Lance: Wait, His Students Are All This Strong?

"Pawmot!"

Pawmot swung its electrified fists, narrowly dodging Sharpedo's bite by a hair. A super-effective Thunder Punch exploded across Sharpedo's body in the same motion.

Dazzling lightning illuminated Sharpedo's rapidly retreating form.

At this point, Archie was ready to curse out loud.

What the hell was with that little girl!?

Archie knew that while he might not measure up to brilliant Champions like Steven Stone and Wallace, otherwise he would have challenged the Hoenn Champion League long ago instead of becoming some damned villain boss.

But with the resources supplied by all of Team Aqua, reaching the level of an Elite Four Trainer was no problem.

Even so, the strongest Sharpedo he had on hand was being completely suppressed by Nemona's Pawmot!

As though that still was not enough for her, she had sent out another two Pokémon in succession, holding back Admin Matt's Crawdaunt and Shelly's Walrein.

What kind of joke was this!? Was she a Champion-Level Trainer or something?

But however shaken he was, Archie clenched the Red Orb in his hand and forced himself to calm down.

Nemona was strong, but she was not so powerful that she could instantly crush their aces, much less take the all-important Red Orb from his hands—the Orb capable of controlling the Ancient Pokémon Kyogre.

His subordinates who had noticed the disturbance gathered around. Archie exchanged looks with Shelly and Matt, signaling for them to help him hold Nemona back.

You always squeezed the soft persimmon first. Nemona was alone, and even counting every Pokémon she carried, she had no more than five. Sooner or later, they would find an opening through the weaker links, Zhen Si and Shizuka.

Of course, that was assuming Maxie did not come over to kick them while they were down. Other than that fairly decent