Chapter 54: I Really Am Too Excellent
The entire arena was in an uproar, but the instructors didn’t change their initial thoughts.
At this moment, Instructor Wu fell down, and another new instructor stepped forward.
“Li Wei, how about sparring with me again?”
An instructor walked out from the side, shaking the Poké Ball in his hand and asking Li Wei.
“Uh… sure.”
Looking at this row of instructors who had sat down at the edge of the arena at some unknown time, Li Wei suddenly had a very ominous premonition.
These guys wouldn’t end up unable to win and start directly doing trainer melee attacks, right…
‘No way o(>﹏<)o!!!'
While Li Wei was thinking in his mind about all sorts of unreliable deductions like ‘is it because I’m too handsome that they came to find me,’ the pit that had been smashed out was already filled by the repair craftsman who had been waiting on the side.
“So, do you want to switch Pokémon?”
When everything was ready, the instructor who had already stood on the side looked at the Eevee still standing in the arena and asked Li Wei.
“No need, no need.”
“Alright, like you, my surname is also Li. Please give me some pointers in this spar.”
After saying that, the instructor released his Pokémon.
“Roar!!!”
What appeared in the arena was an Ursaring so tall that even six Eevees stacked on top of each other might not reach its height, famous in manga for its irritability and roars, one that made everyone turn and run the moment it appeared, one that even Pikachu had to yield three points to in the forest!
“This Ursaring that evolved just a while ago, please give me some pointers!”
Another ‘please give me some pointers,’ but the tone in these four words carried much more ferocity compared to before.
Any trainer who dares to step forward and issue a challenge must be confident.
As Ursaring’s trainer, Instructor Li was confident that in a solo, he could use his Ursaring to slam the opponent to the ground.
After gauging it like this, Instructor Li felt that even facing an Eevee specialized in melee, one that had undergone strict fighting training, he could handle it with ease.
“Ursaring, resolve her quickly like usual!”
“Roar!!!”
Just as Instructor Li was trash-talking his own Ursaring, the referee announced the start of the match.
“Match start!”
“Ursaring, Horn Attack.”
It seems this group of instructors all liked to attack first.
Hmm.
He, Li Wei, also liked it very much.
It’s just that… today, for some mischievous reason, he liked to strike second.
“Scratch.”
Instructor Li seemed to be someone who also liked using this kind of impact-type skill as high-speed movement.
With a fierce charge forward, Ursaring didn’t crash heavily into Eevee.
In the gap of Ursaring’s sprint, Instructor Li issued the second command.
At this moment, Ursaring, which had rushed in front of Eevee, used the momentum from the charge, raised its huge claw, gathered the power accumulated during the impact into its front claw, and slammed it fiercely toward Eevee’s little head.
That stance looked just like wanting to buff Eevee.
Ferocious.
The sharp claws gleamed dangerously under the sunlight, shadows enveloping Eevee, as if the moment Ursaring’s claw fell, she would be torn to shreds.
Bang.
Bang.
Bang.
In an instant, Ursaring’s dual claws swung left and right; from sprinting to swinging claws, in that short time, Ursaring performed several attacks.
“Hiss.”
The ground was shattered by Ursaring’s immense force, and the flying stone chips and dust made it impossible for everyone to see the state of that tiny Eevee where she stood.
‘Is this Eevee okay?’
At this moment, everyone’s minds outside the arena without exception thought this exact sentence.
‘Won.’
Contrary to what the ‘audience’ outside the arena thought, Instructor Li looked at the full-power burst from his Ursaring and Li Wei, who had shown no reaction so far, and made this judgment in his heart.
His Ursaring’s one claw slam down could crack even bedrock.
Even if this Eevee chose to block in that split second, it was absolutely impossible for her to block his combo unscathed.
But.
He, full of excitement waiting to say ‘gg,’ didn’t hear the referee’s announcement.
“Eevee, Scratch.”
What he heard was only Li Wei’s calm command voice.
???
Though full of question marks, with the precedent of Houndour’s opponent, Instructor Li didn’t freeze in place; when Li Wei issued the command, he made the corresponding judgment.
“Cross Chop!”
