Pokémon: Dreams Come True Starting in Sinnoh

Chapter 145 Then let me help you master the raging fire.

At night, Ash and Dawn were watching the recording of the morning's match.

The winners and losers of all four groups have been decided, and the matches to be played tomorrow will be between Group A and Group C, and between Group B and Group D.

In other words, tomorrow Ash and Dawn will be challenging a team they don't know, while Brock and Honoka will be challenging the combination of Shinji and Koppei.

"It's very difficult..."

After experiencing another heartbreak, Xiao Gang has recovered his spirits after a period of depression.

After watching Shinji and Kohei's battle, Gon and Honoka exchanged a glance, both feeling the pressure in each other's eyes.

"These two are very strong... In the match, Shinji is in charge of the offense, while Kouhei is in charge of the defense. This kind of cooperation is a bit suffocating."

Honoka scratched her hair, her tone sounding somewhat heavy.

Although it doesn't matter to her whether there's a prize or not, as a Pokémon Trainer, it's only right that she gives her all to win when facing challenges.

"But......"

Just then, Xiao Guang hesitated and said:

"It's less about cooperation between them and more about Kou Ping simply cooperating with Shinji's attack... Faced with Shinji and Chimchar's unbridled advance, he was just trying his best to have Hippowdon use its psychic powers and protection to defend, wasn't he?"

Although Hikari's understanding of Pokémon battles is not yet fully in-depth, she can still easily discern the teamwork between Shinji and Koppei by observing her own teamwork with Ash. In her view, their battles are simply Koppei yielding to Shinji.

As long as Shinji commands the attack, even if the opponent is right next to Hippo King, Kouhei will not make any move; he will simply tell Hippo King to retreat.

Can this really be called a doubles match?

.......

"You're right."

"?!"

Just then, Kohei and Shinji walked in from outside. Although they hadn't heard the entire conversation, Shinji and Kohei could easily guess what they were saying.

"In the end, it's unlikely that the players can develop chemistry in a short time with this kind of randomly paired doubles match. And I don't think Shinji is the type to compromise with others, so as his partner, I can only respect his opinion and let him do his thing."

Kaoping shrugged and adjusted his glasses.

Even though that's what they said, none of them could tell how much reluctance Kaoping actually had.

Shinji didn't refute Kohei's words, but simply closed his eyes and said:

"They won't hold me back in battle, nor will they nag and question my decisions. If they can do both of these things, it doesn't matter who my partner is."

After saying that, Shinji opened his eyes again, but this time there was some dissatisfaction in his eyes.

"Unfortunately, the opponent I encountered today was terrible... They couldn't even field a decent Fire-type Pokémon."

Shinji's tone was full of impatience and disdain. He then looked at Brock and Honoka, before turning to Ash and asking:

"If it were you, you should have a decent Fire-type Pokémon, right?"

"If it's a former comrade from another region..."

"It doesn't matter, we'll take them out the day after tomorrow."

"what?"

Ash wanted to say something more, but Shinji had already lost patience and left the Pokémon Center's lobby, heading slowly towards his room on the second floor.

"Hehe, this is really troublesome~ I didn't expect to run into such difficult teammates in just a random team match. Oh well."

After muttering this to himself, Kohei followed Shinji and left the place, talking as he walked.

"Sigh~ You shouldn't be pursuing power in a doubles match... I'm really exhausted as your partner."

Shinji and Kouhei disappeared from Ash's and the others' sight one after the other. After the two were completely gone, Dawn frowned and said unhappily.

"Their personalities are still as bad as ever... Why are they so sure they can beat Tsuyoshi and Honoka?"

Without a doubt, Shinji's words just now were not only a declaration of war against Ash, but also a declaration of war against their next opponents, Brock and Honoka.

To put it bluntly, this behavior can undoubtedly be called provocation.

"Hmm... But realistically speaking, it's understandable that he would think that way. But we won't give up so easily, let's keep going."

"Yes! I certainly will! Pfft!"

Xiao Gang was still unable to fully express his excitement when he was knocked unconscious and dragged away by the delinquent frog that suddenly appeared from the Poké Ball.

.......

"Seriously, Ash, are you really going to listen to what Shinji says? He doesn't seem to have any good intentions at all."

Hikaru recalled how Shinji in the video completely disregarded the possibility of Chimchar's injuries and relentlessly commanded it to charge forward, and couldn't help but feel worried.

"Of course."

Ash looked out the window at the street, which was gradually becoming deserted, and murmured to himself.

"The only way to change Shinji's mind is through Pokémon battles..."

"But if we do that, then Chimchar won't be..."

After learning that information, Hikari roughly understood that Shinji had injured Chimchar in the battle in order to activate Chimchar's ability.

The reason he wanted Ash to use a Fire-type Pokémon was probably to make it easier for Chimchar to trigger Blaze.

Such behavior might be reasonable in a game, but in real Pokémon battles, using this method in a battle where victory would be easily achieved...

"How pitiful."

Xiao Guang sighed, though it was unclear who he was referring to.

"Yes, that's really pitiful."

Xiao Zhi also sighed in agreement.

"But I'll find a way... I definitely will."

After Ash finished speaking, he walked straight towards the communication area in the Pokémon Center where the teleportation device was located.

Judging from the current situation, the outcome will probably be the same as before, right?

Does Ash like Chimchar? Of course he does.

Although he liked it, and although he could still catch the Chimchar that Shinji had abandoned if he just left it alone, that wasn't what he wanted.

The pain of being abandoned and denied by the trainer.

Ash didn't want to see the forlorn and sad expression on Chimchar's face back then.

"In that case, let me help you... master the raging fire."

Ash murmured to himself, paused in front of the phone, and then dialed Professor Oak's lab number.

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P.S.: Daily request for a gift~ QAQ~

(By the way, the official readership figures have stabilized these past two days, and the price per read has started to increase slowly... If this trend continues and the price per read returns to normal, and the performance continues to improve, I might actually write in the Unova region.)