Drizzle Pelipper's Trap Tactics!

[Nasty Plot], a Dark-type status move that raised a Pokémon's Special Attack by two stages. Like [Calm Mind], it was an extremely useful boosting move!

Its specific manifestation was—

A head full of question marks???

Lucario nimbly dodged the stream of electricity Ampharos fired at him. He closed and opened his eyes, and several little clouds instantly appeared above his head, with question marks inside them.

Hmm... it certainly had a special flavor to it.

Seeing the orange glow of raised stats light up around Lucario, Heiduo could not help smacking his lips.

Below.

Qin's expression turned extremely sour when she saw Lucario successfully boost himself once. That Aura Sphere had initially been meant to probe him, but the more she probed, the more she discovered that Lucario's strength far exceeded her expectations!

How was that possible!

Hadn't the information said he was a Pokémon that had only trained for a year and a half?

Thinking back to the data in the report, as well as the data from when Heiduo took the Veteran Trainer Examination last year, the expression on Qin's face grew uglier and uglier.

She was certain that there was something wrong with the information the intelligence provider had given her! And she had even paid that person a huge sum!

That bastard!

Someone else had probably put them up to it!

Qin was so unwilling to accept this that she nearly bit through her lower lip. Although Heiduo had thoroughly defeated Goromaru before, she had never taken Goromaru seriously. She thought he was just some useless kid, so she had not even watched Heiduo's match that day and had gone shopping instead.

Afterward, she heard that Heiduo had won "with great difficulty," practically "dragging" out the victory, which made her think even less of him.

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