Heavy Weighted Stakes
"How interesting."
Looking at the duo who were battling soundly on the field, the corner of Lorelei's lips curled up into a satisfied arc.
The excitement of the gameplay in this first half of the matchup was so wonderful that even as the Ice type Elite Four, she couldn't help but clap her hands.
Whether it was Aisha's Umbreon unexpectedly carrying Adrenaline Orb, a prop so cold that it could be said that basically no one was carrying it, unexpectedly triggering plus one sped with the help of Blue's Gyrados, and then using Mean Look and Taunt one after another to block Gyrados's back, and reassuringly carrying out reinforcement with Curse, accumulated a great advantage.
Facing Umbreon, who had been strengthened and was as powerful as a bunker, Blue pulled out Beedrill and used Focus Sash and Endeavor to destroy the opponent's Umbreon. To cherish the results of Umbreon's reinforcement, Aicha used Baton Pass to relay the idea of reinforcement, and Blue commanded Beedrill to carry out the second Endeavor, instantly, almost solved the opponent's Azumarill, all dazzling operation.
This is the mental game of top trainers.
Take one step, count five steps.
Both sides are full of estimation and calculation of the situation.
However, after Blue completely turned Aisha's huge advantage at the beginning to his side, Aisha, who was at a disadvantage, relied on Azumarill's special tactics to forcefully kill Arcanine in an instant and forcefully fight back. The disadvantages of one's side and the fighting power to bring the situation into balance are also exciting to watch.
Game and calculation.
Blood and war.
Everything is happening in a flash of lightning, exciting breathtaking.
These two perfectly portrayed the charm of Pokémon battles.
"It's really something to look forward to..."
Holding her face, Lorelei smiled as she watched the field.
Her eyes, hidden behind her glasses, shone with an unknown light.
"Which side do you want to win?"
Green's voice rang out at her side.
Lorelei looked over and saw that the small girl with the barren - immature in comparison to her - figure had leaned in front of the audience.
"Aren't you the referee?"
Lorelei ruffled the bangs on her forehead and said, "Is it really okay to go into the audience and laze around?"
"Look at the pace of those two's sparring, does it look like they need some kind of referee to get in the way?"
Green hung a pair of half-opened eyes and nudged towards Aisha and Blue who were facing off on the field.
"That's true."
Lorelei laughed, still not forgetting to mock Green even at this point, saying, "After all, the two of them are such powerful trainers that it's quite normal for you to not be able to keep up with their thinking and reactions."
"You asshole..."
Green gritted her teeth at Lorelei's exasperation.
Bastard, openly and secretly it's all about looking down on his own strength with that Kanto Elite Four.
Dare you to let yourself take out the Three Legendary Birds?
Oh... She's an Ice type Elite Four, which restrains the Flying department.
It's alright then.
Green collected the expression on her face.
After all, there was an Elite Four over here who was very good at Flying type Pokémon and was being bloodied by Lorelei's Ice army all day long.
That guy also lost so badly, Green wasn't so bad to embarrass him.
"Hey, if you're not convinced, why don't the two of us bet on it?" Looking at Green's expression, Lorelei took the initiative to open her mouth after she secretly laughed at what a little girl she really was.
"Bet on what?"
Green had a wary look on her face, but, again, she was a little heartbroken.
Having been a conniving charlatan for a long time, she also had more or less a gambler's mentality.
"Bet~"
Lorelei's slender jade finger pointed straight at Aisha and Blue, saying, "Which of the two of them will win this gym challenge."
"Hmm..."
Green followed her finger and pondered.
It was a hard answer for her to say.
But with any other person, she would have directly bet on Blue to win.
But if the person opposite Blue was Instructor Ai...
"I bet on Ai-chan." Lorelei didn't give Green time to think and opened her mouth directly, saying, "If I lose, I'll give you enough to eat for a year."
"Huh?"
Green's eyes instantly lit up.
The gambler's mentality finally overcame her caution.
"I'll bet on Blue then!"
"What can you come up with?" Lorelei looked at Green with amusement.
"Don't you underestimate people!"
Green sneered and said, "Green I've traveled all over the world for so many years, and I've collected a little bit of good stuff, so I'm sure to satisfy you."
