"Dragon Rush...?!"

  As soon as the name of the move escaped his lips, Torii felt a parched sensation... Had it finally mastered it?

  At this moment...

  The diminutive Swablu had now transformed into a bluish-purple bze, radiating a terrifying aura of might and killing intent. The surrounding bdes of grass rustled from the swirling air currents, but even so, this scene felt frozen in time to Torii.

  "Boom~~"

  A deafening crash shattered the stillness, instantly snapping Torii back to reality.

  Swablu...

  Torii rushed forward, searching for Swablu.

  It wasn't until he clearly saw the scene before him that he gasped and revealed an expression of disbelief.

  "This... Swablu did this?"

  Seviper, struck by that Dragon Rush, had been directly smmed into a small crater, its body covered in wounds, its eyes unfocused. This time, it had truly lost the ability to stand again!

  Such power...

  While stunned by the power of Dragon Rush, Torii, of course, didn't forget how long Swablu had been born!

  Perhaps this move wasn't the most powerful, but for a little one who had been born for less than a month... it was simply an unimaginable heavyweight killer move!

  Master Suzu's premonition seemed to have succeeded!

  Looking at the small crater that Seviper had fallen into, Torii suddenly remembered that he had important business to attend to. Now wasn't the time to be spacing out!

  "Swablu—"

  After attacking Seviper with such great force, how was Swablu?!

  With anxious feelings, Torii shouted again: "Swablu?!"

  Wandering around the earthen pit, Torii jumped over Seviper and kept digging at the small, raised mound of dirt with his bare hands. Ignoring the pain on his body and hands, Torii now only wanted to know how Swablu was.

  "Shhh~~Shhh~"

  Parting the earthen mound, Swablu, as expected, had plunged headfirst into the pile under the force of the impact. Looking at the equally unconscious Swablu, Torii frantically rummaged through his backpack, searching for any medicine that could provide emergency aid...

  Although the power of Dragon Rush was great, it was like Take Down for the current Swablu, with incalcuble damage to itself.

  Good healing medicine... Oran Berry... Awakening...

  "Swablu... are you okay?"

  "Swablu, answer me!"

  Although Swablu had awakened the Dragon Rush that Torii had dreamed of, Torii couldn't be happy at all right now. For trainers who were stranded in the wild, the most frightening thing was getting injured.

  Especially a serious injury, like the Swablu before him!

  Despite using many emergency medications, there was still no sign of improvement.

  Torii's heart sank at once.

  "Damn it!"

  Punching the ground, Torii thought it was his dereliction of duty.

  In a Pokémon battle, failing to fully consider all uncontrolble factors was the trainer's responsibility!

  "The overdraft is too serious, it will be difficult to recover in a short time relying solely on medicine..."

  Rustle~Rustle~Rustle~

  Rustle~Rustle~Rustle~

  From the bushes, familiar sounds came, making Torii's sinking heart tense up at once.

  Slowly turning his head, Torii saw another Seviper, with an aggressive gaze, crawling towards them with ill intentions, which immediately calmed him down, and his spirit highly concentrated.

  ......

  Dragging Swablu, not for a moment had Torii had such a bitter feeling as he did now.

  "Was it attracted by the sound..."

  Reluctantly cursing in a low voice, there was no other way. The only thing Torii could do at the moment was to quickly stand up, run, run hard, and run to a safe pce as much as possible.

  Carrying Swablu, and not letting Swablu suffer any more serious injuries.

  Now, Swablu had lost consciousness, and another Seviper had come to attack. For Torii, it was undoubtedly the Grim Reaper's death warrant. Having been in the Mt. Chimney forest for a month, there hadn't been a day as thrilling as today!

  "I can't let Swablu suffer any more injuries."

  Swablu's condition was very unstable right now. If it was injured again, it would definitely turn towards a more dire situation... Thinking this, Torii ran desperately.

  As for Seviper... it was relentlessly pursuing, its eyes revealing a fierce glint, as if Torii's escape had further aroused its identity as a hunter.

  "Snake repellent powder... is it all used up..."

  Feeling his pocket, Torii crushed open a small bottle with one hand, the little bit of residue left making Torii's face darken as he directly threw it on the ground.

  "Fortunately... at the bend... there's a trap I dug in advance."

  That was a trap that Torii had made that needed to be triggered by pulling it. The switch was on a tree trunk a little further away. Looking at the current speed of Torii and Seviper, there was a slight chance it could be used, but when he arrived, Torii saw that the trap had been destroyed by other Pokémon, and his heart directly sank to the bottom.

  With no other way, Torii was left with the choice of escape...

  The originally ample preparations, under the unpredictable accidents in the wild, where anything was possible, became incomparably empty.

  He had come to challenge Seviper full of confidence, but he had been made to look disheveled by the successive accidents.

  ......

  Thump~~

  Carelessly, Torii was tripped by a vine. In the moment of falling, to protect Swablu, Torii took all the damage, and his foot... was twisted.

  !!

  Seeing that the training time was about to end, and Swablu had also mastered the ultimate move, Dragon Rush, and his and Swablu's growth had a perfect start, Torii almost cursed out loud in this situation.

  Seviper...

  It was already slowly crawling over. Torii was powerless to compin, this was originally the natural rule of this forest...

  "Swablu... wake up quickly, fly away."

  As Seviper crawled over, Torii could only try his best to awaken Swablu, trying to restore a little consciousness to Swablu, giving it a glimmer of possibility of flight, even if... it flew away on its own.

  At least he, a human, wouldn't suffer too terrible a fate under Seviper's attack.

  Unfortunately... Swablu still showed no signs of waking up.

  With its bloodshot eyes staring at Torii, Seviper had already opened its mouth, revealing its sharp fangs, and had already made an attacking posture.

  Breathing deeply... Torii's hands kept groping the ground, grabbing a nearby stone...

  Pnning to make a final resistance.

  Grasping the stone firmly... Torii sighed deeply, containing helplessness towards the current situation, apology for not taking good care of Swablu, and confusion about what was to come. And this sigh seemed to travel through the shackles of space, across the clouds, causing waves of cloud patterns, penetrating everything, and bringing hope...

  A melodious, pleasant, and heart-cleansing, beautiful sound came, almost making Torii think he had entered heaven.

  However, this familiar sound seemed familiar?

  Countless fragments kept fshing in his mind. Finally, a light of hope suddenly appeared in his eyes, and a name welled up in Torii's heart.

  Altaria... had come!