Chapter 36: What The Heck Is This Eevee?
Seeing this familiar scene, the Instructor couldn’t help but widen his eyes.
The speed Riolu was now displaying was more than twice as fast as the speed he had used earlier to dodge his Onix’s Attack.
In other words, the previous battle against Onix wasn’t even his full strength??
My goodness! What level of arrogance is this?
What level of terrifying Strength does this Rookie Trainer have?
Making a Pokémon that’s only a month old skillfully beat up a Level 1 Pokémon??
The Instructor even suspected that aside from the basic Training tasks, he had nothing to teach this Rookie who wasn’t actually new at all.
Unlike the Instructor who stood frozen in place like a wooden chicken with his mind racing in all directions, the people in the Arena uniformly gasped when they saw Mime Jr. instantly drop dead.
It felt just like playing Fight the Landlord and getting wiped out by the opponent’s 17 cards—unbelievable.
“Morpeko, Charge!”
The first to react was actually Mo Jiu.
Because of the pre-planned first strike strategy, her Morpeko had already rushed to the other half of the field by now. After missing its pounce and seeing that one of its allies had already come out, Morpeko was also somewhat shocked and covered its mouth with its little paw.
“After Charging, use Thunder Shock on Eevee!”
“Vee!”
Her words and Morpeko’s Skill activation pulled everyone’s sanity back.
Everyone was no longer total newbies either. Although the plan being disrupted caused some slight panic, drawing on their own battle and Training experience, they all made their own judgments.
“Treecko, use Leaf Storm! Then use Quick Attack to block Riolu!”
“Ponyta, use Agility to buy them time!!”
“Whimsicott, Fairy Wind!”
At the same time, the other three people also issued their commands.
Tool Dragon made its greatest effort, quickly circling around Riolu and Eevee.
Although it didn’t have any powerful Skills, judging from the afterimages it left while running, this Ponyta must have done a lot of Training in the ‘Escape’ aspect.
Riolu, who had originally prepared a running start to leap forward and continue taking out Whimsicott, was blocked by this sudden circling Ponyta.
And at that moment, the three Pokémon that received commands also successively completed their Skill releases.
A green storm swept up leaves condensed from Energy, like a gale carrying blades, rushing toward Riolu and Eevee.
Whimsicott, seeing the two enemy Pokémon suddenly appear behind it, jumped backward while starting to Charge. The wind flashing with points of fluorescence carried Fairy-type Energy straight at Riolu.
At this time, Morpeko was still Charging electricity. Massive Electric-type Energy began to spread around it, with electric sparks flickering around its special little cheek pouches unique to electric rodent Pokémon, and the crackling sounds exploding in their ears.
Yellow Thunder Shock spread from its body, like a thunderclap exploding in the sky, surging with fierce momentum toward where Riolu and Eevee were.
When the three Skills aggressively smashed toward the two weak little Pokémon, Li Wei’s command made everyone on the scene dumbfounded again.
“Eevee, go tank it head-on!”
??????
They would have accepted this command even if it were directed at Riolu.
A big Skill like Leaf Storm, even if limited by the user’s Treecko body and Energy to only exert less than a third of its true power, those leaves in the storm like little knives weren’t for show! The inherent massive power of this Skill wasn’t some official later-added special Effect from the Pokémon World!
It really hurts when it hits the body!
That fluffy Eevee might even get cuts on its body!!
And now having Eevee tank in front—did Li Wei mean for Eevee to hard tank Whimsicott’s Fairy Wind and Morpeko’s post-Charge Thunder Shock as well???
In? Treat it like a person?
But what everyone never expected was that Li Wei’s inhuman command wasn’t over yet.
“Riolu! Throw Ponyta out to block Treecko. Eevee, after tanking, knock them all out.”
Under the dazed gazes of the group, Riolu leaped up as if soaring into the air and jumped out of the danger zone. Then, like casually scooping up a fish, it grabbed Ponyta and threw it out of the field.
It felt just like naturally washing hands after using the toilet.
This Ponyta’s Skill harassment didn’t even count as ‘trouble’ to Riolu.
Unlike Riolu’s suave demeanor, poor Eevee silently stayed in place, like a lab rat that couldn’t dodge Skills and was at others’ mercy, showing an innocent and helpless expression and sighing.
“Vee······”
After Eevee helplessly called out, the violent Skills swept with Energy and heavily smashed into the area where Eevee was.
The smoke from the Energy impact temporarily obscured what exactly happened inside the field from everyone’s view.
