Chapter 86: Hah! You Naturally Evil Mamon!

"Seems joining Team Rocket wasn't a surprise for someone like you."

Karen quickly calmed down, her gaze cold and piercing, chilling to the bone.

She would not sympathize with any Team Rocket member, but hearing from Agatha and Drake that such an outstanding new star had joined Team Rocket, and for such a regrettable reason, left her conflicted.

Karen had been skeptical, but now it seemed a lecherous fool wasn't so strange after all.

Caitlin pressed her lips, glanced at a certain spot on Karen, then looked at her own.

Hmm, looking straight down, she could only see her toes.

Caitlin fell into deep thought: how could she make up for her lack of development?

"Someone like me?" Mamon smiled faintly.

"Karen, don't speak as if you know me well."

"I don't need to know, nor do I need to understand you," Karen said coldly.

"Tsk~ So cold," Mamon tsked again.

"You only need to know that the rest of your life will be spent in a cell on Shi Ying Plateau."

"Blizzard!"

Karen, clearly uninterested in further conversation with Mamon, immediately ordered her two Pokémon to attack.

Seel and Lapras opened their mouths simultaneously, accumulating ice-blue energy; the next second, a fierce snowstorm erupted, obscuring the horizon.

An Ice-type Blizzard!

"Looks quite intimidating," Mamon chuckled upon seeing this.

Mega Mewtwo Y appeared before Mamon, pouring out immense Psychic energy to form a deep purple protective barrier.

Boom!

The Blizzard raged against the Psychic barrier; the fierce snowstorm howled, yet Mega Mewtwo Y's barrier remained unbreakable, the Blizzard utterly unable to push through.

As Mega Mewtwo Y swung its arm, accompanied by a sonic boom, the protective barrier swept away the powerful Blizzard in one motion.

!!!

Seeing this, Karen's pupils contracted slightly; Siebold wore an expression of utter shock, his Solemn Expression deepening.

"Just lacking in power; this attack is far from enough to defeat my Mewtwo."

Mamon grinned, commenting with a smile.

"How is that possible?!" Karen frowned tightly, staring in disbelief at that never-before-seen Mega Pokémon; its calm, effortless posture clearly demonstrated how easily it handled the Blizzard.

How could it be so strong?

She knew well that although Seel and Lapras hadn't attacked at full power just now, could a normal attack be blocked so easily?

"Karen, be careful; this fellow is a bit off," Siebold warned Karen in a low voice.

"I know."

Karen certainly understood that.

"Looks like it's Psychic and Steel types; if that's the case," Siebold gazed at Mega Mewtwo Y.

"Hitmonlee and Machamp! Abyssal Thrust!"

Hitmonlee and Machamp charged at Mega Mewtwo Y simultaneously.

"Ice Beam!"

Karen immediately provided cover, allowing Hitmonlee and Machamp to approach that Mega Mewtwo Y more easily.

Seel and Lapras spat out winding Ice Beams, shooting rapidly toward Mega Mewtwo Y.

"Pathetic."

Mega Mewtwo Y glanced toward Karen's side, deep purple flames flickering in its eyes; it raised its right arm, pouring out terrifying Psychic energy that transformed into a multicolored shockwave, vibrating outward.

Psychic!

Boom!

The Psychic shockwave collided head-on with the two Ice Beams, but the stalemate lasted only an instant before the Ice Beams were crushed like rotten wood, the force continuing its advance unabated.

"Protect!" Karen's expression changed.

Lapras immediately used Protect, a green protective barrier lighting up.

The Psychic slammed heavily into the Protect barrier; the violent impact pressure made Lapras bite down hard on its teeth. It was too heavy!

Meanwhile, Hitmonlee and Machamp had by then charged right up to Mega Mewtwo Y.

Hitmonlee arrived first, leaping swiftly into mid-air; its right foot glowed with black light, then it kicked fiercely at Mega Mewtwo Y.

A Dark-type Abyssal Thrust!

Under Hitmonlee's spring-like legs, its foot extended rapidly, reaching Mega Mewtwo Y's side in the blink of an eye.

But Mega Mewtwo Y merely turned its head toward Hitmonlee, a deep purple defensive barrier suddenly appearing.

Bang!

The Abyssal Thrust kicked hard against the deep purple barrier; ripples spread across the barrier's surface, yet the Abyssal Thrust failed to penetrate the defense.

