He knows Pokémon better than me.

Seeing Machado suddenly turned into a lost and helpless child, squatting on a rock with his head in his hands, Xiaozhi and Xiaojian couldn't help but exchange glances.

Especially in the pitch-black night, combined with Machado's small, gray-black figure, it looked even more desolate.

clatter.!

Xiaozhi placed a hand on Machado's shoulder and said soothingly.

"How about you take a good rest in this world for a while, and then I'll try to bring you back to that world after I return from my trip to the Galar region?"

The opportunity to go to the doomsday Alola world was due to Pikachu's unsuccessful "10 million volts" Z-move, which resulted in him being electrocuted back.

In fact, he was not sure whether Pikachu could travel through time and space again.

And since Machado was so persistent in finding the Rainbow Hero to challenge the Ho-Oh, Xiaozhi had a bold idea out of nowhere:

"I see that you are quite powerful. How about you try to challenge the Phoenix King yourself?"

"Hmm? I challenge the Phoenix King?"

Machado was stunned and looked up, thinking he had heard it wrong.

It is the subordinate of the King of Phoenix!

"But don't you already have the Rainbow Feather? That's the symbol of the Rainbow Warrior, right?"

Xiaozhi pointed at the colorful feathers in Machado's hand.

He is very familiar with this thing!

Machado was a little confused and subconsciously retorted:
"No, I want to give this feather to a suitable Rainbow Warrior. Hmm? So, when did I get this feather?"

It remembered that one time, the Phoenix King flew over the sky and happened to shake off a feather which fell into its hand.

Doesn't this mean that I should find the right person and then give the feather to him? !

Xiao Jian stroked his chin and analyzed carefully:

"Generally speaking, the Phoenix King would shake off the feathers himself for the chosen person, rather than asking others to give it to him on his behalf."

Xiaozhi beside him nodded in agreement:

"Yes, that's what the Phoenix King gave it to me directly. By the way, I should have been considered the Rainbow Hero a long time ago?"

Xiaozhi felt around for his clothes but couldn't find it. Then he remembered that he didn't have the Rainbow Feather with him, otherwise he could have compared it to see if there was any difference.

After all, he was not from Machado's world, so his intuition told him that the "Rainbow Hero" that Machado was looking for was not himself.

Machado stared blankly at the feather in his hand. He had never thought about this problem before.

But if the real Rainbow Hero is itself, then no suitable candidate has been found in either the Kanto region or the Alola region.
That makes sense!

For the first time, excitement showed in Machado's eyes, but he soon became a little timid.

Is it really qualified to challenge the great Phoenix King!?

The power of the Phoenix King is simply beyond its reach, right?!
"Don't be afraid, Ho-Oh is a legendary Pokémon, and you should be a mythical Pokémon, so you are not inferior to it!"

Xiaozhi patted Machado's shoulder again to encourage him. Now he didn't have any special fear for the ancient gods.

It’s just a normal Pokémon, even Pikachu can beat it!
Machado stared at the rainbow feather in his hand, pondered for a long time, and his eyes became gradually firm.

Perhaps the Ho-Oh gave the feather to it so that it could challenge the Ho-Oh in person one day!
Faced with this pitch-black mythical beast from another world, Xiaozhi and Xiaojian then gave it a warm welcome.

Xiaozhi even planned to cooperate with Pikachu on the spot to fire an "imperfect" 10 million volts to try to send Machado home.

"Wait a minute, I won't go back yet!" However, Machado suddenly raised his hand to stop him, and then looked at Zoroark, Entei, and Pikachu not far away, and finally looked at Xiaozhi seriously.

"Even if I return to my own world now, I will never be strong enough to challenge the Phoenix King."

"So please, Master Zhi, please train me hard! Make me as strong as you!"

Mashado let out a low cry and formally bowed and kowtowed to Xiaozhi.

Xiaozhi: "???"

Why did you suddenly start to become my disciple?!
Especially when he saw a little dark man kneeling down seriously, he could hardly hold back.

Machado actually felt a little weird too——

After all, at the beginning, it intended to become Xiaozhi's master and guide the latter to become stronger.

Now it’s the other way around!

However, after seeing how powerful Xiaozhi was, Machado realized that this was a great opportunity to become stronger.

When it grows strong enough, it will return to the other world and formally challenge the Phoenix King.

And the person it is now apprenticing to is the "senior" Rainbow Hero, so there doesn't seem to be any problem with that, right?
Xiaozhi scratched his head, so does he need to add another member to his Galar team?

"You are unwise. You just need to let me hide in your shadow!"

Machado said that as long as it hides in the target's shadow, it can imitate the target's moves and abilities and take the essence for its own use.

Xiaozhi immediately remembered that the actions of Monkey King and Zoroark that Machado had just used were a natural "imitation" ability.

"That's really convenient!"

He sighed, almost catching up with Pikachu's instant copy!

"Then hide wherever you want. If you want to imitate something, just imitate it."

In this regard, Xiaozhi is still very generous and does not have any special skills that cannot be passed on to others.

Strictly speaking, Machado can also be considered his "junior" of the Rainbow Hero?
This is the name of Master Zhi. What's so strange about it?
"Thank you so much, Master Chi!"

Xiaozhi: "."

The next moment, Mashado jumped into Xiaozhi's shadow like diving and disappeared again.

However, compared to hiding in Ash's shadow, Machado actually wants to hide in a power-type fighting-attribute Pokémon, which can help it learn more fighting skills.

Then, by integrating all these fighting skills with his own ghost attributes, he can unleash his strongest attack - the Seven-Star Soul-stealing Kick!

It is a Pokémon from the Alola region, and its strongest attack is naturally its Z-move.

But at the moment, Mashado does not have enough strength and is completely unable to use it.

"If I can perform the Seven-Star Soul-stealing Kick, maybe I can challenge the Phoenix King!"

Hiding in Xiaozhi's shadow, Machado secretly encouraged himself.

Anyway, it's a good thing that I subconsciously emerged today because of the single-attribute elimination match. I finally determined the next direction.
Before, Machado was very frustrated, and had been wavering between the two conflicting emotions of "guiding Xiaozhi" and "am I really qualified to guide him?"

Now, why not just let Master Zhi guide me!

Machado now only hopes that Xiaozhi can use more fighting-attribute Pokémon and show more incredible fighting skills, so that he will surely make rapid progress and comprehend his "Seven-Star Soul-Grabbing Kick" soon! (End of this chapter)