He knows Pokémon better than me.

That night, in the traveler's room of the Pokémon Center.

This is an official double room provided free of charge - any trainer participating in the Galar League Conference or the World Championship can enjoy such accommodation conditions for free based on their qualification.

Of course, ordinary people can only live in the youth room with bunk beds.

But at this moment, something is wrong.

In the dark room, Xiaozhi was lying on the bed on the left, staring at the ceiling.

On another bed, a girl wearing a Poké Ball mask was also lying on it, staring straight at the sky.

"Uh, I just asked casually, and she agreed directly?"

Xiaozhi was a little dumbfounded. Although he often lived in the Pokémon Center with female companions before, this was the first time he met a stranger.

And
Does this guy plan to never take off his hood for the rest of his life?

I tilted my head to glance at the person next to me. His body was under the quilt, with only a smiling face exposed. I didn't know if he was asleep or not.

Sleeping with a "thing" like this is a bit creepy!

"Forget it, never mind."

It has been a long time since I last lay on a soft big bed. After staring at Aqiu next to me for a while, Xiaozhi's eyes began to become blurry.

The Palace Arena is the most formal competition venue in the Galar region. Whether it is challenging gym leaders from all over the country, you are finally eligible to participate in the Champions Cup (also called the League Conference in other places, with slightly different rules).

Or the quarterfinals of the World Championships, all take place here.

At this moment, the Gongmen Arena was packed with people, the audience was applauding, and even the passionate BGM was echoing all around.

On one side was the Dan Emperor, who was known as the "strongest champion". He wore a brocade cape with trademarks printed all over his simple competition uniform, and sweat was already beading on his forehead.

On the display screen above, five of the six Poké Balls below Dan Di have dimmed, and it is obvious that the game is coming to an end.

On the other side was a girl with short brown hair, also wearing a Galar competitive uniform, with a particularly focused look in her eyes.

Likewise, she only had one Pokémon left, and both sides had fought to their limits.

"Charizard, primal power!"

"It's useless, Flare Ace, use Hot Sand Land!"

The brown-haired girl uses the Galar's Fire-attributed Starter Flame Ace, a thin and capable humanoid rabbit that looks like a football player.

The Flame Ace leaped up, hung his body upside down, condensed a ball of sand at his feet, and kicked it out with an inverted hook posture.

Boom! !
The sand ball fell to the ground and exploded, forming a huge wave like a tide.

On the other side, Dan Di's strongest trump card, the Charizard, spread its wings and took off. Its flying attribute had no effect on the hot sand.

As the wings flapped, several huge rocks condensed and smashed out, but the red hair on the forehead of the Flash Ace had turned into khaki.

Features: Freedom!
Just like Greninja's ability to transform freely, it will automatically switch to the corresponding attribute after using any move. At this moment, it has transformed into the ground-attributed Flash Ace, standing still without dodging or evading, allowing the rocks to explode on its body.

General effect.

The consecutive moves were ineffective because of the Freeman. Dan Di and his ace Charizard began to sweat profusely, and seemed to be in a desperate situation.

"In that case. Championship moment!!"

The Dan Emperor suddenly turned sideways, raised one hand, spread out three fingers, and made his signature move. In an instant, the whole audience burst into thunderous applause, like exploding fireworks.

After taking back the Charizard, he threw it out with great force. The next moment, the Charizard had turned into a huge monster as big as a hill, with flames surging on its shoulders and back, and the dragon's head had turned into an evil and majestic black and red color.

Gigantamax Charizard!! "Then Flare Ace, we're coming too!"

On the other side, the brown-haired girl also put the Flare Ace back into the ball, and after the Poké Ball became the size of a basketball, she held it over her head and threw it out.

The size of the Flare Ace, which was originally more than one meter tall, also became extremely tall, but not as exaggerated as Charizard, probably only about 1/3 of it.

But after coming out, Flare Ace was standing on a huge golden fireball as big as the sun. Including the fireball, its size was already larger than Charizard.

The ears that were originally erect now became extremely thin and drooped down, and the appearance of the Flame Ace also changed.

Gigantamax Flash Ace!

After both of them were Gigantamaxed, the originally spacious arena became miniaturized.

“Super Abyssal Flame!”

The Super Giant Charizard roared, and the flames surrounded the Flame Ace like a tornado, as if it was in the abyss of purgatory. The flame on its back turned into a flaming bird and launched a charge.

"Super giant fireball!!"

The Giga Flash Ace lifted up the Solar Fireball under his body and, without any fancy moves, shot it out with great force in the direction of Charizard!

Boom! !

The two super-giant moves collided head-on in the center of the arena, and the energy shock they caused tore apart the ghost sword energy barrier at the edge of the arena, making the audience sitting in the front row feel like they were in an oven.

In the end, the Solar Fireball successfully shattered the Flame Bird, and exploded completely on Charizard's body with unstoppable force.

rumble! !
The Gigantamaxed Charizard fell down with a loud bang, and the red cloud at its tail that symbolized its Gigantamax dissipated. It shrank three times in a row and returned to its original form.

His eyes rolled around and he completely lost the ability to fight!

call out!
On the other side, a new golden fireball condensed under the Giga Flash Ace. Like a football player who had successfully scored a goal, he excitedly clenched his fists and slid on his knees on the fireball.

The referee riding the ghost sword landed and shouted loudly:

"It appears that the final winner of the Galar Champions Cup is contestant Yuri!! She successfully defeated the champion Dante and became the new champion of Galar!!"

The whole audience erupted in a wave of enthusiasm again, and this time it was not just the ground and the auditorium that were shaking.

The sky was shaking violently, as if the whole world was about to collapse and split open at any moment
At the same time, in the traveler room of the Pokémon Center.

Lying in bed, Xiaoyou felt as if she was having a very distant dream. She had clearly woken up and wanted to open her eyes and get up, but she just couldn't control her sleeping body.

I can still hear the faint and gradually growing louder voice of calling in my ears.

"What's wrong, Xiaoyou? Wake up, wake up!"

At this moment, Xiaozhi was calling out to her repeatedly beside the bed, but it was not easy for him to contact her directly, so he could only get close to Xiaoyou's ear and keep increasing the volume.

It's late at night now.

He was sleeping soundly when he was suddenly awakened by a voice beside him.

Xiaoyou started screaming on the bed for no apparent reason, shouting strange words like "Flash Ace" and "Super Fireball".

The guy behind him suddenly held up the headgear and threw it out like throwing a Poké Ball.
Then, it fell on him.

If you don’t know, you might think that they are trying to subdue him.

Is this a nightmare?
However, the Pokéball headgear was finally taken off successfully, and Xiaozhi also saw the pretty face of this short-haired girl for the first time! (End of this chapter)