"Ah…"
"Finally back."
April 15th, Saturday.
After a two-month-long examination, Eevee showed completely normal behavior and did not meet the criteria for posing a social hazard. Fang Yuan and Eevee could finally happily return to Peaceful City.
Only Father Fang, Mother Fang, and a few people from the Peaceful City Trainer Association knew about Fang Yuan's discharge from the hospital.
Yang Han from the Peaceful City Trainer Association was the one who picked Fang Yuan up and brought him back to Peaceful City.
"In two months, you've gotten a lot fatter. Was the food good over there?"
Yang Han asked, driving the car and looking at Fang Yuan and Eevee in the back seat.
"It's much better than the food in the Peaceful City First High School cafeteria."
Fang Yuan said with emotion, asking, "If we do well in this competition, will the school improve the taste of the cafeteria food?"
"Uh…" Yang Han didn't expect Fang Yuan to ask that.
"You're almost graduating…"
"Oh, that's right." Fang Yuan woke up.
It seemed he had really become silly from training.
"But it's good to make some contributions for the younger students," Yang Han said.
"If you guys perform well and make some requests to the school, I think the school will consider it."
Fang Yuan waved his hand and said, "Anyway, I'm about to graduate… Forget I said anything."
Making requests to the school felt like a lot of trouble.
"Eevee…" Eevee sighed. Your younger schoolmates are pitiful to have a senior like you.
Yang Han was silent…
After a while, he said, "Liu Le and the others are all at school training right now."
"With the competition approaching, most of their energy is focused on team coordination. You haven't participated in team training, so it might be difficult for you to integrate into the team. Let me personally check your growth during this period later."
Fang Yuan and Eevee had missed the unified team training organized by the school in the second half of the semester due to being hospitalized for observation, even though they made it in time for the competition.
Therefore, a countermeasure had to be found as soon as possible regarding this point.
"Easy, easy," Fang Yuan replied.
He felt particularly comfortable after returning to Peaceful City.
Fang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief that he had returned before the start of the provincial high school competition.
The bonus was secondary, the key was to win glory for the school, Fang Yuan thought shamelessly.
Soon.
Yang Han's car stopped in front of the Trainer Association. Although he wanted to go home immediately, Fang Yuan had no reason to refuse since Yang Han wanted to check his progress during this period.
Zhuang Xin, who had received the news in advance, also appeared in front of the Trainer Association.
Fang Yuan was a little surprised that two Professional Trainers came to check his training results at the same time.
However, Fang Yuan also understood that Zhuang Xin was the main person in charge of the Peaceful City New Star Plan, and she must be clearer about the real situation of Liu Le and the others than Yang Han.
With Zhuang Xin personally collecting Fang Yuan's information, she could also better rebuild the team system of the New Star Plan.
"Get in the car." Yang Han said.
Zhuang Xin got into the car.
In the past two months, the Peaceful City Trainer Association had offered Fang Yuan a lot of condolences, so after Fang Yuan came back this time, everyone was very natural and went straight to the topic without wasting time on small talk.
Zhuang Xin was holding a laptop, planning to use it to record Fang Yuan's information.
As for the location to check the training results, it was naturally not near the Trainer Association. Yang Han directly booked a Battle Arena.
After the three arrived, Fang Yuan asked as he walked, "Brother Yang, how should we check?"
"Let's do it in the form of a Guidance Battle. Xiao Zhuang, you are responsible for the post-battle analysis."
A Guidance Battle is a battle between two parties with a large gap in strength, not for the purpose of winning or losing.
The stronger party will guide the weaker party to expose more shortcomings, so as to take the opportunity to give guidance.
When Fang Yuan was in school, he often asked Teacher Bai Ning for Guidance Battles, so he was no stranger to this kind of battle.
For him, as long as he went all out.
But for Yang Han, he needed to be careful, lest he accidentally kill Eevee.
"Understood!" Fang Yuan rubbed his fists.
At the same time, Zhuang Xin also nodded, took the laptop, and sat down in the viewing area.
"Eevee..."
Eevee was still very reluctant to participate in this kind of battle with a huge gap in strength. Although it was a Guidance Battle, Eevee was still very resistant. Even Pokémon like to bully the weak.
Sighing, Eevee jumped off Fang Yuan's shoulder, walked to the battlefield, and looked at Yang Han...
This uncle's Pokémon are basically Fire-type... If it is directly hit by a move, he doesn't know how many days it will take for his beautiful fur to recover.
Eevee was upset, hoping that Yang Han would not send out a Fire-type Pokémon.
"Go, Charizard!!"
Eevee: "..."
Roar!!!!
When Charizard with huge Flying wings on its back suddenly stood on the battlefield, Eevee shook its head vigorously.
