Before a power plant somewhere in Mingi City.
A Trainer stared despairingly at the petite Ultra Beast before him, most of its body white with patches of red, golden aura swirling around it like folded paper. Sweat trickled down his forehead.
Though the Ultra Beast looked so frail that a breeze could blow it away, only when facing it did the many Trainers understand how terrifying it was.
Even the steel body of the strongest Gym Level Trainer's ace, a Magnezone nearing the Elite Four Level, was no different from papier-mâché before this Ultra Beast.
In the blink of an eye, the Ultra Beast's blade-sharp body had carved deep marks into Magnezone's steel shell...
Then, they saw it clearly.
Magnezone's steel body was effortlessly sliced apart by the Ultra Beast's seemingly playful paper blades, as easily as cutting tofu.
It was clearly just a sheet of folded paper, yet it felt sharper than a steel blade.
That sense of dissonance filled them with fear. Looking at the Pokémon lying all around them, unable to return to the battlefield even under the treatment of Healing Pokémon, an even greater terror swept through their hearts.
At that moment, the Ultra Beast raised its blade-like arms, suddenly opened its mouth, and let out a string of cries that seemed to carry some kind of meaning.
"Xidong de liaowu le zhanyou."
The cries were chaotic and disorderly, as nonsensical as speech played backward.
But that did nothing to change the fact that the Ultra Beast was steadily drawing closer.
The next instant.
An invisible slash came hurtling through the air.
Just as the Trainers' vision was about to be consumed by that invisible slash, a nimble brown figure suddenly appeared within their slash-filled sight.
Then, an almost identical slash burst from the leaf on