Chapter 118: Zuo Hang Vs K295
“K295?”
Using a combination of letters and numbers as a person’s name feels somewhat uncomfortable.
K295 is just a code; the name that child appears as in archive records, or when called by other humans, should be Experimental Subject K295.
Adding three words makes this name seem even colder.
Zuo Hang met K295 five minutes later.
—Experimental Subject K295.
The two stood far apart on the open battle arena, with snow-covered ground underfoot. Madame Blood Dragon stood on the side of the battle arena, roughly at the referee’s position.
After a trip to the Martial Fighting Star, Zuo Hang felt he had inherited Reta’s physical fitness. In the past, standing in the far north snow like this would require at least a coat; the far north snow is not like winter in the city.
K295 is a girl. Because they were too far apart, Zuo Hang couldn’t see her face clearly, but her head of red long hair was particularly striking.
She is shorter than Zuo Hang, and much shorter; from afar, K295 looks very small.
At her side stood an Infernape about as tall as her, probably the type that doesn’t like entering a Poké Ball, like Pikachu.
“Bond Evolution?” Zuo Hang muttered to himself.
The starter trio can usually Mega, but Infernape cannot, so compared to the other starters’ Fire-type, Infernape is naturally a bit weaker. If Bond Evolution is a power that surpasses Mega, Zuo Hang really wants to see it.
“The battle format is 2v2 Pokémon and trainer cooperative combat, no problem?” Blood Dragon said from afar.
K295 nodded slightly, which counted as agreement.
“Fine.” Zuo Hang said.
Pikachu stepped forward and leaped onto the battle arena, but Zuo Hang took out Gardevoir’s Poké Ball from his lower back. “Pikachu, Gardevoir for this battle.”
For 2v2 cooperative combat, he still preferred Gardevoir. Psychic Type is an attribute with a wide range of applications, and Psychic’s form change is more practical in cooperative combat than Thunderbolt and other Electric-type skills.
“Flare Blitz!” A voice sounding even colder than the white house’s synthesized female voice came from K295’s mouth. The flames igniting around Infernape instantly melted the far north’s flying snow.
The erupting Infernape was like a flaming meteor, charging at Gardevoir with extreme speed. She didn’t even have time to use Seal and could only immediately open a guardian aura in front of herself.
Bluish-blue brilliant firelight flickered under Infernape’s feet, a color completely different from the flames on its body.
When touching the snow, it wouldn’t melt; instead, it froze all the snowflakes underfoot.
“—Boom~~！！！！” Flare Blitz crashed into the guardian aura. Gardevoir pushed her hands forward, red Psychic star trails weaving in her hands. This was Gardevoir’s proud Psychic Type form change, transforming formless Psychic into star-like trails. Each star had the ability to autonomously condense Psychic, and when reaching a certain level, each star could unleash Psychic Type energy comparable to Moonblast!
The cold trembled wildly in this energy, but when Psychic met flames, it still rapidly melted away.
The Infernape blocked by Protect suddenly clenched its palms. The bluish-blue flames gathered under its feet seemed to hear their master’s call and slowly climbed up Infernape’s right arm.
“Fire Punch!” K295’s voice suddenly appeared in Zuo Hang’s ear.
Focused on the battle in front of him, Zuo Hang completely didn’t notice when this girl had appeared. Her slender wrist gripped a nodachi, and with one hand at that.
A nodachi is a long sword with a five-foot blade, extremely difficult to wield. And when K295 stood facing Zuo Hang, she clearly had no weapon. If she suddenly pulled out a dagger or knuckle duster-like small close-range weapon, Zuo Hang could accept that, but suddenly pulling out a five-foot nodachi! That’s a bit much!
“Gardevoir!”
Zuo Hang rolled successively, dodging the nodachi while calling Gardevoir’s name.
“Dazzling Gleam into Hypnosis!”
Two clumps of bright pink skill light appeared in Gardevoir’s forward-pushing palms. K295’s long sword slashed sideways, “Clang!” The snowfield was cut with a half-meter-long trench. Zuo Hang saw the snow-white blade pass before his eyes.
No wonder he didn’t notice this sword at first; the surrounding snowscape was this nodachi’s natural camouflage. Plus, Zuo Hang first noticed K295’s fiery red long hair, so not paying attention to other things was normal.
The suddenly flashing Dazzling Gleam dazed Infernape a bit. It instinctively closed its eyes, and when it opened them again, it saw Gardevoir’s eyes as deep as a starry sky.
—Hypnosis!
That two-character move “Fire Punch” hadn’t been used yet, but Infernape was swept by a wave of drowsiness.
“Dream Eater!”
“—Snap~!” Gardevoir’s finger snap and Zuo Hang’s synced at the same time. However, the sleeping Infernape did not lose its combat ability.
The bluish-blue flames underfoot still climbed to its right fist as before.
—Skill, Snore: Randomly selects one move from those mastered to use, can only be used while sleeping.
Fire Punch from below upward, fiercely striking Gardevoir’s lower abdomen. At the same time, Infernape’s mental world was also ravaged by Dream Eater.
Dream Eater deals damage while also recovering one’s own life force. Although Gardevoir was sent flying several meters by the punch, the actual damage wasn’t much.
With one hand raised upward, a drop of blue water drop appeared in Gardevoir’s palm. Zuo Hang had been accidentally slashed on the calf by the nodachi while multitasking to command the battle; this Dew of Life was for Zuo Hang.
“Don’t worry about me! Focus on the front!” Zuo Hang had to split attention to command Gardevoir’s side of the battle, and Gardevoir had to split to heal Zuo Hang. Both multitasking at once was an extremely bad situation in 2v2 cooperative combat.
Infernape’s Fire Punch flew toward Gardevoir again. This time without charging, the bluish-blue flames still lingered.
Fire Punch under Flare Blitz boost had even faster speed than before.
Gardevoir’s figure flashed, Teleporting behind Infernape, raising Moonblast in her hand.
“Behind you.” K295’s voice and Infernape’s turning speed were almost synchronized.
Fire Punch reversed direction, instead using the turning gap to accelerate itself. The pink light orb collided with the blue ghostly fire. Gardevoir’s previously condensed Psychic stars also unleashed small-scale Moonblasts of varying degrees at this moment. They flew from the snowfield or sky, extremely small in shape and hard to detect, all surging toward the Infernape clashing with Gardevoir!
Teleport triggered once more, Gardevoir jumping away from the front. At the same time, her eyes filled with even more brilliant stars.
—Future Sight!
（ps: K295’s character card is out, you can like it now~ Then the usual request for votes）
K295’s name.