Looking at Charizard's not-so-kind expression, although Eevee knew that this guy had saved him before, he might be planted in the opponent's hands today.
"Charizard..." Fang Yuan glanced at Charizard, then at Eevee.
Indeed, Charizard is still more handsome... It's just that the resources required to train a Charizard well are even more terrifying.
Whoosh~~ Facing Eevee, Charizard breathed out a wisp of fire, extended a finger, and beckoned in provocation.
"Eevee~"
Eevee curled its lip in disdain and also extended a finger in provocation.
It even used the Swagger move in passing.
This provocation...
Charizard's eyes widened instantly, the flames on its tail burned even more fiercely, and the color began to shift towards blue and white...
At the same time, Dragon Rage gathered in its mouth, and the huge energy fluctuation made Eevee tremble, regretting provoking it.
"Charizard!!" Yang Han shouted, and Charizard quickly recovered, scratching its head blankly with its claws.
"That is?" When Charizard is angry, the flames on its tail will turn blue-white, which Yang Han knows very well, but he was quite surprised that his Charizard was so easily angered by a Rookie Trainer's Pokémon.
"Swagger, one of Eevee's biggest gains during this time," Fang Yuan said.
Yang Han was stunned. It seemed that Eevee had really benefited a lot in terms of Psychic Power. He immediately glanced at Zhuang Xin, signaling Zhuang Xin to record it.
As a Professional Trainer, Zhuang Xin naturally knew what this level of Swagger represented. It meant that it could disrupt the enemy's rhythm in an instant and gain a great advantage for the team.
"Not bad move..." Yang Han said, "But you understand the applicable target of this move, right?"
Fang Yuan and Eevee responded sheepishly.
Of course, they understood. It's fine to use this move in formal battles, but never use it on Pokémon in the wild or in Secret Realms, that's just asking for trouble.
Especially in the situation just now, if Charizard had not been awakened by Yang Han, even if Charizard had lost its mind, Eevee would not have been able to resist it. After a Blast Burn, Eevee would have really become "ripe".
...
After provoking each other to show friendship, Charizard and Eevee faced each other.
Eevee stood firmly on its four limbs, looking at Charizard seriously.
Then it directly used Payback to charge. Of course, in the eyes of Yang Han and others, there was no concept of Payback. Eevee's move was more like Quick Attack or Tackle, Take Down.
Considering Eevee's speed at this time, other Trainers should subconsciously think that this is Quick Attack.
Whoosh!!
Eevee sped past, and the dust on the ground was stirred up by its running. Compared with the match with Wuzhou First High School a few months ago, Eevee's Payback has improved slightly, reflected in both strength and speed.
There are two factors in this.
The application skills of Anger Energy involved in Swagger also have a certain inspiration for the application of other Emotional Energies, so Eevee has more Proficient control over Emotional Energy.
Secondly, Fang Yuan and Eevee's relationship has improved somewhat.
Although the improvement of Payback is not particularly significant, and there is no qualitative leap, the simultaneous improvement in Body strength, explosiveness, speed, coordination, and other aspects still produced a good effect.
Looking at the figure coming like a white light, Charizard directly raised its arm, its fist surrounded by flames, and slammed it hard towards the figure.
During this period, Eevee quickly changed direction, trying to sneak attack, but Charizard's battle experience was obviously richer. In the end, it still successfully used Fire Punch to accurately hit this move. Eevee's Body was blocked by Fire Punch, and a huge Energy fluctuation erupted in an instant when the two moves collided.
Charizard's arm muscles trembled slightly, looking at Eevee with a hint of surprise.
Immediately afterward, its tail swung forcefully, sending Eevee flying with just the power of its tail.
"Ee-spit..."
After rolling a long distance, Eevee spat out the dust it had swallowed, glancing at its tail with dissatisfaction.
Stinky lizard, bullying me for having a short tail.
"Its power and speed have reached this level?"
Noticing Charizard's reaction, Yang Han and Zhuang Xin were also secretly astonished.
Although from the results of the confrontation, Eevee's performance wasn't particularly outstanding, if you compared Eevee with the Pokémon of Liu Le, Lin Jing, and others, Eevee's strength was definitely on another level.
If Liu Le's Snorlax and Lin Jing's Growlithe had faced that Flame Punch just now, they would have been sent flying in an instant.
The fact that it could make a Professional Trainer's ace Pokémon exert its strength showed just how powerful Eevee's Payback move was.
"The gap between myself and a Professional Trainer is really big..." Seeing Charizard easily take on one of Eevee's most powerful moves with Flame Punch, Fang Yuan shook his head. Now, Fang Yuan was more curious about who would be stronger if Magic University's Senior Xie Qingyi fought against Yang Han.
