Chapter 599

【Defeat!】

A striking red icon flashed in front of the screen, and the score was fixed at an almost shameful 4:0.

Elesa in front of the computer had almost no reaction to this. Not only had her eyes completely lost focus, but her body also had no movement at all, just sitting in front of the table motionless.

After a long time, she suddenly came back to her senses and sighed leisurely.

"This is too targeted..."

Lost, and lost without any hope of a comeback.

It's not that Elesa can't accept failure; she has never cared much about winning or losing in games.

For her, "Pokémon Champion" is just a transit station that connects her work as a Gym Leader and a model.

Whenever she finishes her modeling work, she will quickly awaken her instinctive reactions as a trainer in the game and welcome the next day's challengers in the best state.

So singles and doubles make no difference to her. Even if she loses, it doesn't matter; after all, she hasn't carefully studied the tactics in the game.

However, being shaved bald today, and it was without any ability to resist throughout the whole process, being easily pushed through...

It's unlikely that anyone would be indifferent if it happened to them.

But things have come to this, and Elesa can only accept reality.

This trainer named "Azure Feather" did indeed bring out Pokémon that made her eyes light up.

Amoonguss, and...

"Manectric seems to have Mega Evolution potential, right?"

Elesa was stunned, subconsciously opened the Pokedex in the game, and quickly confirmed her thoughts.

"So that's it. Before Mega Evolving, it can rely on the Lightning Rod ability to help teammates avoid Electric-type weaknesses, and after evolving, it can also use the Intimidate ability to further limit the opponent's output."

After checking the basic information of this Pokémon, Elesa immediately understood the opponent's ideas.

Judging from the opponent's overall lineup before entering the battle, he should have originally intended to play a rain team, but he just happened to run into her pure Electric-type lineup, which countered him very well, so he temporarily changed the lineup.

Unexpectedly, the effect was surprisingly good.

Especially that damn Amoonguss, how can there be such a lewd Pokémon!

Recalling the Amoonguss facing her, Elesa couldn't help but shake her head, expelling bad memories from her brain.

At the same time, she suddenly remembered something and looked at the opponent's ID again.

"Speaking of which... is this name a bit familiar?"

Elesa thought for a moment and quickly found information about this "Azure Feather" in her memory bank.

During the breaks of her photo shoots, she seems to often brush past his videos, and she even clicked follow?

It seems he is very popular online, a very popular streamer, and it seems he is also a Gym Leader in Paldea, just like her.

But she, busy with her career, doesn't pay much attention to online content, so she only knows a rough idea.

To be able to fully suppress her in command and lineup,

While muttering to herself, she took out her phone and opened the PokéTV app.

Sure enough, "Azure Feather's" broadcast room appeared on the homepage immediately.

Wait... broadcast?

Elesa quickly realized something, and her charming, watery eyes widened instantly.

She instinctively clicked in, but didn't pay attention to the broadcast content, but glanced at the top right corner.

The popularity of up to seven digits came into view, making her stunned again, and her face turned ashen instantly.

"It's over... ahhhhhhh—!"

Elesa immediately slumped on the chair, covering her rapidly reddening cheeks and letting out a painful wail, her body twisting back and forth.

Compared to this discovery, being 4:0 was a trivial matter.

Being seen by millions of viewers in the broadcast room, does a Gym Leader whose core competitiveness is blooming in both the modeling and trainer industries still want face?

"This is a huge embarrassment..."

When Elesa realized that she seemed to have had a social death, everything was already too late.

Just as she was doubting life, a phone call suddenly came in, attracting her attention.

"Caitlin?"

Elesa tilted her head.

Caitlin is an excellent trainer who just came to the Unova region from Sinnoh this year. Although she is a newcomer, she has already been in contact with quite a few female trainers in Unova.

Elesa quite likes this legal loli who looks cute on the outside but always pretends to be an adult, so her relationship with her is very good.

Besides her, there are also Shauntal and Skyla, who are locals of Unova, who also often appear at the women's tea parties invited by Caitlin, and they can all be considered good girlfriends.

"Elesa, did you lose to Qingyu?"

After the call was connected, Caitlin's first sentence led the topic into a dead end, and also made Elesa fall into a long silence.

Qingyu... refers to "Azure Feather"?

Elesa's expression carried a hint of weirdness, and she subconsciously began to think.

How did Caitlin know that she lost to him in the game? Could it be that she is also watching the broadcast?

"How did you know?"

After thinking about it, she still spoke directly about her confusion.

"Hmm... because I can be considered to know that guy, so I came to comfort you specifically after seeing you defeated by him."

Caitlin quickly continued.

"Actually, losing to him is very normal. Even Wallace has lost to him twice, and even Cynthia doesn't seem to be his opponent now."

"Although this guy always likes to mess with weird things, his strength is indeed quite good, and he will bring out many novel tactics, so there are actually quite a few Gym Leaders and Elite Four from various regions squatting in his broadcast room."

"Of course, I won't watch his broadcast, I just happened to brush past it!"

"..."

Regarding Caitlin's sudden tsundere speech, Elesa was silent for a moment and didn't expose her clumsy lie.

Although she usually behaves very ladylike, Elesa, who is quite familiar with her, knows very well that Caitlin's heart seems to be a little girl who hasn't grown up, and occasionally she will be like this, saying one thing while meaning another.

It's also quite cute.

"I understand."

While Elesa quickly smiled and spoke, she didn't forget to tease.

"Hearing you say that, it seems Caitlin, you should have lost to him too, right?"

"..."

After a brief silence, a voice without much confidence quickly came from Caitlin's side.

"Next time, next time I run into Qingyu, I will definitely win against him!"

"That's it, hanging up!"

The busy tone quickly came from the other end of the phone, making Elesa couldn't help but smile.

After chatting with Caitlin, her mood seemed to have improved.

People's temperament is always a compromise. If only she lost to "Azure Feather," that would definitely be very embarrassing.

But since she learned from Caitlin that there were other victims, she inexplicably felt that everything that happened just now was acceptable.

After all, she is not alone.

"However, the trainer who can make Caitlin care, his strength should be very excellent, right?"

Caitlin came to Unova for only one thing: to compete for the vacant seat of the Unova Elite Four, and with her strength, she is absolutely qualified to be an Elite Four.

Since even the streamer she recommends, she really needs to take a look.

Qingyu doesn't know what happened to Elesa far away in the Unova region. After winning a battle, he just chatted with the comments for a few words and continued his road to ranking up.

After all, it was clearly agreed today that it would be a rain team, but he was not doing his job and pulled out a weird thing.

If he doesn't show this tactical idea of an alternative rain team, there will be no material for tomorrow's video...

Fortunately, the next few battles went very smoothly, and Qingyu also showed the complete form of this lineup to the audience.

Palafin, whose base stats were only 457 when it first appeared and was completely unremarkable, will immediately trigger the effect of the "Zero to Hero" ability after returning to the team, showing its full power.

The base stats immediately soared to 650, and the attack power went from 70 to 160, directly on the same level as Slaking.

Coupled with the 120-power Water-type move Jet Punch, and the Jet Punch that is guaranteed to be a priority attack and has decent power, its combat power in the rain system is very outrageous.

【Palafin is the real hero. After switching back, it transforms directly, and its combat power is like opening a cheat. Jet Punch kills everything in seconds. It is worthy of being the hero of the sea!】

【No, how did you Paldea Pokémon grow up? Why does it feel like you are not from the same world as our Kanto Pokémon...】

【While being fast, it also has the ability to kill the opponent in seconds. I announce that you are the One-Punch Man of the rain team, known as little Mega Swampert!】