Pokémon, Ash is going to become a perfect man from now on.

"Dig a hole."

This trick was obviously not going to work. Steelix easily poked its head out and burrowed underground. When it reappeared, it had already slithered behind Ash.

"Come back now, thanks for your hard work." Ash tossed the Heavy Ball back and easily retrieved Steelix.

"Gengar, it's your turn next."

"Geng~" A purple figure flew out from Ash's shadow and landed gracefully on the field.

"Gengar? That Pokémon is no match for me!"

Sabrina scoffed disdainfully, using Alakazam's body to unleash powerful mental energy, attempting to bind Gengar's body in one fell swoop.

However, Gengar, who was prepared, would not let her succeed and immediately slipped into the shadows to circle behind Alakazam.

"Freezing wind!"

A cool breeze blew by, and ice flowers immediately formed on Hudi's feet, causing his speed to drop significantly.

"Using such a low-level skill..."

"This is a trainer's basic skill." Ash completely ignored Sabrina's taunts. "Gengar, Dusknoir!"

"Geng!" A series of ghostly figures suddenly flew out from Gengar's body, turning into howling skeletons that swirled around the field, their numbers so great that they completely obscured Gengar's true form!

This is also the result of training with Millennium Gastly. Originally, Dusknoir had a single attack method, but now Gengar has come up with a whole new way to play with it.

Naza was clearly agitated. She could sense that all the skeletons contained ghostly energy, and each one could come down and attack!

So she began to manipulate Alakazam to continuously release Psychic Shocks, hoping to use the materialized Psychic Ripple to defeat Gengar in one fell swoop!

However, this aimless, haphazard attack only makes the gym more precarious and has no effect on Gengar whatsoever.

"Sara, how long are you going to keep controlling Alakazam's antics?" Ash suddenly snapped, "As trainers, we're supposed to act as the eyes and ears of our Pokémon in battles. Your Alakazam can't figure out Gengar's location, and you, as its trainer, can't either?!"

"Stop lecturing me!" Sabrina snapped, unleashing her psychic powers. Her psychic interference, launched close to the ground, accurately caught Gengar's form and pulled it straight out of the shadows.

At the same time, Alakazam stacked the spoons in front of him and unleashed a powerful Psychic Beam at Gengar!

"Use Night Demon Shadow!"

Although its body was bound, Gengar's energy flow was not affected. It gathered its special move back into a cluster and easily blocked Alakazam's attack with the black light shooting from its eyes.

boom!

The two energies collided violently, sending thick smoke billowing outwards.

Alakazam used Regenerate due to exhaustion, but Gengar took the opportunity to break free from the control of the psychic power and once again disappeared into the shadows.

"Freezing wind!" Another gust of wind blew by, and Hu Di slipped, almost falling flat on his face.

In fact, Gengar and Alakazam are a well-known rivalry in the Kanto region.

They counter each other, are all high-speed turrets, and even have the same total base stats.

However, Alakazam is relatively fragile, but its Special Attack and Speed ​​are slightly better than Gengar's.

Now, due to the influence of the freezing wind, Alakazam can no longer keep up with the elusive Gengar. Often, it is only after Gengar suddenly appears and makes several funny faces that Alakazam reacts and begins to attack, but Gengar then runs away in a flash.

"Damn it!" Seeing Alakazam being toyed with like this, Sabrina became furious and started unleashing her psychic powers all over the place. At the same time, she forcibly controlled Alakazam's teleportation and regeneration abilities.

However, after being worn down by Steelix and then fighting Gengar in a cat-and-mouse game, her psychic powers quickly became unsustainable.

Finally, in the next round, Sabrina managed to catch Gengar with all her might, but Alakazam's subsequent Psychic Beam failed to connect, and Gengar seized the opportunity instead!

"Use Shadow Ball at full power!"

hum! !

A jet-black energy ball burst forth, and Alakazam, who was gathering power, had no time to react. He was blasted backward and lost consciousness in mid-air!

"Damn it... I'll never forgive you!"

"Sara, that should be enough, right? You don't have any Pokémon left to fight!" Ash said righteously, but at the same time he was secretly preparing Gengar to launch a sneak attack on the opposing trainer.

"Stop your nonsense! I will never lose, and I will never let you get the badge!" Sabrina screamed almost hysterically. Controlled by her second personality, she simply could not accept her defeat.

The purpose of her second personality is to crush all the challengers who come to the gym battle, to traumatize them, or even turn them into dolls. In short, she wants to make them never dare to be trainers again!

Therefore, she will never admit defeat!

"Who said I don't have any Pokémon? I still have one... Kadabra!!"

Unwilling to accept defeat, Sabrina actually dragged Kadabra, who had returned with Ash, onto the field!

"Yongjira is still injured... You still want it to play?!"

Ash's voice suddenly turned cold, and a roar mixed with aura and psychic power stunned Sabrina.

