This trainer’s Pokémon is too out-of-the-box.

Eating hot pot and singing songs, Zhou You and the elves ended their daily exercise and leisure.

I came to Nohara City specifically because of the rainy, humid and muddy terrain. In addition to visiting the place where I fought in the past (the Great Wetland), the main purpose of the tour was naturally to challenge the Nohara City Gym.

The gym leader did not leave a deep impression on him. He only remembered that he seemed to be a masked wrestler similar to Kukui. He could not remember anything about his strength or Pokémon except that he was a snorkeling weasel...

Without deliberately gathering information in advance, he directly made an appointment online for tonight's gym challenge.

Due to the rainy weather, the battles that are usually held outdoors were moved indoors.

However, just after entering the gym, a mysterious object collided with Zhou You.

"Ouch!"

The one who was in such a hurry that he didn't even look at where he was going was a young man with a voice that sounded full of energy.

After bumping into Zhou You, Zhou You was not shaken at all, but the other party fell to the ground.

I am a bit weak.

"Why weren't you more careful when you opened the door? Fine! No, it seems I didn't look at the road. Sorry, sorry..."

The young man held his head and stood up, only then could he see clearly who he had bumped into.

"Wait, aren't you... the former champion of the Hoenn region, the former champion of the Kanto region, and the current Fire King of the Kanto region, Zhou You, and Eden!"

Seeing that the other party recognized their identities, Eden couldn't help but laugh: "There are so many people standing at the door, no wonder you were knocked down."

"I'm so sorry, I was in a hurry to get going after watching the game."

The boy blushed slightly, and he brushed off the dirt as if he had seen his idol. Then he looked at Zhou You with an unusually firm gaze: "Although it may be a bit presumptuous to say this, Mr. Champion, please accept me as your apprentice!"

"what?"

The young man's abrupt request to become his disciple made Zhou You's mind a little confused, and even his eyes became dazed.

The moment the other party threatened to fine him after he was hit, he had already realized the identity of the boy who hit him - Ajun, Pal, Xiaochun, Ikki or some other alien isomorph who originated from a strong enemy in the dp version.

In Zhou You’s impression, the person that Axun should be apprenticing to should be Jixian, so how come it suddenly became him?

No, Axun became a disciple during the Platinum period, and now it is before that.

Realizing this, Zhou You nodded readily: "Okay, I've already taught a few students, one more won't be too much."

"I'm sorry I know this is so sudden but please...wait."

The young man, who had assumed the other party would refuse as soon as Zhou You opened his mouth, was stunned for a moment. What did the other party just say?

Is it so easy to become a champion’s disciple?

"Thank you so much, Master!"

But Zhou You, who had agreed at once, poured cold water on him first: "Don't be in a hurry to thank me. I only accept students, not apprentices. How much you can learn depends on your own learning attitude."

As he spoke, he pulled out a photocopy of the constantly revised and thickened exercise book from his backpack and handed it solemnly to the other party.

"I'm going to give you this copy of 'The Los Angeles Guide to Becoming a Champion Even with Your Grandma's Help'. Do the exercises and correct them according to the answers at the back. When you've finished, you can contact me for the next copy."

The young man took the book that was so heavy that it almost made him fall, and subconsciously turned the cover. Densely packed with hieroglyphic words, numbers, formulas and pictures poured into his mind like the boundless universe, instantly making him fall into indescribable shock.

When I came to my senses again, I found that the double champion had disappeared without a trace.

If it weren't for the heavy book in his hand that still exuded a huge amount of energy (gravitational potential energy), it would have been as if he had seen a fantasy in a daydream.

"As expected of a champion, you are truly unfathomable."

The boy thought for a moment and guessed that the other party had most likely entered the gym. He quickly turned around and rushed to the battle site inside at a speed of 100 meters, holding the teaching materials.

I completely forgot that I had to catch the train to Zhuqing City to meet up with my friends...

……

When the boy rushed to the battle site, he found that the champion came to the Nohara City Gym not to communicate with the gym owner, but to launch an all-out gym challenge!

Facing the challenge of the champion, the gym owner Yoshiken Mask sent out the Swamp King who was born and raised in the Great Marshland.

"Nuomi...wait, Gulden, you don't need to be here, Nuomici, it's decided that it's you!"

And the champion sent out a very fragile-looking heterochromatic Vulpix?

Both water and ground should restrain fire attributes, how do we fight this?

Is this the absolute confidence that the Fire King has in his own attribute?

"Vulpix?"

The naked-chested gym owner wearing a mask was also a little surprised, but he did not underestimate the enemy at all, and immediately ordered the elf to release his signature "Muddy Flow".

Theoretically, this one strike alone could render Vulpix incapable of combat.

However, the champion's Vulpix is ​​different.

Faced with the turbid current that was like a flood, Nuomici jumped lightly into the air and threw himself into the move without any fear.

However, this seemingly brainless action did not make it lose its combat capability.

A moment later, the turbid current controlled by the Swamp King shook violently, and then turned into a water tornado that surrounded Vulpix.

The former obviously does not have such exquisite water-manipulation skills.

Jixian realized instantly that the snow-colored Vulpix was not a different color, but a subspecies that he didn't know about!

Is it actually... ice attribute?

When it comes to wrestling, he's good at everything, but his understanding of other elves is not top-notch.

However, Ji Xian suffered the consequences of his narrow knowledge base, as his opponent overtook him.

But Ji Xian, who also knew ice-attribute Pokémon, naturally knew the special move that could cause decisive damage to the Swamp King...

"Glutinous rice cake, freeze-dried."

as predicted.

Faced with Water and Ground-attribute Pokémon, would Ice-attribute Pokémon have any choice other than "Freeze-Drying"?

However, Jixian had already been the elves

"Ignore it! Detonate the "poison" in the turbid stream!"

Mask, who lives in the wetland terrain, naturally knows the mud and miasma hidden in the countless swamps.

Poisoning a water stream is much easier than poisoning an individual.

The Swamp King cultivated by Yoshihiko has already mastered the technique of integrating "poison" into the ground attribute energy in the "turbid current".

Although Vulpix controlled the water flow to ignore the attack of the turbid current and used it to surround itself as a protection, it actually tied its own hands and feet, triggering his next tactic!

The poisonous and turbid current immediately caused Nuomici to feel pain, and he quickly dispersed the whirlpool that served as a protection.

However, due to its fairy bloodline, it was naturally weak to poison and was affected by the toxin in just a short moment.

This seemingly brainless owner of the museum seems to be more shrewd than Zhou You imagined...