The result was, without question, a crushing defeat.
The physically oriented Alakazam failed to withstand Charizard's [Earthquake] and promptly went down.
Mila then sent out Metagross. Its [Rock Tomb] struck Charizard for quadruple damage but failed to finish it off, instead triggering the opponent's [Blaze] Ability.
The powered-up [Blast Burn] burned at an utterly unreasonable temperature.
Facing a Charizard whose Blaze had been triggered, Mila chose to gamble on three consecutive Protects to endure it. Heiduo thought Mila had completely lost his mind, but at that point, using any other move would only have been a desperate struggle before death.
It was all the same.
After everything had been filmed, Heiduo did not go comfort Mila, who was once again questioning his life. Instead, he went to find Ruby and Sapphire.
After Mila had thrown the young couple out of the Battle Dome, they had not gotten angry. They had only regretted that their plan to improve their relationship with Mila through battling had fallen through.
They could only think of another way.
With their shared enemy, the armored man, gone, Ruby and Sapphire should have been able to turn around and leave.
Neither of them needed to put up with the other.
Anyone would have been in a bad mood after being rejected like that.
Fortunately, the two Pokédex Holders were quite patient. Or rather, they had long known that Mila was difficult to get along with.
The couple strolled through the streets while chatting.
Eventually, they reached a certain spot and encountered Spenser, the Frontier Brain of the Battle Palace. He was an old man who looked to be in his sixties or seventies, bald, goateed, and leaning on a cane, with a blue tattoo resembling Unown A etched onto his arm.
This had led to a small