Pokémon: Trainers start as bounty hunters

Kaji Town, Kaji Gym.

This is a building with a red roof and white walls that is similar to an ordinary stadium.

The Kaji Gym, which adopts the red and white colors that are most common in the elf world, is a rare gym that does not have a strange shape.

Just standing outside the door and looking in, it would be hard for anyone to believe that this is one of the Eight Great Halls in Johto.

The only thing that can be distinguished is probably the lifelike ice sculpture in the nearby yard.

What is strange is that even though it is hot summer, the appearance of these ice sculptures still remains chilly.

"Senior Liu Bo's achievements in ice elves can be regarded as the first person today."

Xiaogang couldn't help but sigh.

Zheye nodded in agreement.

As a trainer who has long been famous, Uncle Liu's title is more than just "Uncle Liu in Winter".

"Glory of the North" and "Ice Sculpture Artist" are both proof of his strength.

Even the two ice kings, King Kona of Kanto and King Boni of Hoenn, have to admit Xiaogang's statement that Liu Bo is the strongest trainer of the ice system today.

Because both of them are Liu Bo's disciples to a certain extent.

Bonizhe didn't know either, but Kona's "Ice Doll" stunt was learned from Liu Bo.

This stunt is banned by Kona in current normal Pokémon battles, so many young trainers don't know it.

However, both Zheya and Xiaogang know very well how powerful the ice doll's unique skill is.

This is not a move aimed at elves, it is aimed at trainers who are directing behind elves.

Presumably the various dark organizations in Kanto will be deeply impressed by this move.

The severed hands and feet can be regarded as being saved by Kona with this move.

Unless there is a champion elf of the same level, the ice doll composed of Kona's ace Miss Lip will let people know what the sharpness of ice is.

To put it simply, after using this move, the injuries reflected on the ice doll will be synchronized to the body of the attacked person, including but not limited to restraint and other effects.

Many people think that this move is based on the attribute combination of Miss Mi Lip's ice + super powers, and is not just a simple use of ice attributes.

But that's just speculation.

Except for Kona and Liu Bo, few people know the principle of using the Ice Doll move, otherwise it would not become one of Kona's best tricks.

Tetsuya and Xiaogang, who stood in front of the gate of Kaji Gym for a few minutes, undoubtedly attracted the attention of people coming and going.

"There are two more people here to torture you."

"Yes, yes, I don't know how many minutes it will take to come out."

"It's only a few minutes until I get out. I can't even get in even if I look at it."

The surrounding residents of Kaji Town looked like they were watching a good show.

It's not that Tetsuya's reputation isn't great in the Johto area, but it's that he has habitually put on a mask.

As long as someone is not familiar with him, it will be difficult to recognize him from half of his face.

However, a very small number of trainers who had traveled around recognized Xiaogang.

As the eldest son of Nibi Gym, although he has never traveled, he is still quite famous.

After all, for busybodies, ranking the descendants of each regional gym is something they never tire of.

Although I don’t know what the meaning of this approach is.

"Ding dong"

Tetsuya approached the door and pressed the doorbell above.

He had no interest in being watched like this.

The iron door slowly opened.

Amid the astonished looks of the people around them, Tetsuya and Xiaogang walked into the Kaji Gym almost without stopping.

"Even if you are a challenger, I remember Aunt Seema has to come out to confirm your identity, right?"

A Kaji resident has a big mouth.

This was the first time he saw a young man who could enter without Aunt Seema confirming his identity.

Not only him, many people were confused.

Finally, a trainer couldn't stand it anymore and explained: "One of those two young men is the heir to the Kanto Nibi Gym."

Only then did everyone suddenly realize.

No matter what happened outside, the two people who walked into Kaji Gym were shocked.

A kind aunt wearing a light red sweater and a headscarf suddenly appeared in front of Zheya and Xiaogang.

"You two are the talented young people that guy A Liu mentioned. You are indeed very energetic!"

Before the two of them could say anything, the aunt patted the two of them on the shoulders rather boldly: "You can just call me Aunt Xima. A Liu is exercising in the back, and I will take you there.

By the way, what are your names?"

"Hello, Aunt Xima, my name is Xiaogang, from Nibi, Guandong."

"Hello, my name is Tetsuya, from Tokiwa, Kanto."

The two young men quickly introduced themselves.

