“Everyone, time to eat~”
Nanami placed the last dish on the table, calling out gently to everyone.
“Super-Powered Fatty? What the heck is that!?”
Having finished watching the news, Kazuki sat down, exclaiming loudly.
Clearly, he was very unhappy with the nickname the League had given him.
As he spoke, Kazuki even looked at Sū Shèng with a resentful expression.
He felt it was because the other hadn't gotten him a cool codename as well.
“Before we came to Pallet Town, we got off the plane at Viridian Airport and happened to see that fierce battle last week. The power of the legendary Pokémon is truly terrifying.”
Sū Shèng pretended not to see the resentment in Kazuki's eyes, changing the subject.
He thought to himself that he was being nice not calling him 'Super Little Jay' or something.
“I've also heard of the legends of Suicune, Entei, and Raikou, legendary Pokémon that have been circulating in the Johto region for hundreds of years. I didn't expect them to have a superior, called 'Ho-Oh'? I wonder what kind of power it has.”
Professor Oak's eyes were full of longing.
The most precious Pokémon he had encountered was only Celebi.
“Grandpa, that's not the point, is it? The point is that masked man!”
Blue, whose bragging skills would be second to none in the future, couldn't help but interject:
“The news said he could fight Ho-Oh and the three legendary beasts, four legendaries, without being at a disadvantage… Damn… how strong is that…”
At this time, Blue already had some of the arrogance of his future self.
But it was only arrogance and not ignorance.
He knew very well how big the gap was between him, who didn't even have a starter Pokémon yet, and that masked man.
“An SSS-class wanted criminal, this should be the first time since the establishment of the League, right?”
Nanami also joined the conversation at this time.
As she said this, she couldn't help but glance worriedly at her third younger brother, Shigeru, who was facing away from the living room, being punished by standing outside the window.
“Yes, before this masked man, the two criminals with the highest wanted level in the League were the Team Rocket boss and the Team Shadow boss, whose true identities are still unknown, both SS-class.”
Professor Oak continued:
“Below them are Team Rocket's genius scientist Joker and Team Shadow's chief scientist Elina, these two are S-class criminals.”
“Also, Nanami, don't think about pleading for that kid Shigeru, he has to stand there all night today.”
His son and daughter-in-law had passed away early in a car accident, and it could be said that he had raised these three grandchildren.
As soon as they moved, Professor Oak knew what they were planning.
Nanami stuck out her tongue and didn't dare to say anything more.
After chatting about the masked man for a while, Professor Oak brought the topic back to the Pokédex, which he cared about most.
Sū Shèng also put forward his future evolutionary ideas for the Pokédex.
For example, adding a radar-like search function, and being able to know which skills a Pokémon has learned through scanning, etc.
It could even integrate Rotom with the Pokédex to realize the Pokémonization of the Pokédex.
Sū Shèng's vision stunned Professor Oak and the others.
It, it can be played like this?
Of course, Sū Shèng didn't plan to take out all his trump cards at the beginning.
After all, the Pokédex was going to be sold.
He decided to learn from Old Huang's operation and slowly squeeze out toothpaste.
Alas, he had ultimately become the person he hated the most.
……
“Then we'll take our leave first.”
After dinner, Sū Shèng and the others said goodbye to Professor Oak's family.
Before they could take two steps, Shigeru, who was originally being punished at the door, blocked their way.
“What do you want?”
Rika's face was quite unfriendly, she didn't have a good impression of this ignorant brat.
“I, I'm sorry.”
Although he was a little conflicted, Shigeru still lowered his head and said those three words.
He had heard everything that everyone inside the house had said.
Shigeru didn't understand the other things very well, but as a future Pokémon researcher who would take over his grandfather's class, when he heard that the Pokédex could check the Pokémon's status and learned moves at any time.
He understood how great this invention was.
Shigeru, who had not been educated by reality, was a little arrogant, but he was not blind.
