He knows Pokémon better than me.

"You've improved by almost 200 places~ Not bad~!"

Looking at the numbers jumping on the screen, Xiaozhi smiled brightly.

At this rate, after 5 more games we will be able to officially enter the super ball level!

"You've done a great job today, so I'll give you a snack tonight, Onion Duck~!"

Xiaozhi raised his finger to Farfetch'd and praised him.

But at this moment, Onion Duck was lowering its head and staring at its onion, as if it couldn't hear anything at all.

During the battle just now, it seemed like it had grasped some tricks?
"ga"

The Onion Duck turned the onion and began to look for the feeling he had just had.

Xiaozhi scratched his head, like a thinking duck. The style of painting is quite strange.

Compared with them, the faces on the other side were not so good.

Xinbo stared at his Rotom phone, his hands trembling slightly and his face livid.

His ranking dropped directly to the same number starting with “9” as Xiaozhi!

Damn it, I'm a rookie who just registered for the competition, I should have played casually, but...
Instead, he was defeated by a plain-looking duck, two at a time? !

Soon, Xinbo came to a conclusion.

"I must have eaten too little experience candy!"

After he took back his phone, he prepared to return to Jiqing City and planned to buy some experience candies right away.

Strength comes from eating!

As for the saying that eating sugar will force things to grow faster and make their foundation unstable, there has never been such a saying in the Galar region.

As an experienced candy processor——

The public opinion and reputation of President Loz's business are 100% positive, and no one has ever thought of questioning it.

"By the way, Xiaozhi, if you are interested, you can come and challenge us in the Mecha Arena. Mr. Kabu's Incineroar and Giant Carbon are much more powerful than mine!"

Before leaving, Xinbo did not forget to give a reminder.

Scolopendra and Coalmine are the evolved forms of his two Pokémon, and even Kabuto has the power to use Gigantamax!
Ash nodded and made note of it, being somewhat curious about the Gym Leaders in the Galar region.

By the way, I wonder if these gym leaders will also participate in the ranking of the World Championship?
Send away the first stepping stone of the tournament.

Back in the castle, looking at the scenes around him that needed renovation and reconstruction, Xiaozhi suddenly felt a little overwhelmed.

It would take time to renovate this place, but he also wanted to explore the Pokémon nests in the wilderness, the arena in the Mecha City, the World Championship, and the wider Galar region.
“It would be great if they could all be contracted out~”

He sighed casually and sat down to enjoy lunch.

Anyway, let’s go find that digging rabbit first this afternoon!
Buzz!
At this moment, the Rotom cell phone in his pocket vibrated. He took it out and saw that it was a call from home.

Xiao Zhi was stunned and quickly pulled the trigger to answer the call. Immediately, a strange sound came from the other end of the line.

"Bar, bar~!"

Can't understand.

"Magic Wall Doll? I don't understand!"

When you are face to face, you can use the power of bond to barely understand Pokémon language, but the power of bond cannot pass through the network cable.

Fortunately, the caller changed soon and the voice of mother Hanako came.

"Ash~ I heard from Professor Oak that you have settled down in the Galar region and even have your own castle~?"

"Well, it should be considered a castle."

Xiaozhi looked around the shabby surroundings and replied with a dry laugh. Wait a minute, are mom and the others coming over to play?

"It's like this. You have a distant cousin who is also in the Galar region. He heard that you settled there, so he wanted to go and join you~!"

Xiaozhi almost dropped his collection on the ground, cousin?

Wait a minute, when did we have such a relative in the family?

"I've already told it the address. It seems to be nearby. It should be at your house soon~"

Hanako spoke quickly, making it difficult for Satoshi to get a word in.

"Remember to treat them well~ Then you should work hard. I won't disturb you from working~!"

“Barbari~!”

On the other end of the phone, the Magic Wall Doll was also happily helping out.

Then the call ended, leaving Xiaozhi with a confused look on his face.

My cousin from the Galar region wants to come to me?
It's no problem for relatives to stay here temporarily, but the current situation of the Watchtower Castle.
Do you want your cousin to sleep on the floor?
However, Uncle Pierre had already delivered the simple tables, chairs and benches, and took away 4 pieces of experience candy M——

This thing can be used as currency in the warlike Galar region.

So Xiaozhi spent the whole afternoon wondering what his older cousin would look like.

If it's my cousin, he should be a relative on my mother's side, right?
"Gah!"

Around two or three in the afternoon, the warning sound of the Farfetch'd duck was finally heard outside the watchtower.

Xiaozhi, who was sitting in the corner, chopped down several piles of rough logs from the giant crab and trimmed and shaved off the rough edges one by one, suddenly perked up and ran out quickly.

This time, not to mention Magearna, even Pikachu jumped onto Ash's shoulder, looking curiously at his so-called older cousin.

When I opened the door, I saw Onion Duck holding an onion and facing a "person".
In other words, a humanoid Pokémon.

It looks similar to the Magic Wall Doll, but it doesn't have pink bubbles on its body. Instead, it seems to be wearing a black and blue jumpsuit and blue tap dance boots on its feet.

This magic wall puppet holds a cane in one hand, carries a lot of bags on his back, and has a map-shaped napkin draped over his chest.

It just seemed that he had been traveling for a long time, and was exhausted. The originally white cloth had turned dry yellow, and his body and face were covered with dust.

"Hmm? Magic Wall Doll??"

Xiaozhi was stunned, this was something he didn't expect.

He quickly looked back and saw no human trainer.

“Bar! Bar!!”

This magic wall puppet was not shy and immediately greeted Ash warmly when he saw him. Just when he wanted to move closer to give him a big hug, the tip of Farfetch'd's onion was still against his throat, so he could only raise his hands in surrender.

"Anyway, put down your sword, uh, and the onion first."

Xiaozhi pressed his hand, and Farfetch'd put away the onion and stood aside.

“Right!!”

The dark blue magic wall doll suddenly smiled and ran up to give Xiaozhi a big hug.

In just a moment, a chill swept through the clothes!

"Is it an ice-attributed magic wall puppet?"

Xiaozhi was now full of question marks, and Triple-Fold Rotom automatically flew out and introduced:
"Beep! Magic Wall Doll (Galar appearance), ice and psychic attributes, good at tap dancing, can create an ice wall at any time as a barrier to protect itself, Lotor~!"

Xiaozhi glanced at the image of the Galar Magic Wall Doll in the illustrated book, and then looked at the Magic Wall Doll in front of him, who was carrying a lot of bags and was almost indistinguishable from a human.
Wait a minute, this magic wall puppet could be my cousin! ? (End of this chapter)