“Hiss.”
At this time, everyone’s attention wasn’t on Ponyta, whose mane had been yanked and who was mercilessly thrown out of the field; their focus was on Schrödinger’s Eevee in that smoke.
This Eevee······ is it really okay???
“Vee?”
When the impact from the Energy dissipated, what everyone saw was Eevee wrapped in a pile of fallen leaves, shaking leaves off the top of its head.
????
Hard tanking three Skills and coming out completely fine??
They were the ones worried about Eevee, and they were the ones questioning why Eevee was completely fine.
Facing everyone’s what-the-hell expressions, Li Wei couldn’t help but curl up the corners of his mouth.
This was all the perfect result of his Training!!
Following the principle of eating what you lack, one day Li Wei suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
What if he let Eevee directly munch on Energy?
After all, with the Ability to passively absorb multi-type Energy, if faced with a lump of incoming Energy body, could it guide with its own Normal-type Energy to peel away the corresponding Attribute Energy from the Energy body like unraveling a cocoon and then ‘eat’ it, achieving the same Effect?
The inspiration came from the body condition diagram Eevee had previously described. The test subject was the all-purpose Tool Dragon, the test site was the Swimming Pool at home, and the time was during the Volleyball match at the pool party.
The game’s sense of victory and the Scoring System made Eevee completely forget any ‘Training obligations’—everything was for winning, everything was for that plate of Barbecue meat, everything was for Li Wei subscribing to the latest issues of magazines for her continuously.
So Eevee desperately spent two days and finally proficiently mastered this Skill—able to peel apart a casual, purely Energy-gathered Energy Ball Attack from Dragonair.
And those previous Skills that seemed terrifying actually didn’t have much Power. Even stacked together, they weren’t as terrifying as a casual Energy Ball from Dragonair.
This was inherently a downgraded version of Skill Attacks, just an appetizer for Eevee.
“Vee!”
【Now it’s my turn! No one can stop me from getting the prize money!】
Then, under the shocked gazes of the group, a very familiar pink glow similar to when Whimsicott used its Skill gathered on Eevee. Like the rhythm of Aura, white waves flashing with halos spread outward one after another. After a brief few seconds, a powerful fluorescent gale instantly centered on Eevee and expanded outward.
Incredibly gorgeous, just like a performance at the Grand Festival.
Compared to Whimsicott’s previous Fairy Wind, Eevee’s move not only had a wider area of effect but was also overwhelmingly superior in Energy.
Combined with the shockwave from Riolu’s high leap and Aura Sphere slamming into the ground, Morpeko’s second Thunder Shock Attack was mercilessly dispersed.
At the same time, the remaining three Pokémon on the field—Treecko, Whimsicott, and Morpeko—were all sent out of the field without any chance to resist.
The entire Battle process took no more than a short minute. Under Riolu and Eevee’s exquisite coordination and Li Wei’s old-dog-like plan Design, the 200,000 was easily spent by Li Wei.
“Battle ends. The winning side is Riolu and Eevee.”
The Instructor fulfilled his duty as Referee and announced the match result.
Although he really wanted to passionately announce the result, unfortunately, he couldn’t.
What the heck is this Eevee?
Hard tanking Skills from same-level Pokémon?
No, this couldn’t even be called same-level Pokémon anymore. How could this Eevee fight like this? Didn’t the data say it was only a little over two months old?
And what was that Fairy Wind just now?
Is this Skill in Eevee’s Skill pool?
Could this be an Eevee that plays Imitation??
Didn’t a professor just come out a few days ago criticizing the so-called uselessness of Imitation Skills?
Weren’t the usage conditions for this Imitation Skill extremely harsh?
This? That’s it?? Huh???
For a moment, the Instructor even wanted to go on strike.
And this match’s winning method was also very interesting: instantly taking out Mime Jr. right at the start, leaving the team without a healer or support, then handling the harassing Ponyta on the side, and directly blowing away the wave to end the match mercilessly.
All the Pokémon knocked out of the field still had fighting capability left, but they lost eligibility directly for going half a meter or more beyond the field boundaries.
Uncommon but very clever playstyle.
This Rookie named Li Wei has a lot in his Brain; he clearly knows his Pokémon’s positioning and Strength.
His companions’ Pokémon Nurturing Degree actually wasn’t bad either—superior compared to peers in the same batch.
