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Thank you 🙂 ——————– In order to break through its limits, Zangoose, which had always persisted in honing itself, could be said to know its own body better than anyone.
However, in that brief moment just now, it felt that its body, which it should have known like the back of its hand, had suddenly become somewhat unfamiliar.
“Zangoose?” With a hint of doubt, Zangoose followed the guidance of this “new body” and crossed its arms, releasing a green-tinged cross-shaped beam of light forward, striking a training wooden stake not far away.
[X-Scissor]!
“Zangoose?!” Did I just do that?!
Looking at the cross-shaped groove nearly two centimeters deep in the wooden stake, Zangoose held its face in its hands, the entire Pokemon completely shocked.
Meanwhile, in Chase’s [Eye of Insight], Zangoose’s information had also taken on a new appearance.
Zangoose Level: 48 Gender: Male Type: Normal Ability: Immunity Potential: Blue Moves: Fury Swipes, Fury Cutter, Quick Attack, Roar, Hone Claws, Metal Claw, Slash, Swagger, Pursuit, False Swipe, Embargo, Crush Claw, Taunt, Detect, X-Scissor, Swords Dance.
Zangoose’s level had jumped straight to 48 due to its potential cap being unlocked, even higher than that Shiftry from earlier.
Its move list had also fleshed out significantly all at once.
Especially the several newly comprehended status moves, which allowed it to adopt more tactics during battle.
Overall, its comprehensive strength had increased by at least thirty percent.
Watching Zangoose, who had an excited expression as it wildly unleashed attacks on the training stake in the yard, Chase couldn’t help but reveal a smile on his face.
The two of them had first met when Chase was taken into the forest for a patrol by the senior veteran.
At that time, Zangoose was continuously slashing and hacking at a large rock with its claws.
The senior veteran introduced that this Zangoose was brought to the forest by a piece of driftwood eleven years ago.
Otherwise, given that Zangoose should be a Pokemon native to the Hoenn region, it wouldn’t have appeared in the Sinnoh region.
After reaching adulthood, Zangoose didn’t busy itself with reproducing, but instead constantly worked hard to improve its strength in various ways.
This left a deep impression of it on the senior veteran.
Although different species of Pokemon could normally reproduce as long as they were in the same Egg Group, in this real world, most wild Pokemon still preferred to mate with their own kind.
Otherwise, as a male, theoretically, as long as Zangoose was willing, it probably wouldn’t take many years for a new Pokemon species group to emerge in the forest.
(A/N: This is AU: For Pokemon with parents of different species, the offspring will randomly appear as one of the two, not strictly fixed to the mother’s species.
The same applies to inherited moves.) But the reality was that after so much time had passed, there was still only this one Zangoose in the forest.
However, heaven rewards diligence, and its strength had indeed been steadily improving until it approached its limit.
In the very beginning, Chase and it were just nodding acquaintances.
But later, after he obtained the Fine Styler and awakened the system, the relationship between the two finally underwent a massive change.
At that time, Chase had just obtained the system and wanted to test how far his commanding ability could go with the cheat of having X-ray vision.
However, after finding seven wild Pokemon, including Zangoose, to experiment with, the results could only be described as barely satisfactory.
Without professional training, even with special equipment like the Capture Styler, Chase would always encounter various problems when commanding Pokemon in battle.
Not to mention whether they could act according to his commands, just the little ideas these guys came up with during battle were enough to render even Chase’s best tactics useless.
Many times, Chase clearly issued the correct command, but the Pokemon insisted on their own “I think” logic, and the result was naturally a complete disaster.
Except for Zangoose.
At first, its performance was actually no different from the other wild Pokemon.
But after Zangoose discovered that listening to Chase’s commands indeed yielded a much higher win rate than fighting blindly on its own, the relationship between the two progressed by leaps and bounds.
It could be said that the only thing missing was a Poke Ball.
However, as a Forest Ranger, Chase was extremely cautious about catching Pokemon.
Meanwhile, Zangoose had lived in this place far from human society since it was little, and didn’t even know that something like a Poke Ball existed.
Right now, it simply treated Chase as a good friend it met often.
They each had their own territories, but they could visit each other frequently and cooperate in battles and whatnot.
Otherwise, Chase wouldn’t have gone straight to Zangoose for help after getting the news about the poacher.
It wasn’t that there were no Pokemon around here with strength similar to Zangoose’s, and there were even quite a few stronger ones.
But considering the issue of commanding, it was the only choice.
…
After venting in an almost crazy frenzy, Zangoose felt its body was more comfortable than ever before.
However, it didn’t forget who had allowed its strength to increase so much all at once.
So, after a brief moment of thought, Zangoose walked directly in front of Chase and solemnly lowered its head.
“Zangoose, Zan!” From today onwards, you are my boss!
If Zangoose and Chase had been on equal footing before, then now there was a distinction of hierarchy.
Actually, this was quite normal.
Pokemon never minded submitting to the strong, which was also why after a Trainer defeated a wild Pokemon head-on, the latter would immediately pledge its allegiance.
In Chase’s previous life, people would generally joke about this situation as being brainwashed by the Poke Ball.
But if the Poke Ball really had such a powerful function, there wouldn’t be so many disobedient Pokemon appearing.
A classic example would be Ash’s Charmeleon and Charizard.
In fact, it was purely the law of the jungle—since I can’t beat you, then naturally you are the boss.
There’s no need to ask for trouble.
Not to mention the fact that it also comes with free food and board.
The relationship between Chase and Zangoose had long reached the point where it didn’t need too many fancy words.
Plus, with its strength having just received a massive boost, as a battle maniac, it could no longer hold back its excited claws and wanted to go find its old rivals for a few good fights.
Regarding this, Chase could only silently observe three seconds of silence for those Pokemon.
After all, their strength wasn’t much different from Zangoose’s original level; now, the outcome of the battles would basically be without suspense.
Just to be safe, Chase specifically instructed Zangoose not to mention the Potential Enhancement Potion to other Pokemon.
After seeing off Zangoose, whose body was practically pulsating with fighting spirit, Chase soon waited for the return of Pidgeotto from its outdoor patrol.
Just like before, using the Capture Styler to link himself with Pidgeotto, Chase began to record what it had seen during its aerial patrol based on its narration.
Although Chase had some information left behind by the senior veteran in his hands, seeing is believing after all.
There were still some things he needed to confirm himself.
After all, he was going to be staying here for ten years.