Bang!!!
When the Bear Apprentice's small foot kicked the Armored Fighter's chin, a heavy impact echoed through the air.
It made both Cai Dou and Lurina shudder secretly.
That, that tiny leg could unleash such powerful force!?
In an instant, the Armored Fighter's body, nearly four times taller than Bear Apprentice, was kicked up twenty centimeters off the ground.
"Continue, use Lotus Strike!"
Sun Wuming shouted.
"Aya!"
Bear Apprentice gritted his teeth, let out a loud cry, and attempted to launch a second kick.
However, at this critical moment, the Armored Fighter suddenly transformed into a flash of light and flew back into the Poké Ball at Lurina's waist.
As a result, Bear Apprentice's kick missed, and he tumbled awkwardly to the ground.
From another Poké Ball at Lurina's waist, a Pokémon that looked somewhat like a starfish and somewhat like coral, one that Sun Wuming had never seen before, jumped out.
This was Toxapex, a Pokémon native to the Alola region.
"Eh?"
A question mark appeared above Sun Wuming's head.
Noticing his confusion, Cai Dou obediently explained:
"Armored Fighter's ability is [Emergency Exit]. When its HP is reduced to half, it returns to its Poké Ball at maximum speed and forces another Pokémon to come out."
"There's even such an ability."
Sun Wuming smiled slightly, finding it quite interesting.
But he didn't command Bear Apprentice to continue attacking.
Instead, he walked leisurely to the center of the field, picked up the fallen Bear Apprentice, and said:
"It's still too early for you to use Lotus Strike at this stage. Keep training."
Although the Armored Fighter had escaped using its ability mid-battle.
But Sun Wuming could tell at a glance.
At this stage, Bear Apprentice wasn't capable of executing Lotus Strike.
Even if the Armored Fighter hadn't escaped, Bear Apprentice wouldn't have been able to pull it off.
"Let's end this battle here. For a first battle, it was unexpectedly interesting."
Sun Wuming said to Lurina with a smile.
Although after he started training Bear Apprentice, he had imagined his first opponent would be familiar characters from his past life like Ash, Misty, or Cynthia.
But Lurina wasn't bad either, after all, she was a beauty.
Lurina indicated that while you might be able to smile, I can't - I'm crying on the inside.
It was bad enough losing to Hop, that rookie trainer, but now she was being thoroughly beaten by someone commanding Pokémon battles for the first time.
Was she really that weak?
...
...
"Wow! Food really does taste best after a hard day of training!"
In a private room of a restaurant in Legacy Town, the stack of plates in front of Cai Dou had finally surpassed 1 meter in height.
The girl patted her slightly bulging belly with satisfaction, looking blissful.
Lurina silently glanced at Cai Dou, feeling that this girl's behavior was becoming more and more like Sun Wuming.
Next to her, Sun Wuming, whose stack of plates was approaching 6 meters, gave the girl a light flick on the forehead and said:
"Girls shouldn't make such unrefined gestures."
"What's the big deal? Master, you always do that after eating."
Cai Dou pouted her pink lips, somewhat defiantly.
"It doesn't look good when pretty girls do that."
Sun Wuming frowned.
"Eh? M-master thinks I'm pretty?"
The usually bold and uninhibited Cai Dou suddenly became shy.
"Mm."
Sun Wuming nodded.
He wasn't like that Yang Wei protagonist from that certain website's novel who remained Chu Nan even after hundreds of chapters.
There was nothing he couldn't admit.
"T-then I won't do it anymore..."
Cai Dou quickly sat up straight and proper.
Lurina: "..."
She had a vague feeling.
If this master and disciple pair continued to interact like this, something was bound to happen!
"Um... Cai Dou, do your Pokémon undergo this kind of training every day?"
Lurina actively sought a topic to break up the somewhat ambiguous atmosphere between the master and disciple.
She explained about the afternoon battle with Sun Wuming.
Throughout the afternoon, Lurina had witnessed just how terrifying the devil training that Cai Dou and her Pokémon underwent could be.
This man Sun Wuming seemed to have no concept of "treating women gently."
The teaching rod in his hand struck the flesh of seventeen-year-old Cai Dou without showing any mercy.
He really hit her!
Although after each devil training session, Sun Wuming would feed Cai Dou a strange bean.
And then those injuries would miraculously heal.
Meanwhile, Bear Apprentice acted like a little adult, guiding Cai Dou's Pokémon.
Whenever he found something wasn't practiced well enough, he'd deliver a flying kick to their knees.
Hm?
Why kick the knees?
Because his legs were too short to jump higher...
Compared to them, Lurina felt that her own Pokémon training was like child's play.
Thinking about her experiences during this time, no, her entire career as a trainer.
Lurina clenched her fists, her sapphire-like eyes looking at Sun Wuming with extraordinary determination.
"Sun Wu... no, Mr. Sun, please give me the same training as Cai Dou!"
"Hm!?"
Cai Dou, who was just receiving a cake for dessert from the waiter, suddenly felt alarm bells ringing in her heart.
Fighting over my master!?
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