Chapter 148: All Fear Comes from Insufficient Firepower

"Caitlin..."

Watching the "legal loli" trainer image appearing on the screen, Qingyu's gaze is slightly complex.

Should one call it fate or bad karma to be able to match with this young lady...

Aside from the fact that she was a quite popular character in his previous life, the memories of Caitlin that unconsciously surfaced in his mind make him even more emotional.

He knows Caitlin.

About when Qingyu was twelve, a summer camp held by Professor Rowan, the Pokémon Professor of the Sinnoh region, was held in Celestic Town.

Due to some accidents, Caitlin, who got lost in the wild, fell into a state of psychic power runaway, and by mistake, she met Cynthia, who was slightly older than her, and they became friends by fate.

Of course, the young Qingyu didn't experience these things personally; all the content was learned through Cynthia's oral account.

But one thing is certain.

From the day Cynthia introduced him to Caitlin, he could faintly feel that this noble young lady had some inexplicable hostility toward him.

Especially when he and Cynthia were very close, he could even clearly feel the sharp gaze coming from behind...

The young Qingyu might not have known what her behavior meant, only thinking that he was just not liked by her.

And now, recalling these, Qingyu can basically draw a conjecture—

This little girl wouldn't also have some improper thoughts about Sister Cynthia, right!

No, no, no, if that were true, it would be too melodramatic.

It should be that he is overthinking.

Qingyu shakes his head, pulling back his gradually diverging thoughts.

Taking advantage of the time before deciding on the lead, his gaze glances at Caitlin's lineup.

Musharna, Sigilyph, Reuniclus, Gothitelle, Metagross, Bronzong.

The overall speed of the lineup is very slow, but due to the existence of Sigilyph, it can flexibly switch between Tailwind and Trick Room systems.

It can advance with Tailwind Sigilyph and Metagross to suppress, and retreat with Trick Room Bronzong and Reuniclus to steadily seize the initiative.

As a single-type lineup, it is already very scientific.

【The opponent is another Master Ball level expert... but I don't seem to have heard this name?】

【The person above is a bit ignorant. Elite trainers with some strength in Johto and Sinnoh should all know her, the sleeping beauty young lady in the Battle Castle.】

【Doesn't matter, as long as she looks cute. I'm not familiar with who Teacher Yu is!】

Judging from the performance of the comments, Caitlin should not have gone to Unova to serve as an Elite Four member yet.

However, as the true owner of the Battle Castle, her strength is still beyond doubt.

But precisely because she is an expert, Qingyu can predict her thoughts.

"To hide tactics, we added quite a few rain team members to our lineup, so the opponent will definitely think we are a rain team."

"In a situation where we can't grab the weather, it is very disadvantageous for the opponent's lineup to compete for speed with a rain team, so they will likely set up Trick Room."

"But it doesn't matter, we will confidently use Kingdra as the lead!"

After locking in the lead Pokémon for this battle, the opponent is also quickly determined, and after a short loading, they officially enter the battle.

After the trainer phantoms of both sides throw out their Poké Balls simultaneously, Kingdra and Bronzong appear on the field at the same time.

Caitlin choosing Bronzong as the lead means Qingyu's prediction is correct.

She should be about to activate Trick Room.

"Normally, one should send out Blaziken or Ninjask, Pokémon with Speed Boost abilities, as the lead, boosting speed while using Focus Energy, and then Baton Pass the boost effect to Kingdra."

"But I predicted that the opponent would set up Trick Room, so speed boost would become a burden instead, so I just used Kingdra as the lead."

After briefly explaining the train of thought, Qingyu makes his command decisively without hesitation.

"Kingdra, Yawn!"

After receiving the command, Kingdra immediately yawns, and the sleepiness drifts toward the opponent along with the airflow sprayed from its nostrils, making Bronzong feel obviously sleepy.

And although Bronzong is drowsy, it also forcibly endures to detonate the accumulated psychic energy.

Under the control of its psychic power, a strange invisible force field quickly envelops the entire field, affecting both Pokémon present.

Trick Room, a strange field deployed using psychic power.

Pokémon entering it will have their speed reversed, and the slower Pokémon can act faster instead.

It must be said that the psychic power in the Pokémon world can truly do anything.

No matter how outrageous the effect of a move is, it immediately becomes much more reasonable once you see it is Psychic-type...

【Yawn at the start, you call this a strong attack tactic?】

【It's on point, truly worthy of you, Teacher Yu. You started being 'quality' right from the start!】

Facing the teasing of the comments, Qingyu can only smile it off.

The comments are still a bit naive, not knowing how useful Yawn is for forcing the opponent to switch.

Bronzong under the Trick Room system has quite a few disgusting moves; if you don't force the opponent to switch out, it will be very troublesome.

Not to mention that Kingdra can't really deal much damage to the Steel-type itself.

"Come back, Bronzong."

After being hit by Yawn, Caitlin's side certainly won't choose to be stubborn, immediately recalling the drowsy Bronzong.

"Although I don't know why he didn't send out a rain setter as the lead, but instead sent a Kingdra, however..."

"This should be your main force, right? I won't give you any chance!"

"I choose you, Gothitelle!"

Caitlin quickly sends out her trump card.

"Kingdra, Focus Energy!"

Taking advantage of this precious rotation gap, Qingyu begins his performance.

After a period of Focus Energy, Kingdra, carrying the Scope Lens, has incomparably sharp eyes, not afraid at all facing the Gothitelle that was switched in, and has already discerned its weakness in an instant.

After landing, the shadow behind Gothitelle immediately forms a pool of shadow, spreading from the ground to the surroundings of the field, and soon connects with Kingdra's shadow.

It really is the Shadow Tag ability.

Qingyu reveals a knowing expression.

Caitlin really fell for it.

From the very beginning, I never thought about recalling Kingdra!

"Kingdra, Draco Meteor!"

The violent Dragon-type energy gathers into a meteor, falling straight toward Gothitelle!

"Protect!"

Caitlin immediately deploys defense.

The moves formed by the two energies fall one after another, and the Protect barrier narrowly blocks Kingdra's first wave of attacks.

"Draco Meteor!"

Following closely, the second meteor falls from the sky again.