You should know that, up to now, news of trainers going out on adventures and being attacked by wild Pokémon is constantly being spread.
As long as there is this so-called “Pokédex”, 99% of such situations can be avoided.
“It's nothing, work hard.”
Sū Shèng patted Shigeru on the shoulder and walked past him.
How should I put it, in fact, apart from liking to argue with Satoshi in the early stages, Shigeru really had no problems as a rival.
He neither trained his Pokémon in a near-abusive way like Shinji, nor did he pretend to be strong without strength like Shūti.
He became more and more mature after the Johto chapter and helped Satoshi several times, and also gained the title of “Old Shigeru”.
It's a pity that in order to make way for other rivals, he switched careers to become a researcher after finishing the Silver Conference.
After Sū Shèng and the others walked away, Professor Oak's voice came from inside the house: “Come in and eat!”
Obviously, that scene just now was completely seen by the old man.
……
……
Sū Shèng and the others stayed at the guesthouse for one night. The next day, Sū Shèng led the two to Professor Oak's laboratory at the foot of the mountain behind Pallet Town.
Ready to start the development of the Pokédex.
On the way, Kazuki, who was swiping his phone, said:
“Someone filmed the video of us fighting the masked man.”
Sū Shèng leaned his head over. Before he could see the picture, he heard a rather familiar voice——
“Waaah! Help! Help! Mom and Dad! It looks like Kiki is going to die here. When you see this video, remember to burn more snacks for Kiki's festival every year!”
“Huh?”
Not to mention Sū Shèng, Rika also felt that the voice was a bit familiar. Where did she hear it recently?
The two took a closer look.
They found that in the video, a cute girl with rare blue and pink hair was facing the camera and running away in the picture.
Behind her, there were constant loud explosions of “Boom! Boom! Boom!”
It could be vaguely seen that the roads, houses, and trees behind the girl were collapsing rapidly as if the end of the world had come.
“This, isn't this the little girl who was saved by Sheng earlier?!”
Rika recognized her.
Because this little one's hair color was very rare, she remembered it at once.
Kazuki also gave his evaluation of this little guy, “Well, the little girl who filmed the video with her life.”
“Waaah——”
As soon as Kazuki finished speaking, accompanied by Kiki's screams, the video lens spun around.
Kiki was directly blown into the sky by a huge force.
Through the chaotic picture, it could be vaguely seen that behind Kiki, the entire picture was divided into two halves.
The left side is red, the right side is white.
The power of fire and ice competed with each other, as if dividing the entire world into two.
The netizens all over the world who were watching the video were dumbfounded when they saw this scene.
The next second, the lens stabilized again.
The phone held by Kiki in her hand rose slightly with her, just facing Joker's face.
“Huh?!”
The netizens who were watching the video were stunned again.
Hutako, who was far away in Goldenrod City in the Johto region, stood up from her chair.
“That guy!”
Indigo Plateau, the office of the Elite Four.
Wataru bit his lip secretly.
In the video, Joker pulled Kiki behind him, exchanged a few words with two companions, and then joined the battle of Ho-Oh + the three legendary beasts VS Delibird + Swinub.
The entire battle process was completely filmed by Kiki.
But there were also things that the audience couldn't understand.
That is, why did the masked man stop moving and not fight at the end?
Obviously, he had the advantage in the scene.
But no matter what, this battle, which can be said to be the most grand since the establishment of the League, ended in a truce between the two sides.
The end of the video also ended with Joker's sentence “Go home quickly”.
The entire video lasted less than ten minutes, but it completely showed the second half of this great battle, which can be described as “shocking the world”.
Although there are still some doubts.
But at least it also made people basically clear what the process was like.
Less than ten minutes after the release, this video has received 500,000 views.
