Pokémon: Simultaneous time travel, this Ash is too versatile!

Chapter 94 Limited Edition Kimono Misty, Charmander Evolution, Saffron City's Elite Four Member Sabrina!
In the evening, the temple fair officially began. Xiaozhi changed into a blue kimono to follow local customs, since a kimono was the proper attire for attending the temple fair!
However, Xiao Gang said that he was too old to participate in such a celebration, and he was still wearing his original mountaineering clothes, while Xiao Xia changed into a kimono.

However, when Ash saw Misty wearing a kimono, he was completely stunned.

Xia's kimono was exquisite; its soft colors and delicate patterns made it seem as if she were wearing a cherry blossom garden in spring.

The wide sleeves swayed gently with every movement, as light and elegant as butterfly wings. The necklines of the kimonos were slightly open, revealing their slender necks, with smooth and elegant lines, like a beautiful painting.

Her hair was loose and flowing down, with orange strands reaching her shoulders. The way her hair was down added to her gentle and graceful appearance.

She walked barefoot on the stone path in wooden clogs, her steps light and graceful, the hem of her kimono swaying gently with each step.

When Xiaoxia didn't say anything, Xiaozhi almost thought she was some kind of fairy from a paradise on earth!

"Hey~ Ash's totally stunned!"

Xiaoxia, wearing wooden clogs, still moved with light steps, and arrived in front of Xiaozhi in just a few steps, waving her fair and delicate hands in front of him.

"No, it's just that this is the first time I've seen you wear something like this. You really do look beautiful. If you don't say anything, you really have the air of a Yamato Nadeshiko."

"I'm giving you a chance to rephrase your words! Can't you speak properly? You praise me, but you have to throw in a couple of insults!"

Xiaoxia rolled her eyes in annoyance, but since Xiaozhi had praised her for being pretty, she didn't bother to argue with him too much.

"Let's go dancing."

"Dancing? I can't!"

"You're so good at fighting, your coordination must be great. I'll teach you if you don't know how." Xiaoxia said, taking Xiaozhi's hand and walking towards the square. Pikachu silently climbed onto Xiaogang's back and watched the two walk away together.

"This is youth, Pikachu."

"Pika pika~"

In the square, Ash clumsily followed Misty's instructions and danced with her. Just then, fireworks burst forth like stars, their colorful light illuminating the entire sky!
The bursting fireworks, like countless shooting stars, streaked across the sky, instantly illuminating the darkness!

Bathed in the light, the two gazed into each other's eyes, their hearts pounding faster than ever...

……

Time flies, and a week has passed in the blink of an eye. After the festival ended, Ash and his friends continued their journey to Saffron City.

With the addition of the Millennium Gastly, Ash now has the ability to challenge the Goldenrod Gym.

In Professor Oak's lab, the Millennium Gastly gradually familiarized itself with various battle techniques, and its training partner was... Professor Oak's Pokémon!
Gastly, who thought he was invincible in the human world, was at least hard to beat. But after being thrashed by him for a week, he started to doubt his life. What kind of trainer did he find? How could an old man sitting in the backyard have such a terrifying Pokémon?

The Dragonite he faced treated him like a dog!

That's definitely a champion-level Pokémon, and not just a beginner champion...

This world is truly full of hidden talents. Even a random old man guarding a house has a champion-level Pokémon. On the road, I met a young man who could easily tear apart his high-ranking Ghost-type Pokémon.

That's fucking ridiculous!

However, it was precisely because of this high-pressure training that Gastly gradually regained his fighting spirit. After a week of training, his fighting level was much stronger than before.

Ash's Pokémon have also seen a significant improvement.

Pidgey has reached its advanced peak and is progressing very quickly, but evolving into Pidgeot is still a long way off...

Ash can only have a flying mount after evolving into Pidgeot.

Then the starter Pokémon, Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Charmander, all showed varying degrees of improvement.

Bulbasaur has reached the advanced intermediate level, while Squirtle has reached the ordinary peak level. After all, Squirtle joined the team a little late, and when it joined, it was only at the ordinary intermediate level. Now that it has reached the ordinary peak level, it is enough to show that Squirtle has extraordinary talent.

It also includes various Pokémon training guides provided by many experts.

Although Xiaozhi's money is not as much as those born with a silver spoon in their mouth, such as a certain hedgehog-headed person.

But in other respects, he could be described as cheating.

