"Nice jump!"
Watching Magikarp catapult into the air, now looking like a tiny sesame seed dot, Caster was very satisfied.
Boom!
After hovering for a moment, Magikarp fell back down and crashed into the water, sending up a huge splash.
Just then, Clair and Wyatt came running over.
"Magikarp, you learned Bounce?"
Clair looked at Magikarp with excitement all over her face, though she was also somewhat puzzled.
This morning there had been no progress, so how had it suddenly learned the move by noon?
"Karp~ Karp~"
Seeing its trainer approach, Magikarp looked extremely smug.
I'm a genius!
The Move Tutor only guided and coached me once, and I learned it!
Trainer, aren't I awesome?
Watching Clair and Magikarp's exchange, Caster smiled without speaking.
All that profound and mysterious stuff he'd just said was actually just to cover up the existence of the TM.
This Magikarp, while not stupid, wasn't exactly smart either.
Combined with his deliberate misdirection, it naturally hadn't noticed anything wrong and just thought it was a genius.
Caster spoke up at the right moment. "Clair, Magikarp has great talent. However, it just learned Bounce, so it still needs more practice to work hard at improving its proficiency with the move."
"I understand!"
Clair nodded.
She knew that Magikarp learning Bounce was only the first step.
The real key was stimulating its Flying-type bloodline potential as much as possible before evolution so that after evolving into Gyarados, it would be able to fly.
At the same time, Clair felt extremely guilty. "Caster was clearly working so hard and putting in so much effort to teach Magikarp, yet I doubted him just now..."
If there weren't so many people around, Clair would have wanted to slap herself in apology.
"Caster, call your Gyarados over! I remember you saying your Gyarados hasn't mastered any Dragon-type moves. Let me teach it Dragon Dance first!"
To express her apology, Clair said enthusiastically, "After Gyarados masters Dragon Dance, I'll teach it the secret technique."
Caster's expression was odd. "Teach Gyarados Dragon Dance?"
But he still called Gyarados over.
Then Clair released her own Gyarados. She had her Gyarados demonstrate Dragon Dance while explaining how energy circulated during the move and the tricks for energy circulation.
"Roar~"
Gyarados stared with wide eyes, looking at Caster with a confused expression, not understanding what his trainer was up to.
I already learned Dragon Dance!
Seeing Caster's Gyarados seemed somewhat distracted, Clair didn't get angry. She just asked, "Gyarados, how much of what I just said did you remember?"
"Roar~"
Gyarados let out a loud cry, indicating it had already learned it.
"This Gyarados isn't focused at all in its learning. Big body but doesn't seem to have much brain."
As a member of the Dragon Tamer clan, Wyatt obviously understood Gyarados's response too. He couldn't help but shake his head and think, "The key is it's sneaky and dishonest. It'll probably stay like this for life."
A Gyarados that doesn't use its brain will be nothing but a water bully its whole life!
In the end, it'll never amount to anything!
Clair also shook her head.
But out of guilt toward Caster, she still patiently said, "Then show me."
"Roar~"
Seeing Caster nod, Gyarados immediately let out a strange cry. Its massive body began moving through the water like a dragon swimming.
At the same time, Gyarados's body swelled slightly, and its aura began climbing higher and higher.
Since it was only at the initial "Learned" stage, Gyarados's Dragon Dance was quite slow, and its movements were rather stiff, nowhere near comparable to Wyatt and Clair's Pokémon.
But there was no denying it, this was Dragon Dance.
"It really pulled it off!"
Clair and Wyatt's eyes went wide, their faces full of disbelief.
"Could it have already learned it before? Was it just deceiving us this whole time?"
After the shock passed, Wyatt looked suspicious and exchanged a glance with Clair.
In move tutoring, it wasn't that there were no Pokémon who could learn after watching once, but that was basically only for basic moves.
Dragon Dance was an advanced stat-boosting move!
The learning difficulty was extremely high!
But as members of the Dragon Tamer clan, their eyes were sharp and their experience rich. They could tell that Gyarados's Dragon Dance was extremely crude, truly only at the level of just having been mastered.
Caster stepped forward quickly, holding up his thumb and index finger slightly apart, and said with a chuckle, "My Gyarados has just a teensy tiny bit of talent when it comes to learning moves."
After saying that, he didn't forget to lay on the flattery at the right moment. "Of course, Miss Clair also taught very well. The credit is mostly yours."
Clair was still in shock, but Wyatt's eyes flashed, and he suddenly asked with a smile, "Caster, does your Gyarados know Dragon Breath?"
Caster didn't understand why he was asking, but answered honestly, "Dragon Breath? Nope, it doesn't!"
"Then I'll teach your Gyarados Dragon Breath and see if it can learn in one go."
Wyatt released his own Gyarados and commanded it to use Dragon Breath.
Boom!
Scorching breath shot from Gyarados's mouth and finally exploded on the water's surface.
After demonstrating once, Wyatt began explaining the tricks of the Dragon Breath move.
Finally, he had his Gyarados demonstrate again, afraid that Caster and his Gyarados hadn't seen clearly.
"Oh, so that's how it works!"
Caster smiled, mentally activated a Dragon Breath TM from the fishing space, infused it into Gyarados, then said with a smile, "Gyarados, have you learn Dragon Breath?"
"Roar~"
Gyarados was stunned at first, then closed its eyes to seriously absorb the TM.
Before long, Gyarados opened its eyes and gathered power slightly. It immediately spat out a scorching Dragon Breath from its mouth, though the power was considerably weaker.
"It really learned it!"
Wyatt looked like he'd seen a ghost.
"How about Dragon Tail? You don't know it, right? Then I'll teach you that!"
Wyatt refused to believe it and immediately switched to another move.
Caster had Dragon Tail TMs, so having Gyarados learn it was just a matter of moving his finger.
When he saw Caster's Gyarados successfully use Dragon Tail, Wyatt's chest heaved violently, as if he'd fallen into some kind of frenzied state.
"How about Outrage? You don't know it? Good! Very good!"
Wyatt was emotionally excited, his face flushed. "If you've got what it takes, learn Outrage in one go too."
"Hmm~~~"
Caster glanced at the Outrage TMs in the fishing space and fell into thought.
As a Dragon-type ultimate move, Outrage's learning difficulty and complexity went up another level.
Taking advantage of the gap while Wyatt was teaching and explaining, Caster immediately activated an Outrage TM and infused it into Gyarados.
"Roar~"
As Gyarados fell into a berserk state and successfully used Outrage, the originally agitated Wyatt suddenly quieted down. Even his expression became blank.
His worldview had collapsed!!!
Clair, who had witnessed everything, also let out a bitter laugh and sighed.
"This Gyarados's talent for learning moves is just a bit too good, isn't it?"
But thinking it over, Clair felt that perhaps all of this wasn't so hard to accept after all.
If this Gyarados didn't have talent for learning moves, it couldn't have possibly mastered Bounce while still a Magikarp.
"Roar~"
After using Outrage, Gyarados felt slightly dizzy but hadn't completely fallen into a confused state.
On the contrary, having learned several moves in succession, Caster's Gyarados was in high spirits.
It held its head high, looking at the other two dumbstruck Gyarados with an expression that said this was only natural.
Are these moves difficult?
I don't think so!
Anyway, my trainer just points, and I learn them!
Aren't you guys the same?