The moment the Litten appeared, a blob of mud suddenly emerged from under Aron's feet.
With a "splat" sound, it accurately hit the Litten's forehead.
It was the Mud-Slap move from the ground, which was also one of Aron's few control moves.
It could effectively lower the opponent's accuracy.
"Meow!"
Hit by a lump of mud right upon appearing, Litten couldn't see anything at all.
It could only let out an angry purring sound, desperately using its front claws to scrape away the mud on its forehead and eyes.
By the time it finally managed to clear most of the mud from its eyes and could barely see, a dark green seed had already landed on its forehead.
Leech Seed.
The seed absorbed Litten's stamina and sprouted a large pile of irregularly growing branches and leaves, making the already blinded Litten's situation even worse.
"We can't drag this on, Litten, use Flamethrower!"
Smoliv blinked its little eyes, then turned around and ran away.
During the escape, it even pulled out a berry and started eating it.
Under the lowered accuracy effect from Mud-Slap, Flamethrower barely hit and was mostly dodged by Smoliv.
After the battles during this time, Smoliv was no longer as weak as it had been when it was a baby.
Enduring the pain, it still ate the berry in its hand.
Not long after, another berry appeared in its hand.
Continued eating...
"Litten, sweep the whole field with Flamethrower!"
"Smoliv, quickly use Protect!"
Sasha and Eva's voices sounded at the same time. A shield was raised in front of Smoliv, easily blocking Litten's move.
During these days away, even though Axel wasn't home, Smoliv had always been eating the food Axel made.
Now at level 15, it could easily use Protect to block Litten's attack.
As the light of Protect fell, two upward rings appeared again on Smoliv's body.
This time, it was a special defense boost.
Seeing Smoliv's special defense increase, Sasha couldn't help but twitch the corners of her mouth.
If Litten still had any chance to one-shot Smoliv just now, that chance was now completely gone.
'Damn it, this lady's about to go crazy!'
"Litten, use Parting Shot!"
Anyway, today was already humiliating enough. Even if Axel was recording a short video, she had to make Incineroar teach them a lesson.
Just when Sasha was expecting Incineroar to go full beast mode, she suddenly saw Axel wave at the little loli.
Sasha instinctively clenched her fists.
'No way, what are you up to now?'
"Eva, Gym Leader Sasha has already suffered enough. Your Pokémon can't even lose HP to hers."
"After all, she's the Gym Leader of Emberpine City, and she's contributed so much to nurturing talents in our city."
"I think you should surrender now, don't make her vomit blood from anger."
Little loli: "(๑‾ꇴ‾๑) Okay!"
"Gym Leader Sasha, I surrender. You really are amazing!"
Seeing the little loli really surrender, Sasha tore off her jacket with a ripping sound and charged toward Axel at an almost crazy speed.
'Get over here, this lady's gonna PK you in real life!'
"Gym Leader Sasha, calm down!", The referee quickly threw down the small loudspeaker and blocked in front of Sasha.
"If that punch lands, our gym's reputation is finished."
"Incineroar, Charizard, quickly restrain your trainer."
Incineroar trembled all over with rage, and its body uncontrollably collapsed to its knees on the stage.
Charizard was doing a bit better. Since it hadn't gone on stage and experienced the abuse, it quickly flapped its wings and brought its trainer back to the gym leader's stand.
"Damn it, Charizard let me go, I want to PK him in real life, I want to fight him in the wild!"
"I'm so pissed off! How can someone this dirty exist in this world?"
The referee desperately held onto Gym Leader Sasha, afraid their boss would make a mistake she'd regret forever.
"Boss, don't! If a trainer assaults a challenger, the gym will be shut down. I'll be unemployed."
"Even if you don't think of me, think of Litten and the others. How will you support them if you lose your job?"
Sasha weighed the pros and cons, and ultimately chose long-term satisfaction over short-term impulse.
She took out three gym badges and dumped them all into Axel's hand.
Axel blinked, "Gym Leader Sasha, what are you doing?"
"These are Emberpine City's gym badges. From now on, if you meet a trainer you approve of, just give them out. Don't bring them to me again."
———
"Axel, you're amazing!", Just outside the gym, the little loli gave Axel a big kiss on the cheek with a smack.
Thinking back to the battle just now, the little loli still felt it was unbelievable.
Her two Pokémon didn't even reach level 15, yet she got the gym badge?
"If Mom and Dad see how awesome we've become in Emberpine City, maybe they won't move away."
"Don't worry," Axel patted the little loli's head, "Tonight, I'll introduce Auntie Stacy and Uncle Sonny to someone. They'll be reassured."
"What's for dinner tonight?"
They hadn't been back for a long time, and today Lance would solve Auntie and Uncle Sonny's worries. Axel wanted to celebrate properly.
"I want hot pot!"
"Alright, then let's go to Dragon Lake Garden and buy some skewers for Gardevoir."
"Ah! You're teasing me again!", The little loli cautiously twisted half her body around on Dragonair's back and bit Axel's earlobe.
The little loli used Lick.
Super effective on Axel.
"Hahaha, that tickles… Let me go, I was teasing you."
"After we buy the skewers, we'll go to the market to get ingredients and spices. I'll make you a super tasty hot pot base, how's that sound?"
Hearing Axel's words, the little loli perked up again, "Axel, you're the best! I want crispy sweet potato sheets!"
"Okay okay okay, I'll get you a big grilled sausage too, happy?", Axel rubbed the little loli's nose hard.
"Dragonair, fly west, to Dragon God Square!"
———
[At Home]
Auntie Stacy stood in front of Uncle Sonny, speaking with intense emotion, "Dear, are we really going to wait for Axel to come back?"
"You know how dangerous they are. This time, our old coworker said it's Lance personally bringing people over."
"I can't bear to separate from Axel either, but if he gets caught up in danger because of us, how will we explain that to his father?"
Uncle Sonny rubbed his face hard, "No matter whether we'll be living together in the future, at least we have to meet Axel one more time."
"Eva made some money recently, and with our savings plus selling this house…"
"If Axel is willing to go with us, we can buy him a house in the same city."
"You don't understand men. He lost his father young and was raised by the two of us."
"If we just leave without a word, Axel will go crazy…"
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