Aside from Bulbasaur and Squirtle, Charmander's improvement is truly enormous. He has reached Advanced Evolution and surpassed Bulbasaur!

The reason for this terrifying improvement is that he... evolved!

Now Charmander is no longer Charmander, it's Charmeleon!
This is the third Pokémon to evolve in Ash's team. The first was Caterpie, the second was Ralts, and then Charmander.

When a spirit evolves, its life energy increases dramatically. In addition to the improvement of its various racial abilities, its level also has a very high probability of increasing.

That's why Charmander was able to overtake Bulbasaur in one fell swoop.

In fact, Bulbasaur should have reached the point of evolution by now, but for some reason, it shows no signs of evolving.

Ash asked the experts in the group about this strange phenomenon, and Ash, who specializes in Grass-type Pokémon, replied that Bulbasaur might not want to evolve.

This level is definitely high enough to evolve, but it hasn't evolved because it doesn't want to.

Some Pokémon are unwilling to evolve, perhaps because the evolved form looks ugly, or perhaps to prove that they can become stronger without evolving. Pikachu is a typical example of a Pokémon that is unwilling to evolve.

He just wants to stay in Pikachu form forever, and Bulbasaur probably has the same idea as Pikachu.

But Pikachu has a Partner Form that can boost its combat power, while Bulbasaur doesn't have that kind of form...

If he doesn't evolve, it will have a huge impact on his future combat power.

However, Ash respects the Pokémon's choice. If Bulbasaur doesn't want to evolve, then it doesn't want to evolve. There's no saying that it can't become stronger or stand at the top if it doesn't evolve.

After the starter Pokémon, it's Kirlia's turn. Having just evolved to the intermediate advanced stage, she has reached the advanced advanced stage after seven days of rest and is about to level up again.

This leveling speed remains unmatched within the team. Pikachu, on the other hand, leveled up to Elite High without any particular fanfare.

Teacher Da Pi's improvement speed is not fast, but he has an extremely terrifying characteristic: he seems to never encounter a bottleneck.

Over the past month, Pikachu has never been stuck at a certain level. Although its leveling up isn't fast, it's been steady enough, making progress every day.

Add to that Pikachu's fixed stats after leveling up... his improvement can only be described as outrageous. Ash even doubts whether his Pikachu will be able to hold its own against the Elite Four before the Indigo League.

That kind of thing is still too far off. Right now, Pikachu can only mess around with gyms at best. The Elite Four member is dreaming too much.

Finally, there's Riolu. After a week of treatment, Riolu's condition has improved significantly, and all his aptitudes have returned to B-level. He can now actually do some basic training.

However, in order to recover from the defects in his body as soon as possible, it is best not to do anything that depletes the body. Therefore, Riolu is still a beginner. But once he has fully recovered, he should make a leap forward like Ralts.

Besides Ash, Misty and Brock's Pokémon are also steadily improving, but their training and battles aren't as intense as Ash's, so compared to Ash's Pokémon improvement, there's not much to mention.

In addition, Ash and his friends encountered a group of Butterfree migrating south on their journey.

Ash wasn't particularly interested in Butterfree's southward migration. Southward migration is usually for reproductive purposes, but judging from the large number of Weedle and Caterpie in Viridian Forest, Butterfree's reproduction doesn't necessarily require southward migration.

Moreover, his Butterfree is still with Professor Oak, so it's even less likely that he'll bring Butterfree over and have it migrate south.

Besides, those are elves he painstakingly raised. They have good food and drink and a beautiful environment in the backyard. Why would he want to go south and suffer? He's making a fuss over nothing!
Therefore, migrating south is impossible.

But Brock said that it seemed to be the season for Butterfree to mate and breed, so Ash found a Pokémon Center nearby, teleported Butterfree back, and let Butterfree see if it had a mate it liked.

In the end, Butterfly actually took a liking to a pink Butterfly, whose color was different from that of ordinary Butterflies, and it became very popular among Butterflies.

However, with Ash's carefully trained Butterfree, none of the other Butterfree were a match for it. Finally, with the help of Team Rocket, Butterfree successfully won the heart of the beauty.

After winning the heart of his beloved, they migrated south together?
Having said that migrating south was impossible, Ash caught the pink Butterfree as well and sent it back to Professor Oak's lab so the two could continue their courtship.

