“Okay, go, Pikachu! Use Thunderbolt!”
Satoshi reached out and pointed at Bulbasaur, trying to replicate the move he used to capture Caterpie.
“Pika—chu!”
However, the effect achieved was worlds apart from what he had seen when facing Caterpie.
The electric light emanating from the red pouches on either side of Pikachu, which had instantly killed Caterpie, landed on Bulbasaur.
Under the electric light, Bulbasaur remained still, sitting on all fours.
Completely unfazed.
“Gana!”
As if impatient, Bulbasaur let out a loud cry.
Its body trembled, directly shaking off the electric light enveloping it, transforming it into wisps of electric arcs floating around.
“What!?”
Both Satoshi and Pikachu were startled, having just won a victory.
“Electric-type moves are very weak against Grass-type.”
Kasumi reminded them from behind.
As soon as Kasumi said this, many elementary school students who were practically glued to the television screen, desperately wanting to pry their eyeballs out and stick them to the screen, quickly pulled out their notebooks and wrote down things like “Electric type is weak against Grass type,” and “To counter Electric type, use Grass type.”
It was just like how many people born in the 80s and 90s would write down game cheats.
The mothers who were serving dishes at the dinner table were speechless.
They thought, “If this little rascal could put half that enthusiasm into studying, he wouldn’t be failing like that.”
…
Whoosh!
The next second, a sound of wind cutting through the air arose.
Deep green, long, strip-like vines shot out from both sides of the flower bud on Bulbasaur’s back.
“It’s Bulbasaur’s Vine Whip!”
Kasumi exclaimed in surprise.
Pikachu was caught off guard and instantly knocked away by the Vine Whip.
“Pikachu!”
Satoshi was shocked and quickly scooped up the fallen Pikachu.
Even though he was still a novice trainer, he could tell Pikachu had taken a hit.
“Damn it, in that case, Caterpie, it’s up to you!”
Satoshi clenched his fist and gritted his teeth as he looked at Caterpie.
Caterpie’s expression at this moment was like that of Bonber hearing the Nine-Headed Snake tell him, “Go kill Tang Sanzang and his disciples.”
But it still obediently wriggled its body and approached.
Although both Bulbasaur and Caterpie were small in size.
But with the haughty Bulbasaur and the meek Caterpie in the same frame…
Instantly, countless viewers felt a sense of absurdity, like, “Really? I’m fighting Sukuna!”
“Satoshi is clearly panicking.”
Reba, who was on summer vacation and would be attending the Shanghai Theater Academy in two months, mumbled quietly.
You just caught a Pokémon, and you’re letting it fight an opponent obviously a level higher.
Isn’t this reckless?
…
“Bug-type has an advantage against Grass-type.”
Kasumi, acting as the commentator, was both explaining things to Satoshi and filling in the setting for the third-dimensional viewers.
“Okay, Caterpie, use… uh… use whatever move you know to attack Bulbasaur!”
Satoshi, originally brimming with confidence after hearing that Bug-type had an advantage against Grass-type, was just about to issue a command.
Then, halfway through his sentence, he remembered that he had just caught Caterpie.
He didn’t know what moves it knew.
He could only change his command at the last minute.
【I know you just left the newbie village, but can you not be so unreliable?】
【I didn’t think Caterpie could win against Bulbasaur to begin with, and now that it has a trainer like Satoshi, it’s even less likely】
【I’m starting to worry if Satoshi can even become a Pokemon Master】
【Let’s set a flag here, I don’t think he’ll do it in this season】
【At least we can be sure that this show will have more than one season. Didn’t you see the “Kanto arc” at the end of the title? Maybe there’ll be a Kansai arc and a Kanhoku arc later on】
Even many of the young children were speechless at Satoshi’s unreliability, not to mention the adult viewers.
After hearing Satoshi’s command, Caterpie spat out white silk, attacking Bulbasaur!
Kasumi mercilessly quipped, “Although Bug-type moves have an advantage against Grass-type, Caterpie basically only knows how to use ‘String Shot’, which has no attack power.”
“Gana!”
Once again, Bulbasaur shook its body.
Crescent-shaped leaves flew out from the bottom of the flower bud on its back!
“This time it’s Razor Leaf!”
As Kasumi shouted, Razor Leaf cut through String Shot like a hot knife through butter.
Instantly killing Caterpie!
“Gana～”
After consecutively defeating two Pokémon, Bulbasaur glared fiercely at Satoshi and Kasumi.
Terrified, the two could only flee with the incapacitated Pikachu and Caterpie.
“Huff, huff… It’s still a distance to Nibi City, and Pikachu and Caterpie are injured. Let’s return to Tokiwa City, get them healed, and then set off again.”
After catching her breath and finally calming down, Kasumi suggested to Satoshi.
Satoshi pursed his lips, hesitant for a moment.
He was still a little reluctant to leave the powerful Bulbasaur behind.
Just when Satoshi didn’t know what to do, a young girl suddenly walked out of the nearby bushes and stood beside them.
“Excuse me… were you two attacked by Bulbasaur?”
Upon hearing this, both of them were stunned and looked at the girl who was a couple of years older than them in unison.
…
Then, the girl, while introducing herself, led them towards her forest cabin.
The girl served food to the many Pokémon gathered there, such as Rattata, Oddish, and Paras, and applied herbal medicine to Pikachu and Caterpie.
“So many Pokémon, are these all your Pokémon?”
Kasumi exclaimed in awe.
“No, they are all Pokémon abandoned by their trainers.”
The girl named “Xiao Cui” said with a sad expression.
The children who had been captivated by the dreamlike world Su Yihuan had created, having followed for three episodes now, were shocked when they heard this.
They couldn’t understand, how could anyone abandon their Pokémon?!
Xiao Cui continued, “They were all abandoned by their trainers because they were weak, and I’m just providing them with a place to stay here.”