As a judge of the Martial Arts Tournament, Mustard approached Roy and the Annihilape and presented them with a Gold Belt each.
Looking at the glittering Golden belt in Mustard's hand, Annihilape suddenly felt a sense of unreality. Just two years ago, he could only stay in his dormitory watching Pokémon battles on video.
Now, I'm standing on the awards stage myself.
Mustard originally wanted to personally place the Gold Belts, symbolizing their championship status, on both of them.
But Roy politely declined.
The reason is that Roy wanted to put the Gold Belt on the Annihilape himself.
Mustard paused for a moment, but wasn't angry, and handed the Gold Belt to Roy.
Roy thanked him and took the Gold Belt from Mustard, then personally put it around the waist of the Annihilape.
"Annihilape, you are now the champion."
"Abandoned!"
The Annihilape took Roy's Gold Belt and put it around Roy's waist.
Looking at Roy, who was wearing the Gold Belt and exuding the aura of a champion, Mustard suddenly recalled the scene two years ago when he presented the medal to Leon and handed over the regional championship.
Youth is truly wonderful.
Youth is a time of limitless possibilities.
The only pity is that Roy inherited Bruno's Extreme Fighting Technique, which pursues the limits of human endurance, unlike the martial arts tradition he inherited from his school.
The moment Roy put on the Gold Belt, cheers erupted from the crowd, with countless Fighting type Pokémon Trainers shouting Roy's name from below.
Even though Roy is a Ghost-type Trainers, he is still the only champion to play the entire match.
This had to be admired by them.
The female reporter from Goldenrod City finally remembered who Roy was, as he stood on the podium. It was the person who had unilaterally declared himself the champion outside the Gym during her interview the day before yesterday.
That's when she realized that Roy hadn't lied to her from the beginning; he was confident he was the champion.
And he was indeed the champion.
After Mustard left, the female reporter approached Roy and interviewed Roy about his acceptance speech.
Seeing the female reporter staring at him, Roy spoke first before she could ask any questions:
Do you want the post-match interviews for this Martial Arts Tournament to go viral?
Upon hearing Roy's question, the female host nodded blankly.
She definitely wanted to create a headline-grabbing story, and Roy's defense of his title was already quite sensational; how much more sensational could it be?
Then Roy approached the female reporter and whispered something to her.
The female reporter initially looked at him with suspicion, then her eyes lit up, and she asked Roy:
Is it really possible?
Roy nodded.
The female reporter knew that if she followed Roy's suggestion regarding the headline, the article would definitely go viral.
But... Roy, who was at the center of the controversy...
Looking at Roy's sunny smile, the female reporter was puzzled; she didn't understand why Roy was doing this.
Bado, holding his silver medal, looked at Roy's Gold Belt with an envious expression.
Below the Gold Belt, all the medals, including the silver medal in his hand, were automatically downgraded to consolation prizes for participation.
However, Bado was also very pleased that Roy could win the Gold Belt, after all, Roy also belonged to their dojo.
After the awards ceremony concluded, Roy and the Annihilape stepped down from the stage.
As soon as the two stepped off the stage, Ah Si stepped forward and announced the successful conclusion of this martial arts tournament. He added that anyone who wanted to stay and train at the Azure City Dojo was welcome to do so, but meals would not be provided.
Motostoke Stadium
Charizard, use G-Max Wildfire!
Just before Gigantamax Charizard Spit Up its scorching flames, an energy shield rose around the entire Motostoke Stadium, protecting the spectators in the surrounding stands.
The blazing flames hurtled straight towards the Gigantamax Duraludon opposite them.
The Gigantamax Duraludon erected a massive silver energy shield in front of its body, blocking the blazing metal from reaching the heavens.
Even with the massive metal shield, the ever-increasing temperature of the Arena made Gigantamax Duraludon very uncomfortable.
Once the Max Guard in front of Gigantamax Duraludon disappeared, Gigantamax Charizard Spit Up another massive fireball.
The Gigantamax Duraludon opposite was equally impressive, its steel tower, over forty meters high and resembling a skyscraper, tilting slightly.
The glass window structure on the tower glowed with yellow Dragon type energy fluctuations, which converged in mid-air to form a gigantic, roaring dragon shadow that charged toward the enormous fireball.
The enormous fireball collided with the dragon shadow, which contained Dragon type energy.
Neither side would yield.
In an instant, the rubble and dust at the point where the two skills intersected were swept to both sides, and the surging energy waves that exploded also swept to both sides, blowing up the rubble and dust that were about to fall again.
After the impact, the massive fireball engulfed the dragon's shadow, which let out a mournful cry at the last moment before being completely swallowed up. Then, the massive fireball slammed into Gigantamax Duraludon.
Gigantamax Duraludon was unable to create Max Guard and was hit head-on by a massive fireball.
Burn by the flames, Gigantamax Duraludon lost its ability to battle, reverted from its Dynamax form, and became Duraludon.
Seeing that his Duraludon had lost its ability to fight, Raihan could only sigh helplessly; he had lost to Leon again.
He then took out Poké Ball and recalled his Duraludon back into Poké Ball.
Sonia and Leon's younger brother Hop were watching the match from the stands. When Leon won, Sonia immediately stood up and cheered.
However, Hop did not react; his attention remained fixed on his Communicator.
When he saw that familiar figure on the Communicator, Hop's eyes widened in surprise.
The Wooloo beside him was also watching the Charizard on the field, his wish was to become as powerful as the Charizard.
But now he can't even breathe a small Ember.
"Meow?"
Seeing the change in Hop's expression Wooloo also turned its gaze to the screen.