Elite Summer is a Master At Pretending to be Confused

Summer felt her brain hurt a little.

You said that I took on the task of assisting the Hoenn League in their fight against Groudon and Kyogre in order to bring you here legally from Dayan region, and lent out my Dragapult for your safety at Sky Pillar, and then you take advantage of my absence to look for a good-looking girl?

How can this still be tolerated?

"You're being given a chance to organize your words."

"Are Steven and the others already on the move?"

Aisha had the good sense to change the subject and inquired about Steven's actions instead.

"Oh."

Seeing how sensible Aisha was, Summer also smiled and patted her chest.

After taking two deep breaths, the forgiving her still gave Aisha a step and responded to his inquiry, saying, "That fellow Steven arranged a team to search for the Three Pillars last night, and before that, I heard that Elite Four, who had been wandering around the sea searching for the two leaders and six cadres of Team Magma and Team Aqua, and who as a result had not had any reaction until now, were also dragged off by him as laborers."

"Oh?"

Within the communication screen, Aisha couldn't help but reveal a strange expression after hearing Summer say that.

"This is really the end of the world line..."

He remembered that within the special manga, it was Steven and the Elite Four who had found the remains of Regice, Regirock, and Registeel in three locations together.

The five of them just couldn't open the relics of the Three Pillars due to the problem of decryption and the stone tablets.

"What do you mean by the end of the world line?"

Several question marks popped up on Summer's head.

"Nope."

Aisha waved his hand and said, "I mean the Elite Four might not be able to find eight living people in submarines on top of the ocean, after all, those guys will run away, but now that I've even specified a few locations where the Three Pillars have the greatest likelihood of existing, the probability that they can find them must be quite a bit higher."

"I just hope that they can actually find the Three Pillars before Groudon and Kyogre completely counterattack."

Speaking at the end, Aisha also revealed a helpless expression.

"There's no way for anyone to give you a guarantee that that kind of thing can definitely be done, we can only say that we can just go with the flow." Summer also spread her hands and said, "After Steven heard your previous words, this morning he even posted a regional bounty inside the Hoenn League's trainer channel, presumably collecting up anything that has anything to do with ancient stone tablets or braille or inscription-type treasures, and the person who provides it will be rewarded with a heavy amount of money."

"That's rich."

"Yeah, really rich."

A real poor person and a rich woman pretended to be poor together lamented the financial power of this noble son of Steven.

When really, he was a master who threw away money and spent it like gold.

"By the way, you've probably investigated about as much as you can over there, when are you going to come back for a trip?"

"Oh, that's what I called you to say."

Within the screen, Aisha heard Summer's urging, and suddenly scratched her face a little less favorably, saying, "There's a little bit of something over here at Sky Pillar that I'm particularly concerned about, so that's why I'd like to stay over here for a while longer if there's nothing unexpected in the next two days..."

"Huh?"

Summer was also a bit surprised by Aisha's choice.

"Why are you still addicted to playing the field?"

Aisha looked around himself for a moment, then looked towards the one who helped him dirty up Zinnia's Mega Salamence, Dragapult, and made an inquiry towards Summer.

"Well... If you need it, otherwise, I'll go to Pacifidlog Town first and find a Pokémon center to return Dragapult to you?"

"That's not necessary." Summer rejected Aisha's proposal and voiced her own thoughts, saying, "It's not bad for you to keep Dragapult by your side for defense, besides, if you don't have Dragapult, that hellhole of Pacifidlog Town is surrounded by the sea on all sides, how are you going to get back to the Sky Pillar?"

Summer knew that Aisha had Rayquaza.

However, her purpose itself was to brush Aisha's favor, so pretending to be confused at this moment was of course the best choice.

"We can't find fishermen to rent water attribute Pokémon to cross the sea, right?"

You really are a genius at pretending to be confused - Summer praised herself so inwardly.

"That's true."

Aisha wasn't being pretentious at all, and since it was Summer herself who said that it wasn't necessary, she didn't dwell on the issue of returning the Dragapult in a hurry.

Besides, if he didn't have Dragapult when rushing and crossing the sea, he would indeed meet quite a lot of trouble.

"Thank you, Elite Summer."

"A small matter~"

... ...

"Caterpie, use 'Dragon Ascend' once at full power!"

After another half a day had passed after ending his call with Summer, Aisha commanded Caterpie to use 'Dragon Ascend' on top of the Dragon God's Altar.

"Mee!"

The Caterpie first coiled up its body which had grown a bit more in the past few days, and then a force directly rushed towards the azure sky, raging in the green energy on top of its body condensed into a long dragon which was more agile and mighty compared to the past, and struck a few clouds floating in the sky with its teeth and claws.

"Swish-!!!"

The energy of 'Dragon Ascend' burned cleanly through several pieces of clouds, and the nearby clouds were dispersed quite a bit more than shocked.

However, they were not the Caterpie's target.

"Pult!"

Summer's Dragapult stopped above the Caterpie's path of necessity, and the latter did not hesitate to headbutt the former's illusory body.

"Boom!"

The energy of the 'Dragon Ascend' was completely poured on top of Dragapult's body.

"Pult!"

After both sides had been in such a stalemate for almost ten seconds, Caterpie finally couldn't take it anymore.

"Mee!"

The energy of 'Dragon Ascend' was consumed, and Caterpie landed on top of the altar.

"Not bad, it's already pretty good."

Aisha applauded from the back, praising Caterpie whose move proficiency was getting higher and higher with the dual assistance of the Dragon God's Altar and the scroll.

Although it was said that Dragapult was only relying entirely on his not-so-hard body to forcefully receive Caterpie's 'Dragon Ascend' in the party, without counterattacking or using any defense-type moves, nevertheless, this fellow was at least the main Pokémon of the Ghost Elite, and his strength was already self-evident.

"Cheer up... Continuing at this speed, even without the real Rayquaza, we don't need to fear any enemies."

"Mee!"

Caterpie rolled over and straightened his back, casting a determined look towards Aisha.

However...

"..."

"Mimi?"

Suddenly, Aisha and Caterpie froze in place.

"Lulli?"

"Ow!"

"Pult?"

The three Pokémon beside them were confused for a moment.

One of them, on the other hand, looked towards the end of the sea in synchronization, as if they had sensed the presence of something, their expressions extraordinarily grave.