There’s a saying: the best defense is offense. In this sudden situation, with no time to think about what to use to defend against this Eevee’s attack, the best way was to use his strongest skill to counterattack.
Scratch, close-combat attack.
Instructor Li seized these two pieces of info that flashed in his mind and made the decision in that instant.
He planned to have Ursaring finish her off while that Eevee jumped up to scratch!
Instructor Li’s reaction was quick, and the Ursaring, trained for nearly four months with great tacit understanding with him, instantly crossed its hands, rapidly gathering energy, waiting for Eevee to jump up for a passionate clash of blades.
But.
They were wrong again.
Although Eevee learned skills according to the skill list, Li Wei’s requirement for her wasn’t to learn them 100%.
After all, some skills were destined not to be ‘learned’ by Eevee; she could only simulate them with energy to make up for innate shortcomings.
So the skills Eevee used mostly came with a suffix like ‘·mod.’
And the skill names Li Wei called out weren’t necessarily the correct skill names.
Simply commanding Eevee to use ‘Scratch’ already had the intention of misleading to catch them off guard.
He didn’t voice this idea; he felt that with Eevee’s outstanding ‘if not learning well, then learn sly’ ability, the ‘sly’ in dirty tricks would definitely be deeply inherited from him.
And seeing Eevee raise her claw to attack, Li Wei knew he was right.
He silently curled the corner of his mouth, waiting for his battle victory.
At this time, the Eevee in the arena raised her front claw; like Riolu training Shadow Claw, long claws formed from Normal-type energy appeared on Eevee’s claws.
Having received the command, she didn’t jump up to scratch Ursaring.
Li Wei’s command was simple; Eevee knew that at this time, she needed to judge for herself how to release this skill.
After 0.01 seconds of careful thought, Eevee made her decision.
She indicated that she was too delicate, just a cute and charming Eevee; she absolutely couldn’t clash head-on with the big dummy in front of her—even if she won, it wouldn’t be elegant.
This big dummy’s strength wasn’t enough for her to abandon elegance and fight desperately.
So, with a flash of inspiration, Eevee chose to imitate Riolu’s recent training of ‘Shuriken’; with a flick of her claw, she flung three blades condensed from Normal-type energy at Ursaring.
The sudden close-range skill from the unexpected mage caught Ursaring off guard.
With no time to react, it hard-took a hit from Eevee’s awesome ‘Scratch.’
After one hit landed, Eevee didn’t stop her attack rhythm.
She raised her claw again, repeatedly, continuously, multiple times performing the same attack.
Repeating this process, Eevee found it very easy.
The expanding energy in her body and the gradually developed organs allowed her to release energy attacks no less than an Elite Level Pokémon without pressure in a short time.
In extreme anger, going all out with a Sliding Kick, she could even hard-counter Dragonair.
Under the attack of this blue-bar-abundant irritable mage Eevee, Ursaring’s just-charged Cross Chop was disrupted.
Then, one after another, endless blades that gave Ursaring no breathing room battered it until its head spun, and it didn’t even last half a minute before collapsing directly on the ground.
“Ursaring is unable to battle, the winner is… Eevee!”
Unbelievable.
The instructors in the entire arena were stunned once again.
This Eevee hadn’t moved a single step in this battle either.
What kind of Eevee is this?
Did her feet grow into the arena?
At this moment, their gazes toward Riolu, who was obediently standing in the back holding a flopping Magikarp and watching the battle, started to look a bit off.
If this brutal Eevee was the second Pokémon, how terrifying must the initial Pokémon be?
The instructors who had been eager to spar with Li Wei all dropped the idea, involuntarily comparing in their hearts the strength gap between their Pokémon trained for three months and Li Wei’s Pokémon trained for over three months.
Before the battle started, they all thought they could steadily crush Li Wei, but after actually facing it, they realized they were the ones being crushed.
What kind of rookie trainer is this! So terrifying!
How was this Pokémon nurtured?
What did it eat to grow??
With this train of thought, the instructors instantly shifted their attention from battle to nurturing.
At this time, they all dropped their fighting intentions, tacitly walked to Li Wei’s side, some hooking shoulders, some calling him brother, some probing sideways; they looked very friendly, but actually all wanted to pry some secrets about training Pokémon from Li Wei’s mouth.