"Then, we'll see~"
After saying that, Lorelei no longer paid attention to Green.
Green also didn't want to make a fool of herself and simply looked towards the field of the match.
Now, on the field, Aisha and Blue had both released new Pokémon.
Two Pokémon with different postures faced each other.
"Loto~"
"Ow!"
Wash Rotom, which looked like a washing machine, and Scizor, which was clad in a bright red metallic armor and looked like a heavily armored knight, faced each other in the air.
"Tsk."
Blue smacked his lips.
This time, he had fallen short again in the blind auditions.
Scizor versus Wash Rotom.
That's something...
"Scizor, U-turn!"
Blue commanded Scizor to use U-turn, ready to scuff the blood skin and switch.
"Ow!"
Scizor transformed into a red phantom, the heavy armor on its body couldn't suppress its speed.
It immediately flashed to the front of the Sober Rotom and raised its sharp and heavy pincers high, as if wielding a machete, slashing it towards the washing machine in front of it.
Aisha, however, gave that command on the spot, saying, "Rotom, Will-O-Wisp."
"Hee~ loto!"
Sober Rotom's face which had grown over the lid of the washing machine revealed a mocking smile, and several bizarre flames bloomed out without warning.
Scizor's pincers cleaved above these clusters of Will-O-Wisp before they hit Sober Rotom's head.
"Oooh, Rotom!"
The washer was knocked down a few meters by it, and Scizor himself managed to carry the negative effect of the burns with him, turning into a beam of red light and returning within Blue's Pokémon Sphere.
"So dirty..."
Blue held Scizor's Poké ball and smacked his lips for a moment.
On the field, Aisha took advantage of this opening and commanded Wash Rotom to fire Light Screen.
"Hm~"
Aisha smiled at Blue.
The pressure Blue was putting on him was just too much.
As expected of a former Kanto Champion, he was the toughest trainer that Instructor Ai had faced since he became a trainer.
The awareness of sparring, the sensitivity of first reads, and the stock of knowledge were unquestionably top-notch.
His Pokémon practice was even more terrifying, worthy of being recognized by trainers all over the world as a 'Breeder', and he couldn't take much advantage of it himself.
As a Pokémon trainer, Aisha didn't want to lose.
In order to live up to the expectations of his Pokémon, Aisha couldn't lose!
Therefore, Aisha could only put his best foot forward against the battle and utilize his abilities.
Luckily, after being hit by Will-O-Wisp, the burnt Scizor was basically ruined.
With Wash Rotom in hand, it basically looked dead.
Next, it was time to look at the Pokémon Blue had released...
"It's your turn!"
Blue threw out a new Poké ball.
"Hu!"
The Poké ball opened, and with a wave of mental energy spreading, the large yellow fox holding two spoons appeared in front of Aisha.
Alakazam.
"Rotom, Volt Switch!"
Aisha secretly said that it was true, Blue's two remaining Pokémon should be all physical attackers.
This wave of Light Screen was used right.
Thus, he made a snap decision and chose to let Wash Rotom go down for the time being.
It had its opponents, and his own side had the means to deal with Alakazam.
"Loto!"
Taking advantage of the fact that Alakazam had just gotten on the field, Wash Rotom wrapped a beam of lightning and swiftly slammed into its body.
It then also turned into a beam of red light and returned within Ai's Instructor's Poké ball.
Aisha threw out the next Pokémon without a break, and the "Jie Jie" laughing Haunter appeared in front of the pained Alakazam.
"A different colored Haunter?"
Blue immediately saw the slight color difference between Aisha's Haunter and the others, and looked at Instructor Ai with an envious expression, saying, "Aisha is really lucky, if I remember correctly, this child should be your second different-colored Pokémon, right?"
"Uh-huh."
Aisha nodded, then waved his hands helplessly and said, "There is no way, this child came to the door by itself and wanted to follow me."
Blue: "..."
Blue thought about his adult life of hatching eggs, running around trying to get a Pokémon of different colors, and all the painstaking experiences he had gone through.
Damn!
Blood pressure went up!
"Alakazam, Psychic!"
He pointed one hand at Instructor Ai's Haunter and shouted the order to attack.