"I don't care whether you're completely controlled by the second personality or have been secretly watching all this... I only know that even if you've never fulfilled your duties as a trainer, Kadabra still genuinely respects you and is even willing to stand up for you and me to stop this conflict!"

"Ugh... Damn it!" Sabrina suddenly clutched her forehead with both hands, her expression turning extremely painful.

"Naza... how long are you going to keep being so weak? If you really need my help, just say it now!!"

"I...please, help me...please help me!!" Sabrina's expression finally softened, and with her desperate cries, tears welled in her eyes...

However, her consciousness only broke through for a moment. The next second, she regained her fierce expression, and Kadabra uncontrollably charged towards Ash!

"This is the opportunity I've been waiting for... Gengar, let me see the results of my training, use Nightmare!"

"Geng~"

Suddenly, a jet-black ring shot out from the scarlet eyes. Yunjira, who was charging forward, was caught off guard and was enveloped by the ring, falling headfirst to the ground.

At the same time, Ash also unleashed his powerful psychic abilities, linking his consciousness with Kadabra and Sabrina!

Chapter 112 In the Nightmare…

"Courage..."

After a violent jolt, consciousness seemed to finally return to the body…

Yongjira looked around blankly and found himself in a white, empty space.

There was nothing around, except for the faint sound of intermittent screams.

Kadabra was very familiar with that furious voice; it came from its trainer… no, it should be the guy who controlled its trainer.

And in his current state, he was clearly being controlled by the other party, his body being manipulated to fight.

As for the target of the battle...

A struggle appeared on Kadabra's face. Its memory was still stuck on the moment when Sabrina forcibly dragged it into the arena, which meant that... the person it was fighting was Ash!

In an instant, Yunjira was extremely anxious!

But just as it was about to do something, a hand suddenly landed on its shoulder, and at the same time a gentle voice sounded in its ear.

"Don't be nervous, you're not fighting me."

"Yak?!" Kadabra turned its head in surprise and found Ash right next to it!

"Gengar's training seems to be progressing well. This is your mental world... As for the person who controlled you, they are now taking your place in enduring the torment of nightmares."

Nightmare—this is certainly not an exclusive ability of Darkrai, the Nightmare God, but its form is quite similar.

Under Gastly's careful guidance, Gengar gradually learned how to integrate psychic power into hypnosis. However, its psychic power could not compare with that of the ancient Phantom, so it was unable to create illusions that could affect the five senses.

So Gastly advised it to change its strategy.

Stop obsessing over hypnosis. Instead, use your mental power to enhance Onimoto's Nightmare Technique and forcefully merge it with hypnosis. This will cause your opponent to suffer from nightmares while they are asleep.

The victim knows it's all fake, but limited by the hypnosis's duration, they can only fret helplessly as they can't wake up.

Although the principle is simple, training Gengar is not easy. It was only after obtaining an extra-large Curse Symbol that it began to show initial results.

This further confirmed Ash's belief that the cursed symbol was extraordinary; it was definitely made by a master craftsman.

However, the combined effect of these two methods is not yet ideal.

Hypnosis is inherently unreliable, and adding nightmares as an additional technique makes it even worse. Using time-aiming is a delicate task.

Furthermore, due to the distraction caused by multitasking, the Nightmare special move is less likely to achieve the original effect of deducting a quarter of the health each turn, and it will basically be reduced by half again.

This is actually similar to Darkrai's performance with the Dark Hole and Nightmare abilities, so Ash simply decided to name the move after Nightmare God's ability.

He also hopes that Gengar can continue to develop this move, so that Nightmare can be fully effective, and the accuracy can be greatly improved, so that its performance can surpass Dark Hole.

If Darkrai, who's being directed to participate in the league convention, sees this, I wonder if he'll be so ashamed that he'll run back into the ball...

“Let’s go, Yundira, let’s go see the guy who’s controlling you.”

Ash snapped his fingers, and their surroundings shifted to the old Goldenrod City. Outside the ruins of that luxurious villa, there was a 'little girl' wearing a mask of pain.

"You...save me..."

"Stop pretending, I know you're not Sabrina." Ash glared at her with disgust. "At a time like this, you're still pretending to be a doll... You're a grown woman, don't you find it disgusting?"

"Damn brat, why did you have to bother us?!" The little girl roared in a deep, masculine voice, while simultaneously elongating her figure to transform into Naz's furious father.

So, this is the truth about the second personality—a bastard father secretly manipulating his daughter!

Normally, Gengar could easily break free from this mental restraint, but he had fought too hard in the battle and overused his psychic powers, so now he could only endure the headaches and dizziness.

"Your words are ridiculous. I'm an investigator from the League, and you're a lackey of Team Rocket... It's only natural for the police to catch a thief." Ash shook his head noncommittally. "I just didn't expect you to even persecute your own daughter!"