From the words of Aunt Xima, it is not difficult to tell that she and Uncle Liu have a pretty good relationship.

Otherwise, he would not have called Uncle Liu with a nickname like A Liu.

The most important thing is that neither Zheye nor Xiaogang noticed how Aunt Xima suddenly appeared.

"Ninja."

Of course Tetsuya knew the reason for this.

But compared to several ninjas he knew, this Aunt Seema was more than a little stronger.

"Drink! Hey!"

The energetic shouts rang out in the Kaji Gym.

Don't get me wrong, this was not what Liu Bo was doing during training, but it was coming from Aunt Xima in front of Zheye and Xiaogang.

Aunt Xima, who was dressed in simple clothes, kept shuttling through the messy rocky terrain at an exaggerated speed.

From time to time, he would turn to greet Zheya and Xiaogang behind him to follow him.

Her body moved around on several rocks.

It wasn't difficult for Zheye to keep up, but it was hard for Xiaogang.

He was running a little out of breath.

"You are very lucky. A Liu did not go to the back mountain for exercise today. He was just meditating."

Aunt Seema's voice is still so smooth and powerful even during high-speed movements.

Xiaogang, who barely stuck out his tongue, was already starting to regret it.

No one told him that he had to train before challenging the gym. He didn't even know about it when he was at the Nibby Gym.

And why is the gym’s backyard so messy? Is it no one taking care of it?

"Young people are not good at it."

Aunt Xima looked at Xiaogang's performance and shook her head.

She turned to look at Tetsuya next to her, a trace of satisfaction flashed in her eyes.

"The physical fitness of today's young people is getting worse from generation to generation, but you little guy is pretty good."

She said so.

Is Xiaogang's physical condition very poor?

Of course not.

In his usual training, Xiaogang did not relax at all in training himself.

But, that also depends on who is being compared.

Compared with Aunt Xima and Zheya, Xiaogang, who can be called tough, has no choice but to admit his weakness.

Compared with the old man not far away, the three of them are all younger brothers.

"A Liu! I brought you the man. He's coming to challenge the gym. Get up quickly."

Aunt Seema's voice echoed in the air.

The shirtless old man sitting cross-legged on the ice opened his eyes.

The indifference revealed in his eyes made people shiver from the bottom of their hearts.

There was no need for him to stand up from the ice himself.

The messenger bird on the side consciously changed the shape of the ice cube.

The rectangular ice cube wrapped around Uncle Liu like a Transformer.

When he appeared in front of the three of them again, Uncle Liu had already dressed and was leaning on crutches.

"It's like no one has ever seen those two or three pieces of meat of yours."

Aunt Seema scoffed at this.

Liu Bo had obviously become accustomed to his old partner's character.

"You've been in contact with a lot of guys recently."

His eyes passed over Tetsuya.

Before Zheye could reply, he looked at Xiaogang again: "Is that guy Wu Po dead?"

"Grandpa is in good health."

Xiaogang seemed very respectful to Uncle Liu's not so friendly question.

As a genius trainer of the same era, Liu Bo and his grandfather Wu Po actually had a good relationship.

Before going out, the old man asked him to "greet" Uncle Liu on the way.

"Humph, I don't know what I'm doing lying underground all day long."

Uncle Liu snorted coldly to express his disdain for his friend.

This can probably be regarded as a way for the elderly to care for each other.

"Let's go to the venue."

Without exchanging too many pleasantries, Liu Bo turned around and walked straight into the gym.

Zheye and Xiaogang quickly followed.

As soon as we walked inside, the temperature instantly dropped a lot.

The two people wearing short sleeves trembled unconsciously.

The battle arena in the Kaji Gym is extremely rich in the characteristics of an ice-type gym.

Except for the circular pool with floating ice in the center, the entire battlefield was covered with a thick layer of ice.

Large and small ice cubes and icicles are scattered throughout the venue.

This kind of battlefield is undoubtedly the home field for ice elves.

Using ice skills in this environment will not only increase the power slightly, but also increase the physical activity of the ice elves a lot.

Not to mention the impact of the reduced power of skills with other attributes.

The pool in the middle is most likely prepared for some elves with both ice and water attributes.

Elves such as armored clams are far less flexible on the ground than they are underwater.

Even for some elite trainers, the venue of Kaji Gym can be considered tricky.

When standing has become something that requires concentration, how can we ask the elves to show 100% strength in battle?