"What exactly is this thing?" Siebold couldn't comprehend it; what kind of barrier was this?

Protect? It didn't look like that either.

Machamp had also arrived, raising all four arms simultaneously; a quadruple Abyssal Thrust!

Mega Mewtwo Y turned its gaze over, pouring out massive Psychic energy; Machamp's motion of swinging down the Abyssal Thrust came to an abrupt halt.

Psychic's strong control!

Veins bulged on Machamp's body, its face twisted grotesquely as it frantically squeezed its muscles, trying to break free from the Psychic controlling it, but it couldn't!

Siebold was stunned.

That Mega Mewtwo Y had merely glanced at his Machamp and immobilized it? What the hell?!

"Mewtwo." Mammon smiled, very satisfied.

That's right, he was very satisfied with Armored Mewtwo's performance. After all, the current Dark Mewtwo had only just awakened, and was still wearing a limiting armor.

But Armored Mewtwo's strength was still extremely powerful — that much could already be seen from its performance just now.

Armored Mewtwo gently twisted its palm, and a surging, pure wave of psychic power erupted violently with Armored Mewtwo at its center.

Hitmonlee and Machamp were sent flying by the shockwave, crashing heavily onto the ground.

"You two, it seems that with your strength, sending me to a prison cell is going to be a bit difficult."

Mammon spoke to Karen and Bruno in a deliberately regretful tone.

Karen's face was cold and ugly; Bruno's expression was hard to read. He glanced at Machamp and Hitmonlee, whose auras had grown much weaker, and hesitated, wanting to speak.

Liza watched Mammon with a somewhat dazed, complicated expression. Could it be that even Elite Four Karen and Elite Four Bruno were no match for Mammon?

This…

Giovanni-senpai, you truly are Deeply Guilty!!!

"Don't get too cocky! Evil Team Rocket, I will defeat you with my own hands!"

Karen's voluptuous chest rose and fall ceaselessly, waves surging.

Karen once again took out a Poké Ball and opened it; a Jynx appeared before her.

"Oh?" Mammon raised an eyebrow. "An ice doll?"

This world's Karen was clearly the Special version — her personality was ruthless and cruel. The Special Karen does possess a secret technique.

Just like Agatha's secret technique, Death Makeup — Agatha could adjust the patterns on Arbok's chest to boost one of Arbok's stats, such as Speed, Strength, Defense, and so on.

And Karen's ice doll was also very remarkable.

Her Jynx could use a target as a model to create an ice doll. Karen could apply lipstick to specific parts of the ice doll, thereby freezing the corresponding parts of the target.

This secret technique was a combination of tactical control, psychological intimidation, and a display of one's own powerful Ice-type ability.

Mm, it was also very handy for sneak attacks.

After all, when you're in the middle of a fight and suddenly get frozen, how could you not panic? And the moment you panic, your opponent's chance arrives.

Of course, this secret technique could only be used in unconventional battles — that is, in wild battles. In official matches, this would be illegal.

And this kind of thing…

"This move is useless against me." Mammon couldn't help but laugh. Karen really dared to dream.

Although the principle behind the ice doll was still unknown, there was no doubt that Jynx was using its own psychic power to create some kind of connection between the target and the ice doll, thereby achieving the freezing effect on the target.

The key point was — the psychic girl Caitlin was right beside him, and a Psychic-type legendary Pokémon was right in front of him.

If Jynx really wanted to establish a connection between him and the ice doll, it wouldn't be that easy.

Moreover, Mammon himself also possessed a special ability — the power of Evergreen. He wasn't like the Red from the Special manga who had no special abilities and got tricked by Karen.

"Blizzard!"

Karen decisively ordered Dewgong and Lapras to launch an attack, buying time for Jynx.

Jynx began using Mammon as a model to create an ice doll.

Bruno also understood Karen's ability very well. After thinking it over, he still had Machamp and Hitmonlee charge forward, essentially providing cover for Karen.

Although he felt Karen probably wouldn't succeed, it was always worth a try.

"Mewtwo." Mammon let out a laugh.

Armored Mewtwo raised its hand again, and Psybeam directly shattered the incoming Blizzard to pieces. Meanwhile, Machamp and Hitmonlee on the other side were once again blasted away by the erupting psychic power.

And this time, Machamp and Hitmonlee lost their ability to battle entirely.

There was no helping it — Bruno's Fighting-type was inherently countered by Psychic-type, and they had taken two solid hits of Armored Mewtwo's psychic eruption head-on.

