Chapter Twenty-Two: I'll Blow Up Every Single One of These Bicycles
(First Update!! New Book Seeking Collection, Seeking Flowers!)
With a series of panicked screeches, the Big-Billed Pidgeotto, which normally wouldn’t easily let go of anything that provoked it, suddenly acted as if it had seen a ghost, screaming wildly in the air. The surrounding Pidgeys also revealed expressions of fear.
The Big-Billed Pidgeotto quickly turned around and flapped its wings, flying away. Seeing this, the Pidgeys nearby didn’t dare stay any longer, and they also turned around and followed the Pidgeotto, flying away.
Even those that had been knocked down on the ground, ignoring their injuries, limped to the sky and followed the main group, flying away.
“It really is it!” Watching the Big-Billed Pidgeotto flee, Little Zhi was speechless. The world was really small. He had felt a sense of familiarity just now, and now it had run away on its own. Now he was certain.
“What is it? Why did it run away?” The girl was still a bit confused. She had thought it would be a fierce battle, and she had also intended to help, even though she might not be an opponent for so many of them.
But they had saved her, and she couldn't just leave them like that. However, seeing the scene just now had completely shocked her.
“Oh, I defeated it three years ago.” Little Zhi didn’t pay much attention. The Big-Billed Pidgeotto had essentially come to “bid farewell” to him.
It was also thanks to defeating it three years ago that he scared it off. Otherwise, it would have been a fierce battle today. Back then, he had relied on his two Growlithes and the advantage of the forest.
This time, it had learned its lesson. If it hadn't been scared off, it definitely wouldn't have fallen for it again. His current Pikachu might not be an opponent, despite having a type advantage, because it still had a large group of Pidgeys.
“Three years? You’re bragging. How old were you three years ago? You weren’t even a Trainer, right? How could you defeat a Big-Billed Pidgeotto?”
The girl obviously didn’t believe it. The other person looked about the same age as her, 10 years old. He couldn’t have been a Trainer three years ago. How could he have defeated a fierce Big-Billed Pidgeotto?
“Believe it or not, it’s your business!” Little Zhi didn’t care. The rain was getting heavier, and he intended to go back to the tent.
“You…” Seeing the other person acting like he couldn't be bothered, the girl was a little angry. What attitude! Even though she was the most adorable girl in the entire universe, right?
But Little Zhi didn't care. He hadn't even said a thank you, and he was still doubting him?
“Ahhhhh!!!!”
He was planning to leave, but just as he turned around, he heard a ghostly scream. Little Zhi, who had already turned around, was also startled…
“What’s… uh…”
He turned around a bit impatiently, but as he turned around, he saw the girl's eyes welling up with tears as she pointed behind him. Little Zhi looked in the direction she was pointing and couldn't help but be speechless. A few black lines appeared on his forehead, and even Pikachu had the same expression.
In front of them, a straight line crack extended from the ground. At the end of the crack, a bicycle, which was no longer recognizable, lay there. Why was it called a corpse? Because the entire bicycle had become unrecognizable.
It would be an understatement to call it a bicycle, it was more like a pile of discarded iron sheets. It was unknown what kind of inhuman torture it had suffered before being reduced to this state.
I must have been wrong. If I pretend I didn’t see it, then nothing happened.
Little Zhi turned his head, pretending that he didn't see anything. However, he saw the girl approaching him, her eyes filled with anger.
“It’s all your fault. You broke my bike, how are you going to compensate me!” The girl looked like she was about to cry.
After all, she was just a young girl. She had just started traveling not too long ago, and her new bike was already broken. It was Pikachu's fault, no… that wasn't right. It was the Pokémon, it was this guy who gave the command.
Little Zhi was also speechless. He couldn't help but look at Pikachu. You're really a bicycle nemesis!
“Pikachu, in the future, you must aim at your target when attacking, understand?” Seeing this, Little Zhi turned around and looked at Pikachu, raised his index finger and said seriously.
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“Pika Pi~~~” Pikachu, however, looked like it didn’t understand. It drooped its ears and tilted its head, acting cute.
“This isn’t the point, okay! You broke my bicycle, you have to compensate me!” The girl looked at the scene and became even angrier, yelling at Little Zhi.
“I saved you, okay! Is this how you treat your savior?”
“Who asked you to save me! Even without you, I could have run away.” The two of them argued back and forth.
The girl wasn’t really ungrateful, she was just angry at the moment. In addition, Little Zhi’s straight man response made her feel a bit wronged.
And Little Zhi was also a bit unconvinced. He was her savior, right? They were both on bicycles. Couldn't she learn from Little Guang? Look how generous he was?
“Pika~ Pika!!” Pikachu watched this scene and acted like it was trying to mediate.
BOOM!!!!
“Ah!!” At that moment, there was a sudden boom, the girl who was still arguing was suddenly startled. A bolt of lightning struck from the sky, the roar of thunder exploded in her ears, and the girl instinctively lunged forward.
“Uh!” Little Zhi also felt her bump into him.
After the thunder passed, the girl noticed that she was in his arms, she couldn't help but blush. This was the second time she had been so close to him today. Realizing this, she quickly retreated and turned away.
Hiss, Hiss, Hiss, Hiss!!
At this time, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, accompanied by the sound of thunder. Little Zhi stopped arguing.
“The rain is getting heavier, come to my place and take shelter.” After all, with the heavy rain, a guy couldn’t be petty with a girl. Such weather was indeed very dangerous in the forest.
“Th… thank you!” The girl was a bit embarrassed. She was just being emotional. In fact, compared to her life, the bicycle was really nothing.
“Let’s go! Pikachu, let’s go!”
The two of them, with Pikachu, entered the tent. Thankfully, they hadn't been caught in the rain for very long. Otherwise, there would be nowhere to light a fire to dry their clothes in the tent.
“Here, take this!” Inside the tent, Little Zhi took out two towels, one for Pikachu and one for the girl.
“Thank you… I’m sorry.” The girl was slightly stunned when she saw the towel. She hesitated for a moment before taking it. Thinking about what happened just now, she apologized sheepishly.
PS: I haven’t planned to write about levels, etc. If you guys aren’t familiar with Pokémon’s classifications, such as the ones mentioned above, quasi-Legendary, Legendary Tier 1, Legendary Tier 2, I can add a chapter to list them.
As for Trainer levels, I think the anime already has a very standard system: Champion, Elite Four, Gym Leaders, and Regular Trainers, basically that’s it.
But you guys know this already. If it were like in Naruto, with Jonin, Chunin, Genin, etc., and then a Jonin was defeated by a Genin, that wouldn't make any sense. The protagonist is simply a representative of level-skipping battles and mastering counter-type moves.
There's really no point in making up these things. In the end, it’ll be like Dragon Ball. They created the power level setting themselves, but then Toriyama just drew it wrong. He didn’t expect that, as the protagonist, the Saiyan race was a race that subverted power levels.