The layout of Kaji's gym meant that they were at a disadvantage before the battle even began.

Only using flying elves and some water and ice elves can even the gap.

However, this means entering an infinite loop.

When the flying type is restrained, we can't require trainers to be better than gym leaders in attribute civil wars.

This is also an important reason why it is difficult to obtain the Frozen Badge in Kaji Gym.

Zheya didn't take it seriously.

Although venues with unique attributes are not common, he has encountered them many times.

This battle arena is similar to the Ice Arena of the Kanto Quartz Tournament.

"The elves I sent are Bogaman, Ice Vulpix and Knight Snail."

Tetsuya took out three pokeballs and said to Aunt Seema.

At this time, Aunt Seema had already changed into the clothes of a referee officially certified by the Johto area.

In this gym consisting of only two people, Aunt Seema's role is also crucial.

After some operations on the instrument, Aunt Xima also took out three elf balls: "Then, A Liu, you can use these three elf to fight against the young man."

Liu Bo didn't say much, he just took the elf ball from Aunt Sima's hand, and then walked to the podium representing the challenged person.

"Next, the battle between the challenger Tetsuya and the gym leader Liu Bo with badges as stakes begins now!"

Aunt Seema waved the flag in her hand.

Uncle Liu threw the first elf ball without saying a word.

"唏~"

A small black Pokémon appeared on the field.

Its body is covered with a yellow cone-shaped cloak with orange edges and three orange diamond-shaped patches on the back of the cloak.

The egg-shaped body, round hands without fingers, feet without toes, blue eyes and an upside-down grinning mouth constitute a snow boy who seems to be trembling all the time.

This type of evolved elf, which consists of both male and female ice ghost guardians and only female snow witches, is quite popular.

They feed on ice and snow and appear when snow begins to fall.

People believe that the home where the Snow Boy visits will be prosperous from generation to generation, so there is a custom of making ice cubes out of water and offering them at the door.

"Then my partner decided it was it.

Go, Bogaman!"

Tetsuya, on the other hand, sent out his first elf, the water-type Bogaman, without hesitation.

The water type has quite good resistance to the ice type, but not vice versa, which can be said to be very advantageous.

And this was also the first time he let Bogaman engage in a regular elf battle after conquering him.

"Boga boga."

Bogaman is full of energy.

It had long been informed by Tetsuya and several seniors of the precautions required for battle.

Anyway, except for some restrictions, it is not much different from fighting in the wild.

As is the old rule, the challenger strikes first.

"Bogaman, use water play."

Zheye waved his hand.

For a battle that is not even at the normal level, Bogaman's ability to control water energy can be called a bug.

What's more, in this venue, due to the pool in the middle, there is a lot of flowing water energy.

"High-speed fine snow."

Liu Bo's command followed closely behind.

If it wasn't clear that the challenger would attack first, Xiao Gang, who was watching the battle, would even think that Liu Bo had taken the lead.

"You're really merciless."

Zheye complained helplessly in his heart.

He knows what is causing this.

It's nothing more than a difference in trainers.

Liu Bo predicted his command in advance.

But he didn't understand how Uncle Liu made his judgment.

This should be the first time the other party sees Pogaman.

A normal Bogaman will not start with the water-playing skill.

The prefix "high speed" fully explains Liu Bo's response method.

Yukidouji did not seek to fully utilize Soyuki's attack effect, but compressed the release speed of the skill to the extreme.

When the water flow surrounded Bogaman's body, the white cold current collided with it.

The water flow that was supposed to be a boost turned out to be Snow Boy's reliance on restraining Pogaman.

Fine water icicles shrouded Bogaman like a cage.

"Boga"

Pogaman suddenly panicked.

This is the first time it has encountered this situation.

"Don't panic, use foam."

Tetsuya's voice sounded from behind it.

The flustered Pogaman calmed down immediately.

That's right, unlike the previous situation where an elf was alone in the wild, now it has a trainer and other partners behind it.

"Boga"

Opening the small mouth, countless transparent bubbles burst out.

Even without the auxiliary effect of playing with water, Bogaman, who has extremely high qualifications in the water system, is still very strong.

Finely broken icicles are not a defensive weapon in the first place.

It shattered into pieces in an instant.

"Shadow clone."

Liu Bo's command was still so brief.

Yukidouji's reaction was also very quick.

Four phantoms mixed with the real body appeared on the ice field.