Pokémon: Start with an Admiral Crab!

Crack-!

There were a few small explosions coming from the stone fire in the open space.

A spark jumped to Wang Yao's feet and was crushed by the sole of his shoe.

"Aww——!"

Wang Yao held a piece of grilled chicken wings as long as his arm in one hand and a communication watch in the other.

"Dr. Oak - have you found out anything?"

After chewing the meat quickly a few times and swallowing it with a "gulp", Wang Yao freed his mouth to ask.

"You really are very happy... There should be a lot of local specialties in the Seven Islands, right?"

Dr. Oak looked at the tempting grilled wings in Wang Yao's hand and couldn't help but compare them with the instant noodles he had eaten for dinner.

"...Yeah, it's a tourist city after all, the hot springs and beaches here are very nice."

Wang Yao's gaze lingered for a moment on the brown feathers that had not yet burned out in the fire.

"An island vacation... it's great - it would be nice if I didn't have so much work on my hands... oh!"

Professor Oak sighed and continued.

"Forget it, let's not talk about that... Anyway - I did find something!"

The communication screen was manually switched and connected to the computer screen.

"Ayao - take a look at this large sea chart first."

Professor Oak's voice came through the receiver like a voice-over.

"Ok?"

Wang Yao moved the watch closer and took a closer look.

"This is a distribution map of volcanic islands in the southern waters of Kanto..."

"The marked place is the volcanic island where the flamingo was spotted."

Dr. Oak introduced to Wang Yao.

"I also tallied up the dates of the reports. Look—this island's sighting was last February, while the neighboring island had a flamingo sighting last September."

As Professor Oak connects the flamingo sightings in recent years on a distribution map.

"This is……"

Watching the flame bird sightings connected into a circle on the screen...

Wang Yao already understood what Professor Oak meant.

"The flamingo will periodically migrate between the various volcanic islands... after staying for a while, it will fly to the next island."

Wang Yao summarized in advance for Dr. Damu.

"Yes—that's it!"

Professor Oak's voice came from the microphone. Although the other party's expression could not be seen, his tone was also full of excitement.

"According to this cycle, the flamingo has indeed appeared in the waters of the Seven Islands in the past six months."

"And the Light Island is the largest volcanic island among the seven islands!"

Professor Oak emphasized.

"Although it is a dormant volcano on the surface, the magma underground is still very active, otherwise it would not have become a popular hot spring tourist attraction."

The screen reconnected to the video call camera, and Professor Oak, wearing a white coat, appeared on the watch screen.

"Doctor, there is one more thing I forgot to tell you..."

"Master Sheba, one of the Four Heavenly Kings, has his Pokémon on the Light Island... I think..."

Wang Yao told the other party his speculation about Xiba.

"Well... now that you mention it, it's actually possible."

Professor Oak held his chin with one hand and said after thinking for a moment.

"Protecting the legendary Pokémon of the Kanto region from being disturbed by humans... This is also the duty of the Four Heavenly Kings."

"But Shiba always keeps to himself, so it's not easy to contact him."

Dr. Oak felt that Wang Yao’s guess was very likely.

After all, the Four Heavenly Kings have full discretion within the alliance... It is normal to conceal the news about Moltres and not report it.

"That's it, I'll go to the island tomorrow with the local trainers I know."

"If you find any trace of the flamingo, I'll contact you, Doctor."

After hanging up the phone, Wang Yao lowered his head, took a big bite of barbecue, and chewed it carefully in his mouth.

"Coward - bring me my bottle of black pepper!"

Wang Yao shouted to the coward on the other side of the fire.

"Ji Ka~"

Temporarily stopping the work of picking the shark's teeth, the armored warrior picked up the megalodon and inserted its sharp lower belly fin into the grass to fix it.

"Ji Ka~"

The armored warrior handed Wang Yao the bottle of black pepper seasoning he found next to the grill.

……

"The Light Island is ahead! Master Sheba's Pokémon usually gather on the mountainside platform of 'Light Volcano' to train."

Uncle Sheng Hai said as he lay on the back of a giant crab, with Wang Yao riding a megalodon beside him.

He usually swam across the sea with Hao Li, but this time he could save some energy with the help of Wang Yao's Pokémon.

"It's much bigger than it looks on the chart..."

Wang Yao looked at the Light Island that was gradually "surfacing". The towering crater looked even larger than the volcano on Honglian Island.

"That's natural. Even if we climb halfway up the mountain, it will be almost dark..."

"Besides, the trails on the mountain are difficult to walk on after dark, so we have to camp on the mountainside for one night."

Uncle Katsumi spoke with the tone of someone who had experienced this.

In the past six months, he has come to Lantern Island almost every week.

After challenging Sheba's Pokémon, he would sometimes take Golli to the crater and take in the scenery after reaching the top.

"Come back, giant crab!"

"Megalodon, you should just rest at the beach for two days."

Wang Yao took back the giant crab and left the megalodon in the sea to find food on its own.

"Let's go! We have to hurry."

Uncle Katsumi unleashed his might, stretched his legs and feet, and prepared to climb the mountain.

"You'd better release a Pokémon as well. There are a lot of wild Pokémon on the island."

"Especially on the hiking trails, there are some small rocks that will disguise themselves as ordinary rocks and attack climbers."

Sheng Hai saw Wang Yao taking back the giant crab and reminded him.

"That's it..."

Wang Yao thought about it and decided not to release the giant crab again.

After all, the Giant Crab can only walk sideways on the narrow mountain path, and its thick crab shell makes it inconvenient to turn around and fight when it encounters wild Pokémon.

"It's up to you guys - Pidgeot and Coward!"

"Compare--!"

"Ji Ka!"

"Pipibi, just fly above our heads. If there are falling rocks or obstacles ahead, use your calls to warn us."

"Don't fight with wild toucans this time."

Wang Yaoxian arranged the work of the scouts.

"Compare--!"

The Pidgeot nodded, flapped its wings and flew to a height of several dozen meters in front of Wang Yao.

"Coward, you should go to the front of the team."

"Ji Ka~"

Uncle Shenghai served as the guide for this trip to the island, so Wang Yao consciously took on the task of exploring the way.

"It's an Armored Warrior... Even in the hands of trainers in the Seven Islands, it's a rare Pokémon."

Although Sheng Hai felt a little strange about Wang Yao calling the armored warrior an unevolved coward... he didn't say anything.

I'm just curious about the Armored Warrior itself... Not everyone can cultivate this kind of Pokémon well.

However, considering that he is a trainer from Crimson Island, it is not surprising that he has an armored warrior.

After all, before its evolution, the Fearful Bug was a very common Pokémon in seaside caves.

"It's okay~ Actually, the evolution of the cowardly bug is not that difficult."

Wang Yao smiled and didn't explain too much.

"That's true..."

Uncle Katsumi nodded thoughtfully.

If you only consider evolution... just spend more time raising your level.

However, the timid nature inherited from the genes of this Pokémon race makes it a headache for most trainers to cultivate armored warriors.