Pokémon, Ash's art style is off!

A burst of white light.

Two pairs of purple wings tore through the light first, followed by the rounded body.

Its head and abdomen are fused together, and its wings form an X shape behind it.

Is it a cross-bat?

Brock, who was in the audience, recognized the Pokémon.

He himself owns a Zubat, so he naturally knows something about this Pokémon.

This cross-bat hovering in the air with its wings flapping is a whole size larger than a typical beaked bat.

Although he wasn't a Poison-type trainer, but...

"How do you think of the cross-bat's development?"

Xiao Gang turned his head to the side and asked tentatively.

"Huh?" Xia was taken aback. "It's...pretty good, isn't it?"

Xiao Gang was silent for two seconds, then nodded solemnly.

Since Xiaoxia said it's pretty good, it seems that this cross-bat has indeed been bred quite well.

......

"Crossbat, Air Blade!"

In the arena, Duowu took the lead, his voice filled with a desperate determination.

The cross-bat made a rustling sound.

Then, with a sudden flap of its wings, a sharp blade of air shot out, tracing an arc as it slashed towards the giant crab.

The giant crab quickly raised its claws to block.

"boom!"

The air blade struck the hard crab claw, creating a ring of fine air currents.

The giant crab shook its numb claws and stared up at the purple figure in the air.

The hundred-step flying pliers were immediately thrown out.

However, the Crobat was only shocked for a moment. Then, it gently twitched its wings and shifted half a body length to the side. The crab claw just grazed the edge of its wing membrane, giving the prize to a lucky spectator in the audience.

"So fast!"

Ash exclaimed in surprise, then immediately changed his strategy.

"In that case, Kingler Crab! Use Bubble Beam!"

Upon hearing this, the giant crab opened its claws and sprayed out a thick stream of foam.

It weaves a vast, all-encompassing foam net in the air.

But the crossbow bat is extremely fast; it easily slips through the gap with just a slight flap of its wings, causing the attack to miss.

"Well done, that's it!" Duowu clenched his fist, a smile finally appearing on his lips. "Fight it in the air! Don't give it a chance to get close!"

His plan was to seize air superiority.

As long as it stays at a safe height, that reckless crab will forever be stuck on the ground, staring blankly.

Although running away is shameful...

But at least it works!

The cross-bat is very agile in the air, not only always maintaining a safe altitude.

The attacks were also extremely tricky, with air blades sometimes slashing from the left and sometimes cutting across from the right, each angle more insidious than the last.

The giant crab was forced to defend itself, and although its bubble beam could barely block some angles, it couldn't reach the agile bat at all, and instead took several hits from the attack itself.

Xiao Zhi frowned and looked for a while, then decisively waved his hand.

"Big Claw Crab, let's dive into the water!"

Upon hearing this, the giant crab plunged headfirst into the pool.

After sinking to the bottom of the pool, the giant crab steadied itself, raised its head, aimed at the cross-bat in the sky, and opened its claws to spray a series of bubbles into the air.

The crossbat deftly darts left and right, dodging all attacks with almost no effort.

The two sides remained deadlocked.

One is out of reach in the sky, and the other is out of reach in the water.

The referee held up his flag and looked up for more than ten minutes before finally speaking up.

"If this stalemate continues, according to the rules, the referee has the right to declare a tie, and both players will lose their Pokémon..."

He paused, glancing at the scoreboard.

"That makes it two to zero..."

The implication is clear: a draw means Duowu has lost.

However, Duowu was not flustered at all; on the contrary, he became even more confident.

"Who said we're at a stalemate!"

The audience on stage were also tired of watching.

They looked at each other, whispering among themselves, wondering if the child was under too much pressure and had started to deceive himself.

"Wait! Look at that giant crab!"

Xiaoxia was the first to react.

As everyone looked over, they saw that the giant crab had been slowly tinged with an eerie purple hue, starting from the joints.

"It's poison!" Xiaoxia, an expert, asserted. "The giant crab is poisoned!"

There was an uproar.

"When was the poison administered?!"

"How did they do that! The Crossbat didn't even touch it!"

"Ash..."

Seeing that Ash had suffered a loss, Lillie couldn't help but clench her hands nervously.

Hearing the surrounding chatter, Duowu raised an eyebrow smugly and finally couldn't resist revealing the answer.

"Hmph! Of course it's from the very beginning!"

Lillie: "......."

I'm reminded of Xiaoxia's loser theory.

Her anxiety immediately subsided.

"My Crobat never intended to defeat Kingler with Air Blade from the start!"

Looking around, Duowu basked in the astonished gazes of the crowd.

"Instead, they used the cover of the bubble light to continuously spray poison, which gradually accumulated and eventually poisoned the other side!"

Ash frowned as he watched the purple color spreading across Krabby's body.

Is that so.

He thought the bat was just shaking off sweat.

I was careless!

In this case...

"Big Crab, keep using Bubble Beam!"

Xiao Zhi's tone was firm.

"what?"

Duo Wu was taken aback, then sneered.

"It's no use! The poison has already entered your body. The more you move, the faster the toxins will circulate!"

"If this continues, it's nothing more than a death throes!"

"So this round—I'm the one who won!"

In the audience, people were whispering among themselves.

"That tone... why does he talk like he's already won?"

"Ash still has two more Pokémon after him, right?"

"That's exactly what I meant."

"He's so confident!"

Just as everyone was discussing it.

A sudden change occurred on the field.

The giant crab, already infused with venom, sprayed a beam of foam from the pool.

It actually hit the left wing of the Crossbat.

The cross-bat wobbled and flapped its wings twice in a flustered manner before regaining its balance.

Duo Wu was taken aback.

"Just guessing?"

But what happened next made him unable to laugh anymore.

The accuracy of the giant crab's bubble beam attack is visibly improving.

From hitting one out of five shots, to hitting one out of three.

The cross-bats had less and less room to hide, and their movements were no longer as effortless as before; the frequency of their wing flapping had noticeably slowed down.

Kona nodded in the audience.