Chapter 496: Pokémon Beauty Pageant?

"Found it!"

After a few leaps, Lucario plunged fiercely into the water.

A moment later, it hauled up a massive Magikarp, drawing exclamations from the classmates!

"No way? A Magikarp this~ big?"

"An ordinary Magikarp weighs around twenty jin, this one must be a hundred, right?"

"Did it grow up on steroids?"

The Magikarp kept flopping about, but Lucario had it pinned down completely.

Bouffalant flew over, hollering for it to hurry up!

Lucario tossed the Magikarp into the sky, and Bouffalant immediately launched its attack.

Working together, the two Pokémon took down the Magikarp in just a few moves.

Deng Xin hurriedly tossed a Poké Ball to capture it!

"Yay, first place is mine!"

The classmates pouted in annoyance — what was even the point of playing? This first place had already been fixed from the inside!

Bai Jing shouted: "No need to feel discouraged, classmates! There are plenty of bigger ones inside — it just depends on whether you can find them!"

Only then did the classmates feel balanced again, and began searching with full vigor.

Deng Xin was unhappy. "Isn't this one the biggest?"

"Right, there are a few even bigger ones!"

Deng Xin shoved the Poké Ball straight into Bai Jing's arms. "Then this one's yours!"

"Lucario, I want the biggest one!"

Sigh — women really do have a fierce competitive streak!

"Got it, got it — you like the big ones, after all!"

"Go to hell!"

Lucario had no choice but to search with all its might, and in the end really did haul up an even bigger one.

"Whoa~ that's over the top, must be over a hundred jin, right?"

"Brother Bai really wasn't lying — there really are bigger ones!"

"Search, search, search — I'm going to find the biggest one!"

Deng Xin captured it and asked: "The biggest?"

"Probably. The river's this big, I can't be sure. How about you go catch a Gyarados? Guaranteed to be the biggest!"

"Get lost! What I want is a Magikarp. Besides, we don't even know if there's a Gyarados in this river!"

"Forget it, this'll do!"

So the two of them strolled leisurely to the finish line and handed in their Poké Balls.

When the staff weighed them, Bai Jing's was just over a hundred jin, and Deng Xin's was over a hundred and fifty.

"You two are truly remarkable — a Magikarp of this size is absolutely second to none!"

"Can we get first place?"

"If nothing unexpected happens, definitely!"

"That's good then!"

The classmates arrived one after another. Perhaps spurred on by Bai Jing, every single one of them went all out — the smallest ones they brought back still weighed several dozen jin.

Among them, one even surpassed Bai Jing and was hot on Deng Xin's heels, scaring the tomboy into a nervous wreck.

"Can't overtake me! Can't overtake me!"

"It's just a little activity — do you really need to be like this?"

"What do you know? Can't I enjoy the thrill of victory?"

"Isn't the point supposed to be in the participating?"

"That's you!"

Fortunately, that classmate's Magikarp weighed a hundred and fifty jin, while Deng Xin's weighed a hundred and fifty-three.

"So close, so close — only three jin apart!"

In the end she took first place, receiving a Water Stone and a small cash prize.

"Alright, contestants, come to me for a new Poké Ball. The next stage is the Green Trail."

"Six kinds of Pokémon live there — Gloom, Bellossom, Carnivine, Tsareena, Roselia, and Florges. What you have to do is catch one, after which the judges will give a comprehensive score — the more beautiful, the higher the score."

In other words, this stage was a beauty pageant, which couldn't help but remind Bai Jing of the Pokémon world's Contest Spectacular.