One hand holding Pikachu, carrying Xiao Zhi, I, Guangzi, am still

Akita Prefecture, Mount Moriyoshi region.

BOOM—!!!

A tremendous blast suddenly rang out through the forest. Trees snapped in half one after another as smoke and dust billowed forth, carving a straight path through the woods.

"Poison?"

Photon, her body marked with blue-black flame patterns, raised a paw and glanced at the corroded gap in it before casually flicking her paw.

"Such a petty trick, and you dare show off before an expert?"

As she spoke, blue-black flames ignited around her claws, swiftly destroying the poison in the wound by force.

Spiritual Power then flowed into it, and in the blink of an eye, the wound had healed completely.

"How could this be?!"

"Nidoking lost..."

The battle had ended in mere seconds. The rare beast their boss had given them had plowed a deep trench through the forest and now lay hundreds of meters away, stripped of its ability to fight.

Musashi and Kojiro were so shocked their jaws nearly hit the ground. As for Meowth?

His eyes had gone blank, and his whole body had turned grayish-white.

BOOM!

The next second, A massive paw crashed heavily down before them, startling the long-haired beauty Musashi into leaping into the arms of the middle-parted Kojiro.

"The fools who overestimated themselves have been dealt with."

Having transformed into a blue-black giant cat dozens of meters long, Photon lowered her head to look at the Team Rocket trio. She was not some elementary schooler like Xiao Zhi or Misty who would show mercy. To put it bluntly, there were no fewer than eight thousand people who had died at Photon's hands.

"Now, answer my question—why did you dare provoke the Keikain Family?"

The Keikain Family?

That was where Keikain... Wait, that little girl!

The two humans and one cat belatedly turned their heads, their