Although slightly inferior to Li Wei’s two Pokémon, if it came to a hard fight, the Instructor felt Li Wei’s two Pokémon might still struggle against numbers and lose in the attrition.
‘This kid thought up a counter in such a short time and perfectly executed it—Magic City tournament will be worth watching!’
The Instructor was silent for a while. Just as he finished thinking about what to say to make this failed challenge seem more meaningful, he discovered that these people had already started running laps.
At this time, the most eye-catching in the entire Training Area was the boy named Li Wei.
He was rushing at super speed at the front with his two Pokémon, followed by his four good friends chasing behind.
Those four friends each held weapons pulled from who-knows-where, chasing aggressively from behind, wildly swinging their weapons as if preparing for an offline Trainer real-person PK.
The Instructor couldn’t imagine that the seemingly very refined girl named Tu Xiaomi, who raised Whimsicott, was actually a violent maniac at heart.
If he wasn’t seeing wrong, what she was dragging in her hand was a Baseball Bat?? And she even had Whimsicott attach a string of thorns to it?
“Hiss······”
As expected, Trainers who let their Whimsicott learn a full set of Attack Skills aren’t to be trifled with.
The Instructor silently sighed, thinking that the only one who could restore his impression of graceful ladies was the Trainer named Mo Jiu.
Right now in the field, she had the most awareness for long-distance running.
Having changed her twin tails to a sporty single ponytail, she was running at a steady pace at the back with her little Morpeko.
“Sigh, I hope this good girl doesn’t get turned into a violent maniac by this group.”
After a Prayer, the Instructor silently took a Stool from the corner of the wall, released the injured Onix from earlier, sprayed it with Yunnan Baiyao Pokémon spray, and checked its body for any cracked spots.
Now he had plenty of time to Rest, conveniently handle the ‘injured’ Onix, and it shouldn’t be too much to go to the Canteen and buy a few Sandwiches to eat, right?
Thinking this way, the Instructor left the treated Onix in place to hold the fort and quietly flipped out through the side iron net, heading toward the Canteen.
The Training field wasn’t big—just enough to encompass a dozen Arenas.
If maintaining steady speed, it would only take two or three hours of running.
Calculating this way, the Instructor couldn’t help but hum a little tune, pondering whether to detour a bit farther to District 12 for some Fried Chicken, or simply find the instructors there for a Barbecue?
He felt Wronged today and definitely needed to chat with his good friends about this Rookie who wasn’t like a Rookie at all.
Too terrifying.
He needed to consult the Seniors on what to do when encountering a Rookie like this where you don’t know what to teach.
Yes, this is serious fact-gathering, not slacking off.
Thinking this, the Instructor changed course straight to the Parking Lot, drove his little off-roader, and rushed to the nearby District 12 Training Area.
Meanwhile, Li Wei and the others hadn’t even completed a quarter of the field.
They had no idea while running that the Instructor had already gone to slack off first.
If they knew.
They would definitely pull out their Mobile Phone to take evidence as court proof to screw the Instructor for·······six portions of Fried Chicken.
Timo’s Flop Diary
July 9th, sunny
【Recommendation Votes for July 8: 870, okay I get it, I’m crying o(╥﹏╥)o wuwuwuwu】
So sleepy lately (’-ω) Always want to Sleep.
And because of the book, emotions up and down down down down down down down down down down.
ε=(ο｀*))) Sigh
Especially seeing people go to other books to give my book bad reviews, crazily trash one and praise another—really upsetting.
QuQ
Want to howl, want to scream wildly.
But this afternoon when I went out to get dinner, blowing wind in the Courtyard for a bit made me feel much better.
The wind was strong, long skirt blown up sliding on legs felt nice, hair floating with the wind felt nice too.
Listening to birds in the Courtyard, watching cats occasionally run by, felt a strange sense of tranquility.
The wind sound by the ears was also comfortable.
Just like······ time stopped.
Very stress-relieving.
Then I thought.
Just let it be.
Enlightened, enlightened.
So I silently came back to write.
ε=(ο｀*))) Sigh
Lately it’s been pretty tough.
Finally I have a feature I can proudly say makes me a writer
Congrats Timo gets tenosynovitis.
The feeling of typing hurting like hell is really too hard.
No more.
Headache.
Slipping away.
See you tomorrow brothers.
Don’t know what Recommendation the judgment day tomorrow will get.
Nothing left to fear.
Because the scariest is having nothing.
The scariest is Slice-of-Life second week.
No biggie, small scene, I can do it, hold back the tears.
