Chapter 78: Who Struck First?
“Nahxi~~” said Exeggutor, recovering from Dream Eater, sitting cross-legged.
“Who made the first move?” Zuo Hang asked doubtfully.
“Wasn’t it you who used Earthquake first?”
“Nahxi???” One of Exeggutor’s heads showed a puzzled expression, indicating it couldn’t use Earthquake at all.
“Pika~~Pika pika~~”
Pikachu indicated that there was indeed an Earthquake just now.
“Nahxi~~Nahxi nahxi!!”
Exeggutor got anxious.
He just couldn’t use Earthquake!
He could use Stomp, but the key was he didn’t use Stomp just now either!
Talk like Jump Kick Iron Tail = Earthquake was just trainers joking around or netizens memeing.
A proper Earthquake is a Ground Type skill, and it’s not something you can do just by smacking the ground with your tail.
Exeggutor is Grass Dragon, so it shouldn’t have high proficiency in Ground Type skills.
In that case.
Did he really misunderstand??
“Pika.” The Electric Mouse suddenly said.
“Shala~” Gardevoir agreed with Pikachu’s view.
“What do you two mean?? What do you mean ‘actually I just wanted to fight’? Don’t make baseless guesses, okay?!”
“Pika!” The Electric Mouse stepped forward, its two eyes staring intently at Zuo Hang.
“Shala!” Gardevoir also stepped forward, likewise staring at Zuo Hang.
Zuo Hang backed up and said: “Don’t look at me for this kind of thing. Suddenly seeing such a huge Exeggutor, I definitely had to defend myself. And you guys looking at me won’t help; I’m just a cute Hang Hang.”
“Ding~” The Black Terminal in his pocket vibrated, indicating approval of Zuo Hang’s statement.
Hoshino and Lin Ping, who had disconnected, came out from behind the giant rock dodging Leaf Storm.
Hoshino rubbed his hands in front of Zuo Hang and the Pokémon.
“Exeggutor bro, I remember clearly! It was this guy who treated you like a monster! That’s why we made our move!” Hoshino pulled Lin Ping over.
Hearing Hoshino’s words, all six of Exeggutor’s heads turned to Lin Ping at the same time.
“How did the blame get shifted to me again?” Lin Ping coughed, his tone suddenly changing: “This morning I ran into a Guzzlord, and I thought you two had encountered an Ultra Beast again! Good intentions treated like donkey liver and lungs? You’ve got some nerve, Hoshino Ryuji.”
Lin Ping was quite the natural at playing the sarcastic person.
“Good grief! Never mind if it was good intentions or not, it was after you spoke that my Hangzi Ge made his move!”
“I spoke because you said there was an Earthquake, didn’t I?”
“There was an Earthquake, I didn’t say anything wrong!”
Zuo Hang had a headache.
He wanted to curse.
“You two losers! Shut up!”
Hearing Zuo Hang get angry, Hoshino quickly switched from sarcastic person mode to Simp, smiling obsequiously: “Well cursed, Hangzi Ge! I’m a loser!”
Lin Ping: “.”
In the end, the cause of the incident was still that unexplained Earthquake.
“Actually, I think with Exeggutor’s huge body, it’s pretty normal to cause a small-scale Earthquake by moving a bit. I wasn’t far from you guys at the time, and I didn’t feel anything. The misunderstanding happened mainly because we were too nervous,” Lin Ping said.
Hoshino immediately retorted: “Nervous? My Hangzi Ge would get nervous? Little bottle! You’ve gone down the wrong path!”
“—Pa!” Snowy Child bounced out of its Poké Ball on its own, casually shaped an Ice Brick, and smacked it right on Hoshino’s head.
“Maoji!!(〝▼皿▼)!!”
Too damn good at simping! Even from inside the Poké Ball, it couldn’t stand listening!
This trainer might as well be ditched!
“Why’d you hit me?! We’re on the same side!”
“Maoji!!”
Snowy Child swung the Brick down again.
‘Who the hell is on your side?!!’
Zuo Hang was about to curse at him, but seeing the intensity of Snowy Child’s action.
Tsk.
Poor Hoshino.
The wounds on Exeggutor’s body had already begun to heal.
The cuts from Ninjask’s X-Scissor numbered at least in the hundreds, but in the time they were talking, they had already healed like new. The large charred area on the Tree Crown from the lightning had also recovered to green.
The Leech Seed thrown at Darkrai earlier had burrowed into the ground, and Exeggutor had begun absorbing nutrients from the land, converting them into energy for its own Recovery.
This Secret Realm was its turf; during battle, Exeggutor could be said to have some Venue advantage.
If it hadn’t been put to sleep by Darkrai, it could have gone a few more rounds with Zuo Hang’s Pokémon.
“Nahxi~” said Exeggutor.
“Pika? Pika pika??”
“Shala~~”
The Pokémon seemed to be discussing the details of the earlier clash.
Zuo Hang got the gist.
Exeggutor was saying Pikachu and Gardevoir were awesome.
Pikachu scratched its head, saying it was average and Gardevoir was the one who fought well.
Darkrai on the other side was a bit displeased.
Clearly, its final Hypnosis was the key to victory!
This Electric Mouse had been scraping away, and Gardevoir had half its leg crippled by Seal.
If this White Dragon’s Terminal could award MVP, then the battle’s overall best was definitely this Nightmare God!
“Dark!!”
Darkrai joined the discussion among the three Pokémon.
At this time, Ninjask silently landed on top of Zuo Hang’s head, listening to the Pokémon discussing without joining in.
In that battle just now, in terms of Output, it was absolutely the highest.
‘Double Team plus X-Scissor with 160 Power, even without the Nightmare God, after using Swords Dance to max Physical Attack, a few more Cross Chops would have ended the fight.’
‘MVP should definitely be me!’ Ninjask thought to itself.
Think what he might, but he didn’t say it.
Because he was a ninja.
He endured it!
Ninjask suddenly felt a bit sentimental.
In the past, after battles when he pretended to be profound, there was always a blue guy who would mock him—”I’m the real ninja! You’re just a cicada!”
Ninjask felt nostalgic.
Nostalgic for the days wandering the High-Risk Zone with that Frog who threw shuriken.
Who knew when they’d meet again.
Ninjask looked down at Zuo Hang.
It hesitated repeatedly but didn’t speak up.
He wanted to, but he didn’t say it.
On the other side.
White Dragon Secret Realm Observation Post
Liang Gong came back from outside, but the atmosphere in the Observation Post was completely different from when she left.
Anxious.
Or rather, Nervousness.
Class B’s Su Chenglin stared at the holographic projection’s footage, silent for a long time.
In the footage was a boy with Ninjask perched on his head; just moments ago, his battle had upended the teachers’ cognition.
The Class C teacher suddenly spoke up, “Such a strong Thunderstorm, no wonder the previous drones had no footage.”
The Class F teacher said to Liang Gong who had just entered: “Teacher Liang Gong, among us, you and Teacher Xi Ran have been teaching the longest. Be honest, is the Pokémon that the first-generation Principal placed in Secret Realm 448 an Exeggutor? And what exactly is this Zuo Hang’s background??”
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