Chapter 297: Privileges of the Tournament Winner

"Xiaozhi's Meltank has evolved into Melmetal. I wonder where he found so many Meltanks."

"Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle have all evolved to their final forms and have not been released to give away. This is really cause for celebration."

"Where's Pidgeot? Where's Pidgeot?"

"Is this Lucario's Spirit Bomb legal?"

"The opponent's Pikachu is just a little bit off."

"How come he has made it to the semi-finals of the tournament and Charmeleon hasn't evolved yet? How did he pass all 8 gyms?"

Seeing that Link in the audience was paying close attention to the newcomer from Pallet Town, Adu subconsciously suspected that this trainer named Xiaozhi would also come to challenge the Kanto League in the future.

But it doesn’t matter. After the last battle with Link, their strength has increased significantly and they will not fail easily anymore.

"That's nothing. Some people's first Pokémon hasn't evolved once when they challenge the league."

Kona on the side was hinting at something, obviously complaining about a super Dusk Water person.

In fact, the Fire Fox did evolve several times under the effect of the Binding Scarf, but later it regressed to its initial stage.

But the Binding Scarf still takes up an item slot, and after evolving it has time and energy limits, so the benefits it brings are difficult to evaluate. Link hasn't used it much in battles recently.

"Um……"

As he was speaking, Xiaozhi had easily defeated Ahong and won the ticket to the finals.

As expected, there is no such thing as a plot-killing scene, Link thought to himself. It looks like it's a foregone conclusion that Satoshi will win the tournament directly after his debut this time.

And his opponent in the finals... is Cross, who once turned Iridescent Wing into a villain in the movie.

But the development of this world line is obviously different from the movie version. He and Xiaozhi have not yet climbed Mount Tianqing.

"Oh, this team of trainers from Alola is quite interesting."

Link took a look at his opponent's configuration and surprisingly found that he was a good player: "Scorching Tiger, Lycanroc, Mimikyu, Gorilla, Superstar, Nidoking. Performance-wise, they're OK."

It's just that the team is not balanced as it focuses on both singles and doubles, and may not be able to beat Xiaozhi's true love team.

Come to think of it...it seems that no matter what Pokémon Ash uses, it's Team True Love?

The day's competition ended here, and the final of the Quartz Conference will be held the day after tomorrow after both players have had enough rest.

Just as Link was about to leave, A'du suddenly stopped him and said, "Xiao Lin, you know that the winner of the alliance conference usually has a privilege."

Challenge the champion.

"But there is no champion in the Kanto region." Link turned around and looked at Adu who was hesitant to speak, "What does this have to do with me?"

"I was thinking that even if you were the champion for only one second, you are still the champion. Do you want to accept the challenge of winning the tournament this year?"

Adu had noticed before that the other party cared a lot about the trainers of both sides.

"Yes (immediate answer), it sounds interesting."

After that, he left the audience and rode Dragonite back to Sprout Ranch...

……

"Fighting against Xiaozhi..."

Link went home to rest and thought that he had to go all out now.

Release water?

nonexistent!

"Fu?" Fire Fox looked at the trainer in confusion, curious as to why the other party paid so much attention to this trainer named Satoshi.

If it remembered correctly, they had only met once, at the last party hosted by Mewtwo.

Although they said at that time that there would be a chance for a battle in the future, the gap between Xiaozhi and them is too big at the moment.

Hearing this, Link smiled mysteriously: "We are all new trainers, and I have been looking forward to fighting against the trainers from Pallet Town for a long time."

After watching the TV version while cursing it for so many years, I have always had a bit of obsession in it. Now, the Ash in this world line is not like in the TV series, a filler protagonist who cannot even be dealt with by Team Rocket. So why shouldn't I fight him one more time?

"Fu~"

Fire Fox sighed, it seemed that there really was no need for any reason for its trainer to fight against such an outstanding trainer.

But it still has to prepare for the grand competition in a few days, so it will just touch it for now.

Link shrugged. That was natural. At this stage, Yuu and Yoko who had Groudon and Kyogre put more pressure on him.

If Youyao and the others send out the Fathead Fish and the Flying Monster, the Fire Fox will naturally win (only for gorgeous battles).

But if they still let Lizard King and Blaziken play, it would still be a bit difficult for it, and it would need to practice repeatedly to ensure that it had no problems dealing with their speed increases.

So Link began to think about the lineup he would use the day after tomorrow.

"Forget about the Blazing Roaring Tiger, it has no interest in bullying the weak.

"So for Arcanine, Snorlax, Porygon, and Dragonite, well... for the remaining two, let's pick Bulbasaur and Chikorita."

After raising them for more than two months and going to other worlds to explore mazes on a daily basis, it’s time to let them try to battle with their trainers.

After deciding on the team configuration, he was about to go out to give special training to Bulbasaur and Chikorita, when he bumped into something hard.

Link, who was seeing stars, looked carefully and found that they were real stars appearing in front of him.

"Xiao Lin! Why did you abandon me?!"

Jirachi, who had traveled a long distance to Kitakami Township and then to Kanto, complained angrily, "Aren't we already friends?"

Hitting a steel-type elf with your head is like hitting a rock with an egg. Link rubbed his head and said with a headache: "We are indeed friends, but don't you still need to coordinate the energy of the Fauns and realize the dreams of humans and elves?"

Even if we are separated by thousands of miles, it is still the same as meeting and communicating in the realm of dreams.

After all, he didn't go to so much trouble to liberate the other party just to conquer him.

"Oh, how hard can this be for me?"

Jirachi's words were full of pride, having obviously completed the finishing touches he and Mew had left behind.

And fulfilling wishes does not have to be done every night.

It slowly landed on Link's desk and suggested earnestly, "Just now I heard Fire Fox say that he was going to practice, so I will help him for the time being!"

"You're not going to use your "Wish of Destruction" to destroy the battlefield?"

"This move is too cruel to a 10-year-old child who is full of love, dreams and hopes!"

Jirachi paused, then added, "I'm not a dream, I wouldn't do anything like that."

Link shrugged. Hopefully, who was the elf in the movie that filled the car with candy from other people's stores?
"Then Arcanine won't be participating this time. Jirachi, Snorlax, Porygon, Dragonite, Bulbasaur, Chikorita... uh uh."

This team is even more meaningless than Xiaozhi's team.

"I hope Xiaozhi doesn't fail, otherwise it would be funny if I end up fighting Cross, and I don't know him well."

(End of this chapter)