The female trainer called her second Pokémon.
"Go, Ninetales! Show him what you can do."
Alex looked at the Ninetales's info and saw that it was an LV 27 Deep Bronze.
He knew that Kirlia was very likely to lose without any evasive possibilities, so he changed his Pokémon.
"Come on, Crobat. Bring me to victory!"
When the referee gave the signal, Ninetales and Crobat started fighting each other.
The fight was not tense and relatively short as Crobat easily won. Not only was he 8 levels higher, but he also had been trained much better than the Ninetales.
Crobat took care that his Expert rank moves didn't show too much strength and speed as Alex had told him before the fight. But even with this disadvantage, he won this fight with relative ease.
"Ninetales is unconscious. Participant 6 won this fight."
When the referee said the result out loud, Alex's victory was not bathed with applause from the audience, but with a quiet atmosphere. Although individual viewers applauded for Alex's victory, it was not possible to suppress this strange atmosphere.
The commentator said with a wry smile, "Wow! Participant Alex seems to be very unpopular."
Professor Wälhder, who saw this, said with a stern expression, "Although he is strong, his attitude towards Pokémon training is fallacious. He also decides to be very arrogant, so it doesn't surprise me that he is so unpopular with the audience."
Erika considerately said, "Although you are right, it is a bit mean not to give him the applause he deserves."
Alex, who saw the reaction from the crowd, was happy instead of being sad. With this reaction from the audience, his camouflage can be a lot more believable.
Of course, he didn't show a happy expression but an expression of suppressed anger when he left the arena.
He went to Nurse Joy, who was responsible for healing the Pokémon of the participants. As he watched Nurse Joy put Kirlia's Pokéball into a machine, he thought about the Joy Clan.
The Joy Clan is very influential in the Alliance and has a monopoly over the medical sector of the Alliance. This clan allows only female clan members to get high positions. Men from the Joy Clan are mostly responsible for raising children and have no real power in the clan.
Of course, the female clan members have different looks from each other. Although they all look relatively similar, if you look closely, you can see differences.
...
Alex took his seat and opened the Kanto Rookie website to see the information about his next opponent. Although you can look up this information elsewhere, this website is the most convenient option.
Contestant No. 22
Pokémon: Raticate LV 28, Raticate LV 31, Raticate LV 32
Alex, who saw the participant's Pokémon, couldn't help but laugh.
"Wow, he is training the same Pokémon. I wonder if he has even more Raticate. Although it would be stupid in the games, it is not a bad option to specialize in a Pokémon-type or even a Pokémon species in this world. Being such a type of trainer has great advantages as well."
When he was thinking about it, he suddenly saw an interesting participant entering the arena.
It was a Poison-Type Pokémon trainer participant who had participant number 3.
His name was Mason, and he was a 17-year-old trainer with an indifferent expression on his face. He wore a ninja-like suit with a big red scarf that he wore like a face mask.
When Alex saw this trainer, he couldn't think of anyone other than Gym leader Koga. Although this trainer is not Koga, he certainly has some relationship with Koga whom Alex prefers not to provoke unnecessarily.
Koga and Sabrina are trainers who Alex doesn't want to provoke, even if he later becomes much stronger than them because these two trainers have dangerous skills.
Koga is a quasi assassin with superhuman skills and a trainer who is very familiar with poisons. Having such a person as an enemy is a nightmare for any trainer, no matter how strong they are.
Sabrina is just a monster. Alex can think of many ways Sabrina can kill him, even if he becomes much stronger than her. The only plan Alex could come up with to effectively defeat Sabrina was to possess a ridiculously strong Psychic-type Pokémon that can suppress Sabrina's psychic powers.
When he thought of these two monsters, he couldn't help but think of the boss who has them as subordinates. Giovanni's strength is difficult to assess because it differs depending on the platform. In addition, this world is a real-world and not the world from the manga, anime, or game. So Alex can't get a lot of information.
...
The second round started immediately after the end of the first round.
After a few matches, it was Alex's turn again.
He entered the arena with a mocking atmosphere all over again. Although it wasn't as bad as the first time, his popularity didn't seem to have increased.
Alex and the male trainer simultaneously called their Pokémon on the field. Kirlia and Raticate came out of their Pokéball and faced each other.
"Hmm, not bad. It's a shame that Super Fang doesn't work as well as it did in games, and it has a lot of restrictions. Well, without these restrictions, this move would be very lethal." thought Alex when he saw the Pokémon.
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Pokémon: Raticate
LV: 32
Type: Normal
Abilities: Guts
Gender: Male
Potential: Shallow Silver
Move:
-Tackle, Tail Whip, Quick Attack, Focus Energy, Bite, Super Fang, Crunch, Hyper Fang
- (Innate Talent) Thunderbolt [E]
- (TM) Facade, (TM) Protect, (TM) Dig, (TM) Toxic
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"Are both participants ready? Ok. 3,2,1, GO!"
The fight between Raticate and Kirlia was relatively tense and close. Kirlia used Calm Mind at the beginning for the reinforcement and dodged Raticate's attacks with Teleport. Although Kirlia was using Teleport, Raticate managed to hit Kirlia a few times with Quick Attack.
Alex, who saw this, wanted to tell Kirlia to use Disable on Quick Attack but managed to suppress that thought.
He tried to talk to Kirlia via telepathy before the match to test whether it could be used in a fight. But after a bit of testing, Alex found out that Kirlia consumes too much energy to maintain the telepathic connection if there is no eye contact that it doesn't make sense to use in matches. It is better if Kirlia can use Teleport a few times more often than to talk to Alex via telepathy.
Even though Quick Attack isn't a strong move, Kirlia took a lot of damage after a couple of hits. Kirlia is really not a Pokémon that can easily take on attacks. But after using Calm Mind 4 times, her Sp. Atk states became ridiculously high.
She managed to defeat Raticate after 3 Psychic. Actually, two psychics would have been enough, but thanks to Raticate's Protect, Raticate could hold out one more move.
Although she was able to defeat this Raticate, she used up all of her Teleports. In addition, she only had around 50% HP left. But because Kirlia is still strengthened by Calm Mind, Alex did not exchange her.
He wanted to see what she would do in such a situation.
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