Sentret~~Furret~~

In a forest carpeted with fallen leaves.

A tiny lizard with a flame burning on its tail was fighting a plump brown ferret with a beige ring on its belly like an Ursaring's.

The former breathed out a stream of fire, while the latter dodged sideways.

Heiduo stood behind Golden Sparkle the Charmander, gazing at the large group of Sentret and Furret about ten meters away, who were wildly shouting encouragement.

"That Sentret is really cocky."

Umbreon lowered her head to watch the battle before her. Charmander was currently level twenty-five. Because he had not evolved, his innate base stats were lower, but that did not mean a similarly unevolved level-thirty-five Sentret could rival him.

Heiduo nodded lightly. "This guy is smart. He uses Quick Attack as a movement move. It's normal for Charmander not to be able to hit him."

[Quick Attack] was a priority move with a priority level of plus one. In reality, that meant it could increase a Pokémon's attack speed and movement speed.

Sentret was using [Quick Attack] as a movement move, predicting in advance and dodging Charmander's [Flamethrower] and [Heat Wave].

Logically, though, [Heat Wave] was an area-of-effect move, and Sentret should not have been able to dodge it. But what made this little guy impressive was that he could use other moves to block the damage from [Heat Wave].

For example, [Dig].

He did not dig deeply, only a small hollow—just enough to cover himself.

The moment Heat Wave passed, he emerged and continued using Quick Attack to close in on Charmander. Once he was close enough, he threw a punch straight at Charmander's belly!

It was actually one of Fighting type's ultimate moves, the notoriously inaccurate [Dynamic Punch]!

Bang!

After taking the punch, Charmander winced in pain and immediately clutched his struck