Chapter 1375: Young Paul

Professor Oak's research institute backyard.

Ash was receiving pre-match sprint special training from Paul.

In the original plot, he sent out Lance's representative Pokémon Gyarados, Cynthia's representative Pokémon Garchomp, and Steven's representative Pokémon Metagross respectively.

But now there seemed to be one more——

Aggron.

Ash sent out Dragonite to fight against it, and both sides fought for a long time, with various explosions of moves and strong winds sweeping the riverbank.

"Is it too simple to just bet on Aggron?"

All Baimu spoke with a smile.

The two in special training were immediately attracted by him. Paul was stunned for a moment, and Ash shouted with great surprise, "All Baimu! Long time no see!"

"Pika!"

Pikachu rushed straight toward All Baimu, intending to jump into his arms, but discovered the existence of the Hisuian Zorua.

The electric mouse couldn't help but tilt its head, "Pika-chu?"

Why does this guy look a bit familiar?

"Ao."

The Hisuian Zorua was lazy and didn't want to move. It hadn't been so idle for a long time. It had been exercising every day for the past half month, and it was rare to have a day to slack off.

All Baimu's embrace was solid and powerful. If it hadn't been woken up by the sound of the move explosion just now, it would have mostly still been in a deep sleep.

The few people around also saw the Hisuian Zorua. Professor Oak leaned over curiously and exclaimed, "This is... a Zorua from the Hisui era!"

"Hisui era? Ah ah!"

Ash almost forgot, even though he had just participated in the Sinnoh Festival more than a month ago, "But isn't it said that Pokémon from the Hisui era have disappeared?"

"Yeah!"

Professor Oak sighed, looked at All Baimu and said, "If I'm not mistaken, it should come from the Hisui Ecological Research Institute, right?"

All Baimu smiled and nodded, "You are absolutely right."

The Hisui Ecological Research Institute was by no means some secret society, unlike Mewtwo, which was hidden on New Island.

It belonged to a proper modern Pokémon restoration project.

As an authority in the academic world, Professor Oak still held curiosity about the Pokémon hidden in the world even at the age of nearly sixty, so it was by no means a strange thing that he knew about the Hisuian Zorua.

With his knowledge reserve, the only ones he didn't recognize were legendary Pokémon like Calyrex, which had very little existing data.

"So amazing!"

Ash's eyes shone, and then he asked strangely, "Why did you come over?"

Approaching the Masters Eight battle, it stood to reason that all Champions should be preparing for the competition.

Even he hadn't been running around much recently, but was training his Pokémon at the research institute in Vermilion City. He only returned to Pallet Town today after being invited by Professor Oak, and met Paul as a result.

Both sides hadn't seen each other for a long time, so they simply had a few Pokémon battles.

All Baimu...

What did he come for?

"Ooo! All Baimu-kun is here to find me!"

Professor Oak, who was watching the battle, smiled and said, "Sorry to trouble you, running all the way to Kanto."

All Baimu said politely, "It should be, the academy is already very grateful that you could agree to our invitation."

"Academy?"

Ash looked puzzled, "Professor, are you going back to Celadon University?"

Professor Oak chuckled and said, "No, it's that the school All Baimu opened is about to start, and he invited me to give the opening speech."

"Opened a school!"

Ash looked at All Baimu in a daze, completely unable to connect him with the principal in the general impression.

The principals he came into contact with were all middle-aged or elderly people in their forties or fifties.

All Baimu smiled, "Is it strange? Remember to come and play when you have time, I support you whether you are a teacher or a student."

Anyway, it wasn't the first or second time he started from scratch. Even Pikachu, who could defeat legendary Pokémon, could be downgraded to one on the side of the road when needed.

"Uh hehehe... this is..."

Ash scratched his head awkwardly.

All Baimu shifted his gaze and met Paul's gaze. The latter bowed respectfully and lowered his head, "I've heard a lot about you, Orre Champion All Baimu-san, I am Paul from the Sinnoh region."

"Hello, Paul."

He responded with a nod.

Although the Paul in the early Sinnoh period was very annoying, his etiquette was truly impeccable. If you think about it carefully, Paul's initial behavior toward Ash was more like having a case of "stupidity intolerance."

Of course, this was not to excuse the mistakes he made, it could only be said that one thing was one thing.

Today's Paul was by no means what he used to be.

The most unforgettable part of the rival battle in the Sinnoh period was that Paul and Ash influenced each other and grew together, making people see what a rival should look like.

Trip in Best Wishes seemed to want to take the same route, but unfortunately, the screenwriter didn't write him well at all, writing him into a clown-type character, purely setting off the existence of Cameron.

