Rayquaza: Don't Call Me, I Can't Be Bothered

Dark clouds pressed down upon the sea, and raging waves devoured the shore.

The advantage of a large body became apparent at this moment.

Amid the surging sea, Wailord remained unmoving. On its back, Shizuka had already reset Lance's dislocated arm and given him a small amount of pain-relieving medicine.

This would allow Lance to recover some ability to move.

"...Thank you."

As he thanked her, Lance used his merely scraped right hand to sweep back his red hair, which could no longer maintain its usual wild style. In a hesitant voice, he asked for who knew how many times.

"Did Luo Mu really do something like that?"

"Yes. The entire Hoenn knows about it now."

Even though this was already Lance's fifth time asking, Shizuka still nodded helplessly.

As a former medical professional, patience was merely the most basic requirement when dealing with patients.

"..."

Lance stopped asking questions. Instead, his eyes slightly unfocused as he stared through the curtain of rain at Dragonite and Red Gyarados returning in the distance.

It was no wonder he kept asking Shizuka and Zhen Si.

The truth was... after facing Groudon and Kyogre, even someone as proud as Lance had to admit that even if he had brought his full roster of main Pokémon, even if he had brought the Dragon Legion he had personally trained—

Before that kind of power, never mind defeating them; he did not even know how long he could have held out.

But according to Shizuka and Zhen Si—

Luo Mu, with only two main Pokémon, had directly taken down Rayquaza, which could single-handedly defeat both Groudon and Kyogre.

—It was impossible not to be astonished by how he had done it.

Lance's impression of Luo Mu was still stuck in the period when Luo Mu had