Now Fang Yuan had a clearer goal, which was to reach Xie Qingyi's level by the time he was in college.
Clearly... the Rookie Trainer and the Professional Trainer weren't thinking about the same things at all during their battle.
"Is this all the progress you've made in the past three months?"
Three minutes later.
Charizard looked at the panting Eevee, unscathed.
Yang Han asked his question.
Fang Yuan and Eevee had made great progress, but knowing Fang Yuan, he always felt that Fang Yuan was hiding something.
"Of course not." Fang Yuan grinned and said, "There's one more move, but this move is a bit special, Brother Yang, you have to make Charizard stay still."
"???" Yang Han had question marks all over his head. What kind of request was this?
"Okay." Yang Han agreed.
Fang Yuan added, "Uh... I mean, it's okay if Charizard doesn't attack when Eevee uses the move, but it can defend after Eevee uses the move."
Yang Han nodded, wanting to see what Fang Yuan was up to.
Zhuang Xin also shifted her gaze from the densely packed data in her notebook to the battlefield. Judging from Fang Yuan's performance just now, it would be difficult for any Rookie Trainer in Su Province to defeat Fang Yuan.
"It seems I was overthinking it. Even without evolving, this Eevee's strength is still very monstrous."
Zhuang Xin thought to herself.
Due to Eevee's physical examination report, the Evolution Stone that the Peaceful City Trainer Association had prepared for Fang Yuan couldn't be used. Originally, Zhuang Xin was worried that Eevee's progress wouldn't be able to keep up with the successively evolving Pokémon of other rookies if it didn't evolve, but now it seemed... that wasn't the case at all.
So... what trump card was Eevee still hiding at this time? "Eevee, use that."
At this moment, Fang Yuan said.
What they hadn't used yet was naturally the Spiral Shadow Ball.
At this time, Eevee didn't have much Stamina left. After creating a Substitute, using Spiral Shadow Ball one more time would probably be its limit, perfect for finishing things off.
Hearing this, Eevee indicated it understood.
After it created the Substitute, Yang Han and Zhuang Xin watched carefully. They saw Eevee's main body and its Substitute huddling together, simultaneously gathering a move that both Professional Trainers were very familiar with.
"Shadow Ball?" Eevee had already demonstrated Shadow Ball in the previous battle, so it was no wonder Yang Han was puzzled that Eevee was using Shadow Ball again.
However, this confusion quickly disappeared.
Because with the help of the Substitute, this Shadow Ball began to undergo significant changes.
The constantly rotating Shadow Ball emitted a buzzing sound, its Energy structure rapidly changing. Then, the Substitute used the move Help, and this unstable Energy began to stabilize. After a few seconds, the Shadow Ball suddenly shrank in size, and the terrifying tearing and devouring power was compressed together. With a flick from Eevee, the Shadow Ball began to fly quickly towards Charizard!!
"Roar~"
From this Shadow Ball, Charizard felt a threat for the first time.
It directly spat out scorching flames, using Flamethrower to meet the attack.
In the next moment, the Shadow Ball exploded instantly upon colliding with the flames. The compressed tearing and devouring force quickly generated tremendous power, tearing through the oncoming flames!!
The dark purple Energy continued to push through the flames towards Charizard, causing Charizard to widen its eyes and helplessly increase the power of its Flamethrower.
Seeing this move, surprise appeared in the eyes of Yang Han and Zhuang Xin.
The power of this Shadow Ball...? If this move hit successfully, even a Dark-type Pokémon would definitely be instantly killed at the Rookie Trainer stage.
"Substitute and Help?"
Zhuang Xin quickly stood up and murmured.
Dual-tasking? Lateral application of the Help move? Is this still a Rookie Trainer! Using Substitute and Help to change the original structure of the move, even Zhuang Xin, at her level, admired Fang Yuan's creativity.
On the other side.
As Charizard spent a lot of effort to fend off the Spiral Shadow Ball, Yang Han also said, "Let me ask you, can this move be any faster?"
The Substitute, plus the few seconds of preparation time, would allow any opponent to react.
If this move was used in a 1-on-1 situation, it would be too impractical. Yang Han immediately saw the drawbacks of the Spiral Shadow Ball.
"It can't be any faster. If I want it to be faster, I can only shorten the attack distance," Fang Yuan said.
"It's already enough." Zhuang Xin said, "I understand. What you should be considering now is how to become the core of a team, allowing four teammates to cooperate with you to maximize your performance."
Zhuang Xin realized that, indeed, for Fang Yuan and Eevee, they still didn't need to adapt to their teammates, but rather needed their teammates to keep up with their rhythm. Only in this way could they maximize their advantages.
Seeing the Swagger move and the Spiral Shadow Ball technique, Zhuang Xin prayed for Peaceful City's opponents.
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