Paul glanced at Ash and asked, "Do you have time now? Excuse me, I want to ask for your advice."

"By the way, Paul-kun has the intention of serving as a Gym Leader. Orre is still very lacking in Gym Leaders, right?"

Professor Oak took the initiative to explain, "Coming here this time is also to learn more about Pokémon, which will be helpful for future development."

Gym Leader?

All Baimu remembered that it was indeed mentioned in Journeys that Paul had ideas about the future.

He agreed, "Okay, but you guys shouldn't have finished fighting yet, right?"

"It doesn't matter! I'm just sparring with Paul!" Ash took the initiative to give up his seat, completely unaware that Paul was helping him get familiar with the Champions' Pokémon.

By the riverbank.

Paul called back his Electivire.

All Baimu rubbed his Poké Ball, inexplicably thinking of the Lake Acuity tragedy.

That was Ash's first full battle with Paul, a battle symbolizing each other's beliefs. Even though Chimchar evolved because of this, it still unfortunately suffered a crushing defeat in the end.

Because the defeat was too tragic, and it was carried out next to the famous Lake Acuity, it was also called the Lake Acuity tragedy.

"How do you want to fight? One-on-one? Three-on-three? Or a full battle?" All Baimu asked with a smile.

Paul glanced at Ash again and said respectfully, "Please have a full battle with me!"

"Why does this guy keep looking at Ash?" The Rotom Phone felt very strange.

All Baimu smiled, "He is reminding Ash to pay attention."

To some extent, Paul was very similar to him, both extremely concerned about the information of the opponent's Pokémon, and arranged battle strategies based on this.

And Ash was obviously not good at it, or rather, he understood it before, but now he was too lazy to understand.

So Paul was destined to throw a wink at a blind man this time.

Even if he deliberately sent out the Champion's ace to spar with Ash, it would still require others to point it out before Ash could discover his intention.

It was hard to imagine that this was already the strengthened Journeys Ash; the performance of other versions was extremely likely to be worse.

Regarding Paul's request for a full battle, All Baimu was also curious about which Pokémon he would send out at the moment.

According to the earlier impression, Paul was extremely similar to Ash and Alain, locking onto an ace Pokémon and not moving, while others were changed at will.

All Baimu threw the ball forward.

Bang!

Light flickered.

"Happy~"

Blissey appeared, looked at the three-white-eyed boy in the distance, and showed a faint smile.

Paul looked at it silently, "Blissey... prepare for battle!"

He gave a low drink and threw the Poké Ball forward.

Bang!

Light flickered.

"Gobu!"

A red-nosed humanoid Pokémon holding two gray concrete pillars appeared, which was Conkeldurr, common in construction sites in the Unova region.

As soon as it appeared, it immediately threw the concrete pillars in its hands at Blissey.

Swoosh swoosh!

The huge stone pillars broke through the air.

Conkeldurr itself was not idle either, rushing forward with fast steps, and the sudden burst of speed made people think it was going to cos Tao Pai Pai and step on the concrete pillars to fly together.

It was a pity that this means was too pediatric for Blissey.

The whistling stone pillars were easily dodged by it just by bowing, and it looked at the approaching Conkeldurr with its eyes blinking.

Boom boom!

The flying stone pillars rushed into the woods, shaking up a large area of dust.

Paul quickly issued instructions.

"Mach Punch!"

"Gobu!"

Conkeldurr's fists lit up with brownish-red light, and it turned its waist to aim at Blissey's round body with a lightning-fast swing punch!

The punch was fierce and the sound of breaking wind was like thunder!

But the next second, the fist that should have hit grazed the top of Blissey's suddenly shrinking head. Conkeldurr narrowed its eyes, the first punch missed, and the second punch followed, but it was still dodged.

Blissey used the 【Minimize】 move as a base to calmly avoid these continuous Mach Punches.

No matter how much it looked like a logistics manager on a daily basis, in essence, it was still that level 90 Pokémon that defeated the Champion's ace.

Conkeldurr's punch speed was really too slow for it now.

Paul saw the Mach Punch miss throughout, and frowned, the situation seemed a bit bad.

"Close Combat!"

Deal with it with fierce power!

All Baimu smiled, "There aren't that many opportunities."

"Happy!"

Blissey nimbly flashed behind Conkeldurr, turned back to its original shape the moment it turned sideways, raised its hand to grab the meat ball on its head, and drove the power to rotate in place.

Cha cha cha——

Conkeldurr's skin rubbed against the ground, making the sound of gravel flying.

It tried its best to swing its fist at the top of its head but still missed, its feet were forced to leave the ground, and it suffered from the control of inexplicable power and rotated rapidly.

