At the police station, Eichi carefully recounted the entire course of events to Officer Jenny.
When Eichi said that he had defeated the entire Poaching Gang with a single Beedrill, every officer wore an expression of disbelief.
Their faces clearly said: Are you fucking kidding us?
Officer Jenny found it a little hard to believe as well. She had seen the Pokémon belonging to that Poaching Gang.
They were not particularly strong, but there had been sixteen Pokémon in total, not to mention a very powerful Arbok.
But after interrogating the members of the Rattata Poaching Gang, everyone believed that Eichi had done it all by himself.
Everyone was stunned. "This kid is incredible!"
"He took down a Poaching Gang with one Beedrill!"
"That Beedrill is way too strong!"
Officer Jenny was also shocked! She had examined the battle marks at the scene and found traces of many moves.
There must have been an extremely fierce battle. She had thought some powerful Pokémon passing by had done it.
She had never expected Eichi's Beedrill to have handled it alone.
This was a Bug-type Pokémon, known as one of the weakest Pokémon.
Yet it had defeated sixteen Pokémon, and most importantly, Eichi was only ten years old.
A ten-year-old boy had used the Beedrill he raised himself to crush a notorious Poaching Gang!
He truly was a genius boy with limitless potential!
With her excellent professional composure, Officer Jenny suppressed the shock in her heart.
Most crucially, Luo Zhi had told Officer Jenny that Eichi had beaten him to the ground in a one-on-one fight.
A ten-year-old boy had defeated an adult in single combat, along with that Arbok he had killed.
All of it proved that this boy was anything but ordinary!
After Eichi finished explaining, Officer Jenny smiled at him. "Eichi, you've rendered great service this time. There will be a cash reward.
"At the same time, we'll publicize this matter in Tokiwa. If you don't want people to know you did it,
"our police station will conceal your name and photo. But you know this can't be kept hidden for long."
But Eichi still chose to keep his identity hidden. He preferred to keep a low profile.
He did not like too many people talking about him, so he would hide it for as long as possible.
By then, everyone's attention would no longer be focused on him.
Then Eichi said goodbye to Officer Jenny. She admired him greatly, so she gave him her phone number.
After that, Eichi went home.
Over the next few days, Eichi became completely famous. All of Tokiwa City learned that a ten-year-old boy had used one Beedrill to defeat an entire Poaching Gang.
Although it was only a small Poaching Gang, that did not diminish the fact that the boy was only ten years old and had used a Pokémon like Beedrill.
People could be heard discussing it everywhere.
Passerby A: "Hey, did you see that report?"
Passerby B: "I did. Who is that kid? He's so strong!"
Passerby A: "Yeah! I raised a Beedrill before too. Although it could develop combat power quickly, it was still too weak.
"I had trouble even fighting one of someone else's Pokémon, while he directly took down sixteen."
Passerby B: "Yeah! That's amazing!"
Passerby A: "I really want to know which big shot he is?"
Passerby B: "But the police have concealed that boy's information."
Several television stations wanted to interview Eichi, but the police refused to reveal any information about him.
When Amelie saw the report at the Breeding House, Eichi's figure instinctively appeared in her mind. Could it be Eichi?!
Among the ten-year-olds in Tokiwa City, he was probably the only one capable of raising a Beedrill to that level.
She would have to ask him properly when he came by another day.
When Teacher Arno saw the report in his office, Eichi's figure immediately appeared in his mind.
A question arose in his heart: Could it be Eichi?
After thinking for a while without finding an answer, he mocked himself. "There's no point thinking about it."
"When Eichi comes to class, I can just ask him and find out."
As the person involved, Eichi paid no attention to the changes outside.
Nor did he become smug over defeating the Poaching Gang.
Thinking back on it now, that day had truly been too dangerous. He had still been too impulsive.
If things had gone wrong, people could have died.
Eichi seriously reflected on himself and asked whether, if he faced the same situation again, he would still do it.
The answer was that he would. If Beedrill and he had not done so,
they would have regretted it for a long time. Given the state he and Beedrill had been in at the time, they had needed to vent their Rage.
Otherwise, it would have become a thorn in both Eichi's and Beedrill's hearts.
Now that Metapod had evolved into Beedrill, training could begin.
Based on the strength Beedrill had displayed that day, it had been far too powerful.
Beedrill told Eichi that the moment it evolved that day, it had felt exceptionally good.
It had felt incredibly strong, unafraid of anything, and the power of its moves had exceeded all expectations.
But after that day, Beedrill no longer had such strong control over its moves.
Eichi guessed that when Pokémon had just evolved, their condition became exceptionally good, and their control over moves automatically rose by one or two levels.
For example, the six moves Beedrill had learned the moment it evolved that day.
They had all directly reached mastery, which was why they had been so powerful.
Teacher Arno had told Eichi about this before. Many Pokémon had experienced the same thing.
It was merely a normal phenomenon, so there was no need to worry.
Eichi said to Beedrill, "That day only temporarily increased your strength. It wasn't your true strength."
"So from now on, you need to train properly. Then you'll reach the level of strength you had that day."
Beedrill nodded coolly. Eichi had measured Beedrill's physical data the previous night.
Beedrill's official data was: height 1 m, weight 29.5 kg.
Eichi's Beedrill: height 1.3 m, weight 36 kg.
It was thirty centimeters taller than an ordinary Beedrill and 6.5 kilograms heavier.
Although Eichi's Beedrill was heavier than other Beedrill, its speed had not slowed down in the slightest.
Beedrill's Ability was Swarm, while its Hidden Ability was Sniper.
Eichi's Beedrill had the Sniper Ability. When a Beedrill with Sniper landed a critical hit, the damage dealt increased by 2.25 times.
Used well, this Ability would become a trump card.
After Metapod evolved into Beedrill, it forgot all its previous moves and learned new ones.
They were: Twin Needles, Fury Attack, Rage, Pursuit, Focus Energy, Poison Jab, Night Slash, Toxic Spikes, Pin Missile, and Agility.
Among them, Pin Missile and Agility had been learned in advance.
At present, Beedrill had only just grasped these moves.
However, given Beedrill's condition, a few days of training would be enough for it to become proficient.
But reaching mastery would take more time. Furthermore, Eichi planned to buy some TMs for Beedrill to learn next.
So the days ahead would be busy too!
There would be no more rest.
Eichi first brought Beedrill to the place where they had trained before.
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