A blue Aura Sphere streaked across the field, accurately striking Incineroar in the face.
"ROAR!"
Incineroar's face visibly twisted, and its massive, heavy body collapsed to the ground with a bang.
At the same time, Incineroar snapped out of confusion, glaring angrily at Gardevoir.
'Don't you know not to hit the face when fighting a tiger?'
'Too much!'
A trace of joy flashed across Sasha's face. She originally thought Incineroar would remain in confusion for a while longer.
But unexpectedly, Gardevoir chose to slap the face.
Although it was a brutal humiliation, it successfully woke Incineroar up from confusion.
At this moment, under Axel's command, Gardevoir once again used Aura Sphere.
"Incineroar, great, quickly use Protect!"
A glint of ferocity flashed in Incineroar's eyes. A white light appeared in its hands, quickly forming a dazzling shield.
Protect move, as long as the opponent wasn't overpoweringly higher level, it could block an opponent's attack without a scratch.
In actual combat, it's usually used to resist the opponent's powerful moves.
Or to buy breathing room and break the opponent's attack rhythm.
The blue Aura Sphere hit the Protect shield, like a bullet sinking into water.
It only caused a ripple before vanishing completely.
"As expected of the Gym Leader, that Protect was textbook-perfect!"
"Gym Leader Sasha is awesome. The opponent may be dirty, but Sasha's battle rhythm is on point!"
"Close match, close match. Although Axel managed to get a poison in and land an Aura Sphere using tactics, Incineroar still looks healthy."
"In the next phase, Incineroar just needs to avoid getting confused again."
Facing the crowd's commentary, Axel still kept a smile on his face.
If this were a game locked into four moves, Protect was indeed powerful.
'But now... do you know what Encore means?'
"Gardevoir, use Encore on Incineroar."
Sasha: "???"
'Are you sure this is a Fairy-type Pokémon?'
If she remembered correctly.
From the start of the battle until now, halfway through the fight, Axel hadn't used a single Fairy-type move.
Other than Aura Sphere, it was all sorts of random control moves.
Facing Sasha's confused expression, Gardevoir snorted coldly and provocatively curled her finger at Incineroar.
In the next moment… Incineroar hastily canceled the half-formed Flamethrower and cast Protect again.
At first, everyone didn't think much of it.
Gardevoir kept spamming Aura Sphere, and Incineroar kept using Protect.
At worst, it was just stalling time, or gambling on Protect failing eventually.
But at that moment, Incineroar's body suddenly turned purple.
A wave of "Damn!" came from the crowd.
"Holy crap, Incineroar is still poisoned?"
"Anyone here good at math? What round of Toxic is Incineroar on now?"
The Bulbasaur trainer who had topped the whole city blurted out "Fourth round," and then sank back into deep thought.
He was thinking about one thing, 'Axel's Gardevoir can play with poison like this. Why can't I?'
Although mixing toxins was difficult, easy to learn, hard to master, he was good at learning.
After the "Fourth round" was said, the entire crowd suddenly fell silent.
The fourth round of Toxic. Next would be the fifth and sixth rounds.
Add Gardevoir's Aura Sphere to that…
Incineroar might be about to GG?
The battle continued.
As time passed, the effects of Toxic grew more terrifying.
Incineroar had used Protect three times in a row. The success rate was now below 10%.
Axel roughly calculated Incineroar's remaining health. After concluding he still had the advantage, a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"If I'm not mistaken, Gym Leader Sasha just said something."
"That the trainer's strength ultimately decides the battle, right?"
"In that case—Gardevoir, use Moonblast!"
Sasha: "..."
'You've already used all your dirty tricks, and now you're putting on airs?'
'You're hogging the whole 'good guy' role, huh?'
'Even if you used Tackle twice, you'd still win now. What's the point of using that Fairy-type move?'
'Let me give you a bit of sisterly advice, just let me save some energy for raising kids.'
Seeing Sasha's chest heaving violently under her fiery red jacket and her lips bitten tightly in silence, Axel grinned, knowing she still hadn't recovered from his dirty tactics, so he stopped explaining.
"Gardevoir, use Moonblast!"
A pink moon suddenly appeared, as if tearing through space, squeezing into the sky above everyone.
That moon was dazzlingly beautiful, radiating endless Fairy-type energy.
Gardevoir's flawless body floated into the air, with dense Fairy energy gathering around her.
The entire training field was enveloped in pink crystal light. All the trainers stared at Gardevoir, mouths agape in O-shapes.
Many game-playing trainers had one phrase flash through their minds—Seraphine!
Even Incineroar was no exception. His gaze was completely drawn to Gardevoir under the bright moon.
'Yes, this is it. Use this move to hit me.'
'Way better than dying of poison!'
Under countless people's eager eyes, a storm surged in Gym Leader Sasha's heart.
She realized she truly couldn't see through this challenger before her.
His Pokémon clearly had such a powerful Fairy-type move, why did he prepare so many control moves?
Wouldn't a satisfying slugfest be better?
Moonlight fell. Incineroar let out a wail and turned into white light, returning to its Poké Ball.
Sasha took a deep breath, deciding not to give anyone a chance next.
'A Gym Leader can lose once, but absolutely not twice in a row!'
If she had used her main team from the beginning, even with all Axel's tactics, she could have easily beaten him.
Thinking this, Sasha sent Incineroar for treatment and reached for the Poké Ball of her Charizard at her waist.
"The next challenger can come up. I'll be using my main force from here on."
"But don't worry, even if you're knocked out in one move, it won't affect the score Metagross gives."
As soon as Sasha finished speaking, a somewhat yandere voice suddenly rang out.
"Then… what if I beat you?"
Axel's scalp tingled. He looked toward the next challenger.
A blonde woman was leaning over with arms folded, smiling sweetly at Axel and Gardevoir.
It was Caitlin.
Today's Caitlin was wearing a short white T-shirt. Her hot pants barely covered the essentials.
Her curvy figure was on full display.
The Moon Stone hanging from her chest gave off a soft white glow, fully showing off the little rich girl's aura.
"Saying to my face that my hubby has no real combat ability, that's very rude, you know?"
"Well then, how about I let you taste my level 45 Gallade next?"
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