Crack!!!
Under the Dragon Claw empowered by terrifying Dragon-type energy—
Nidoking suddenly felt an awful force transmitted through its horn.
A crisp shattering sound rang out.
It clearly felt a burst of searing pain in its fore—head.
Crack!!!
Immediately after came another sharp cracking sound.
Countless purple-red pieces of shell-like material rained down.
In the intense pain, Nidoking felt as if it had lost something.
Before it could even process what had happened—
that dreadful dragon claw,
carrying horrifying power,
instantly flipped it away!
With its horn snapped off, Nidoking traced a parabolic arc through the air and crashed into the woodland.
It fell unconscious.
No one knew whether it had been knocked out by the fall or by the pain.
Before everyone could recover from the shock of Shiko forcibly snapping Nidoking's razor-sharp, rock-hard horn—
Electivire was also struck down.
The thin white frost coating Shiko's dragon claw was corroded and devoured in an instant by Dragon-type energy.
With one sweep of those sharp talons—
three deep gashes tore open across Electivire's body.
At the wounds,
red Dragon-type energy continued to rage and writhe.
It staggered backward.
Under the violent pain,
it could no longer maintain a fighting stance.
Shiko lifted his foot and stomped heavily into the ground.
Ground-type energy rippled outward through the soil beneath his feet.
A violent earthquake erupted.
The energy spread with the powerful tremors and struck Electivire.
Already badly injured,
it couldn't withstand another impact from Ground-type energy.
Its eyes went dark, and it toppled backward, passing out.
With Electivire down,
Dayu's three Elite Four-level Pokémon had all been crushed by Shiko.
And—
every single one of them was a one-sided, overwhelming victory.
All were Elite Four-level Pokémon,
yet the combat power Shiko displayed
was so astonishing it left people speechless.
Just from watching the fight,
it was hard to imagine that Shiko and those three Pokémon were in the same Elite Four tier.
The gap was simply too enormous!
Some people would believe it even if you said Shiko had already reached Champion-level!
Shiko raised his head.
His gaze landed on Dayu not far away, whose face was frozen in disbelief.
Catching Shiko's icy stare,
Dayu finally snapped back to reality.
At that moment,
this Elite Four-level figure of Team Dark—known for bloodlust and brutality—felt a fear so intense it surged up from the depths of his heart.
Run!
The next second, the only thought echoing in his mind was that single word.
His three strongest trump cards had all been dealt with.
What was the point of staying here?
If he didn't run now, was he supposed to wait to be tied up and thrown into prison?
Dayu didn't hesitate at all.
He didn't even spare a glance for the three of his Pokémon lying unconscious on the ground.
He decisively abandoned them and chose to flee alone.
His sudden move
left everyone with no time to react.
"Don't let him get away!" Kazu shouted.
Leaving aside how much merit there was in capturing an Elite Four-level figure from Team Dark—
you could absolutely squeeze out a huge amount of secret information about Team Dark from someone like that.
Maybe, from Dayu himself,
they could find a way to uproot Team Dark completely!
After Kazu spoke,
the City Defense Forces who could still move in the forest immediately chased after Dayu in the direction he fled.
But before they could even take a few steps—
they saw Dayu throw a Poké Ball toward them.
"Catch me? In your dreams."
He let out a cold laugh.
His footsteps sped up even more.
A red light burst from the Poké Ball,
condensing into a red-and-white spherical Pokémon.
Electrode?!
"Fall back! Fall back!" Kazu's expression changed drastically.
He urgently ordered the City Defense Forces members behind him to retreat.
That Electrode was also an Elite Four-level Pokémon.
Even though it was only at the early stage of Elite Four-level,
it was absolutely stronger than the three from earlier!
Because according to intelligence gathered within the City Defense Forces—
Dayu's Electrode
had only one purpose every time it was thrown into battle:
to use Self-Destruct and take the opponent down with it!
And now, that Electrode floating in the air drifted unsteadily toward them.
That could only mean one thing—
the target of its explosion was them!
But the forward charge couldn't be stopped in time just because Kazu said a single sentence.
On the contrary—
the front line stopped, but the people behind hadn't stopped yet.
In the collision,
a huge portion of the group was knocked down in a heap.
Electrode had already drifted right in front of them.
After it stopped moving,
its body began to bloom with a dazzling white light.
Powerful energy kept compressing inside it.
Once it crossed the point it could no longer hold back—
a massive explosion would occur.
An explosion triggered by a Pokémon like this
was not something humans could block or endure.
With everyone standing this close,
they would be blasted into a mangled mess by the shockwave—nothing left but obliteration.
Bzzzt!!!
Arcs of electricity crackled across Electrode's body, the snapping sound of current filling the air.
As its body began swelling,
the energy inside condensed into an intense light source and shot outward from its surface.
It was on the verge of exploding!
Despair and terror froze on everyone's faces.
In this situation—
it looked like there was no escaping!
"What a bunch of idiots!"
Dayu had already run more than a hundred meters away.
He looked back at the chaos and revealed a smug expression.
So what if the Pokémon were gone?
With an organization like Team Dark at his back,
it wouldn't take long before he could raise new Elite Four-level Pokémon again.
So—
protecting his own life was the most important thing right now.
Besides,
he had to hurry and send back intelligence about this GeoGreymon.
This Pokémon was absurdly strong.
If he reported it to the boss,
maybe merits and faults would cancel out—
and he might even avoid punishment for failing this mission.
Dayu sprinted without slowing as he thought rapidly.
Deeper inside
was the passage leading to the underground base.
If he got into the passage and withdrew,
there was absolutely no way they could catch him.
That was Dayu's plan.
Roar!!!
Suddenly, that familiar roar sounded again.
Dayu's soul nearly leapt out of his body.
That was GeoGreymon's voice!
Oh no!
Don't tell me something else has gone wrong again?!
He reflexively looked back—
and saw, in the distance,
the Electrode swollen to the absolute limit, about to burst—
was whipped away by Shiko with a single tail strike, like spinning a top, and sent flying!
And the direction it flew—
was straight toward him!
(End of Chapter)
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