The Oak Laboratory also has an environment suitable for Butterfree to live and reproduce, which is much better than migrating south.

Ash was also very emotional. His Pokémon, Caterpie, had become his own home, and only a month or so had passed!

Some elves find a partner in a month, while others have been single for twenty years... Yes, I'm talking about you, Xiao Gang!
Spurred on by Ba Da Die, Xiao Gang's desire for older women intensified...

……

On the eighth day, Ash and his friends finally entered Saffron City.

Goldenrod City is a large city in Kanto, and can even be considered one of the city centers of Kanto!

The two most prosperous cities in Kanto are Goldenrod City and Rainbow City.

Rainbow City boasts the largest department store in the entire Kanto region, along with a wide variety of other goods for sale, making it the city with the most trade.

There are quite a few large shopping malls in Saffron City, but there are even more large corporations than shopping malls. Among them, the largest company in Kanto, Silph Corporation, is also located in Saffron City. The Poké Ball is one of the items made by Silph Corporation.

The Saffron City Gym is one of the most powerful in the entire Kanto region. Its Gym Leader, Sabrina, is a psychic, and an extremely terrifying one at that!
Sabrina became a gym leader in the last two years. It is said that she is only 18 years old this year, but she already has the strength of an Elite 1 trainer.

The strength here has a dual meaning. One meaning is that Sabrina has a Champion-level Pokémon, and the other meaning is that Sabrina herself is also a Champion-level Pokémon!
"...To be honest, I don't recommend that you challenge Natsumi, because it is said that those who fail to challenge her suffer a very painful experience, and many challengers have developed psychological trauma."

"The Goldenrod Gym may not be the strongest gym in Kanto, but it is definitely the most terrifying gym in Kanto, without exception."

Nurse Joy from the Pokémon Center gave Ash and his friends these instructions.

Upon arriving in Goldenrod City, the three immediately headed to the Pokémon Center. After all the journey, training, and battles, their Pokémon were quite exhausted and needed to recover at the center.

While replying, they also inquired about information from Miss Joey here, and then received the rumors about Sabrina, as well as a warning from Miss Joey.

No matter how strong other gyms are, losing to one will only damage one's confidence. But the Saffron Gym is different. Losing to the Saffron Gym will have very serious consequences.

This is also why there have been fewer and fewer challengers at the Saffron Gym in recent years.

The league has issued some warnings about this, but they have all been ignored by the gym leader, Sabrina.

Even the League sent people to visit them in person, but no one knows what happened in the end. Anyway, the Goldenrod Gym is still safe and sound, and the League no longer pays attention to the Goldenrod Gym.

The only warning is that the Goldenrod Gym is dangerous, discouraging others from challenging it.

Challenging the Saffron Gym won't actually put you in any life-threatening danger; it's just that it can cause significant psychological trauma.

After learning more about the Saffron Gym, Xiaoxia was starting to have second thoughts. This gym was even more terrifying than she had imagined!

As a fellow gym leader, she knew very little about the Goldenrod Gym, only that it was an extremely powerful gym. She never imagined it would be so terrifying.

Xiao Gang knew a little more about it, but he didn't know that there was such a rumor about the Goldenrod Gym.

Professor Oak was the only one who knew the Saffron City Gym inside and out, so he kept trying to persuade Ash not to come. But Ash insisted on coming anyway, so Professor Oak could only suggest that Ash go to the Pokémon Center in Saffron City to get some information before challenging the gym.

After all, Ash has a Champion-level Gastly, so he can at least put up a fight with Sabrina.

The reason Professor Oak finally gave up trying to dissuade Ash from challenging the Goldenrod Gym was that he learned from Gastly how Ash caught Gastly.

He had been wondering how Ash's Pokémon managed to capture a Champion-level Gastly, but then...

Well, this guy is actually a humanoid elf!

Guess how trainers in ancient times caught Pokémon when they didn't have Poké Balls and couldn't use Pokémon to tame them?
Ash has essentially captured Gastly using an ancient method.

Professor Oak didn't know where Ash's superhuman strength came from, but he knew that Ash was still Ash, and that was enough. Moreover, this Ash was becoming more and more like the Ash he remembered.

After confirming that Ash was capable of protecting himself, Professor Oak felt relieved and let Ash challenge the Goldenrod Gym. Even if he couldn't win, with Ash's strength, he wouldn't be able to escape.

(End of this chapter)