There Are Always Fireworks That Follows the Stars

Bellossom's dance looked really good.

But Rope just felt dizzy watching it. After all, he was dizzy now. Though Rope was still looking calm and commanding right now. But Erika's tricky level still made him feel a hint of bad.

[It would be a shame if he fainted on the battlefield in a while.]

Rope thought in his heart, and then imagined how he would look if he hadn't won the battle yet, and then fainted due to exhaustion, and then he felt embarrassed...

So he silently increased the amount of reinforcement he gave Growlithe.

The flames under Growlithe's eyes swelled once more, and flames rose from his forepaws and head before transforming into armor and a helmet that encased Growlithe's forepaws and helmet.

Now Erika wasn't puzzled. A Growlithe with such a gift should not exist. So all of Growlithe's abnormalities should be Rope's ability.

[I haven't heard of Rope's ability! Is it some new ability? Why does it feel like this Rope guy is also similar to a fire-type Pokémon????]

Erika couldn't figure out the form of Rope's ability for a moment, much less the origin of Rope's ability.

As a family with a long history of inheritance. For all kinds of special abilities that one had heard of and seen were destined to be recorded separately. Because of these abilities, what they often represented was a powerful trainer.

Although it is not to say that the trainer with special abilities will necessarily be able to become a talent. After all, there were not a few possessors of psychic power, but not many powerful ones. A powerful psychic can compete with a super-powered Pokémon, but a bottom-tier psychic can barely break a spoon. And even that's the best of the psychic.

And Rope's unseen ability aroused Erika's curiosity. But since she was in the middle of a sparring match, she could only wait until afterward to ask.

Of course, she should ask and Rope should answer, but Rope himself could not guarantee whether he was telling the truth or not. For one thing, there was still the possibility of his ability evolving, and for another... it was a bit too naive to show his own cards to others like that.

This is an afterthought, and will not be mentioned.

Now Erika has a simple headache.

Growlithe was a little too tricky.

Rope's ability reinforces not just the flames, but Growlithe's energy strength. It could also be interpreted as a level. Although it was only a temporary reinforcement, the boost was not a small one.

Growlithe's speed, which he was already good at, was even faster at this time. After using Agility twice to boost his speed, Growlithe's efficiency of movement could now be described as godlike.

Combined with the defense and attack power from the Red Flame Armor. To say that Growlithe was now really toying with Bellossom would be an understatement.

When Rope gave Entei a reinforcement at full power, it had such a big boost to Entei, whose base was an Elite Four level, not to mention Growlithe, whose original strength was actually no match for Entei.

This Bellossom's strength is also a bit worse than the Vileplume's just now. But to say that Vileplume was the bottom card...Rope wasn't really convinced. Not to mention, if the Sabrina family could get a Mega Stone, couldn't Celadon Gym get one?

There weren't many Grass Pokémon capable of Mega Evolution, but there were definitely quite a few.

Although Rope is not an absolute proponent of race theory, Rope does not disagree with some of the ideas in race theory either.

After all, races do have innate strengths and weaknesses.

But no matter what happened afterward.

Right now...the victory and defeat had been decided.

With Growlithe's Fire Spin blocking off the space of alignment, and another overdrive 'Extreme Speed' blasting preemptively in the direction of the only one able to dodge, Bellossom officially retired from the stage.

And at that moment, Growlithe growled lowly, his aura growing stronger instead of weakening.

"Bellossom is unable to fight, Gym Leader Erika please send out the next Pokémon!"

Erika retrieved Bellossom back into the ball, though she didn't know why Rope t suddenly shifted speeds and increased the speed of the sparring match. But this Growlithe in front of her, unless she really lifted her bottom card. Otherwise there was really no way to take him.

After thinking about it, Erika pulled out a Pokéball and threw it!

"Go Ludicolo!"

An egg-shaped Pokémon wearing a poncho and a wide-brimmed green hat that looked like a ruffled leaf appeared on the field, bouncing around and looking a little less than smart.

But this is one of the grass-type Pokémon that has a relatively small disadvantage against fire-type Pokémon. Ludicolo is a water-type Pokémon, and compared to grass-type Pokémon, Ludicolo's water-type Pokémon has more water-type Pokémon skills than grass-type Pokémon.

So using Ludicolo to fight a fire-type Growlithe is indeed more advantageous.

emmm, maybe it could only be said that it wasn't a disadvantage?

But Rope didn't care about this point of Ludicolo's attributes being superior. Because he could sense that the Ludicolo in front of him, the energy level in his body was even lower than the Bellossom just now.

It was obviously watered down.

However, Rope didn't want to break it down right now, and instead cast a grateful gaze towards Erika. After all, he was really out of stamina right now, so he was still high on himself.

Erika smiled and shook her head, signaling that Rope didn't need to be concerned, after all, no matter what, Rope would be able to get the badge, and against something like this... Rope couldn't claim to be going all out right now, and then Erika didn't have the need to go all out and have to force Rope to pass out again.

Erika wasn't weak...and she didn't have a set or two of Mega Stones on hand.

A family with a long history of grass-based beginnings, they'd gone all out to gather what they needed as soon as Mega Evolution reached their ears.

Of course, there really weren't many dojos that wanted to be as wealthy as Celadon Gym. After all, after the establishment of the League, the children of the humble family had come out one after another, and the resources that originally belonged to the family's power would surely be seized, but fortunately, the overall balance of the League was still quite balanced and now there were no conflicts that had arisen.

Erika's strength is weak? It's more like biding her time, maybe not to the level of Lance, Red, Blue, Sabrina, but definitely not much weaker than the average Elite Four.

But every family has its own survival wisdom, Rope doesn't want to interfere, it's more important for friends to see each other's needs clearly, rather than shouting 'I'm doing this for your own good'.

The third matchup was a no-holds-barred affair, with Growlithe beating up Ludicolo in just a few moves. Although water-type Pokémon did have an advantage against fire-type Pokémon...

But... the key to this water vapor thing is the heat!

Just like that, Ludicolo, who was almost made into a White Scorched Pokémon, lost his ability to fight.

Rope, win!