The comment section is also building floors frantically——
[My God, I have watched all the League competitions in various regions in the past few years, but none of them are as awesome as this]
[The Galar people agree. I originally thought that our Galar's new champion Dande's Charizard was strong enough, but compared to this shiny Fearow, it is still more than one level behind]
[CNMD shiny Fearow, its name is 'Ho-Oh'. I am from Viridian City. I was caught in that battle and was crushed by the collapsed house. I collapsed when Nurse Joy told me that I had to have an amputation, but Ho-Oh flew back and sprinkled a light and I was directly healed. Whoever dares to say that Ho-Oh is a shiny Fearow in the future, I will fight him!]
[Wow, is this bird so kind? Then can I ask him to help me cure my Yang Wei?]
[Isn't the scary thing that masked man? The picture is a bit blurry and I can't see clearly, but I feel like he was taking the upper hand when he fought Ho-Oh?!]
[What exactly does this masked man want to do? Will he cause trouble again?]
[What the hell is the League doing? I am from Viridian City. The reinforcements from the League only came after the battle was over!]
[It's useless even if they come. With the strength of this masked man in the video, who in the Indigo League can stop him? Champion Kiku, who is in her twilight years? Or the Flying Elite Four who is completely countered by the Ice type]
[My cousin called me yesterday and said that when they were running away before, my aunt was directly frozen into an ice sculpture by the masked man. If Ho-Oh hadn't taken action, she would have been frozen to death inside]
Many people in the comment section are discussing the newly revealed legendary Pokémon Ho-Oh and the terrifying masked man.
Among them, they are afraid of the strength shown by the masked man.
After all, if Ho-Oh hadn't gone back halfway, at least hundreds of people would have been injured or even killed in the battle that happened in the city center yesterday.
In the comments, many netizens are also discussing Joker's topic.
[Damn, wasn't it Joker who saved the little girl who filmed the video?]
[Isn't that strange? Three years ago, Joker saved thousands of passengers in Goldenrod City]
[That's not right, didn't the League say that Joker is a anti-social element? Will he also save people?]
[Doing one good thing is not enough to offset the countless bad things he has done]
[Joker didn't do anything bad, right? And if it weren't for him and his two subordinates who stopped that masked man, I don't know how many people would have suffered in Viridian City]
[Hehe, the Internet has no memory, right? Have you forgotten about his attack on Asagi Gym a year ago?]
Seeing this comment, Hutako frowned and entered a reply:
[I suspect that the Gym Leader of Asagi Gym, Eltes, is not a good person]
Soon, Hutako received a message that her account was banned for three days.
Hutako's little face suddenly became very angry.
……
“This hater is too much!”
A comment [I am dead for the handsome men and beautiful women combination of Joker and the masked woman, but unfortunately the Super-Powered Fatty's appearance is pulling the crotch] made Kazuki very angry. He directly turned into a keyboard warrior and sprayed hundreds of floors with the other party.
Sū Shèng and Rika didn't take the video to heart.
They watched the video several times and confirmed that the three of them did not reveal any flaws that exposed their identities.
When they were about to arrive at the research institute, Sū Shèng found that Kazuki was still typing and fighting with netizens.
“Are you done yet?”
Rika couldn't help but complain.
“Soon, I have to ask this guy to send a photo. I have to see how handsome he is to dare to say that I'm a failure!”
Kazuki said unconvinced.
However, just as he clicked send, he found that the page refreshed and the video was gone, leaving only a big exclamation mark and displaying a line of words——
[This video has been taken down due to content]
“What's going on!?”
Kazuki shouted: “I was just about to use my strength!”
Sū Shèng and Kazuki looked at each other.
I felt that something was wrong.
……
……
Indigo League Headquarters Building.
Damaracchi sat wearily on the chairman's office chair.
Hearing the knock on the door, Damaracchi, who was paralyzed on the chair, weakly replied, “Come in.”
“Chairman Damaracchi.”
A Junsa stepped into the office and saluted Damaracchi: “We have deleted that video.”
