again.

"Was this also injured by Gym Master Mashishi? If I remember correctly, Sandshrew seems to be a ground-type gym, and the Dead Leaf Gym is an electric-type gym," said Sundae hesitantly.

Xiaozhi nodded slightly. He knew the attributes of Sandshrew. Then he seemed to remember something and said excitedly: "Could it be that the strength of Gym Master Ma Zhishi is already comparable to the champion? You know, Mr. Daigo's Metagross can ignore the attributes and attack King Scorpion."

"It looks like Gym Leader Mashishi is a very powerful enemy, Pikachu. We need to work harder," Xiaozhi said to Pikachu on his shoulder.

"Pika? Pika Pika"

Pikachu tilted his head in confusion at what Xiaozhi said. After all, Xiaozhi had seen Ma Zhishi before. He had fought against Hermes on the Saint Anno before. Xiaozhi should be the one who knows Hermes' strength best. If Ma Zhishi had that kind of strength, he should have defeated him long ago and would not have needed Musashi's help at all.

"Is the leader of the Vermilion Leaf Gym so powerful? I thought the most powerful gym leader in Kanto was Miss Nancy!" Serena, who knew nothing about this, couldn't help but say in surprise.

Xiao Yang and the others couldn't help but touch their foreheads in response to their words.

“I think there is a possibility that it is not that Ma Zhishi is too strong, but that his opponent is too weak,” Xiaoyang said speechlessly.

Yu Longyuan also nodded and said, "I know Master Ma Zhishi. The other party definitely does not have such strength."

"By the way, didn't you see all this when you were on the Saint Anno? The other party was fighting back and forth with Hermes, who was good at using flying machines, and he didn't gain any advantage," Sundae rolled his eyes at Xiaozhi.

"Oh! That's right!" Xiaozhi felt a little embarrassed when he heard what they said, and he touched his nose unconsciously.

At this time, Nazi, who had been wondering who Ma Zhishi was, suddenly said, "Ma Zhishi? Oh! He's the black-skinned man on the Saint Annun before. He seems to be very weak, right?"

Hearing what Nancy said, Sundae couldn't help but twitch his lips, "...Compared to what you said, Nancy, Master Ma Zhishi...is really not that good."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

.........

When Xiaozhi and the others arrived at the Withered Leaf Gym.

Looking at the magnificent Dead Leaf Gym in front of him, Xiaozhi clenched his fists and said with high morale: "This time I must go all out and get the third badge!"

"Excuse me, is anyone there?" Xiaozhi walked up and knocked on the door, then shouted.

"Kakaka~"

Then, the door slowly opened.

However, what came into view was not the familiar Ma Zhishi, but two muscular men.

"Hello, what can I do for you? Are you here to challenge our gym?" asked a muscular man with a Shamatte hairstyle.

Faced with the opponent's appearance, even Xiaozhi couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, but still nodded and said: "Yes, I am here to challenge the gym!"

After hearing the answer they wanted, the two looked at each other, and then shouted towards the gym together: "Boss, a new challenger is coming!"

"Boss...Boss?" Xiaozhi and the others raised their eyebrows at the same time. Why would a gym leader who protects a city be addressed like this?

Even Xiao Yang shook his head speechlessly. Although he had seen it in anime, this was the first time he heard this name in real life.

"The names you humans use are really weird, but boss? Well, quite a classy meow! Those who deserve this title must be very remarkable people," Meow Meow touched his chin and then nodded.

Selina at the side asked Sundae with some concern: "Is this Withered Leaf Gym really a gym recognized by the Alliance? I always feel that this Gym Master Ma Zhishi doesn't seem to be a good person."

"Um...there should be no problem, right? We have met him before on the Saint Annus, and he even helped to restrain Hermes," Sundae said hesitantly.

Nancy stepped forward, patted Serena on the shoulder, and comforted her: "Don't worry, if the other party is really a vicious person, I will turn him into a doll."

"Uh... that's not necessary."

"Hahaha, finally there's another challenger. Welcome to the Dead Leaf Gym. May I ask who is the challenger?"

Before the other person came out, a loud voice was heard, followed by heavy and powerful footsteps.

When the other party's tall figure appeared in front of everyone, Xiaozhi and the others couldn't help but look up at him.

"Master Ma Zhishi, can't you change your look?" Yu Longyuan couldn't help but speak as he looked at Ma Zhishi, who was wearing sunglasses and had yellow hair, in front of him.

Hearing Yu Longyuan's words, Ma Zhishi couldn't help but turn his head to look at him, and then said in surprise: "Hey! Isn't this the little guy from the Yu Long family? Are you going to challenge my gym this time?"

"Wait, aren't you Miss Nazi? Why are you here? And if you look carefully, everyone here seems to be an acquaintance."

Ma Zhishi looked around at everyone present and said with some surprise, then his eyes fixed directly on Xiaozhi.

Xiaozhi:?

Seeing the other person's familiar face, Ma Zhishi couldn't help but take off his sunglasses, rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and then reached out and held Xiaozhi's head.

"So it's you! I didn't expect you were actually still alive!"

Xiaozhi: ...How should I answer this? Or should I just give him a slap?