Instructor Ai smiled back and commanded Haunter to counterattack.
"Haunter, Shadow Ball!"
"Jie jie jie~"
The Soul Temple Elder laughed as it raised its own ghostly hand, and a high-speed spinning Shadow Ball emerged between its hands, shooting out.
"Ka!"
Alakazam, who had floated in the air, also waved his spoon without hesitation, and a shapely wave of Psychic power was released in one breath.
Shadow Ball and Psychic collided above the sky and detonated.
Both Haunter and Alakazam were affected.
This classic head-on collision between Gengar and Alakazam caused even more cheers from the audience in the live broadcast room.
"My youth is back, Little Gengar vs Alakazam, the former is not even a Gengar, I bet on Alakazam to win!"
"Instructor Ai's Haunter is protected by Wash Rotom's Light Screen, so he might be able to beat whoever he wants, I'm betting on Haunter to win!"
"Gengar, I like Gengar the most!"
"The one above, I'm in the Alakazam faction, draw your sword you heretic!"
"Only kids make choices, I want them all!"
The screen gradually turned into a fan battle between Gengar and Alakazam.
This was also a tradition since ancient times.
Gengar and Alakazam, as the only Ghost and
The Alakazam family and the Gengar family were in a relationship of mutual restraint.
Over time, the two types of Pokémon have developed a "party rivalry" between them.
Now, with Aisha and Blue each sending out Haunter and Alakazam, this "party" phenomenon has once again emerged.
However, not only the fans, but also the two trainers and their Pokémon battling on the field seemed to have been affected by the "party fight", and the mood of the battle was gradually getting higher and higher.
"Haunter, Shadow Ball!"
"Alakazam, Psychic!"
Aisha and Blue once again shouted out their orders to attack.
Their Pokémon also roared and released surges of energy.
"Jie!"
"Ka!"
Shadow Ball collided with Psychic's compressed energy ball, and the energy detonated in an instant.
A competition between the Gengar family and the Alakazam family, Shadow Ball and Psychic, had begun!
Although they were the same moves, however, they showed colorful uses in the hands of Haunter and Alakazam.
"Jie!"
Haunter's ghostly hand flipped, and a dozen Shadow Balls that had reduced their power but were extremely fast flew out.
"Ka!"
Alakazam's Psychic covered down like a large net, intercepting all of the Shadow Balls that attacked towards it.
Then, it crossed the spoon in its hand, and Psychic's mental power transformed into countless steel needles that covered and smashed Haunter like a sudden downpour.
"Jie jie jie~"
Haunter saw this and smiled grimly as it held up its guard.
After Psychic's rainstorm stopped, it swung its hand and threw out an extremely fast Shadow Ball.
Alakazam, who had been prepared for this, also blocked the blow with his guard at Blue's warning.
It was an exciting battle of defending and dodging.
What was surprising was that Haunter and Alakazam, two standard glass cannons, had been blasting each other for some time.
"Hmm..."
Blue was feeling more and more out of sorts the more it fought.
It felt like the output its Alakazam was hitting was too low.
Light Screen lasted too long, and it should have been Wash Rotom with Light Clay.
But what right did Haunter, a non-fully evolved type, have to fight the fully evolved Alakazam for so long even with Light Screen?
Why not evolve?
"Huh?"
Blue frowned, then stretched.
Not evolving did have one advantage.
"So it's an Eviolite Haunter," after realizing the reason for Haunter's extraordinary defense, Blue looked towards his Alakazam.
After such a long time of trading injuries for injuries, Alakazam wasn't in good shape.
The opposite Haunter was the same.
It seemed that the key to dividing the winner was the next blow...
"Light Screen, Eviolite. "Calculating Haunter's defense, Blue made up his mind.
He gave a wink towards Alakazam.
Alakazam received it, and a psychic glow blossomed above the spoon.
"Haunter, Shadow Ball!"
"Alakazam, Psychic!"
The duo shouted the command to attack again in unison.
Haunter and Alakazam unleashed their attacks once more.
"Jie!"
"Ka!"
After hissing and exploding, Haunter floated on the field gasping for air, while Alakazam lay on top of the ground, incapacitated.