A moment later.
The flames and smoke from the explosion dispersed, revealing Piplup, who had taken the hit.
Its body was blackened, its eyes spinning, and it lay unconscious in a small crater.
"Piplup, hang in there!!"
Dawn cried out and hurried over, scooping Piplup up to check its condition.
"Looks like Draco Meteor went out of control. That usually only happens when a move hasn't been mastered well enough."
Cynthia immediately pinpointed the problem with Gible's Draco Meteor.
At the same time, she took a bottle of Potion spray from her pocket, crouched down, and lent it to Dawn.
"Calling it Draco Meteor is a stretch. It was more like a single meteor."
"And why was its trajectory that ridiculously off in the first place? Even bad aim shouldn't make it fly straight out of the battlefield."
Zhen Si also voiced his complaint, unable to understand why Piplup, who had been outside the field, was the one suffering.
That was absurd.
But the moment the words left his mouth, Zhen Si froze.
No, why did I just naturally start complaining!?
While the others chattered away, Luo Mu's expression shifted from initial curiosity to realization.
That was it. The case was completely solved now.
If Gible chasing Ash around and biting him had merely made Luo Mu consider the possibility before, he was now almost one hundred percent certain.
He had no idea why this Gible had appeared in White Poplar Town through a Space-Time Distortion, but judging by that Draco Meteor—which was really a Piplup-guided missile—
It was definitely the Gible Ash would meet and catch only in the later stages of his Sinnoh journey, only for it to be forced into retirement at Professor Oak's Laboratory not long afterward without even getting the chance to evolve!
Meanwhile.
Ash