"Gobu——"

【Seismic Toss】!

A circular phantom appeared in the air, centered on Blissey rotating in place, and then Conkeldurr flew high like a hammer thrown away.

Paul's pupils shrank, and he shouted, "Conkeldurr! Adjust your posture! Hammer Arm!"

He realized the combo that was about to appear and responded quickly.

All Baimu nodded approvingly, "Good prediction."

It was a pity it was useless.

"Happy!"

Blissey shouted and burst into shining brilliance, like a missile rushing straight into the clouds, crashing into Conkeldurr who was adjusting its posture while falling!

The latter didn't even have time to use a move, and after finally making itself face down, it saw the shining colorful light swallowing its field of vision.

Bang!

Brilliant fireworks bloomed in the sky.

Conkeldurr fell to the ground with a thud like a kite with a broken string, while Blissey's landing posture was extremely stable.

"Happy~"

"... The first one, huh."

Paul's face returned to calm, and he was not surprised by the speed of Conkeldurr's defeat.

As early as four years ago, he had learned the strength of the regional Champion; today, four years later, even if his strength had improved, facing a Champion like All Baimu, there must still be a long way to go.

What was important was whether he could learn something from the battle with the Champion.

And, whether Ash could see it clearly.

Paul looked at this rival he wanted to help for the third time, and the latter was staring at Blissey with a happy smile on his face.

"Hahahaha, so amazing, so amazing!"

"Pika~"

Paul: "..."

He couldn't help but hold his forehead, and could only comfort himself that Ash was just like this.

In turn, he sent out his second Pokémon.

Bisharp, with an axe blade on its head and sharp knives on its waist, appeared. Its eyes were almost exactly the same as Paul's.

"Zan!"

Paul: "Taunt!"

"Give it to it." All Baimu raised his hand slightly.

Both sides gave instructions, Blissey took the lead in moving its steps and nimbly approached Bisharp, while suddenly taking a deep breath.

"Hiss——"

When Bisharp made a taunting cry at it, the cheeks Blissey puffed up suddenly shrank, and the churning flames followed the air in front of it, pouring out like a tide!

Boom!

This action was very similar to the Fire Style Fireball Jutsu in Naruto, and its power was also not to be underestimated!

"Psycho Cut!"

Paul never expected Blissey to use 【Flamethrower】.

In his prediction, dealing with a Pokémon like Bisharp, which was Dark and Steel type, it would likely be more inclined toward Focus Blast.

Flamethrower...

Did Bisharp have a chance to cut the sea of fire?

The answer was no. The white light of Psycho Cut only maintained for a moment in the raging flames, and the field by the riverbank was left with only the roar of churning flames.

When the flame light faded, on the scorched land, Bisharp lay on its back with blue smoke rising from its body.

It was actually defeated by Flamethrower in one move.

Ash's mouth opened into an O shape, "So fast!"

He had also fought with Paul's new Pokémon just now, and although he eventually won, it was far from as swift as All Baimu.

Paul took back Bisharp without saying a word.

Today's him would no longer blame his Pokémon at will because of their defeat, not to mention that things were within his expectations.

"Rhyperior, prepare for battle!"

"Saidong!"

Paul's third Pokémon, Rhyperior, which was covered in red rocks and shaped like a Tyrannosaurus with thick arms, appeared.

All Baimu said, "Are these Pokémon all cultivated by your own hands?"

"They are the result of joint cultivation by me and my brother." Paul shared half of the credit with his brother who ran a Pokémon Day Care.

To a large extent, it was precisely because he could throw the cultivated Pokémon to his brother's Day Care that he could maintain the Pokémon's impressive combat power.

All Baimu praised, "Not bad, better than Ash."

Ash scratched his head, "What's wrong with me?"

"Nearly half of your Pokémon haven't evolved to their final forms, what do you think is wrong?" He chuckled.

Ash felt awkward upon hearing this, "Evolution, isn't it all about fate..."

"It's true for you." All Baimu didn't want to continue discussing with this baby-team Champion.

Paul saw All Baimu's attention return and immediately ordered, "Rock Slide!"

"Saidong!"

Rhyperior roared, its arms shot out a large number of fine stone fragments like cannons, smashing toward Blissey overwhelmingly.

With Taunt blocking Blissey's status moves, Paul felt that he should be able to hit the opponent this time, right?

——It did hit.

It was a pity that what it hit was the mental shield Blissey created with Psychic.

Cannot minimize, cannot protect, it didn't matter.

Psychic was enough!

?? Went to a relative's house for the New Year yesterday, drank a little, and ended up sleeping until this afternoon, it was really scary. ===== CHAPTER 1376 =====