Even if just some public info, as long as this terrifying rookie Li Wei was willing to reveal a tiny bit for them to learn and apply, would promotion still be a worry???
“Ahem.”
Unable to refuse the enthusiasm, Li Wei finally decided to speak and share his training insights.
“I think, to train powerful Pokémon, the most important thing is undoubtedly nurturing the bond between human and Pokémon!”
One sentence and you know it’s a true Pallet Town person.
“When the emotion between Pokémon and trainer is deep, strength naturally goes up.”
After seriously spouting nonsense, Li Wei brought out the concepts of ‘Repayment’ and ‘Anger’ skills, using ‘initiative’ as the core argument, combining the convincing strength of his own Pokémon, and did a wave of nonsense analysis on the interaction mode between trainer and Pokémon.
Seeing the instructors nod thoughtfully, Li Wei felt an inexplicable sense of satisfaction in his heart.
Indeed, this is what an excellent trainer should do.
Never hoard experience; not afraid of others surpassing, willing to share.
‘I’m really too excellent.’
Today, Li Wei’s mood was exceptionally good.
Of course, Eevee, who had demonstrated her ‘powerful’ strength, was the same.
“Bu Yi?”
【Today’s Eevee was so c, so, is there a reward?(ω)】
Eevee squatted on her throne, humming a little tune, looking pleased as she asked Li Wei.
“Reward?”
After thinking for a bit, Li Wei continued, “Then, big meal tonight?”
“Bu Yi!!!”
【Big meal!!! Yes!!! Eat!!!】
(﹃)
“Then let’s have hot pot when we get home tonight?”
“Lu!”
【Is it the one from the manga?】
Suddenly mentioning food, Riolu on the side also got interested, recalling the hot pot from the comic strip Li Wei drew for them, and couldn’t help swallowing saliva.
“Yeah, that’s the one.”
Seeing Magikarp in Riolu’s arms showing a tendency to jump up, Li Wei quickly took out a Poké Ball and recalled it.
“Let’s go, head home now?”
“Lu!”
【Go!】
“Bu Yi!!”
【Charge, Li Wei!! Run fast!!】
“Ka pu ka pu.”
Even through the Poké Ball, even though Li Wei couldn’t hear the sound, just seeing Magikarp’s mouth opening and closing in the ball, he could imagine the noisy sound and words Magikarp wanted to say.
‘Diligent Li Wei, charge!! I want hot pot too!! Right!! What does hot pot taste like? What is it? Trainer, how do you know so much! Is this hot pot related to fire? Is it tasty? What flavor is it? Do you eat it with the pot burning together?’
This chatterbox is best shut off for now with the reason ‘no water and you’ll die.’
…
After imagining, looking at Magikarp happily opening and closing its mouth in the Poké Ball, Li Wei secretly gave himself a thumbs up.
Since everyone was so excited, and tomorrow was the exam, then tonight… rest?
Thinking this, Li Wei held Riolu’s hand and turned to head home.
On the way jogging back to Zone 1, he even took time to send a text message to Dragonair’s little mobile phone, telling them the dinner plan and unilaterally setting a meetup at the supermarket entrance.
After all, who made the foolish Dragonair unable to send texts, illiterate, only able to tap icons and listen to ‘voice’?
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Today’s py: 《Professional Apothecary》, serious medical text, but he’s saucy to the bone, often welding windows to drive in the book; I think you should check it out.
If you like, author’s notes have the link.
Timo’s Flop Diary
July 27
【July 26, 600+ daily push, no extra chapter】
Getting less and less…
Ah this…
【Today is the 44th day of completing continuous daily 3000-word updates, investment achievement still hasn’t counted as completed for me】
Today…
Nothing much to say.
Just feel a bit regretful.
Sigh.
Whatever.
Say too much and I’ll get flamed again.
“This author always spreads negative energy in author’s notes, so annoying!”
“Who wants to see you write stuff in author’s notes every day!”
“All day not writing but complaining! Why don’t others xxx so-and-so!”
╭(╯^╰)╮
Hmph
Won’t give those stupid critics any ammo.
I’m clever!!
No tasty food today.
But chicken soup tomorrow morning.
Expectation wave
Hehehe.
That’s it
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