Chapter 565: Gone With the Wind
When Future Yuzuru recounted her past experience, both Dayna and Linda fell silent.
At this moment, they both felt an urge to dig Liam out of his grave and flog his corpse!!
Back when Specter was still the leader, Liam was the most restless and unscrupulous of the three cadres of the Stitched Shadow Army.
He had actually kidnapped children of wealthy families for ransom, and more than once!
Liam was indeed a genius when it came to making money.
But while others studied economics to make money, he studied criminal law.
Over the years, he had dabbled in the criminal laws of various alliances, applying what he learned and gaining a thorough understanding.
Now that he was long gone, the debt he left behind fell squarely on Dayna and Linda's heads, leaving Dayna with a thousand curses she wanted to scream.
Their situation was already difficult enough facing the pursuit of Arthur and Forrest, with many subordinates fleeing and their Pokémon exhausted.
She thought she could fool a naive newcomer into causing chaos, giving her a chance to fish in troubled waters. Who knew the fish she summoned would bite her first!
Umbreon jumped down from mid-air and immediately used Confuse Ray on the Froslass, who was guarding against Specter!
Caught off guard, Froslass was hit and fell into confusion.
In real combat, status conditions aren't that hard to cure; just recall the Pokémon and administer medicine.
But the problem was, Dayna's recall made the already precarious front line crumble even further.
With one less main Pokémon pinning down Specter, Arthur boldly ordered Specter to retreat and chant a third Nasty Plot!
As a former Champion-level Pokémon, Specter's physical limits allowed him to withstand another round of buffs!
If he stacked another Nasty Plot, his energy intensity would truly reach the peak below Legendaries!
Then his Dark Rasengan... no, Shadow Ball, would truly possess the killing power to one-shot opponents!
This was a cost Dayna and the others couldn't afford!
Forced by circumstances, Linda took over the task of breaking through the formation!
"Interrupt him! Ampharos, Discharge!"
Arthur wanted to command the little dragonfly to use her Ground-type advantage to block Ampharos, but unexpectedly, another red light flashed in the air.
A pink, chubby Blissey jumped out of a Poké Ball and appeared in front of Ampharos, blocking all the electricity from the front with her body.
Afterward, she waved her short arms and little wings on her back, flapping in place, looking completely unscathed.
Although Blissey was physically weak and powerless, her energy resistance was outstanding, and her vitality was terrifyingly strong.
Then Future Yuzuru's command followed: "Blissey, Tri Attack!"
In an instant, Blissey fired three beams at Ampharos. Although the attack power was average given Blissey's energy intensity and posed no real threat.
But the importance of Tri Attack was never the damage.
It lay in the fact that its three beams could trigger three different status conditions, which was quite nasty.
And Future's Blissey had the Serene Grace ability, which increased the probability of secondary effects occurring.
Grace from the heavens, indeed favored by destiny.
This Tri Attack immediately burned Ampharos.
This was Future Yuzuru's tactical style.
Contrary to Arthur, the authority on brute-force melee, Future pursued the status condition tactics that were more practical in the arena and often praised as "nasty."
Her Pokémon were very tanky. Both Umbreon and Blissey had excellent durability and abundant healing moves.
Combined with various status conditions and debuff skills, they were quite a headache in arena battles.
Normally, this tactic should have its limitations in real combat.
But at this moment, paired with Arthur, a teammate specialized in extreme offense, they created an unexpected chemical reaction!
Future might not be good at offense, but she excelled at defense.
In this field, she was arguably better than both Arthur and Forrest.
Reading this information, Arthur reacted quickly, immediately calling back Lina and the little dragonfly.
"Lina, little dragonfly, start Dragon Dance!"
With a teammate excellent at defense holding the front, it was the perfect time to recall his Pokémon, buff up together, and then quickly clear the field!
With the sudden addition of Future Yuzuru as a fresh force, even with the little dragonfly, Lina, and Specter temporarily withdrawn from the line, they could still hold on for a short time!
This made the two cadres of the Stitched Shadow Army even more desperate.
In the end, two seconds later, the newly promoted young cadre turned around, mounted his Rapidash again, and fled with his team!
Only the two old acquaintances, Dayna and Linda, remained on the battlefield!
The hunter and prey roles had thoroughly reversed!
Dayna would never have imagined that the ambush plan she had painstakingly orchestrated would end up burying herself...
"No!! Bastard!! How could I lose?! You... how can just a few of you kill me?!!"
In this moment, her spirit completely broke.
What she found hardest to accept wasn't her defeat and death, but that until the end, she hadn't even seen the mastermind she had imagined...
A boy defeated her as soon as he made a move.
This made her feel like a total clown!
"Come and kill me face to face if you have the guts!!"
She roared hoarsely at the end.
And at this moment, Specter, the little dragonfly, and Lina completed their buffs!
Arthur mounted Lina, flew above her again, raised his sword, and leaped down!
"As you wish!"
Lina immediately used Dragon Rush to force back the Lapras, who was still loyally protecting its master at the last moment!
In the distance, the little dragonfly started using Earthquake to clear Linda's Electric-type Pokémon!
In the final moments of her life, Dayna saw Specter shattering Froslass's body with a super-sized Dark Rasengan...
She saw Forrest's Salamence cooperating with Old Flame, mercilessly reaping her two backup Pokémon whose strength was slightly lacking...
She saw her struggles and sins over the years flashing before her eyes in a trance...
In the past, she always mocked the previous leader for being played as a puppet by the Kubfu people and despised the mastermind for running the organization so lifelessly.
However, looking back at the end of her life, she suddenly realized: since she took over the Stitched Shadow Army, she seemed to have accomplished nothing significant...
She was even worse than the former puppet.
"I'm not reconciled..."
Murmuring one last time as she looked up.
She finally fell under the sword of a boy she hadn't taken seriously at all.
All delusions vanished like smoke with this...
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