Kamado lost.
As Braviary lost its ability to battle, this match was more or less declared over.
There was no way to continue.
Xia Yan was simply too far ahead of this era in terms of tactics.
While the people of the Hisui era were still only trying to make contact with Pokémon, trying to understand them, and slowly learning to make use of their power.
Xia Yan was already intimately familiar with every aspect of Pokémon, and he knew how to cleverly make use of those traits to assemble the most suitable teams.
If Kamado had an individual Pokémon far beyond the Elite Four-level.
For example, one that had reached Champion-level, perhaps he could have made up for that gap through his own strength.
Unfortunately, he did not.
Or if he had chosen a full six-on-six battle, Xia Yan might have found things troublesome because his main Pokémon still had some gaps in strength.
But Kamado had followed the spirit of the warrior and chosen three-on-three.
Many factors had led to Kamado's inevitable defeat.
Seeing this.
Everyone watching fell silent.
Kamado, the captain of Team Galactic, had lost?
But thinking about it carefully.
The one he had lost to was Xia Yan, so perhaps it was not that difficult to accept.
With the result already decided, Xia Yan and Kamado both stopped.
Clad in pitch-black warrior armor, Kamado stood with his hands clasped, head lowered, seemingly unable to pull himself free from the outcome.
But gradually.
This stubborn and suspicious captain finally seemed to figure something out.
He realized.
Since Xia Yan possessed the strength to defeat him, if Xia Yan truly had any ulterior motives toward Team Galactic or Jubilife Village, there really was no one in the village who could restrain him.
Yet during the time Xia