The Junsa family, as the largest police family in the League, involves not only common police types such as armed police, criminal police, and patrol police.
The cyber police are also among them.
And this Junsa in front of me is from the cyber police department.
“Well, thank you for your hard work.”
Damaracchi nodded tiredly.
The cyber police Junsa said a little guiltily: “Although the video was deleted only half an hour after it was released, it had nearly one million views at that time, which may… not be very meaningful.”
Damaracchi smiled bitterly: “In order to avoid further expansion of negative impact, there is no other way.”
After watching that video, Damaracchi immediately had a strong ominous feeling.
You should know that these days, with the fermentation of the Viridian War.
Many Viridian citizens, no, the people of the Kanto region, have questioned the League's ability.
Because according to the statements of many netizens whose IP is Viridian City.
The battle was over, and the three Elite Four, headed by Wataru, ran over.
If it weren't for Ho-Oh's last-minute rescue, who knows how many people would have been affected or even lost their lives.
To be honest, Damalanchi felt wronged.
After all, this battle didn't last long.
The first half was Ho-Oh + the three legendary birds VS the Masked Man's Piloswine and Delibird.
The second half had Joker join in.
All in all, it was just over ten minutes, less than twenty minutes.
If it had really lasted longer, Cyanwood City, this big city, would probably be gone.
In such a short time, Lance and the others had already moved pretty fast.
But the common people didn't care about that; they only saw that the battle was over, and your League's reinforcements were late.
The public was already dissatisfied with this situation.
Fortunately, the legendary Pokémon called "Ho-Oh" took action at the last minute and saved all the victims.
This somewhat calmed the citizens' emotions.
However, as soon as this video came out, the public opinion exploded again.
Netizens who watched the video said one after another, they arrived earlier than the League people!
What are you doing eating so much tax!?
Seeing a large number of such comments, Damalanchi, who was over sixty years old, felt a bit overwhelmed.
To be honest, he suspected that this matter was related to Joker and the others.
But there was no evidence.
And regardless of whether it was related to Joker or not.
At least the actions of the trio prevented the situation from further deteriorating, which was an indisputable fact.
And although he didn't know what method he used.
But in the video, Joker did make the Masked Man stop, didn't he?
So, Joker's contribution was much greater than Lance's.
Good heavens, after the Asagi Gym attack, many people within the League were intentionally manipulating public opinion to discredit Joker.
However, with this incident, there was a tendency for public opinion to reverse.
Seeing the video views soaring like Rayquaza rocketing into the sky.
Damalanchi had no choice but to quickly cut the Gordian knot and have the cyber police department delete the video.
Damalanchi waved his hand, signaling Officer Jenny to go back and rest, and then instructed the secretary standing next to him:
"Call Lance and the others… no, summon all the gym leaders from Kanto and Johto, and let's discuss how to resolve this matter."
While waiting, Damalanchi opened the video he had saved in advance.
Watching the Joker trio, who were fighting alongside Ho-Oh and the three legendary beasts against two master-level Pokémon, Damalanchi sighed and said to himself:
"They're improving too fast…"
From Joker's first encounter with Lance three years ago to their two confrontations in Vermilion City.
Lance suffered losses both times.
But Damalanchi could still say that it was just that Lance was too young and was tricked by Joker.
In terms of hard power, Lance was not afraid.
However, the Miare City incident that happened before served as a warning to Damalanchi.
Although Joker also used some unknown method to trick Lance that time.
But when the two fought, according to Cynthia and Steven, even if Joker couldn't beat Lance, he was no longer afraid.
And seeing Joker's performance in the video, Damalanchi felt that using "leaps and bounds" to describe Joker and his two companions was no exaggeration.
"Next time if they clash head-on… Lance won't really lose, will he?"
Please point out any typos, and I will correct them as soon as possible. I have been sick and at my hometown these past few days, so I'm a bit confused. Sorry!
