Applin and the Over-the-Top Skwovet (Double Chapter, Please Vote!)

Outside the Split-Decision Ruins.

More precisely, outside the ruins within the Split-Decision Ruins.

Dragonite, covered in wounds, sat cheerfully on a rock as Jing He carefully treated it. When told to raise its hand, it raised its hand; when told to lower its head, it lowered its head.

Over the past few days, everyone had been testing the results of their previous training and hard work.

Tinkaton, Urshifu, Ceruledge, and Tyranitar had thoroughly beaten up Glastrier.

Gengar had beaten up Spectrier and was even riding it now.

Only Dragonite, Snivy, and Ice Ninetales had yet to fight.

Ice Ninetales had not participated partly because there was no suitable opponent, and partly because, comparatively speaking, it was the least combative of Jing He's Pokémon.

Besides, here in the Crown Tundra, Ice Ninetales received such a massive environmental boost that its actual strength was certainly a level above normal.

As for Snivy, there was no need to mention it. It was not yet time for it to fight Legendary Pokémon.

Originally, Dragonite had been in that group as well.

But now, after having a thoroughly satisfying fight with Regidrago—though the battle had been rather brutal and it had suffered serious injuries—it had at least tested every result of its prior training one by one. Its future direction and goals had become much clearer.

At the same time, it had verified its current strength, and it was fairly satisfied.

Thinking of this, Dragonite could not help flapping its little wings twice.

"Wuu~ (ˊˋ)"

Then it bared its teeth in pain.

Jing He said irritably, "Stop moving around. Rest properly!"

If Dragonite had not liked challenging Dragon-type Pokémon one-on-one, then against Regidrago, Jing He's Pokémon could have swarmed it, and it would have been down long ago.

Still, that was fine. Dragonite wanted to