I Can Do Anything

A human stood cloaked in a black hooded robe, their true face obscured.

But the snail-like Pokémon beside him, covered in green and dark green leaves with an object resembling bamboo slips wrapped around its back, made Mega Venusaur shudder.

Centered on it, an eerie power of calamity frantically corroded everything around it. All plant energy was stripped away by it, then turned into nourishment for itself. Its aura had gone from just slightly stronger than Mega Venusaur's to so powerful that Mega Venusaur could no longer see any chance of victory.

Staring intently at the green eye in the center of that strange Pokémon's mass of intertwined white tendrils, Mega Venusaur felt especially powerless. Even its normally sharp and heavy attacks had become weak under the influence of that bizarre power.

At first, it had had a chance to defeat its opponent.

But the opponent's strange ability seemed capable of weakening its strength. Because of that ability, and because it had not gone all out from the very beginning, it had missed its only opportunity.

The surrounding trees and plants rapidly withered. The members of its clan and Wonder Garden, whom it had protected, had already collapsed helplessly. Even now, they painfully endured the omnipresent strange power drawing the plant energy from their bodies. At that moment, Mega Venusaur wished it could perish together with its enemy.

Lin Sen's face beneath his hood wore an unrestrained smile. That's right—this was the feeling of doing whatever he pleased. Wasn't this precisely why he had chosen to leave the Divine Land Alliance, which had shackled him at every turn, and join New Star with his knowledge of the Four Calamities Treasure?

The thrill of holding others' lives and deaths in his hands, the thrill of wantonly toying with these lives—such things