It was no different from being hit by Psybeam twice. Even Bruno's aces couldn't withstand it — no surprise there.

On Karen's side, Jynx was rapidly creating the ice doll, but… it suddenly realized that no matter what it did, it couldn't establish the connection.

"What's wrong?"

Karen frowned tightly, looking at her own Jynx.

Jynx was drenched in sweat, because it had noticed that the armored Pokémon across from it — with terrifyingly abnormal psychic power — was staring at it with those evil, frightening deep-purple eyes.

Jynx was sweating buckets.

Jynx also understood: with this Armored Mewtwo's psychic power blocking it, it simply couldn't create Mammon's ice doll.

Karen's expression was extremely dark; she also roughly understood that Jynx was going to fail.

The scene fell into silence for a moment.

"Looks like it failed, Elite Four Karen. Do you have any other tricks?" Mammon asked Karen at the right moment.

"You!!"

Taunt! This is taunt, isn't it?!

"Evil, shameless Team Rocket!"

Anger surged in Karen's heart. She glared at Mammon and spoke in a cold voice.

Bruno, however, was much smarter — his hand had already slipped into his pants pocket and pulled out a special communication device, tapping frantically.

You old hag Agatha! Lance! Save me!

In truth, Bruno didn't have much goodwill toward Agatha and Lance. After all, among the Kanto Elite Four, he was vaguely the one being excluded.

Especially Agatha — Bruno had always kept his distance from that gloomy old crone who was eerie every single day. He always felt Agatha bore him ill will.

How scary was she to people? He was such a powerfully built muscular man, yet he'd been targeted by a bony, shadowy old hag!

That old hag must be coveting his perfect body!

But the situation was urgent now, so he'd better call for reinforcements first.

This high-ranking Team Rocket executive was a bit too strong — it would probably still take Agatha and Lance to deal with him.

The woman Kena loses her mind the moment she sees Team Rocket, but I, Shiba, am different.

"Oh?" Mammon sighed softly. "Shameless. This is the first time anyone has slandered me like this."

"But since Elite Four Kena put it that way…"

"Mewtwo."

Armored Mewtwo understood Mammon's meaning, raised its right arm, and aimed it at Kena.

A massive surge of psychic power poured out; the wind itself seemed to still, and the injured Dewgong and Lapras were pressed flat to the ground by the crushing psychic force, unable to move.

And Jynx was suppressed as well — although it could barely move, it was only barely.

As for Kena, she was pulled floating over by Armored Mewtwo's psychic power.

Jynx was extremely anxious, trying to use its psychic power to pull Kena back, but it only tried once — it was completely no match for the opponent!

Armored Mewtwo cast a cold glance at Jynx. What character are you? You still want to snatch someone from me?

Jynx felt terribly wronged.

Kena's face was pale and ugly. She had never imagined that there would come a day when she was arrested by Team Rocket.

"Don't act rashly, Elite Four Shiba, or I can't guarantee whether Elite Four Kena will be safe."

Kena, restrained by Armored Mewtwo's psychic power, landed beside Mammon. Mammon sized Kena up at close range, clicked his tongue, and without turning his head spoke to Shiba.

"…Mammon, release Kena, and we'll let you leave." Shiba's movements paused, and he said in a low voice to Mammon.

If something happened to Kena, that would be no joke.

Kena clenched her silver teeth tightly. Mammon's brazen gaze filled her with utter humiliation, but the situation left her no choice.

"Don't worry, don't worry, Elite Four Shiba. With such a perfect body on Elite Four Kena, I can't bear to damage it."

Mammon said with a beaming smile, full of feeling.

"Bastard! Mammon, I will absolutely not let you get away with this!"

Kena could not hold back any longer. A scholar may be killed but not humiliated — how dare this fellow toy with her like this!

"What a tough mouth~" Mammon remarked.

"I wonder if you'd still be this tough if I got you pregnant with my child."

Mammon rested his chin on his hand, the corners of his mouth pulled up high, looking exactly like a villain from a TV drama.

"You!" Kena's expression changed abruptly.

Liza swallowed hard and instinctively took two steps back, hoping not to draw the battle's fire onto herself.

Gardenia, however, knit her delicate brows slightly and looked at Kena with displeasure.

And Shiba stared at Mammon and Kena, dumbfounded.

Holy shit! What a ruthless man!!

(End of this chapter)