“What’s wrong with the Primeape?”
“So scary.”
Both Satoshi and Kasumi were frightened by Primeape’s current appearance.
At this moment, Primeape’s body was enveloped in dark shadow power, its fur fluttering in the wind with the power of the shadows, its eyes completely red, as if it were a monster from hell.
“Mi-lo!”
Primeape threw a punch, a huge black fist shadow piercing through Pidgeotto’s body, soaring into the sky and disappearing in the air.
The next moment, a radiant glow enveloped Primeape, its whole body covered by the light of evolution.
“Great, it worked!” Shigeru was overjoyed. He hadn’t expected this test to succeed, not thinking that close combat would go so smoothly.
Satoshi, Kasumi, and Natsuna were all surprised.
It was clear that Shigeru had done all this just to make Primeape evolve. But Primeape actually had an evolution, they had no idea.
The light of evolution dissipated, revealing a spherical creature covered in light grey fur. Its drooping fur resembled a cloak, the rings on its hands were now only one on each side, and they were cracked. It had a pink nose, red eyes, and bulging veins on its eyes and forehead, looking like it was in a state of anger.
“It really evolved.”
Satoshi pulled out his Pokédex in surprise.
Pokédex: “Unknown Pokémon, no information recorded in the Pokédex.”
“What! Unknown Pokémon?”
“Could this be Primeape’s new evolution form?”
Satoshi didn't understand what the Pokédex meant by “no information recorded,” but Takeshi and Kasumi were very clear.
A Pokémon not even recorded in Professor Oak’s Pokédex, indicating that Primeape’s evolution form was extremely rare.
“Don’t misunderstand, this is a Renoun, the final evolution form of Primeape. It’s just that the evolution method has always been unknown, I was just testing if my method could make Primeape evolve into Renoun,” Shigeru said.
“Is Renoun very strong?” Satoshi asked curiously.
“Very strong. It’s now a Fighting and Ghost dual-type, with high HP and balanced abilities overall,” Shigeru said.
“Ghost-type…!” Though Satoshi didn’t know how to compare Pokémon strength, he also understood from his recent journey how difficult Ghost-type Pokémon were to deal with.
Shigeru didn’t explain further and walked over to Renoun.
Satoshi and the others immediately became nervous. Primeape’s enraged appearance was still fresh in their minds. Even if it had evolved, it might still be angry.
“You successfully evolved, congratulations,” Shigeru put his hand on Renoun’s arm.
“Mi-lo.”
Renoun, although looking fierce, nodded obediently, not resisting Shigeru's touch.
Everyone was relieved to see Renoun not attacking.
“Come on in and rest, you’ve had enough hardship,” Shigeru took out his Poké Ball and recalled Renoun. Primeape had suffered a lot from constantly using the 20 consecutive Anger Fists.
Shigeru also looked at Renoun’s stats.
【Pokémon: Renoun ♂】
【Type: Fighting, Ghost】
【Level: 35】
【Potential: Elite Four】
【Ability: Defiant (When the Pokémon’s ability is lowered, its Attack stat will significantly rise.)】
【Moves: Scratch, Fury Swipes, Focus Energy, Low Kick, Earth Power, Cross Chop, Take Down, Anger Fist, Shadow Punch】
【Learnable Moves: Mega Kick, Rock Blast】
【Friendship: 255 (Max value 255)】
Evolving into Renoun had only awakened one new move, Shadow Punch.
Shadow Punch was not as powerful as Anger Fist, but it had a speed advantage, so it still had some use.
“Thank you all for your help, tonight I’ll treat you to a luxury meal at the Hot Spring Resort,” Shigeru said.
The luxury meal at the Hot Spring Resort was not free to the public and required payment.
“Really? That’s great!” Satoshi was happy. Not only had he observed Shigeru’s method of training Pokémon, but he also got a forced exercise machine. Now, there was also a luxury hot spring meal to enjoy, it was really great.
Then, Shigeru let his Pokémon train in the afternoon as well, while he went to call Professor Oak and tell him about the Renoun evolution method he had researched.
“Shigeru, are you serious? You actually found a stable evolution method for Renoun,” Professor Oak’s voice was filled with shock from the phone.
“Yeah, my Primeape evolved into Renoun using my evolution method, so I need you to help test it. With my method, it should be very easy to evolve,” Shigeru said.
With the resources Professor Oak could mobilize, mobilizing ten or more Pokémon with the ability to bind would be no problem. Then, by sealing all offensive moves except Anger Fist, the efficiency would be even faster.
“I remember Satoshi also caught a Primeape. I could test it using your method,” Professor Oak said.
“Professor Oak, my Primeape isn’t with me,” Satoshi interjected from the side.
Since Shigeru was on speakerphone, Satoshi could also hear.
“Satoshi, how are you with Shigeru?” Professor Oak was surprised.
“We met on our journey. I also saw the whole process of Primeape evolving into Renoun, I helped too!” Satoshi boasted.
“Then why isn’t your Primeape with you?” Professor Oak was more concerned with this question.
“That’s a long story…!” Satoshi told him about his experience at the P1 Fighting Tournament.
After listening, Professor Oak was dumbfounded. He actually entrusted a Pokémon he had been with for not long to someone else to train, wasn’t he afraid of not getting it back?
“Then Satoshi, can you send Primeape to me?” Professor Oak asked.
“That’s fine, but we are not in a city now, there’s no transporter here,” Satoshi said.
“Then wait until you get to a city later, Satoshi, and send it to me. I need to study Shigeru’s evolution method further.”
With that, Professor Oak hung up the phone.
For the next two days, Shigeru stayed at the Hot Spring Resort with Satoshi and his friends, training their Pokémon daily. Natsuna also taught Golbat the use of Hypnosis, and helped Kasumi train Psyduck in hypnosis as well.
Takeshi’s Golbat was not bad. After three days, it had mastered how to use Hypnosis to give commands to Pokémon. Although it took a long time to hypnotize, it was enough for training Psyduck.
Psyduck also proved its potential. Psyduck in a hypnotic state was simply the Duck God. However, the Duck God state was very unstable, lasting less than one minute. Within that minute, Psyduck was the Duck God, after a minute, it was just a red-skinned duck.
After bidding farewell to Satoshi and his friends, Shigeru and Natsuna set off on their journey.
After two days of riding, they finally arrived in Vermilion City. After resting in Vermilion City, the two headed to the outskirts of Vermilion City to find the Vermilion Gym.